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The UT System Board of Regents approved a proposal that would demolish the Engi-neering-Science Building and replace it with a new building called the Engineering Educa-tion and Research Center at its meeting Wednesday.

The proposal will now go to the Texas Legislature for tuition revenue bond funding. President William Powers Jr. said the Univer-sity plans to build the new Engineering Education and Research Center regardless of the funding decision, but if the Texas Legislature approves the bond, UT will be able to build the center sooner.

“This is the highest prior-ity project on our campus right now and one of our most important and most successful colleges,” Powers said at the meeting Wednes-day. “The [Cockrell School of Engineering] brings in $160 million a year in ex-ternal research funding. ... It teaches 5,600 undergradu-ates and 2,200 graduate stu-dents. It has 278 tenured and

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Medical school budget projections releasedAdministrators are taking

the first steps to get a UT-Austin medical school off the ground with estimates of first-year expenses for hiring and construction.

Budget projections for the

new medical school, obtained by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act, show $1.2 million set aside for medical or surgery faculty salaries this year. The Univer-sity announced plans to hire a dean in 2013 before hiring a teaching faculty.

UT spokeswoman Tara

Doolittle said she was unable to confirm how much will be spent to hire faculty this year.

“The April 2012 [budget projections] document is an estimate rather than an ap-proved budget,” Doolittle said. “We and our partners are working very quickly to build a budget out and fine-tune

those estimates.”The projected budget also

includes $47 million set aside for the construction of a re-search building, an educational and administrative building and a vivarium, which will be built near University Medical Center Brackenridge. The vi-varium will house live animals

maintained for research. Funds to establish a resident program are listed as $21.8 million for the first year.

Doolittle said Steven Leslie, executive vice president and provost, and his office will oversee any funding that will go

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor signs a copy of her book, ‘My Beloved World,’ at BookPeople Wednesday evening. Sotomayor’s stop in Austin was one of many scheduled for her national book tour.

People around the world watched U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

administer the vice presi-dential oath of office to Joe Biden earlier this week, but UT students had the chance to see her in person when she visited Austin on Wednesday.

Sotomayor came to Austin to promote her new mem-oir, “My Beloved World,” in which she recounts a child-hood spent dealing with Type 1 diabetes, material poverty and the early death of her alcoholic father. The book describes how she overcame that adversity to become a judge. The justice made stops

at KLRU’s “Overheard with Evan Smith” and local inde-pendent bookstore BookPeo-ple, where she attracted more than 700 people.

Sotomayor spoke at length about the improbability of her life story and said she hopes to convince people that it is

Sonia Sotomayor visits Austinto promote memoir of childhood

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UT courses use Twitterto up student involvement

Tweeting in class is nor-mally done discreetly un-der a notebook or on a cell phone nestled in a crotch — but not anymore for some students.

Associate professors Eliza-beth Richmond-Garza, Thom-as Garza and Orlando Kelm in the College of Liberal Arts have integrated Twitter into their large lecture classes this semes-ter to enhance student interac-tion. Select liberal arts courses are being restructured through the Course Transformation Program, which aims to rede-sign lower-division, large en-rollment classes into a more in-teractive learning environment.

Richmond-Garza said a top priority of restructuring classes is implementing technology, including social media, that can improve the course.

“In these huge classes that almost everyone takes, the Department of English has been talking about how to really adapt and optimize what we’re doing, not just in my class but across the board,” Richmond-Garza said. “This is just one of the tools they are considering and how can they use them. They’re right in the middle of that conversation.”

Garza uses a protected Twitter account in his Russian sci-fi in literature and film signature course to review class material with more than

200 students. Richmond-Garza said

Kelm inspired her to in-troduce Twitter into her courses. Although Twitter is encouraged in her Master-works of World Literature class, Richmond-Garza said she does not require students to participate. However,

students can get partici-pation points by tweeting with the class hashtag in addition to the traditional in-class interactions.

“Some people find it a much less threatening and stressful way to interact,” Richmond-Garza said. “They allow me to know if

something is not clear, if something is fascinating and if people are disagreeing.”

Architecture freshman Dan-iel Cotte said Twitter works as a class communication tool mainly because Richmond-Garza incorporates students’

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International Relations and Global Studies senior Gerado Amaya tweets dur-ing his World Literature class Wednesday afternoon.

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tweets into her lecture.“If a student has a ques-

tion about the lecture or the reading they can simply tweet about it, allowing Professor Richmond-Gar-za to naturally integrate the answer in a seamless matter with the lecture, not disrupting her flow,” Cotte said. “It is less distract-ing than if students had to raise our hands and inter-rupt the lecture by yelling out questions across the large auditorium.”

Theatre Studies sopho-more Rebecca Walach said the structure of the world literature class is based on

what students are already familiar with, making the class a more comfortable and engaging environment.

“There are more to lec-tures than a professor barking for fifty minutes, we should be taught the way we learn,” Walach said. “In today’s society we get our information through the media. She looks to find interesting ways to engage her stu-dents with music, video and social media.”

Although Twitter is one of several online platforms that can be included in lectures, Richmond-Garza

said her colleagues have to find the technology that fits their class. Richmond-Garza said she used the Blackboard blog feature in past semesters, but Twitter suited her lecture style bet-ter because it has character limitations and is updated in real-time.

“Blackboard and click-ers can be useful, but I haven’t found them to work as well,” Richmond-Garza said. “It should be there to enhance the learning. In smaller classes where you know every student, you might not need something like Twitter.”

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toward the new medical school, including the new dean’s sal-ary, until the infrastructure of a dean’s office is put into place following the hiring of the dean.

The UT System Board of Re-gents voted last May to provide $25 million annually toward the medical school and an ad-ditional $5 million for the first eight years for equipment. The $30 million will flow through the provost’s office when fund-ing is released in August.

UT spokesman Gary Suss-wein said a hiring committee, under Leslie’s leadership, will decide the new dean’s salary.

Leslie oversees compensa-tion of the University’s 17 deans whose salaries range from $183,333 to $541,500, accord-ing to a salary database pub-lished by The Texas Tribune.

“The first step is find-ing a dean,” Susswein said. “The hiring commit-tee would then determine appropriate compensation.”

Doolittle said it is too early in the process to discuss a possible salary.

The UT System currently has six health institutions and all of them operate indepen-dently from the system’s nine

academic institutions. UT’s medical school will be the first to be developed as part of an academic institution rather than standing independently.

This raises questions about what the new medical school’s dean could receive as compensation.

It is unclear if the new dean’s salary will rival the salaries of presidents of the System’s other health institutions or will be similar to UT’s other deans. Deans at UT make significant-ly less than health institution presidents. For example, Ron-ald DePinho, president of the University of Texas MD An-derson Cancer Center, receives a base salary of $1.4 million per year, making him the fourth highest paid state employee and the highest paid president in the UT System.

In comparison, President William Powers Jr. received a base salary of $613,612 last year, which makes him the highest paid UT-Austin employee, behind a few UT-Austin coaches.

Additionally, faculty mem-bers of the new medical school could receive salaries that surpass the compensa-tion levels of Powers and the new dean. Most health in-stitutions compensate a few professors more than the school’s president. For exam-

ple, Rodney Rohrich, a profes-sor at UT-Southwestern Medi-cal Center at Dallas, makes $1.75 million, which surpasses school president Daniel Podol-sky’s base salary of $921,284. Rohrich is the third highest paid state employee.

Overall, professors and administrators at UT System health institutions made up 21 of the state’s top 25 salaries for government employees last year.

Susswein said the hiring committee will be put in place

soon. Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Messing, the recently appoint-ed vice provost for biomedical sciences, will co-chair a steer-ing committee with Dr. Susan Cox, the Austin regional dean for UT-Southwestern, that will oversee the establishment of a curriculum and residency, re-search and training programs.

