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The Daily Texanwww.dailytexanonline.comServing the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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Writers highlight the best of Bob Dylan
By Shamoyita DasGuptaDaily Texan Staff
UT business junior Alejandra Salinas was elected president of College Democrats of America, a national organization with chapters across the country — including one at the University.
Salinas’ candidacy was an-nounced in May, and she will be the first Latina to serve as president of the organization.
“It really is an incredible honor to be the first Hispanic president,” Salinas said. “It sends a strong mes-sage that the organization is em-bracing the growing Latino popula-tion and the Democrats are embrac-ing the growing population.”
As a UT student, Salinas has been active in various organizations on campus, serving as events coor-dinator for University Democrats, vice president of the UT chapter of
College Democrats and as a mem-ber of Orange Jackets.
Salinas said she ran for pres-ident to bring her connections with the Democratic Nation-al Committee and the UT chapter of College Democrats to College Democrats of America.
She believes that youth communi-ties in the U.S. should become more
Court hears UT admissions case UT hospital, Dallas paper clash over news stories
Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff
UT President William Powers Jr. and Patricia Ohlendorf, vice president for legal affairs, walk out of a federal court building after a hearing on a case that challenges the University’s top 10 percent admission policy.
Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff
Business junior Alejandra Salinas will be the first Hispanic president of the College Democrats of America.
San Marcos River provides cool water, sunlight
By David ColbyDaily Texan Staff
After The Dallas Morning News published damning articles targeting the way UT Southwest-ern Medical Center monitors its medical students, a dispute has risen between the newspaper and the UT System hospital.
The Dallas Morning News re-ported that UT Southwestern al-lows resident physicians to oper-ate without supervision at Park-land Memorial Hospital in con-flict with standard practice. UT Southwestern denies all allega-tions made by the newspaper.
UT Southwestern is one of six health institutions in the UT System, which work with hos-pitals like Parkland in Dallas to train students.
Citing former UT Southwest-ern surgeons, a 2004 consultants’ report and Parkland patients, the newspaper built a case of lax su-pervision, dangerous mistakes and hostility toward those who attempted to change the hospi-tal’s standard procedure. Many of the allegations in the series of articles center on claims made by Dr. Larry Gentilello, the former chairman of Parkland’s burn, trauma and critical care division. Gentilello is currently suing UT Southwestern in a whistle-blow-er lawsuit, contending he was demoted for taking issue with
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UHS to offerdiscounted baby goods on campus
UT student elected president of College Dems of America
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By Destinee HodgeDaily Texan Staff
The University Health Services Pharmacy will now carry breast pumps at a discounted rate to pro-vide support to student parents.
The move is part of an effort to make maternity items more affordable and to reduce the amount of time graduate students in particular spend away from their jobs after becoming preg-nant. The pumps will be avail-able to students, faculty and staff within the week.
“Women who have been get-ting pregnant on campus some-times find it so hard to make ends meet or to be a student and a par-ent,” Student Government Vice President Muneezeh Kabir said. “When you’re talking graduate students, this is like our school’s rankings — these are the people that we as undergrads have grade our papers.”
By having the pumps available at a discounted rate, female grad-uate students can get back to work sooner because they will be able to
By Leah WiseDaily Texan Staff
Friends and families gather at 170 Charles Austin Dr. in San Marcos to enjoy the cool wa-ter of the river and warm sun-light throughout the summer months. The San Marcos River is only a 30-minute drive south of campus, and it makes for a nice getaway if you’re looking for an opportunity to float the famed river with friends.
Lions Club Tube Rental is conveniently located by the riv-er. After renting a tube and any other necessities, such as water-proof-compartment necklaces and sunblock, the water is just a short walk away.
Austin Farmer is a Hays High School senior and works at Li-ons Club Tube Rental during the summer. He said the week-days are fairly laid-back and slow, but the weekends are a different story.
“The weekends get real-ly busy around here, but we all have to push through it,” Farmer said.
Floaters can tie their tubes to-gether to make sure they stick with their friends, and many can be seen with an extra tube with a cooler full of drinks and snacks.
The ride is slow-paced and re-laxing, with large trees branch-ing over the river and flow-
ering shrubs along the banks. Many visitors choose to sit on the grass along the banks of the river and spend the day swim-ming and barbecuing. Others also bring their dogs out to the water, as the river is safe and of shallow depth.
The river is filled with a large variety of people, ranging from
families with young children to energized college students look-ing to have a good time.
“I’m originally from Dallas, but I’m moving to Colorado very soon and wanted to float the river one last time,” said Jacob Wilson, who floats the river often.
Huay-Bing Law | Daily Texan Staff
Tubers float down the San Marcos River, a popular destination for students and families to cool down in the Texas heat. The river also attracts frequent visitors for its fishing, canoeing and swimming.
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By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff
NEW ORLEANS — UT’s top 10 percent rule hasn’t increased racial diversity in classrooms, so judges must decide whether the rule is in the interest of the state of Texas, a plaintiff attorney said Tuesday.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals heard the legal challenge and UT’s legal defense in Fisher v. Texas, a case in which two white applicants sued the University af-ter being denied admission.
Plaintiffs Abigail Fisher and Ra-chel Michalewicz claim the Uni-versity’s use of race as a compo-nent of the holistic admissions re-
view violates their 14th Amend-ment rights — a claim rejected by an Austin district judge last year.
The appeals court is not expected to make a decision anytime soon, and it isn’t clear if the court will decide on the case in the next few months, said Patricia Ohlendorf, UT’s vice president for legal affairs.
