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Liberal Arts deficit jeopardizes ethnic studies

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Haitian amputees tour United States, compete at Capitol

Texas ranks fourth among all U.S. states in the number of guns sold that are eventually used in crimes.

One of every 50 guns recovered by Texas law enforcement agencies dur-ing criminal investigations

in 2009 can be traced to Austin. The city ranked ninth among all municipalities in

Texas for guns used in crimes, following Hous-ton, Dallas, and San Antonio, among other cities, according to statistics from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The bureau says Texas is the nation’s fourth-largest interstate exporter of guns involved in criminal matters. Pistols and rifles made up near-ly 70 percent of the weapons recovered by Texas authorities, 256 weapons out of a total of 16,149 recovered statewide last year.

“Texas has really weak gun laws and a number of interstates,” said Josh Horwitz, executive di-rector of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. “The sheer volume of firearms in Texas may also have something to do with it.”

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and

Explosives estimated that there were about 48,000 firearms dealers nationwide and 3,800 firearms dealers, or nearly 8 percent, in Texas. Casey Wat-non, an owner of Tex Guns in South Austin, said ATF agents inspect his store and records at least once a year.

“If you’ve been in business for any amount of time at all, you’ll have at least one gun trace,” Watnon said.

The ATF’s National Tracing Center began tak-ing gun-tracing requests in 1988 as a result of the Gun Control Act of 1968. The federal law stipu-lated regulations on owners’ firearms, including requiring dealers to maintain records. The cen-ter traces guns for domestic and international law enforcement agencies that need to know the gun’s owner in criminal investigations. The bu-reau traced more than 343,000 firearms across the world in 2009.

Once agents receive a request, they will hand-write records to trace the firearm from the manu-facturing company to the retailer, then to the first purchaser. The bureau is not allowed to collect re-cords in a computerized method because of gov-ernment restrictions on registration databases.

By Aziza MusaDaily Texan Staff

Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff

Josue Joseph of the Haitian National Amputee Soccer Team moves to keep Austinite David Escame from gaining control of the ball.

Source: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

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Alcoholic energy drinks are seen in a cooler reflecting overhead lights at a convenience store. Four Loko has been under investigation by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff

The latest round of 3-percent budget cuts to state agencies could mean a reduction of about $9 million in UT’s state funding. But University of-ficials could not say a day after the cuts were an-nounced which jobs or programs might be vulner-able.

The University received $300 million in state funding for the 2010-2011 biennium.

Leaders of the Texas House and Senate an-

nounced further budget cuts after setting the state’s spending limit for the next legislative ses-sion at a meeting of the Legislative Budget Board on Monday. About 14 percent of the University’s overall budget comes from state funding, com-pared to 47 percent in 1985.

Kevin Hegarty, UT’s chief financial officer, said the University does not yet have a plan to deal with the new budget cut, but there will likely be

By Yvonne Marquez Daily Texan Staff

Emmanuel Ladouceur was on the bottom floor of a three-story building with his family when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Hai-ti last January. A goalkeeper for a local soccer team, Ladouceur lost his parents when the building col-lapsed, and only he and his sister survived. After the loss of his left arm in the quake, he is determined to continue playing the sport.

Of the 15-member Haitian soccer team, three players lost their limbs in the earthquake. The team played on the Texas Capitol grounds Tues-day afternoon as part of their na-tional tour. The team faced repre-sentatives from various nonprof-it groups, including Dennis Borel,

the executive director of Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, and Jer-ry Davis, Goodwill of Central Tex-as CEO.

“People with disabilities are typically the most disadvantaged group demographic in every so-ciety,” Borel said. “These folks are coming from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. These folks have demonstrated that giv-en the opportunity and the encour-agement that they can do incredi-ble things.”

Ladouceur and his teammates played on forearm crutches on a field smaller than one used in pro-fessional soccer games. They could not use their crutches to detour the

By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Ethnic studies centers and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies may fall un-der the swinging axe of University budget cuts, and members of a new student organi-zation called The Students Speak said they will do whatever it takes to fight back.

The College of Liberal Arts announced

last week that under a recommendation from the Academic Planning and Adviso-ry Council, 15 centers and institutes stand to lose a combined $1 million, with the cen-ters for African and African American, Mex-ican American and Middle Eastern studies taking the largest hit.

In response, members of Chicano advo-cacy group MEChA organized the first Stu-

dents Speak meeting Tuesday night with about 50 students from different area stud-ies majors, as well as Student Government representatives and other interested stu-dents. They said they hope that through protests, education and working with stu-dent leaders and the administration, they can reduce cuts they say could irreparably harm the education of students who use the

centers for classes, research, programs and organizational support.

“I started school at Brown, and I trans-ferred here because of the Center for Mex-ican American Studies,” said Diana Gomez, a Mexican American studies senior. “We’ve agreed that this organization needs to be a

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Illustration by Camri Hinkie

By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff

The makers of the popular caf-feinated alcoholic drink Four Loko announced Tuesday that they would remove caffeine and other stimulants from their prod-ucts. Phusion Projects made the announcement after it became apparent the Food and Drug Ad-

ministration would rule caffeine is an unsafe additive to alcohol-ic beverages.

The three founders of Phusion Projects insisted that Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks were still safe but acknowledged the products had received in-creased scrutiny recently. Four states have banned caffeinated

alcoholic beverages such as Four Loko and Joose.

“We are taking this step af-ter trying — unsuccessfully — to navigate a difficult and politically charged regulatory environment at both the state and federal lev-els,” the statement said.

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Today in history

Foreign film nightInternational Education Week will screen several foreign films — including Germany’s “The Edukators,” Russia’s “Country of the Deaf” and Mexico’s “Rojo Amancer” — around campus beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Game onA panel of five Austin-based video game programmers will lead a discussion about how to break into the industry from 3:30 to 6 p.m. in UTC 2.102A.

Wars in the Muslim worldIndependent journalist Nir Rosen will speak about his reporting in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan from 7 to 9 p.m. in TCC 1.110.

In 1973Richard Nixon infamously told a group of reporters “I am not a crook.”

— Jannifer WilkinsUT studio arts major

‘Fight’UT playwright Kimber Lee’s production about a female boxer will premier at 8 p.m. in the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. Tickets start at $15.

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that music really shapes all aspects

of life. The way that music changes,

remixes and grows to become popular

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Unsolved robberiesTwo robberies occurred in West Campus over the weekend of Nov. 14 with the same suspect description. In both cases, the victim was walking down the street when a white or cream colored sedan pulled up alongside of them. The three suspects exited the vehicle and robbed the victims at gunpoint.If you have any information on these cases contact Detective Steve Boline with the Austin Police Department at (512) 974-5000.

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more jobs lost. “[Our response] will be as

methodical and thoughtful as it possibly can, the worst thing we can do is just react,” he said.

UT cut $14.6 million from its budget earlier this year — most-ly from administrative and non-academic areas — after legis-lative leaders asked most state agencies to cut 5 percent of their budgets. By comparison, the School of Architecture’s budget is $8 million. Months later, they asked for cuts of 10 percent to state agencies’ 2012-13 budgets.

Texas universities’ only op-tion to avoid dropping jobs and programs is to raise tuition — a choice higher education lead-ers will be reluctant to make be-cause of political constraints and relationships with state leaders, said Eva DeLuna Castro, a bud-get analyst with the progressive think tank Center for Public Pol-icy Priorities.

Castro said the cuts in state funding for higher education will also mean less state finan-cial aid and that thousands of entering, eligible students will not obtain the TEXAS Grant and several other grants. The Texas

Higher Education Coordinating Board in September proposed cuts that would drop grants for 24,000 first-time recipients of the TEXAS Grant program.

During a September Legisla-tive Budget Board meeting, offi-cers asked UT System Chancel-lor Francisco Cigarroa and sev-eral UT System presidents if they would prefer to cut their fund-ing for special items, such as the McDonald Observatory or for-mula funding, which makes up most of UT’s state funding. Most of the presidents responded that their special items are crucial to the growth of their institutions.

