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UT alumnus John Beck-worth has walked down the burnt orange road for most of his life. He received two degrees at the University and even married a fellow UT graduate. � is month, Beckworth continues his burnt orange streak, becom-ing the 87th board president of UT’s alumni association, Texas Exes.

Beckworth, a lifetime mem-ber of Texas Exes and part-ner at Houston law � rm WattBeckworth, took over as Texas Exes president July 1. He replaced former president Machree Garrett Gibson, the � rst black female president of the organization. He had previously served one year as president-elect. Beckworth will serve a one-year term and said he hopes to grow and strengthen the organization in several ways to better support the central goal of Texas Exes — to support the University, its students and alumni.

“Our goal is to enhance the University’s mission of being a university of the � rst

class, both for its immediate constituency, students, as well as for the state of Texas and the exes,” he said.

Speci� cally, Beckworth said he plans to increase the openness of communication between Texas Exes and its constituen-cies, increase the focus of the organization’s volunteer e� orts and expand the Forty Acres Scholars Program, a scholar-ship program run by Texas Exes that works to attract the most talented students to UT and support them.

“� e Forty Acres Scholars Program has potential,” he said. “Indeed, it is undertak-ing a really transformational e� ort on our school to pro-vide a comprehensive schol-arship experience to very gi� ed students and to create such a textured experience that they will positively a� ect their fellow students and the community beyond them.”

Beckworth said UT has greatly a� ected both his and his family’s life. He attended the UT School of Law with his wife, Laura, and has two sons who are UT alumni. He also has another son who will be starting graduate school at UT.

“Burnt orange is in their blood,” Texas Exes spokes-man Tim Taliaferro said.

Taliaferro said by becom-ing president, Beckworth is taking on a very important responsibility, since the presi-dent serves as leader of a very large and historic organization of about 99,000 members.

He said the board presi-dent is “sort of the honor-ary leader of the organiza-tion. He or she sets general priorities and oversees the staff operations.”

Armiya Humphrey, busi-ness honors junior and Forty Acres Scholar, said she thinks the program is very successful in attracting the most gi� ed students to UT and would strongly advocate its expansion.

“When I was looking at colleges, my top school was Harvard,” she said. “I got in, and that was where I was planning on going before I went down to � nals weekend of the scholars program and saw all the resources that UT has, how much they were go-ing to put into this program and, basically, what it could help me do.”

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John Beckworth is the newly elected board president of UT’s alumni association, Texas Exes. One of Beckworth’s goals is to expand the Forty Acres Scholars Program.

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� ere is constant, conten-tious debate in politics, es-pecially these days. But even our politicians agree that our national debt is a problem that needs � xing. Today, it is somewhere around $15.8 tril-lion and climbing, according to usdebtclock.org. � ere are many contributing factors to the debt, but the U.S. mili-tary’s endeavors in the past

decade have contributed a signi� cant amount.

War is neither free nor inex-pensive, and reimbursement is not guaranteed to nations who wage it. Over the past 11 years, the U.S. military has incurred costs from war that this country has yet to pay. Instead of rais-ing taxes or cutting spending to pay for military action, we cut taxes and borrowed more money. � ese � scally unsound practices are re� ected in our multi-trillion dollar debt.

Yet somehow our military involvements have not been expensive enough. As a na-tion, we do not have enough skin in the game to under-stand the true costs we pay in blood and treasure. As a peo-ple, we do not fully under-stand our military endeavors’ cost to our society. Military action has not cost most of us as individuals enough to make us care, and the bur-den of that action rests on a minority. In our daily lives,

we are sheltered from war and its deadly events. Less than 1 percent of Americans commit themselves to mortal danger abroad in defense of our democratic ideals and national security.

Our leaders, most of whom were chosen in elections with low voter turnout, do not ap-pear to recognize or to address the causal relationship be tween defense spending and

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Earlier this month, the UT Board of Regents denied Presi-dent Bill Powers Jr.’s request to make an o� cial statement about Iran’s imprisonment of Omid Kokabee, a UT physics graduate student. � e Regents cited a rule in the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Re-gents that prohibits university personnel from making o� cial statements on behalf of the uni-versity that relate to political or controversial issues.

A bright, promising physics student — who was recognized as such by both Iranian and U.S. scientists — Kokabee was arrested and detained in his native Iran in February 2011. A� er a brief trial, during which the prosecution presented few facts, an Iranian court sen-tenced Kokabee to 10 years im-prisonment for “communicat-ing with a hostile government” and “illegal earnings.”

Kokabee, who completed his undergraduate education in Iran, came to UT in the fall of 2010 to earn a doctoral de-gree in quantum optics. During

his � rst winter break, Kokabee went to Tehran to visit his fam-ily. Iranian authorities arrested him at the airport before he boarded his return � ight to America. Kokabee was taken to Evin Prison, in northwestern Iran, where he was put in soli-tary con� nement. During his May 2012 trial, Iranian state-controlled television broadcast eerie footage of Kokabee’s fel-low prisoners thanking the Ira-nian government for arresting them and begging for clemen-cy. Kokabee denied all charges against him.

Worldwide, members of the science community have de-nounced Kokabee’s arrest and the punishment levied against him. A� er Kokabee’s trial, the Rector of the University of Oslo, Ole Petter Otterson, sent an open letter to the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asking that Kokabee receive a fair trial

But at UT, the only o� cial re-sponse to Kokabee’s unjust cir-cumstances has been silence.

