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A recent, nationwide trend that shows a decrease in applicants to business schools across the U.S. can also be seen at UT.

The percentage of freshmen applying to business schools na-tionwide fell from about 17 per-cent in 2008 to more than 14 per-cent in 2009, according to a sur-vey released Sunday by the Higher Education Research Insti-tute. According to the survey, the economic recession of the past few years played a hand in the numbers, since the study found a correlation between the cur-rent applicant pool and appli-cants to business schools in 1974. This was the last time the num-bers were so low and a year that also experienced an economic recession.

McCombs saw a 6-percent de-cline in the number of freshmen applicants from 2008 to 2009. More than 6,700 students applied to McCombs during the summer and fall of 2008, while about 6,400 students applied during the sum-mer and fall of 2009, said Augus-

tine Garza, deputy director of admissions.

Despite the drop in business applicants, the number of stu-dents enrolled in McCombs has remained relatively constant, about 800 students, since 2006.

Eleven percent of those admit-ted to the University during the summer and fall of 2009 declared business as their major, accord-ing to statistics from the Office of Information Management and

Analysis. This number had hov-ered at 12 percent during previ-ous semesters.

Information management pro-fessor Prabhudev Konana said he hasn’t noticed much change in the number of students enrolled in his classes.

“There hasn’t been a decrease in the number of students, just more sections with smaller classes,” Konana said. “There is a continued demand for

[classes].”Business freshman Jackie Kre-

da said that the economy did not have an influence on her choice of major. Interested in commer-cial real estate, she said she ap-plied to McCombs because of the finance department’s real estate concentration option.

“People talk about how the economy is bad, but nobody real-ly says that it’s affecting their ma-jor,” Kreda said.

By Priscilla PelliDaily Texan Staff

With the help of a grant recent-ly awarded by the U.S. Depart-ment of Education, students en-rolled in the University’s intro-ductory German and French for-eign language classes will pay less than $20 for their textbooks.

The Texas Language Technolo-gy Center of the College of Liber-al Arts received a $263,000 grant in October to create online in-structional materials, which will provide alternatives for students who are required to have text-books for French and German

classes each semester. The instructional materials are

published online and allow open access to students for a fraction of the price of commercially pub-lished textbooks.

Carl Blyth, director of the Tex-as Language Technology Center, said the materials are more dy-namic than regular textbooks be-cause professors can add infor-mation to keep the instructional materials up to date.

The online textbooks can en-courage more students to enter higher education by reducing the amount students have to spend

each year on textbooks, Blyth said. The popularity of online text-

books has affected the conven-tional textbook industry. Since the 2010 fall semester, there has been a 10-percent drop in textbook pur-chases due to the availability of textbooks online, said University Co-op President George Mitchell.

“A lot of data shows that stu-dents spend about $900 to $1000 a year on books alone,” Blyth said. “It keeps people out of the market when entering higher ed-ucation.”

Karen Kelton, senior lecturer in the Department of French and

Italian at the University, said she uses the online instructional ma-terial to show her class videos of students’ experiences in France to help them learn French visually.

“Basically, for motivation, it can’t be beat because we’re using our students [and native speak-ers] as models of teaching a lan-guage,” Kelton said.

Other higher-education insti-tutions across the state, includ-ing Rice University, Texas Chris-tian University and the Lone Star College System, will collaborate to keep the instructional materi-als current.

Powers seeks faculty input on budget

Up in smoke

Business school applicants decrease nationwide

Kari Rosenfeld | Daily Texan Staff

A firefighter emerges from the smoke during the planned burn of a grassland near the intersection of MoPac Boulevard and Interstate Highway 45 on Monday. The burn is part of a plan to restore the land and improve the quality of the water that flows from the grassland to Barton Springs.

By Shabab SiddiquiDaily Texan Staff

President William Powers Jr. told faculty members that the University is working with the UT System to address the letter from Gov. Rick Perry’s office that asks state agencies to prepare a plan to cut 5 percent of their state-provid-ed budgets.

The Jan. 15 letter, signed by Per-ry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Speaker of the Texas House Joe Straus, requires the UT System and other state agencies to sub-mit a prioritized plan of poten-tial cuts by Feb. 15. The state bud-get for the 2010-2011 biennium, which was set by the Legislature in the summer of 2009, is expect-ed to face a deficit by the 2011 leg-islative session due to insufficient sales-tax revenues.

All faculty members were in-vited to attend Monday’s gener-al faculty meeting with Powers, which was followed by the semes-ter’s first Faculty Council meeting. The council is the faculty’s elect-

ed, representative body.Powers said that the letter does

not ask the University to cut 5 percent of its total budget, but in-stead, 5 percent of state general revenue. In 2009-2010, state gener-al revenue made up about 30 per-cent of the University’s academ-ic core budget. The academic core budget primarily covers faculty and staff salaries but also includes scholarships, utilities, mainte-nance and operation.

The University received $333 million in recurring state gener-al revenue this school year and expects to receive a 1-percent in-crease for each of the next two years. Powers said a 5-percent cut in general revenue from the 2010-2011 biennium would amount to a $29 million cut from the Universi-ty’s budget.

Spokespeople at the UT System said the Regents, the chancellor and presidents from UT System schools were working to figure out the letter’s intention during a meeting Monday, but refused to comment on precise meeting de-tails after it had concluded.

Powers addressed pre-submit-

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Students con-verse in front of the stock ticker inside the McCombs Business School on Monday afternoon. McCombs has experienced a declining rate of freshman applicants which echoes the nation-wide decrease of business majors.

Mourin NIzam Daily Texan Staff

McCombs sees reduction in applications but stays constant in enrollment

Online texts lower costs for French, German students

By Shabab SiddiquiDaily Texan Staff

The Faculty Council passed a resolution — to a rare round of applause — during its first meet-ing of the semester, thanking the Board of Regents for unanimous-ly agreeing to keep the Bracken-ridge Field Laboratory at its cur-rent location.

“The field lab is an incredible opportunity,” said Janet Staiger, radio-television-film professor and the Council’s chairwom-an. “By working on the field lab, the students in bio-scienc-es have this incredible academ-ic resource.”

The Dec. 22 decision to keep the lab was made by a special advi-sory committee composed of Re-gents Janiece Longoria, Printice Gary and Eugene Powell.

“After several discussions, it became clear that UT-Austin’s Brackenridge Field Lab is an inte-gral part of the College of Natu-ral Sciences and its mission to pro-vide an outstanding academic ex-perience for students, faculty and researchers,” Longoria said in a

statement.The approximately 500-acre

Brackenridge Tract was donated by Col. George W. Brackenridge to UT in 1910. Along with the lab, the tract boasts the Lions Munici-pal Golf Course and graduate-stu-dent housing.

The lab was created in 1967 and remains as a center for biodi-versity research at the University. It houses hundreds of species of plants, insects and birds and more than a dozen types of animals. It is used frequently by UT students and faculty for research purposes, and it serves as a center for work-shops and field trips.

In 2006, the Regents’ Bracken-ridge Tract Task Force hired Coo-per, Robertson & Partners, a New York-based architecture and ur-ban design firm, to create a plan for the 350 acres of undeveloped land. The firm submitted two pro-posals in June that would turn the land into commercial and residen-tial areas, bringing revenue to the University. One plan would re-duce the size of the Brackenridge Field Lab, while the other would relocate it.

Both plans would eliminate graduate housing and the golf

Mary Kang| Daily Texan Staff

Jon Olson, an associate engineering professor, listens during a Faculty Council meeting Monday afternoon.

Faculty Council applauds decision to keep �eld lab

President addresses key issues of gender equity, Mack Brown’s pay raise

Board of Regents agrees to keep Brackenridge lab out of redevelopment

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Who: The Tuition Policy Advisory Committee

What: open forum

Where: The Avaya Auditorium, Room 2.302, of the Applied Computa-tional Engineering and Sciences Building

When: Today at 1 p.m.

Why: The committee proposed in December a 3.95-percent tuition in-crease per year over the next two years. The Regents, responsible for setting tuition, will vote on the proposal in March. TPAC is gathering student, faculty, staff and community feedback about the proposed tuition increase, and President William Powers Jr. will attend the forum to hear attendees’ opinions.

Source: Viviana Aldous

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Motor failure triggers fire alarms in Geography Building staircase

At about 2 p.m. Monday, firefighters re-

sponded to fire alarms triggered by an electrical motor failure in the Geography Building’s east staircase.

There was no fire reported in the build-ing, but its staircase was full of smoke, said building manager Dee Dee Barton. The electrical failure originated in a vacant space within the building’s walls through which piping, vents and wiring run. Nine

fire trucks responded to the building’s alarm, and firefighters evacuated the building for at least 30 minutes. By 3 p.m., people were allowed back into the build-ing as classes resumed.