UT budget director Mary Knight said the University’s spe-cial items include large research units that benefit Texas, such as the Bureau of Economic Geolo-gy, which provides research on energy and environmental is-sues in the state.

“I don’t know that it’s an ei-ther or question, [UT needs] both,” Knight said.

UT is still going through the process of planning for the pos-sible 10 percent cut, and if the new budget cuts affect UT dur-ing this fiscal year, the bud-get planning process would be rushed, Knight said.

speak: Council works with SG to open forum

The challenge of gun tracing is in carrying out the process, said ATF-Houston Field Divi-sion spokeswoman Franceska Perot.

“You have to depend on everybody’s records,” Perot said. “The paperwork is main-tained by the dealer ’s store-front, and the paper trail only gets you to the original pur-chaser. Sometimes, it can take quite a while.”

Gun control advocate Abby Spangler is the founder of pro-testeasyguns.com. She said guns sold at a gun show — where up to 50 percent of sellers at the show are private and unli-

censed — are usually untrace-able. Federal law does not re-quire private vendors to per-form a background check or keep records on customers.

“You can be a felon, have left jail yesterday, walk into a gun show and buy a gun from an unlicensed seller as eas-ily as a candy bar,” she said. “The background check takes a matter of minutes and is all computerized, but private sellers would rather just sell their gun without taking re-sponsibility to protect their fellow Texans.”

When unlicensed vendors sell their firearms to anoth-er individual, the gun-tracing process reaches a dead end or

a partial trace, at best, Span-gler said.

“We want the gun show loophole to be closed to protect our police, our children and Americans,” Spangler said.

But gun tracing allows the gun-control lobby to demon-ize a firearms dealer, said Dave Workman, spokesman for the Second Amendment Founda-tion, a pro-gun rights group.

“Once a firearm leaves a dealer’s building, he’s not re-sponsible for what the user does with it,” Workman said. “People blame dealers for ca-tering to the criminal market, but just to say that a particular gun dealer is an outlawed gun dealer is not really fair.”

ball and can only use one leg. Fred Sorrells is the team’s

translator and organized the U.S. tour. Most players do not have access to rehabilitation re-sources in their home country, said Sorrells, the president of the International Institute of SPORT, which provides therapeutic rec-reation and education to ampu-tees in poor countries.

“We’re basically using thera-peutic recreation to help them develop self-esteem for them-selves but more importantly in places in Haiti for other peo-ple to recognize their value,” he said. “In third world coun-tries, there’s not enough resourc-es to go around so people with disabilities are marginalized, pushed to the side.”

Before the earthquake, Ladou-ceur was a goal keeper in an able-bodied soccer team. De-spite losing his left arm, he has

more opportunities on the am-putee soccer team.

“It’s been [an] extremely im-portant thing to be involved in recreation therapy, particularly with amputee soccer,” Ladou-ceur said. “I never had a chance to be involved, just at a low level when I was playing able-bodied soccer as a goalkeeper.”

Ladouceur said he was de-pressed when the nonprofit re-habilitation group was look-ing for new goal keepers to play in the 2010 Amputee Football World Cup in Argentina. He was skeptical but decided to attend the last day of tryouts. He even-tually made the team, which lost to England at this year’s tourna-ment. He is ready for the 2012 World Cup in Japan, where he will again be the goal keeper, he said.

“It’s been the most magnifi-cent thing that has happened to me,” Ladouceur said.

student initiative because we’re in these courses and these centers, and we’ll fight to keep them in place.”

The $1 million dollars is part of $3.5 million that the dean’s adviso-ry council must identify for cuts to fill an unexpected shortfall in mon-ey received from tuition. That mon-ey was used to fill other budgetary holes in response to cuts ordered by legislative leaders. Other plans include cutting faculty by offer-ing early retirement packages and leaving vacant positions unfilled. The College of Liberal Arts will not be out of deficit until the 2014-15 school year, according to projec-tions from the advisory council.

Richard Flores, the senior asso-ciate dean of the College of Liber-al Arts, attended the Liberal Arts Council meeting Tuesday night and gave a presentation to explain the metrics used to determine cuts for each center, including how they use the funding they have and how many students major in programs related to the centers. Although the original recommendations includ-ed no student input, Flores said College of Liberal Arts Dean Ran-dy Diehl and other administra-tors hope to meet with students, faculty and staff from each center to get input on the possible effects of the cuts.

“We’re pulled in two directions. One is we want to hear and con-sult broadly, but on the other hand, center directors need to start mak-ing decisions,” Flores said.

The Students Speak members left their meeting to attend the Lib-eral Arts Council meeting, and they said it was the first time they had access to the information Flores presented. There was some confu-sion because the council members said their meetings are not a forum open to all Liberal Arts students.

“We were left out of the pro-cess, and it’s not until tonight that we managed to finagle our way into this [council] meeting and see some of the metrics they used to make these cuts,” said Mexican American studies se-nior Bernardino Villasenor. “In slashing these programs, they’re slashing our cultures and identi-ties, too.”

Liberal Arts Council President Carl Thorne-Thomsen said he wants to work with SG to plan open forums so students can get involved in future conversations about Liberal Arts cuts.

In addition, the Senate of Col-lege Councils expects to launch the College Tuition and Budget Advisory Council for liberal arts before the semester ends, pro-viding a direct link between the administration and students in the college.

budget: Board discusses reducing research funding in 2012

Pass the wordguns: Unlicensed vendors prevent tracking

Ryan Smith | Daily Texan Staff

Rob Love, member of the Libertarian Longhorns, passes out fliers on the West Mall for his lecture on how legalizing marijuana could improve the economy.

haiti: ‘Therapeutic recreation’ primary goal, translator says

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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who has lobbied state and federal authorities to ban the drinks, announced in a statement that the FDA will make the ruling today, effec-tively banning the drinks. The Federal Trade Commission will also notify manufactur-ers that they must cease pro-duction of distribution of the beverages.

“This ruling should be the nail in the coffin of these dan-gerous and toxic drinks,” he said in a statement. “Parents should be able to rest a little easier knowing that soon their children won’t have access to this deadly brew.”

One can of Four Loko con-tains the equivalent of two to three cans of beer and two to three cups of coffee, according to Schumer’s website.

The media buzz surround-

ing caffeinated alcoholic bev-erages led the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to dis-cuss an action plan to regulate drink sales said spokeswoman Carolyn Beck.

Beck said TABC will do as mandated by the FDA once a law is in effect because the ad-ministration has deemed the drinks hazardous.

“If FDA makes the deci-sion, there will be a quick turn-around,” she said.

The TABC would post bulle-tins online and e-mail notifica-tions to permitted merchants.

She said although the com-mission did not begin discuss-ing pulling the drinks as a result of any particular case, they are taking recent incidents into ac-count. A 14-year-old girl died in a car crash Sunday in Denton. Police reported five empty Four Loko cans in the car, which her boyfriend was driving, indicat-ing the drink may have contrib-uted to the fatal crash.

The bright and eye-catching cans and the fruity flavor of the actual drink suggest an appeal to younger consumers, said ad-vertising associate professor Marina Choi.

“I can’t say whether or not that was their angle, but their design and marketing strate-gy would suggest that they are targeting a younger audience,” Choi said.

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Prince William, fiancée schedule royal wedding for upcoming year

LONDON — Thirty years after the fairy-tale nuptials with the un-happy ending, Britain will finally have another big royal wedding: Its dashing helicopter-pilot prince — second in line to the throne — will marry the lovely commoner who may someday become queen.

Prince William and Kate Middle-ton bubbled with joy Tuesday eve-ning in their first public appearance since the palace announced their engagement after more than eight years of dating. Their wedding will be next spring or summer.

In a poignant symbol for Wil-liam, his betrothed wore the sap-phire and diamond engagement

ring that belonged to his late moth-er, Diana.

“I thought it was quite nice be-cause obviously she’s not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all. This was my way of keeping her close to it all,” William said.

While the romance of the two 28-year-olds is the stuff that dreams are made of, it is no exaggeration to say that the future of the Windsor dynasty depends to no small de-gree on the success of their union.