In late June, President Pow-

ers attempted to change that. Powers wrote to the Board of Regents, seeking a waiver to the rule that prevents him from speaking out about political or controversial issues in his capac-ity as university president.

In response, Chancellor of the Board Francisco Cigarroa denied Powers’ request, writ-ing that only the board presi-dent or UT system chancellor may comment upon “matters of a political or obviously con-troversial nature, which repre-sent an o� cial position of the UT system or any institution or department thereof.” � e underlying logic of the rule: If other university personnel — Powers — take formal, public positions of a political nature, their view may be confused as being the o� cial position of the public institution, according to Anthony de Bruyn, a UT Sys-tem spokesman. Cigarroa en-couraged Powers to reach out to human rights groups on his own. � e rule cited by Cigarroa would allow Powers to do this so long as he did not claim to

do so in his capacity as presi-dent of UT.

With the trial and impris-onment of Omid Kokabee, a physicist’s career and a fel-low student’s life has been ar-bitrarily torn asunder. What makes sense about an o� cial at a university in Oslo being more liberated to speak up against the injustice of Kokabee’s cir-cumstances than the president of Kokabee’s own university? Is the Board of Regents’ rule-fol-lowing really a nose-thumbing gesture directed at President Powers, who has sparred with the board about separate issues in recent months?

If yes, the Board of Regents has played a card that re� ects poorly on it and UT. By ef-fectively silencing UT’s insti-tutional voice about Kokabee, the Board of Regents allows the school to join the side of Koka-bee’s captors, courtroom judge and those dominant in the Ira-nian government who favor si-lencing political discourse and individual rights.

Historically, university presi-

dents exercising their First Amendment rights have in-jected more intelligence into all sorts of debates and by doing so, raised the pro� le of their schools. Nicholas Butler, who served as president of Columbia University in New York from 1902 to 1945, advised Ameri-can presidents, campaigned for Prohibition, played a signi� cant role in Republican politics and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against war as an ap-propriate, diplomatic action. Be-fore he became U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson, as president of Princeton University between 1902 and 1910, fought what he thought was a culture of elit-ism and smallness at the school, and sought to enlarge students’ worldview at the same time as he enlarged the university.

Closer to home, UT had its own champion of the bully pulpit: former univer-sity president Homer Price Rainey, who raised his voice for academic freedom.

But the conclusion of Rain-ey’s tenure le� our school

with a problematic legacy. In 1944, Rainey defended an English professor’s right to teach John Dos Passos’ novel “USA.” � e Board of Regents responded to his outspoken-ness by � ring Rainey. Sub-sequently, Rainey received national credit for his cour-age and, according to the UT Faculty Council’s website, be-came “a symbol for academic freedom on the campus in the decades that followed.” � e episode marked UT as a school governed by an intolerant board.

In 2012, times have changed. Nationwide, few uni-versity presidents, in between their fundraising obligations, enter political debates with gusto. But nonetheless the Board of Regents should take lessons from its own history and remember that freedom of former university professors to add their voice to the national and international dialogue speaks to everything worth defending in this country and absent in Iran.

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A veteran’s voice: skin in the gameBy Paul Theobald

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On any given night in Austin about 4,000 people will be in need of emer-gency overnight shelter, according to House the Homeless, an Austin-based nonprofit. Only 700 beds will be available at local shelters, such as the Salvation Army and Front Steps. Much of the city’s homeless population will end up on the streets waiting for a bed, often for several weeks.

Cities nationwide are un-able to accommodate the growing national homeless population. But in Austin, the recent murder of Valer-ie Godoy, a homeless wom-an, has many concerned because women turned away from shelters are not safe on the streets.

Because of ongoing in-vestigation, the Austin Police Department’s Ho-micide Unit declined to comment about the cir-cumstances of Godoy’s death. According to APD, Godoy was homeless at the time of her death and killed by “blunt force trauma.” Her death has sparked outspoken concern for the popula-tion of single, homeless women in Austin who ac-count for an estimated 7 to 20 percent of the total Austin homeless popula-tion, according to Rich-ard Troxell, president of House the Homeless. The National Institute of Justice, a federal agen-cy, reports that homeless

women are two to four times more at-risk of be-coming a victim of a vio-lent crime, such as physi-cal or sexual assault.

“�e city of Austin cur-rently has seven overnight shelters … some of which are shelters for domestic violence or cater to a cer-tain demographic. �ese shelters are funded by fed-eral, city and state govern-ments,” says Jessie Aric, program manager for the Ending Community Home-lessness Coalition, a non-pro�t in Austin. Around 10 local churches convert their facilities to overnight shelters when the weather gets rough. Yet Troxell says, “More and more people are being turned away from overnight shelters due to the rising homeless popu-lation. �ere simply aren’t enough beds to handle the growing need. �ere is an urgent need to protect these women.”

House the Homeless has organized a petition for a women’s homeless shelter in Austin. There are currently over 2,800 signatures on this peti-tion. The organization plans to take the peti-tion to the Austin City Council when the num-ber of signatures “[have] reached a tipping point,” according to Troxell, who cannot determine when or what number that will be. “When the City Council sees that there is a legitimate concern, they can respond to the need.” The City Council would then form a task force and begin to determine where

money for the shelter will come from, Troxell said.