The arguments, the questions and the rebuttals
Bert Rein, a defense attorney for Fisher and Michalewicz, was first to take the stand before the three-judge panel. He said the top
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— Alejandra Salinas College Democrats of
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the amount of autonomy given to resident physicians at Parkland. UT Southwestern says Gentilel-lo’s statements, and those of oth-er former faculty who comment-ed for the Dallas newspaper’s stories, are false.
“The doctors who were quoted in The Dallas Morning News rep-resent 10 or 11 doctors who were very closely aligned with Gen-tilello during his brief leadership time. Some of these people he ac-tually recruited,” UT Southwest-ern spokesman Tim Doke said. “Gentilello was dismissed from his position in March of 2007, and the first time he put anything in writing that would indicate is-sues with residency supervision, or anything that he has now al-leged in lawsuits, was in June of 2007. So, it was three months af-ter his resignation when all of a sudden these issues arose.”
Doke said he suspects the Dal-las newspaper is being manipu-lated by Gentilello’s attorney.
“We have committed thou-sands of hours to this story and have many sources of informa-tion, and our work is continu-ing. Any statement by Mr. Doke about manipulation by an at-torney is simply preposterous,” said Robert M. Wong, editor of The Dallas Morning News, in re-sponse to Doke’s statement.
The newspaper said in an ar-ticle Sunday that five of the 13 doctors who made allegations of improper supervision of res-idents had previously worked with Gentilello.
Parkland, a public hospital that treated nearly 60,000 patients ac-cording to 2007 data, primarily treats poor, uninsured minorities, and is also the primary teaching hospital in the UT Southwestern system. According to The Dallas Morning News, the teaching that goes on at Parkland is often done by residents, with higher-level resident physicians supervising first- and second-year residents.
“[Sources] describe a near re-versal of power between resi-dents and faculty at Parkland. Residents accustomed to au-tonomy complained in writing when faculty attempted to rein them in. They sometimes noted in medical records that faculty physicians were present for sur-geries when they were, in fact,
in the doctors lounge,” the Dal-las newspaper said in Sunday’s article, citing anonymous sourc-es from inside the UT Southwest-ern system.
UT Southwestern contends that these allegations are untrue and that an attending physician is on duty and actively involved in each patient’s treatment.
“The faculty supervisor over-sees the work performed by res-ident physicians at each level and is intimately involved in the planning and treatment of all pa-tients,” UT Southwestern said July 9 in a written statement re-sponding to questions from The Dallas Morning News.
According to the UT South-western statement, its residen-cy training program adheres to strict guidelines set by the Ac-creditation Council for Graduate Medical Education regardless of where residents are working.
The newspaper’s articles fre-quently refer to a 2004 report writ-ten by independent consultants at the request of Dallas County com-missioners. The report alleges that residents at Parkland regu-larly took the lead on patient care and that insured patients were of-ten transferred from Parkland to the university hospitals.
“It was not uncommon for insured patients to be trans-ferred from Parkland to Zale Lipshy and St. Paul,” The Dal-las Morning News said in an article Monday. “The transfers were attributed to a variety of factors, including patient pref-erence, medical necessity and the perception that those with insurance were patients of UT Southwestern doctors.”
“Nonpaying patients are al-most never transferred out of Parkland for these reasons,” the report said, according to Mon-day’s article.
“A number of [The Dallas Morning News] questions are based on a report that is now six years old, and even when it was first issued had serious limita-tions,” UT Southwestern said in its written statement. “The [con-sulting report company] repre-sentatives had very little interac-tion with UT Southwestern ad-ministration and leadership and lacked significant input for the assessment. As a result, when the report was issued, UT South-western found it flawed.”
involved in politics to ensure that their voices are heard by politi-cians who can effect change.
“The things that are impor-tant for young people are just being left to the side,” she said. “Young people got really in-volved in the last election, and there were key accomplish-ments from that election. As long as we’re involved, we’re going to be heard.”
Salinas plans to encourage student involvement as the president of College Democrats of America.
“I want to remind people across the country that the momentum and the strength that we had in 2008 is not gone,” she said.
Salinas also plans to use her ex-perience with College Democrats in the future if she enters politics.
“It will just make me more knowledgeable and more un-
derstanding so that if I get in-volved politically, I’ll have that foundation of knowledge and foundation of networks to build off of,” she said.
As the organization’s presi-
dent, Salinas will be a member of the Democratic National Com-mittee, and will sit on its exec-utive board. She will also han-dle the organization’s day-to-
day operations, organize nation-al youth outreach for Democrat-ic candidates and facilitate a dia-logue between youth communi-ties and candidates.
Her friends in other organi-
zations are optimistic about her new position.
“She’s an incredibly hard worker, and she’s really passion-ate about everything she does,” said Plan II senior Natalie Butler, who knows Salinas through Or-ange Jackets. “I know that she’ll give this next step in her life ev-erything that she has. I think she’ll do a really wonderful job.”
Salinas is excited to be-gin her role as president of the organization.
“It’s such an honor to be repre-senting the University,” she said. “The president before me was also from UT, and I think it’s just a strong sign of what a great en-vironment our University pro-vides and how good we are at building up great leaders.”
The ride down the river lasts about 45 minutes to an hour, and there is a free bus waiting to take floaters back to the begin-ning as many times as they want, Farmer said.
After floating along the main stretch, many of the young-er children and college students head for the faster rapids locat-ed at the end of the river to con-clude their experience.
“My favorite thing about com-ing out to this river is enjoy-ing the sun as I float down the river and have a cold drink,” Wilson said.
pump breast milk and store it for a later time, which will enable them to be away from their infants.
“[The breast milk] will stay good out at room temperature at 74 degrees for up to about eight hours and in the fridge for five to seven days,” lactation consultant Janet Jones said.