“We’re massively excited,” Wil-liam said in the televised interview that marked the first time they have spoken publicly about the trials and tribulations of their love affair, which dates back to their days as university freshmen. “We’re huge-ly excited. We’re looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together.”

By Desmond ButlerThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In a blow to President Barack Obama, chances faded Tuesday for Senate approv-al of a major nuclear arms trea-ty with Russia this year, tripping up one of the administration’s top foreign policy goals: improving relations with Moscow.

Obama has been pushing to get enough Republican support for a vote before the Democratic ma-jority shrinks by six in January, and was optimistic just over the weekend about sealing perhaps his most significant foreign policy achievement.

Part of the task included win-ning over Sen. Jon Kyl, the lead-ing Republican senator on the New START agreement, who has demanded more funds for the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a condi-tion for approving the treaty. The White House proposed adding $4.1 billion to modernize the arse-nal and officials traveled to Kyl’s home state to sell the pact, accord-ing to a congressional aide. But

the senator wasn’t sufficiently im-pressed.

In a statement Tuesday, Kyl said he didn’t think the issue should be considered this year, citing a busy Senate agenda and the complexi-ty of the treaty. Democrats are un-likely to be able to move forward without his support.

“When Majority Leader Har-ry Reid asked me if I thought the treaty could be considered in the lame duck session, I replied I did not think so given the com-bination of other work Congress must do and the complex and un-resolved issues related to START and modernization,” Kyl said.

The administration reacted swiftly with Vice President Joe Biden warning that Senate fail-ure to ratify the treaty would en-danger the national security of the United States. Without ratifica-tion, Americans will have no way to verify Russia’s strategic nucle-ar arsenal and cooperation would weaken between two nations that hold 90 percent of the world’s nu-clear weapons, he said.

NEWS BRIEFLY

Nuclear treaty set backby Ariz. GOP senator

By Darlene SupervilleThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Ambushed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Salva-tore Giunta stepped into a “wall of bullets” and chased down two Taliban fighters who were carrying his mortally wounded friend away.

Three years after acts of bat-tlefield bravery, Giunta on Tues-day became the first living ser-vice member from the Afghani-stan and Iraq wars to receive the nation’s top military award, the Medal of Honor. He’s the first

living medal recipient in nearly 40 years.

Far from the perilous ridge where his unit was attacked on a moonlit night in October 2007, Giunta stood in the glittering White House East Room, in the company of military brass, past Medal of Honor winners, his surviving comrades and fami-lies as President Barack Obama hung the blue ribbon cradling the medal around Giunta’s neck.

“I’m going to go off script here and just say, ‘I really like this guy,” Obama said, calling

him “a soldier as humble as he is heroic.”

“When you meet Sal and you meet his family, you are just ab-solutely convinced that this is what America is all about, and it just makes you proud.”

For Giunta, the tribute was bittersweet. It was a bloody day in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley and the two soldiers he rescued later died.

“Although this is so positive, I would give this back in a sec-ond to have my friends with me right now,” the 25-year-old from

Hiawatha, Iowa, said afterward on the rain-soaked White House driveway.

Obama said Giunta “charged headlong into the wall of bul-lets.” The sergeant at first pulled a soldier who had been struck in the helmet to safety, then sprinted ahead to find two Tali-ban fighters dragging away the stricken Sgt. Joshua C. Brennan.

“Sal never broke stride,” Obama said. “He leapt forward. He took aim. He killed one of the insurgents and wounded the other, who ran off.”

Soldier receives highest medal

Scott Applewhite| Associated Press

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, who rescued two members of his squad in October 2007 while fighting in the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday, at the White House.

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Seven weeks after tragedy occurred on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library, students at UT have resumed their weekly routines.

However, just a few blocks down Congress Av-enue, the Texas Legislature will surely keep re-minding us of the incident throughout the spring. In January, the 82nd legislative session will com-mence, and a bill on concealed carry on college campuses has already made it on the agenda.

Filed by Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, H.B. 86 will no doubt be one of the most close-ly followed bills of 2011. As Simpson states on his website, “In light of the recent incidence of gun-fire on the University of Texas campus, this legis-lation is overdue.”

Can we, as young adults, expect ourselves to be-have civilly enough to bring weapons to class? Is there a chance the presence of handguns on cam-pus will be dangerous?

I, and probably many others, asked these ques-tions during the Sept. 28 lockdown. It is clear that we need reasoned, healthy debate on this issue. But as much as I want to hear the best persuasive arguments on campus, I must point out a blatant, yet overlooked, flaw in the debate.

If the Legislature passes the bill, students must obtain a state concealed handgun license before legally carrying a handgun on campus. They must have clean criminal records, of course.

They must be of sound mind. Makes sense.And they must be 21 years of age. This is exact-

ly where my support begins to unravel.Many UT undergraduates are under 21, and if

the Republican-controlled Legislature only grants students over 21 this power, it would discriminate against younger UT students and make us more vulnerable than ever.

Why? The right to protection should not be se-lective, but current concealed carry laws would make my safety contingent upon older students’ prudency. I would never trust the sixth-year se-

nior sitting in the back of my lower-division phys-ics course to be the only one in class allowed to pack heat.

As with the Virginia Tech shooting, campus shootings are often planned and calculated. A gunman could know to choose an introductory chemistry class filled with 400 freshmen over an upper-division government class with potential concealed-handgun license holders.

Many have heard the two schools of thought regarding nuclear weapon proliferation: disar-mament and deterrence. A weapons-less utopia is popular; President Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize largely for his efforts in bringing the nuclear world to “Global Zero.”

But as Roger Cohen opined in The New York Times last Friday, this type of “idealism will not keep [countries] safe.” Supporters of nuclear de-terrence claim that if all countries had nukes, then it is less likely anyone will dare to use them.

The same arguments can apply to campus car-ry. Supposedly, a campus filled with CHL holders

is safer than one without any. But a plan only al-lowing some students to carry guns will be hypo-critical, discriminatory and even dangerous. Legis-lators should either grant concealed carry privileg-es to all students or not even consider the notion. There is no room for compromise or experiments.

If legislators are unlikely to grant CHLs to re-cent high school graduates, would I suggest the campus carry debate be dropped completely? Maybe. Debating legislation without addressing the underlying policy upon which the legislation’s intent is contingent doesn’t make any sense.

But to many, 18 is far too young for someone to carry a weapon, and legislation to lower the CHL age requirement would probably be more hot-ly contested than the idea of concealed carry on campus.

Permitting guns in classrooms would be a mon-umental action, but if it only half-heartedly fulfills its purpose, then it will do students no good.

Nestenius is a mechanical engineering sophomore.

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Talking about conservationBy Emily Grubert

Daily Texan Columnist

Age limits and concealed carryBy Marc Nestenius

Daily Texan Columnist

GALLERY

Cooperation fails

I spent part of the weekend in Joshua Tree National Park in the California deserts. While wandering up a steep slope to an abandoned gold mine in a landscape that was industrially timbered, burned, grad-ed and mined more than 100 years ago, my companion and I realized a truth about our modern perception of wild nature: We aren’t talking about the same things Teddy Roosevelt was when we discuss conserva-tion.

The lands we fight to conserve now are not the pristine forests and grasslands past Americans and others recognized as valu-able, but the mined-out desert areas of the Southwest, lands deemed of limited val-ue for human use and a few anomalous treasures such as the Grand Canyon and Yosemite Valley. All beautiful in their own way, and environmentally precious, to be sure, but our modern concepts of “pristine” and “wilderness” are quite different from what they used to be.

As we use more of our land and resourc-es, what environmentally sensitive, relative-ly untouched areas remain become more important to us as wildlife refuges and rel-atively humanless ecosystems. And as we face growing populations, growing envi-ronmental awareness and growing under-standing of the risks of threats such as cli-mate change, other air pollution, stressed water supply and rapid land use change, we also are challenged to develop physical and legal infrastructure that will support a healthy environment, adequate energy and clean water.

Which is why some of the political she-nanigans visible in the United States right now are, frankly, frightening.