Immediately a�er Godoy’s death, House the Homeless went to the City Council to request that a women’s homeless shelter be built. �e nonpro�t’s representa-tives have been informed by city council members that there is not enough money in the city budget to fund a women’s shelter. �ere are other options to �nance a shelter that a task force could determine, such as a federal loan or private dona-tions. In the meantime, local homeless advocacy groups have begun to organize to provide short-term, imme-diate emergency shelter for single, homeless women.

In 2012, the Austin City Council confidently voted to spend $2 million to ed-ucate the public about the new citywide plastic and paper bag ban. I hope I’m not alone in feeling frus-trated by the City Coun-cil’s response that “there isn’t enough money” to create a women’s shelter. Our city council members would do well to observe the roughly 3,300 people sleeping on the streets of Austin on any given night the next time they favor spending money on a plas-tic bag ban over human life and dignity.

Students can rally to help Austin’s most vulnerable. Con-vince the Austin City Council that we value the protection of our homeless population. Vis-it housethehomeless.org and please, sign the petition.

Mathis is an English and musicology major from Denton.

Plastic bags vs. women’s lives

By Emily Mathis

Daily Texan Columnist

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the national debt. Estimates produced by a study at Brown University looked at the post-Sept. 11 con�icts and placed the cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan close to $4 tril-lion dollars, nearly a quarter of the national debt.

To address these issues, I support the reinstitution of the dra�. When the dra� is reinstated, we will see a sub-stantial rise in voter turnout at the very next election, scrutiny of defense spending and ac-countability in government. �ese changes will occur as a result of the redistribution of military recruitment demo-graphics. Presently, a major-ity of military members origi-nate from backgrounds with little opportunity or choices. I joined the Navy, serving in the engine room of a nuclear submarine, to earn educa-

tional bene�ts so that I could a�ord a higher education. �e dra� would introduce a new awareness of the impact of our military endeavors into more segments of our society. A dra� would bring all aspects of war, including �scal aspects, into our political discussions.

I am optimistic enough that reinstituting the dra� will be the beginning of a solution to our military-�scal problem and will suggest an additional option for alleviating a greater problem of a lack of demo-cratic participation.

I’m talking about manda-tory public service.

If we begin mandating that all young adults, a�er comple-tion of high school, participate in a period of two years of civil service, we will greater engage citizens who, by virtue of their age, are newly endowed with the responsibility to vote. Po-sitions in entry-level and low-skilled areas of certain govern-mental and non-governmental service and bureaucratic orga-

nizations could be provided at low wages to aspiring students. A�er participating in such a mandatory service program, the young adults would in turn receive substantial �-nancial assistance modeled a�er the incredibly successful GI Bill towards a college de-gree, technical, vocational or certi�cate training.

It all boils down to this: �e more engaged in the democratic process and in-formed about our govern-ment and its policies, the more active we are in vot-ing. It is by voting that the individual is able to decide which leaders are account-able, what policies are sound and what leaders and poli-cies deserve to be thrown out. An active and informed citizenry makes democrati-cally elected leaders either perform e�ciently or lose their jobs.

Theobald is a govern-ment and philosophy major from Austin.

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A former UT-San Antonio stu-dent was among the 12 people killed in the Aurora, Colo. shoot-ing Friday. Since her death, Jes-sica Ghawi’s friends and family have taken to the airwaves to tell the world who she was and to urge the public to shift attention from the killer to the victims of the incident.

Ghawi, 24, was one of many at-tending the midnight premiere of “� e Dark Knight Rises” when lone gunman James Holmes en-tered the packed movie theater and proceeded to indiscriminately shoot theater patrons. Holmes, dressed in riot apparel similar to the villain’s apparel in the movie, killed 12 people and injured 59 as of Sunday. Shortly a� er her death, Jordan Ghawi, Jessica’s brother, participated in interviews with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, FOX’s Greta Van Susteren and other news outlets to spread the word about victims like Ghawi. Jordan Ghawi also launched an Internet cam-paign via Twitter, Facebook and various personal blogs to encour-age people to stop paying attention to Holmes.

“Let us remember the names of the victims and not the name of the coward who committed this act,” Jordan Ghawi tweeted on the day of Ghawi’s death.

By Saturday, Ghawi’s death had garnered so much media attention that her family began to direct me-dia campaign e� orts onto the other 11 victims killed to ensure that their stories were told as well.

Mike Lavender, a friend of both Ghawi and her family, said

he admires the efforts by Ghawi’s family to share her memory with the world.

“She was one of the people that was always outgoing, the more the merrier,” he said. “She wasn’t ever afraid to stick her hand out and say, ‘Hi, I’m Jessica.’ She loved every-body, and everyone got a fair shake with her, no matter what.”

Lavender said Ghawi had moved to the Denver, Colo. area from San Antonio, Texas last July to pursue her passion to become a sportscaster. She transferred from UT-San Antonio to Metropolitian

State University of Denver for its broadcast journalism program and began to pursue professional opportunities in the Denver, Colo. area. She worked as an intern in the sports department of Fox31 Denver and as a National Hock-ey League blogger for the sports website Busted Coverage.

Lavender said Ghawi had an as-tounding interest in sports.

