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About a dozen protesters held signs in front of the Tower on Monday morning to demonstrate against fast-food chain Chick-fil-A’s sponsorship of a pro-“traditional family” organization, as well as its presence on campus.
Lauren Cozart, a women’s and gender studies senior, organized the event after reading about Chick-fil-A’s sponsorship of talks by the Penn-sylvania Family Group, a conserva-tive Christian organization that advo-cates traditional marriage.
“I used to eat at Chick-fil-A, [and] other than being a Christian organi-
zation, I didn’t know anything about them,” said Cozart, who is openly gay. “It made me really mad because I like to be conscious of where my money goes.”
Cozart said that Chick-fil-A’s status as a Christian corporation definitely played a role in their sponsorship.
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A GREAT SERIES OF TUBES LONGHORN SHAKEUPMack Brown adds seven staff membersto cope with disappointing 2010 season
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NEWS PAGE 10
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K-12The K-12 Educational Outreach Consortium will hold a brown bag luncheon for all campus entities that do outreach and programming for K-12 students. from noon-1 p.m. in the LBJ Library, Classroom A.
Tiny FurnitureSouth By Southwest offers a screening of “Tiny Furniture” at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. Tickets are $5 for students. The screening begins at 7 p.m.
Seeing scienceThe Texas Advanced Computer Center presents a forum on how visualization data is changing the face of science at the AT&T Conference Center at 5:45 p.m.
In 1861Texas seceded from the United States during the American Civil War.
— Mack BrownTexas head coach
Pub RunThe Paramount Theatre hosts a screening of “Run, Fat Boy, Run,” plus free beer and an optional 1 mile run down Congress Avenue. Tickets are $10. The event starts at 7:30 p.m.
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SPORTS PAGE 8
“We’re not going to continue to talk about 2005, when
we won the national championship. We’re
not going to talk about 2008, when we were third or
2009, when we were second. So we’re sure not going to
talk about 2010. We are moving forward like it’s our first day.”
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A Florida district judge ruled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconsti-tutional Monday because of its mandate requir-ing all Americans to purchase health insurance or face a penalty.
State attorney generals from 26 states, includ-ing Texas, filed a lawsuit shortly after President Barack Obama signed the law in March, which would require Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said if the law is upheld, it would open the door for the U.S. Congress to make other mandates.
“It looks like a brilliant decision,” Abbott said at a press conference Monday.
Abbott said this is one step in the judicial process, and the federal government is expect-ed to appeal the ruling. He anticipates the case to eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
“For the first time in American history, Con-gress created a requirement on all Americans
to go out and purchase a product,” Abbott said. “The judge saw through exactly what Congress was doing, struck down their actions, ending Obamacare across the country.”
Roger Vinson, a U.S. district judge from Pen-sacola, Fla., wrote in his ruling the health care
A controversial flier depicting President William Powers Jr., and College of Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl as mem-bers of the Ku Klux Klan created a rift within student activist group The Students Speak.
Several members of the organization created the flier last week without consent of the group in response to proposed cuts to the specialized ethnic and identity studies centers. There will be no administrative representation Tuesday at The Students Speak open forum to discuss the cuts because of insufficient notice and the flier passed out at last week’s question-and-answer session, the liberal arts deans said.
Caitlin Eaves, a group member and religious studies se-nior, said the flier made her feel uncomfortable because it was inaccurate and did not represent the majority opinion.
“For one, institutional racism and KKK terrorizing aren’t synonymous struggles, but the biggest problem was that there wasn’t consensus about the flier,” she said.
Constitutionality of health care reform challenged
Students protest Chick-fil-A sponsorship
Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff
Government sophomore Robby Munez and members of campus GLBT organizations protested Chick-fil-A on Monday for its support of conservative political groups that will sponsor anti-gay marriage conferences.
LBJ library director plans renovation to attract students
As one of his first major acts as director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Mark Updegrove proposed ren-ovations to the museum’s perma-nent exhibit to attract a wider and younger crowd.
The renovation will update the museum’s permanent exhibit about former President Lyndon Baines Johnson to make it more interactive and relevant to students. The ex-hibit will incorporate computerized technology that was not available when it was originally installed.
“We want people to leave the renovated library thinking that it’s state of the art,” Updegrove said. “We want them to believe that the experience they have here is on par with any experience at any library or any museum.”
Updegrove, who became direc-tor after a career in media and as a presidential historian, took the po-sition in October 2009.
Anne Wheeler, LBJ Library and
Museum spokeswoman, said the renovations are firmly in the plan-ning stages, without blueprints or a solidified budget to demonstrate what the renovations will look like and cost.
However, Updegrove said the plan will cost approximately sev-eral million dollars and hopes the renovations will be completed by the Lady Bird Johnson Bicentenni-al in December 2012.
“The exhibit hasn’t seen a marked change in over 20 years,” Updegrove said. “We want to make the president accessible to younger folks. What we want to do is to take a 21st century view of this presi-dent: looking at the accomplish-ments of LBJ through the lens of the present.”
The National Archives, a federal organization responsible for histor-ical preservation, built the LBJ Li-brary on the UT campus in 1971. Although the library is on UT property, the National Archives
By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff
THE DAILY LONGHORN SHAKEUP
Mack Brown adds seven staff membersto cope with disappointing 2010 season
Defamatory fliercauses discontentin activist group
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Inside: Longhorns breeze past Aggies for seventh-straight win on page 7
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FLIER continues on PAGE 10
LIBRARY continues on PAGE 2 PROTEST continues on PAGE 2
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Texas guard J’Covan Brown
drives to the basket for a
layup during the Longhorns’ dismantling of
Texas A&M in College Station.
It was the first time since 2004 that Texas beat
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“There are a lot of Christian com-panies and organizations that back and use the Bible to defend their an-ti-gay policies, which is really offen-sive to me because I am a Christian, myself,” Cozart said.
Cozart praised UT’s stringent anti-discrimination policy, which protects students from discrim-ination based on sexual orienta-tion, gender identity and gender expression. She said the Universi-ty shouldn’t allow businesses to vi-olate its non-discrimination policy on campus.
In a statement released last Sat-urday by Chick-fil-A, President and COO Dan Cathy said that the com-
pany has no agenda against anyone.“While my family and I believe in
the biblical definition of marriage, we respect and love anyone who disagrees,” Cathy wrote. “As a result, we will not champion any political agendas on marriage or family.”
Cathy added that Chick-fil-A would continue to offer resourc-es to support traditional mar-riages and family, as doing any-thing different would be incon-sistent with company core values and biblical principles.
Around noon, the demonstra-tion moved from the Tower to the Chick-fil-A at the newly opened Student Activity Center.
“We came to demonstrate that this is a cause which the queer com-munity does not support,” said ra-dio-television-film senior Ben Kru-ger-Robbins, co-director of UT queer political activist group Stand-Out. “We’re trying to urge UT to step behind that effort.”
