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Students get creative for $50,000 prize By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Last week, students around the world began submitting entries to the 2010 Dell Social Innova-tion Competition, which offers a

grand prize of $50,000 to the stu-dent team with the best entry.

Guidelines for entering the competition are broad, and stu-dents with innovative projects that would help society are en-

couraged to enter their ideas.There are no qualifications for

entry except that the team be made up of students in gradu-ate or undergraduate university studies. A panel of judges, as well as voters on the competition’s Web site, will decide the winner in March.

The Lyndon B. Johnson School

of Public Affairs’ RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service has teamed up with Dell to host the fourth annual contest.

“We were interested in en-gaging the most number of stu-dents to use entrepreneurial skills to solve global problems,” said Heather Alden, senior program coordinator for the RGK Center.

Past winners have included a device that turns rice husks into energy, an online resource for dis-abled pedestrians and last year’s Gardens For Health, in which stu-dents from Yale and Brown work with a community in Rwanda to create more sustainable crops and infrastructure.

During its first two years, UT

hosted the contest independent-ly through private funding. In its first year, the competition was statewide and became national the second year. However, in an effort to broaden the scale of the contest to an international level, the Uni-versity partnered with Dell as a

Troopers begin bus safety week sting operation

By Alex GeiserDaily Texan Staff

A monarch butterfly lands on the leaf of a milkweed plant, flut-ters its wings and flies off. Dale Bulla, a volunteer with the Na-tional Wildlife Federation and a member of Wildlife Austin, lifts the leaf and points to the small yellow egg waiting to be fertil-ized in the young garden outside the Austin Parks and Recreation Department’s main office.

Wildlife enthusiasts, like Bul-la, crowded around the garden as Stuart Strong, assistant director of Parks and Recreation, and chair-woman Mendy Marshall cut a gold ribbon, officially opening the garden of native plants that took root in the winter of 2008.

“If we want to save wildlife, we have to build it back in our com-munities,” Bulla said.

The ribbon-cutting event, which marks the first Texas Native Plant Week as well as the opening of the garden, was meant to increase knowledge of Texas’ native plants and the wildlife they attract.

Alice Nance, conservation pro-gram coordinator of the Parks and Recreation Department, said

the celebration was an opportu-nity to do something interactive and fun for the community.

“It was just a matter of capi-talizing on something that was already created and trying to draw awareness because native plants are beneficial and the right choice,” Nance said.

A partnership between the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at UT, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the city of Austin, the office of state Rep. Donna How-ard and the Native Plant Society of Texas supplied the resources to de-velop the garden.

The Lago Vista chapter of the Native Plants Society approached Howard with the idea of a desig-nated week as a way to educate the community about the impor-tance of native plants. Howard guided the bill through the legis-lative process, and it passed in the 2009 session.

The environmental and wild-life organizations have been col-laborating for years, and the gar-den is just a larger project they were able to cultivate.

By Bobby LongoriaDaily Texan Staff

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers will take a trip back to their school days this week.

Officers will ride along with students on bus-es and issue ci-tations to driv-ers who illegally pass as students board and exit the bus on their way to school.

N a t i o n a l School Bus Safe-ty Week was established in the early 1990s by groups that monitor school transportation safety, including the National As-sociation for Pupil Transportation, the National School Transporta-tion Association and the Nation-al Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services. Its

goal is to inform motorists about school bus safety laws, which say that drivers cannot pass a school bus when it is loading or unload-ing students.

This year is the first time DPS has participat-ed in Bus Safety Week since 2003. DPS spokeswom-an Tela Mange said the safety week begins two months into the school year to serve as a fresh reminder for driv-ers to remain safe around school buses.

“[Drivers] need to obey the law and drive as if their own children are on the bus,” Mange said. “The most dangerous time for a child riding a school bus is [while]

Texas garden thrives with native greenery

Democratic candidates vie for group’s endorsement

Faculty fights job eliminations

By Rachel PlatisDaily Texan Staff

As election season draws near, many political groups in Austin are playing host to candidates hoping to win constituent endorsement.

The North by Northwest Dem-ocrat Political Action Committee hosted U.S. 10th congressional district candidate Jack McDon-ald on Monday night as he spoke about his candidacy and what he said pundits are calling “the No. 1 challenger race in the country to watch.”

McDonald has raised more money than any other congressio-nal challenger in the county with $934,000, about $200,000 more than incumbent Michael McCaul, McDonald said. The 10th district runs from Austin to Houston.

“The bluest district in Texas is not held by a Democrat, but with your help, we’re going to change that,” McDonald said.

Other candidates for such po-sitions as Justice of the Peace and various district courts in Trav-is County also came and brief-ly spoke at the beginning of the meeting. Jack Sigman, president of the North by Northwest orga-

nization, reminded members that the endorsement meeting would be held in February.

McDonald is a businessman whose high-tech company grew from eight to 1,200 employees in 10 years, and now generates more than $2 million in annual revenue. He said that he was a business-man before he became a politi-cian, and hopes to bring solutions to the problems and issues that lie

before the country.“Our problems in this country

are too big to leave to career politi-cians,” McDonald said. “We need folks in Washington with real world experience and real people who have experience creating jobs and balancing budgets.”

McDonald answered questions from the audience that included global poverty, trade, health care, immigration reform and taxes.

McDonald said that he is pas-sionately committed to public ed-ucation and believes in both re-productive and civil rights, and he refuses to be a “blank check” to the party bosses.

“I am a fiscal conservative, and I am very worried that we are spending ourselves in the poor-house,” McDonald said. “We’re Democrats here, but we need to get our arms around spending.”

Dave and Linda Davis are ac-tively involved in Organizers for America among other liberal or-ganizations, and attended the North by Northwest meeting for the first time last night.

“I just think it’s good for every-one to hear what candidates have to say,” Linda Davis said. “Other-wise, how would you know? And how can you vote?”

The organization is one of many partisan groups in Austin such as Stonewall Democrats and Uni-versity Democrats, among others. North by Northwest President Sig-man said that the 50 or so attendees of each meeting are knowledgeable about topics and concerned about many issues — such as health care — that relate to them.

Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff

Jack McDonald, a Democratic congressional candidate, speaks with members of North by Northwest Democrats at their meeting Monday.

Erik Reyna | Daily Texan Staff

A monarch butterfly sits atop a blue mistflower in a small garden at the entrance of the Austin Parks and Recreation Department.

By Lena PriceDaily Texan Staff

Liberal arts lecturers and assistant in-structors got a chance to voice their con-cerns over proposed changes to foreign lan-guage curriculums directly to Dean Randy Diehl on Monday.

The changes, if approved, will likely re-sult in the elimination of several instruc-tional staff positions, shrink course avail-ability and enlarge class sizes.

Two new models for foreign language in-struction have been proposed and will be voted on at a faculty council meeting Mon-day. If enough written protests are filed at the meeting, the measures will be put be-fore the general faculty. President William Powers will have the final say in whether the changes are implemented.

Under one model, students will take two six-hour courses for a total of 12 hours in-

stead of 16. Under the second plan, students will take one six-hour class followed by two three-hour classes. An initial proposal from the dean’s office to make first-year language courses pass/fail was dropped after negoti-ations with the department chairs.

Although tuition and state funding from the legislature to the University increased this year, University investments declined. Because UT’s budget is essentially flat, in-dividual colleges will have to pay for pro-grams they were not expected to fund in the past.

The College of Liberal Arts has to find approximately $7 million to fund targeted faculty merit pay increases and 49 new fac-ulty positions. For the first time since Diehl has been dean, the college will not have ac-cess to money from tuition increases or Uni-versity investments.

In September, Diehl circulated an e-mail

to all of the liberal arts department heads warning them about cuts to the college’s “soft money” fund. The money in the fund pays for the salaries of teaching assistants and non-tenure track faculty.

“This is one of the only facets of the col-lege’s budget that we actually have control over,” Diehl said at the meeting. “There is no fat in the budget of the College of Lib-eral Arts.”

“I wish it was true that nothing in the curriculum was tied to the budget,” he said. “But in reality, that isn’t the case.”

Cynthia Buckley, chairwoman of the Eur-asian studies department, said that when the members of her department voted in-formally on approving the changes, they were almost unanimously shot down.

“The perception among the faculty is

Karina Jacques | Daily Texan Staff

Liberal arts faculty members Tom Palaima, Kirsten Belgum and Jill Robbins ask Dean Randy Diehl questions about budget cuts at the Texas Union on Monday afternoon. If approved, the changes may result in job losses among UT faculty.

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Meteors will dot the Austin sky early Wednesday morning at the peak of the annual Orionid mete-or shower.