She added that in a commercial freezer, the milk could last for up to a year.
Kabir said an additional issue for graduate students is that their jobs as teaching assistants are of-ten jeopardized by taking time off with their babies.
“With grad students, the prob-lem is that when they find out that they’re pregnant, they’re not totally sure how to approach the program chairs or department chairs be-cause there’s no such thing as ma-ternity leave, per se,” Kabir said. “So they also have to ask kind of awkwardly, ‘Is my TA-ship guar-anteed when I come back?’ And for a lot of people, it isn’t.”
All the products will come from the Ameda brand and three pack-ages will be offered. The top-tier “Ultra Pack” package, which costs as much as $299 at local retailers, will be sold at a discount for $215. Nursing pads will also be available for less than retail prices.
The move toward affordable pricing is a part of the student-par-ent initiative that began in the fall.
“[The initiative] is a group of ad-ministrators across campus who are focused on how do we provide the best support to student par-ents,” assistant dean of students Latoya Hill said.
The ultimate goal of the initia-tive is the creation of a student-parent resource center, which will be dedicated to providing resourc-es to ease the difficulty of having to juggle both obligations.
The Work/Life and Wellness Of-fice at the University of North Car-olina at Chapel Hill was the model program for providing the pumps at a lower price. With full-time staff and an actual office space, the pro-gram represents what those in-volved with the student-parent ini-tiative would like to see at UT.
Members of the initiative are interested in other issues, such as trying to alter some of the UT shuttle routes to include a stop near the Child Development Cen-ter as well as creating a handbook with information on discounts around the city for maternity and baby products.
Kabir said the initiative cre-ated phases marked by smaller tasks that will serve as a foun-dation for the ultimate goal of building a center.
pumps: Initiative created to helpstudent parents
water: Bus offers another chance to float on river
dallas: UT Southwestern claims allegations are false
court: Lawyers argue pros, cons of policy
10 percent rule, as a race-neutral method of increasing racial di-versity, has not “moved the nee-dle” very far in UT classrooms after Hopwood v. Texas, a case in which the federal Fifth Circuit Court ruled that the UT School of Law could not use race as a direct criteria for admission.
“This case calls upon this court to apply the Supreme Court’s de-cision in Grutter [v. Bolinger, the 2003 Michigan law school case that overturned Hopwood,] in fundamentally different circum-stances,” Rein said. “The parties don’t agree on much, but [we do] agree that for [race and ethnicity as admissions criteria] to contin-ue, it must serve as a compelling state interest.”
Rein said the Grutter decision involved a law school rather than an entire university. Judge Patrick Higginbotham interrupted Rein and asked what flaw he sees in the admission process.
“[The top 10 percent rule] ap-pears to use race contextually,” Higginbotham said. “They look at an individual [in a holistic way,] and that is perfectly usable under Grutter.”
Rein said a look at the Univer-sity as a whole reveals that there is no campuswide problem of di-versity, as 40 percent of the stu-dent body is composed of minori-ty groups, and that there is no ex-plicit number that achieves the ra-cial diversity espoused in “critical mass” theory.
“The [critical mass] argument is that [minority students] want to look around a see a few other friendly faces, whom they can get together with and share this expe-rience,” UT law professor Sanford Levinson said. “Where the fight-
ing comes in is over how many students do you need ... and no one has a cogent argument as to what the right number is.”
Judge Carolyn King said it is “perfectly legitimate” to judge critical mass by the number of mi-nority students in a classroom.
Higginbotham said at a uni-versity the size of UT, it is math-ematically impossible to have minority representation in every classroom.
When Texas Solicitor General James Ho took the stand, he said the flaw in Rein’s central argu-ment is that he claims UT is com-posed of minority students by lumping African-American and Hispanic groups together.
“They only argue that UT does not need such policy,” Ho said. “I want to focus on [the fact that Rein] says UT would have achieved critical mass if only we had lumped [the Hispanic and African-American] minority groups into one. That’s precisely the kind of groupings that the Su-preme Court has rejected. You’re not supposed to be a spokesman of your own race, let alone others. It’s wrong as a factual matter.”
Higginbotham nodded in agreement.
King asked what Ho’s re-sponse was to Rein’s assertion that UT hasn’t moved the nee-dle in terms of racial diversity in the classroom.
“Their whole theory of why we don’t need this [policy] is that they lump these groups to-gether and use their own mea-suring stick [to gauge the poli-cy’s success],” Ho said. “That’s really their entire case. Critical mass is not a specific number; we use a concept to [measure the top 10 percent rule].”
He said Rein was mischarac-
terizing the policy to dramatize a problem that UT has acknowl-edged and is addressing.
“One of the things that both-ers me about this is that it’s differ-ent from the Michigan law school [case],” Judge Emilio Garza said. Garza asked Ho how he could apply the Grutter decision to UT considering the differences be-tween the cases.
Garza also said the top 10 per-cent rule is a good way to find students who have worked hard to be at the top of their own high schools, regardless of the quality of the school itself.
Josh Civin, an attorney for the National Association for the Ad-vancement of Colored People who represented the Black Stu-dent Association, spoke to the court for five minutes.
“Grutter was clear in that you don’t have to choose: You can be an elite university and also have diversity,” Civin said. “To come to the classroom study point, we sense that even a small increase in African-Americans in class-rooms will help comfort incom-ing students.”
Garza said the African-Amer-ican groups have different dy-namics and may not be judged by the critical mass theory in the same way.
“That’s why they shouldn’t be lumped together,” Civin said.
Rein later said affirmative ac-tion lumps minority students to-gether in its measurements and that the admission process is a zero-sum game.
“The more you invade those spaces with preferences, [the more applicants are] owed a compelling argument from the state,” Rein said.