The satiric newspaper The Onion put it well with its Nov. 10 headline, “Glob-

al Warming Issue From 2 Or 3 Years Ago May Still Be Problem.” Like most other en-vironmental issues, climate change is not something that gets fixed with talk, and the risk associated with inaction does not less-en with time (and inaction). To draw again from The Onion:

“... it turns out that the things needed to stop [climate change], like substantive ener-gy legislation, worldwide cooperation to re-duce carbon emissions, and a massive cul-tural shift toward sustainable living actual-ly didn’t happen at all ...We kind of just as-sumed that the threat of total annihilation spurred everyone into action back in ‘07 and that everything got better.”

So the fact that the Colorado House of Representatives changed the name of the House Transportation & Energy Commit-tee to the Transportation Committee seems like a step in the wrong direction to me, giv-en that no stand-alone “Energy Committee” has been created in its stead. Likewise, the current battle for control over the United States House Energy and Commerce Com-mittee is being fought among three Repub-licans who have made their disapproval of climate and many other environmental reg-ulations clear.

Frontrunner Fred Upton, R-Mich., re-cently wrote in The Washington Times that the House’s Select Committee on Climate Change should be ended and the Environ-mental Protection Agency’s regulations on issues such as smog and coal ash disposal should be halted. Like his main competitors for the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship, Joe Barton, R-Texas, and John Shimkus, R-Ill., Upton has expressed doubt that climate science accurately predicts ma-jor risk from human-caused climate change pollution. However, Upton does support phasing out energy-intensive 100-watt in-candescent lightbulbs, which has led other Republicans to attack him as too liberal.

The most likely alternatives to Upton seem to be Texas’ own Barton, the former committee chair and current ranking mi-nority member, or Illinois’ Shimkus, who frequently cites Biblical passages as solid evidence that climate change cannot harm humans and claims that preventing carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere will hurt plants, which convert carbon diox-ide to fuel themselves. By the way, a long-term study at Stanford that exposed plants to higher CO2 concentrations and other con-ditions expected from climate change sug-gests a dramatic decrease in species diversi-ty because of higher atmospheric CO2.

Barton is at the center of a heated de-bate about Republican House committee term limits: House Republicans may not serve more than six years as chair or rank-ing minority member of a committee, and Barton was chair for two years and ranking member for four. Though he has requested a waiver on the grounds that time spent as ranking minority member is not equivalent to time spent as chair, few predict he will re-ceive that waiver. Barton is famous for hav-ing apologized to BP after the Macondo oil spill in spring 2010; Shimkus will likely not seek the chairmanship unless Barton is de-nied a waiver.

It seems likely that the U.S. will end up with Upton as chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Though Upton is the most moderate on environmental issues of the major candidates, he has made it clear that environmental protections will not be a priority. In this time of major infrastructure and policy choices, coupled with increas-ingly precious environmental resources, the effects of this attitude remain to be seen.

Grubert is an environmental and water resources engineer-

ing graduate student.

For the past 19 years, an agreement between Texas Southmost College, a community college in Brownsville, and the nearby University of Texas branch, UT-Brownsville, provided students the opportunity to transfer from TSC to UTB without having to re-apply to the four-year college (UTB). The program func-tioned much in the same way that the CAP program does and guaranteed students admission to UTB provided they maintain a certain GPA at TSC.

All that changed on Nov. 10, when UT regents decided to sever the relationship — previously agreed to last 99 years — over a rent dispute in which TSC claimed UTB owes $10 mil-lion.

The decision, which will phase out the current opportunity of seamless transfer by 2015, will be most injurious to students, even more than any single administrator’s ruffled feathers on either side of the spat.

The decision also comes at a time when community colleg-es are viewed as a linchpin to economic recovery, particular-ly in Texas. A recent study conducted for the Texas Association of Community Colleges showed that Texas taxpayers get a 6.9 percent rate of return when they invest in community colleges. The study also showed that the average mid-career annual in-come of someone with an associate’s degree is 35 percent great-er than that of someone with only a high school diploma and that those increased earnings boost the Texas tax base by a stag-gering $4.25 billion each year. Furthermore, that education and the resulting increase in income improves people’s health, em-ployment odds and overall economic well-being to the degree that it saves the state $190.9 million each year. Needless to say, steady commitment to community colleges, especially financial commitment, is critical.

Perhaps most aggravating, the dispute between TSC and UTB had nothing to do with the success of the nearly two-de-cade-old transfer program, but everything to do with a turf war between the UT regents and the TSC trustees.

Earlier this year, when TSC made noise over the $10 million in building rent UTB owed, UTB responded by proposing to le-gally absorb TSC into UTB — an agreement which would give the UT Board of Regents governing power over the presently independent community college. TSC trustees rejected the pro-posal, and after three weeks waiting for a counterproposal, the regents returned with their decision to end the relationship en-tirely, effective 2015.

The rhetoric on both sides rose in rancor up to the point of decision. UTB and TSC have been at odds about how to gov-ern admissions for the past few years. The present fracture wid-ened at an October TSC board meeting when TSC trustees ar-gued they should have control since TSC collects local taxes. UTB-TSC President Juliet Garcia responded by asserting that UTB has brought TSC $100 million in state funds, which should be acknowledged as outweighing the debt.

Ultimately, the UT regents rejected cooperation. “In our re-peated good faith efforts to negotiate an acceptable partnership agreement, we have been both ignored and rebuffed,” said Jan-iece Longoria, Board of Regents vice chairwoman. “We cannot afford to be held hostage by unreasonable and unrelenting de-mands of new members of the TSC Board of Trustees.”

Francisco Rendon, chairman of the TSC trustees, countered by stressing the poor reasoning he saw in UTB’s logic. “Instead of paying the rent, they proposed, ‘Well, why don’t you give us all your assets and we’ll take them over,’” Rendon said.

That is not exactly a lesson in grown-ups practicing prag-matism.

Again, the consequences of the agreement’s termination won’t harm the trustees or regents, but it will hurt students. While many TSC students will still be able to transfer to UTB, even without guaranteed admission, the relationship between the two schools fostered an environment that geared TSC stu-dents to seek a four-year degree. Furthermore, while the schools will probably continue to maintain some kind of relationship, the cost of dissolving the numerous institutional relationships, in the form of programs and cost-saving measures, will be high. After the fact, TSC trustee David Oliveira told the Texas Tribune in a statement, “I can think of no way to effectuate all of these changes caused by separating the two institutions without cut-ting programs and services or a dramatic increase in taxes. Ob-viously, neither option is desirable. At a time when the state of Texas is facing a twenty billion dollar plus shortfall, now is not the time to be terminating a partnership model that has saved this community millions of dollars over the 20 years it has been in existence.”

Point taken, grimly. Reading through the remarks of both parties, one gets the impression few gave little consideration to the consequences of their decisions.

— Susannah Jacob for the editorial board

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By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Texas Crew members said pas-sion for their sport gets them up each weekday at 5:15 a.m. for prac-tice. They took that passion to the West Mall on Monday and Tues-day to raise awareness and funds for their sport.

The team’s 50 members collec-tively rowed 801 miles — the dis-tance between the two farthest points in Texas from Brownsville to the north part of the Panhan-dle — on a set of rowing machines, called “ergs.” The Texas Crew team has conducted the Row Across Tex-as fundraiser for years in hopes of attracting attention and donations through a letter-writing campaign to let alumni, friends and family know about their efforts.

Because men’s crew is not an NCAA sport, the team receives no

funding from the athletics depart-ment. NCAA does sponsor wom-en’s rowing, so women can choose between the NCAA team and club team. It costs Texas Crew about $150,000 to pay coaches, fund travel to competitions and pur-chase the equipment they need each year, and the $15,000 they re-ceived this year from the Division of Recreational Sports as a club team barely scratches the surface, so every team member must pay $700 per semester in dues.

“All our operating costs come from dues and the allocation that we get from RecSports,” said Tex-as Crew captain Tyler McDon-ald, a biochemistry and psycholo-gy senior. “The money we get from fundraising helps us grow as an or-ganization and lets us expand our fleet and buy new boats.”

