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Chicken nuggets and fries are a common lunch on cam-pus, even for the hundreds of turtles swimming in the Turtle Pond’s murky water.
Directly north of the Main
Building, the pond crawls with more than 200 turtles of at least four different species. Most are red-eared sliders na-tive to the area.
Curtis Drosche, a Facilities Services mechanical main-tenance technician, oversees the pond’s water levels and
keeps the habitat clear of trash and debris.
Drosche said the pond es-sentially sustains itself. No office on campus takes care of the individual turtles or pro-vides food, although people tend to feed the turtles their lunch leftovers. Drosche said two of the inhabitants are al-ligator turtles that have been known to catch unaware birds. He said the other
turtles have similar appetites to the students on campus.
“They’ll eat anything,” Dro-sche said. “People feed them a lot of scraps when they pass by after lunch. They don’t like lettuce though, they’re spoiled, they like what the kids eat.”
Drosche said throughout the 11 years he has taken care of the pond, a lack of
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83RD LEGISLATURE
House to hear campus gun billConcealed handgun license
holders could carry on univer-sity campuses if the Texas Leg-islature approves a bill going before the House of Represen-tatives on Saturday.
The bill, authored by State
Rep. Allen Fletcher, R-Cypress, would authorize university ad-ministrators to establish rules prohibiting concealed hand-guns in buildings located on campus only after consulting faculty, staff and students.
Fletcher said the bill would “decriminalize” possess-ing concealed handguns on
campus. He said license hold-ers would have to meet the age requirement — 21 and over — and will have completed back-ground checks and training.
“It won’t be a bunch of 19-year-old freshmen run-ning around at frat parties with guns,” Fletcher said. “They will be over 21.”
Similar legislation has stalled in the Senate. State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, who chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, has said he would not bring the Senate companion to the bill up for a hearing in the committee.
By Joshua Fechter
GUNS continues on page 2
CAMPUS
Many people weigh them-selves and track what they eat, but neurobiology profes-sor Russell Poldrack studies himself in an in-depth way no one has done before in his quest to learn how a healthy brain functions daily.
His study consists of a week-ly blood sample and two MRI scans per week paired with mood questionnaires, accord-ing to Poldrack. Poldrack said he also completes daily sur-veys measuring aspects such
as sleep quality, diet and what happened that day. Poldrack said he began data collec-tion in September 2012 and plans to publish his results in the fall.
Poldrack said he tracks the fluctuations of his psoriasis and has found that on days he recorded it being worse, the genes related to psoriasis are expressed more.
“Even though this is re-ally preliminary, it starts to show us the kinds of stuff that we might be able to find,”
UT professor studies own brain for a year
By Amanda Voeller
BRAIN continues on page 2
Turtle Pond thrives
CAMPUS
By Christine Ayala
Despite uncertain management, UT’s Turtle Pond proves hospitable waters
SYSTEM
UT faculty question disclosure proposals
Faculty members are rallying against a new UT System disclosure policy that may dimin-ish the University’s ability to recruit and retain professors, accord-ing to current Faculty Council members.
The Faculty Council will meet Monday to vote on a resolution object-ing to UT System-wide Policy 180, also known as the “Conflict of Interest, Conflicts of Commitment and Outside Activities” policy. The policy would enact a litany of disclo-sure requirements for all University employees, including forcing faculty members to disclose any gifts they or their family members receive costing more than $250, among other requirements.
Though the policy was originally meant to be implemented Wednes-day, UT System Chancel-lor Francisco Cigarroa announced in April that implementation would be delayed until Sept. 1. The announcement came two days after a Faculty Council meeting during which faculty members expressed objections to the policy for more than an hour.
“The chancellor heard from some of the faculty members and some of the presidents, who ex-pressed concerns,” said Dan Sharphorn, associ-ate vice chancellor and deputy general counsel for the System. “He de-cided to take another look at some of the elements of the policy to see if there’s a need for revision.”
One engineering pro-fessor, who requested to
By Jordan Rudner
UTS continues on page 2
Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan StaffCurtis Drosche, a Facilities Services mechanical maintenance technician, checks the Turtle Pond on Thursday. Drosche hopes that communication will improve between Facilities Services and the College of Natural Sciences so improvements can be made to the pond.
Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan StaffNeurobiology professor Russell Poldrack has a MRI Tuesday morning in the basement of the Norman Hackerman Building. Poldrack receives two MRIs weekly and has completed 56 thus far.
INSIDENEWSOutgoing Daily Texan staffers reflect on their time at the organization and lend advice to the next generation.
SPORTSLonghorns head to Stillwater for battle with Oklahoma State, sitting at the top of the conference. PAGE 7
Texas men’s golf team looks to defend its national title next month after winning its first Big 12 champion-ship since 2004 last month. PAGE 7
Graduating sports writers reflect on positive memories from their time at the Texan. PAGE 8
LIFE&ARTSThese late-night events will help procrastinate any finals studying. PAGE 12
‘Iron Man 3’ maintains the momentum of the series but has too many villains. PAGE 12
NEWSUT will remember stu-dents, faculty and staff who have died this year.
TAMU’s Kyle Field will be larger than UT’s Darrell K Royal-Texas Memo-rial Stadium this coming football season.
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remain anonymous because his leave of absence request is still pending, said the pol-icy is what convinced him to take a leave from the Uni-versity, and he will see how the policy plays out before deciding to return.
“My decision isn’t entire-ly about UTS 180, but that really pushed me over the edge,” the professor said. “It absolutely encroaches on what people would nor-mally consider time away from work. UT is an excel-lent school, but this doesn’t make any sense.”
English professor Alan Friedman, a former Faculty Council chairman, said many other faculty mem-bers also have concerns.
“This policy is intrusive,” Friedman said. “It violates academic freedom and pri-vacy rights. There was no
argument or rationale of-fered for why it was needed or what it was intended to ac-complish. No study has been done to demonstrate that this will serve any purpose or do any good, and it has not been tried out elsewhere.”
Among other provisions, the policy would require full-time faculty and staff to disclose the nature and ex-tent of any outside employ-ment or activity that “may reasonably appear to cre-ate a conflict of interest or a conflict of commitment,” even if the outside activities are uncompensated, includ-ing activities by immediate family members.
“When in doubt in de-termining whether an ac-tivity or interest should be disclosed, the individual should resolve the doubt in favor of disclosure,” the policy states.
The policy also requires faculty and staff to obtain approval before engaging in the activities it mentions.
Sharphorn said he ac-knowledged certain faculty members have concerns but did not say whether he thinks they were legitimate.
“I understand why cer-tain faculty members are concerned, but I don’t know if I’m willing to say whether those concerns are valid or not,” Sharphorn said. “There are many faculty members who don’t have objection to [UTS 180].”
Sharphorn said public re-search often includes exten-sive disclosure requirements, though he said he isn’t aware of any universities that have policies similar to the pro-posed UTS 180.
“It’s gotten to be pretty common that public em-ployees involved in public research don’t have a lot of privacy,” Sharphorn said. “This just expands those disclosure policies in a couple of ways.”
Poldrack said. “The question is if we had enough data could we relate this back to brain function, too.”
There is no research on how brains change over a period of weeks and months, and because some disorders, including depression, fluctu-ate over this period, people with these disorders could get scanned regularly to measure which treatments work, Poldrack said.
Poldrack stopped get-ting MRI scans in March because the noise from the scans worsened his tinnitus. He said he plans to resume scanning this week, although he will decrease the number
and duration of his scans, be-cause Poldrack will stop mea-suring some things, such as brain structure, that probably won’t change.
One of Poldrack’s col-leagues, Tom Schonberg, said that his research receives some criticism.
“[His colleagues] try to plant the seeds of doubt and criticism all the time because when it’s out there scien-tifically, when he reaches the stage of trying to publish this, he’ll get criticism from all di-rections,” Schonberg said.
Poldrack said although it will be challenging to find people willing to participate, he wants to do the study on a large set of people.
Not only is this data the first of its kind, but it also has some very unique uses. For example, Austin artist Laurie
Frick, who creates work based off measurements and self-tracking data, said she will use the results of Poldrack’s study to create pattern-based art.
“I’m sort of having this idea that maybe you could really come up with a more holistic portrait and think about what that data adds up to,” Frick said.
Poldrack said he may not have the funds to analyze a year’s worth of blood samples, which show how gene levels relate to what is happening in the body, because it costs $700 to analyze a week’s worth of blood.