The meteors are the result of the Earth passing through the debris trail left behind by Halley’s Comet.

Joseph Wheelock, spokesman for UT’s McDonald Observatory, said that although the Orionid is not the biggest shower, it is one of the more intense ones.

“The best instrument you can

use to watch this is your eyes,” he said.

Rebecca Johnson, editor of Star-Date, the bimonthly astronomy magazine published by McDon-ald Observatory, said the Leonids meteor shower is the largest to

appear during the year.Johnson said the peak will occur

a couple hours before dawn. She said to watch the skies around 4 a.m. Wednesday and be prepared to see up to 20 meteors an hour.

“You’d be better off if you are

able to get away from city lights,” she said. “If you are in your own backyard, look at whichever di-rection the sky is darkest.“

Meteors are named based on the constellation they seem to be coming from in the sky.

“If you trace the path of one of those meteors backward in the sky, it would appear to radiate from the constellation Orion the Hunter,” Wheelock said.

Johnson recommends laying on the ground or sitting in a lawn chair to get a complete view of the sky.

“Oftent imes wi th mete-or showers, the moonlight will wash out and overpower the meteors,” she said.

Fortunately, this year, the moon will not be in the sky at peak time.

Local astronomers await meteor shower

Source: Lara Eakins, astronomy staffer

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sponsor for last year’s competi-tion, a relationship that will con-tinue for the 2010 competition.

“We are a technology compa-ny, and innovation is very ex-citing to us,” said Teresa Mill-er, U.S. manager of Dell Giving, the company’s community out-

reach arm. Last year, the competition had

527 entries, and about half were international, Alden said.

“We’re teaching students to identify when they’re having an idea that could actually change the world and giving them a tool box for implementing that idea,” Alden said.

Ferguson plans to enter her “Gas Pump Solar Pumps” in this year’s competition. The de-sign for electrical charging sta-tions uses modified 1950s gas pumps. She hopes to use the award money to build more sta-tions and add sophistication to the designs.

“It’s innovative because it’s solving a problem that there is no place for electric vehicles to charge on the UT campus or in downtown Austin or real-ly anywhere in the world,” Fer-guson said. “The competition is an opportunity to get funding to make more of the solar charging stations.”

loading and unloading the bus. Once they are on, it’s very safe, but people sometimes don’t drive very well around school buses — they get impatient. They forget those are little kids getting on the bus.”

According to a DPS press re-lease, more than 35,000 school bus-es transport 1.4 million Texas chil-dren daily.

According to information com-piled by the Texas Department of Transportation, 20 injuries oc-curred in Central Texas since 2006 as a result of drivers failing to stop for a school bus. This year alone, six injuries occurred in Cen-tral Texas as well as one fatality in Cameron County.

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the information of the violator,”

Violators are given a Class C misdemeanor that can have up to a $1,000 fine. If the incident oc-curs in a school zone the fine can double.

A DPS trooper will be riding along with a Pflugerville Indepen-dent School District school bus Tuesday morning, and a troop-er will ride on a Manor ISD bus Wednesday morning. Austin ISD has a total of 500 school buses that provide service to about 20,000 students per day. Kourosh Hafezi, Austin ISD’s director of transporta-tion, said that DPS troopers won’t be riding in AISD buses.

“Its unfortunate many motor-ists do not avoid the school bus-es when they drop off students,” Hafezi said.

Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff

A man descends into the parking garage below city hall Monday afternoon.

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KABUL — U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third of President Hamid Karzai’s votes from the August election, undercutting his claim of victory and stepping up the pressure for him to accept a runoff.

The Obama administration has been holding off on a decision to send more troops to Afghanistan until a credible government is in-stalled in Kabul.

Both Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the U.N. sec-retary general signaled on Mon-day that a resolution was near.

Clinton said Karzai planned to announce his intentions on Tues-day, adding that she was “encour-aged at the direction the situation is moving.”

The findings by the Electoral Complaints Commission dropped Karzai’s votes to 48 percent of the total, below the 50 percent thresh-old needed for him to avoid a runoff.

Still, it was uncertain wheth-er the Afghan-led Independent Election Commission, which is dominated by Karzai supporters, would accept the findings and an-

nounce a second round.Karzai campaign spokesman

Waheed Omar said the Karzai camp was waiting for the election commission to formally certify the U.N.-backed panel’s findings, thereby giving them the force of law.

Karzai’s camp had complained about the panel of three foreign-ers and two Afghans which con-ducted the fraud investigation, saying foreigners were unfairly influencing the outcome.

The two-month election cri-sis threatens to undermine the Obama administration’s Afghan strategy at a time when public support for the eight-year war is declining in the U.S. and the Tal-iban-led insurgents are gaining strength.

Preliminary results released last month showed Karzai winning more than 54 percent of the vote in the 36-candidate race. Howev-er, proclamation of a Karzai vic-tory was withheld until the U.N.-backed commission finished its investigation into widespread fraud allegations.

The inquiry concluded last week, but the panel withheld re-leasing the findings while talks were held with the Karzai-domi-

nated election commission.The U.N.-backed panel decid-

ed to release its report Monday after the Afghan commission-ers kept insisting on changes that would show Karzai winning out-right. The officials spoke on con-dition of anonymity.

Abdullah campaign spokes-man Fazel Sancharaki welcomed the fraud panel’s findings as “a step forward” and said the elec-tion commission had no choice but to call a runoff.

Afghans close to Karzai said the president feared the runoff was part of an Obama administration plan to oust him — a charge the U.S. has repeatedly denied. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to speak for Karzai.

Afghan officials say they can organize a runoff in about two weeks, which is close to the start of winter. After the first snows fall in the high mountain passes, it will become all but impossible to hold an election until the spring. A second round vote would also run the risk of Taliban attacks on voters similar to those carried out during the first ballot.

For those reasons, Western dip-lomats have urged the two sides

to reach a power-sharing agree-ment which would avoid a new vote and bring an end to the cri-sis. Former U.S. Ambassador Zal-may Khalilzad and others held a series of weekend talks with the rival camps on a possible power-sharing deal.

Officials familiar with the talks, speaking on condition of ano-nymity, said both sides were open to the power-sharing idea but were far apart on details. Karzai has said he would be willing to offer posts to the opposition in a new government — which falls short of a real coalition with clear-ly defined powers.

By Dirk LammersThe Associated Press

Despite persistently low de-mand, prices for gasoline have spiked over the past week along with crude oil, threatening one of the very few points of relief for the recession-striken U.S. con-sumer: cheap gas.

Prices have risen for six straight days and they are now comfort-ably above $2.50 per gallon for the first time in weeks.

That may be frustrating for consumers with few signs people are driving more now than dur-ing what was a dismal summer for the travel industry. People aren’t buying much gasoline.

“I wish it could go down under $2,” said Cheryl Couture, 50, who was filling up at a Speedway sta-tion in Columbus, Ohio, where a gallon had risen to $2.55.

Couture has watched as gas prices have ticked higher. On Monday, they rose again for the sixth straight day to $2.564 per gallon according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.

Rather than rising consumer demand or a tightening of sup-ply, the falling U.S. dollar is most

likely to blame.All one needs to do is look at

the price of crude, which crossed $75 for the first time Wednesday, then neared $80 on Monday.

Oil is bought and sold in dol-lars, essentially making it cheap-er when the U.Sw. currency tum-bles. The dollar has continued to fall throughout the month.

And the rising price of crude is exacerbating problems that al-ready existed for the refiners.

People are driving less, truck-ing companies are shipping less, and airlines are cutting back on jet fuel purchases.

That lack of demand has forced refiners to cut back production.

And because crude prices are rising, profit margins at refin-ers who must buy crude to make fuel are shrinking. As a result, they are making even less fuel.

Prices remain relatively low so it’s not clear how that would af-fect consumer thinking on fuel costs. This has been the biggest run up in October gasoline pric-es since at least 2000.

Because crude makes up about 64 percent of the cost of each gal-lon of gas, pump prices are likely to follow increased crude prices.Karzai fails to attain majority of votes

Rahmat Gul | Associated Press

A university student, right, holds an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama close to the flames of a protest fire during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday.

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Russ Conde, of Kingston, N.H., fills his truck with gas at a fueling sta-tion, in Waltham, Mass. on Monday.