After the oral argumentsOutside the courtroom,
Ohlendorf said the judges asked good, insightful ques-tions and were obviously tak-ing the case seriously.
Rein said he was pleased the judges allowed him to speak and gave him a fair chance to answer their questions. Rein said the court seems to think the top 10 percent rule is a good way to find leaders and that the court will continue to take the case seriously because it’s the first time an appellate court has been able to write an opinion about the use of race in admis-sions policy.
Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks.
dems: Salinas looks forward to her role
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By Jocelyn CharvetDaily Texan Columnist
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Braking for turtles and other moral dilemmas
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Targeting binge drinking
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With my family off vacationing in the French countryside, I am left alone with my thoughts. Given my overactive imagi-nation and tendency to try anything once, this solitude may or may not be a very dangerous thing. Our annual respite from one another makes us stronger individuals and a more cohesive family. It also allows me to delve into my interests — reading, writing, roller derby — and it gives me time for self-reflection.
For example, one morning while driv-ing to UT, I came upon an object in the road that looked like a black garbage bag. As my car sped along and got closer to the object, I realized with horror that it was actually a turtle creeping across the road. Upon realizing this, I swerved so the lit-tle turtle could pass between my tires and not under them. At first I was relieved about saving the shelled creature’s life, but as I drove on, one thought whipped around my brain, eventually careening to
an abrupt halt in the forefront of my con-sciousness: Why the heck didn’t I stop?
I could give you a list of reasons that I did not pull over to rescue the stub-by reptile, but they do nothing to miti-gate the guilt I have felt since that morn-ing. Even as I write, I can clearly see the turtle’s dark-green shell, beady black eyes and glacial gait looming in my conscious-ness as a reminder of my frayed moral fi-ber. Perhaps you disagree. It’s just an an-imal, right? Or, maybe you just picked up the phone to dial PETA’s animal cruelty hotline.
We’ve all had the “moral dilemmas” discussion in various classes and lectures. We are all familiar with these life-or-death hypotheticals, but for the most part they are easy to decide: There are 20 or 30 peo-ple on a sinking ship and only seven seats available on the lifeboat — who do you choose to save?
Unfortunately, real life doesn’t afford the luxury of such black-and-white situa-tions. Moral dilemmas take many forms, and it isn’t always so easy to do the right
thing. You’re in college now, and your parents and mentors are, in many cases, too far away to consult for moral advice. You’re on your own, and you’re going to begin the journey to figuring out who you are. Who you are today doesn’t necessari-ly tell you about who you will be five min-utes from now or 10 years down the road. We are all works in progress.
In my case, the turtle-haunting made me realize that I am not the type of person I thought I was — the type of person who brakes for animals on the road. I spent a lot of time thinking about this realiza-tion, and I have decided that I still want to be that type of person. Instead of berat-ing myself, I choose to learn from this sit-uation. Next time I see a creature crossing the road, I will pull over, and if I can’t res-cue the animal safely myself, I will dial 311 to notify the Austin Animal Center. Then, instead of dwelling on my inaction, I will happily shop for a bumper sticker to warn other drivers that I brake for animals.
Charvet is a social work graduate student.
Last week, USA Today reported on a study by University of Min-nesota professor Toben Nelson that criticized the response, or lack thereof, of colleges to the issue of binge drinking among students.
The study found that of 351 college administrators surveyed, the vast majority had not implemented methods for reducing danger-ous drinking practices among college students that had been recom-mended by a U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol-ism task force.
Those recommendations included performing compliance checks for illegal alcohol sales, mandating server training, limiting the num-ber of alcohol outlets and increasing prices.
Instead, Nelson found that colleges were dealing with incidents on a case-by-case basis and focusing too much attention on enforc-ing restrictions on campus rather than working to change the drink-ing culture off campus. Nelson recommended that schools work with local communities to create policies targeted at curbing dan-gerous practices associated with binge drinking.
Because of the size of UT’s student body and the geographical makeup of student housing, the University is a model fit for Nel-son’s recommendations. Since most students live off campus and the vast majority of parties (and binge drinking) take place off the 40 Acres, the University lacks the jurisdiction to directly control such activities.
However, the University does have a compelling interest to stop binge drinking among its students. When a student dies from alco-hol poisoning, the headlines do not describe him or her as a “20-year-old” or an “Austinite,” but as a University of Texas student. More im-portantly, though, binge drinking and the social pressures surround-ing it create an unsafe atmosphere. Binge drinking isn’t the same as having a few drinks with friends, or even going downtown and get-ting drunk. Rather, binge drinking is the willful overconsumption of alcohol. Binge drinkers are more likely to form an addiction and of-ten suffer from higher rates of certain diseases than casual drinkers.
There are steps the University can take to address the issue indi-rectly. The school’s Interfraternity Council has enacted a risk-man-agement policy for all chapters that employs many of the recommen-dations originally made by the 2002 task force. For instance, all so-cial functions of IFC chapters must comply with third-party vendor guidelines, which include employing TABC-certified bartenders, hir-ing an outside company to work security and check IDs at the door and using wristbands to identify guests who are of legal drinking age. Additionally, IFC policies prohibit chapters from using kegs or other bulk quantities of alcohol.
The IFC has been proactive in implementing effective risk man-agement and preventing binge drinking. However, those restrictions have done little to dampen the Greek system’s social scene, proof that safety and partying are not incompatible.
With the IFC serving as a model for implementation, the Univer-
sity should seek to extend such policies to other segments of the stu-dent population. There are currently four other Greek councils and a variety of student organizations that could implement similar risk-management policies. Currently, the Office of the Dean of Students recommends that student organizations hire third-party vendors for events, but does not mandate that organizations do so.