Kruger-Robbins said he used to visit Chick-fil-A frequently but has since stopped going to the restau-rant when he learned of Chick-fil-A’s position.
“[Students] have to recognize that with the variety of restaurants on campus, there are other places that they can spend their money that don’t support repressive ideologies.”
law raises important issues about the constitutional role of the feder-al government. He wrote Congress did not have power under the Com-merce Clause — which grants the federal government power to regu-late interstate commerce — to pass the law.
“In short, the defendants’ argu-ment that people without health in-surance are actively engaged in in-terstate commerce based on the purported “unique” features of the much broader health care market is neither factually convincing nor le-gally supportable,” Vinson wrote.
In December, a federal district judge appointed under former President George W. Bush ruled the
law was unconstitutional. Two oth-er federal district judges appointed under former President Bill Clin-ton upheld the constitutionality of the law. The rulings were split along party lines.
“Regardless of how laudable its attempts may have been to accom-plish these goals in passing the Act, Congress must operate within the bounds established by the Consti-tution,” Vinson wrote. “Because the individual mandate is unconstitu-tional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”
UT law professor Sanford Levinson said this ruling is not sur-prising because of the judges’ Re-publican party affiliation.
“That simply reflects the fact that the opposition [of the law] is led by conservative Republicans in the ju-diciary,” Levinson said. “It’s no big surprise. [Vinson] is a conservative Republican who has signaled his skepticism of the bill.”
In a statement he released in re-sponse to the ruling, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said the law taxes and spends too much without improv-ing health care.
“Instead of growing government, we must build on the legislation I passed out of the Texas Senate in 2009 to create private sector alter-natives to Obamacare and prevent its unconstitutional infringement on Texans,” he said.
is responsible for the building’s upkeep.
Kevin Hegarty, vice president of financial affairs and chief fi-nancial officer, said none of the funds for the renovation will come out of the UT budget, which is already strained.
Updegrove said the fundraising body for the renovations is the Lyn-don Baines Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted ex-clusively to benefiting the LBJ Li-
brary and Museum and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. UT is not involved in raising the funds for the renovations, Updegrove said.
The renovations will be han-dled by a Silver Springs, Md., design firm, but Updegrove said he hopes to collaborate with local architects to stimulate the local economy.
“Times are tough, but because our economy has slowed, we shouldn’t put on hold projects that we deem important,” Updegrove said.
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Egyptian military ensures peaceful protest
Lefteris Pitarakis | Associated Press
Anti-government protesters offer their evening prayers in front of an Egyptian army tank, during a protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Monday. Opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo’s streets Tuesday to demand the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
CAIRO — Egypt’s military prom-ised Monday not to fire on any peace-ful protests and recognized “the le-gitimacy of the people’s demands,” a sign army support for President Hos-ni Mubarak may be unraveling. Pro-testers planned a major escalation, calling for a million people to take to the streets to push Mubarak out of power.
More than 10,000 people beat drums, played music and chanted slogans in Tahrir Square, which has
become ground zero of seven days of protests demanding the ouster of the 82-year-old president who has ruled with an authoritarian hand for near-ly three decades.
With the organizers’ calling for a march by one million people Tues-day, the vibe in the sprawling plaza — whose name in Arabic means “Lib-eration” — was intensifying with the feeling that the upheaval was near-ing a decisive point. “He only needs a push,” was one of the most fre-quent chants, and one leaflet circulat-ed by some protesters said it was time for the military to choose between Mubarak and the people.
The military statement, aired on state TV, was the strongest sign yet that the army was willing to let the protests continue and even grow as long as they remain peaceful, even if that leads to the fall of Mubarak. If the president, a former air force com-mander, loses the support of the mil-itary, it would likely be a fatal blow to his rule.
For days, army tanks and troops have surrounded Tahrir Square, keep-ing the protests confined but doing nothing to stop people from joining.
Military spokesman Ismail Et-man said the army realizes “the le-gitimacy of the people’s demands.”
He said the military “has not and will not use force against the public” and underlined that the “the freedom of peaceful expression is guaranteed for everyone.”
He added the caveats, however, that protesters should not commit “any act that destabilizes security of the country” or damage property.
The official death toll from the cri-sis stood at 97, with thousands in-jured, but reports from witnesses across the country indicated the actu-al toll was far higher.
By Hamza Hendawl & Maggie MichaelThe Associated Press
Illinois recognizes civil unions, joins dozen other states
By Tammy WebberThe Associated Press
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn, saying it was a “day of history,” signed legislation Monday legal-izing civil unions for gay and les-bian couples, making Illinois one of about a dozen states that ex-tend significant legal protections to same-sex couples.
About 1,000 people crowded into the Chicago Cultural Center to watch Quinn, a Democrat, sign the measure that supporters call a matter of basic fairness and oppo-nents decry as a threat to the sanc-tity of traditional marriage.
The law, which takes effect June 1, gives gay and lesbian couples of-ficial recognition from the state and many of the rights that accompany traditional marriage, including the power to decide medical treatment for an ailing partner and the right to inherit a partner’s property.
Five states already allow civil unions or their equivalent, accord-ing to the Human Rights Cam-paign. Five other states and Wash-ington, D.C., let gay couples marry outright, as do some countries, in-cluding Canada, South Africa and the Netherlands.
Illinois law will continue to limit marriage to one man and one woman, and civil unions still are not recognized by the federal government.
Chicago residents Amanda Bar-low, 43, and Mimi Reynolds, 47, said they will hold a civil union cer-emony this summer. The couple, who have 4- and 5-year-old boys and have been together 14 years,
had considered traveling to oth-er states that allowed same-sex civ-il unions or marriage, “but I kept telling her ‘No, it’s going to happen here in Illinois,’” Barlow said.
“For us to witness and see it hap-pen and to realize that we’re both living our dreams . . . it just solidi-fies who we are as a family,” Barlow said after the bill-signing. “So I’m speechless because I feel like I’m living in a dream come true.”
Opponents, including some reli-gious and conservative groups, said the law is a step toward legalized same-sex marriage.
“Marriage was not created by man or governments,” David E. Smith, executive director of the Il-linois Family Institute, said Mon-day. “It is an institution created by God. Governments merely recog-nize its nature and importance.”
Some hope civil unions are a step toward full marriage for gay and lesbian couples, although sponsors of the civil union bill have said they don’t plan to push for legalizing same-sex marriages, which have limited support.
Cardinal Francis George and other Catholic leaders also vig-orously fought passage of the law. The measure doesn’t require churches to recognize civil unions or perform any kind of ceremony, but critics fear it will lead to oth-er requirements, such as includ-ing same-sex couples in adop-tion programs run by religious groups or granting benefits to employees’ partners.
The legislation, sent to Quinn in December, passed 61-52 in the Illi-nois House and 32-24 in the Senate.
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“We saved these monies to be used on a ‘rainy day.’ Most of us would agree this is one of those rainy days.”