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I recently stumbled into a conversation a couple of friends were engaged in about Proposition 4, the consti-tutional amendment proposed on this fall’s ballot that would create a $500 million National Research Uni-versity Fund (NRUF) to subsidize research at seven “emerging research universities.” They were in favor of the proposition, and on the surface, Prop 4 sounds like a great idea. But as with most well-intentioned gov-ernment ideas, unintended consequences can occur. A 2008 study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation found that over the last 10 years, Texas spent $9 bil-lion on research that generated a mere $8.3 million a year in income, a rate of return of less than one-tenth of 1 percent.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Universities sim-ply don’t provide any incentives to ensure research performed on campus is valuable to society. In fact, almost 90 percent of research in the U.S. is per-formed by private companies and independent labo-ratories, not universities. It seems that worthwhile re-search doesn’t need government support to succeed. But university research isn’t just inefficient. It really, truly hurts students. Some may be surprised to learn that tenured faculty members spend 78 percent of their time doing research instead of teaching. To compen-sate for this lost classroom time, universities are forced to hire more and often inferior teaching staff. Not only does this inflate already expensive tuition, but students end up being taught by less-qualified faculty. Students essentially pay tuition to support tenured faculty who don’t participate in their education.

Only in the higher education market is this sort of poor service acceptable, and for students’ sake, it needs to stop.

Additionally, many have said Prop 4 won’t raise taxes. That claim is insincere at best. State lawmak-ers didn’t just stumble across $500 million. That is the taxpayers’ money, whether it was sitting in an exist-ing fund or not. Second, the enabling legislation for Prop 4 appropriated millions more to the fund. That appropriation was subsequently removed because of budget constraints, but it is clear lawmakers intend to appropriate more tax dollars to the fund in future legislative sessions.

Many say Prop 4 will attract better faculty. Well, those professors will be spending almost 80 percent of their time outside the classroom doing research, so what’s to gain? Many also note that Texas has only three “tier-one” universities compared to California’s nine. True, but California is in terrible economic shape. States are prosperous when government gets out of the way, not when government spends more. Another argument in favor of Prop 4 is that Texas is losing students to other states. Students go out of state for many reasons, such as to experience the world or get away from home. Prop 4 won’t solve that problem. Those who leave will come back to Texas if we stay competitive and have available jobs.

If Texans want to send the message that students, not faculty, are the university’s customers, they should vote against Proposition 4.

McDonald is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a first year UT

law student. He serves as the Vice Chairman of Legislative Affairs for the Young

Conservatives of Texas.

The reason I avoided getting a “flip phone” for so long is that the keys aren’t as pronounced, which would make it harder for me to text while engaged in other activ-ities, such as driving. For exam-ple, I used to change clothes while driving 80 mph down Interstate Highway 35.

My name is Rebecca, and I am a distracted driver.

Well, I was. The news cover-age surrounding President Barack Obama’s distracted-driving summit earlier this month featured enough sob stories that I have started to re-think treating driving time as get-everything-on-my-to-do-list-done time. Also, living in Mexico for the semester, where even the drivers not on cell phones remind me daily of how easy it is to cause a deadly car accident, has definitely changed my perspective.

The Austin City Council is dis-cussing this issue Oct. 22, when members will vote on whether or not to accept proposed wording for a texting-while-driving ban unan-imously approved in August. As the Austin American-Statesman re-ports, the ban would make the vi-olation a Class C misdemean-or with a $500 maximum fine, the same class most traffic violations fall under.

Austin’s ordinance falls in line with texting-while-driving bans in

18 other states and scores of cities, as well as an executive order from the president that disallows feder-al employees from texting while in government-owned cars or using government-owned phones.

The proposed wording would define the crime as writing, sending or viewing electronic messages, in-cluding downloading Twitter posts and other Web content. The ordi-nance would allow drivers to use GPS systems permanently installed in vehicles while driving and text in the event of an emergency, such as reporting traffic accidents or to prevent a crime. In addition, emer-gency workers would be allowed to send and view job-related texts while driving.

The ordinance’s opponents argue that it is redundant or impossible to enforce. Debbie Russell, president of the Central Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, argues that current distract-ed driving statutes could be used to punish anyone who drives danger-ously while texting.

Russell also questions wheth-er the resolution could be en-forced. “How do you distinguish between someone texting versus just looking at their phone or dial-ing a phone number?” asked Rus-sell. A spokesperson for an insur-ance industry group brought up the same question to The Dallas Morn-ing News, suggesting that people will just hold their phones below window level.

Russell raises a valid question. Looking at your phone to search for numbers can be just as danger-ous as texting. A recent study by the University of Utah showed that driving while on a cell phone is as dangerous as driving drunk.

The other part of the problem — phones held below windows — points out that laws will not be enough to end distracted driv-ing. Safety advocates point out that drunk driving was curbed by groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving as much as by changes to the laws that made DWIs more costly. But the need to wage a two-front battle doesn’t mean the laws won’t make a difference. At the very least, the most paranoid (or broke) among us will put down our phones rather than risk having to pay another traffic ticket.

Ordinances such as this one would clear up the gray area of what counts as distracted driving, a determination usually left to the officer writing the ticket. It would also allow officers to punish dan-gerous behavior before accidents happen, making the roads safer.

The City Council should pass this ordinance and consider banning the “hands-on” use of cell phones while driving. In the meantime, the rest of us should recognize the dan-ger we’re causing and put down our cell phones.

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ing in Mexico this semester.

The state’s highest criminal court is set to hear the case of a woman who was jailed for violating her probation. Amber Lovill was five months pregnant when she tested positive for methamphetamines in July 2007.

Lovill has been a habitual drug user. In 2005, she was sentenced to three years of probation for forging checks, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The court also mandated that she enroll in a substance abuse program. In the first three months of her probation, she failed two drug tests and, as a result, was incarcerat-ed in a drug treatment facility for one year. Five months later, she was pregnant and failed another test.

Her probation officer filed a violation report and requested that she be “arrested, since she is consuming methamphetamines and is five months pregnant,” accord-ing to a brief submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union and National Advo-cates for Pregnant Women. Lovill was arrested, jailed and placed in a secure drug treatment facility for felons.

The ruling in this case may set a new precedent concerning the state’s ability to penalize women in order to protect their fetuses. The ACLU argues that state law does not authorize “selective and disproportionate punishment” to protect fetal health and that punishment contingent on pregnancy is sex discrimination, as simi-lar punishments would not be administered to men. Doug Norman, a Nueces Coun-ty assistant district attorney, says that probation officers acted appropriately when they moved to protect the fetus as “the state clearly has an interest in healthy chil-dren” and that ignoring pregnancy “defies logic and the reality of the situation,” ac-cording to the Statesman.

Creating special punishments for pregnant women would amount to legal dis-crimination, but the punishment would not be based solely on gender. Being female is necessary for being pregnant, but pregnancy, not femaleness, is the material fac-tor in this circumstance. Legal ideals must bend to the sometimes unequal contours of reality — a reality in which only women get pregnant, which is a simple biologi-cal fact, not an act of discrimination.

Newborns whose mothers use methamphetamines during pregnancy are born underweight and underdeveloped compared to newborns whose mothers don’t use drugs, according to a study at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School. The ef-fects of exposure to meth in the womb are similar to the effects of exposure to crack cocaine, but the effects of meth are longer-lasting.

This summer, a friend of my family gave birth to a little boy. She used meth-amphetamines throughout her pregnancy. The boy was born with underdevel-oped lungs and had to undergo an emergency tracheotomy at birth. He was also born with no anus and urinated through his belly button. Without abdominal mus-cles — his organs are visible through his skin — he will never be able to sit up or function normally.

But our state does not penalize women for drug use during pregnancy. It is not considered child endangerment or abuse.

After extensive surgeries, the boy was sent home with his mother, under the lax supervision of Child Protective Services. A few weeks later, he had to be rushed to the hospital, near death from pneumonia. His mother had overlooked his illness. A drug test was finally administered, and she tested positive for methamphetamines.

Drug addiction is tragic and complex. When mixed with pregnancy, it can destroy multiple lives.

Yet in the legal brief the ACLU argues that “the selective enforcement used in this case, if permitted, sends a dangerous message that will invite an unprecedented use of the criminal code to supervise and control women who become pregnant and continue pregnancy to term, while on probation.”

That isn’t a dangerous message. We as a society have a right to step in and protect children — in or out of the womb — from sick women who choose to bring them into the world but are incapable of doing so without causing significant harm.

Norman has described Lovill’s treatment as “an administrative decision to modi-fy the terms of probation in order to better protect mother and child from the effects of her admitted drug problem.”

This is a reasonable step the state should be authorized to make. It’s not gender discrimination — it’s reality.

— Jillian Sheridan for the editorial board

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By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Even though the Honduran ambassador to the United Na-tions had to cancel his visit, the Central American country was still in the spotlight Monday dur-ing a series of panels and lectures discussing last summer’s Hon-duran coup.