“I was alerted by the elevator peo-ple that smoke was coming out of the air vents,” Barton said.

The building is at least 50 years old, and

Barton said she was not sure if the build-ing’s electrical wiring had ever been re-placed. The building’s elevators are un-dergoing renovations near to the location where the failure started.

“You should have been there,” Barton said. “It was comical. Heaven only knows why they sent nine trucks.”

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Emergency workers wait on 24th Street after responding to fire alarms triggered by an electrical motor failure in the Geography Building’s east staircase on Monday.

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ted questions about gender eq-uity at the Faculty Council meet-ing from the Council’s Executive Committee.

The council wanted to know if the fall 2009 semester’s facul-ty salary increases had addressed the concerns of gender equity. The 2008 Gender Equity Report found female professors made $13,000 less than their male coun-terparts.

“There was a certain amount of money put into that fund, and

only about a third of the faculty received merit increases,” said Ja-net Staiger, radio-television-film professor and chair of the Facul-ty Council. “We wanted to know if this merit increase reduced the differences between male and fe-male salaries.”

College deans selected the faculty members who received raises.

Provost Steven Leslie said it was not yet possible to determine if the merit increases helped close the gap because raises were giv-en not only to improve equity

but also to level salaries and to retain top faculty. Leslie said all three criteria applied to women during consideration for salary increases.

Of the faculty members who received raises, 51 percent were women and 36 percent were men, Leslie said. After a faculty mem-ber questioned the unaccounted 13 percent, Leslie said more spe-cific data will be provided when the “University receives payroll information.”

In addition to discussing the University budget, the Council

asked Powers questions about the revenues and finances of the ath-letic department after Texas head coach Mack Brown received a $2 million salary increase. On Dec. 14, the Council voted to pass a resolution condemning Brown’s salary increase by a margin of 23-15. The resolution was unofficial because a quorum was not pres-ent at the meeting.

“We all know that athletics is a profit-making program,” Staiger said. “We just wanted to know more about the income and the disbursement of the in-

come by the athletic program so we could all have the right statistics.”

Powers said the athletics pro-gram provides the University revenues through its licensing, as well as through contingent additional funding from profit at the end of the year. The cur-rent licensing agreement gives the University 10 percent of rev-enues from all Longhorn mer-chandise sold, while the rest goes to the athletic program.

Powers left the meeting be-fore its conclusion to meet with the chancellor and the Regents’ chairman regarding Perry’s letter.

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opposed any changes to the lab, and because the lab will stay at its current location, the propos-als must be modified. While the field lab will remain, oth-er commercial developments of the land will continue to be ex-plored.

“It will be very difficult to add academic value to the tract,” Staiger said. “We just know it’s the field lab that they [are] not going to disturb for the time being.”

David Hillis, integrative bi-ology professor and Facul-ty Council member, said any change to the facility would hurt the students.

“It’s used extensively in un-dergraduate courses,” Hill-is said. “We have over 400 stu-dents who use it. The alter-nate site would have limited its uses.”

Hillis said there should be a renewed effort to increase re-sources at the lab and to devel-op the land for academic pur-poses. He said the Texas Me-morial Museum could relocate its resources to the tract, which he said would give it better ac-cess to the public and provide more classroom space on cam-pus.

“There’s still a question of other programs that need ad-ditional space, need additional resources, and there are ques-tions in regard to how we can do that,” Hillis said.

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Anti-Chavez TV spurs protests

Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’ hanged a�er gassing thousands

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Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid listens to prosecution evidence during the Operation Anfal trial in Baghdad on Jan. 8. 2007. Iraq’s government spokesman reported that Ali Hassan al-Majid was executed on Monday.

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University students shout slogans against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez during a protest in Caracas on Monday. Police fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse students protesting Chavez’s decision to force Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, critical of his government, off a cable television system.

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Po-lice fired tear gas and plastic bul-lets at thousands of university students on Monday, breaking up a protest after President Hugo Chavez’s government forced an opposition cable TV channel off the air.

Demonstrations broke out af-ter cable companies, under or-ders from the telecommunica-tions agency, dropped the an-ti-Chavez channel Radio Cara-

cas Television Internacional ear-ly Sunday. RCTV had defied new rules requiring cable channels to carry mandatory programming, including some of Chavez’s speeches.

Authorities fired tear gas as protesting students tried to ap-proach the headquarters of the state telecommunications agency, where several hundred Chavez backers had gathered to support the government’s action. Some were seen throwing rocks and bottles at anti-Chavez protesters.

At least five students suffered asphyxiation or minor injuries, said Enrique Montbrun, director of health services in the capital’s Baruta district. A journalist also suffered minor injuries.

“Freedom of expression is a right that we all embrace, and it must be defended,” said Ale-jandro Perdomo, 19, who ac-cused Chavez of attempting to silence his critics.

Students in the crowd chant-ed: “It will return, Radio Caracas will return!”

The government says RCTV violated recently approved regu-lations that require two dozen lo-cal cable and satellite channels to televise Chavez’s speeches when-ever he deems it necessary.

The channel, which has been fiercely critical of Chavez for years, did not transmit the pres-ident’s speech Saturday to a rally of supporters.

Five other channels were also dropped from cable, but none of them were as widely viewed as RCTV.

By Brian MurphyThe Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Even in Sadd-am Hussein’s ruthless regime, “Chemical Ali” stood apart, no-table for his role in gassing 5,000 people in a Kurdish village — the deadliest chemical weapons attack ever against civilians.

Ali Hassan al-Majid was hanged Monday, leaving a noto-rious legacy that stamped Sadd-am’s regime as capable of un-imaginable cruelty and brought unsettling questions about Iraq’s stockpiles of poison gas and whether it could unleash them again.

The poison gas clouds that struck the village of Halabja be-gan what would become an about-face by Washington — which had supported Saddam

during the eight-year war against Iran’s new Islamic state in the 1980s, but soon became his arch-foe and protector of the Kurds in their northern enclave.

“I want to kiss the hangman’s rope,” said Kamil Mahmoud, a 40-year-old teacher who lost eight family members in the March 16, 1988, attack in Iraq’s Kurdish region.

Photos taken after the Halab-ja attack showed bodies of men, women, children and animals ly-ing in heaps on the streets.

Al-Majid, 68, was executed about a week after he received his fourth death sentence since facing Iraqi courts after the fall of Saddam. He was one of the last high-profile members of the for-mer Sunni-led regime still on tri-al in Iraq.

US inmate loses lawsuit over ban of Dungeons & Dragons

MADISON, Wisconsin — A man serving life in prison for first-de-gree intentional homicide lost his legal battle Monday to play Dun-geons & Dragons behind bars.

Kevin T. Singer filed a federal lawsuit against officials at Wiscon-sin’s Waupun prison, arguing that a policy banning all Dungeons & Dragons material violated his free

speech and due process rights.Prison officials instigated the

Dungeons & Dragons ban among concerns that playing the game promoted gang-related activity and was a threat to security. Singer chal-lenged the ban but the 7th U.S. Cir-cuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld it as a reasonable policy.

Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures, often working together as a group, with the help of complicated rules.

Singer, 33, has been a devoted player of the fantasy role-playing

game since he was a child. After the ban went into effect, prison officials confiscated dozens of Dungeons & Dragons books.

Prison officials enacted the ban in 2004 after an inmate sent an anonymous letter expressing con-cern about Singer and three other inmates forming a “gang” focused around playing the game.

Department of Corrections spokesman John Dipko said the de-partment will continue to enforce rules that are designed to maintain a safe environment.

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Concealed carry confusionThe Daily Texan editorial staff used Thursday’s

gun firing as a chance to promote a ban on guns from being carried into the Capitol. The front page article said the following: “Under Texas law, any person with a concealed weapons license is permit-ted to carry a handgun in public buildings, includ-ing the state Capitol.”

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— Grant RauscherBusiness honors and government senior

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violence its bread and butter, with

trailers frequently highlighting an upcoming � ght

in the next week’s episode.

Lessons from the ‘Jersey Shore’

Four days before a nation-al day of rest marked Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day, an estimated 3.6 million viewers tuned in to MTV and got a glimpse of a post-ra-cial America, where there is no white, no black, no brown — only spray-tan.

Unless you spent the holiday break in a cave without basic ca-ble, you’ve heard of the overnight sensation “Jersey Shore.” The show follows the lives of eight young Ital-ian-Americans spending the sum-mer at a beach house on the south shore of New Jersey. The show’s cast members are self-described proponents of the “guido” lifestyle, an aspect that has drawn numer-ous criticisms from Italian-Ameri-can groups and backlash from the local community. Several sponsors have already pulled their ads from MTV over the show’s questionable content, but ratings have continued to boom.