— State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, on the necessity of tapping into the $9.4 billion Rainy Day Fund, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
“[The situation in Egypt] shows what ordinary people are capable of doing when they demand democratic rights for themselves in protest of the conditions they live in.”
— Snehal Shingavi, a UT assistant English profes-sor on the rebellion in Egypt, according to The Dai-ly Texan.
“We can’t afford to give up the good fight until the day Roe v. Wade is nothing but a shameful footnote in our nation’s history books.”
— Perry on the “emergency” item requiring wom-en seeking abortions to first receive a sonogram, as reported by the Texas Tribune.
“The government has no place in a doctor’s office.”
— Sara Cleveland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, rejecting the sonogram legislation, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
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One of the most newsworthy pieces of legislation this session is the bill which would legalize concealed handguns on campus. Unfortunately, the discussion is rife with blatant misconceptions, red her-rings and outright lies about what is at stake.
The bill will permit any student, staff or faculty member who has a Texas Concealed Handgun License to carry firearms inside a campus building. Currently, licensees are allowed to carry almost anywhere off-cam-pus (including the streets and sidewalks of a college campus, as long as they do not enter a building). To obtain a CHL, the applicant must complete a 10-hour course and pass a written test, a live-fire qualification test and both federal and state background checks, along with other requirements. Many argue the training and qualification standards are insufficient and concealed handgun licens-ees should be subjected to equal or greater training than law enforcement officers.
The reason police officers spend so many hours training is simple: Their regi-men consists of preparing for duties and responsibilities besides the use of lethal force, which constitutes a minor part of the complete curriculum. Additionally, the le-gal duties and limits for use of deadly force are completely different between police and CHL holders. A concealed handgun licens-
ee can only legally reveal his firearm and/or use deadly force for self-preservation, as shown in Texas Penal Code Sections 9.31 and 9.32. There are many provisions and limits as to how a licensee must conduct himself or herself in a defensive situation, and they are outlined in the 10-hour CHL course. In an emergency situation, the duty of law enforcement is to run into the chaos, whereas a CHL holder is obligated to run away if possible. Licensees have no power to perform the duties of police, and you would be hard-pressed to find any incidents where a CHL holder ran around acting like a vigilante.
It is also important to note that the live-fire CHL qualification is nearly identical to the police qualification. Unfortunately, there can never be enough training to fully prepare for a deadly encounter no matter how rigid the requirements are, and anyone who claims otherwise is wrong. However, the Texas CHL requirements present a rea-sonable minimum standard of competency for citizens to effectively deal with the most common self-defense situations. In fact, the Texas CHL requirements are among the strictest in the nation.
The primary purpose of the campus carry bill is not to serve as a deterrent or weapon against school shootings like Virginia Tech; it’s to help prevent law-abiding citizens from becoming victims. We all know that campus is a statistically safe place. Unfor-tunately, the area surrounding campus is a
different story. Those who live off-campus and must walk or bus through relatively unsafe areas in order to get to school will benefit greatly from this bill.
The anti-carry lobbyists can skirt around the issue all they want, but they will never concede to the uncomfortable truth that “Gun Free Zones” are flawed by nature. While such imaginary borders make peo-ple feel safe, there is a distinct difference between feeling safe and actually being safe. Did a zero-tolerance weapons policy dissuade Colton Tooley from bringing his rifle into the PCL last semester? Anyone who was on campus Sept. 28th knows the answer to that question.
While there is no magic solution to im-proving campus safety, campus carry pro-vides members of the UT family with an option for individual protection while on campus. In support of this proposition, no peer reviewed study has found campus carry detrimental to public safety. If these conclusions aren’t enough, you can draw your own using many publicly-available government statistics on the subject, such as the DPS CHL conviction reports, univer-sity Clery Act crime reports and FBI Uni-form Crime Reports. Perhaps if concerned citizens compared the campus crime rates between the 71 schools that permit cam-pus carry and those that don’t, their ruffled feathers would be soothed a bit.
Zipperer is a psychology senior.
Have a little prideI would like to respond to Trey Scott’s Monday
article, “Student spirit challenged by lack of ‘O-Zone’ seats.”
First off, I would like to thank Mr. Scott for bringing to attention the fact that the student sec-tions at Texas basketball games need some work, but the problem is not the seat locations or the Erwin Center but the students themselves. Sure, people were turned away for the last two games or relegated to the mezzanine, but where were all of these people the rest of the season? Where were you for Arkansas? Where were you for Texas State? Heck, we couldn’t even fill up the O-Zone for Oklahoma, one of our most hated rivals. Until students consistently show to games, nothing will change. I say this as a fifth-year student who’s been sitting in the front row of the south side of the O-Zone for the last three years. Even during Kevin Durant’s year it was bad, and he was one of the greatest college basketball players of all time.
This also goes deeper than simply student attendance. We need more student participation. Standing with your arms crossed making no noise just doesn’t cut it. We need to create an environ-ment suitable for a top-5 team. When the other team has the ball, jump around and make noise. It’s very simple.
This Saturday, we play Texas Tech here in Austin. I would love to see the students get rowdy like we do down in the front, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
— Sean QuillmanAerospace engineering senior
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Strong family and ethnic identi-fication can motivate students from Latino and Asian immigrant back-grounds to try to succeed academ-ically despite many challenges, said Andrew Fuligni, a University of California, Los Angeles researcher, in a speech Monday.
The Department of Human De-velopment and Family Sciences sponsored the event because the Latino and Asian populations are growing in the U.S., said Su Yeong Kim, UT assistant professor in the department.
The Latino population increased from 12.5 to 15.1 percent of the to-tal U.S. population between 2000 and 2009, according to the Ameri-can Community Survey. The Asian population increased from 3.6 to
4.4 percent in the same period. She said this trend is particularly rele-vant in Texas.
“Texas is one of the top six des-tinations for new immigrants, so we’re definitely impacted by the is-sues he talked about,” she said.
Fuligni said children from im-migrant backgrounds face chal-lenges including economic dis-tress, substandard schools, health care, cultural differences and neg-ative stereotypes. He said these challenges could harm these chil-dren psychologically and reduce their resources.
“If you are feeling as if you are being excluded or devalued, that’s perhaps one of the most threaten-ing consequential social stressors that has significant implications for physical health, mental health and one’s ability to engage productively in institutions,” he said.
Fuligni said students from Chi-nese and Mexican backgrounds had a stronger identification with their ethnicity than their European-American counterparts across three generations. He said immigrants from Asian and Latin American backgrounds had stronger feelings of obligation to assist their families as adults and spent more time help-ing their families than their Euro-pean-American counterparts, even when economic differences were controlled for.
He said a high sense of family ob-ligation was correlated with a stron-ger belief in the usefulness of educa-tion. However, strong family identi-fication did not erase disparities in achievement and could create aca-demic problems. He showed a di-ary entry from a 14-year-old Mex-ican-American student who had to watch her younger siblings and
was forced to do her homework the morning before class.