The Teresa Lozano Long Insti-tute of Latin American Studies hosted the day-long, five-part lecture series, “Military Coup or Constitutional Succession? Foro Urgente on Honduras.” Hondu-ran Ambassador Jorge Arturo Reina was unable to attend as planned because of ongoing ne-gotiations involving the Central American country.

The June coup, in which the Honduran military ousted and exiled President Manuel Zela-ya, was the first in Latin Ameri-ca since the end of the Cold War. Gary Susswein, College of Liber-al Arts spokesman, said the lec-ture series was a way to make students and faculty in the in-stitute aware of the situation in Honduras.

“We have a world-class center to study issues important to Lat-in America,” Susswein said. “It only makes sense for us to bring in speakers to talk about this is-sue. The coup is one of the first in the region in a long time, and we want to educate people about what’s happening and prompt discussion.”

Paloma Diaz, the institute’s se-nior program coordinator, said it is important to raise awareness about this recent controversy. The institute — part of the College of Liberal Arts — serves students in undergraduate and graduate programs related to Latin Amer-ican studies and languages.

“Many people didn’t even know where Honduras was be-fore the coup,” Diaz said. “This has a huge impact not only do-mestically but in the way it has been handled by the gov-ernment and the international community.”

Speakers at the event includ-

ed UT government professors Zachary Elkins and Jeffrey Tulis; activist Miriam Miranda of Hon-duran human rights organiza-tion Organización Fraternal Ne-gra Hondureña; historian, poli-tician and writer Darío Euraque, the former director of the Institu-to Hondureño de Antropología

e Historia; and Michael Shift-er, director of the Andean Pro-gram for Washington-based In-ter-American Dialogue.

During the time scheduled for Reina’s address, several speakers held an open panel discussion with the event’s attendees. The speakers and participants de-

bated the constitutionality of the coup, citing professional and per-sonal experience.

“The next book I’m going to write is about this coup,” Euraque said during the panel. “I was go-ing to write a book about the his-tory of sexuality, but I thought this was more exciting.”

By Hannah JonesDaily Texan Staff

Bentley University marketing professor Raj Sisodia said Mon-day that he is trying to change the culture of businesses worldwide by convincing the next genera-tion of CEOs of the importance of compassionate business practices.

Sisodia gave a talk on ethics and corporate responsibility as part of the McCombs Speakers Series.

Sisodia is founding director of the Center for Marketing Tech-nology at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., and has writ-ten nearly 100 articles in jour-nals such as the Harvard Busi-ness Review and The Wall Street Journal. The presentation Tues-day evening emphasized how building companies based on empathy and compassion can enrich the world and transform the essence of business.

During the presentation, he said the level of public mistrust of business is at an all-time high. Sisodia researched companies that have a positive public im-age, such as Whole Foods Mar-ket, Starbucks and Google, and used the findings to write “Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose,” which Amazon named one of the 10 best business books of 2007.

Companies that practice “con-scious capitalism” embody the idea that profit and prosperity

go hand-in-hand with social jus-tice and environmental steward-ship, according to the Bentley University Web site. They tap into deeper sources of positive energy and create greater value for all stakeholders.

“There is skepticism, cynicism and people think this is not pos-sible,” Sisodia said. “It’s a very ambitious thing we are trying to do, and some people are simply not ready for this message.”

For business students, Sisodia said that the movement can help job-seekers screen companies and align personal passion with business.

Business graduate student Joel Goering said a lot of Sisodia’s ideas need to be heard.

“I wish more of my classmates and faculty were here,” Goering said. “It really reinforces for me why I am here in the business school. It gives me inspiration for going forward.”

Sisodia will speak tomorrow at the Catalyzing Conscious Capitalism summit at The Cross-ings in West Austin. In January, there will be a summit in India, Sisodia’s home country. He said there is a greater need for con-scious capitalism in developing countries because problems are so acute.

“Ultimately, companies need to transform from [the] top down. CEOs need to get this,” Sisodia said. “We are striving for this to become the norm.”

Erik Reyna | Daily Texan Staff

Rajendra S. Sisodia, a marketing professor at Bentley University and author of “Firms of Endearment,” gives a lecture on the reper-cussions of the ethical behavior of world-class firms.

Speaker encourages ‘conscious capitalism’

Forum focuses on Honduran coupMarta Collart, a Honduran educator, argues with speakers at a panel discussion on the state of politics in Honduras as audience members look on. The panel was part of a day-long forum on the subject.

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Austin homeowners might soon have a new way to pay for energy-efficient solar panel installations if City Council approves a plan for a residential loan program on Thursday.

On Friday, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell announced a proposal for a financing option that would allow residents to pay for solar pan-els with low-interest city loans and no up-front investment. The loans would be repaid as a charge on ho-meowners’ property tax bill.

The proposal is the result of a

state law passed earlier this year that allows cities to make loans to homeowners for renewable en-ergy infrastructure. City Council will review the proposal Thurs-day, and, if approved, the plan will go to the city manager’s office for further development.

The city loans would likely have lower interest rates than those of-fered by local banks. Additional-ly, the loans would be tied to the house, not to its owner, so if a hom-eowner decides to move, the finan-cial obligation for the installed so-lar panels would be passed to the house’s next owner.

“It’s a fascinating idea that, rath-er than individuals being respon-sible for the cost, now the value of the solar installation will stay with the home,” Curtis said. “Adding

any feature to a home has the po-tential of adding to that home’s val-ue, and it certainly has a cost bene-fit of reducing monthly energy bills significantly.”

A typical solar panel installation for a 3-kilowatt system costs about $22,000 and can produce the equiv-alent of three months worth of a home’s annual electricity needs, said Austin Energy spokesman Car-los Cordova. The company began a highly successful solar rebate pro-gram in 2004 to help homeowners offset the cost of energy upgrades and has since completed more than 830 residential solar panel installa-tions, Cordova said.

“When we started the [rebate] program, we wanted to help spur the development of the solar indus-try in Austin,” he said.

Their efforts have increased the number of solar energy compa-nies in the city to 22 from just four in 2004, which illustrates the strong market for solar power in Austin, Cordova said.

The proposition is not only of-fered to homeowners. Michael Watson, regional manager of The Quarters apartment complexes in Austin, said he has been in con-tact with Leffingwell’s office and City Council in an effort to get the proposal pushed through. If the so-lar financing plan is put into effect, Watson said, The Quarters prop-erty owners will quickly upgrade their buildings to accommodate so-lar power.

“Solar panels are the one thing we are lacking, so this is definitely something we want to get on board

with,” he said. “We fully expect there to be a positive discussion on this item and for the council to ap-prove it on Thursday.”

The Texas Renewable Energy In-dustries Association supported the legislation that inspired the solar-fi-nancing proposal. Executive Direc-tor Russell Smith said there are still plenty of details that city officials need to work out.

“There is no experience in Texas with this type of program,” Smith said. “Issues that have to be ad-dressed include what kind of in-terest rate would be charged and where the money to fund the loans will come from.”

Also, the city will have to deter-mine what will happen in the case of a loan default or home reposses-sion, he said.

Smith said the plan’s popularity among homeowners will depend on how the city’s interest rates compare with those of local banks and how easy the plan is for home-owners to implement.

Councilman Chris Riley cam-paigned on environmental and en-ergy issues this year. Lewis Leff, Ri-ley’s policy aid, said the plan could help reduce the need for additional power generation sources in Austin. Leff said he expects the proposal to pass with full City Council support Thursday and the city manager’s office to provide an implementation plan around late January.

“It’s an environmentally sensi-tive thing to do, and it’s going to help us move forward as a com-munity toward the goals we’ve set,” Leff said.

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By Austin RiesDaily Texan Staff

Nebraska has played like two different teams this season.

Against squads from the Sun Belt Conference, the Cornhuskers have been dominant, averaging 472 yards and 47 points a game.

But those averages fall off the table against BCS opponents. When facing a team from one of the big six conferences, they aver-age only 297 yards and 17 points, while only scoring touchdowns in two of 12 quarters.

That might be why fans at Me-morial Stadium chanted Cody Green’s name when starter Zac Lee struggled in Saturday’s loss against Texas Tech.

In fact, it looks like head coach Bo Pelini might have agreed with the Big Red Nation.

“Yeah, absolutely,” Pelini said about possibly making Green the Cornhusker starting quarterback. “We’re thinking about a lot of changes.”

Lee, who was 16 for 22 against the Red Raiders for 128 yards, still isn’t worried about battling for his position.

“We’re always competing in practice,” Lee said. “That hasn’t changed since day one.”