“Messing will help with a number of steps that need to happen in addition to locating an inaugural dean,” Doolittle said. “We are already working on getting accreditation and

set up a curriculum to get the M.D. degree approved. Mess-ing will help coordinate those introductory steps as we set up agreements to pull academic units together.”

Susswein said the new dean will be charged with hiring fac-ulty members, establishing fu-ture budgetary procedures and leading fundraising efforts for the medical school.

The University expects to en-roll 50 students in the medical school’s inaugural class in 2015 or 2016.

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possible to overcome adversity.“One of the purposes of

the book was to ensure that every adult and child who read it would come to the end and say, ‘If she can do it, I can too,’” Sotomayor said during her KLRU interview. “Aim as high as you can — even if you don’t reach your ultimate dream, the path there will enrich you.”

Sotomayor said she was aware that releasing a memoir while serving on the court is an atypical move.

“I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court,” Sotomayor writes in the book’s preface. “I will be judged as a human being by what readers find here.”

H. W. Perry, associate

professor of law and govern-ment, said Sotomayor’s de-cision to release a personal memoir reflects a new will-ingness among the justices to engage with the media.

“The court is a relatively se-cretive place,” Perry said. “But certain justices are becoming more willing to be seen in public, grant interviews and write books, and that is a fairly new phenomenon.”

Although Sotomayor did not explicitly mention Fish-er v. Texas, a case currently before the Supreme Court that examines the use of race in UT’s admissions process, she did address her experi-ence with affirmative action in the memoir.

Sotomayor, a Princeton University alumna, said she often felt intense pressure

because of her status as a mi-nority student on campus.

“[The campus newspaper] routinely published letters to the editor lamenting the presence on campus of ‘affir-mative action students,’ each of whom had presumably displaced a far more deserv-ing affluent white male and could rightly be expected to crash into the gutter built of her own unrealistic expecta-tions,” Sotomayor wrote in her book. “The pressure to succeed was relentless.”

Perry said he would caution against drawing conclusions about a justice’s constitutional philosophy strictly based on his or her personal life history.

“We’re obviously all prod-ucts of our life experiences, and judges are not automa-tons,” Perry said. “But when

you go to law school, you de-bate, and that might equally shape how they come to inter-pret the Constitution.”

Perry cited Justice Clar-ence Thomas, whose own experiences with affirma-tive action have not con-vinced him that the method is constitutional.

“Justice Thomas, who be-lieves that affirmative action perpetuates the problem of discrimination, serves as a perfect counterexample,” Perry said.

UT law student Rebekah Mata said she did not mind that Sotomayor avoided talk-ing about policy. Mata said she was simply thrilled to meet her in person.

“We’re law students, so she’s kind of like our Rolling Stones,” Mata said.

NEWS BRIEFLYACC responds to early bomb threat

Someone called a bomb threat into the Austin Com-munity College-Rio Grande Campus at roughly 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police ar-rived soon after and a few roads were blocked, prevent-ing convenient access to the campus, but students were still attending classes.

Kyle Heine, an ACC-Rio Grande student, said he did not receive a text notification from the emergency alert system he subscribes to or any email re-garding the matter.

ACC spokeswoman Alexis Patterson Hanes said the cam-pus sent out text notifications to its students. Hanes said ACC district police and the Austin Police Department responded immediately to the threat.

ACC’s bomb threat came af-ter a shooting at Lone Star Col-lege in Houston where three people were wounded. Hanes said ACC always reacts to these kinds of situations seriously.

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Ronald A DePinho $1,404,000MD Anderson Cancer Center

Daniel K Podolsky $921,284UT Southwestern

David L Callender $657,497UT Medical Branch at Galveston

Giuseppe Colasurdo $824,999UT Health Science Center at Houston

William L Henrich $606,913UT Health Science Center at San Antonio

Kirk Calhoun $502,394UT Health Science Center at Tyler

salary breakdownThe following individuals

make up Texas’ 25 highest paid government employees.

The base salaries of the current six presidents of UT System

health institutions.

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JERUSALEM — The un-expectedly strong showing by a new centrist party in Is-rael’s parliamentary election has raised hopes of a revival of peace talks with Palestin-ians that have languished for four years under Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Political newcomer Yair Lapid, the surprise kingmak-er, is already being courted by a weakened Netanyahu, who needs his support to form a ruling coalition. La-pid has said he will not sit in the government unless the peace process is restarted.

But following a campaign

in which the Palestinian is-sue was largely ignored, it remains unclear how hard Lapid will push the issue in what could be weeks of co-alition talks with Netanyahu.

Tuesday’s election ended in a deadlock, with Netanya-hu’s hard-line religious bloc of allies and the rival bloc of centrist, secular and Arab parties each with 60 seats, according to near-complete official results. Opinion polls had universally forecast a majority of seats going to the right-wing bloc.

While Netanyahu, as head of the largest single party in parliament, is poised to re-main prime minister, it ap-pears impossible for him to cobble together a majority coalition without reaching

across the aisle.Lapid, whose Yesh Atid

— or There is a Future — captured 19 seats, putting it in second place, is the most likely candidate to join him. In a gesture to Ne-tanyahu, Lapid said there would not be a “blocking majority,” in which op-position parties prevent the prime minister from forming a government. The comment virtually guaran-tees that Netanyahu will be prime minister, with Lapid a major partner.

Netanyahu said Wednes-day he would work to create a wide coalition stretching across the political divide.

Speaking to reporters, he said the election proved “the Israeli public wants me to

continue leading the coun-try” and put together “as broad a coalition as possible.”

He said the next govern-ment would pursue three major domestic policy goals: to bring ultra-Orthodox Jew-ish men, who are routinely granted draft exemptions, into the military, to provide affordable housing and to change the current fragment-ed multiparty system, which often gives smaller coalition partners outsize strength.

But Netanyahu only al-luded to peacemaking in vague terms, saying coali-tion talks would focus on “security and diplomatic responsibility.” He took no questions from reporters and immediately walked out of the room.

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Israel’s centrists raise hope for peace

Ariel Schalit | Associated PressA worker removes an election banner of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday. Netanyahu scrambled to keep his job by extending his hand to a centrist party that advocates a push on peacemaking with the Palestinians.

By Aron Heller & Josef Federman

Associated Press

Combat roles opened to U.S. women

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in com-bat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line po-sitions and potentially elite commando jobs after gen-erations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday.

The changes, set to be announced Thursday by Defense Secretary Leon Pa-netta, will not happen over-night. The services must now develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions, a senior military official said. Some jobs may open as soon as this year, while assessments for oth-ers, such as special opera-tions forces, including Navy

SEALS and the Army’s Delta Force, may take longer. The services will have until Janu-ary 2016 to make a case to that some positions should remain closed to women.

The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff over-turns a 1994 rule prohibit-ing women from being as-signed to smaller ground combat units.

There long has been op-position to putting women in combat, based on ques-tions of whether they have the necessary strength and stamina for certain jobs, or whether their presence might hurt unit cohesion.

But as news of Panetta’s ex-pected order got out, mem-bers of Congress, including the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,

announced their support.“It reflects the reality of

21st century military opera-tions,” Levin said.

Sen. Jim Inhofe of Okla-homa, who will be the top Republican on the Armed Services panel, said, how-ever, that he does not believe this will be a broad opening of combat roles for women because there are practi-cal barriers that have to be overcome in order to protect the safety and privacy of all members of the military.

Panetta’s move comes in his final weeks as Pentagon chief and just days after President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech in which he spoke passionately about equal rights for all. Panetta’s decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women.

By Lolita C. Baldor

Associated Press

RABAT, Morocco — Nearly a year after Morocco was shocked by the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was forced to marry her alleged rapist, the government has announced plans to change the penal code to outlaw the traditional practice.

A paragraph in Article 475 of the penal code al-lows those convicted of “cor-ruption” or “kidnapping” of a minor to go free if they marry their victim and the practice was encouraged by judges to spare family shame.