“If we could find the mon-ey … then we could go back and do it,” Poldrack said. “It would be a really unique data set. I don’t know of any other data sets of a person who col-lected blood at the same time every week for such a long period of time.”
communication between Facilities Services and the College of Natural Sciences regarding responsibility for the pond has blocked im-provements to the area.
“Nobody really knows who is in charge of it, and nobody seems to want to take responsibility, so we just do what we can to keep the water flowing and keep up the area,” Drosche said. “We’ve wanted to replace a few parts of the piping to make the system run better, but we’re not turtle experts, so we don’t know what might harm them.”
Drosche said he has asked about draining the pond to do a thorough inspection of the water system for years, but he has not been able to connect with biology experts to determine the best time of year to remove the turtles or where they could be housed during the process.
Several fish live in the pond including bass, catfish and goldfish, according to Drosche. When the pond was introduced in the 1930s, it included just two species of turtles, but now the pond is swimming with several pet turtles and fish that have been dumped there by folks on campus over the years.
Integrative biology profes-sor David Hillis said he has volunteered to manage the turtle population since the late 1990s, although he is not responsible for the pond.
“We try to keep only na-tive species of turtles in the pond so that they are appro-priate for our weather condi-tions,” Hillis said.
Hillis said the turtles breed and lay eggs around the pond and courtship behavior can be observed often.
“I get lots of calls from peo-ple who are concerned that the small turtles are ‘picking on’ the larger ones,” Hillis said. “It looks like the little turtles are trying to slap the big ones in the face. In fact, the small turtles are males, and the larger ones are females,
and the males are display-ing their feet to the females, and tickling the females with the male’s long fingernails, which is part of their normal mating behavior.”
The turtles commonly lay their eggs around the pond in grassy areas under trees and bushes — even across the street at adjacent buildings.
Integrative biology pro-fessor David Crews said he specifically studies the re-production of the red-eared slider. Crews said the tem-perature of the eggs during incubation determines the turtle’s sex.
Drosche said his team maintains the water levels with a recirculation system that takes water from the lower pond up to a bog area with foliage. From there, the water flows back down to the turtles. The pond water uses this recycled water unless levels get too low and water must be added.
“We clean out each of the little areas with waterfalls where debris will build with leaves, sticks and trash, and check on it every other day to see how things are run-ning,” Drosche said. “We know other people try too. We come some days, and it has been cleared. There is just no communication between them and us. It would be nice if there was a main group that wanted to take charge.”
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Whitmire said Thursday if the House passes Fletcher’s bill, it could come to his com-mittee for an “unnecessary” hearing or be referred to an-other committee.
“Whichever committee gets it and looks at it, it’s going to be dead because there are not 21 votes [for the bill] on the Senate floor,” Whitmire said.
A bill that passed out of the Senate Tuesday would allow license holders to
keep concealed handguns in their vehicles while on campus. Whitmire voted for the bill and said it was a reasonable compromise.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, said he does not see his bill as a substitute to campus carry because the two proposals address two separate ways to carry firearms.
He said instances such as the Jan. 22 shooting at Lone Star College-North Harris do not reflect the behavior of law-abiding concealed handgun li-cense holders. In that instance, the gunman injured three people, including himself, after arguing with a student.
“A piece of paper that has a law on it that’s trying to prevent law-abiding citizens from hav-ing their firearm in their car doesn’t stop that deranged indi-vidual,” Hegar said. “So we have to separate criminals, people that have intent to do harm and law-abiding citizens.”
State Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, voted against Hegar’s proposal and said he would vote against similar legislation if it came from the House.
“All it does is promote pro-liferation of guns on public spaces, and I don’t think they have any business in learning
institutions, whether it’s in el-ementary schools, high schools or universities,” Rodriguez said.
UT and UT System officials have repeatedly stated their op-position to legislation allowing handguns on campuses.
UT President William Powers Jr. has signaled his opposition to the legislation throughout this session. UT spokesman Gary Susswein said Thursday that Powers’ stance has not changed.
“President Powers’ position on this issue has been clear,” Susswein said. “He does not believe guns on campus are a good idea.”
In a March 12 letter, UT System Chancellor Francis-co Cigarroa told Gov. Rick Perry he does not believe the presence of concealed hand-guns on campus would cre-ate a safer environment.