While fans were begging for Green to replace the struggling Lee, he was not exactly an im-provement, going seven for 16 for 87 yards with an interception and a delay of game penalty.

Even though he replaced Lee, Green is ignoring the hype.

“You’ve got to stay calm. I’m not the guy. Zac’s the guy,” Green said. “If I get in, I get in.”

Mangino honored by fans’ reaction

Leave it to Kansas head coach Mark Mangino to make lemonade after a sour 34-30 loss in Boulder on Saturday.

While the loss dropped the Jayhawks to 24th in the Associ-ated Press poll and 25th in the BCS standings, Mangino viewed the reaction of the Colorado fans as a sign of respect for the prog-ress his program has made. The game ended after CU broke up a pass from Todd Reesing to Dez-mon Briscoe in the end zone as the 51,000 fans proceeded to rush the field in celebration.

“We’ve come a long way,” Mangino said. “People want to beat us. We get everybody’s best shot now. We don’t sneak up on anybody. We’re circled on ev-erybody’s schedule, and that’s good. We aspire to be that kind of team.”

After erasing a 21-point deficit to take the lead in the fourth quar-ter, the Jayhawks marched right back down the field for a 10-play, 76-yard scoring drive to go ahead, but it wasn’t enough.

“Now, we’ve just got to prove that we can play at a high level week in and week out,” Mangi-no said.

Cowboys moving to a different tune

The addit ion of Oklaho-ma State standout alumni Bar-ry Sanders, Robin Ventura and

By Rishi DaulatDaily Texan Staff

On a weekend where a hot-air balloon created quite the stir in America, a much smaller balloon made headlines in England.

Who would have thought that an insignificant red balloon be-ing thrown around in a crowd could drastically alter a Premiere League soccer match and perhaps a team’s title hopes?

Not Liverpool, that’s for sure. An inflated red beach ball, hit

onto the field by a young Liver-pool fan, was the culprit behind the Red’s 1-0 loss to Sunderland. In an astonishing, almost comi-cal moment, Sunderland’s Dar-ren Bent struck a shot on goal that bounced off the red ball and went past goalkeeper Pepe Reina and straight into the back of the net.

Reina looked to be in perfect position to thwart the initial shot on goal but after the deflection, he was helpless to stop it. The head referee had no choice but to allow the goal since play had not been stopped when the balloon first hit the pitch.

Liverpool played without its two best players, Fernando Tor-res and Steven Gerrard, but there is no excuse for the Big Four’s four early season losses. With no recent vote of confidence from American owners George Gillette and Tom Hicks, Liverpool head coach Rafael Benitez may soon be

on the way out. Sunderland has now picked up

a draw at Old Trafford and a win against the Reds in consecutive matches. The team is currently sixth in the Premiere League with 16 points in nine matches. Bent can only hope that his slew of goals this season has shown Eng-land coach, Fabio Capello, that the prolific striker deserves a spot on the national team. In eight Pre-miere League games, Bent has notched seven goals.

Aston Villa scored an equally major upset when they headed their way to a 2-1 win over Chel-sea. After an ambitious 35-yard goal early in the match by scoring machine, Didier Drogba, Richard Dunne equalized it for Villa in the 32nd minute. The goal came off a corner kick, and, because of Chel-sea’s poor defensive marking, Dunne was wide open for a head-er directly in front of the goal. James Collins struck the winner for Villa in the 52nd minute.

In other Premiere League matches, Manchester United picked up two early goals en route to a 2-1 win over Bolton while Arsenal continued their scoring splurge with a 3-1 win over Birmingham.

Manchester United is now alone atop the table for the first time all season, while Chelsea dropped, to second, one point be-hind the Red Devils.

By Michael SherfieldDaily Texan Staff

Two days after its least productive game of the year, the Texas offense is getting a makeover. Don’t worry, Colt McCoy is still playing, but he will be throwing the ball to a few new(ish) faces.

After their production declined to near-ly nothing over the past four weeks, receiv-ers James Kirkendoll and John Chiles have been moved to the bench on the Texas depth chart. In their place comes freshman sensa-tion Marquise Goodwin, who lead the team with 38 receiving yards against Oklahoma and had the lone touchdown in the second half, and sophomore Malcolm Williams.

“Malcolm and Marquise have earned the right to be on the field,” said Texas head coach Mack Brown. “We felt like Marquise did so well on Saturday. What a play he made on our boundary. We need more verti-cal stretch, [Williams] is a guy who can jump and catch a deep ball.”

Williams has spent most of the season as a special teams ace covering kicks, even re-covering a muffed punt at the Sooners’ 18-yard line. He’s also made an impact in the passing game — last year, he almost single-handedly dragged Texas back into the game against Texas Tech. Williams came in for the injured Quan Cosby and torched the Red Raiders for 180 yards and two touchdowns.

The move is part of a new offensive iden-tity that will see Texas use less of the four and five wide receiver sets that have become so prominent over the past two years. Tight end Greg Smith, who saw more action than usual against Oklahoma, will also be on the field more as Texas attempts to find a bal-ance to its offense.

The reshuffled depth chart lists Jordan Shipley as the starter in the flanker posi-

tion, while Williams moves to “X,” where Shipley played the previous six games, and Goodwin takes over Chiles’ “Sub B” spot.

The Real McCoyAfter a season spent keeping McCoy’s

running abilities close to the vest, the Long-horns finally freed their quarterback to make plays with his feet Saturday. Expect to see more of it.

McCoy carried 14 times against the Sooners, finally putting the game away with a six-yard run on third-and-four. The quarterback led the Longhorns in rush-ing last year but saw his number of carries drop dramatically throughout the first five games this season to shield him from un-

necessary hits.He made up for it Saturday.“I’m going to have to run the ball,” Mc-

Coy said. “I’m the biggest competitor in the world. If I have to run the ball every play, I will.”

The threat of McCoy running opened up the Texas offense in the second half after be-ing dominated in the first. The Longhorns ran for 142 yards (including yardage lost on sacks), 102 of which came in the second half. After blitzing McCoy out of his pass-ing rhythm early, the Sooners were forced to back off as the quarterback burned them on the ground again and again. Tex-as scored 13 points in the second half after only three in the first. McCoy is expected to have a larger role in running the ball for the remainder of the season as Texas tries to find a balanced offensive attack.

“We have to be able to run the ball,” Mc-Coy said. “Had we not been able to run the ball like that, we would have lost.”

Dominating defenseThe Texas defense earned its early season

praise Saturday. The Longhorns kept the Sooners to -16 rushing yards and didn’t al-low a third down conversion in the second half. For good measure, they also picked off quarterback Landry Jones on the last two Oklahoma possessions.

The Sooners shouldn’t have been sur-prised. The Texas defense leads the nation in rushing defense, allowing a meager 35.8 yards per game, more than 20 yards ahead of second-place Arizona State.

The Longhorns also lead in third down defense, allowing just a 20 percent success rate for opposing offenses.

As for turnovers, Texas has 19 on the year after forcing just 16 in 2008.

By Travis MeasleyDaily Texan Staff

In a battle of the best in Texas collegiate men’s golf, No. 4 Texas stormed to a final round 6-under par Monday in an attempt to make up a 10 stroke deficit to No. 18 Tex-as A&M at the UTSA Lone Star In-vitational at Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio. While the Horns’ 282 total on Monday was one of the best of the tournament, it wasn’t enough to overtake the Ag-gies, leaving Texas in second with a

three-round total of 6-under 858.“I’m really happy with today’s

round — a 282,” said head coach John Fields. “Texas A&M won the tournament yesterday with its back nine in the second round. We were able to push them for a little while today, but shooting under-par at Briggs Ranch is a really good thing, and I’m happy about that. We know we have the opportunity to get a lot better, and that’s what we

Receiving corps sees shake up Inconsistent play hurting Nebraska against BCS teams

Dave Weaver | Associated Press

Nebraska quarterback Zac Lee (5) is tackled by Texas Tech’s Bront Bird, in the second half of their NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Neb. on Saturday. Texas Tech beat Nebraska 31-10.

Controversial goal highlights weekend’s playTexas late run falls short as Aggies prevail at UTSA

Photos by Bryant Haertlein | Daily Texan Staff

Above, Malcolm Williams, who was named a starter for Monday’s game at Missouri, returns a catch against Oklahoma on Saturday. Below, Colt McCoy walks around after a play in the Red River Rivalry game Saturday.

The men’s golf team finished second at the UTSA Lone Star Invitational this past weekend.