Women’s rights activ-ists on Tuesday welcomed Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid’s announcement, but said it was only a first step in reforming a penal code that doesn’t do enough to stop violence against women in this North African kingdom.

Last March, 16-year-old Amina al-Filali poi-soned herself to get out of a seven-month-old abusive marriage to a 23-year-old she said had raped her. Her parents and a judge had pushed the marriage to protect the family honor. The incident sparked calls for the law to be changed.

The traditional practice can be found across the Middle East and in places like India and Afghanistan where the loss of a woman’s virginity out of wedlock is a huge stain on the honor of the family or tribe.

Morocco to change law on marrying one’s rapist

By Smail Bellaouali

Associated Press

Costly computer virus serves as warning

NEW YORK — A com-puter virus that spread to more than a million comput-ers worldwide, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits or losses to victims should be a “wake-up call” for banks and consumers un-aware of the threat posed by Internet criminals, a prosecu-tor said Wednesday.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and George Venizelos, head of the New York FBI office, warned of the growing threat to financial and international security as they announced that a two-and-a-half-year year probe had resulted in three arrests and the seizure of vast amounts of computer-re-lated evidence. Gozi virus had infected 40,000 computers in the United States since 2005.

— Compiled fromAssociated Press reports

U.S. drone kills seven suspected militants

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni officials say a U.S. drone strike on a car outside the capital of Sanaa has killed at least seven suspected al-Qaida militants.

The officials say the drone attack took place Wednesday near the town of Khwlan, some 20 miles southeast of the capital. Military officials and tribal witnesses say the car was destroyed, and burnt bodies could be seen inside the wreckage.

The officials and witnesses spoke on condition of ano-nymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

Also, the Interior Min-istry raised the death toll from a drone strike on Tues-day from three suspected militants to five.

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Q&A: Dan Branch

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Editor’s note: Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R-Dallas) serves as chair of the House Higher Edu-cation Committee. He spoke with Daily Texan associate editor Pete Stroud about the dimin-ished higher education budget, outcomes-based funding and how he hopes the 83rd Legislature will anticipate the outcome of the pending U.S. Supreme Court Fisher decision. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Daily Texan: How does this session’s planned budget for UT differ from recent years?

Dan Branch: If you look at just the general rev-enue appropriated funds, the base budget is a little bit less than two years ago. Because it’s a starting point, I think there are plenty of opportunities for changes to the base budget, so I think it would be premature to somehow predict that UT is going to do much better or much worse or even the same ... by the time we get to late May.

DT: Why have you pushed for outcomes-based funding?

DB: [We need] to put a little more incentive on completion rather than just enrollment. Now, we incentivize enrollment very much in the process, and my goal is to put a little more balance in that and have some incentives on the back end, where we need to do better ... In fact, I was really pleased that [UT President Bill] Powers sort of laid down the gauntlet for all of our four-year universities by

making a bold prediction that the 2012 fall enter-ing class would be held accountable to graduate at 70 percent in four years.

DT: You filed a bill that would require uni-versities to offer fixed, four-year tuition plans. If passed, how would your bill make college more affordable?DB: It gives certainty to students and parents, and any funders of higher ed — you know that if your student is one that’s interested in getting in and out in four years you’ve got a fixed price. My legislation doesn’t make it mandatory that that be the only price a school can offer. What it calls for is that each public university will give the op-tion. So you can either buy higher education by the semester or year, as we price it today in most places, or you could buy it for eight semesters or four years at a fixed price. And obviously if you do that there’s going to be a bit of a premium built in on the front end because you know you’re go-ing to likely get a discount on the back end be-cause you’re getting a fixed price over four years. It’s also designed to encourage people to get in and get out ... and that’s the best way to keep your costs down ... And if you’re getting financial aid, you free up that financial aid for the next student.

DT: How will the Legislature as a whole and your committee specifically react if the state wins or loses Fisher v. UT?

DB: We anticipate based on past history that the Supreme Court will rule probably in the late spring and therefore to be prudent, I anticipate introducing legislation to preserve the Top Ten Percent Reforms ... because in the reform pack-age that we passed in 2009 ... was an amendment that got added to the bill that said that if there was a change in admissions policy as a result of a court ruling, all the reforms would go away. It was a sort of killer amendment. And my argument would be that it would now be timely to remove that portion of the reform package from statute, because ... if [UT’s race-influenced admissions] were to be struck down by the Supreme Court, then all the Top Ten Percent reforms would fall and we would have chaos in 2014 before we come back into session ... To me it makes much more sense to take that piece out of the statute and anticipate that there could be a ruling that could affect UT’s admissions, and if it does, then we would have smoothed out any risk of this sort of chaos in 2014. And those who want to revisit the reforms, they would have the opportunity in the 2015 legislative session to [do so]... But we can do that in a way that’s orderly, and not somehow that would just sort of pull the rug out from under UT because we had a Supreme Court ruling that all of a sudden, because of this amendment from 2009, rips out all of the reforms — and there would be no governor at all on the Top Ten Percent rule, which is what we had in place before 2009. There

was nothing in law to prevent 30,000 students from having an automatic right in the state of Texas to come to UT-Austin. And as you know, the UT-Austin entering class last year was a little over 8,000 students, and we would not have a way to take on that sort of capacity if all the re-forms were to go away ... I think at a minimum, whether you’re rural, urban, right of center, left of center, we can all agree that we shouldn’t do something that would unintentionally harm UT and disrupt its admissions process while we weren’t in session and able to address it.

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On a damp day in what was probably April 1965, my father, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, took me to the Boston Common to hear a speech. We stood under umbrellas. The speaker was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Later, in the lobby of a nearby hotel, my fa-ther introduced me to him, and I shook hands with the great man. As I remember, Rev. King’s children were present also; they must have been very young. I do not know what exactly the meeting that day was about, but I believe it must have been the war in Vietnam.

Three years later, Martin Luther King Jr. was dead. In August of that year, 16 and a peace campaigner, I went to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. It was an ugly time. The night it all ended, I joined the march back to Grant Park, scene of the po-lice riot, in a crowd led by Allard Lowenstein — another future murder victim — and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr., who had been with King in Memphis. I carried a candle. As we marched up Michigan Avenue, flames flick-ering, hand in hand with a boy in an army jacket, we sang the Battle Hymn of the Re-public. We sang it softly, slowly, as a dirge.

Today on this campus, we have a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. He stands facing the LBJ Library, well apart from the Con-federates on the South Mall. Not long ago his spot was a quiet one, flanked by a park-ing lot and the ROTC. Today it’s a hub of life. I lumber past him on my morning jog almost every day. Sometimes I give a little wave. But I don’t think about these matters all that much; compared to the struggle for peace and human and civil rights, the life of

an economist is dull.Still, on Monday morning it felt good to

be near that statue, in a crowd richly mixed by color and years, to hear the reflections of colleagues and friends and to anticipate what would happen around noon in Wash-ington, DC. In truth, I did not expect much; I’d burned out on hope and on politics some time back. And given the scant reference to the president at our ceremony, I got the impression that I wasn’t alone. Did we even plan to watch the inauguration? I wondered how many would.

Not to watch, though, would have been a mistake. For as the pageant on the Mall un-folded, it soon became clear this would be a great day. Our president, Barack Obama unchained, gave a fine fighting speech — at last — a speech for human and civil rights, for the Declaration of Independence and the New Deal, for peace and a call finally to face up to climate change. And to an ex-activist, the symbols hit hard: the invocation by Myr-lie Evers-Williams (widow of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was murdered in 1963), the Star-Spangled Banner sung by Be-yonce, and above all that Battle Hymn, with the spectacular voice of Alicia Olatuja ringing out the hallelujahs. I must have watched that a dozen times on the C-Span website.