“She still is doing her home-work,” Fuligni said. “She’s still try-ing to make it work, but the ques-tion is, can she do that, how long can she keep doing that?”
Cyndy Karras, a UT graduate student in human development and family sciences, said she attended the talk because she knew the de-partment was considering hiring Fuligni. She said his research re-flected her experiences as a Mexi-can-American.
“I can understand what it’s like to have to juggle both being Mex-ican and American and how to in-put those two identities together,” she said. “I think it’s important to understand how youth from these [immigrant] backgrounds can excel academically and personally in face of challenges.”
Former APD officer pleads guilty, faces four misdemeanor charges
Former Austin Police Department Officer Leonardo Quintana pled guilty to drunk driving Monday, af-ter his January 2010 arrest in Wil-liamson County.
The jury trial, set to begin Mon-day, did not take place after Quinta-na pled guilty to Williamson County prosecutors the same day.
The sentencing is scheduled for March 7 and gives more time for pre-investigation into the case, Quinta-na’s DWI lawyer Jamie Balagia said.
“We’ve cut a deal on plea bargain for one year of probation, a $400 fine and the standard condition of pro-bation for a DWI — the judge will of course add any other addition-al requirements that will benefit the case,” Balagia said.
Quintana became a center of con-troversy after the May 2009 shooting of 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II.
Quintana, who hasn’t consumed alcohol since his January arrest, at-tempted to go to APD for help when he realized the extent of his problem, Balagia said.
Quintana faces four misdemeanor charges, including two counts of as-sault, one count of criminal trespass and one count of criminal mischief in two separate altercations with his former fiancee, Lori Noriega, who is also an APD officer. Pre-trial for these charges is scheduled to begin after the DWI sentencing.
“We are looking for a good sen-tencing,” Balagia said. “Leonard would like to move forward with his life and resume his career as an Aus-tin police officer.”
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Academic success of minorities resides in familiesBy Allison HarrisDaily Texan Staff
Fifteen months after the death of Roy Butler, Austin’s first vot-er-elected mayor, Austin’s Public Safety Training Campus opened Monday morning in honor of his dedication to keeping Austin safe.
Members of the Austin Fire De-partment, Austin Police Depart-ment and Austin-Travis Coun-ty Emergency Medical Servic-es joined Mayor Lee Leffingwell, Austin officials and Ann Butler, widow of the former mayor, to in-augurate the facilities by cutting yellow caution tape.
“I remember hearing the vi-sion of this campus to be a full-fledged higher education cam-pus for public safety, literally like a public safety university,” said Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez, who was an Austin firefighter for 13 years.
The expanded campus includes the Roy Butler Building, a 50,000- sq. foot facility that houses a gym,
a weight room, classrooms and state-of-the-art computers and technology to serve the mod-ern training demands of Austin’s emergency responders. With en-ergy-efficient building infrastruc-ture, city officials expect a Leader-ship in Energy and Environmen-tal Design from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Other improvements to the 40-acre campus include a 40,300-sq. foot indoor shooting complex that replaced the previous out-door range, a 3,350-sq. foot burn building, outdoor training facili-ties, a driving track, an emergen-cy vehicle operating course and a SWAT obstacle course.
The $20 million in additions, renovations and environmental considerations were funded by 2006 bond funds and emphasize what Leffingwell believes is “the city’s commitment to being the safest city in the nation.”
As part of the Art in Public Places program, the City of Aus-
tin commissioned New York art-ist Chris Doyle to produce “Show-ershade,” an outdoor pavilion with silhouettes of training cadets cut out of the roof to create animated shadows during the day.
“Public safety is the corner-stone and foundation of a world class city,” Martinez said. “With-out public safety, you don’t have education, you don’t have jobs, you don’t have quality of life.”
Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff
Members of the Austin Police Department Honor Guard march into the opening ceremony for the new City of Austin Public Safety Training Campus, which includes an environmentally-friendly shoot-ing range, training facilities and an outdoor art piece.
Training facility honors late ex-mayorBy Tamir KalifaDaily Texan Staff
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COLLEGE STATION — As the few Longhorn fans at Reed Arena snuck down to seats di-r e c t l y b e -hind the Texas bench, senior G a r y J o h n -s o n t u r n e d a r o u n d w i t h a huge smi le and responded to the “ Texas Fight” cheers t h a t e c h o e d t h r o u g h o u t the arena.
T h e j oy o f Jo h n s o n a n d other seniors D o g u s B a l -bay and Matt Hi l l res onat-ed throughout the bench as the No. 3 Longhorns (19-3, 7-0) fi-nally got over the hump and beat No. 16 Texas A&M (17-4, 4-3) on the road for the first time since 2004.
The Longhorns did not trail throughout the entire game as they managed to outplay the Ag-gies in every facet en route to a 69-49 win.
“I’ve been doing this 24 years, and I haven’t seen as many teams as good as Texas,” said Texas A&M head coach Mark Turgeon. “I thought they were fantastic.”
Texas’ effort once again was led on the defensive side of the ball where the Longhorns held the Aggies to 30 percent shooting
from field. In doing so, they did not allow A&M’s leading scorer Khris Middleton to score.
“One thing we tried to do is take away the opposing team’s lead-ing scorer,” said Texas head coach
Rick Barnes. “When you do that, you are going to have to have a team ef-fort.”
T h e A g -g i e s w e r e u n a b l e t o rally at any p oi nt . T h e f e w t i m e s that they did score a field g o a l , t h e L o n g h o r n s w o u l d i m -mediately go
down court and score.Jordan Hamilton, who was
a l s o Te x a s’ l e a d i n g s c o r e r with 20 points , was respon-sible for guarding Middleton the majority of the game.
“I said to myself, ‘I’m just going to come out here and try to guard him the hardest I ever guarded someone before,’” Hamilton said. “And I did that tonight.”
In addition, the Longhorns had strong defensive produc-tion from Hill, Hamilton, Bal-bay and Alexis Wangmene, who helped Texas’ leading blocker Tristan Thompson combine for all nine of Texas’ blocked shots.
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Texas freshman forward Tristan Thompson soars for the ball during the Longhorn’s rout of Texas A&M, Monday in College Station. Thompson anchored the Texas defense, finishing with three of the team’s nine blocks to go along with his 10 points. Texas beat the Aggies by more than 20 points for the second time this season.
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As he waited for his former college roommate Marcus Cousin to finish showering after Saturday’s 105-103 overtime win against New Mexico, newly acquired Austin Toros guard Aubrey Coleman stressed the im-portance of their relationship.
“When I got picked up, it was comforting to see that I knew someone here,” he said. “In this
league, guys are always moving from team to team, and it was nice to see a familiar face.”
As Cousin stepped out of the locker room, the pair shared a smile and a handshake, congratu-lating each other on the win. Their friendship dates back two years, when the two roomed togeth-er as teammates at the University of Houston. Cousin and Coleman both landed with the Cougars af-ter short stints with Seton Hall and
Southwest Mississippi Communi-ty College, respectively.