State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, authored the Senate version of campus carry reject-ed by Whitmire. Birdwell said the presence of handguns does not mean an increase in crime or violent incidences.
“If that were the case, then we would have the shootings at the grocery stores, the Star-bucks, all the places where you can lawfully carry your CHL,” Birdwell said. “To make that as-sumption is ludicrous.”
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—Curtis Drosche, Facilities Services mechanical
maintenance technician
Nobody really knows who is in charge of it, and nobody seems to want to take responsibility.
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Life&Arts Princess, Alex Williams, Laura WrightSports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian CoronaSenior Sports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garrett Callahan, Nick Cremona, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara Beth Purdy, Rachel Thompson, Matt WardenComics Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John MassingillAssociate Comics Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephanie VanicekWeb Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyler ReinhartAssociate Web Editor, Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan SanchezAssociate Web Editors, Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Omar LongoriaSenior Web Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helen Fernandez, Hannah PeacockAdministrative Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Breanna WilliamsEditorial Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Doug Warren
Issue StaffReporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Carrion, Jeremy Thomas, Amanda VoellerMultimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriella Belzer, Shweta GulatiSports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jori Epstein, Sebastian Herrera,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Jackson, Jacob Martella, Peter SblendorioLife&Arts Writer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth WilliamsColumnists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drew Finke, Susannah JacobPage Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hirrah Barlas, Jenny MesserCopy Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brett Donohoe, Tara Frels, Lan LeComic Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anik Bhattacharya, Grace Biggs,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nohemy Herrera, Justin Perez, Colin ZelinskiWeb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amyna Dosani
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By Trey Scott
Managing editor bids The Daily Texan farewell
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Trey Scott started work-ing at The Daily Texan in fall 2010 as a sports staff writer. He has been sports editor, associate managing editor and is now the managing editor. He encourages all of you to keep searching for the perfect lede.
I remember the last few days of high school pretty well. Although I didn’t much care for those four years of my life, there was a distinct sadness in leaving, because it was the first time I had ever had to leave any-thing: home, my friends, my dog, my comfort zone. I did not want to start something new. If only I had known …
… I’d make surprisingly good grades, I’d make hor-rendously bad grades, I’d join the school newspaper, I’d write things that made people think, I’d figure out what I wanted to do with my life, I’d spend hours de-bating if that was the right decision, I’d get in trouble with my friends, I’d truly figure out why people hat-ed the 11 a.m. kick at the Texas-OU game, I’d make mistakes, I’d learn from them, I’d disappoint my-self, I’d do myself proud.
I’d hug my parents good-bye and take a 6 a.m. flight to New York City on the biggest adventure of my life, I’d spend a summer in the basement of my girl-friend’s parents’ house in Denver. I’d watch Mike Trout and Bryce Harper in their rookie year, I’d get cussed out by Albert Pujols, I’d hit on 16 in Las Vegas with my best friends, I’d drive 14 hours to Oma-ha to cover the College World Series.
I’d interview Darrell Royal, Kevin Durant, Vince Young and Ricky Williams. I’d be there when Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were drafted and shake Lawrence Taylor’s hand on Fifth Avenue. I’d witness the dawn of Linsanity and watch Derek Jeter hit an
inside-out single to right field. I’d play basketball at Rucker Park and ski the Rocky Mountains. I’d catch John Legend at Austin City Limits and then see him three years later in the bathroom of a Manhattan bar and tell him how good he was.
I’d walk past my grand-father’s open casket and wonder what the point was, if we’d just end up buried in dirt at the end of it. I’d watch my father give the eulogy and I’d hold my sis-ter’s trembling hand, and then I’d realize that this is actually pretty beautiful. I’d learn what it was like to be broke and I’d see how nice it was to make gobs of money, and then I’d realize I was stupid to spend all of
it on Sixth Street. I’d play 2K late into the night with Eddie and finish second to Kristen every single time in Mario Kart — she’s Yo-shi, I’m Koopa Troopa. I’d dance to Jay-Z with Hank, from the nosebleeds, and I’d drive to San Antonio with Kyle and Todd (and technically with Hank, too) for Mama Margie’s at 4 a.m. I’d watch Nick chunk apples into build-ing walls and plop them into hot tubs. I’d drive to San Antonio with Kristen to watch the Spurs play the Heat on a pretty penny, and pull into the parking lot and learn LeBron and D-Wade weren’t playing. I’d watch David Ash thread the needle from the stands in Stillwater, Okla.