There was also a musically forgettable moment. That came when James Taylor, that troubadour of my college years, got up to sing. And then I thought, “Well, there’s an-other relic like me, still plugging away, doing what he can after all these years.”

But it was OK. I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. And everything else about the day made me feel young, one more time again.

Galbraith teaches at UT’s LBJ School.

Two years ago, I coached a nearby high school debate team. When my students needed to research using databases Lexis-Nexis or JSTOR, I gave them my EID and password. Try to say no to a high school student who wants to learn about political capital and budget negotiations — it’s almost impossible. Skirt-ing copyright law so that a few 16-year-olds could peruse data-bases was worth the risk, and I doubted that my actions would devastate any major New York publishing conglomerates.

While I was illegally providing students with academic arti-cles, Aaron Swartz, co-developer of RSS, an Internet feed sys-tem, and co-creator of Reddit, a popular link-sharing website, was also breaking copyright law with plans to share academic materials on a larger scale. Swartz, a crusader for open ac-cess to academic materials, claimed that students, faculty and others with the privilege of access to databases had “a moral imperative” to share information with those who don’t have access. As a result, he faced criminal charges for downloading four million articles from the database JSTOR on MIT’s cam-pus with the intent to upload them to file sharing websites.

On Jan. 11, facing up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines, the 26-year-old Aaron Swartz killed himself, spark-ing energetic debates about information ownership and the criminality of sharing.

The growth of digitized books and articles alongside the popu-larity and ease of file sharing has posed unique challenges to both universities and the publishing industry. Fred Heath, director of the University of Texas Libraries, says that over half of the librar-ies’ budget for resources — amounting to several million dollars

— is dedicated to electronic materials. Much of that money is dedicated to database access with heavy restrictions on sharing.

At UT, library visitors have certain limited privileges: Schol-ars can look at archival materials at the Harry Ransom Center and Texas residents can apply for library cards, for example. But online materials are much more restrictive: Visitors can-not access online academic materials unless they have ob-tained a visitor EID with a government-issued photo ID and are logged on to a computer in a UT library. Then, if visitors decide to share those articles, email them or make them avail-able to the public, they could face federal copyright charges. According to Heath, “We, like MIT, are obligated to protect the intellectual property that we are obtaining.”

That seems fair — the authors of articles work hard, com-panies like Taylor & Francis pay to print journal issues and databases must charge institutions if they want access. But the process is less straightforward. The vast majority of peer-re-viewed academic journals do not financially compensate the authors of submitted articles, unlike books or other publica-tions. Scholars are expected to publish in order to get tenure, so authors are willing to share their research for free.

Publishers aren’t so generous. Without a university affili-ation, purchasing a single issue of an academic journal will cost several hundred dollars on average. In some cases, if an article’s author wishes to republish the article in a book, that scholar must pay hundreds to the publisher to recover some of his or her ownership rights.

Meanwhile, copyright restrictions seem only to become more austere. Over the past 100 years, copyright protection terms have been lengthened 12 times and never shortened. Philip Doty, associate dean of UT’s School of Information,

said in an email, “The stakeholders invariably ignored in many copyright policy discussions are the general polity, that is, the persons for whom the copyright clause in the Constitu-tion was developed to protect.” In other words, the same laws that lock the general public out of academic research were cre-ated to protect their ability to eventually access others’ work.

Fortunately, academics have some recourse. Efforts like Creative Commons — another organization that Aaron Swartz helped to create — aid researchers and academics in retaining legal ownership over their work, even if they donate it to a for-profit publishing company. According to Georgia Harper, the University’s scholarly communications advisor, a Creative Commons license “allows anyone with an Internet connection to use [the article] in the ways that most scholars would be happy to have others use their work.” Likewise, Dr. Doty advises scholars seeking freer access to their work, “Sign only those contracts to publish that grant the rights holder, in this case, the creating academic, the right to publish the material either in an institutional repository or on a personal website as well as to develop derivative works.”

Not surprisingly, the individuals with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo are publishing conglomerates and their shareholders. Most of the population remains shut out of even publicly-funded academic research. Most students will be, too, when they graduate. But with growing opportu-nities to share research more openly, a shift toward open ac-cess seems inevitable, absent draconian copyright expansion. I hope the Aaron Swartz case is a mistake that we learn from rather than a harbinger of harsher punishments.

San Luis is a Plan II and women’s and gender studies senior from Buda.

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Walkable Communities and national AARP hosted an event Wednesday night to promote the construction of pedestrian-friendly commu-nities to an auditorium of se-nior citizens and UT students. Dan Burden, executive direc-tor of Walkable Communities, and Josh Collett, AARP expert and UT alumnus, presented plans that would reconstruct roads and make them more pedestrian friendly. Rebuild-ing these communities would be expansive, but Burden and Collett said it would ultimately save money and increase safety.

“It’s about building the things that are going to make money and save money at the same time,” Burden said.

To make communities more pedestrian friendly,

Burden said cities can add businesses to attract shop-pers and promote economic growth. Crosswalks, bike lanes, wider roads and me-dians are all features that can make a city more walkable.

Burden, a former photog-rapher for National Geo-graphic, presented his ideas and solutions to the inconve-nient and increasingly dan-gerous streets communities manifesting in cities using imagery and art. Burden’s work focuses on support-ing communities and help-ing them to become more healthy and engaged through active living.

Burden said his work with the AARP and Walkable Communities, now a joint operation, has helped 3,500 communities become more livable and mobile. Some of their work can be seen in

parts of Austin and Hous-ton, where streets and com-munities have been com-pletely transformed to fit a safe, mobile lifestyle.

Josh Collett, head of the AARP International office in Washington D.C., said the net-work of age-friendly commu-nities that AARP has launched have raised awareness.

“The idea is really for each of the communities to raise awareness — engage older populations as well as the rest of the community in efforts that look ahead because these are economic development is-sues that will help cities going forward,” Collett said.

Cities that have brightly emerged by retrofit could be idolized as being special com-munities, but Burden explains that the secret lies in develop-ment leadership programs. Cities in the Pacific North-

west such as Portland, Ore., Seattle and Vancouver all de-veloped neighborhood lead-ership programs with the help of Walkable Communities.

“It took an entire high school just to train the neigh-borhood leaders just for that year,” Burden said. “We need to evolve and develop that leadership program for all of our neighborhoods.”

Burden said a good test for a street is to see how many people bring their kids there for Halloween. UT city plan-ning student Sam Seigel said he shared his feelings about Burdens’ presentation.

“It was really inspiring as a planning student to kind of hear an address like this to ev-eryday people,” Seigel said. “I can only imagine how difficult it is for the very old or very young to get around and to feel independent in a city like this.”

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This building is part of a 10-year project to mod-ernize UT’s engineering facilities. The University built the Biomedical En-gineering Building in 2008 for the new department, but pre-existing engineer-ing programs have not received new buildings, Powers said.

“In terms of the main campus and teaching our students and doing research, the last engi-neering building was the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building in 1986 — that’s 26 years,” Powers said.

The new engineering building will total 430,000 square feet and will take the place of the Engineer-ing-Science Building in the engineering area.

“We are replacing an ex-isting building and remov-ing 240,000 square feet of space,” Powers said. “It is virtually not quite unus-able, but obsolete, and in great need of either repair, but in this case replace-ment. It would add 193,000 square feet.”

The project is intended to improve the resources, tech-nology and research available

to engineering students. “It is a combination of

a student-oriented project learning center … and flex-ible interdisciplinary modu-lar research space,” Powers said. “It reflects not just the need for updated and high-er-tech classrooms, but re-ally a new way of teaching students, much more proj-ect-oriented, much more team-oriented.”

The projected total cost of the project is $310 mil-lion, and Powers requested a $95 million tuition rev-enue bond authorization, or TRB. According to UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, a tuition revenue bond finances con-struction through the sell-ing of a bond. She said if the bond is approved, it would be issued to UT, but the state would pay the full amount.