The two played different roles while in college, with Coleman leading the team in scoring dur-ing his two years there, even winning an NCAA scoring title for the 2009-2010 season. Cous-in helped out by leading the team in rebounds and being a presence down low.
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Former college teammates reunited
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Austin Toros guard Aubrey Coleman passes the ball during the Toros’ 105-103 overtime victory over New Mexico Saturday. Coleman and former Houston teammate Marcus Cousin both play for Austin.
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Just a few minutes into Satur-day’s game against New Mexico, and the Austin Toros were al-ready down big.
Maybe it was the early noon start time, or maybe the Toros were tired from the beating they took at the hands of the same New Mexico team on Thursday, a televised 93-104 loss. Whatev-er the cause, the Thunderbirds had already jumped out to a 10-0 lead against the Toros.
But then, Austin began to claw their way back into it. Thanks to a couple of small scoring spurts, the Toros cut a 14-point deficit down to three at halftime.
The second half started at the Cedar Park Center and saw much of the same — the Toros keeping it close. Close enough — and buoyed by 80-percent free throw shooting and a staunch defense — that a Kevin Palm-er layup with 44 seconds left in the fourth quarter tied the game at 99. The game went into over-time, and the Toros managed to pull out a gutsy, come-from-be-hind 105-103 win. And that, you could say, has been the tale of their season so far.
“For some reason, this team
likes to start slow and come from behind,” said forward Leo Lyons. “We’re still working on that, but we’re trying to fix it.”
On Saturday, the Toros were able to close the gap. The rest of the season, however, has been a different story. They current-ly sit second-to-last in the West Conference standings at 12-15, just one year after advancing to the semifinals of the NBA De-velopmental League playoffs.
But things are looking up. Half of the season remains to be played, and if Austin can avoid any more major tumbles (they lost six straight games earlier in the season), they could play their way into playoff contention.
“I fe e l l i ke we’re a toug h team, but sometimes we just have our lapses where we’re not as sharp as we need to be,” said for ward Lance Thomas. “But I think we’re f iguring it out. We realize that we have to give our best ever y game, so we’re making strides.”
A couple of mid-season acqui-sitions should continue to give the team an extra boost. Lyons and guard Aubrey Coleman, the NCAA scoring leader a year ago at Houston, both came to the
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All the usual stars showed up for Texas on Monday night — Jordan Hamilton scored a game-high 20 points, Tristan Thompson added 10 points and five boards and Cory Jo-seph scored 11 — but for the Longhorns to win by 20, it took some atypical contributions from the team’s role players.
Matt Hill, Jai Lucas, J’Covan Brown and Alexis Wangmene all logged significant min-utes as other players sat with foul trouble.
“We always trust our bench,” said start-
ing guard Dogus Balbay. “Tonight was one of those nights, you know, they came in and changed the game.”
Hill was first off the bench in both halves. His first touch of the ball was a putback min-utes into the game that he immediately fol-lowed up with a defensive rebound on the other end.
“What Matt Hill does doesn’t really show up on the stat sheet,” Hamilton said. “He’s a great defender, and he’s a force inside.”
Hill and fellow reserve forward Wangmene helped defend A&M’s David Loubeau, Ray Turner and Keith Davis inside after starters
Thompson and Gary Johnson were pulled for accumulating early fouls.
“Matt Hill came in and rebounded his tail off,” Thompson said. “He was really impressive inside and gave their big men a tough time.”
Hill also converted two field goals, includ-ing a mid-range jumper, an unusual shot for the 6-foot-10 post player.
“When he hit the little jump shot in the lane,” said A&M head coach Mark Turgeon. “It was kind of their night.”
The senior hadn’t played much in recent games — just 11 minutes against Missouri
on Saturday and three versus Oklahoma State on Jan. 26. But head coach Rick Barnes turned to him for relief and leadership on Monday and the senior responded with a season-high eight rebounds.
“He’s one of those guys on the offensive end that just keeps things gong,” Barnes said about Hill. “But he came up with some big rebounds on the defensive end.”
Lucas and Brown effectively ran the point when Balbay was out. Brown played 24 min-utes, the most he’s played since a Jan. 22 win at
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“He was king out there,” Cous-in said of Coleman. “I was just trying to crash the boards and get what I could.”
They provided an effective one-two punch, with Cousin control-ling the paint and erasing oppo-nent’s shots, while Coleman would either drive to the basket or drain open looks. In all of their time to-gether, the two have meshed as friends on and off the court.
“We know each other’s moves,” Coleman said. “I know he’s going to go inside and fight for position, and I can look for him to screen for me, too, so I can get open.”
They share a rare connection in the NBA Developmental League, which is full of journeymen and re-habbing big-leaguers.
“[Coleman] is a driver, and I know he likes to shoot, so we help each oth-er out a lot,” Cousin said. “It’s easy for us to think ahead and figure out what the other is going to do.”
Coleman and Cousin also be-came close with each other’s fam-ilies while they played at Houston. Coleman’s family was merely min-utes away in the Fort Bend area, while Cousin’s mother, Toni, visit-ed regularly from Cousin’s home-town of Baltimore, Md.
Toni Cousin, along with her husband Marcus Sr., were in at-tendance Saturday, sitting right behind the Toros bench and oc-casionally offering praise or in-struction to the two.
“They did everything together in college,” she said. “I would come and stay with them for three weeks at a time, and I can’t tell you how much banana pudding I made for those boys. Both of them have real-ly big hearts and are great kids.”
Now that the two friends are back on the same team, they are hoping to build on the rapport they shared in college. Coleman and Cousin have both quickly become key contributors for the Toros, each averaging around 15 points
a contest. Cousin is a force in the paint, grabbing timely rebounds and making huge defensive plays, like his block on New Mexico’s final shot attempt with two seconds left in regulation over the weekend. On the other hand, Coleman is learn-ing that he can make an impact in the game with his new role, which sees him coming off the bench and providing a spark.
“I had to do all the scoring in col-lege,” he said. “I’m still new to this team, so I have to find my spot.”
As the pair walked off to meet Cousin’s family for lunch, it was apparent that their relationship was deeper than just playing basketball together. And with the two reunit-ed, it has no signs of diminishing.
team in early January after stints overseas. Both have been up-grades for the Toros, as Coleman is scoring 16 points per game and Lyons is displaying the well-rounded overall game that got him noticed in college at Mis-souri, averaging 10 points and nearly six rebounds per contest. But both have had to make ad-justments to fit in with their new team, learning the schemes and fitting in to their expected roles.
“I’ve been learning on the fly, trying to get used to the new system,” Coleman said. “In col-lege, they ran the plays through me and now I’m coming off the bench. I don’t just worry about scoring now. I have to play de-fense and rebound and do the lit-tle things to help the team win.”