I’d broaden my horizons and learn that everything I was taught was not nec-essarily right. I’d make friends with people from all walks of life. I’d stop judging them the way I did in high school.
I’d cover the Texas foot-ball, basketball and base-ball teams, and learn that press box food was not good for your figure. I’d be pumped up by awards and then humbled by typos and inaccuracies. I’d stand on a bench and defend myself in front of protesters. I’d pro-test, too, but mostly about the Longhorn Network. I’d gulp down Shiner pitch-ers purchased by Doug at Hole in the Wall and I’d sneak Christian into bars in Dallas. I’d figure out I
was no good at basketball, but thanks to everybody at Gregory who put up with me, anyway.
I’d spend a day with Julius Whittier, the first African-American foot-ball player in school his-tory, and we’d go to foot-ball practice together. I’d get pizza with Garrett Gil-bert, and ask him about his failures as a quarter-back (cue the high school version of me, punching a hole through the wall). I’d spend weekends at Disch Falk-Field, listening to Augie Garrido talk about the human spirit. I’d play intramural softball, and stand in the outfield as our former sports editor (req-uisite Dan Hurwitz shout-out) gave up 22 runs in one
inning. I’d see pitching nearly as bad covering the Colorado Rockies a year later. I’d go to Big 12 Media Days with Nick and Sameer, and we’d ask Robert Grif-fin III about his chances of winning the Heisman that fall, and then we’d watch him win the Heisman.
I’d get a new dog, and a cat.
I’d grow up, become in-dependent and assume I knew everything. I’d fall down and have to ask for help.
I’d turn 21 and then I’d turn 22 and then oh man, I’m getting old.
There was nothing to wor-ry about. It’s been a wonder-ful ride, even if it did go way too fast. Texas forever.
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Editor’s note: A 30 column is a chance for departing permanent staff to say farewell and reflect on their time spent in The Daily Texan’s basement office. The term comes from the old typesetting mark (-30-) to denote the end of a line.
I didn’t become a part of the Daily Texan until the spring semester of my penultimate year in college, but the paper has been a part of my life since my first se-mester on campus. Clippings of articles and cartoons I liked, once pinned to the wall of my freshman dorm room and now sitting in a box in my parents’ attic, are a testament to who I was and what interested me six years ago. Important and not-so-important events along the way — the election and re-election of our na-tion’s first African-American president, along with that day it actually snowed in Austin — are commemorated in whole issues of the Texan, wedged into a bookshelf or piled in my closet.
I continue to hold on to these mementos because the Daily Texan captures these occasions, and the memo-ries that accompany them, in a way that no other pub-lication does: from a student’s point of view. When I shuffle back through these keepsake editions of the Texan years from now, I’ll be doing so not just to see what sorts of things were happening during my time at UT, but also to remember how students were thinking about those things.
Before starting as a columnist at the Texan, I was part of the Senate of College Councils, and whenever the Texan made mention of the work that me and other members in Senate were doing, we couldn’t help but to feel proud as we cut out the article and taped it to the office door. If the Daily Texan considered Senate’s work important enough to write about, we must have been doing something right, or so my thinking went. No other newspaper could confer that sort of valida-tion, because no other newspaper endeavors to con-nect directly with the 50,000 students who populate our campus.
Writing as a columnist showed me that the Texan’s reach extends far beyond the 40 Acres. Seeing your column Tweeted about by someone you’ve never met or getting an email from a stranger who especially disliked your argument imbues the act of publishing your opinion with the same particular type of addictive terror you get from activities far more likely to result in physical harm. I still feel anxious every morning I know a column I authored will be waiting in the Texan’s orange newspaper boxes.
And it wasn’t until I joined the editorial board that I fully understood the scale and complexity of the op-eration it takes to get a fresh edition of the paper into those boxes each morning. I’m not a communication major — I’ve never even taken a journalism class — and the first time I walked downstairs to the Texan’s basement office was memorably intimidating. For all I knew about what it takes to put out a paper, its daily ap-pearance in the news box outside my apartment could have been the result of some incredible magic. Since then, I’ve learned more, though not nearly all, about what it takes to produce an award-winning daily paper. As I walk up those stairs for the last time, the awe I feel toward the students who make the Texan happen every day will be no less diminished for having seen behind the curtain.