Perhaps the most enticing bit of controversy in the show’s short his-tory occurred in the fourth episode, when cast member Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was punched in the face by a man after a verbal confrontation at a bar. MTV originally planned to make the punch the highlight of the episode, featuring it prominently in trailers prior to it airing. But after widespread backlash over MTV’s

perceived glorification of male-on-female violence, the show’s produc-ers chose to pull the questionable footage, citing that the assault rep-resented a crime they considered “extremely disturbing.” The show went as far as to air a public service announcement after the episode de-crying violence against women.

Such actions would show a de-gree of social re-sponsibility from the show’s pro-ducers — if they were not so ex-tremely hypocrit-ical. Instead, the show has made drunken violence its bread and but-ter, with trailers frequently high-lighting an up-coming fight in the next week’s episode. Wheth-er at their “Shore house” or a lo-cal bar, cast mem-bers continually confront apparent strangers with the typical result be-ing a cast member throwing punches.

However, those incidents have all consisted of male-on-male violence, female-on-female and, in one case, female-on-male. Yet MTV chose to air and even promote those scenes; apparently the network’s feelings of disgust and legality do not ap-ply to same-sex violence or even a

woman hitting a man. Some social commentators have even suggested that it was sexist to censor the clip, as it implies that women should be treated by a different standard, even when it comes to assault and battery.

Additionally, some have criticized MTV for linking the episode to do-mestic violence in their public ser-

vice announce-ment when the i n c i d e n t w a s clearly between strangers and not by defini-tion “domestic.” Regardless of MTV‘s motiva-tions behind re-moving the clip — in relation to the show’s typ-ical content — it shows that a double standard certainly exists.

Beneath the gender issues lie a more sub-tle contradiction. While purport-ing to engage in a guido lifestyle,

the cast members of “Jersey Shore” exhibit a carefree and spend-hap-py routine that consists of lounging around their beach house and fre-quenting bars and dance clubs.

To facilitate that lifestyle, cast members are given jobs at a board-walk T-shirt store, hardly believ-able as a significant source of in-

come on par with their lavish spending habits.

Americans have found them-selves living on tighter budgets and spending less. An estimated 45 percent of Americans have some amount of credit card debt — not surprising after years of economic surplus and excessive spending.

Seemingly every television com-mercial, be it for auto insurance or fast food, reminds Americans that cheap is in. At the same time, viewers are introduced to a show featuring young twentysome-things spending their days loung-ing on the beach, hanging out in the Jacuzzi and terrorizing night-clubs for bottles of Patrón and Grey Goose.

Viewers catch glimpses of the cast’s seemingly endless hedonism before the show breaks to commer-cials that warn them to maintain their credit reports or risk ruin.

If we are entering into a new American age of fiscal responsibili-ty, then the cast members of “Jersey Shore” are certainly the villains.

It’s still unclear whether there will be a second season of “Jersey Shore.” Its cast members have be-come overnight celebrities, mak-ing promotional appearances while still seemingly unaware the whole country is laughing at them.

Meanwhile, Americans continue to cut back on personal spending, but at least they retain the weekly comfort of watching young spend-thrifts make fools of themselves.

Player is a Plan II junior

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? I see a Marxist looking at me.

There’s been a surprising development in the State Board of Education’s crusade to whitewash American history and develop a social studies curriculum that paints over the less savory aspects of the nation’s founding.

The board has banned the children’s book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” from the state’s third-grade curriculum.

In a hilarious, egregious — and frankly, un-surprising — oversight, board member Pat Hardy, R-Weatherford, called for the book to be stricken from the curriculum because its author has penned another novel that contains “very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system,” according to The Dallas Morning News.

The other novel in question was “Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Lib-eration,” written by Bill Martin — but not the same Bill Martin who authored the children’s book. This Martin is a philosophy professor at DePaul University.

There are (at least) three strands of absur-dity here, the most obvious being the board’s willingness to ban books. But let’s not gloss over the board members’ complete and utter failure to research and the fact that political affiliation is apparently an author’s most rel-evant characteristic.

This latest embarrassment only serves to highlight the board’s incompetence and bad decision-making. The members should fo-cus on their actual job — developing a cur-riculum — and forget about their perceived duty to impose their ideology on Texas school children.

Capping repayments of student loansIn his State of the Union address Wednes-

day, President Barack Obama will announce a proposal to cap federal loan payments for re-cent graduates at 10 percent of their income. The plan is projected to cost $1 billion.

Under the new system, loan payments would be structured by taking into account how much money a graduate is making rath-er than requiring a blanket payment every month irrespective of income.

If a graduate is laid off, for example, the amount of his loan repayment would be de-creased. This would help curb loan defaults, which can take a toll on credit scores.

As the cost of higher education rises expo-nentially, more and more students are tak-ing on substantial debt. According to a recent survey by the Higher Education Research In-stitute, two-thirds of freshmen are somewhat or very worried about paying for college and are increasingly relying on loans. Obama’s program may be able to quell financial fears and help students afford an education.

Though the proposal is laudable, it only combats the rising cost of college from one side. There’s another struggle to be had when it comes to state governments adequately fi-nancing public institutions. We’re looking at you, Texas Legislature.

Last week, President Barack Obama reached the one-year mark of his time in the nation’s highest office. Needless to say, his popularity has taken a slight hit since his historic inauguration, so his first State of the Union address — to be delivered Wednesday night — may set the tone for the rest of his term. Part of that address will include an announce-ment of a plan that could yield substan-tial benefits for current and prospective university students.

Obama will propose an initiative to cap the amount that recent college graduates are allowed to repay for federal student loans at just 10 percent of income above basic living allowance.

Some may feel that Obama has done enough spending in his first year as pres-ident and that additional initiatives are much too costly to be passed at the mo-ment. But putting kids through college is one aspect of American life that desperate-ly needs as much help as it can get.

The National Survey of Counseling Cen-ter Disorders released data indicating that 10.4 percent of enrolled students at more than 302 colleges and universities in the United States sought some sort of coun-seling in 2009. Only 9 percent of students sought counseling the year before, accord-ing to insidehighered.com.

A study conducted by Jean Twenge, a San Diego State University psychology profes-sor, also reaffirmed concern for student mental well-being. Her data showed that more students today suffer from anxiety than ever before, as reported Monday in The Daily Texan.

It is obvious that the classroom provides students with much stress. College work has

long been known to provoke mental strain, but students of the past did not have to deal with the financial struggles that students face today.

The average American family income rose 29.1 percent from 1979 to 2008, accord-ing to U.S. Census Bureau data. But the av-erage rate of tuition and fees at a public, four-year college or university rose 197 percent between the 1979-1980 academic year and the 2008-2009 academic year, ac-cording to the College Board.

Parents may be willing to help, but there is only so much that they can do, even to put one child through college. A great chunk, if not all, of the financial burden of attend-ing college falls on students themselves as they rush to take out loans to pursue their educational dreams.

Though many potential students are kept from attending four-year institutions because of family financial concerns, those who actually find themselves in college have much more to be concerned about than fighting for that extra plus sign on their final grades.

With a 3.95 percent tuition increase per year over the next two years likely on its way at UT, we can all see the need for more graduate-friendly loan practices. This pro-posed cap could benefit current UT stu-dents’ wallets and, ultimately, their men-tal health.

It’s also important to note that the tu-ition statistics discussed earlier were of public institutions — places that are sup-posed to provide the populous greater ac-cess to education. But their cost over time has far exceeded many students’ means.

The anxiety we face as students may fol-low us into post-grad life if regulations such as these are not passed. Investing in the financial security of soon-to-be college graduates will help secure a decent future for the country.

Avelar is a government and journalism senior.

Easing the burden

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All students, faculty, staff, parents and the public at-large

are invited to attend an open forum with the Tuition

Policy Advisory Committee. During the fall semester, the

committee has been gathering data, studying the � nancial

needs of the University, and creating a tuition recommen-

dation. It has now delivered its recommendations regard-

ing tuition for the 2010-11 and 2011–12 academic years to

President Powers. These recommendations may be found

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By Frank MorrisDaily Texan Staff

The Texas Exes, UT’s alumni association, will establish a new $1.25 million endowment and a large merit-based scholarship program to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2010.

The Student Opportunity En-dowment will provide a Uni-versity-wide fund for students to draw from for study-abroad travel and research projects, said John McCall, associate vice president of the University De-velopment Office. The fund is the first of its kind in terms of size and availability to all stu-dents at UT.

There are 164 programs that provide similar types of inci-dental funding, but these are operated by different schools and colleges, not the Universi-ty as a whole.

“We do not really have any-thing comparable to what the Exes are setting up,” McCall said.

He said that in 2009, the Uni-versity created 112 new stu-dent-support endowments to-taling $8 million.