Head coach Brad Jones has been able to find a nice rotation on a team stacked with young and improving players. Lance Thomas, a NCAA champion last year at Duke, has put in hours of work on his jump shot and con-tinues to improve. Starting cen-ter Marcus Cousin might be the most NBA-ready player on the team, averaging almost 15 points and nine rebounds per game. Point guard Carldell Johnson, a fan favorite and Toros veteran of four years, paces the team with six assists per game.
The Toros have their eyes on the playoffs. The climb will be steep, but they’re used to that.
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Superhero movies have been a growing trend in Hollywood the past decade. Some of the more popular franchises — Batman, Su-perman and Spiderman — have recently been rebooted; furnished with a fresh cast of actors, writers and directors to give the fans the best experience possible.
This offseason, Texas went
through a similar process with its coaching staff. Seven new faces will join head coach Mack Brown on the sidelines next year. They will work to reboot a team that went 5-7 and to re-energize a fan base that wasn’t used to watching such mediocrity.
“I told the players that I’d never been more excited and that I was starting over,” Brown said during a press conference Monday. “Thir-teen years ago, I didn’t know what
I was doing, and now I’ve got 13 years of experience with new ener-gy and a restart.”
Brown said he didn’t know what went wrong last season, only that it was his responsibility.
“I do know that I felt like I had a hangover after the national cham-pionship game,” he said. “And I don’t know if I’ve ever taken a loss as hard. I think part of it was Colt McCoy, part of it was it’s just too hard to get there. I just pouted for
a while, and when you’re pouting at 13-1, that’s pretty stupid.”
Recruits sticking with Texas
Wednesday is national signing day, when high school recruits fi-nalize their decisions on where to play. Texas already has one of the top-rated recruiting classes, and three of the top-five rated re-cruits in the nation have yet to de-
cide where to play. The Longhorns were able to hold on to most of their prospects amid the offseason turmoil that saw much turnover in the football program.
“For all those recruits to hang in there with the media and opposing coaches calling them, talking about all the negatives of staff change — they’ve hung in there for Texas,” Brown said. “They trusted my staff and I to hire the right guys, and most of them didn’t even waiver.”
Brown focused solely on 2011
Texas had an awful year in 2010, but it’s now 2011 and in order to look forward it cannot look to its past.
“We’re not going to continue to talk about 2005, when we won the national championship,” Brown said. “We’re not going to talk about 2008, when we were third or 2009, when we were second. So we’re sure not go-ing to talk about 2010. We are mov-ing forward like it’s our first day.”
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“Everyone’s following,” Thompson said. “Now when the scouting report comes in, it doesn’t just say, ‘Tristan Thompson blocks shots.’ You got to worry about all the big guys. That gets the offensive players scared that they might get their shots blocked.”
Though only a f reshman, Thompson calls himself the “cap-tain” of blocking shots.
“Someone has to lead the block party,” Thompson said.
Despite the Longhorns success in limiting Big 12 opponents to new lows, there is an agreement amongst the team that there is room for improvement.
“We got a long way to go,” Thompson said. “Even though we won this game by a large margin, we still got improvements to make and areas to get better at.”
The Longhorns have become accus-tomed to winning by large margins. Texas has won its first seven conference games by an average of 18 points.
“I told Rick [Barnes], if they keep working hard and getting better that they can win a national champion-ship,” Turgeon said. “And I don’t say that very much.”
The Longhorns have now defeated four ranked teams in its last five games. After a stretch of two games in three days, Texas finally has some time off be-fore they face Texas Tech on Saturday.
“I need to get some extra sleep and be a student for a little bit,” Thompson said.
Kansas, and scored eight points. Overall, the Texas reserves
outscored their Aggie counter-parts 19-10.
“There wasn’t any drop off to-night,” Turgeon said. “I thought Wangmene played well and [Matt] Hill really played well.”
Brown, Lucas and Wangmene all scored during a crucial 14-0 run by Texas halfway through the first period while three start-ers sat with foul trouble.
The scoring streak helped Texas build a 25-point halftime lead, its largest of the season.
A&M fans wave game day issues of the school’s paper The Battallion to intimidate UT’s team as they come on the court. Despite such tactics, UT pulled off a 69-49 victory over the Aggies.
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Emphasis should be placed on online, not offline, reading com-prehension, said an education professor who specializes in com-puter literacy.
Early education in Internet lit-eracy may hold the key to main-taining the United States’ stand-ing as a global power, educators learned at a lecture during the 2011 Texas Association of School Administrators Midwinter Con-ference on Monday.
Donald J. Leu, education pro-fessor at the University of Con-necticut, focused on the need for students to be efficient at solving problems through Internet use, a project he said should begin as early as second grade, when stu-dents are first introduced to read-ing comprehension.
“Students do more reading on-line than they do offline these days, so it follows that we would change our curriculum to reflect that,” Leu said.
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“I was glad to hear him speak about educating teachers about computer use,” said L inda Crownover, the executive direc-tor of curriculum and instruction for the Weatherford school dis-trict. “How long it takes for teach-ers to become proficient in lead-ing classrooms in Internet literacy has been our biggest challenge.”
Along with a strong educat-ing force, Leu suggests every stu-dent should have a laptop. Shelly Blank, a counselor at Westlake High School, said she was skep-
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“It would of course be nice to be able to have a 1-1 laptop ra-tio in schools, but it hardly seems like a feasible goal, especially the way spending is being discussed these days,” she said.
According to a set of recom-mendations from the Legislative Budget Board — a joint legisla-tive committee that recommends funding for state agencies — the state could cut up to $10 billion from public education funding for the next biennium.
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Still, the interest in focusing on Internet mobility remains strong.
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“We need the organizers who will create a mission statement, but we also need the sit-ins and the walk-outs,” she said. “Most impor-tantly, we need mutual respect for each other within our movement.”
The group’s Facebook page, in-tended to be a public channel of conversation for members and in-terested students, was the medium for a series of heated exchanges be-tween group members. The flier was one of many issues concern-ing activism the group disagreed on, including means of protest and communication.
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Young said even if there was no flier, she doesn’t think Asso-ciate Dean Richard Flores would have attended.
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“The King is Dead”The DecemberistsGenre: Indie-folkTracks: 10For those who like: Neil Young, Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers
Grade: B+
Nearly a year ago, American musician and spoken-word poet Gil Scott-Heron released I’m New Here, his first full-length album in 16 years. Reflective, intense and burning with Scott-Heron’s moody incantations about the state of the world, the album was well received by critics and heralded as a new direction in Scott-Heron’s art. Al-though Scott-Heron’s work in his earlier releases bordered on the fre-netic sonics of acid jazz and proto-rap, the latest album ventured into new territory — one where sparse, minimalist electronic beats pro-vided the backdrop.
Fast-forward to a year later: Ja-mie Smith, the sonic architect of the wildly popular band The xx, wants to remix Scott-Heron’s al-bum. The result is astonishing —
13 tracks with Scott-Heron’s trade-mark slurring and half-mum-bled ruminations on life coupled with Smith’s masterful production. We’re New Here is essentially what I’m New Here would have sound-ed if The xx and Scott-Heron had collaborated in the first place: a smoky, urban pastiche of dubstep-informed synths-and-beats.