I relish the nights of argument, deliberation and delirious laughter shared with Susannah, Pete and Edgar on the editorial board. After a year of Nike shorts, regents, Supreme Court trials, jumping into lakes and columns kearned to -50 just to fit it all in, we have emerged from the rabbit hole relatively un-scathed — though I’m not sure that would be the case without the benefit of Nile’s preternatural patience. Thank you, Susannah, for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the Texan, and thank you to all the columnists who frustrated, intrigued and ultimately enlightened me. Reading your columns consistently reminded me just how important it is to share all the things you’re passionate about
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The Woodlands.
4A Opinion
Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob
Opinion4Friday, May 3, 2013
Seeing behind the curtain
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We Asked: Summer Plans?THE QUESTION: What is the first thing you will do to mark the start of summer?
An independent Daily Texan
GALLERY
Drew Finke
Associate Editor
It’ll be either get hard to work on job applications or ig-nore them entirely, so more likely I’m going to ignore them entirely. That’s probably what’s going to happen.
—Mallory JohnsonAdvertising senior from Dallas
Just go home.—Rodolfo JimenezEconomics junior from Plano
Have ACL surgery. I injured it playing basketball, just pickup, playing here.
—Philip GobbleKinesiology and sports management freshman from Alba
Probably register for summer classes.—Arantxa HernandezUndeclared freshman from McAllen
Probably spend a day just sleeping in.—Lin TruongPsychology junior from Austin
Go to summer school. I’m just taking calculus.—Cliff ArchibaldBusiness management sophomore from Katy
It’s actually a very momentous start. It’s my family re-union we have every three years, and I’m graduating. Sixth year senior. So it’s going to be an awesome summer release,
I feel like. It’s in Minnesota.—Yoli BartholomePsychology and French senior from Houston
I’ll be taking some online classes through Richland, and then still looking for an internship. We’ll figure that out. And I’ll be in Austin.
—Carson TuckerAdvertising junior from Dallas
First thing? I don’t know. Probably just hang out with my friends. I might go home for about a week or two and then come back for June.
—Jenny LeeBiology sophomore from Katy
Lauren Moore | Daily Texan CartoonistSusannah Jacob, Editor-in-Chief, and Drew Finke, Associate Editor are departing seniors.
Editor’s note: A 30 column is a chance for departing permanent staff to say fare-well and reflect on their time spent in The Daily Texan’s basement office. The term comes from the old typesetting mark (-30-) to denote the end of a line.
The Daily Texan should be independent from the University of Texas at Austin. Today, it is not.
In February, facing severely diminished advertising revenues and a budget shortfall, the Texas Student Media Board of Trustees considered a plan to curtail The Daily Texan’s five-day-per-week print schedule and weekly paper in the summer.
In an industry short on optimism, there was a bright spot. Daily Texan alum-ni rallied to support the careful charting of a course forward for the Texan. In doing so, they gave hope that this institution’s success in fatter times may have produced a human legacy that will help it reconfigure in leaner, more uncertain ones. Hundreds of alumni spoke up. Many attended a March Texas Student Me-dia Board meeting, not out of nostalgia, but out of a sharp awareness of what the Texan has accomplished in the past and present, and most importantly what it is capable of accomplishing in the future.
Based on the calculation that print advertising remains 95 percent of the Texan’s revenue, we argued successfully, alongside the alumni, against the pro-posed curtailment. Yet, the financial realities and structural forces that caused Texas Student Media to entertain a print-schedule cut in the first place persist. In the face of an eroding reserve fund, student journalists equipped with fighting words cannot alone will a healthy future for newspapers, the Texan included. Protest accomplished — we now need a plan.
Decades of battles over the students’ right to free speech resulted in an ar-rangement that puts total control over words and pictures in the hands of the student staff in the basement. Yet responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Texan’s finances, distribution methods (in print and online) and advertis-ing rests effectively in the hands of the administration. Students must lead the efforts to revise the conceptual architecture of this news organization—that is the educational experience the Texan has to offer. The current structure of Texas Student Media, by virtue of the fixed division between the student-controlled content and administration-controlled business affairs, resists that change.