Powers said if the bond is not approved, the proj-ect would still be financed through alternative sources.

“This project is going forward when we get the fundraising done even if the Legislature says we’re not going to have any TRBs,” Powers said.

This project meets the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s standards for space need, building cost and building

efficiency and will lower the amount of deferred maintenance. The project was previously unsuccess-fully proposed to the Leg-islature in May 2012.

Engineering students said they look forward to the renovation and expan-sion of their program’s facilities, particularly be-cause of the age of current engineering buildings.

“They definitely look outdated in comparison to all of the newer buildings,” mechanical engineering sophomore Chris Krieps said. “They don’t have the same openness. It feels real-ly cramped and stuffy when you’re inside of them versus the new liberal arts build-ings which are really open and breathe nicely versus being in the mechanical engineering building.”

New and updated re-sources are also a promising aspect of this project.

“Some of the new technol-ogy that’s come out since [the buildings] were created could help us out,” electrical engi-neering sophomore Eric Van Dyk said. “If we could get new facilities, it could help us with research; some of the materials we use are kind of old, and some of the stuff that we could have could be so much better.”

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Group promotes pedestrian safetyBy Matthew Hart

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan StaffDan Burden, executive director of Walkable Communities, promotes the construction of pedestrian-friendly communities at the Bass Lecture Hall Wednesday night. His work with AARP and Walkable Communities has helped 3,500 communities become more livable and mobile.

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Mixed reactions followlatest campus shooting

Less than a week after state Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, filed a bill that would allow con-cealed carry license hold-ers to carry handguns while on university cam-puses, violence broke out in Houston at Lone Star College’s North Harris campus Tuesday.

Officials identified Carlton Berry, 22, as the suspected shooter. Berry is currently in jail after being treated for a self-in-flicted gunshot wound to the buttocks at Northwest Medical Center in Hous-ton. Law enforcement of-ficials have charged him with aggravated assault.

Following an argu-ment, Berry shot a Lone Star College student three times. The student is in critical condition. An-other student, who was not shot, was taken to the hospital for an unspeci-fied medical emergency. A maintenance worker for the college caught in the crossfire is reportedly in “good shape,” accord-ing to Richard Carpenter, chancellor of the Lone Star College System.

In a statement to The Daily Texan, Birdwell said the concealed carry bill known as the Campus Per-sonal Protection Act will remain unchanged.

“Though few facts or details have been con-firmed as of late after-noon, the basis for filing the Campus Personal Pro-tection Act remains the same,” Birdwell said in the statement. “This legisla-tion is about ensuring that law-abiding citizens are able to defend themselves. It’s about trusting citizens

with their rights.”UT President William

Powers Jr. has said he will oppose the bill.

Students on campus had mixed reactions to the Lone Star College shooting.

“This incident rein-forces the point of the gun control debate going on now,” said Zainab Haider, a community and regional planning graduate student.

She said she supports making it more difficult to acquire guns.

Other UT students disagreed with tightened gun legislation.

“More restrictions on guns won’t prevent shoot-ings,” sociology sopho-more Stephan Drawe said.

Although Drawe dis-agrees with increased gun regulation, he also said he is against the idea of allow-ing people to carry con-cealed firearms on campus.

The Lone Star College incident is the latest in a string of public school shootings following the December shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were killed.

By Barak Bullock

— Brian Birdwell State Senator

This legislation is about ensuring

that law-abiding citizens are able to defend them-selves. It’s about trusting citizens with their rights.

Pearce MurphyDaily Texan Staff

Chairman Wm. Eugene “Gene” Powell (left) and Regent Robert L. Stillwell (right) hear various proposals during a UT system board meeting late Wednesday morning.

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So far, not so good. That about sums up UT’s men’s basketball team this year, which is riddled with in-experience and injuries. Although the Longhorns still have practically half the season left, the team is well on its way to surpass-ing last year’s squad’s 14 losses, the most at Texas during the Rick Barnes era. Can they turn things around and salvage what many consider a lost sea-son? With 13 conference games remaining and an NCAA tournament berth looking like a long shot, the Longhorns have plenty of room for improvement over the next couple of months. On that note, here is a statistical breakdown, from greatest to least, of the Longhorns’ season up to this point:

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Texas on a downward spiral

Horns demolished by Jayhawks

Another game down and another loss for the strug-gling Longhorns.

The Kansas Jayhawks handed the Longhorns a 76-38 defeat in Lawrence, Kan., on Wednesday night, dropping Texas to 0-7 in the

Big 12. With the Longhorns undermanned with their two leading scorers, Nneka Enemkpali and Chassidy Fussell, out for violation of team rules, Texas struggled to do anything right.

Kansas began the game on a 10-2 run, sinking shot after shot against a slow Texas defense. The Jay-

hawks (12-5, 3-3) finished the half on a 25-3 run to take a 46-12 lead into half-time.

Texas’ 12 points was the lowest first-half scor-ing output in school his-tory. Their 17 turnovers did nothing to help the

Longhorns in trouble, basketball needs a win

Already reeling in the middle of an awful losing streak, Texas was dealt an-other blow at the hands of the Kansas Jayhawks.

The Jayhawks lived up to their name by ma-rauding and pillaging the Longhorns to the tune of a 76-38 win. This seems to be the low point of an already dismal season for Texas basketball. The Longhorns’ ninth loss in a row keeps them winless in conference play and, when paired with the men’s five-game losing streak, puts University of Texas bas-ketball squads on a collec-tive 14-game losing streak.

It’s about time to figure out what is going wrong with basketball here in Austin. Both teams have their fair share of excuses. The men have no upper-classmen on scholarship. The women are under a first-year head coach that saw two upperclassmen, Cokie Reed and Chelsea Bass, have to leave the

program because of inju-ries. The team was already shorthanded before Chas-sidy Fussell and Nneka Enemkpali served one-game suspensions for vio-lating team rules.

But there is no excuse for having zero wins in 2013. There is no excuse for being a combined 0-12 against Big 12 oppo-nents. And there is no ex-cuse for being doubled up by any team.

Texas’ standards are usually very high in the

Harlem Globetrotters bring excitement, fun

The world’s most exciting basketball team travels to Austin this week. The Harlem Globetrotters will be putting on a pair of performances at the Frank Erwin Center on Thursday and Friday.

The Globetrotters, who

will celebrate their 87th an-niversary this year, are in the midst of their 2013 “You Write the Rules” World Tour. In addition to hosting exhibi-tion games across the United States, the Globetrotters will perform in a number of dif-ferent countries in 2013 in-

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By Peter Sblendorio

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff Texas head coach Rick Barnes speaks to Jaylen Bond against Oklahoma in Norman earlier this week. Barnes, in his 14th season at Texas, has been unable to coach his squad to a conference win through five Big 12 games.

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New 2013 commit: Hammad to Texas

On Wednesday after-noon, the Longhorns re-ceived their 15th overall commitment for head coach Mack Brown’s 2013 recruiting class. Offensive guard Rami Hammad, a Rivals.com four-star re-cruit out of Irving, Texas, committed to Texas ap-proximately one week after the offer went out.

Hammad is the No. 31 offensive guard recruit in the country for the 2013 class. He stands at 6-foot-5 and 314 pounds and could potentially play either guard or tackle for Texas.

“I’m going to make sure we’re the best O-line in the nation. I believe in the set-ting there,” Hammad said in his announcement.

This is the third school that Hammad has commit-ted to. He originally had committed to Oklahoma State this past summer be-fore decommitting in order to keep his options open. Next, he promised his fu-ture to Baylor in Novem-ber. However, Hammad quickly rose to national notice after a lights-out performance at the Sem-per Fidelis All-American Bowl in California earlier this year. Texas contacted him regarding an official visit before an official offer was issued by Texas coach Stacy Searels after the All-American Bowl.

The Longhorns also picked up a JUCO commit-ment Monday, offensive tackle Desmond Harrison.