Nancy Rosenthal Daily Texan file photo

Kirkendoll, Chiles benched to make way for Goodwin, Williams

Scott Heppell | Associated Press

Sunderland’s Darren Bent, left, celebrates his goal with teammate George McCartney during their English Premier League win over Liverpool on Saturday.

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For the first time since February 2007, Kevin Durant will play a bas-ketball game in the Frank Erwin Center.

But in tonight’s game, Durant won’t be suiting up as a Longhorn, although some Texas fans may wish the 6-foot-9-inch swingman still played in burnt orange. Instead,

Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder will take on the San An-tonio Spurs in an NBA exhibition game set for a 7:30 p.m. tip-off.

Durant played at Texas for one season and then was drafted second overall in 2007 by the Seattle Super-sonics. Despite his short tenure in Austin, Durant started all 35 games

his freshman year for coach Rick Barnes and averaged a double-dou-ble. Durant was also the first fresh-man to win the John R. Wooden and Naismith awards. He went on to play his first pro season in Seat-tle and was named the NBA Rookie of the Year. The Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008, where he

averaged 25.3 points per game in his second season.

The University retired Durant’s No. 35 jersey at the Erwin Center last year and just this week Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell proclaimed Oct. 20, “Kevin Durant Day,” for the city of Austin. State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, made a similar

proclamation for the state of Texas, and both men will be on hand for the contest tonight.

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— Will Anderson

Garth Brooks to the OSU Alumni Association Hall of Fame wasn’t the only change Saturday — the Cowboys also debuted a change to their pre-game routine.

In response to pressure from

students, OSU officials changed the song on the soundtrack of a new video played when the Cowboys take the field prior to kickoff. OSU fans and stu-dents overwhelmingly reject-ed the original song, “Cowboys 4Ever,” by singer-songwriter

will aim to do.”Individually, two Longhorns

finished in the top three. Sopho-more Dylan Frittelli finished sec-ond, one shot behind winner John Hurley from Texas A&M, with a three-round total of 9-un-der par (69-69-69) and freshman Cody Gribble finished third with a three-round total of 8-under par (71-72-65).

“Individually, Dylan Frittelli was really strong,” Fields said. “He had three great rounds in a row and played some really good golf.”

Gribble jump-started things for the Longhorns Monday, shoot-ing a 7-under 65, one of the best of the tournament, that included two eagles.

Frittelli struggled on the front nine Monday, bogeying holes two, three and six, but balanced that out with an eagle on five and a birdie on seven for an even-par 36 on the front. He ral-lied on the back side, birding 13, 14 and 15 to finish with his third straight 3-under 69.

The Longhorns led after the morning round Sunday, firing a 4-under 284, lead by junior Don-ald Constable, who shot a 4-un-der 68, and Frittelli, who opened with a 3-under 69. Texas strug-gled in the afternoon, however, shooting 4-over as a team.

Constable finished at two-over par (68-74-76) for the tour-nament. Junior Bobby Hudson finished at nine over (76-77-72) and sophomore Steffan Schmied-ing shot a three-round total of 18-over (80-77-77).

Home, sweet homeKevin Durant will make his first appearance at Texas since he played for the Longhorns during the 2007 season.

Sara Young Daily Texan Staff

GOLF: Late push proves to be too little for Horns

BIG 12: Australian hard rock enters Oklahoma State’s pregame John Martin.

“The original song is well done, and it has its fans, too,” said athletic director Mike Holder. “In the end, it didn’t get the traction we had hoped with the students, so we took action.”

OSU officials replaced Mar-tin’s song with “Runnin’ Wild” by the Australian hard rock band Airbourne.

Sooners lead nation in penalty yards

Texas cornerback Aaron Wil-liams sent Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford to the sideline and out of the game Saturday after sacking him on the first play of the Sooner’s second possession.

On Sunday, Bradford had an MRI and X-ray that revealed no new injury, only an aggravation

of his previous shoulder sprain. While this was a big blow to

the Sooners, who were gaining momentum after Bradford’s re-turn last Saturday against Baylor, their biggest problem is not the quarterback, but is turnovers and especially penalties.

The Sooners have lost 12 turn-overs this season and are current-ly leading the nation with 84.5 penalty yards per game.

By Bernie Wilson The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Eddie Royal be-came the first player in Broncos his-tory to return a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns in the same game, leading undefeated Denver to a wild 34-23 win over the San Diego Chargers on Monday night.

The Broncos didn’t get an of-fensive touchdown until Kyle Or-ton threw a 19-yard pass to tight end Tony Scheffler late in the third quarter for a 24-23 lead. Denver added a field goal by Matt Prater and a late 5-yard touchdown catch by Brandon Stokley that was up-held on review.

This is the fifth time the Bron-cos have been 6-0, the first since go-ing 13-0 in 1998 en route to winning their second straight Super Bowl behind John Elway. They opened a 3½-game lead in the AFC West over three-time defending division champion San Diego (2-3).

Denver outside linebacker Elvis Dumervil had two sacks to extend his NFL lead to 10. His second sack caused Philip Rivers to fumble, with Vonnie Holliday recovering to set up Prater’s 29-yard field goal. The Broncos sacked Rivers five times, three in the fourth quarter.

Royal is the 11th player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown in a game. He had a 93-yard kickoff return and a 71-yard punt return.

After the Chargers were forced to settle for a field goal following a sensational drive late in the first quarter, Royal took the kickoff at the 7, found a big hole at about the 35, cut inside of kicker Nate Kaed-ing at the 50 and raced down the left sideline to give the Broncos a 7-3 lead.

In the second quarter, Royal fielded Mike Scifres’ punt on the bounce at the 29, worked his way inside, then outraced the cover-age to the outside to give Denver a 17-10 lead.

Royal’s electrifying returns at first silenced Qualcomm Stadium, then had Chargers fans booing.

Speedy little Darren Sproles of the Chargers got in on the ac-tion when he returned a punt 77 yards for a touchdown for a 20-17 lead that held up at halftime. Sproles caught Brett Kern’s punt, ran up the left sideline, got a nice block at about the 50, cut inside and was gone.

Just over a minute earlier Kaed-ing kicked a 44-yard field goal.

On Nov. 11, 2007, Sproles re-turned a punt and a kickoff for touchdowns in a 23-21 win against Indianapolis.

The Chargers ran 22 plays to only

six for the Broncos in the first quar-ter, in what seemed more like fast-break basketball than football.

Rivers, in fact, was about to be dragged down by Dumer-vil when he threw a two-handed chest pass to LaDainian Tomlin-son for a 21-yard gain on San Di-ego’s second drive.

It was one of four passes by Riv-ers for at least 13 yards on the drive, which started at the San Diego 6-yard line.

The drive stalled, though, lead-ing to some sideline drama involv-ing Tomlinson.

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Jack Dempsey | Associated Press

Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels reacts to the game win-ning touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys during the fourth quar-ter of a game in Denver on Oct. 4.

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A new $2 scratch-off lottery ticket, Veterans Cash, embla-zoned with the head of an eagle, will provide funding to meet the immediate needs of veter-ans and their families in Texas.

State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, state Rep. Chris Turner, D-Arlington, and veterans’ leaders came together Monday morning to unveil the scratch-off tickets, available for purchase beginning Nov. 9.

A portion of the revenue will go to the Texas Veterans Com-mission’s Fund for Veterans’ Assistance, created by the state Legislature in 2007.

The veterans commission provides claims assistance and helps obtain employment and education for veterans.

“Veterans have a lot of unique needs as a result of service,” Turner said in reference to vet-erans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Our hope is that the funds that are generated be-cause of this new lotto game will help to address some of those needs.”

Turner, who authored the bill creating the tickets, said they are meant to establish long-term funding for assisting veterans.

Tina Carnes, general counsel at the Texas Veterans Commis-sion, said this is the first time they have received help in of-fering immediate aid to veter-ans not currently covered by their program.

Of the revenue brought in by the lottery, 23 percent will go to-ward the permanent fund. The

rest will go toward prizes, re-tailers and administration. Prize amounts will range from $2 to $20,000. Payouts to veterans from the permanent fund will help pay for food, family coun-seling and grief counseling for veterans and their families.

Bobby Heith, spokesman for the Texas Lottery Commission, said over 8 million Veterans Cash tickets will be produced, but only 50 to 60 will be on the market at one time, to prevent market saturation.

The Legislative Budget Board expects the tickets to bring in around $8 million dollars dur-ing the first full year of cir-culation, according to a press release.

Texas is not the first state to use the lottery to provide fund-ing for veterans.

Kent Hartwig, executive offi-cer at the Iowa Department of Veteran Affairs, said the state has been putting revenue from lottery sales in the Veterans’ Trust Fund since 2008. He said

the fund expected $2.5 to $3 mil-lion in revenues the first year, and received $2.78 million.