Endowments at the Universi-ty create funds by operating as principal in an investment. The interest earned on that invest-ment is then made available for grants, scholarships or a variety of other initiatives. The princi-pal, however, is held perma-nently by the University.

Accumulation of the endow-ment funds will be driven pri-marily by member donations beginning at $125. The Texas Exes were unavailable to com-ment on a timeline for the com-pletion of the fundraising or when students will be able to apply for funds.

The alumni organization has also recently announced its plans to award 10 full merit scholarships to incoming fresh-men in 2011. The 40 Acres Schol-ars Program will help the Uni-versity recruit top students from all over the country, according to Texas Exes spokeswoman El-eanor Moore. The scholarships will also include full study-abroad funding.

With the recent discontinua-tion of the National Merit Schol-arship Program, there are fewer opportunities for merit-based aid for University students. Moore said that increased mer-it-based aid would improve the University’s ability to recruit top students.

Student Government Pres-ident Liam O’Rourke said he was pleased with the direction the Texas Exes are taking, espe-cially since affordability is be-coming a rising concern for stu-dents.

“I like where their head’s at,” O’Rourke said. “They could be raising money for a lot of other things. I like that they’re raising money for scholarships.”

By Audria ChoudhuryDaily Texan Staff

Keeping true to its “Keep Austin Weird” mantra, the city ranked first out of 100 metropol-itan cities for providing the most favorable climate for starting a small business, according to a January study by Bizjournals, the parent company of several com-munity business newspapers.

The cities were evaluated based on the number of small busi-

nesses per every 1,000 residents and how much that number has changed over the last year. The study also monitored the change in a city’s population over five years and the number of people employed by private businesses.

Austin’s population grew by 270,000 people between 2003 and 2008, and the number of jobs in-creased by about 16 percent be-tween 2004 and 2009, according to the study. The city also increased

its number of small businesses by about 6 percent. Austin stood out because the number of small businesses grew by a much larg-er margin than that of small busi-nesses in the nation as a whole.

Trey Salinas, vice chairman for small business for the Austin Chamber of Commerce, said Aus-tin may have ranked higher than other metropolitan cities such as Dallas or Chicago because of the city’s unique characteristics.

“You get all the synergies of quality of life, a friendly business environment and the University of Texas,” Salinas said.

Colin Pope, editor of the Aus-tin Business Journal, a branch of Bizjournals, wasn’t surprised by the outcome.

“For the most part, this vali-dates what [Austin] already as-sumed — we have a strong en-trepreneurial environment,” Pope said. “The quality of life

and being a young, cool, hip city is what entrepreneurs are look-ing for.”

He said that small businesses in Austin are willing to support each other, which makes it easier for new businesses to thrive.

“We are a very tight-knit group, [so] you don’t have to go at it alone,” he said. “There is a strong labor pool, [which at-tracts] people from other parts of the country.”

Austin ranked �rst for small businessesMary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Patrick Vuong, one of local business Juicy Tart’s three owners, works behind the counter Monday afternoon at the frozen yogurt store, located on 24th and San Antonio streets.

Professor outlines standards for managing climate change

Kari Rosenfeld | Daily Texan Staff

Robert Keohane answers a question during a lecture at Sid Richardson Hall. Keohane, a highly influential academic in the realm of international affairs, spoke Monday about an international regime complex for climate change.

Texas Exes plan to fund merit-based scholarshipAlumni group celebrates anniversary with widely available student funds, big research endowment

By Nihas WagalDaily Texan Staff

A Princeton University pro-fessor presented his thoughts on managing climate change to more than 40 people at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Mon-day evening.

For the past 20 years, govern-ments have struggled to create comprehensive regime complex-es — strong, integrated regulato-ry systems — for managing cli-mate change, said international affairs professor Robert O. Keo-hane in his speech titled, “The In-ternational Regime Complex for Climate Change.” Instead, gov-ernment efforts often produce a varied array of narrowly focused regime complexes, he said.

Keohane said that comprehen-sive regimes are unlikely to be agreed upon by all levels of gov-ernment.

“There are a multitude of ini-tiatives underway that aren’t or-ganized in a hierarchical way, and there isn’t going to be one unless different approaches are taken,” Keohane said.

He said it is important to learn how to create and maintain re-gime complexes that meet cer-tain standards.

“Evaluation criteria for regime complexes need to fulfill six fac-tors for it to be successful: co-herence, effectiveness, determi-

nacy, sustainability, accountabil-ity and epistemic quality,” Keo-hane said.

The main concern of most countries is the production of climate-warming gases, he said. These gasses, which include car-bon dioxide, have been shown to have a direct correlation with weather and storm patterns.

“Although only about 15 coun-tries account for 85 percent of cli-mate change, this is a global mat-ter,” Keohane said.

In December 2009, the Unit-ed Nations held its climate-change conference in Copenha-gen, Denmark. The meeting suc-ceeded in endorsing the contin-uation of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement held by 37 industri-alized countries and the Eu-ropean Community to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas-es they produce, but was large-ly unsuccessful in forming any legally binding agreements for countries’ approaches to climate change.

“We should not be deterred by the Copenhagen meeting,” Keo-hane said. “It was expected, but a regime or regime complex can be built from what we learned [from Copenhagen].”

Keohane outlined three basic steps to creating a successful plan to addressing climate-change is-sues: The U.N. must increase the price of carbon to deter oth-er countries from using this re-source; preserve the wildlife and forests, which would show that the plan is beneficial; and must

enforce border tax adjustments for countries that don’t use price increases on carbon.

He said countries that aren’t a part of the U.N., such as China,

are not going to be in agreement with these policies, which is why it is important to enforce tariffs to minimize the use of carbon.

“The climate change is a glob-

al problem and an intergenera-tional problem,” Keohane said. “We can’t rely on altruism as a global response. We need to take the initiative.”

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A 2009 study conducted by U.K. researchers found that texting im-proved literacy and had no nega-tive effect on the spelling capabili-ties of children aged 10 to 12.

Researchers from Coventry Uni-versity instructed 88 children to text about different pre-selected topics. After analyzing the texts, they found no serious damage to the subjects’ conventional spelling.

“The more exposure you have to the written word, the more lit-erate you become,” said lead re-searcher Beverly Plester to the BBC. “We tend to get better at things that we do for fun.”

Kathleen Tyner, a UT radio-tele-vision-film assistant professor and expert in technology and commu-

nication, said literacy is the ability to evaluate and produce commu-nication in a variety of forms.

“Texting could contribute to al-

phabetic literacy, but that’s not the only kind of literacy,” Tyner said.

She said the misspellings of-ten found in text messages do not necessarily affect literacy.

Government sophomore Mela-nie Lopez said she texts often and thinks texting has negatively im-pacted language.

“I don’t think there’s too much truth to [the conclusion made by the study],” Lopez said. “Texting created a new language. You hear more people saying ‘O-M-G’ rath-

er than the whole words.”But she also admits that tex-

ting carries a personal style that may not reflect someone’s grammar usage or ability to communicate.

“It depends on who you text,” Lo-pez said. “I have some friends that are grammatically correct. With oth-er people, I can shorten words [and be less grammatically correct.]”

Horacio Villarreal, an unde-clared liberal arts freshman, said texting has provided a way to bet-ter remember spelling and to com-municate more effectively.

“It sounds lame, but [some-times] I practice punctuation and grammar,” Villarreal said.

The study was published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology last year.

Leader of sweat lodge claims he’s not responsible for deaths

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A moti-vational speaker who led a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona that turned deadly said he feels horrible about what happened but declined to comment on whether he was re-sponsible for the deaths.

In his first interview about the incident, James Arthur Ray in-stead refers to letters drafted by his attorneys that state he was not criminally negligent. His com-ments were made to New York Magazine for a story published Sunday and later confirmed by his representatives.

Ray led more than 50 people in a sweat lodge ceremony Oct. 8 at a retreat he rented near Sedona. About halfway through the two-hour ceremony, participants be-gan feeling weak, vomited and some passed out in the 415 square-

foot structure. Three people — Kir-by Brown, 38, of Westtown, N.Y.; James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee; and Liz Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Minn. — died and 18 others were hospitalized.

Authorities in central Arizo-na’s Yavapai County have focused a homicide investigation on Ray, though no charges have been filed. Many participants have said Ray could have done more to ensure their safety.

Ray countered that he wasn’t aware that anyone was experi-encing medical problems until the ceremony concluded, though many participants said he ignored pleas for help inside the sweat lodge. Ray said he made sure 911 was called afterward, held peo-ple’s hands and talked with them, stroked their hair and held IVs for paramedics.

“I was there the entire time do-ing whatever I could to help until I was detained by the detectives,” he told the magazine.