Row Across Texas raises be-

tween $20,000 and $50,000 each year. The team hopes to raise enough money this year to buy a new eight-man boat for their var-sity men’s team. The team has to regularly buy new boats to replace out-of-date equipment, since new-er boats are faster and more ef-ficient, said varsity men’s team member Zach Boven, a Plan II and business honors sophomore.

In addition to raising money, the fundraiser helps the team recruit new members and educate the cam-pus about the team, Boven said.

“You make good friends, get in good shape, the competition is in-credible because we get to race some of the best athletes from around the country,” he said. “It’s something a lot of people don’t know about because [the sport is] not as big in Texas. Row Across Tex-as is something we do as a team to

show the University that we have dedication to our sport and show our gratitude for everyone’s sup-port of our team.”

Such student interest and dedi-cation keeps Texas Crew and other club teams alive, said RecSports as-sistant sport club coordinator Chad McKenzie. RecSports can only allo-cate $200,000 total to various club teams, and they look to give the most support to teams that show the most passion and interest in their sport, he said.

“These students do this because they absolutely love the sport, and their funding comes from them,” McKenzie said. “We have ath-letes in our clubs that could play NCAA sports at other schools, but they came to UT to get their edu-cation, and we are glad to be able to support their interests in our club teams.”

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Texas Crew team members Hillary Hansen, Alex Mitroski and Trinidad Gaytan train on the West Mall to raise money for the rowing program. Collectively the team will row 801 miles, enough distance to cover the state of Texas, to raise money for the program.

Crew rows to raise equipment funds

Environmental group promotes recycling, reusing

By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff

Between 20 and 100 meteors will be visible early Wednesday morn-ing as the Leonid meteor shower soars into sight.

StarDate, the bimonthly maga-zine of UT’s McDonald Observato-ry, recommended that the best time to see the meteor is Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, just before sunrise.

Astronomy Professor Eiichiro Komatsu said when Earth orbits into a region where there is a lot of debris, dust comes into the Earth’s atmosphere and we see a meteor shower.

“They occur so regularly because we travel along the same path ev-ery year,” he said. “Unlike comets, that happen to fall to Earth, we are actually going into its path.”

The Leonid shower is unique be-cause more than the usual dozen meteors will be visible every hour, said Rebecca Johnson, a McDonald Observatory spokeswoman.

“It’s generally one of the bet-ter showers in any given year be-cause it’s one of the big ones,” she

said. “There should be a minimum of 20 meteors per hour and possi-bly more.”

Researchers at the McDonald Ob-

servatory generally research stars, galaxies and planets surround-ing stars, but the National Science Foundation recently awarded a $3.6 million grant to research dark energy, an unknown force in space.

They will combine efforts with Tex-as A&M University and Pennsyl-vania State University using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, one of the world’s largest.

Johnson said astronomers thought the planet’s expansion would slow down and stop be-cause of gravity, but surprisingly, the opposite has occurred.

“Earth’s expansion is actually speeding up, and no one knows why,” Johnson said. “We are calling this unknown force that’s causing it to speed up ‘dark energy.’”

There are four to five major mete-or showers every year with the big-gest occurring in August, Novem-ber and December, she said.

Astronomy graduate student Paul Robertson said the research will give insight into the beginnings of Earth.

“It’s going to give us an immense amount of observational data to help pin down how this force is working,” he said. “For people who want to know about Earth’s origins and how it will evolve, this study will be a source of answers.”

Book explores Latino depictions By Allison KrollDaily Texan Staff

Moving “beyond el bar-rio” means challenging stereo-types and highlighting the so-cial, cultural and political strug-gles that shaped Latina/o com-munities in the past and present — ideas the five authors of “Be-yond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America” convey in their anthology.

A symposium and book sign-ing sponsored by UT’s Center for Mexican American Studies, the Department of American Studies and the Department of History honored the book in the San Jacinto Conference Center on Tuesday. “Beyond El Barrio” is a collection of essays analyz-ing Latina/o representations in the media, popular culture and public policy within and across national affiliations.

History and African Diaspora associate professor Frank Gu-ridy said it is important to ex-plore the problems and pos-sibilities of “el barrio” as a framework for understanding

Latina/o experiences.“For some ‘el barrio’ sig-

nifies ‘ghetto,’” Guridy said. “For others, it means an au-tonomous Latina/o commu-nity with vibrant cultures in the face of American assimila-tion. We interrogate the notion of ‘el barrio’ as a way to high-light how our understandings of Latina/os remained trapped in many racial, gendered and class-based stereotypes.”

Co-editors Guridy and Gina Perez discussed the motivations behind the book and its broad-er conceptual framework, along with their own personal essays. Guridy said recent debates about Latinos in the U.S. make the anthology relevant.

“The book is timely in that it sheds light on larger politi-cal questions, such as immigra-tion, that affect U.S. society as a whole,” Guridy said.

“Sometimes methodologies don’t capture the lifestyles of the people,” Perez said. “The 2000 census and political and demographic shifts that oc-

curred during that time inspired us to create an interdisciplinary approach to Latin studies.”

Three of the contributors — associate professors in the Col-lege of Liberal Arts: Deborah Paredez, John McKiernan-Gon-zalez and Cary Cordova — summarized their individual essays and how they explored different meanings of “el bar-rio” in the U.S.

McKiernan-Gonzalez focuses on the diverse Latina/o popula-tions in Tampa, Fla., while Cor-dova delved into the Mission District in San Francisco.

Paredez focused her essay on the absent mother figure in Latina representation. She said visibility in the media and pop-ular culture doesn’t always re-sult in power.

“Even among Latinos, there was an anxiety of young Lati-nas and their economic autono-my and mobility,” Paredez said. “This strategically relocates the problem onto the mother, be-cause she prevents the daugh-ter from aspiring.”

By Allie KolechtaDaily Texan Staff

While the Campus Environ-mental Center has seen its share of success in the past year with an expanded on-campus recy-cling program, the student group urged students on Tuesday to continue embracing sustainabil-ity efforts on campus, said en-vironmental science sophomore Michelle Camp.

The center celebrated America Recycles Day on the West Mall as the group gave out free T-shirts to students who took a quiz on recycling on campus. All of the T-shirts were gone by 11:45 a.m.

Formed in 2002, the organi-zation is plan-ning other cam-paigns to dis-tribute reusable bags and water bottles, as well as T-shirts made from recycled cotton, in or-der to increase awareness and draw students into the idea of recycling, said Camp, assistant director of the CEC’s recycling committee.

“Students re-spond real ly well to free stuff, especially if it’ll save money,” she said. “We need student support to change UT’s practices.”

This semester, UT placed 35 new outdoor recycling bins with separate compartments for pa-per, plastic and aluminum, as well as indoor recycling bins for almost every building on campus and compost bins for on-campus eateries such as Jester City Lim-its and Cypress Bend Cafe.

A total of 21,406 trees were saved by on-campus recycling

at UT in the fiscal year 2008-09, according to UT’s Facilities Ser-vices website. While the CEC is getting ready to do another trash audit, they expect to see the numbers go up, said gov-ernment senior Rachel Aitkens, the group’s director.

“I’ve seen a major change since the green outdoor bins went out,” she said. “I know that recycling has gone up be-cause we take it to the com-panies we recycle with, and we’ve physically been having to make more trips. It’s really exciting to see that happen.”

The student environmen-tal group is working with the

Freshman Ori-entation Pro-gram and res-i d e n c e h a l l s to spread the word about on-campus recy-cling, Aitkens said. The next step to increase recycling on the UT campus is a change in the attitude toward it and increas-ing its aware-ness, she said.

Students can take the next s tep in solv-

ing the UT’s sustainability problem by monitoring what they buy, instead of what they throw away, said geography senior Mark McKim, a mem-ber of the group’s recycling task force committee.

“Recycling is very important in the realms of environmen-tal responsibility but it’s not the most important,” he said. “As students, we should take the time to think about our purchas-es and reduce and reuse rather than force ourselves to recycle.”

‘‘We need student support to change UT’s practices”

— Michelle Camp Assistant director

of CEC’s recycleing committee

Meteor showers cascade in Austin sky

‘‘We are calling this unknown force that’s

causing [Earth’s expansion] to speed up ‘dark energy.’”