This is no easy task, and at a college daily where staff turnover is eye-popping, professional advice is paramount. But the students in the basement must have executive control over the development of that model if it will succeed.
In the aftermath of the March board meeting, which made very public the mismanagement that some of us have known about for a long time, the stu-dents in the basement began to devise a plan. Quickly, we grasped there exists no single solution to the challenges of engagement with screen-consumed readers and financial backing news organizations face. The Web department in particu-lar proposed highly specific changes to the newsroom and delivery of the Texan online that aim to “make this whole newspaper a web department.” I queried writers, editors, photographers and videographers — all college students — they submitted ideas about how to make the newspaper consequential to their room-mates, how to siphon from the ocean of ideas floating on this campus, how to greatly enlarge our contributor base by exploiting the fact that undergraduates are earnest, searching for groups to belong to and stories to believe in, and are byline-hungry.
But when at the TSM board’s most recent meeting a member raised the idea of formally soliciting a plan for the Texan from the student staff the UT admin-istration’s representative loudly objected to the proposal on the basis that she be-lieved the plan would be impractical.
Total independence alone in no way guarantees the Texan’s solvency, but it may be a means to executing one when the current structure stands in the way.
What must happen at The Daily Texan in the next year, five years and decade is an experiment with no promise of success. The Texan must change not only to address a broken revenue model, but to use the Internet to grow into a bigger role in UT students’ daily lives, students who are screen-consumed and whose news consumption happens in a trickle throughout the day rather than over one meal with the paper. In this sense, the unlimited, free space of the Internet is not a burden but an opportunity to become something bigger and more present in students’ lives.
Walk into The Daily Texan’s basement offices and you will find not just jour-nalism students but a comprehensive representation of the many courses of study UT offers. Not all college papers are like this. The Texan has long been a bastion for those interested in thinking big, who graduate and pursue non-journalism careers but champion the independent-mindedness they formed during their years at the newspaper. We must defend this tradition.
Austin has become a journalism town in some measure because Texan grad-uates longed for their basement days and created professional organizations in the hopes of recreating them. Former Texan staffers fill the pages (online and print) of the Austin Chronicle, Texas Monthly, The Texas Observer, the Austin-American Statesman and The Texas Tribune.
In 1971, during a heated political battle between the UT regents and the Texas Student Publications board about the Texan charter which ultimately vested the control of the Texan’s finances in the hands of the administration, Daily Texan giant Walter Cronkite said, “It would be a disaster if, in the heat of present-day politics, an institution that has been eminently successful for 50 years, is allowed to die. Once undone, things like that are hard to piece back together.”
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Susannah Jacob
Editor-in-chief
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This semester, our news team was constantly connected by text.
I imagine my phone buzz-ing late at night some 10 years from now with a barrage of group texts. Something en-tirely random will trigger a memory — maybe someone will light a candle and recall a fancy pitch meeting amid stacks of old newspapers, or perhaps one of us will be folding laundry and remem-ber a clothes dryer catching fire in West Campus.
I hope it will be from Shabab, telling us what he’s fin-ished on the most recent best day of his life, or maybe it will be from Jordan making a jelly bean run on her way to meet Sarah at the Supreme Court.
Maybe Bobby will perk up and fix his bow tie after the buzz wakes him from the quick nap he takes after pub-lishing his 9 millionth story.
Elyana will be reminding us to listen for her broccoli pun on the next episode of “SNL,” or maybe Hannah Jane DeCiutiis will have finally booked that interview with Bill Gates.
Maybe it will be a stray text
from Allie highlighting her feelings at the moment, or perhaps it will be Christine as-suring us she has escaped the menaces of gnarly staircases, gluten and undipped chips.
Maybe it will be an alert from Albert as he emerges from the archive room of another prestigious news-paper, or maybe Fechter will just be telling us to shut up in that loving way of his.
Whatever the message says, I hope it comes.
In my four-year on-again, off-again relationship with The Daily Texan, I’ve said farewell to the basement multiple times, but this
time, I won’t have the option of drifting back.
I fell in love with the dedi-cation and meticulousness of the staff on my first night of design when Thu handed me edits covered in red ink — proving she cared enough to pore over my work, circle every misaligned stroke and catch every dangling orphan.
The next semester, after a frazzled and late first night as a senior designer, I was nearly too embarrassed to return to work. That was only until Olivia reassured a flustered freshman to let his mistakes be swept away by the current of the next day’s paper.