Swimmer, diver earn Big 12 honors

Swimmer Gretchen Jaques and diver Maren Taylor were recognized by the Big 12 Conference this week. Jaques, a junior who focuses on both the breast-stroke and freestyle, was named the Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the Week for her performances against Auburn earlier this month. Most notably, Jaques fin-ished ahead of Micah Law-rence, a U.S. Olympian in the 100-yard breast-stroke. This is her first weekly conference award.

Taylor, a junior diver, was named the Big 12 Women’s Diver of the Week. She took home first in both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events against Auburn and first in the one-meter springboard against Geor-gia. This is her third week-ly conference award this season and 12th overall.

– Sara Beth Purdy

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By Wes MaulsbyDaily Texan Columnist

By David Leffler Daily Texan Columnist

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37Years since the last time a UT men’s basket-ball team lost its first five conference games, in 1976. After losing to Kansas on Saturday and to Oklahoma in Norman on Monday, the Horns dropped 0-5 in Big 12 conference play.

15.1Points per game for sophomore guard Sheldon McClellan, the Longhorns’ lead-ing scorer. McClellan, one of two players averaging double digits in points scored, dropped 25 on Oklahoma on Monday.

14Years that have passed since the Long-horns last won the Big 12 outright in 1999, Barnes’ first year on the job. Texas has also held a share of the conference title twice in that span, in 2006 and 2008.

12Underclassmen on the roster, out of a total of 14 players. Although this inexperience has clearly hindered the Longhorns’ per-formance this year, the next several years will likely show plenty of improvement.

7Home wins for the Longhorns, making up all but one of their victories on the season. Texas has a combined 1-8 record in away games and contests played at neutral sites.

3Losses suffered in overtime this season. Texas lost consecutive overtime games to Baylor and West Virginia earlier this month, the first time that has happened in the Barnes era.

2Times a Barnes Texas team will have fewer than 20 wins in a season if this year’s squad fails to win. The only team to finish under Barnes with fewer than 20 victories was the ’98-’99 group.

1Game this season in which the Longhorns managed to score 70 or more points in regu-lation. UT is currently averaging 63.9 points per game, nine points less than last year’s team and good for 260th nationally.

Photo courtesy of KU Athletics

Freshman Sara Hattis tries to blcok against Kansas in her

first career start on Wednesday

in Lawrence. The Longhorns were

demolished 76-38 for their

seventh straight Big 12 loss. It’s about time to

figure out what is going wrong with basketball here in

Austin ... there is no excuse for having zero wins in 2013.

William PuglianoAssociated Press

A Harlem Globetrotter star dunks during a trip to Portage, Mich. The Globetrotters visited the north-ern state earlier this year to ‘Play Basketball on Ice’ as part of their 2013 tour.

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realm of athletics. Now it seems that as soon as Texas wins a game its fans will be ready to storm the court — assuming there are enough fans at the game to properly do that.

Following the resigna-tion of Gail Goestenkors in March of last year, Karen Aston was brought back to Texas after a six-year ab-sence. But the first-year head coach is having as much difficulty as Texas’ 14-year veteran on the men’s side, Rick Barnes.

Basketball is in very bad shape right now. Wednes-day’s loss by the women is merely the latest in a long line of failures that have now stained the Texas bas-ketball program. What is the solution? When will this remedy itself? When will a Texas basketball team win a conference game? Fur-thermore, will either even manage to win a game on the road?

The women have not won a game since before Christmas. It can’t get much worse for the Longhorns, so it’s about time that things started to get better.

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Longhorns as the Jay-hawks scored 20 of their 46 points off turnovers.

Although Texas had a couple of scoring runs in the second half, it was much the same as the Jay-hawks finished the game shooting 50.9 percent, in-cluding 47.6 percent from the three-point line, while blanketing the inexperi-enced Texas lineup.

Freshman Imani Mc-Gee-Stafford was forced to play big minutes due to Enemkpali’s absence, registering eight points and eight rebounds in 28 minutes of play. Se-nior Nadia Taylor played a career-high 18 minutes and scored a career-high eight points.

Even with the suspen-sion of two key players, the Longhorns continued their inconsistent play. Texas outrebounded Kan-sas 39-36 but shot 27.3 percent from the field with 28 total turnovers.

Whether it’s inexperi-ence or simply a lack of focus for the Longhorns, something needs to be changed sooner rather

than later.“Until we can learn to

be disciplined together and do this thing togeth-er, then we’re going to continue to have disap-pointments in the Big 12 because it is too balanced as a league,” head coach Karen Aston said follow-ing last weekend’s game against Oklahoma.

Texas will continue its search for a confer-ence win when it hosts Kansas State on Satur-day afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center.

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cluding Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

Fans at the Frank Erwin Center will have the privi-lege of watching the Glo-betrotters perform their trademark trick passes and highlight-reel dunks against the team with the world’s longest losing streak, the Washington Generals. In addition, fans will be given the opportunity to directly impact the game, as the “You Write the Rules” Tour calls for people to visit the Harlem Globetrotters web-site in order to vote for new features that they wish to see in the game.

Potential rule changes

that fans can suggest in-clude having two balls on the court at once, doubling the point value of every basket and implementing a 35-foot four-point shot.

The Globetrotters also feature a trio of female players this season, giving them a total of 11 women in their history. One of them, Mighty Mitchell, will be making the trip to Austin to take on the Generals with the rest of the Globetrotters.

Throughout the tour, the Globetrotters will be using a pink basketball to increase breast cancer awareness. The use of this

ball started Oct. 7, 2012, during their show at the Barclays Center in Brook-lyn and it will be used for the duration of their 2013 tour. Pink wristbands will be sold at the Frank Er-win Center this week, and a portion of the proceeds will go to raising breast cancer awareness.

Austin has long been a destination for the Globe-trotters, who will be visit-ing many of the country’s biggest cities during the tour. The Globetrotters have typically commanded large crowds in their past trips to Austin and current player “Cheese” Chisolm

told KVUE News earlier in the week that they enjoy performing in front of the Austin faithful.

“We’re very excited to be here. We love playing in Austin,” Chisholm told KVUE. “We’ve been com-ing here for a while.”

The Globetrotters, who formed in 1926 and changed their hometown to Harlem in 1929, have been highly regarded across the globe for decades and they have had a number of impressive performers in their history. The most notable player to ever put on the Globetrotter uniform was Wilt Cham-berlain, who would go on

to become a Hall of Fame center in the NBA.

Although there will likely not be a player of Chamber-lain’s caliber on this year’s squad, fans going to the see the Globetrotters Thursday or Friday night should get their money’s worth.

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Globetrotters @ Generals

WHAT TO WATCH

Date: Thursday, FridayTime: 7 p.m.

Where: Erwin Center

Photo courtesy of KU Athletics Junior transfer Gigi Mazionte tries to block against Kansas on Wednesday night in Lawrence. The Longhorns struggled all night and fell 76-38 to the Jayhawks, falling to 7-11 for the year.

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— Karen Aston, Women’s basketball coach

Until we can learn to be disciplined together and do

this thing together, then we’re going

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DALLAS — Police said Wednesday that Dallas Cowboys defen-sive lineman Jay Ratliff didn’t seem drunk after they pulled him over this week before ar-resting him for driving while intoxicated.

Ratliff didn’t imme-diately give off the smell of alcohol or look drunk after a late-night acci-dent Tuesday in Grape-vine, about 20 miles northwest of Dallas, ac-cording to search war-rant paperwork released Wednesday. He was arrested after failing a field sobriety test.

The 31-year-old Ratliff “seemed to be moving around quite well given the wreck,” but police of-ficer Eric Barch wrote in a search warrant affidavit that he wanted to investi-gate further because the accident happened short-ly after midnight, when wrecks can often involve an intoxicated driver. People in good physi-cal shape like Ratliff can also hide how intoxicated they are, Barch said.