“She just had this passion for it,” he said. “She truly loved sports, and that’s what she wanted to do her whole life, just to be involved in sports in some way — hopefully as a

sportscaster as she had already started doing — but she was explor-ing every aspect of it. She wanted to

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Texas reacts to tragic theater shooting

Jessica Ghawi

Former UTSA student victim in Aurora shooting tragedy

Barry Gutierrez | Associated PressJudy Goos, center left, hugs her daughter's friend, Isaiah Bow, 20, while eyewitnesses Emma Goos, 19, left, and Terrell Wallin, 20, right, gather outside Gateway High School where witnesses were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, in Aurora, Colo.

By David Maly

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By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis

In the wake of the shooting at Friday’s midnight premiere of “� e Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colo., the Austin Po-lice Department said it does not plan to tighten security in movie theaters around the area.

APD spokesman Chad Mar-tinka said APD does not plan to station additional o� cers at Austin movie theaters at this time, and that it is ultimately the individual theaters’ decision to increase safety precautions. � e shooting resulted in 12 deaths and 59 wounded at the hands of 24-year-old shooter James Hol-mes. “� e majority of the movie theaters around town have pri-vate contracts with o� cers,” Martinka said. “If they’re adding extra people, it’s through their private o� -duty contract.”

Local Alamo Dra� house Cin-ema locations declined to com-ment on whether the Aurora shooting will lead to increased security on their premises.

No additional security planned for local theaters

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Date: July 23, 2012To: All Students at The University of Texas at AustinFrom: Dr. Soncia Reagins-Lilly, Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of StudentsSubject: Texas Hazing Statute Summary and The University of Texas at Austin’s Hazing Regulations

The 70th Texas Legislature enacted a law concerning hazing. Under the law, individuals or organizations engag-ing in hazing could be subject to fines and charged with a criminal offense.

According to the law, a person can commit a hazing offense not only by engaging in a hazing activity, but also by soliciting, directing, encouraging, aiding or attempting to aid another in hazing; by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly allowing hazing to occur; or by failing to report, in writing to the Dean of Students or another appropri-ate official of the institution, first-hand knowledge that a hazing incident is planned or has occurred. The fact that a person consented to or acquiesced in a hazing activity is not a defense to prosecution for hazing under this law.

In an effort to encourage reporting of hazing incidents, the law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to any person who reports a specific hazing event in good faith and without malice to the Dean of Students or other appropriate official of the institution and immunizes that person for participation in any judicial proceeding resulting from liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the report. Additionally, a doctor or other medical practitioner who treats a student who may have been subjected to hazing may make a good faith report of the suspected hazing activities to police or other law enforcement officials and is immune from civil or other liability that might otherwise be imposed or incurred as a result of the report. The penalty for failure to report is a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail, or both. Penalties for other hazing offenses vary according to the se-verity of the injury which results and include fines from $500 to $10,000 and/or confinement for up to two years.

HAzing DefineDThe law defines hazing as any intentional, knowing or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endan-gers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at an educational institution. Hazing includes but is not limited to:A. any type of physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electric shocking, placing of a

harmful substance on the body or similar activity;B. any type of physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small

space, calisthenics, or other activity that subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the student;

C. any activity involving consumption of food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug or other substance which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or which adversely affects the mental or physical health of the student;

D. any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation, that adversely affects the mental health or dignity of the student or discourages the student from entering or remaining registered in an educational institution, or that may reasonably be expected to cause a student to leave the organization or the institution rather than submit to acts described in this subsection;

E. any activity that induces, causes or requires the student to perform a duty or task which involves a violation of the Penal Code.

UniveRSiTy DiSciplinARy RUleSThis law does not affect or in any way limit the right of the university to enforce its own rules against hazing under Chapter 16 of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities. In addition, Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, Series 50101, Number 2, Section 2.8, provide that:A. Hazing with or without the consent of a student is prohibited by the System, and a violation of that prohibition

renders both the person inflicting the hazing and the person submitting to the hazing subject to discipline.B. Initiations or activities by organizations may include no feature that is dangerous, harmful or degrading to the

student. A violation of this prohibition renders both the organization and participating individuals subject to discipline.

DAngeRoUS oR DegRADing AcTiviTieSActivities which under certain conditions constitute acts which are dangerous, harmful or degrading, in viola-tion of Chapter 16 and subsections 6-303(b)(3) and 11-404(a)(8) of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities include but are not limited to:

c Calisthenics, such as sit-ups, push-ups or any other form of physical exercise;c Total or partial nudity at any time;c The eating or ingestion of any unwanted substance;c The wearing or carrying of any embarrassing, degrading or physically burdensome article; c Paddle swats, including the trading of swats;

c Pushing, shoving, tackling or any other physical contact;c Throwing any substance on a person;c Consumption of alcoholic beverages accompanied by either threats or peer pressure;c Lineups for the purpose of interrogating, demeaning or intimidating;c Transportation and abandonment (road trips, kidnaps, walks, rides, drops);c Confining individuals in an area that is uncomfortable or dangerous (hot box effect, high temperature,

too small);c Any form of individual interrogation;c Any type of servitude that is of personal benefit to the individual members;c Wearing of embarrassing or uncomfortable clothing;c Assigning pranks such as stealing, painting objects, harassing other organizations;c Intentionally messing up the house or a room for clean up;c Demeaning names;c Yelling or screaming; andc Requiring boxing matches or fights for entertainment.