Tracks such as “Running” and “NY Is Killing Me” are indicative of the latest wave of dubstep; gone are the wonky bass lines and low-frequency oscillations that typified artists such as Rusko and BAR9, and in their place are minimal — but no less effective — manipu-lations of negative space between beats. Squishy bass and under-stated snare rolls are omnipresent throughout the album.
Album opener “I’m New Here” recalls the spaced-out sound of Animal Collective’s 2009 opus
Merriweather Post Pavilion for two long minutes before jumping head-first into a pool of swirling synth, drawn-out bass drops and pitch-bent vocals punctuating through-out the song. Songs such as “My Cloud” are soft electronic lullabies where Scott-Heron sing-speaks along to Smith’s warm, fuzzy back-drop of ambient electro and recalls Dntl or even Boards of Canada.
For the casual electronic mu-sic fan, this album might serve
as a perfect introduction to the world of post-dubstep — not as wild as the dubstep currently be-ing served up at house parties and not as alienating as dubstep from the earlier part of the last decade, where 2-step and break-beat played a bigger role in tracks than the dub itself. But for the initiated, this album is a precur-sor for things to come — a nat-ural evolution in the sound of electronic music.
By Marie-Louise FriedlandDaily Texan Staff
By Francisco MarinDaily Texan Staff “We’re New Here”
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xxGenre: Alternative, Soul-tranceTracks: 13For those who like: Four Tet, The xx, MF Doom
Grade: A-
Critically acclaimed album gets synthesized overhaul
problem comes when the ac-tors have to speak lines that don’t come from the minds of British youth but instead from a boardroom of out-of-touch MTV producers, who would sooner fabricate teenage culture than hire a staff of young writ-ers who live in it.
In the U.S. debut, the char-acters have embraced only the ugliest, vainest characteristics of their U.K. counterparts.
Tony, Sid (Tony’s best friend and verbal punching bag), Mi-chelle (Tony’s airheaded girl-friend) and the rest of the cast of the U.K. series were complex characters with fears, passions and dreams that weren’t imme-diately unveiled upon their in-troduction. Each episode of the series puts the magnifying glass on each character’s personal life.
These are teenagers as un-believable as they are vapid. Tony, in the original, was a con-niving prick who read Nietz-
sche, impressed parents and teachers alike with his academ-ic prowess and thrived on ma-nipulating those who cared for him the most through the pow-er that his good looks and wit lent him. The U.S. Tony is nei-ther likable nor a considerable threat. He’s the popped-collar, loudmouth that you ignored in high school — defined solely by his sexual appetite.
Each character has been stripped down to their most rep-rehensible traits in similar ways.
Sid, the bumbling virgin with a good heart, has transformed into Stanley, a hopeless pervert. The amount of cleavage on dis-play is the only thing consistent with Michelle. The rest of the cast don’t fare much better, form-ing a troupe of go-nowhere, be-nothing party animals.
The problem isn’t that there are no good, inexperienced actors or writers in America. The problem is that MTV is out of touch.
leading roles. The male leads seem well suited
for their characters; Sam Witwer lends a tortured guilt-ridden na-ture to the vampire Aidan, strongly reminiscent of his previous role on “Smallville” as another medic with a murderous secret. Sam Hunting-ton, who made his acting debut as extremely boyish and somewhat naive Mimi-Siku in “Jungle 2 Jun-gle” alongside Tim Allen, creates a fittingly quirky persona for Josh the werewolf, which expands upon the morally pure British counter-part who struggles against his vi-cious other side.
Less can be said of Sally, played by Meaghan Rath. While Josh and Aidan go about making new rela-tionships with humans, her charac-ter is reduced to a spectre still un-able to leave the boundaries of the house, move or affect the objects around her (aside from the occa-sional uncontrolled poltergeist-
like outbursts) or even be seen by anyone but her new housemates.
Furthermore, parts of the first episode’s script were painfully sim-ilar to that of the original. The cast and crew, however, emphasized in interviews on the Syfy channel’s website that this version will devi-ate from the original.
Huntington even states that he has refrained from watching any of the original to help ensure that he develops Josh independently.
Efforts to recreate the fast-paced sarcasm and humor of the original have had moments of success in the first few episodes, but many of the at-tempts by the actors to show the pain of their characters seem contrived.
The 13 episodes Syfy is plan-ning to air for the first season give the show time to sort out these kinks that stand as potential set-backs to an otherwise promis-ing take on the rich potential of the original.
support. Tickets will be available begin-ning this Thursday at Waterloo Records or at ACL-live.com
Daniel Johnston and his “Infinite” comic book
If you’re one of the uninitiated, I’ll let you in on a not-so-secret secret: That strange frog creature painted on the side of Crave at the corner of 21st and Gua-dalupe streets was painted in 1993 by legendary sing-er-song writ-er Daniel John-ston. Johnston played an im-promptu set for dozens of fans there last Saturday, and now he’s looking to his fans to help fund his next project, the “Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness.” The response has been more than overwhelming: In only a week, 308 fans pledged $19,384 to his Kickstarter.com fundraising page.
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Beyond the indie soundtrack, cast of inexperienced but none-theless compelling actors and ex-perimental directing, it is the col-lection of young, clever writ-ers — most are barely out of high school — that has given Brit-ish teen drama “Skins” its identity and fan base.
After being broadcast on BBC America and streamed on Netf-lix, the show found a new fan base overseas. MTV noticed. The pro-ducers behind MTV series such as “The Hills” and “16 and Pregnant” took it upon themselves to Amer-icanize a series deeply steeped in British slang and culture. Now, we must differentiate by calling it
“U.S. Skins.” Without the context of British
slang, the name summons an im-age of a grungy, sleazy strip club rather than the rolling paper for a joint — one of the original mean-ings behind the show’s namesake.
The first episode of the U.S. se-ries is a near identical remake of the original U.K. pilot, give or take a couple of outlandish scenes placed for comedic effect.
In both versions, we open with a shot of Tony, an arrogant and manipulative, but nonetheless be-loved, high school student. He gets out of bed to distract his red-faced, shouting father as his younger sis-ter sneaks into the house after a night of partying.
It’s a faithful recreation of a memorable opening. The
The idea of a factory producing art is not new.
Andy Warhol mass-produced silk screens and lithographs in his 1960s New York studio, “The Fac-tory,” famous for its connection to musicians and downtown divas. Like Warhol’s studio, Los Ange-les artist Amanda Ross-Ho’s “UNTITLED NOTHING FACTORY” — this spring’s headlining show at UT’s Visual Arts Center — uses as-sembly line techniques. But here, students and curious members of the public play an active part in the artistic environment.
The show launched Friday night and gallery-goers were willing to experiment. Starting off slow, about an hour into the evening the trio of activities — paper-making, ce-ramic vessel molding and canvas stretching — were underway be-neath the two-story ceiling of the gallery. Work tables with tubs of pa-per pulp, kitchen blenders, wooden stretchers and slabs of clay trans-formed the place into a buzzing fac-tory of production.