Part of the new member program for all IFC chapters includes a presentation of the movie “Haze,” which details the tragic death of incoming University of Colorado freshman Gordie Bailey in 2004 from alcohol poisoning as part of a fraternity initiation. Since then, the Gordie Foundation has worked on college campuses nationwide to educate students on a variety subjects, including the dangers of binge drinking and alcohol poisoning. If the University wants to curb dangerous drinking habits it should employ a similar compre-hensive education program, not just an online survey.
While the University can claim an interest in curbing student drinking habits, the majority of students live off campus and are not members of social organizations. Their partying remains outside the range of UT policies and restrictions. The responsibility to make wise decisions rests with the individual.
As Longhorns, we take pride in our school’s reputation as both an academic and party powerhouse. On Monday, the school was ranked sixth in The Princeton Review’s annual list of “Top Party Schools,” an improvement from seventh place last year and eighth the year before. Yet our vibrant atmosphere does not necessitate and should not cultivate dangerous behaviors with life-threatening consequenc-es such as binge drinking.
— Dave Player for the editorial board
An admissions oversight in Iowa
Dan TreadwayDaily Texan Associate Editor
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the University of Iowa will have 400 more incoming freshmen than it can support this coming fall be-cause of to miscalculation by its admissions staff.
Whoopsy daisy. Colleges always extend offers of admission to
more students than they expect will attend, then rely on complex algorithms to ensure that the num-ber of students who ultimately accept is proportion-al to the available space on campus. But it seems that the numbers were off this fall for the Iowa ad-missions staff, and as a result its incoming freshman class is overcrowded by 10 percent.
While the error is a pleasant one for the school’s administration (more students equals mucho dine-ro), it’s not great news for students already attend-ing the school who will have to deal with over-crowded classes throughout their college career.
The Times compares the situation to an airline overbooking a flight, so perhaps it would be advis-able to deal with the problem in a similar manner. The university could e-mail all incoming freshmen offering a tuition stipend to the first 400 students who agree to sit out their first year of college and then begin their secondary education a year later presumably in an appropriately sized class.
But offering tuition stipends isn’t in the cards for the University of Iowa, which, like UT, is suffering from budget cuts. In fact, the overcrowding is large-ly a byproduct of its efforts to curb budget reduc-tions. Admission officials recruited students in Chi-na, South Korea and India, and these international students not only bring diversity to the campus but also pay out-of-state tuition, which is $16,000 more expensive than in-state tuition in Iowa.
Their plan worked. Of the roughly 2,200 international students who
applied to the school, 430 accepted, an increase of 68 percent.
There are currently 4,360 international students at UT, and as non-Texas residents, international stu-dents pay $21,076 more per year than in-state stu-dents.
The result is that roughly 10 percent of the uni-versity’s incoming freshman class will be interna-tional, with students from China alone making up 8 percent of the class. Even more bizarre is that for the first time ever, less than half the class will be com-posed of students actually from the state of Iowa. In comparison, 69 percent of last year’s freshman class at Iowa State — the state’s other flagship universi-ty — was composed of in-state students.
As the Times article points out, when recruiting in unfamiliar places, traditional algorithms to de-termine admissions are of little use. This seems ob-vious, and the failure to recognize such isn’t a flat-tering reflection on Iowa’s statistics program.
While it had planned to gradually increase the size of its freshman class, its oversight leaves the University of Iowa without the infrastructure to support the incoming class. The university will pro-vide the overflow of incoming freshmen with make-shift living spaces in common areas until other liv-ing arrangements are secured.
At the very least, the dynamic at the school should be fascinating. For every five incoming freshmen from the state of Iowa, there will be one incoming freshman from China.
Ultimately, the embarrassing episode at the Mid-western school should serve as a precaution to oth-er schools that heavily recruit international stu-dents to secure more out-of-state tuition money. Beyond that, it should serve as a warning to Iowa high school students hoping to one day become Hawkeyes. The university’s priorities have been made clear, and serving native Iowans, whose tax-es help fund the school, does not appear to be one of them.
Treadway is a political communications senior.
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By Kiersten MarianDaily Texan Staff
By mid-May, the afterglow of South By Southwest has fad-ed and many exam-weary stu-dents flock back to their homes to recuperate until the fall. But even during this slow season, Austin has a few ways of luring students back out to Red River Street for some live music.
Tonight, Emo’s will host a show with a solid three-band lineup including indie veter-ans Here We Go Magic, Austin’s own Oh No Oh My and fresh Brooklyn band Beach Fossils.
New to the scene, Beach Fossils originated in March 2009 when front man Dustin Payseur start-ed recording his own solo tracks. John Pena, Sennott Burke and Tommy Lucas soon joined the band to release its debut EP, Day-dream/Desert Sand, in February — followed by its first full-length al-bum, Beach Fossils, in May.
Over the past year, the lo-fi in-die-pop band has attracted at-tention from its performances at SXSW as well as an energetic live set featured on Pitchfork.tv.
The charm of Beach Fossils’ music is hard to ignore. The airy guitars and simple percussion found in its recordings create a breezy summer sound similar to that of recent buzz bands Surfer Blood and Real Estate.
Amid the surf-rock craze,
Beach Fossils’ allure can be traced to its distinctive vocals. Payseur’s hazy, almost haunting voice drones above the band’s ethereal pop sound, adding depth to its easy rhythm.
In the first single on the band’s EP, “Daydream”, Payseur’s lyrics are simple. He recalls a summer day by singing “when the morn-ing’s dark, and we fall in the grass of an open park.” Despite the minimalist lyrics, the band members are still able to conjure up a vivid scene of a lazy sum-mer with the help of the harmo-nious buzz of their instruments.