DiSciplineD oRgAnizATionS, inclUDing THoSe ReSolveD viA MUTUAl AgReeMenTSIn accordance with requirements of the Texas Education Code Section 51.936(c), the following organizations have been disciplined for hazing and/or convicted for hazing, on or off campus, during the preceding three years:

c Absolute Texxas* Conditional registration is one and a half (1.5) years (Completed November 19, 2009). c Alpha epsilon pi Penalty issued August 17, 2011 (Probation through August 17, 2013). c alpha Kappa Delta phi* Conditional registration is three (3) years (June 10, 2013). c Alpha Rho chi-Architecture* Conditional registration is three (3) years (May 29, 2015).c Alpha Tau omega* Found to be in violation; Penalty pending.c Beta chi Theta* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed August 24, 2010).c Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, inc. Penalty issued November 10, 2009 (Suspended through December 31,

2009; Probation through October 30, 2012).c Delta Tau Delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 9, 2012).c Kappa phi gamma Sorority, inc.* Conditional registration is two (2) years (April 30, 2014). c lambda phi epsilon Penalty issued December 20, 2005 (Cancelled through December 19, 2011;

Suspended through December 19, 2012; Probation through December 19, 2013).c omega phi gamma* Conditional registration is three (3) years (July 13, 2014). c phi chi Theta-Business* Conditional registration is two (2) years (July 7, 2014). c phi Delta chi-pharmacy* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed March 5, 2010). c phi Delta Theta* Found to be in violation; Penalty pending. c phi gamma Delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 15, 2010).c phi Kappa psi Penalty issued February 7, 2006 (Cancelled through February 6, 2007; Suspended

through March 27, 2008; Probation through March 24, 2010).c pi Kappa phi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (February 27, 2014).c Sigma Alpha epsilon* Conditional registration is five (5) years (April 7, 2013).c Sigma Alpha Mu* Conditional registration is two (2) years (April 20, 2014). c Sigma chi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed May 16, 2010).c Sigma gamma Rho Sorority, inc.* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed August 16, 2010).c Sigma phi epsilon* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 1, 2012).c Silver Spurs* Conditional registration is two (2) years (July 13, 2013). c Texas cheer and pom* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 23, 2011).c Texas iron Spikes* Conditional registration is three (3) years (March 7, 2014). c Texas omicron (formerly known as Kappa Alpha)* Conditional registration is three (3) years (April

11, 2015). c Texas Wranglers* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed October 6, 2010).c zeta Beta Tau* Conditional registration is two (2) years (August 19, 2012).

*Resolved via Mutual Agreement

To report an act of hazing to the Office of the Dean of Students, visit deanofstudents.utexas.edu/complaint.php. For further information or clarification of probationary member activities, please contact Student Activi-ties in the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Services Building (SSB) 4.400, 512-471-3065.

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By Andrew TorreyTHE PLACES YOU’LL GO

saw my first Megabus at the intersection of Dean Keeton Street and Guadalupe Street and the sight of it made me forget where I was. Its design

bears the look of a double-decker, life-size clown balloon sculpture forged from steel. Not a sharp line on the damn thing. It’s all curves and bubbles stuck together in an effort to appear modern but fall-ing short into something comical. In appearance, an average bus is to Megabus as sneakers are to clown shoes. I was awestruck by the sight

of this blue and yellow, child-ish monstrosity muscling its way through an intersection meant for sensibly-sized vehicles.

Megabus is a conglomerate of coach systems whose American routes are all owned by Coach USA. It came to America in 2006 after having marked success in the U.K., where it had been run-ning since 2003. Megabus has transformed from a hub-and-spoke transportation system based around Northeastern cities to a full network throughout the Southeast

and parts of the Midwest, and it seems poised to spread farther. The system is known for its cheap ticket prices: It works on a system that promotes planning trips far in advance, with tickets getting more expensive as the travel dates get closer. I purchased my tickets a week and a half in advance and still only had to pay about $50 for a round trip, much cheaper than a standard fare of $118 for one-way travel on a Greyhound bus.

Post-war prosperity, coupled with the building of the Dwight

D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, gave rise to the use of personally-owned automobiles as a primary mode of transportation through-out the U.S. New individualism in interstate travel birthed the Kerouac-ian ethos of the “Great American Roadtrip,” and as a con-sequence, bus travel decreased and forced Greyhound to start in-vesting in other businesses to stay afloat. The main users of bus sys-tems in the post-war period were largely low-income minorities and

I ABOVE: Mooah Desalleia plays his washboard on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

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LEFT: Women dance on stage in Fat Catz club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

RIGHT: Johnathan Boatright skates as a young man bikes by in downtown Houston.

LEFT: People wait to board the Megabus in Houston.

BOTTOM: Tiwana Mathew and Legacy Casmire,3, were taking a Coach USA bus to visit Casmire’s father in Beaumont, Texas.

European immigrants, stigmatizing the use of buses as something for the poor and foreigners. Bus travel just didn’t fit into the myth of road trips in America, something used out of necessity rather than adventure.

My first bus from Austin to Hous-ton was a standard Coach USA bus, as the company uses its ownership of various coach systems to connect the Megabus network. My second Megabus was from Houston to New

Orleans, and the ride was a depar-ture from previous bus trips I had taken. Megabus touts free Wi-Fi on their buses, but my experience was the connection was painfully slow and would cut out with such fre-quency that it really wasn’t worth using. They do have electrical out-lets for every seat, a feature that makes traveling with electronic de-vices a lot less stressful by remov-ing the future worry of finding a

place to charge them.The Megabus uses open parking

lots instead of formal bus stations, so the locations are generally more convenient. The bus in Houston dropped me directly downtown, and the bus to New Orleans dropped me less than a mile from the French Quarter. I spent eight hours shoot-ing Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a whirlwind of drunken revelry at a different caliber than most other

cities — these people made average Sixth Streeters look like blue-haired old ladies.