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When starting left guard Mi-chael Huey injured his knee against Baylor, true freshman Trey Hopkins was thrown into the game. He’s been the Longhorns’ starter ever since.

Head coach Mack Brown and offensive coordinator Greg Da-vis are excited about Hopkins not only because of his impressive performances in the Kansas State and Oklahoma State games, but also because of his versatility that allows him to play all five spots on the line.

“He might be as good as any lineman we’ve ever had before he finishes his career at Texas,” Brown said. “He’s doing real-ly well for a true freshman and that’s really unheard of in mod-ern day football for an offensive lineman. He’s got great feet, great length, great quickness and great athletic ability.”

Davis compared Hopkins to for-mer Texas right tackle Justin Blal-ock, who was a part of the 2005 national championship team.

Hopkins is one of three fresh-men (Mason Walters and Paden Kelley are the other two) to have started on the offensive line the past couple of games.

—Laken Litman

By Shabab SiddiquiDaily Texan Staff

“Fear the Faucette” may be the most appropriate saying to write on a sign for tonight as eighth-ranked Texas (19-5, 14-2 Big 12) faces off against Mis-souri (19-8, 11-6) at 6:30 p.m. in-side Gregory Gym.

The senior outside hitter and team co-captain has been on a tear as the Longhorns’ season approaches its final lap. The San Diego native has strung together averages of 27.3 kills per match on .389 hitting, to go along with 9.67 digs and 1.67 blocks. On Monday, she earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors for

the second time this season for her performances at Baylor and Texas Tech last week.

“[Juliann’s] been playing re-ally well,” said head coach Jer-ritt Elliott. “It’s how she’s doing it. Her attack selection has really changed, her feet to the ball is a lot better, and her confidence is a lot better.”

Faucette, who is also on the Academic All-Big 12 second team, has stepped up in place of injured teammates with some great setting.

“[The situation] just calls for me to step up and [junior setter

By Laken LitmanDaily Texan Staff

Quarterback Garrett Gilbert is not going to get benched. His interception to touchdown ratio may be 15:7, but he’s become a valuable part of the team’s run-ning game.

Last Saturday night against Oklahoma State, he ran for 55 yards and became the team’s second leading rusher. He’s credited with 324 yards on 74

carries this season just behind tailback Cody Johnson’s 361 yards on 92 carries.

“But most of those were scrambles,” said Gilbert, who doesn’t consider himself a du-al-threat quarterback. “That’s not really a situation you want to be in.”

That may be, but Gilbert is going to need to finish out the rest of the season as a runner since the tailback depth chart

slimmed down this week with Tre’ Newton ending his foot-ball career because of a series of head injuries.

That means Fozzy Whittaker, Johnson, Chris Whaley and D.J. Monroe need to pick up their games.

Whittaker, who has the best yards-per-carry average on the team (4.5), went down Saturday

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Point guard Fontenette steps up with 23 points

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

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Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert, 7, scrambles between Oklahoma State defenders during Saturday’s game. Gilbert finished with 55 yards on the ground and is now second on the team in rushing.

Gilbert to start because of rushing

VOLLEYBALL

Faucette provides spark as others sit with injuries

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Juliann Faucette, left, has been an integral piece of Texas’ latest winning streak, notching 54 kills in the last two games.

Lee meets with Rangers GM amidst surge of trade talks

Free agent pitcher Cliff Lee has had another high-level visitor.

Texas Rangers general manag-er Jon Daniels said he met with Lee and his agent on Monday in Arkansas, the left-hander’s off-season home.

Daniels was at baseball’s GM meetings on Tuesday.

Lee also is being pursued by the New York Yankees. Earlier this month, Yankees general manag-er Brian Cashman visited Lee at his home.

The 32-year-old Lee was a com-bined 12-9 with a 3.18 ERA for Se-attle and Texas last season. He was 7-0 with a 1.26 ERA in eight career postseason starts before twice losing to San Francisco in the World Series.

— The Associated Press

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National organization names 10 Longhorns to regional team

Following the NCAA Regional Championships last weekend, the U.S. Track and Field Cross Coun-try Coaches Association announced a list of almost 450 all-regional Divi-sion I cross-country runners, includ-ing 10 Texas runners.

The Longhorn runners in-clude: Mia Behm, Marielle Hall, Julie Amthor, Sara Sutherland, Laleh Mojtabaeezamani, Ryan Dohner, Patrick McGregor, Bri-an Rhodes-Devey, Bradley Low-ry and Brock Simmons.

The men’s and women’s teams will compete at the NCAA National Championships next Monday.

— Will Anderson

By Sameer BhucharDaily Texan Staff

In a game where seemingly every player on the Texas squad made respectable strides for-ward in their individual games, Ashleigh Fontenette’s day was particularly special.

“A-T,” as she is affectionate-

ly called by her teammates and coaches, was the driving force behind the Longhorns’ 115-53 victory. She dropped a game-high 23 points on Northwest-ern State for her second straight 20-plus scoring performance of the season. In addition to her scoring, she snagged eight re-

bounds, made six assists to just two turnovers, stole the ball four times and the 5-foot-8-inch guard even had a block.

In addition Fontenette was 2-of-4 from long range and only missed one of six free throws.

“I think [Ashleigh] is one of the best point guards in the

country,” said Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors. “I think she showed that. She’s been really consistent with her play. She’s a tremendous defensive player, and she’s also got a lot of confi-dence offensively now.”

Goestenkors said she also saw a much smarter basketball play-

er on the court.“I think last year was a learn-

ing year for her at that point position,” she said. “Now she knows exactly what we need and when we need it.”

Fontenette knew she needed

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By Alexandra CarrenoDaily Texan Staff

After last Friday’s season opener, Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors made her needs clear. She needed her bench play-ers to come in with the same fo-cus and intensity as if they were starting. One thing was clear af-

ter the Longhorn’s 112-53 defeat of Northwestern State Tuesday night: The bench took heed of Goestenkors’ advice.

“I think they did a better job,” Goestenkors said. “It’s still not where we want it to be. Chelsea [Bass] came in very focused and ready to play, we’ve got to get

everyone playing like that.”Inexperience proved to be

a one-time hindrance for the squad’s fresh faces, as the re-serves combined for 30 points on Tuesday.

Bass was a standout coming off the bench for the Longhorns. The freshman guard scored 18

points and grabbed six rebounds and was one of three players to have points in the double digits at half time.

“The freshmen give us some great versatility,” Goestenkors said. “Chelsea did a real great job tonight, and Anne Ma-rie [Hartung] has already had

some great games as well. They come in with a lot of confidence and energy.”

Sarah Lancaster and Hartung also came out strong off the bench, combining for 10 points and 11 rebounds.

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Freshman Chelsea Bass brings the ball up the court during Wednesday’s 112-53 win over Northwestern State. Bass led all Texas reserves with 18 points.

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Michelle] Kocher’s setting great right now,” Faucette said. “It’s kind of just panning out that way. It’s definitely me wanting to go out there and win the game.”

Texas played its last two games without junior outside hitter Am-ber Roberson, the latest victim on a laundry list of injuries the team has faced through the season. With their second leading scor-er out, Faucette shouldered a lot of the scoring burden, posting a career-high 30 kills against the Bears in an emotion-filled match that included plenty of jawing with the referees. Three nights later, she posted 24 kills against the Red Raiders in Lubbock.

Even with Faucette’s offensive showcase and Roberson’s injury, the team has managed to main-tain the much-coveted offen-

sive balance Elliott has preached about since the beginning of the year, as the team continues to get double digit kills from se-nior middle blocker Jennifer Doris, sophomore utility play-er Sha’Dare McNeal and junior middle blocker Rachael Adams.

“It’s all pretty much coming together full circle from the be-ginning of our season to now,” Faucette said. “With just the ups and downs we’ve had, ev-eryone has seen our chemistry grow. Supporting each other and getting to know each oth-er off the court is really show-ing on the court.”

With Roberson listed as day-to-day, senior outside hitter Lauren Dickson has stepped into the starting role. The Uni-versity of Virginia transfer and Westlake High School graduate operated primarily as a serving

specialist until these last two games. Dickson notched eight kills and 11 digs against Texas Tech on Saturday.