Transforming the center’s main gallery into a workspace, students and the public can stretch blank canvases over wooden stretchers, mold basic ceramic vessels and produce handmade paper from recycled paper. She describes this as participation in the produc-tion of negative space — the emp-ty space surrounding a figure or object in a work of art. Once fin-ished, the products will be distrib-uted throughout the gallery.
Over the next couple of weeks, “UNTITLED NOTHING FACTORY” will crystallize into a stat-ic installation that will remain on view at the center until mid-March. Ross-Ho will be present in the gal-lery during museum hours to guide visitors through demonstrations and anticipates a good degree of social interaction.
Saturday, Feb. 5 is set aside as an “Invitation to Participate.” On Fri-day, Feb. 11, the final day that Ross-
Ho will be on-site, there will be a reception and discussion by the art-ist. This will be the “opening” of the finished piece and a chance to wit-ness the results of the collaboration between the artist and the public.
As the objects created by par-ticipants accumulate and alter the landscape over time, the gallery will be worth visiting multiple times just to see how the piece develops.
Ross-Ho describes the work as
organic — growing naturally out of its environment.
“I am interested in leaving holes in the process, to release control, while being still incredibly control-ling,” Ross-Ho explained. “[This paradox] is the work of the artist. Structure is important, but I am also interested in the unknown, in what limits people are interested in testing,”
Ross-Ho was invited for this
show as part of the center’s mission to program more interactive works, said Visual Arts Center director Jade Walker. Walker also found in Ross-Ho an artist with past experi-ence in interactive works, who also worked in a textile factory in the early ’90s and an open, approach-able attitude toward working with her audience. In the past, she has exhibited at the Museum of Mod-ern Art in New York and the 2008
Whitney Biennial, a contemporary art show in New York.
Ross-Ho is known for includ-ing residues of the creative pro-cess in her finished work — seen in the worked-over walls from her L.A. studio into museum shows in Los Angeles and Chicago. In 2009, she and participants created and deconstructed an enormous wall painting at the Yerba Buena Cen-ter for the Arts in San Francisco.
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Artist’s assembly line exhibit draws in audience participation
Lizzie Chen | Daily Texan Staff
Marsha Hendrix, along with second graders Lisa Hendrix and Samantha Wilson, discover how to make paper at Amanda Ross-Ho’s on-site exhibition, UNTITLED NOTHING FACTORY, which invites the public to examine the ongoing process of creative expression.
Yann Tiersen + Mother FalconIt wasn’t until Yann Tiersen scored
“Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Pou-lain” — also known as “Amélie” — in 2001 that the French composer re-ceived widespread acclaim for his min-imalist folk music. Now, with six full-length albums and a slew of sound
tracks, collaborations and EPs under his
belt, Tiersen has never been bet-ter. It makes sense that one of Austin’s best
up-and-coming bands, the cham-
ber pop group Moth-er Falcon, would be paired with him for Thursday night’s show at the Mo-hawk. Both acts have a refined taste of the somber and the ecstatic, with songs that harken back to a different time and a different place. Doors open at 8 p.m. at the Mohawk and tickets are available at MohawkAustin.com.
Devo makes good on its Austin promise
Fun Fun Fun Fest last November, like all previous Fun Fest festivals before it, set the bar a little higher for headlin-ers. Unfortunately, Devo, one of the most anticipated acts headlining the festival, was forced to cancel their ap-pearance after lead guitarist and vocal-ist Bob Mothersbaugh injured his hand. The band, however, is making good on its promise to play in Austin: On March 28, Devo will play for Austin City Limits live at Moody Theater, with local elec-tronic mavens The Octopus Project for
By Francisco Marin
Reincarnations of shows from across the pond have been making their mark on American television for decades, from “All in the Fami-ly” to “The Office.” But this year, a whole new wave of imported British shows are invading the U.S. as U.K.-inspired productions permeate the American television scene.
MTV’s remake of the provoc-ative teen drama “Skins” has tak-en the spotlight — and the heat — in much of the British-turned-American debate, but another re-freshed version of a series still on air in the U.K. is itching for attention: “Being Human.”
Centered around a household of three supernatural roommates strug-gling to hold on to a connection with
their humanity and lead normal lives, the Syfy channel remake appears, at a glance, to be an attempt by anoth-er company looking to cash in on the recent vampire trend.
The reality is, however, that the characters in “Being Human,” from the very beginning, delve much deeper into the potential symbol-ism behind vampires, werewolves and ghosts than the glittering shells of those in the “Twilight” saga. The symbolic clash between morali-ty and animalistic urges that such monster lore has to offer is explored in a thoroughly entertaining and in-volved fashion.
Additionally, the British original gained much of its large fan follow-ing from its sharp, quick-paced hu-mor and dark, emotional under-tones presented by a talented cast of actors.
The Syfy version hasn’t deviated from following in the footsteps of its
British counterpart.The first episode, which was split
into two parts for the show’s pre-miere, introduces paranormal bros-for-life Josh, a werewolf, and Aid-an, a vampire, who are still adjusting to life as they work side-by-side at a regular Boston hospital.
Aidan struggles against his urge to feed on the people around him as Josh — who abandoned his fam-ily in the face of his dangerous new “wild side” — becomes even more of an outsider than his former quirky, somewhat neurotic human self.
Proposing a plan to “keep each other clean” by living together, the two move into a well-worn house haunted by the ghost of the landlord’s recently deceased fiancee, Sally.
Unlike in the British series, how-ever, the three aren’t already friends — only Josh and Aidan have a con-nection from the start. As a result, Sally is brought in as what feels like
more of a supporting character to accompany their bromance.
That being said, this remake of the series is truly refreshing. The special effects have been significant-ly stepped up and the shots and de-
sign of the show are cleaner, creating an appealing cinematic style that ex-tends to the characters themselves, as a trio of attractive actors fill the
TV TUESDAYBy Allistair Pinsof
TV TUESDAYBy Danielle Walllace
WHAT: Amanda Ross-Ho’s “UNTITLED NOTHING FACTORY”
WHERE: Vaulted Gallery at UT Visual Arts Center, 23rd and Trinity streets
WHEN: Through March 12, Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m. -7 p.m., Friday & Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
By Suzanne SchulzDaily Texan Staff
Courtesy of MTV
The U.S. version of the popular British show “Skins” has caused controversy with critics because of its racy plot lines and discontent among fans of the original.
Prepare your British accents, we have more UK TV
Courtesy of Syfy Channel
Aidan, played by Sam Witwer, gives into his inner vampiric tempta-tions with a prostitute, despite his struggle to be a normal human in the Syfy Channel’s latest remake of a British series, “Being Human.”
Supernatural cast prove it’s not easy ‘Being Human’
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‘Skins’ comes to MTV: stripped to its reprehensible and vain core
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