Overall, Megabus is a cheap way to move around the eastern and central states. With recent econom-ic downturn and the mainstreaming of more ecologically-friendly modes of transportation through the green movement, Megabus is poised to end the lingering stereotype of the ‘Great American Roadtrip.’

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UT assistant landscaping manager Janet McCreless said she learned there are two types of buildings in Texas: those with termites and those that will get termites.

The University of Texas is a sprawling campus, set in the middle of Texas with more than 150 buildings and struc-tures. Mike Matthews, spokes-person for Austin pest control company Bug Master, said ter-mites thrive in Texas’ wet and warm environment, which typically translates to tem-peratures in the 70s. Termites infect buildings by coming up through the soil, where they feed upon dead plant material like wood or paper.

McCreless said multiple de-partments on campus deal with termites, so the cost to treat and fix damages varies greatly and is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Because of that, McCre-less said it would be difficult to determine just how much termite infestations cost UT annually in terms of treatment and repairs. Treatment and repairs are handled separately and by different companies. She said whatever the number is, it would be large.

Bug Master inspects the

Tower’s bait stations, which are sites used to attract and de-tect termites. Bug Master also provides treatment options, should the company find ter-mites, and UT pays $2,400 a year for Bug Master’s services.

While termites can affect buildings year-round if the weather is right, McCreless said the University is usually swarmed in the spring. She said UT normally has two to three swarms a year.

“If you have an infestation, and I’m talking as a hom-eowner, then that is probably one of the most expensive and worst issues you can deal with,” McCreless said. “It’s far worse than almost any other pest control problem.”

Kiersten Legge, UT pest control technician, said facili-ties have to inspect buildings regularly to check for termites.

“A lot of time when they swarm you just know where they’re at,” Legge said. “You can see them. They look like a flying ant.”

McCreless said pest control methods have changed in re-cent years, and treatment pre-viously meant spraying chemi-cals that would kill everything. Environmental concerns have stopped use of these types of chemicals, and policies now re-quire much tamer substances.

“We have to learn more and more about their biology, where back in the old days we used broad spectrum chemi-cals that killed everything and kept them away for a lon-ger period,” McCreless said. “We can’t use those chemicals anymore, so you really have to be a scientist to know how to treat, how to detect and how to stop them.”

McCreless said the Univer-sity normally only deals with subterranean termites, which live in soil and create mud tubes to climb to the surface. There have been reports of a new species of termite ap-pearing in Austin called the Formosan termite, which nor-mally makes its habitat further south in areas like Houston.

“They can take down en-tire trees in very short pe-riods, while our standard subterranean termites take a much longer time to decay,” McCreless said.

In addition, Formosan ter-mites can move both through the air and through the soil, making them more trouble-some since they can reach buildings easier. Legge said there have not been any signs of the Formosan termites ap-pearing on campus.

But termites do not al-ways threaten the buildings

themselves. Legge said there was an instance recently when they found termites eating away at paper documents. Some-times termites go after trees, but McCreless said facilities do not always treat those cases.

“It really just depends. There are trees in different stages of life. If it is a majes-tic, beautiful tree, we would probably treat,” McCreless said. “If it’s an old, decrepit tree, we probably wouldn’t.”

After all, McCreless said, termites are a natural part of the environment and are sometimes a beneficial pest.

“They are beneficial in the natural ecology because they decay, they aid in the decompo-sition of fallen trees,” McCreless said. “But in the urban envi-ronment, they are not so good because they eat the structures that we build to live in.”

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be an announcer at a game, she wanted to be a broad-caster, she wanted to play.”

Ghawi narrowly escaped another shooting last month in Toronto. Lavender said the incident seriously affect-ed her and caused her to live every day to its fullest, one of the many lessons he hopes people will take from the memories of Ghawi’s life.

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Sports

In the Big 12 Conference there’s a � ne line between con-troversy and a calculated chess move when it comes to select-ing players to represent one’s school in front of the media.

Bringing a quarterback may seem like a no-brainer for some schools, but for others it’s a tactical decision based more on preserving con� dence in certain players while still with-holding certain aspects of the o� season from the media.

In the case of Big 12 Media Days, only three teams (Texas, Oklahoma State and Iowa State) have decided against bringing a quarterback to � eld questions and mingle among the hordes of media a� liates before the fall season starts.

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy has a policy against bringing � rst-year play-ers to events such as the Me-dia Days, which explains why newly-appointed freshman quarterback Wes Lunt will have to watch this year’s fes-tivities from home.

Paul Rhoads, head coach at Iowa State, still isn’t certain if former junior college transfer Steele Jantz will be his start-ing quarterback come fall, so he chose instead to bring two linebackers (Jake Knott and

A.J. Klein) and a running back (James White).

What may seem an easy way out of questions pertaining to who will run a given team’s o� ense can also be viewed as a smart move to shi� the focus away from a par-ticular player and instead have the team become the main focal point. Sure, questions will be asked about the quar-terbacks not in at-tendance, but just like politicians on the cam-paign trail, coaches will defer and work around any uncom-fortable or potentially sticky scenarios.