— The Associated Press

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‘‘I don’t think there’s too much truth to texting created a new language. You hear more people saying ‘O-M-G’ rather than the whole words.”

— Melanie Lopez, government sophomore

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With a press release and a cou-ple of appropriately remorseful quotes, another Texas football player has been kicked off the team and out of school.

This time, it was promising wide receiver Brandon Coll...uh, make that Dan Buckner, whose trip to College Station earlier this month went about as well as the Texas defense’s on Thanksgiving.

Not that it should be any sur-prise for those who followed the Texas football team the last few years that a night out for a foot-ball player should end with a handcuffed ride to the nearest police station.

Buckner, a sophomore wide receiver who scored four touch-downs early in the season be-

fore being slowed by injury, an-nounced he would be transfer-ring to Arizona over the week-end, and plenty of teammates will be joining him on the next bus out of town.

This is a blow to an already un-derachieving receiving corps that could hardly cope after the afore-mentioned Brandon Collins, also a sophomore wide out, was kicked off the team under accusations of aggravated robbery in January.

Over the past two seasons, 11 Texas football players have been busted, mostly for drug and alco-hol-related crimes.

The guilty parties have ranged from the unknown (Marcus Da-vis, DUI and drug possession re-sulting in a suspension from the team) to the irreplaceable (star defensive tackle Lamarr Hous-ton, DWI last year).

And lest we forget, All-Big 12 defensive end Sergio Kindle avoided arrest, but not the apart-

ment complex in his path, while driving and texting last summer.

There are certain allowances to be made for young, tremen-dously gifted student athletes in a college setting. But, after 12 in-cidents in two seasons, coinci-dences give way to trends.

Fool me once, maybe. But fool me 12 times?

So, questions have to be asked. Is the University, which prides itself on education, integrity, the biggest scoreboard around and the most financially successful athletics program in the nation, willing to let a few bad apples drag its name through the less savory parts of Austin?

Is head coach Mack Brown, who seems to possess a golden touch in most things related to football — and money — taking a tough enough stand on disci-plinary issues?

By Rishi DaulatDaily Texan Staff

This Cinderella story just keeps getting better.

Three weeks after slaying Manchester United, 1-0, Leeds United drew against Totten-ham, 2-2, forcing a replay in two weeks’ time.

Despite not even being at the top of English League One, Leeds has, in successive FA Cup matches, won at Old Trafford and drawn at White Hart Lane. Such a feat is thoroughly im-pressive when considering that Manchester United and Tot-tenham are currently first and fourth in the English Premier League, respectively.

Leeds’ incredible, improbable run through the FA Cup contin-ued only because Tottenham de-fender Michael Dawson conced-ed a foolish penalty in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

Blazing striker Jermaine Beck-ford, who is being targeted by a host of Premiere League clubs, was once again the hero as he blasted his penalty kick past Tottenham keeper, Heurelho Gomes, the second goal of the day for Beckford.

Beckford ensured another matchup between the two teams next month with his game-tying goal, but this time, Leeds will

be the home side. Beckford was the hero at Old Trafford three weeks ago when he scored the only goal of the match to topple Manchester United.

Beckford’s first goal against Tottenham came at the perfect time.

Peter Crouch gave the Spurs a 42nd-minute lead when he had an easy rebound shot into an open net. In the 52nd minute, after a mad scramble in front of the goal off a corner kick, Beck-ford, in the middle of multiple Spurs defenders, was some-how the only one to make con-tact with the ball and squibbed it right by Gomes into the goal.

Roman Pavlyuchenko re-gained the lead for the Spurs af-ter a beautiful one-two that cul-minated with him bouncing his shot past Leeds goalkeeper Casper Ankergren.

Beckford’s dramatic penal-ty came in the dying seconds of the fixture.

The replay will be held on Feb. 2 at Leeds’ Stadium, El-land Road.

The biggest match of the soc-cer world this weekend was in Italy, yet once again, it was one-sided as Inter Milan smashed their city rivals, AC Milan, 2-0.

By Sameer BhucharDaily Texan Staff

Erika Arriaran cannot bring herself to watch the sport she loves on television without get-ting worked up.

“I don’t really try to model my game after anyone profession-al,” said the UT senior guard. “I don’t even watch sports. I get way too competitive watching them that I get mad. I’d rather just not turn them on.”

Most of the time, she just ends up watching reality shows like “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

Though Arriaran doesn’t model her life after any of the women on Bravo’s hit show, she does have the same South-ern California roots.

Arriaran grew up in Norco, Calif., where life for her was not always easy. Her college career at Texas hasn’t been, either.

“As a kid, I was really, really sick. It was bad,” she said. “My doctor said that I had to move around to get better. So my grandfather bought me a Play-skool basketball hoop, and so that’s what really started it all.”

The fact that her grandfa-ther selected basketball for her to play only seems fitting. Arri-aran comes from a long line of athletic family members. Her father Jim played football at the University of Oregon. Her sis-ter Nastasia played basketball at California Baptist Universi-ty, and her other sister Saman-tha currently plays collegiate volleyball at the University of Connecticut.

In her three years on the Nor-co High School varsity squad, Arriaran virtually wrote the re-cord books. She is Norco’s ca-reer leader in assists and free-throw percentage, second in points and fifth in steals and re-bounds. Being the sharp shoot-er she is, Erika averaged an un-heard-of 52 percent behind the arc her senior year. When it came time to put Norco behind her, she left a legacy that most

high school players can only dream of. She was rated the nation’s No. 1 recruit in 2004-05 by All-Star Girls Report and Basketball Today.

Things were falling right into place for Arriaran, and when it came time to select a college, Texas was a no-brainer for her.

“I loved the University,” she said. “It seemed like aperfect fit.”

Her good fortune contin-ued through her freshman year. Arriaran was named to the five-member, Big-12, All-Freshman Team. She led the team in three-pointers and free-throw percentage.

Things took a turn for the worse during her sophomore year when she suffered a sea-son-ending injury to her ACL. During the following season, Arriaran reinjured her knee and missed that entire year, as well. Arriaran was devastated.

“I feel like I’ve wasted my years at this school,” Arriaran said in 2008.

The sentiment, though heart-breakingly candid at the time, is one that Arriaran has since tried to change.

The road of second chances began during the 2008-09 sea-son. Arriaran worked tireless-ly to get back into top form. In

fact, she was the Longhorns’ leading scorer off the bench with 7.5 points per game and second on the squad with 39 3-pointers made.

This season, her intensity and strong work ethic are pay-ing off. She has started 16 of 18 games and on Saturday, she had the best shooting day of her college career. Arriaran shot a staggering 64 percent from the field and achieved a new ca-reer high of 28 points. Nineteen of those 28 points came in the second half alone. She current-ly holds the Texas record for the most 3-pointers made in a Big 12 game.

Her success has bred a new-found swagger.

“After moving back to the point guard position, I feel so much better out there,” she said. “It feels like I create op-portunities for my teammates and myself.”

But maybe the biggest impact the injury has had on her has been in her unwavering faith. She feels like God is ultimately responsible for her success.

“After going through the things I’ve gone through, I feel like God gave me a second chance at life. You know, any-

SIDELINE

NCAA Men’s Top 25No. 7 Georgetown 56No. 4 Syracuse 73

Missouri 65No. 2 Kansas 84

NBAIndiana 109Philadelphia 98

LA Clippers 89Boston 95

Cleveland 92Miami 91

Orlando 94Memphis 99

Atlanta 102Houston 95

Chicago 98San Antonio 93

Charlotte 93Denver 104

Phoenix 115Utah 124

New Orleans 98Portland 97

NHLPittsburgh 3New York Rangers 2

AP Men’s Basketball Top 251. Kentucky2. Kansas3. Villanova4. Syracuse5. Michigan State6. Texas7. Georgetown8. Duke9. West Virginia10. Purdue11. Kansas State12. BYU13. Gonzaga14. Tennessee15. Temple16. Wisconsin17. Pittsburgh18. Mississippi19. Connecticut20. Ohio State21. Vanderbilt22. Georgia Tech23. New Mexico24. Baylor25. UAB

Cowboys’ Romo and Jenkins named Pro Bowl replacements

IRVING, Texas—Cowboys quar-terback Tony Romo is going to his third Pro Bowl, while Dallas corner-back Mike Jenkins will go for the first time.

The Cowboys announced Mon-day that Romo and Jenkins had been added to the NFC roster as injury re-placements. Dallas has seven players going to Sunday’s game in Miami.

Romo replaces Minnesota’s Brett Favre, who pulled out of the Pro Bowl after hurting his ankle and taking numerous hard hits in the NFC championship game loss at New Orleans on Sunday. Romo this season set Cowboys’ single-season records by completing 347 of 550 passes for 4,483 yards while tak-ing every snap. He had a career-low nine interceptions.