Beach Fossils’ song “Youth” fea-tures infectious guitar riffs remi-niscent of fellow beach rockers The Soft Pack. Payseur’s hypnotic voice effortlessly floats above the band’s music, creating yet anoth-er worthy summer tune.
Beach Fossils is deserving of its recent praise and should not be written off as just another lo-fi indie group. Tonight’s show is not only a must-see but also a fi-nal nod to the now fleeting sum-mer days.
By Kate ErgenbrightDaily Texan Staff
Rob Sheffield learned everything he needed to know about relat-ing to girls by listening to ’80s Brit-ish pop-rock band Duran Duran, a band that, for Sheffield, symbolizes “teenage yearning” and desire.
Sheffield is a contributing edi-tor at Rolling Stone and a frequent guest on MTV and VH1. His first memoir, “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time,” made The New York Times best-seller list and received much criti-cal acclaim.
Sheffield’s latest work, “Talking to Girls about Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut,” is a com-ing-of-age story filled with per-sonal essays from Sheffield’s ado-lescence, each centered around an iconic song from the ’80s.
Sheffield loves the ’80s and Du-ran Duran and makes no apol-ogies for this. He embraces the cheesy synthesiz-ers and outlandish outfits that often characterize music from this decade and digs deep-er to remind read-ers that there is more to time peri-od than leg warm-ers and harem pants. He’s passion-ate about music — and it shows. Through his writing, he takes read-ers back to a time when MTV actu-ally played music videos and male musicians wore more makeup and hair extensions than any of the girls who came to their shows.
“Talking to Girls about Duran Duran” is highly entertaining, and Sheffield’s prose is both comedic and nostalgic.
Interestingly, the best essay in the novel is the introduction, a section often skipped by readers.
For the most part, Sheffield is able to relate each of his personal essays to his ‘80s song of choice, but on oc-casion, the connec-tion wears thin.
“ Ta l k i n g t o Girls about Du-ran Duran” is per-fect not only for anyone who came of age in the ’80s,
but for anyone with even a slight appreciation for the decade. Shef-field’s writing transcends genera-tions and offers a funny and enter-taining read for all ages.
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It’s practically impossible to not have a favorite Bob Dylan song. Though his incorporation of folk aesthetics with blues guitar be-came a staple of his technique, Dylan was able to derive inspira-tion from a multitude of styles, al-ways keeping fans on their feet. His thought-provoking lyrics left their mark on generations of fans, and even since the beginning of his career, it was clear that Dylan was both a poet and an old soul. To celebrate the troubadour’s show tonight at The Backyard at Bee Cave, we’ve compiled a few of our favorite Dylan tunes.
‘All Along the Watchtower’ I’ll admit, I didn’t really listen to
this song until the season three fina-le of “Battlestar Galactica” worked it in like a crazy “Lost” revelation and broke it down verse by verse. Once it did, though, I became ob-sessed with its complex imagery and narrative structure. Not only do you have this odd duo of a joker and a thief thrown together discuss-ing life, but the end of the song is actually the narrative’s beginning. Yet, its “beginning” has an ominous tone as Dylan’s harmonica sings its screeching last notes. The song was originally written while Dylan was recovering from his motorcycle acci-dent in ’66 and features some of the first biblical allusions that would later define his songwriting.
— Gerald Rich
‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’
While most girls reach for a pint of Ben & Jerry’s after a relationship has fizzled, I prefer the company of Dylan and his calmly spiteful break-up tunes. Though the words of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” may indicate composure (“I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind; you could have done better, but I don’t mind”), Dylan’s frantic strumming, a style borrowed from folk guitarist Bruce Langhorne, reveals his sup-
pressed confusion. This song man-ages to be as dynamic as any of Dy-lan’s greatest hits without relying on political themes to add depth. Sticking with traditional folk lyr-ics of lost love and personal sor-row, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” is one of Dylan’s most inti-mate songs.
— Madeleine Crum
‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’
Not only was this song quintes-sential to the civil rights movement, it helped bring folk music to a more stylized light. Dylan’s vocals are en-chanting in their old-man wisdom sense of style. The simple acoustic guitar work sets the rhythm per-fectly, and the various harmonica solos also add something pure to the track as he sings, “Come moth-ers and fathers throughout the land, and don’t criticize what you can’t
understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your com-mand.”
— Mark Lopez
‘Like a Rolling Stone’One of the most revered record-
ings in music history, “Like a Roll-ing Stone” recalls the downfall of losing your fortune while highlight-ing the sense of pride you gain in fending for yourself, no matter how hard the struggle. In what could have easily turned into a hateful song about a has-been who finally has to face reality, Dylan harnesses his resentment in a grounded tone. The influence of blues music on Dy-lan’s work is clear in this song, from the lyrics to its composition.
— Mark Lopez
‘It Ain’t Me Babe’“It Ain’t Me Babe” is a gorgeous
song. The melody is simple and soothing, and Dylan’s classic har-monica stylings and haggard-yet-whimsical voice lull listeners into sympathizing with his plight of not being good enough for the lady he’s leaving. The classic story: She is “lookin’ for someone who’ll pick you up each time you fall.” How dare she? I love “It Ain’t Me Babe” because I hate it. It’s a weak man’s way of worming out of a relation-ship, but hey, it sure is a pretty song. Asshole.
— Mary Lingwall
By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff
Rarely do people find anything as comforting and familiar as a plain, classic burger. But The Fly-ing Carpet food stand’s Moroccan hamburger, served inside a warm pita wrap with homemade tomato sauce, might just get even the most die-hard burger purists hooked.