“The money goes into a big pot of money, and we can only spend the interest accrued,” Hartwig said. “The intent is to get the trust fund principle bal-ance to $50 million. We are try-ing to grow it to a point where the money it generates is enough to sustain veterans.”

Like in Texas, these funds are strictly for veterans and their families.

Karina Jacques | Daily Texan Staff

Liberal arts Dean Randy Diehl explains the proposed changes to for-eign language curriculums and budget cuts at the Union on Monday.

negative,” Buckley said. “I can’t re-call a time when we voted in favor of the 6-6 or 6-3-3 plan as a whole, deliberative body.”

Buckley said the changes will al-most certainly be detrimental to lan-guage students, and she doubted the amount of impact the forum will have on halting any of the changes.

But Esther Raizen, chairwoman of the Department of Middle East-ern Studies, said no link has been established between the amount of hours spent on foreign lan-guage instruction and the quality of education.

Italian lecturer Mark Garrison questioned why non-tenured fac-ulty were the only people receiving pay cuts and possible elimination. He cited the University of Califor-nia System, which is facing a bigger budget crisis than UT but started cutting salaries from the top down.

Deihl said it is not within his au-thority to change the salaries of ten-ured faculty members, but the loss of lecturers is one of the most diffi-cult aspects of the budget cuts. The UT System Board of Regents ap-proves salary rates and job elimina-tions for tenured faculty, he said.

Spanish lecturer Jane Johnson said she will probably be one of the teachers eliminated because of the budget cuts, but she hopes to find another position as a teacher at a new institution.

“We don’t want to be let go,”

Johnson said. “We definitely don’t do this for the money. We do this because we love teaching.”

About a third of the college’s $10 to $13 million deficit will come from financing the new College of Liber-al Arts building, which should be completed by 2013. Diehl said the building was one of his highest pri-orities as dean, because there is a desperate need for space.

The average amount of space per faculty member at the University is approximately 140 square feet, but in some liberal arts departments each faculty member only has about 80 square feet per person.

“I think the rationale for this new building is a little thin,” Garrison said. “I don’t doubt that what the dean said is true, but I’ve been on this campus for 20 years, and there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelm-ing need for more space.”

Diehl said that if the college does not expand soon, it runs the risk of losing that space on campus to an-other college.

He also responded to criticism of his communication on the bud-get cuts that charged the college’s leadership with a lack of transpar-ency. It was the responsibility of the department heads to pass informa-tion down, Diehl said, but several lecturers said the only communica-tion they got was through e-mail.

“I have made an effort to be one of the most transparent deans at the University by holding meetings and forums like this,” he said.

FORUM: Language programs to bear brunt of budget cuts

Susan Rieff, executive director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wild-flower Center, said she encourag-es the growing of native plants, which do not use as many re-sources as plants that are not accli-mated to Texas’ extreme weather.

“We are all kind of promoting the same thing,” Rieff said. “We

promote landscape practices that don’t require much water or pesti-cides. By choosing the right plants and putting them in the right plac-es, we can provide a lot of benefit to the environment.”

She said the variety of partners appeals to a wider audience. Tex-as Parks and Wildlife has a mag-azine and a lot of other ways to communicate with their audience,

while the wildflower center has a special connection to gardening enthusiasts, she said.

Bulla said he hopes the garden will inspire others to plant native gardens of their own because na-tive plants ultimately require less watering and attention. The city’s new garden, which survived more than 60 days of triple-digit tem-peratures, is proof of the durabili-

ty of these native plants, he said.Mayor Lee Leffingwell said the

city has taken steps toward be-coming a wildlife habitat, but peo-ple need to be aware of the kinds of plants Austin’s environment fosters.

“If we want a green plan to thrive, we need to use the kind of plants that will survive in our harsh climate,” Leffingwell said.

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State Sen. Leticia Van De Putte, front middle, speaks at the unveiling of the new Veterans Cash Texas Lottery scratch-off ticket. The new lotto ticket is a product of a bill authored by Van De Putte and Rep. Chris Turner during the 81st Legislative Session and will benefit the Permanent Fund for Veterans’ Assistance.

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Russian Circles

GenevaIn the realm of instrumental post-

rock, Chicago three-piece Russian Circles has always leaned more to the metallic side of the genre.

While bands like Explosions in the Sky make their living on the delicate, treble-heavy pairing of soft and loud, Russian Circles embrac-es the double bass and the distorted guitar, sort of like Isis without the vocals. The group’s newest release, Geneva, is no different, and finds the band refining its trademark sound and discovering the band’s power-house. Once that’s found, they ex-ploit it to the fullest extent.

The opener, “Fathom,” runs from ambient, Celtic-inspired noise to a pummeling double bass attack, punctuated by some of the finest metal riffs this side of Mastodon, before returning once more to the noise. The title track follows and picks up in the same place, chug-ging along with biting force and a sense of controlled chaos. With Rus-sian Circles, it always seems like something’s about to go wrong — to explode into a frenzy — and the fun comes in figuring out when that will be.

The album is a stellar piece of work, from the production, to the chord progressions to the instru-mentation. The band loves the mi-nor chord, giving everything a sense of apocalyptic tendencies. This isn’t to say they don’t know how to explore the lighter side of the genre, as evidenced by the shuffling drum rhythm and light-ly plucked electric guitar present on “Melee” and “Hexed All,” two tracks that function like counter-parts to one another.

All in all, Geneva is an outstand-ing piece of work from one of post-rock’s most consistent and reliable bands.

— Robert Rich

A Sunny Day in Glasgow

Ashes GrammarAshes Grammar, the latest album

from the Philidelphia trio, A Sun-ny Day in Glasgow, is needless-ly dense for an album composed of feathery dream-pop.

There are flashes of brilliance, but they’re buried in an unwieldy, 22-track album. However, for fans of blissed-out pop reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, investing some time into parsing Ashes Gram-mar could be well worth it.

This album is best listened to in spurts. There are a number of short, ambient interludes between the more fully formed songs that are intended to make everything more

complete, but most of the time they just seem to bog everything down. “Close Words” sets up the driv-ing pulse of “Close Chorus,” but if they’d been combined into one track no one would have noticed. The same is true of the last two tracks, “Life’s Great” and “Head-phone Space.”

The production on Ashes Gram-mar sounds like it was recorded un-der a Vaseline-smeared lens. Ev-erything sounds warm, fuzzy and like it’s glowing; this is amaz-ing for much of the album, but af-ter 60 minutes it all sort of starts to smudge together.

A very large part of A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s sound is airy vocals. They never say anything profound or even dazzle with singing talent, but angelic, intertwining coos make for a great centerpiece on songs like “Shy” and “Passionate Introverts.”

A Sunny Day in Glasgow has a gorgeous, hypnotic sound, and they can write some great songs, but Ashes Grammar is needless-ly difficult. Sifting through all of the smoke and mirrors can be next to impossible, although for fans of hazy pop music this could be worth a look.

— David Sieloff

By Katherine KlocDaily Texan Staff

Benji Frankel can beat anyone in a trivia contest.

Every Tuesday night, Maria’s Taco Xpress hosts Trivia Knight, a family-friendly trivia game that Frankel emcees.

The contest consists of five rounds of 10 questions and a sixth round centered around one logic puzzle. Over the course of two hours, players are quizzed on everything from the aver-age lifespan of a dollar bill (18 months) to the meaning of “pano-phobia” (fear of everything) to the original voice of Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney).

As Trivia Knight never repeats questions, he is constantly search-ing for new bits of trivia to use in his contests.

“[The questions] come from a variety of sources,” Frankel said. “Some of them I just make up, some my mom sends to me [and] some people just give to me. Re-cently Leslie [Cochran] came up to me and had a question for me. I research different things. I’m a very curious person.”

Trivia Knight began three years ago. Frankel, a musician by trade, took the gig on a whim with no previous experience in trivia.

“I originally got into trivia completely randomly,” he said. “I heard Maria was looking for a trivia host. I thought it would be a good opportunity to be on stage not playing music, but in-stead just talking.”

Trivia Knight quickly became

a success and has since accrued a handful of regular players. Fran-kel knows many players by name and engages in conversation with individual participants through-out the game. Until recently, he waged a war against high fives and tried to prevent players from preforming the action.

“I backed off on [my war against high fives] because I felt like the tide had turned,” Frankel said. “I realized that I couldn’t wield my powers in that way. But I still feel like people should just say ‘high five’ instead of actual-ly doing it.”

Next month, Trivia Knight will celebrate its 10,000th question. Out of all of the trivia questions he has asked since the beginning of Trivia Knight, Frankel claims not to have a favorite.