Jenkins will take the roster spot of Vikings cornerback Antoine Win-field (foot). Jenkins, a second-year player, led Dallas with five intercep-tions and 23 pass breakups.

Patriots’ Brady will not need surgery for injured rib or finger

BOSTON—Tom Brady said Mon-day he won’t need surgery for rib and finger injuries that bothered him for much of the season.

The New England Patriots quar-terback described his ailments as “just bumps and bruises” that all players deal with.

“I’m feeling good. I really am,” Brady said at a commercial appear-ance. “I’m excited I don’t have to have surgery this offseason. A year ago at this time, there were all these concerns about whether I was going to play this year. It’s nice to be in an offseason where I really feel I can get started right away.”

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Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff

Former Texas wide receiver Dan Buckner elected to transfer to Arizona. The decision comes a week after being arrested in College Station.

ARRESTS continues on page 8

Sara Young | Daily Texan Staff

Longhorn’s guard Erika Arriaran attempts to drive past Iowa State’s defenders in Saturday’s 73-71 loss. Arriaran has overcome two major knee injuries in her college career to be one of Texas’ biggest offensive weapons.

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time I would get frustrated, I was forgetting who brought me here. I forgot about [God] a lot,” Arriar-an lamented. “But when my knee was messed up, I remembered that I just had to turn everything over to him, let him take care of things.”

Looking forward, Arriaran hopes to continue playing basketball pro-fessionally overseas while putting her rough times behind her.

“I want to continue playing. In-ternational basketball has been something I’ve been interested [in],” she said. “I’m interested in a new start, a new beginning.”

For now, though, Arriaran has more pressing issues to wor-ry about, like leading a sink-ing Longhorn team through the rough seas that are the Big 12. But with her competitive nature and renewed sense of leadership, perhaps there is no one better for the job.

“I finally feel like I’m back,” she said.

SPORTS Tuesday, January 26, 20108

SUCCESS: Guard wants to play overseasInter won the first Milan derby

early in the season, 4-0, and like the first match, the defending champi-ons asserted their dominance early as Diego Milito scored with his left foot from a tight angle to put Inter ahead, 1-0, in the 10th minute.

In the 27th minute, Inter mid-fielder Wesley Sneijder was shown a straight red card af-tera dispute with an official. Although Inter played two-thirds of the match with 10 men, they still created more legiti-mate chances on goal than AC

throughout the match. Goran Pandev scored off a beau-

tiful free-kick in the 65th minute to put Inter ahead by two.

Inter were even reduced to nine men just before the five minutes of final stoppage time as Ferreira Lucio earned his sec-ond yellow card and was sent off for a controversial hand-ball in the box. AC’s Ronaldin-ho, however, missed the ensu-ing penalty kick after Brazilian keeper Julio Cesar guessed right and made a superb save.

Inter are now nine points clear atop the table in Series A.

Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff

Erika Arriaran is averaging nine points a game this year for the Longhorns. The fifth-year senior is coach Gail Goestenkors’ most dangerous threat from behind the three-point line.

By John PyeAssociated Press

Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Sto-sur faced the best in the business and can be excused for wishing they had skipped work when a half million other Aussies took a day off.

Roger Federer and Serena Williams ended local hopes of breaking a three-decade drought at the Australian Open. The top-ranked Federer beat former No. 1 Hewitt 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 Mon-day night at Rod Laver Arena. Federer said he’d been playing Hewitt since they were 14 and that they were old friends and rivals, but it didn’t stop him from beating the Australian for a 15th straight time.

Williams, ranked No. 1 and the defending champion, de-feated No. 13 Stosur 6-4, 6-2 in the previous match on center

court at Melbourne Park.Williams lost to Stosur in their

last meeting and decided from the start to make sure the fans were not a factor. She kept ev-erybody quiet, conceding only seven points on serve in the 65-minute match.

“It’s important when you’re playing a local girl to not let the crowd get too involved, or else they’ll kill you,” Williams said.

The main evening news broadcast broke into the Wil-liams-Stosur coverage. The match was pushed back because Nikolay Davydenko’s win over 2009 semifinalist Fernando Ver-dasco went to five sets.

And so, the marquee match-es featuring the Aussies’ last two hopes for their first winner since the late 1970s fizzled the night before Australia Day, a na-tional holiday.

Texas is in the business of win-ning games, and suspending star players doesn’t really help that cause. But, at some point, the University needs to decide if its student athletes are more than just a means to the end of win-ning games and take some steps to keep them out of jail.

Of course, we might have al-ready found out just how much the school cares about those little inci-

dents. Brown, on the heels of an in-credibly successful season on the field and an eventful one off it, re-ceived a huge raise, making him the highest paid coach in the nation.

It’s a raise he’s no doubt earned (no matter what a few vocal dis-senters say) for guiding Texas to the national title game and to a lev-el of success unmatched since the 1960s. But as the police reports and the transfers keep piling up, one can’t help but wonder who is really paying the bill.

ITALY: Inter Milan gets best of cross-town rival

Peter Franklin | Daily Texan Staff

Freshman D.J. Monroe returns a kick against Louisiana-Monroe in the Longhorns’ 2009 season opener.

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Black plumes of smoke waft-ed in the sky Monday morning as motorists approached the in-tersection of MoPac Boulevard and Texas State Highway 45.

But the flames were harm-less, as the city was using a rou-tine, controlled fire to clear small trees and bushes.

Austin Water Utility conduct-ed a routine burn on the Up-per Bear Creek Unit of the Wa-ter Quality Protection Lands, which equals about 37,000 acres of private land reserved for aquifers and reservoirs. Water Utility is restoring the area to

grasslands and savannas, using different methods to maintain the lands and the aquifers’ wa-ter quality.

“Typically, we like to conduct these prescribed burns on six to eight units per year [for] upkeep purposes,” said Kevin Thuesen, program manager for the Water Quality Protection Lands. Mon-day’s was the unit’s third burn, with the most recent conducted about three years ago.

The burn reduces the densi-ty of brush and encourages the growth of native grasses, Thues-en said. After the burns are com-plete, the city plants grass in the area.

“These native grasses allow more waterfall to flow than wooded lands,” Thuesen said. “They also prevent sediment from leaving the land and pre-

vent erosion.”The Austin Water Utility is

working with UT’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to utilize similar preservation techniques to protect the en-dangered plant species in the area, said center director Steve Windhager. The center aims to restore and maintain the coun-try’s native plants and land-scapes. The center developed the plan of prescribed burns in 2001.

“These burns are part of a safe and effective ongoing process to promote tall grass plants,” Wind-hager said. “These plants can act as a sponge and filter for the wa-ter by removing hydrocarbons, nitrogen, phosphorus and other chemicals before the water flows into the aquifer.”

The type of burn that took

place Monday is known as a wind fire, where the fire moves slowly with the wind and where all the naturally flammable ma-terial is removed so that the fire continues in only one direction. Boundaries, including roads and other man-made barriers, were used to contain the fire.

“We needed to be careful with the wind direction because we don’t want smoke blowing all over MoPac,” Thuesen said.

The burn was conducted in the morning because wind fires require certain climate condi-tions, Windhager said.

“The weather, dew point and wind conditions were favor-able [today],” he said. “In actu-ality, we’ve been ready for many weeks in advance, but there are only one or two days that actual-ly work out right.”

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Say a little prayer for me

Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Social work senior Pamelagrace Okeke, speech graduate Justin Christopher and Spanish and French graduate student Akpene Torku gather as a Fusion Group at the Campus House of Prayer, located on 25th and San Antonio streets. Fusion Group, consisting of different campus min-istries at UT, meet every Monday to pray for the UT campus and the city of Austin.

Industry leaders speak up about future city planning

Controlled ‘wind �res’ greet drivers with smoke

By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

An outspoken group of leaders in Austin’s cultural and arts industries met Monday night to offer their voic-es to the Imagine Austin Compre-hensive Plan, a city program seeking input on what Austin should look like in five, 10 and 25 years.

The 36 attendees were broken into small groups to discuss Aus-tin’s strengths, challenges and fu-ture. Many participated in the de-velopment of the Create Austin plan, a project started in 2007 that examined the status and progress of arts in the city. The Create Aus-tin plan will be developed and ex-ecuted over the next 10 years.

Janet Seibert, the city’s civic arts coordinator who led the event, said that because Austin has such a wide range and quantity of arts, it is nec-essary to give the community a voice in city planning.

“Our arts community now un-derstands what cultural planning is, and we want to make sure they have a voice in the comprehensive plan,” Seibert said.“They know about planning and what it takes to get the word out, and we want to make sure they can continue that conversation.”