“She’s a great player,” Doris said. “She’s such a good contrib-utor with her defense. It’s fun to play against her, but to see her get her shot and see her shine. We’re so happy for her.”

The Longhorns hope to extend their winning streak against a Missouri team that is boasting its own six-game tear. Texas has also dropped a set in each of its last three matches. Doris said that has more to do with the team’s own mishaps rather than being overmatched.

“It all boils down to taking care of our side of the net,” Do-ris said. “Our errors ultimately gave them the set. So as long as we take care of our own respon-sibility, we’ll be fine.”

blowout: Reserves put up 30, Texas scores most since 2000

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Longhorn guard Ashleigh Fontenette, right, drives against Northwestern State on Wednesday night. Fontenette scored a game-high 23 points and added eight rebounds.

in the first half because of a re-curring stinger in his shoulder. Johnson hasn’t performed like the back the coaches thought they were getting in fall camp, but as of late he’s getting more reps. Whaley, a redshirt fresh-man, has only appeared in one game this season and as far as Monroe goes, he’s not even list-ed on this week’s updated depth chart despite leading the team with 9.4 yards per carry.

Senior send offThe senior class is only guar-

anteed eight more days, five more practices and two more games until their football career at Texas is over.

That is unless the seniors beat Florida Atlantic this Saturday and Texas A&M on Thanksgiv-ing and become a 6-6 bowl-eli-gible team.

“The only thing we’re talking about now is getting the seniors out on the right note,” said re-ceiver Malcolm Williams.

But despite the desperation surrounding Texas right now, the players and coaches are stay-ing calm and positive.

“We can still have a winning season. We can still finish above .500,” said receiver James Kirk-endoll, because if Texas wins its next two games plus a bowl game, it would end with a 7-6 record. “It’s crazy how you can go from playing in the national championship game to having a struggling season.”

Injury reportDefensive end Jackson Jef-

fcoat, who hasn’t played a snap since Nebraska, says his sprained ankle is feeling bet-ter than it has in weeks. Jeffcoat told the coaches and head train-er Kenny Boyd that he should be able to play Saturday against Florida Atlantic.

Starting left tackle Kyle Hix, who got a concussion in the second half of the Kansas State game and didn’t play last week-end against Oklahoma State, is also probable for the weekend.

Whittaker ’s stinger is still nagging him, but he said Tues-day afternoon that his first practice back went well and he should be good to go for the game on Saturday.

to force turnovers. Like a heat-seeking missile, she was relent-less in her pursuit of the ball in all phases of the game.

After scoring the first bucket of the game, a 3-pointer, she im-mediately stayed under the Tex-as basket to defend the inbound pass. Fontenette was alone at first on the press but then demanded help from her teammates. Her persistence paid off because that is where most of her six steals came from.

Most of her damage came in the first half of the game when she said she was looking to get as many people involved as pos-sible.

“I think early I just looked to attack in transition and the de-fense started to collapse on me and I just found the open play-er,” Fontenette said. “We were looking to share the ball and I think we did a great job of do-ing that.”

Fontenette’s calm demeanor off the court does not translate to passive play on it. She was Tex-as’ workhorse last night, and she knows that she needs to contin-ue having that attitude to ensure Texas’ long-term success.

Luckily, despite individual ac-complishments, Fontenette al-ways has a team-first mentality.

“I personally love it,” the freshman guard said, referring to the team’s tempo. “As a team, we have a lot of athletic guards and our posts can run the floor, and I think it’s great for us to be able to pressure the other team and get out and run.”

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“[The coaches] want us to push the tempo more than any-thing,” said guard Chassidy Fus-sell. “Just get it up the court and if you don’t have the shot, find an open player. I think we did a great job of that tonight.”

True to form, the four veteran players laid the foundation for victory against the Demons.

Ashleigh Fontenette was in the zone all night as she shot 8-of-13 from the floor. Just five minutes into the first half, the junior had scored 10 points and racked up

two assists, two rebounds and a steal. She went on to score a game-high 23 points.

The only freshman in the starting lineup, Fussell came out strong for the Longhorns, as she recorded her second-straight double-digit scoring ef-fort of the season with a career-high 21 points.

“When you have leaders like we do, they pull me along with them and they drive us. It carries over into the game.”

But once again, turnovers con-tinued to plague the Longhorns and they finished with 21. It was

an improvement over the 24 turnovers they amassed against Mississippi Valley State last Fri-day but Goestenkors is confident there’s room to grow.

The 112 points Texas posted were the most since Dec. 16, 2000, when the Longhorns scored 135 against Centenary College.

“I want to score 100 points ev-ery game. That’s the mindset I want to go in with,” Goesten-kors said. “If it doesn’t happen it doesn’t, but that’s the way we should go in to every single game we play. I think we are develop-ing that mindset and identity.”

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accommodating assistance because she believes it’s more of a hassle than an aid to have one since she can’t understand words with one, and it’s also too much of a respon-sibility to change the battery.

“I came here for myself and my own education,” Wilkins said. “There are great interpreters here. People with other disabilities might be uncomfortable, but for me, it’s not uncomfortable.”

With interpreters such as Park-er on campus, who has been in-terpreting professionally for the last 15 years, the hearing-impaired community has been provided with a sense of comfort on campus. Parker has had a desire to make a positive impact on the lives of oth-ers for years. This urge was what

brought her to UT and eventually to Wilkins.

“[As an interpreter] I could learn every day and enjoy every day,” Parker said. “Interpreting is a skill — it’s my profession — and you have to have manual dexterity to interpret while someone is speak-ing.”

This connection between in-terpreter and student has made it so that both sides learn every day about the community, and for Wilkins, this specifically concerns her love of music.

“I have other ways of enjoying the music life, by watching the peo-ple singing in American Sign Lan-guage, feeling the vibrates of the beats and I also enjoy watching the musical movies,” Wilkins said. “I look for a deeper meaning in the visuals [instead of the sound].”

harmonies of the Renaissance tradition. In addition to this form of audience interaction, magic tricks will also be per-formed for the audience on dinner breaks.

Despite a somewhat tense rehearsal atmosphere, Spanish senior Sandra Khalil sat calmly in the back of the room. She listened attentively to questions and groups practicing their wenching, but overall the show’s producer seemed at ease.

“We’ve put a lot of thought into this show,” Khalil said. “It’s going to be really epic.”

After acting for Madrigal Dinner for the past two years, Khalil decided to take on a different role for her senior year. Juggling publicity and management of both behind the scenes and on-stage production was a sharp juxtaposition to her time spent acting on stage, but Khalil said she appre-ciated the opportunity to participate in Madrigal in a differ-ent way.

“I’m super excited about being a part of Madrigal in its 30th year,” Khalil said. “I fell in love with it my first year, and one of my dreams that surfaced through that was want-ing to make the show grow. I think we’ve been able to do that.”

Khalil notes that it is the enthusiasm of the students that carries the production and makes it memorable.

“It has a very specific atmosphere,” she said. “When you’re watching you can tell how much the actors and sing-ers are having fun singing songs to you and interacting with you. The energy is infectious.”

“Considering the market right now with the way the recession is going, I think a lot of people would probably be interested just to see if there is another field,” Seymour said. He has been running around the past week posting flyers and letting students know about the event. “I don’t think video games instantly comes to mind.”

Driver admits to not knowing the average salary of a video game designer ($75,573 according to Game Developer Research’s 2009 report), but he says there are still commitments to be made, as with any competitive industry.

“If it’s going to take you four more years, are you willing to commit to that? If it’s going to take an internship, are you willing to commit to that?” Driver said. “At the end of the day, it’s really your decision. We are just lucky enough to be facilitators of that conversation.”

Tess Snider, a programmer who

has worked in the industry for near-ly a decade, will be one of the pan-elists to join the conversation. She has worked for three Austin game developers, but now does contract work and runs her independent studio Pixelsea Entertainment.

“There is enough game develop-ment and support activity in Aus-tin at any given point in time that there are always jobs for people with the right skills,” Snider said.