� e Longhorns, or Mack Brown if you’re into details, decided to leave last year’s starting quarterback David Ash for a sec-ond straight year but will bring a solid group of

players to Dallas. Rising juniors Carrington Byndom and Jor-dan Hicks, along with redshirt junior Mason Walters, will in-stead accompany Brown. A safe

group of guys, yes, but that’s something

we’ve come to expect from Brown at this stage in his

coaching

career.

No one in this group is

going to speak o� -the-cu� , and that’s exactly what Brown wants. Keep it simple, stupid.

At the same time, these three Longhorns will do well to preserve the face of the Texas football program.

Walters is coming o� of a strong sopho-more season in which he

Okafor, Vaccaro miss event due to arrests

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By Nick Cremona

� e only question sur-rounding the Texas defense this summer is just how good they can be as an overall unit. A lot of that expectation comes from a star-studded returning cast that includes seniors safety Kenny Vaccaro and defen-sive end Alex Okafor.

Okafor and Vaccaro are expected to lead a high-pow-ered defense this season. In 2011, Texas � nished 11th in total defense and is expected to � nish higher this year.

� e public will get to hear exactly what to expect out of this year’s defense from head coach Mack Brown and de-fensive coordinator Manny Diaz at the Big 12 Media Days this week in Dallas. However, the public will not get to hear from defensive leaders Oka-for and Vaccaro.

Due to an o� -season inci-dent, the seniors are banned from addressing the media until September and will not make it to Dallas this week. In May, Okafor and Vaccaro, along with senior tight end Barrett Matthews and former Longhorn Eryon Barnett, were arrested in downtown Austin for failing to obey a

lawful order.The four athletes re-

fused to leave a downtown pizza establishment after being asked by several individuals, including po-lice. The incident led to their arrest and charges of class C misdemeanors.

“� ey are paying hard for really being disrespectful to authority � gures,” Brown said. “It’s our job to make sure that we all keep the respect of the authority � gures that we have. Our police department has a very, very di� cult job. If they ask you to leave, you should leave, and you should leave quickly.”

All charges in the case against the players were dis-missed, and the Longhorns will not face any serious le-gal rami� cations because of the incident, but other pen-alties were handed down by the Texas coaching sta� . Although they will not miss much, if any, game time when the season starts, the three players will not represent the team in public until school starts for the 2012 season.

“� ese guys will be able to address it when we start back in the fall but not until

By Sarah Beth Purdy

Rising juniors to represent Longhorns in Dallas

Big 12 Media Days

gives teams chance

to discuss upcoming

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The Big 12 announced the addition of Texas Christian and West Virginia to the con-ference on July 1. Two spots became available after the de-parture of Missouri and Texas A&M from the conference last year and were filled after much speculation. The addi-tion of these schools strength-ens the overall depth of the conference and is a good indication of what to expect from the Big 12 this year and in years to come.

The TCU Horned Frogs are a force to be reckoned with, posting an impressive 11-2 record last year (7-0 in confer-ence) as part of the Mountain West Conference. They have been the reigning champions of the Mountain West in the

team’s last three seasons and finished in the Top 25 in both Associated Press and USA Today polls. This shows they are consistently fierce com-petitors in both the regular season and the offseason.

The Horned Frogs’ suc-cess can be credited, at least in part, to head coach of 11 seasons Gary Patterson. Under his leadership, TCU has won at least 10 games per season for eight seasons, only failing to miss a bowl game once in 2004.

In the East Coast, the Big 12 welcomes the West Vir-ginia Mountaineers, who also have an esteemed football program. Last year, as mem-bers of the Big East, 23rd-ranked WVU posted a 10-3 record (5-2 in conference) under head coach Dana Hol-gorsen en route to winning

the Orange Bowl against No. 14 Clemson, a game where WVU set the record for most points scored in a bowl game. They have had four consecu-tive nine-win seasons and have been the Big East co-champions for the past two years. The Mountaineers have not been in many bowl games in recent years, but they have still posted solid records ev-ery year and continue to be a team to look out for. It may only be Holgorsen’s second season with WVU and his

first head coach position, but he has been coaching football since the mid-1990s and has made a name for himself as an offensive strategist. He im-proved the offenses of Texas Tech, Houston and Oklahoma State before landing at WVU and could lead the Mountain-eers to another successful sea-son. With an early dark horse Heisman Trophy candidate in senior quarterback Geno Smith, the Mountaineers have their eyes on another confer-ence title as well.

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anchored an offensive line that opened some massive holes for Malcolm Brown and Joe Bergeron, and he will look to do more of the same this season. Walters will be able to provide insight on the state of the offen-sive line and, of course, the man he’s in charge of protecting — sophomore quarterback Ash.

Byndom and Hicks essen-tially are serving as replace-ments to the dynamic duo of Kenny Vaccaro and Big 12 pre-season Defensive Player of the Year Alex Okafor, both of whom had a run-in with police earlier this summer and will not be representing Texas at any media functions this off-season.

It’s no big deal for Byndom and Hicks, who have already

matured within the Long-horns’ defense. Consider this another step in their athletic careers that they should handle with ease.