Barch spoke to Ratliff a second time and no-ticed a “moderate odor” of alcohol on his breath, the affidavit says. Ratliff ’s eyes were also bloodshot and watery, Barch said.

Ratliff said he was driving home from Ar-lington and was follow-ing directions on his nav-igation system when the crash occurred.

While in jail, Ratliff told police that earlier injuries might have pre-vented him from passing the walk and turn, and the stand on one leg portions of the test, Barch wrote in the affidavit.

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Like many 17-year-old boys, Eric Dingus tends to spend a lot of his time tucked away in his South Austin bedroom. Instead of toiling away in front of a gaming device, Dingus sits behind his laptop producing the electronic songs that serve as the platform for his budding career. The Daily Texan sat down with Dingus to discuss the trivialities of being 17 while sitting on the brink of a professional career.

The Daily Texan: When did you first start becoming in-terested in music?

Eric Dingus: I started drumming when I was, like, 12. The day before I turned 12 is when I had my first drum lesson. My parents were in a band so I always had a lot of music around the house. They don’t play it anymore or anything, but they’ve always been encouraging.

DT: When did you make the transition from drumming to making the electronic music you do now?

Dingus: In ninth grade is when I started, but I started getting really seri-ous about it in the middle of tenth grade. That’s when I got the software I use now, Ableton Live.

DT: How do you produce the music you’re making now? Do you do any sampling?

Dingus: It’s mostly, like, digital. I really like to sample ‘50s vocal jazz music like Ella Fitzgerald and that kind of stuff. It can range from am-bient piano music to, like, K-Pop. I try to make the samples unrecognizable; it’s fun and more of a challenge. If you do something completely differ-ent with the samples, you’re still making your own music.

DT: How did you get into electronic and rap music? Was this something you al-ways listened to?

Dingus: I got into it in ninth grade. The song “It Was A Good Day” by Ice Cube, I really liked that beat and the song. I realized that not all rap was bad and that’s what I’d thought because I’d just heard stuff on the ra-dio and I didn’t really know much about it. I don’t try to copy any specific genre or sound, really. I just like to see what happens with my own sound. I haven’t tried to hop on any bandwagon.

DT: How would you de-scribe the music you’re making now?

Dingus: Ethereal is sort of a big word I’ve used for a while. I just like to make what I would describe as ethereal dream hip-hop beats. My

first serious album was called Ethereal Depression. I just thought it sounded cool.

DT: A lot of the song and album titles are really dark or heavy. Is there a reason behind this?

Dingus: I’ve been on an-tidepressants since second grade, and it’s definitely

played a role in the sound itself. I didn’t really talk to many people at all in school. In the classes, I had a note-book I would just plan mu-sic stuff in. The whole mood or everything can be dark I guess, a lot of the themes of the albums or projects and song names are pretty dark. I don’t force it or try to make

something that’s extremely dark or depressing.

DT: Do you draw inspiration from your experience with depression? What are your songs generally inspired by?

Dingus: I’m constantly inspired. Music is all I really do unless I’m with friends. I work on music probably at

least 6 or 7 hours a day. Ba-sically, every day I wake up really early and walk to the coffee shop because I discov-ered coffee over the summer and I’m pretty into it and it gets me inspired. I just walk back and forth between my house and the coffeehouse and work on songs. The en-vironment really matters.

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Eric Dingus composes a new beat

the problem. As Small ex-plained, not everyone with a disability may want to be institutionalized, but not ev-eryone with a disability feels comfortable living plainly in their community, either.

“It blew my mind. I had never thought about com-munity integration [on a person-by-person basis] before,” Tate said.

Tate’s conversations with disability advocates also helped him hone in on the best way to elucidate the difficult message of disability rights.

“The most effective way to get a point across is to show a really complex, interest-ing character that people

can relate to, instead of just showing that ‘all institutions are bad.’ That’s not the truth: some institutions can pro-vide healing environments and be the kind of place for a certain person,” Tate said.

The commitment of Tate and his team to the message of inclusion extends to their casting process. Six to eight of the roles in the movie are for characters with disabili-ties, and they will be played by actors who themselves have disabilities. Hollywood movies usually steer clear of casting people with disabili-ties to play characters with disabilities (see Sean Penn in “I am Sam,” Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump” and Daniel Day-Lewis in “My Left Foot,” to name a few).

This phenomenon is re-ferred to in the disability community as “crip-face,” a

deliberate play on the term “blackface.” And like black-face, there’s absolutely no need for it; just as there are more than enough capable black actors to cast in roles for black characters, there are more than enough capa-ble disabled actors to cast in roles for disabled characters.

So far, Tate and his team have sent letters announcing the casting call to more than 70 disability advocacy or-ganizations, many of which work with people with dis-abilities who have an inter-est in the performing arts. Although not all of the 12 main characters are speci-fied in the script as having disabilities, they will con-sider actors with disabilities for all of the roles. “I think that’s a really important part of the commitment to inclusion,” Tate said.

getting together with friends and baking English-themed treats before each episode.

“I’ve become so involved in the characters’ stories. They are so well-written and as time goes by you get more invested in what hap-pens with these people,” Flinn said.

The Dowager’s quick wit

has become a favorite of fans, despite her often closed-minded and judgmental na-ture. Viewers count on her for surprising insight when it matters most, whether that be when Lady Edith is left at the alter or when the very fate of Downton is at stake.

“It is something I really look forward to. I have to watch out though because the Dowager’s sass is conta-gious,” Flinn said.

Cali Bittick, a vet tech in Austin, prefers the

whirlwind romance of Lady Sybil and former chauffeur for the Grantham family, Tom Branson.

“There’s nothing like for-bidden love, especially when rigid English tradition is mixed in,” Bittick said.

This season started by throwing many story lines up in the air including the very fate of Downton itself. While there is quite a bit to catch up on, it’s not too late. “Down-ton Abbey” airs on KLRU every Sunday at 7 p.m.

THE HAGUE, Nether-lands — Dutch detectives and a prosecutor will travel to Romania to investigate the possible involvement of three men in a multimillion-dollar art heist in the Neth-erlands, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

The Dutch team will travel to Bucharest in coming days to share with Romanian au-thorities details of their inves-tigation of the Oct. 16 theft from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal gallery of seven extremely valuable paintings by artists including Picasso, Monet and Matisse, said Roland Ekkers of Rotterdam Police.

Romanian police arrested the suspects Monday night “in another art-related inves-tigation in Romania, but there are indications they also have something to do with the art heist in Rotterdam,” Ekkers told The Associated Press.

The arrests marked the first breakthrough for police since the late-night raid at the Kunsthal, the biggest art theft in more than a decade in the Netherlands.

Ekkers said reports that some of the paintings were recovered were wrong.

Romanian police “checked, double checked and checked again and it is not true,” he said.

The three suspects may have been part of an interna-tional ring, Romanian author-ities suggested Wednesday.

Lucia Zaharia, spokes-woman for Bucharest’s Sector 5 court, told the AP that the men were held for 29 days pending an investigation into whether they were involved in the heist.

“They were part of a group, according to documents,” she said in a telephone interview. “We can only investigate peo-ple who are in Romania,” she added, a hint that the gang had foreign members.

The stolen paintings came from the private Triton Foundation, a collection of avant-garde art put together by multimillionaire Willem Cordia, an investor and busi-nessman, and his wife, Mari-jke Cordia-Van der Laan. Willem Cordia died in 2011.

The stolen paintings were: Pablo Picasso’s 1971 “Harle-quin Head”; Claude Monet’s 1901 “Waterloo Bridge, Lon-don” and “Charing Cross Bridge, London”; Henri Ma-tisse’s 1919 “Reading Girl

in White and Yellow”; Paul Gauguin’s 1898 “Girl in Front of Open Window”; Meyer de Haan’s “Self-Portrait,” around 1890; and Lucian Freud’s 2002 “Woman with Eyes Closed.”