The meeting was modeled after the city’s “meeting-in-a-box” kits that provide the materials, includ-ing information sheets and brain-storming supplies, necessary for individuals to host planning ses-sions in their own homes. Gar-ner Stoll, the city’s assistant direc-tor of planning and development review, said over 150 boxes have

been distributed so far. He said the city will examine what each group considers the most important ar-eas of change for Austin and then try to establish a consensus among the respondent’s goals.

“Hopefully, the vision for the future will flow out of that con-sensus,” Stoll said.

Lynn Osgood, an architecture graduate student and member of the Create Austin planning team, said group discussions are much more valuable than individual discussions, especially for people in the arts community who fre-quently work in collaboration.

“It’s great to see that spark when someone has a really great idea,” Os-good said. “Then we can take that spark and build on it until we come up with something truly amazing. That is how the arts work, and that is how planning works.”

Because the plan is in its infan-cy, Seibert said there is no way to be certain how the eventual Imag-ine Austin plan will affect UT. However, she said she encourag-es UT students to host their own meetings-in-a-box and contribute to the plan by filling out an online survey available through the City of Austin Web site.

“[Students] are going to be adult citizens when this plan is eventu-ally realized, not just students,” she said. “We want them to car-ry on with what makes Austin great and be aware of what needs to be improved. If there are stu-dents who are interested in how to make a city better, this is a way to get started.”

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Teen DreamBeach House

Like a faded photograph with its edges curling up-ward or the old sweater rid-den with holes hiding at the back of your closet, some-times the most beautiful things are the ones that evoke emotion in their imperfec-tions — and Baltimore band Beach House knows all about imperfection.

On Teen Dream’s standout track, “Norway,” an organ bends its pitch as singer Vic-toria Legrand’s vocals chan-nel a 1960s-era Nico — sultry and dark — echoing across negative space. “You let us in the wooden house/to share in all the wealth,” Legrand sings with haunting intensity as Alex Scally provides a Phil Spector-ish wall of sound at intervals.

It’s the aural equivalent of a seance — mysterious and classic, spooky and taboo. It’s the image the band wants to project, maybe (look at the video for last year ’s “Gila” for more proof), but still, it’s highly effective.

But what the album as a whole demonstrates is the duo’s ability to compose co-hesive LPs, not an album with two or three hits and 10 duds. On this, its third full-length album, there is evi-dence of a more mature band — darker than ever, yes — but more complex, richer with arrangement and style, and more soulful. Album open-er “Zebra” demonstrates that perfectly, and though it’s one of Beach House’s few “hap-py” songs, it no less impos-es an impact, using swirling guitar work and airy percus-sion to accentuate Legrand’s brackish vocals.

Beach House has avoided a sophomore slump with Devo-tion, and this album only so-lidifies the duo’s status as le-gitimate music makers and not flavor-of-the-week dream poppers.

Grade: A+

— Francisco Marin

There is Love in YouFour Tet

The problem Kieran Hebden of Four Tet faced in 2005 was com-fort.

Since the early days with his group Fridge, Hebden has been pushing against commercial dance trends in order to find his own identity. His previous album, 2005’s Everything Ecstatic, felt like a forced progression limited by Hebden’s repetitive sound bank and technique. Since then, he’s re-leased a couple of albums with legendary jazz drummer Steve Reid, collaborated with U.K. dub-step icon Burial and deejayed around London.

Apparently, he’s grown a bit tired of his sound, too, and has chosen to take an admirable plunge into the unknown. There is Love in You is the result — an album that comes from natural-ly formed influences born out of many nights spent spinning re-cords for a new generation of club-goers.

“Angel Echoes” opens the al-bum with a murky vocal loop freed from its cage into a world of textual sound. Instrumentation such as a xylophone, a harp and electronic squeaks make for an un-

likely upbeat opener. The follow-ing track and first single, “Love Cry,” is the album’s most deliber-ate club track. Slow-building with a foundation of acid-jazz percus-sion, techno pulses and house vo-cal manipulations, the song even-tually gives way to a black hole — bringing to mind a Four Tet circa 2003 fiddling with their Eastern in-struments. Like most of the tracks on the album, it manages to main-tain Four Tet’s minimal mind-set while exhausting a large number of influences and sounds.

The album’s finale, “She Just Likes to Fight,” finds Hebden re-discovering his toys: pots, pans and guitar, resembling his earli-er days with Fridge. It seems un-fitting in concept, but these ele-ments make up a pleasant mel-ody and rhythm that serve as a great reminder that, despite the al-bum’s more intensive writing pro-cess, There is Love in You is just as much of an abstract collection of memories and emotions as his early releases — except now, you can dance to them.

Grade: B+

— Allistair Pinsof

Artists take chances on albumsCD REVIEWS Football player’s

Super Bowl spotfaces controversy

By David CraryThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — A coalition of women’s groups called on the CBS network on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college foot-ball star Tim Tebow and his moth-er, which critics say might convey an anti-abortion message.

The ad — paid for by conserva-tive Christian group Focus on the Family — is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s 1987 pregnancy with a theme of “Cele-brate Family, Celebrate Life.” After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a rec-ommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child and gave birth to Tim, who went on to win the 2007 Heisman Trophy while helping his Florida team to two college football championships.

The New York-based Women’s Media Center was coordinating the protest with backing from the National Organization for Wom-en, the Feminist Majority and oth-er groups.

CBS said it has approved the script for the 30-second ad and has given no indication that the protest would have an impact. A network spokesman, Dana McClintock, said CBS would ensure that any issue-oriented ad was “appropriate for air.”

“I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe,” Tebow said. “I’ve always been very convicted of it (his views on abortion) because that’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman. So any way that I could help, I would do it.”

Thirty-second commercials dur-ing the Super Bowl are selling for $2.5 million to $2.8 million. Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman for Fo-cus on the Family, said funds for the Tebow ad were donated by a few “very generous friends” and

did not come from the group’s gen-eral fund.

Schneeberger said he and his col-leagues “were a little surprised” at the furor over the ad.

“There’s nothing political and controversial about it,” he said. “When the day arrives, and you sit down to watch the game on TV, those who oppose it will be quite surprised at what the ad is all about.”

The protest letter from the Wom-en’s Media Center suggested that CBS should have turned down the ad in part because it was conceived by Focus on the Family.

“By offering one of the most cov-eted advertising spots of the year to an anti-equality, anti-choice, homophobic organization, CBS is aligning itself with a political stance that will damage its reputa-tion, alienate viewers, and discour-age consumers from supporting its shows and advertisers,” the letter said.

However, Schneeberger said CBS officials carefully examined Focus on the Family’s track record and found no basis for rejecting the ad.

CBS was criticized for rejecting that ad — and perhaps might have worried about comparable criticism from conservatives if it had rejected an ad featuring such a charismatic and well-known figure as Tebow.

CBS noted that it had run some advocwacy ads in recent months, including spots taking conflicting sides in the debate of a national health care overhaul.

A columnist for CBSSports.com, Gregg Doyel, also objected to the CBS decision to show the ad, spe-cifically because it would air on Su-per Sunday.

“If you’re a sports fan, and I am, that’s the holiest day of the year,” he wrote. “It’s not a day to discuss abortion. For it, against it, I don’t care what you are. On Super Sun-day, I don’t care what I am. Feb. 7 is simply not the day to have that discussion.”

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Photos by Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Above, Zephyr Jarmon, an international relations freshman, wears a navy-blue floral, mini vintage dress and lace tights. Below,A re-emergence of ‘90s fashion includes floral patterned Mary Jane slip-ons, tights and jumpers.

Floral prints spring into style

Retailers predict ’90s revival, vintage trends as season heats up

Happy-hour joints let you eat, drink, be merry in Austin

By Julie Rene TranDaily Texan Staff

A sip of a half-priced, ice-cold cocktail and a mouthful of tasty appetizers can bring a pleasant ending to a bad day. But in a city populated with bars and restau-rants, most with a happy hour, finding the best deals can be a never-ending process. Chips and salsa and small drinks with no kick don’t seem to suffice and some of the more expensive locations don’t offer the quali-ty found in their regular menu. So to help you find your new stress-free hangouts, we’ve cre-ated a list of some of the cheap-est and tastiest happy hours Austin has to offer.

Kenobi Restaurant and Sushi Bar

Kenobi’s Monday Madness offers one of the best deals with select cocktails, sushi rolls and appetizers priced at $2 from 4 p.m. until closing at 10 p.m.

Located in the Arboretum, Ken-obi serves up a happy-hour se-lection that al-lows even those pinched for cash to have a taste of fresh seafood flown in daily from global lo-cales like Japan and Australia.