That may seem a bit unpatri-otic, but just look at the ingredi-ents. The soft, doughy pita re-places a relatively less ergonom-ic hamburger bun. The tomato sauce’s combination of paprika, onions and garlic really brings out the flavor of either the hamburg-er meat or eggplant and falafel. Mellow that out with the creamy and cool neutral flavor of the fried egg, and you have yourself a Mo-
roccan burger.To add a little spice and com-
plexity, each burger comes with homemade l ’Afrique sauce made from Moroccan pepper and mayonnaise.
The Flying Carpet’s small menu only offers a limited selection with a regular Moroccan burger, a “sleek veggie” or a “sleek vegan” with no eggs. You can also add some pom-mes frites, or “real” french fries, or a salad to any of these burgers, but flavors this good almost demand more options.
Now, those who are less inclined toward animal products and by-products might take offense that The Flying Carpet cooks its meats on the same surface used for cook-ing the eggplant for the veggie and vegan options. However, the
owner lets you know this right off the bat and will thoroughly clean the little stove top for you.
The burgers are like instanta-neous comfort food from the first bite. All the ingredients are organ-ic and natural, including the meat and eggs, so it doesn’t look or taste as greasy as most other burgers.
The best part is that the stand uses a simple yet time-honored recipe. According to the own-er, Abderrahim Souktouri, the to-mato sauce recipe was perfected by his 90-year-old grandmother over many years. The tomato and l’Afrique sauces, as well as the cit-ron salad dressing, are homemade by Souktouri and Maria Souk-touri, his wife and The Flying Car-pet’s co-owner.
At this time, The Flying Carpet
only accepts cash and is not open for lunch on weekdays. Howev-er, a cash-only policy is generally to be expected for most new food trailers, and Abderrahim Souk-touri spends the daytime work-ing at Dell.
You can find The Flying Car-pet located in the parking lot at the corner of South Congress and Gibson.
Stand sizzles with Moroccan fare
Kiersten Marian | Daily Texan Staff
The Moroccan hamburger combines beef, tomato sauce and a fried egg in a soft, doughy pita. Although The Flying Carpet has a limited menu, it also offers vegetarian and vegan options.
Joe Buglewicz | Daily Texan file photo
Bob Dylan, pictured here at the 2007 Austin City Limits Music Festival, will perform at the Backyard at Bee Cave tonight.
WHAT: The Flying Carpet
WHERE: South Congress Avenue and Gibson Street
HouRs: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 5:30-10 p.m.; Saturday, 12-10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 12:30-7 p.m.
WHAT To gET: The Moroccan hamburger
WHo: Bob Dylan and His Band
WHERE: The Backyard at Bee Cave, 13472 Bee Cave Parkway
WHEN: Tonight; doors open at 7
HoW MucH: $45
WHAT: Beach Fossils with Here We Go Magic and Oh No Oh My
WHERE: Emo’s (outside)
WHEN: Tonight; doors open at 9
HoW MucH: $12
Gear up for show tonight with Bob Dylan’s best
courtesy of Beach Fossils
Brooklyn-based Beach Fossils will play with Here We Go Magic and local band Oh No Oh My tonight at Emo’s.
Beach Fossils’ music fuels surf-rock craze
Selection of essays covers author’s life using 1980s songs
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REsTAuRANT REviEW the flying carpet
EvENT pREviEW beach fossils
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By Dan HurwitzDaily Texan Staff
The Houston Texans had too many chances last year. Missed field goals and goal-line turn-overs made it seem like the Tex-ans didn’t want to go to the play-offs. This season, things are dif-ferent. They made it over the hump and finally finished with a winning season last year, but the Texans won’t find any moral vic-tories in 2010: It’s either playoffs or bust. General manager Rick Smith has put together the piec-es, now it is time for the piec-es to make their move and per-form. The entire core of one of the NFL’s best offenses returns, while a defense that played well in the second half of the season is back, for the most part.
Five things to watch with the Houston Texans:
1. Secondary is first: Dunta Robinson, former franchise player and the Texans’ best all-time de-fensive back, has moved on to At-lanta, leaving Houston young and inexperienced in the secondary. Houston drafted Alabama’s Ka-reem Jackson with its first-round pick and expects him to start op-posite second-year player Glover Quin Jr. at cornerback. Houston will need the likes of Fred Bennett and Jacques Reeves to step up.
2. The kicking battle: Multiple games were decided last season by missed field goals from Tex-ans veteran Kris Brown. Had one
of those late game-winning at-tempts made its way between the uprights, the Texans would have made the playoffs. Those misses have resulted in Houston bring-ing in veteran Neil Rackers to compete for the job, which has been Brown’s for the first eight years of the franchise’s history.
3. Replacing Cushing: The 2009 Defensive Rookie of the Year is practicing with the first team at training camp and can play in pre-season games, but will miss the first four games of the season for violat-ing the NFL’s substance-abuse pol-icy. Competing for Cushing’s spot
in Houston’s 4-3 defense will be Xavier Adibi — who has missed plenty of time since joining the Tex-ans because of injury — as well as Danny Clark and Kevin Bentley.
4. Schaub slump: Quarterback Matt Schaub had a career season last year leading the NFL in pass-ing yards, but can he keep it go-ing for another year and prove that he belongs among the NFL’s top quarterbacks? Despite throw-ing 29 touchdowns, he still threw 15 interceptions, a number he desperately wants to decrease. There is no controversy as he is the man at quarterback, but can
he get over the hump and lead Houston to the playoffs?