The apparent ease with which a pair of thieves man-aged to grab such a valuable haul of art was stunning.

The thieves broke in through an emergency exit at the rear of the Rem Koolhaas-designed building, grabbed the paintings off the wall and fled, all within two minutes.

The gallery said after the theft that it had a “state of the art” alarm system. Willem van Hassel, the museum’s chairman, said its security systems are automated and do not use guards on site.

Suspects arrested in Romania in massive Dutch art heist

By Mike Corder

Associated Press

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That’s where things get re-ally complicated. Rather than a simple explanation, scien-tists have developed a formu-la that determines whether or not a bicycle design will have

this essential attribute. Inso-much as it has been tested, the formula works. Unfortu-nately, it’s not a simple two- or three-variable equation: it requires 25 different char-acteristics of the bicycle to make a prediction.

So do we know how a bi-cycle works? Technically, yes. We have an equation that can predict whether or not a particular design will be easy to balance. But

that doesn’t mean we fully understand what’s going on and the one-sentence explanation of what keeps it upright only leads to more questions that aren’t so easily answered.

But that’s how physicists earn their living. And if that’s what goes into figuring out the bicycle, it is not too difficult to see why they’re still struggling to under-stand dark matter.

Photo courtesy of Police Rotterdam | Associated PressThis photo released by the police in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, shows the 1971 painting “Harlequin Head” by Pablo Picasso.

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The third episode of the third season of cult obsession “Downton Abbey” premieres Sunday. To hear others speak of “Downton” is to be sub-jected to repeated “amaz-ings!” followed by hurried highlights of each character. The tried-and-true British “Upstairs, Downstairs” for-mula of the show has piqued American interest since its beginning, especially among fickle millennials.

“Downton,” NOT Down-town, could have easily been dismissed as another BBC period piece. But the show has attracted a varied audience by encompassing many plot lines and genres. It has been dramatic, tragic, romantic, mysterious and humourous. Humourous enough to cause even the heartiest American to use the British spelling of humor.

Local lawyer Paige Bru-ton Williams said she was surprised by the suc-cess of the show with American audiences.

“PBS was always the chan-nel to turn on to educate

yourself about the Civil War or entertain your cats while you left home. Now, it has suddenly turned into the channel everyone is watch-ing with just one show,” Williams said.

“Downton” proves there is a corner of public television where manners and propri-ety matter and are pored over by thousands. Not before Downton could a 20-some-thing American tell you what a footman did. “Downton” makes the job of a footman exciting and scandalous.

Viewers have connected over a mutual dislike of whiny middle daughter Edith and respect for the Dowager Countess’ impeccable snark. While some cultural refer-ences might very well go over Americans’ heads, it is the characters’ depth that makes watching every episode a necessity. UT senior Crys-tal Flinn has a tradition of

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Joshua Tate and his col-laborators are about to have a big few months, or at least they hope. Next month, Tate, who graduated from UT in 2008 with degrees in psychology and in radio, television and film, will put out a nationwide casting call for “Love Land,” the film he hopes to direct.

In February, Tate hopes to begin scouting locations in Texas, where he hopes to film “Love Land.” And in only six days, the “Love Land” fundraising campaign Tate launched on Seed and Spark, an online crowd-funding platform which focuses specifically on fund-raising for cinematic proj-ects, will end. At the time of

writing, the project was listed on seedandspark.com as hav-ing funded 48 percent of its $50,000-$100,000 goal.

For Tate and his team, which includes co-writer Paul Gleason, producer Andrew C. Richey and producer Maritte Go, all of whom Tate met while completing his MFA at USC film school, the only mission bigger than getting the movie made is spreading the message that inspired it: that of disability rights.

This complex and often convoluted message finds ex-pression in the struggles of Ivy, “Love Land”’s main character. As a teenager, Ivy received a traumatic brain injury that impaired her motor and cog-nitive skills. In the screenplay, she strives to make a life for herself in the “normal” world of her small Texas town, but

runs into problems with ro-mance and drugs that land her in Love Land Ranch, an insti-tution for the disabled.

Ivy’s losses and victories in the story are plentiful, but they aren’t of the saccha-rine movie-of-the-month variety usually encountered by characters with special needs. Ivy, as envisioned by Tate and his team, is a com-plex and morally ambiguous character capable of being mean, kind and compro-mised. But Tate didn’t origi-nally set out to make a mov-ie with such a complex and nuanced message.

“I started out looking to make a movie that was really about how institutions were bad. It was a very simple look at things,” he said.

In 2006, inspired by a conversation with his uncle

about disability rights, Tate made a documentary titled “Forgotten Lives” that ex-plored abuse in Texas in-stitutions for the disabled. Originally, Tate’s concept for the movie “Love Land” focused not on the struggles of Ivy, but on the experienc-es of Roger, the poster boy of Love Land Ranch whom Ivy develops a relationship with. It wasn’t until Tate and his co-writer, Paul Gleason, toured the country and met with disability advocates that the movie’s plot — and perspective — changed.

Tate credits Michael Small, a disability advocate who lobbies for person-centered services for the disabled, with helping him think differently about

Physicists are known to tackle the big problems: How did the universe originate? What is the nature of matter, energy and time? How can we make the rules that work for very small objects (quan-tum mechanics) not conflict with those that work for very large ones (general relativ-ity)? However, one doesn’t need to reach for such ab-stract material to find topics that physicists struggle to understand. In fact, you need look no further than right outside your classroom at the common bicycle.

This seemingly simple device, which has existed in its current form for more than a century, is devilishly complicated and there still isn’t a fully intuitive explana-tion of how it balances on its two wheels.

What makes the question of the bicycle’s stability so perplexing is that the answer seems immediately obvious. It’s stable because some-body’s steering it, right?

Not quite.A bicycle remains upright

even if the user removes his hands from the handlebars, effectively giving up his abil-ity to steer. In fact, a bicycle doesn’t even need a rider at all: bicycles balance perfect-ly fine without anybody on them, provided they’re mov-ing fast enough (somewhere between eight and 13 miles per hour — a relaxed speed).

A second explanation may come to mind, for those

who have learned some high school physics: the spin-ning wheels keep the bicycle from falling.

Rotating objects, like the wheels of a bicycle, are stable and the faster they spin, the more stable they become. This gyroscopic effect, as physicists refer to it, explains why tops and yo-yos behave the way they do.

It does not, however, ex-plain the bicycle’s stability. Bicycle wheels are fairly light

and don’t generate enough inertia to overcome even a slight tilt. Additionally, while a bicycle can remain stable without a rider, that’s only when traveling forward. Push it backward at similar speeds and it quickly topples over. If the gyroscopic ef-fect were a major contrib-uting factor, this probably wouldn’t happen.

To make sure that this ef-fect wasn’t necessary, a group working out of Cornell

University built a bicycle with two additional wheels. These didn’t touch the ground; they merely spun in the opposite direction of the main bicy-cle wheels, eliminating any gyroscopic effects.

This non-gyroscopic bi-cycle, which more closely resembles a scooter, re-mained self-stable. What’s more, once the bicycle was in motion, the experiment-ers pushed it to the side in an attempt to knock it

over. They couldn’t; the bike corrected itself.

Partially through this re-search, physicists have come up with an explanation for why bicycles don’t tip over: they always turn toward the direction they’re falling. When the bicycle begins to tilt to one side, the front wheel turns in that same di-

rection, which prevents the bike from falling over. This can be verified by locking the handlebars so that the bicy-cle can’t turn. When you do this and give the bike a push, it topples over.

OK, so this self-stability has to do with the way the

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Photo courtesy of lovelandfilm.comJosh Tate is the writer and director behind the film “Love Land.” His film is about a young woman named Ivy living with a severe traumatic brain injury. The film is part of Tate’s mission to advocate for the rights of the disabled.

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