“I wouldn’t want to hurt any of their feelings,” he said. “I consid-er each of them my babies.”

A self-described “all-around entertainer,” Frankel films co-medic videos and plays music at local venues when he is not hosting trivia.

“I do all kinds of things that have to do with the ways I enter-tain myself,” he said. “I clever-ly navigate the waters of being a poor entertainer.”

Frankel has recently been con-templating what to do with all of the trivial knowledge he has accumulated over the past few years.

“My mom thinks I should be the next Oprah, but I told her that it’s a really hard act to break into,” Frankel said. “I’m current-ly working on a book called ‘Sad, Sad Man,’ which is all about my life and the crazy things I have to do to get by.”

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Be careful though — wearing a

frumpy, awkwardly fitting grand-pa cardigan can easily make you resemble Mister Rogers instead of your favorite indie rock guitarist.

Plaid Button-ups (Guys)Yes, you can wear plaid

without looking like a lumberjack.

This season, plaid button-ups are perfect for those guys out there who are trying to toss out the free T-shirts and dress up a little.

Fashionable but low-key, they’ll allow you to look nice without losing your street cred.

jackets with interesting diago-nal zippers can spruce up any look. Add in a pair of black leath-er boots for a sexy, chic, hard- edged look.

For those wanting a softer look, plain, fitted tees always provide a great blank slate to further acces-sorize. One or two large or intri-cate gold necklaces, a la Anthro-pologie, can give a quick glint of style on top of that relaxed ap-

pearance. “It doesn’t have to be real gold, though,” added Ash-ley Westerman, secretary of UFG and marketing and textiles senior. “There’s fake gold pieces that you’d only really want to wear for one or two seasons.”

Overall though, fashion is personal.

“It’s mainly about things that you look comfortable [in] and feel comfortable wearing,” King said. “Fashion is completely a matter of opinion, not fact.”

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UNIFORM: Suggestions for fall accessories provide personal glint of style

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FASHION: Tips for men provide alternative to boring T-shirt

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By Rene HuynhDaily Texan Staff

Now that the fickle Texas weather has suddenly dropped 20 to 30 degrees in late recognition of the fall season, it’s time to re-stock your closet with new fabulous finds.

The following tips on garments and accessories will keep you feeling warm and looking chic.

Vintage Hats“Remember when women used

to always wear hats in public?” asked a recent shopper at Manju’s.

The days when hats were as ubiq-uitous as handbags date back to the 1920s to 1960s, long before most of us were born.

And there lies the problem. The in-sightful implication of the customer’s comment was that women nowadays should wear hats. No, not baseball caps and beanies, but the trendy, sophisticat-ed ones that lent so much style and class to big screen sweethearts like Barbara Stanwyck and Audrey Hepburn.

Casual college culture is unnecessar-ily weary of bells and whistles, espe-cially when it comes to decorative hats. They’re seen as almost theatrical — over-done and oftentimes attracting too much attention. But this season welcomes long-forgotten elegance in the form of vintage

hats: fedoras, floppies, feather and floral-rimmed.

True, not everyone can rock this niche trend (or has a “hat face” for that matter), but don’t be afraid to experiment.

Trench CoatsAh, yes, you can finally look

like a cast member from “Casablanca.” Or perhaps like a European fashionista.

Trench coats were fun and flirty last spring, and now they’re back to shield you from the recent pseudo-cold Aus-tin climate.

You can opt for bright, bold colors reflecting the season’s playful mood or stick to the classic, more versatile earth tones.

This look is flattering on many body types, but make sure the coat fits snugly and cinches appropriately at the waist. Otherwise, you may end up looking like Sherlock Holmes.

Brightly-colored/Patterned/Studded Skinny Jeans

Usually tops and accessories do the talking, but it’s time to let your previ-ously understated jeans speak a little louder.

1980s-inspired neon leggings have evolved into avant-garde skinny jeans. Wear your skinnies in spunky colors and patterns like magenta and leopard print or adorn your blue denim with rhinestones and studs.

Either way, this daring look is perfect for concerts and house parties.

Ankle BootsAnkle boots have been popular

in fashion capitals like Milan and Par-is for years, so Austinites need to play catch up.

While knee-high boots will always be in style, ankle boots are the edgy hybrid between their knee-high counterparts and stilettos.

Wear them with tight-fitting skinny jeans or leggings and a high-waisted skirt for a glitzy night on the town.

By Gerald RichDaily Texan Staff

Jackets are quickly being pulled out while summer clothes are tucked away for a warmer time. Fall has finally ar-rived at UT.

A controversial cold weather en-semble – Nike athletic shorts, leggings, and Ugg boots — is sure to follow. For years, it has thrived on campus to the point that it’s become a uniform.

What began as athletic shorts have now turned into all-purpose shorts. By pairing them with leggings and Ugg boots, the shorts can be worn all year

round. The ensemble is so simple and effortless that it frees up much needed time on those hectic mornings before an early class. Thus, the ensemble be-came a college staple.

However, many are beginning to la-ment its pervasive, lackluster nature. They criticize the uniform for mak-ing everyone too indistinguishable, question what the purpose of athletic shorts are when one isn’t doing athlet-ics, and mock the big floppy boots and muted brown colors as if they were elephant feet.

We recognize that fashion is entirely personal, but here are some new fall al-ternatives to the uniform for those in-terested in a different look.

A great contrast to the shorts, spe-cifically when Texas weather confus-

es summer with fall, are jean shorts. “I just went and bought a whole bunch of jean shorts that were on sale at Urban Outfitters,” said Alex King, vice presi-dent of University Fashion Group and senior fashion design major. “They’re like the oversized, torn up ones; they’re super comfortable and they look cool.” King paired her torn up jean shorts with a large graphic tee and a long sleeve plaid button down.

As for those colder fall days, cuffed boyfriend jeans and pleated pants are in. They are easier to wear than skinny jeans and look great on everyone.

Another emerging trend further ac-centuates the rugged torn up jeans but with a new twist. Tight-fitting leather

By Lisa HolungDaily Texan Staff

As much as I adore the cooler weather, there is still something very comforting about coming home, turning on the oven and letting the gentle heat per-meate the kitchen.

This recipe for blueberry oat bars yields the per-fect combination of fruity scents and buttery aromas that will make your oven your new favorite kitch-en appliance.

As the name suggests, these bars contain oats, a curious ingredient. They can be eaten toasted and crunchy such as in a granola bar, or creamy, like in oatmeal. Oats add a crispy and thicker texture to these bars, which is a great contrast to the soft blueberry filling.

After the bars have cooled, you can serve them as is or with dollops of yogurt or ice cream.

The stickiness of the blueberries and the crumbs from the golden crust on your fingertips create an experience akin to picking berries and putting a guilty hand into grandma’s cookie jar at the same time.

Needless to say, these bars are easy to enjoy, but be sure to have a napkin handy.

Maddie Crum | Daily Texan Staff

Oats and blueberries will fill the kitchen with fruity and buttery aromas.

Blueberry oat bars bear fruitful snackAs much as I adore the cooler weather, there is

still something very comforting about coming home,

Blueberry oat bars bear fruitful snack 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour1 ½ cups quick oats1 ½ cups sugar, divided½ tsp baking soda¾ cup cold butter2 cups fresh or frozen blue-berries

2 tbsp cornstarch2 tbsp lemon juice

Separate sugar into 1 cup and ½ cup.Mix flour, oats, 1 cup sugar and baking soda in a bowl.Dice butter into pieces, then add to bowl. Combine butter and

dry ingredients with hands until the mixture looks like crumbs.Save 10 percent of mixture for topping, press 90 percent into bottom of pre-greased 9x13” baking pan with hands.Meanwhile, in saucepan, heat blueberries, cornstarch, lem-on juice, and ½ cup sugar. Bring to boil for about 2 minutes, stir continuously. Then pour over crust in pan.Sprinkle remaining 10 per-cent of mixture on top.Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until the top is gold-en brown.

Cool to room temperature and chill in refrigerator before cutting.

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Cooler weather inspires flattering fall fashions

Typical fall ensemble deemed faux pas, alternate clothing options offer updated look

Photo Illustrations by Karina Jacques | Daily Texan Staff

Above, Nicole Varnado, a Dean’s Scholar biochemistry senior, looks chic in a taupe trench coat from Forever 21. Left, Kasey Spickard, a business honors marketing senior, rocks a plaid button-up from H&M. Below, Varnado sports black ankle boots from Ross.

Fickle temperatures prompt wardrobe overhaul in favor of versatile, vintage apparel

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