5. Running nowhere: Schaub had to keep throwing last year because Houston was unable to get much production on the run. Steve Slaton — while healthy — fumbled regularly and then missed the second half of the sea-son because of injury. Arian Fos-ter impressed in the final weeks of the season and improved his chances of getting more play-ing time in 2010. Houston also brought in rookie Ben Tate, who was drafted in the second round and is excelling in camp so far.
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By Chris TavarezDaily Texan Staff
The Cowboys aren’t beating around the bush — if they don’t make it to the Super Bowl, this season will be a failure.
Those are the expectations for the entire franchise, from owner Jerry Jones to quarterback Tony Romo. But those lofty expecta-tions aren’t absurd. Dallas has a wealth of talent coming back and the Cowboys finally remem-ber what it feels like to win in the postseason, which they hadn’t done since 1996 until last season’s win against Philadelphia.
America’s Team is planning on a date with destiny. The Cowboys want to be the first team in NFL history to play the Super Bowl in their home stadium.
Five things to watch with the Dallas Cowboys:
1. The battle among the wide-outs for No. 1 will be the most in-triguing thing to watch in the pre-season, although the theater of it all took a bit of a hit when Dez Bryant went down with an ankle injury. He’s expected to return for the last preseason game at the ear-liest, but will most likely make his debut in the first regular season game at Washington.
2. Anytime you’re the quar-terback for the Dallas Cowboys, you’re going to have a target on your back. But with Dallas’ lofty expectations, and the success Romo had last year, expect that target to be even bigger, and ex-pect the microscope to be even more focused on the eight-year veteran. He finished last season in the top 10 in nearly every statisti-cal category, from the eighth-best passer rating (97.6) to the 10th-most in touchdowns (26).
3. Dallas had a successful ground game last season, which definitely helped Romo air it out, so expect the ‘Boys to keep on building on it. The tandem of Marion Barber and Felix Jones helped the Cow-boys rank seventh in the league in rushing, with an average of 131.4 yards per game. Barber will again be the go-to guy, but don’t expect him to get nearly 100 more carries than Jones, who will be entering his third NFL season.
4. In the 44-year history of the Super Bowl, no team has ever played it in its home stadium. The
Los Angeles Rams played Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl and the San Francisco 49ers played Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Sta-dium. While both of those teams were in their hometown, neither played the game in their home stadium. With Cowboys Stadium set to host Super Bowl XLV, Dallas could be the first.
5. Dallas was the first team to report for and start training camp, getting a head start on the rest of the league because it starts its pre-season nearly a week before every-one else. America will get its first look at the Cowboys on Sunday when they face off against Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens in the annual Hall of Fame game.
By Will AndersonDaily Texan Staff
Kyle Hix and Michael Huey are the only two returning starters on the offensive line while a cadre of guards and tackles battle for the right to play alongside them. Whoever emerges will become an integral part of this year’s team as Texas places a greater emphasis on the running game.
“We will go back and work hard-er to get the ball downhill from the tailback spot,” head coach Mack Brown said at last week’s Big 12 me-dia days.
The Longhorns are still expected to operate mostly out of the spread, al-though quarterback Garrett Gilbert spent time during spring drills get-ting comfortable under center.
Brown also noted that work-ing more against the run in practice would help the defense against the downhill-running teams it may face.
After possessing one of the coun-try’s top running offenses in 2004 and 2005, the Longhorns saw a steady de-crease in their rushing numbers from 2006 onward, largely giving up the ground game in 2009. The reasons were a combination of poor perfor-mance from the Texas backfield and a heavy reliance on Colt McCoy.
“When Colt took over, we start-ed throwing the ball so much that we have not been as aggressive in the running game as we would like,” Brown said.
The offensive line, which start-ed last year looking in top form, fin-ished on a low note as Nebraska and then Alabama ravaged Texas with 25 tackles for a loss and 10 sacks. Over-all, the Horns gave up 31 sacks in 2009, third-worst in the Big 12.
Texas will have to protect the quar-terback better, especially with rookie Gilbert under center.
“When you have instances come up when you lose a quarterback ... you’re putting your second quar-terback, in our estimation, under a tremendous amount of pressure,” Brown said.
Despite losing a wealth of talent from last season, Texas showed all through spring practice that it has as-sembled all the pieces to replace one of the winningest offensive lines in school history. Much of that talent comes by way of fresh faces: Domi-nic Espinosa, who came out of near-by Cedar Park High School as the top center in the country last season, will see a fair amount of game time, and guard Trey Hopkins.
Offensive l ine coach Mac McWhorter will not hurt from a lack of ability this year but must instead find the group of five players who will work best together. The season may depend on it.
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Are you ready for some football?
Eric Gay | Associated Press
Above, the Dallas Cowboys’ Roy Williams catches a ball during the team’s NFL football training camp Tuesday in San Antonio. Below, Houston Texans players stretch during an NFL football training camp practice Monday in Houston.
Talented Cowboys squad paves the way for a season that could end with a title
Texans start preseason with high expectations, big goals to make playoffs
Eric Ou | Daily Texan file photo
Texas offensive linemen protect quarterback Garrett Gilbert during the Orange and White spring game in April at the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. The new Horns will have to replace a core of seniors that combined to be one of the winningest offensive lines in school history.
Offensive line will make or break Texas
DAtE OppOnEnt lOcAtiOnAug. 8 Cincinnati Canton, Ohio
Aug. 12 Oakland Dallas
Aug. 21 San Diego San Diego
Aug. 28 Houston Houston
Sept. 2 Miami Dallas
DAtE OppOnEnt lOcAtiOnAug. 14 Arizona Glendale, Ariz.
Aug. 21 New Orleans New Orleans
Aug. 28 Dallas Houston
Sept. 2 Tampa Bay Houston
Cowboys Preseason Schedule
Texans Preseason Schedule
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