The event will be organized into two sections. The first will be a panel with four questions posed by the moderators, followed by audience questions. Afterward, the panelists will invite audience members to converse with them, giving students a rare opportunity to network with Austin game in-dustry professionals.

“It’s one of those careers that I think that if you lived in any oth-er city, probably getting six people who work in video game design wouldn’t be possible,” Driver said. “I can tell you right now, back in Florida I couldn’t have done it.”

new game types, including one where players start with only a knife and a pistol with one bul-let. Zombie mode from “World at War” also returns with minor im-provements.

The single-player mode is where the game falls short. It’s the most ambitious campaign yet, packed full of set piece moments every five minutes. Some players will get a thrill out of the rollercoaster pac-ing and constant interruptions, but I personally found these scenarios — along with sawing through the necks of unaware Vietnamese sol-diers while a squad mate cheers, “Never gets old” — to be a try-ing attempt at creating shock val-ue where a better designed se-ries once stood. The good news is that most of what you like about the series remains. The bad news is that you probably own those parts already.

Grade: BFor fans of: “Apocalypse Now,”

Alex Jones and presidents killing zombies.

Medal of Honor (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

There’s an irony that comes with the release of “Medal of Honor’s”

2010 reboot. The franchise respon-sible for creating the World War II console shooter that led to genre fatigue has now returned in the form of a modern military shoot-er in a year that is full of them. Thankfully, there are novel ideas, gorgeous visuals and a unique aesthetic to set it apart from the competition.

In what was a terrible deci-sion from the start, the game’s two components are developed by separate teams. DICE handled the multiplayer, essentially strip-ping away the best features of their “Battlefield: Bad Company 2” without adding the ideas that stand out from the single-play-er campaign, developed by Dan-ger Close.

There is a grounded realism to “Medal of Honor” that is at times fascinating in concept but too of-ten boring in execution. Being able to slide to cover, peek around corners and pull out a pistol with the double tap of a button are all great additions (none of which appear in multiplayer), but they can’t prevent the game from feel-ing like an endless shooting gal-lery from an earlier age.

Grade: CFor fans of: “Call of Duty 4: Mod-

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Jannifer Wilkins signs to her interpreter Barbie Parker outside the Texas Union. Despite being deaf, Wilkins is enrolled in a Literature in Music class because of her strong appre-ciation for music.

Music, rhythm fascinates deaf studentBy Lindsey Cherner

Daily Texan StaffJannifer Wilkins spoke without words,

her hands forming a language that Barbie Parker, her interpreter, decoded. Wilkins was born deaf, and has been singing since she was a child; since before she could re-member. When asked about music, her hands moved with even greater dexterity exemplifying her passion for the subject.

Part of this passion inevitably came from her father, a professional jazz drummer who played gigs around the Houston area for years. Wilkins credits much of her pas-sion for her studio arts major to him, as well as her overall love of music. Because of this upbringing, Wilkins enrolled in a Literature in Music class because it’s part of her degree requirements, and because she wasn’t inter-ested in taking a music class that required instrument use.

“They do play music in the class, but for me, the teacher uses images as a substitute,” Wilkins said. “I’m given a visual image and then look for the meaning behind it and I also have an interpreter in the class that signs what’s being heard — like rhythms and expressions so I can have an understanding.”

Although Wilkins is 36 years old, before taking the class, she only knew the very surface of all types of music, and most of what she knew came from her father. She appreciates the music more now after learning about the different genres of mu-sic and their evolution. Wilkins also finds it interesting to see context and music in ev-

eryday life.“It’s really eye-opening to see that music

really shapes all aspects of life,” Wilkins said. “The way that music chang-es, remixes and grows to be-come popular over time re-ally fascinates me.”

Her fascination with mu-sic has never just been in the classroom either. Mu-sic has surrounded her for years. Wilkins’ husband is also deeply rooted in the music industry, and like her father, is a drummer. He plays rock ‘n’ roll but in his younger years tried out R&B and soul. To help

Wilkins hear what he’s playing, sometimes he’ll sign the songs to her so she can see what they’re like.

“It’s funny, when people say to my hus-band, ‘Why would you marry a deaf wom-an? Because she can’t even hear the music.’ My answer is that he can play as loud as he wants and I still can’t hear it,” Wilkins said.

Although she can’t hear the lyrics of songs, Wilkins can feel the rhythms in the vibrations.

“I can turn up the bass loud in my car, for my husband, and for my three kids,” Wilkins said. “I turn up the music at home. I’m not always involved [with the music] in a partic-ipatory manner, but it’s always there.”

She no longer uses a hearing aid because she feels more comfortable without one. In-stead she focuses on seeing and feeling. She finds her days are more fulfilling without it, and feels natural without the aid of the de-vice. Wilkins says she is glad UT has such

By Allistair PinsofDaily Texan Staff

Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)

The latest annual update to America’s favorite murder simulator presents many ene-mies to the player: Tropas in Cuba, Vietcongs in Vietnam

and Russians in the Arctic. But Treyarch, which previous-ly developed “Call of Duty: World at War,” remain the greatest enemy of all. After playing through a campaign filled with unreliable team AI, getting stuck because of mis-direction and facing endless swarms of Vietnamese troops that don’t stop until you per-form a non-indicated action, it will be Treyarch’s name that you curse above all others.

Most of the 5.6 million cop-ies sold on the game’s release

date were likely purchased for multiplayer: Treyach’s strength. This year’s new fea-tures and maps are welcome additions to one of the best online shooters available. The perks and personalization of “Modern Warfare 2” are faith-fully implemented along with a new leveling system that lets players earn points from matches that can be spent on new gear and perks. These points can also be gambled in

By Abby JohnstonDaily Texan Staff

There will be plenty of sing-ing, sword fights and bread pud-ding at the Texas Union this week when the 30th annual Madrigal Dinner takes over the ballroom from Nov. 19 to Nov. 22. The cast and crew have revamped old tra-ditions for this milestone anniver-sary, with additions sure to please both the ears and the stomach.

Madrigal Dinner is a longstand-ing student-produced play. Each year, open auditions are held to cast actors, singers and crew, all supervised and coached by fellow students. The night includes sing-ing classic Christmas carols, origi-nal songs and, this year, tradition-al Renaissance madrigals, all ac-companied by dinner and dessert for the audience. Musical num-bers center on a student-penned play that is largely in the vein of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, combining both classical theater elements and modern humor.

The cast and crew practiced far into the night in the Union Ballroom, perfecting fighting se-quences and practicing audience interaction. Even during rehears-al breaks, the actors never broke character and instead practiced “wenching,” or serenading indi-viduals or small groups, to stand-in audience members. Directors and costume designers did not break their focus while groups of actors circled them and sang snarky a capella, and modern madrigals sang in perfectly sweet

By Allistair PinsofDaily Texan Staff

Finding a job in the video game industry has long been thought to be an extremely difficult task with suc-cess limited to a few lucky comput-er science majors. A panel on find-ing a career in video games sought to dispel this myth and others to UT

students on Wednesday.High school fitness coaches and

parents often tell teenagers that getting a job in video game de-velopment is a pipe dream. Kar-en Weems and Joel Driver, career counselors at the Sanger Learning and Career Center, have talked to many kids over the years who have been told the same.

“A lot of times we are talking and I’ll ask, ‘What’s your interest?’ and they say, ‘I like to play video games, but that’s not a career,’” Weems said. “So we are doing this panel to show that, yeah, there really are careers as-sociated with that interest that could be viable.”

Weems develops iPhone apps

when she isn’t on campus, and Driver plays video games with old classmates as a way to keep in touch, but putting together the panel has been a learning experi-ence for both of them, Weems said. Through a partnership with Inter-national Game Developers Asso-ciation’s Austin chapter, the career center will bring five local game designers representing different as-pects of game design to speak to UT students about a career that is open to them, “more so then the ones people usually think of,” ac-cording to career center assistant Matthew Seymour.

Just another beautiful day in Austin

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

Sylvia Cruz watches over her grandson Abel Castillo on the porch of their East Austin home Tuesday after-noon.

Dinner offerstraditional Renaissance food, music

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