On Mondays, two bucks at Kenobi can buy a California roll, six crispy pork gyozas, a glass of zesty Kenobi lemonade or a pair of savory skewered chicken ya-kitoris. While Kenobi does offer a flavorful selection of $2 sushi, some of its best-tasting rolls are $4 or more. These specialty rolls are, unfortunately, only slightly discounted during happy hour, but overlooking them because of frugality can be a regrettable mistake. One of the best is the Brandy roll, filled with shrimp tempura, smoked salmon, avo-cado and cream cheese, topped off with a drizzle of unagi sauce and toasted sesame. For a tradi-tionally expensive dish, sushi at half price is a rare treat.

219West Bar and RestaurantEverything at 219West, from the

decor to the cocktail concoctions, radiates trendiness. Located in the heart of the Warehouse District at the corner of Fourth and Lavaca streets, the dimmed, dark mahog-any-wood-paneled lounge deliv-ers a rich and sultry atmosphere.

219West is slightly upscale for a casual drink after class or work. But the delicious and in-novative mixtures — the Choc-olatini, a smooth blend of creme de cacao and chocolate vodka, and the Elixir, a fruity mix of Stoll Strasberi and Red Bull — make the extra effort of dressing up with a pair of heels or a blaz-er worth it. And since 219West takes great seriousness in its drinks, categorizing the food menu by the drinks they go best with, formality is only fair.

The American tapas are not to die for when eaten alone, but they liven up when paired with their respective drinks. Try the Longhorn Iced Tea, a mixture of Bacardi rum, Finlandia vodka, Triple Sec and orange juice, with the Gulf seafood beignets for a delicious combination. There are other choices of tapas to accom-modate the Longhorn Iced Tea, including mini blackened burg-ers with chipotle remoulade and jumbo lump crab cakes. But the combination of the crispiness of

the beignets com-bined with the coolness of the iced tea brings ultimate bliss.

During hap-py hour, which is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on week-days and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sat-urdays, appetiz-ers are half off and martinis and cocktails range from $5 to $8. Even though the drinks are more expensive com-pared to those of

most happy hours, it only takes one to bring a happy buzz.

J. Black’s Feel Good LoungeJ. Black’s, located in the West

Sixth Street District, is the per-fect middle ground between sophistication and informali-ty where one can enjoy delec-table, contemporary American cuisine and chug a beer at the same time.

Happy hour at J. Black’s runs from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and all night Sunday starting at 4 p.m. The deals are $1 off all drinks and half price on selected sharing plates, which include smoked salmon with goat cheese mousse and fried macaroni and cheese. While there are only six choic-es of discounted sharing plates, every one of the appetizers is a winner in taste and fulfillment.

But come Tuesdays, it’s not the cozy environment and tasty food that people are coming for — it’s the luck of having J. Black’s pick up the tab. A sim-ple flip of the coin can win you a free meal.

By Robert RichDaily Texan Columnist

Think about the prime-time se-ries you watch regularly. What net-works are they on? In all likelihood, your top shows appear on the ma-jor channels — ones like ABC, NBC and Fox. That’s not surprising con-sidering the highest-budgeted, most popular and most talked-about shows tend to be on these networks. But that’s not the only place origi-nal-scripted television programs ex-ist. There is an almost underground collection of shows on second-tier channels like USA and TNT that people often forget about — not of their own volition but because these shows appear on channels that aren’t always watched.

The shows I’m talking about are ones like “Psych,” in which an ex-tremely intelligent man with height-ened observation skills convinc-es investigators that he helps solve cases via his psychic abilities. An interesting concept, but the show can be lackluster. Another such program is “Royal Pains,” about a “doctor-for-hire” in the Hamptons

who solves medical mysteries for the rich and uber-rich.

These kinds of shows are, in es-sence, the TV version of romance novels. Romance novels are pro-duced very quickly and released just as fast, containing many of the same plot points and situations as more high-profile books, but over-all, they are of lower quality than their more high-profile counter-parts. Likewise, second-tier televi-sion shows are written, produced and released very quickly, contain-ing many of the same plot points and situations as shows on the big networks.

So the question becomes: is this a good or bad thing? If romance nov-els are the trashy form of literature, are second-tier television shows the trashy form of TV? In a way, they are. Not because of copious amounts of sex and the large num-ber of cliche incidents (although they do occur), but because they’re almost always procedural. Drama builds and builds throughout the show until there are about ten min-utes left, at which point a dramat-

ic climax makes itself known and leads the way into the episode’s resolution.

In a way, the things that happen on these shows are too real. Not to over-generalize, but turning points and plot twists on these shows tend to border on the mundane, re-minding us of our own lives with-out the otherworldliness of more dramatic shows like “House.” Per-haps that’s good, but personally, I don’t watch TV to be reminded of my own life through almost identi-cal situations.

Second-tier shows can be enter-taining, and I’ve watched my fair share of “Royal Pains” episodes, but when it comes down to it, they’re the kind of shows you re-cord and leave on the DVR for days when absolutely nothing else is on. They’re the programs you watch when a marathon is running, some-times paying attention, other times milling about in the kitchen or else-where while the exploits of a doc-tor in the Hamptons or a pseudo-psychic investigator play out in the background.

By Kayla FreemanDaily Texan Staff

Although the calendar may say it’s still the middle of win-ter, the recent blessing of Tex-an sunshine and balmy tem-peratures shout spring’s awak-ening. It’s time to put away the cozy — but unflattering — uni-form of sweatpants and UGG boots and explore the emerg-ing fashion trends for the new season.

Malinda Ballard, a retail merchandising senior and em-ployee at the Buffalo Exchange clothing store, predicted that heavy floral patterns as part of a ‘90s revival will gain popu-larity. Hemlines, as well as eye-brows, will raise while every-thing mini, including skirts and dresses, will remain staples of a fashionable wardrobe.

Students who are fond of the flower trend can find fashion-able pieces like floral patterned Mary Jane slip-ons, tights and jumpers at close-to-campus lo-cations like Urban Outfitters or American Apparel on the Drag. Because of their classic nature, shoppers can find min-iature-length skirts and dress-es of both solid and printed va-rieties in nearly every apparel store in every price range from Savers to SoLa.

When asked about her thoughts on the emerging ‘90s revival trend, Cathy Casias, a former UT student and sales associate at Cream Vintage on Guadalupe Street, said fashion is frequently inspired by popu-lar bands, like Sonic Youth.

“Everyone will always be into the Kim Gordon style,” Casias said. “Especially girls with alternative tastes.”

Casias predicted sized-down

vintage dresses will also be popular, referencing a green-and-blue floral print sleeve-less dress that had been bought and altered by Cream Vintage to a shorter, more flattering sil-houette.

“One-of-a-kind, reconstruct-ed and redesigned pieces are cool,” she said.

To recreate an authentic 1990s look, you can visit vin-tage stores such as New Bo-hemia, located on South Con-gress Avenue, or Cream Vin-tage, which has an additional location there. These stores of-ten feature authentic vintage clothing reconstructed to be more flattering and attuned to modern style. Not only are re-worked fashion items one of a kind, they also become eco-nomical and environmentally friendly by reusing old clothing instead of throwing it away.

If you’re searching for a re-warding challenge, try shop-ping at thrift stores such as St. Vincent de Paul on South Con-gress Avenue or one of the var-ious Goodwill locations locat-ed on Lamar Boulevard and in the Lake Austin area. With a little bit of time and effort, you can find a plethora of authentic ‘90s pieces donated from clos-ets rivaling those of the kids on Melrose Place. Unlike the vin-tage boutiques with in-house design teams like New Bo-hemia and Cream, you must make any alterations your-self when vintage shopping at thrift stores. However, it is worth the extra effort because the prices at Goodwill and St. Vincent de Paul are garage-sale cheap, and a portion of every purchase will be used to fund charitable causes in the Austin community.

Some of these trends have already been spotted around campus as the spring semester commences. Zephyr Jarmon, an international relations fresh-man, sported a blue floral mini dress over lace tights Monday that channeled Courtney Love circa 1991. When asked about which fashion trends she was most excited about for the up-coming season, Jarmon said, “I want to get some really light-washed baggy jeans from the ‘90s, turn them into shorts and then wear them with girly flo-ral shirts.”

It’s a new decade, a new se-mester and a new season. Stu-dents in Austin are becoming inspired to be both creative and environmentally conscious as they recreate the 1990s fashion era of grunge-rock, acid wash and girly florals.

Second-tier television channels o�er up mediocre, low-budget shows

Courtesy of Royal Pains

Royal Pains is a television series that airs on the USA cable network about a young E.R. doctor who moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant “doctor-for-hire” to the rich and famous.

Two bucks at Kenobi can buy a

California roll, six crispy pork gyozas,

a glass of zesty Kenobi lemonade

or a pair of savory skewered chicken

yakitoris.

Restaurants offer some of city’s best deals with low-priced menu options

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