There is already a consid-erable amount of buzz sur-rounding the Longhorn de-fense as the start of the season nears. Defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat, along with Okafor and Vaccaro, were named to the preseason All-Big 12 Team recently, and Texas was picked to finish in the top five in the Big 12 by the media.

While Texas may not have a quarterback on hand, there will be plenty of other topics of con-versation to fill time at the Me-dia Days. Expect the defense of the Longhorns to get a lot of at-tention, and for good reason.

that point,” Brown said. “We want them to earn that right from their teammates to rep-resent our team publicly.”

Vaccaro, four-year defen-sive back, was chosen to the All-Big 12 first team in 2011 and was honorable men-tion for Defensive Player of the Year. In 2011, Vaccaro started at safety in 13 games and posted two sacks along with two interceptions. For the 2012 season, Vaccaro has been named to the Thorpe watch list for the nation’s best defensive back, the Bednarik watch list for the defensive player of the year and the Nagurski watch list for most outstanding defensive play-er. Vaccaro was also named to the preseason All-Big 12 team for 2012.

In 2012, Okafor started in all 13 games, finishing with seven sacks and one fumble recovery. He was also named to the 2011 All-Big 12 first team and was a 2011 AFCA FBS Coaches’ All-American.

In addition to also being named to the Bednarik and Nagurski watch lists, Okafor was named to the 2012 Lom-bardi Award watch list for the lineman or linebacker of the year and the Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list. Okafor is a pre-season All-Big 12 team member and preseason Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.

“These are three leaders on our football team,” Brown said of the trio and their roles on the field.

Okafor and Vaccaro may not be on hand in Dallas, but the success of the Long-horns’ defense this season is strongly tied to their ability to disrupt opponents’ offen-sive game plans and lead the Texas defense. The hope is that barring the pair, along with Matthews, from speak-ing with the media until the fall will allow them to focus on off-season preparation and be fully focused once the season begins.

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ARRESTS continues from page 11TCU, WVU add depth to Big 12

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By Nitya Duran

Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan StaffSenior safety Kenny Vaccaro’s name has found its way on numerous awards watch lists, including the Thorpe awards.

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When I asked longtime bar manager Jonathan Richards, the mastermind behind the tur-tle races at Little Woodrow’s bar who has organized “everything from banana pudding wres-tling to mechanical bull riding,” where turtle racing ranks on his list of booze-fueled spectator sports, he nodded enthusiasti-cally and said it’s got to be in his top three. Sure, he admitted, it’s not number one — there was, a� er all, that wet T-shirt me-chanical bull contest he used to organize at a Beaumont honky-tonk. But honky-tonks aside, the spectators at Little Wood-row’s love the reptilian races. Rhinestone Sally, an “80-years-young” fan, has been coming regularly since the races started three weeks ago and drives 35 miles each Friday to attend the event. “It’s just so unique,” she said cheerfully, her bedazzled cowboy hat glittering beneath the bar’s lights. Last week, as a token of appreciation, she even gave the team at Woodrow’s an enameled turtle � gurine on a bed of fake grass.

Little Woodrow’s on Sixth Street holds turtle races every Friday night at dusk (they at-tempt to respect turtles’ noc-turnal preferences and only race them when the sun sets). If you are so inclined, you can bring your own turtle and enter it free of charge, but know that smaller, red turtles are preferred to 40-pound snapping ones.

So how, you ask, might turtle racing work? Each Friday night, the Little Woodrow’s team as-sembles a miniature ring in the

center of the bar. Inside of this ring lies an AstroTurf mat paint-ed with a white circle. � e six noble red turtles that compete in the games must cross this white ring twice to win eternal glory. At no additional cost, onlook-ers can place “bets” on the turtle they deem destined for great-ness. � ese bets are dropped in buckets that bear the turtle’s number. If your turtle claws its way over the shells of its com-petitors, a ticket will be drawn from the bucket, automatically entering you in a ra� e for a ni� y

turtle-racing T-shirt.But before the turtles are re-

leased from their holding buck-et, they are presented to the crowd by their handlers, allow-ing the bar’s enthusiastic patrons to cheer or jeer. � e handlers, who will have taken a 30-min-ute class on turtle care, delicately take the turtles from their tanks and hold them out proudly to the audience, the way one holds a panini and aggressively insists their friend take a bite of. � e turtles respond to this attention in one of three ways: squirming

energetically, hiding inside their shells or peeing on themselves and their handler.

� e turtles, now energized by the support of their fans or the hatred of their detractors, are placed in a bottomless plas-tic bucket. A female volunteer is selected from the crowd to seductively li� the modi� ed trash can and let loose the turtle fury. And ... they’re o� , scram-bling across the AstroTurf as if to disprove every ill-informed iteration of the “turtles are slow” stereotype they’ve had to put up

with in their tiny turtle lives. When I attended, every turtle ran but No. 4, whose immobile stance in the center of the ring suggested that he was either very ill or, more likely (Little Woodrow’s pampers its turtles and makes sure they get regular veterinary attention) disheart-ened by the cruel comments of that drunk guy who totally bet on No. 3 instead. In 15 min-utes, the race was over a� er three rounds. � e winner that night? I don’t remember, but it was a turtle.

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OFF TO THE RACESBy Laura Wright Turtle handler

Otis Welch (foreground) presents a turtle to the crowd Friday night at Little Woodrow’s on Sixth street. When they are not racing, the turtles live in an aquarium at the Little Woodrow’s offices.

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