While I stared perplexed-ly at football helmets for Double Coverage, Veronica and Martina inspired some of my best graphics and in-troduced me to my favorite fonts. Somehow, we were al-ways on the same page.
There are so many more people, piñatas, boxes of pop-corn tofu, mold spores and sketchy couches I will miss. I wish I could name them all.
That being said, I hope the mushiness of this 30 column does not invalidate four years of sass, which is, after all, the cornerstone of this organization.
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I wish I had more time. That sentence sums up how I feel about writing this on my last day in the basement that has, in the past two years, be-come more of a home to me than the place where I sleep at night.
I wish I had more time to hear the incredible stories of people on this campus and try to find the words to tell them.
I wish I had more time to sit with Alexa on the green sofa, nerding out over numbers, trying to whisper out fragile stories and find
ways to make people care about them half as much as we did.
I wish I had more time with to hear Natasha grum-ble about how I had too many or too few numbers before she breathed life onto a gray page.
I wish I had more time to spend antagonizing over the most effective way to tell stories with the best editors, Audrey and Matt, both of whom have the rare talent to take mammoth projects jumbled together and dissect them into read-able content, always while fitting in some sort of grammar lesson or nugget
of wisdom along the way. They’ve encouraged me, reined me in and put up with my pre-print anxiety and believed I could finish stories I honestly thought I couldn’t. I don’t know what I’ll do without them.
I wish I had more time with Andrew, who challenges me to think from new angles.
I wish I had one more Fri-day with Shabab and Susan-nah, waiting for our 5 p.m. weekly fight with the Tower over document requests.
I wish I had one more time to feel that giddy, anxious feeling I get every afternoon when Doug’s critique is due
and I find out if my stories flopped, flew or faltered. It’s been my compass. I feel di-rectionless without it.
I wish I had more time to spend with the people and working on the stories I’ve come to love during my time at the Texan, but my time for wishing is done, so I’ll make a wish for those of you coming back next year instead.
I wish you all the best of stories.
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News reporter says final goodbyeBy Mustafa Saifuddin
Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan StaffMegan Strickland started working at The Daily Texan in fall 2011 as a general reporter. She worked as an enterprise reporter from spring 2012 until spring 2013, covering topics including external foundations, parking, the oil boom and University demographics.
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While I stared perplexed-ly at football helmets for Double Coverage, Veronica and Martina inspired some of my best graphics and in-troduced me to my favorite fonts. Somehow, we were al-ways on the same page.
There are so many more people, piñatas, boxes of pop-corn tofu, mold spores and sketchy couches I will miss. I wish I could name them all.
That being said, I hope the mushiness of this 30 column does not invalidate four years of sass, which is, after all, the cornerstone of this organization.
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News reporter says final goodbye Senior videographer reflects, prepares to move onMustafa Saifuddin joined the Daily Texan in Fall 2009 as a page designer. He has served as a senior designer, Double Coverage design editor and associate news editor.
I remember my very first piece for the Texan was a retrospective man-on-the-street, where I went out on the Communication Plaza and asked strangers about 9/11. It was in September of 2011, on the anniversary of the attacks, and the idea of presenting such a piece in a proper light wasn’t near-ly as nerve-racking as the prospect of approaching strangers with a video cam-era. Twenty months later and I’ve literally jumped at the idea, almost eschewing news pieces entirely in favor of sitting down with people and talking about their jobs. If I’m being perfectly honest, I don’t think there’s
a single thing on my resume that I’m as proud of as my title of senior videographer at the Texan. When I joined the newspaper, very few people even knew there was a video department, but I’ve been given so many fantas-tic opportunities through the Texan that people ac-tively ask me how to join for the next semester. As excited as I am to graduate from UT and move to Los Angeles, I wish there was some way for me to pack up all of the Texan in a suitcase and bring it with me — I’d even gladly deal with the inevitable TSA hell storm that would result from me smuggling an entire build-ing of wonderful people onto a plane.
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SIDELINE
With just two weekend series remaining on their schedule, the Longhorns re-alize the importance of win-ning their remaining confer-ence games to earn a spot in the 2013 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship.
Three losses against Baylor over the weekend dropped Texas to 5-13 in conference play, good for last place in the Big 12 standings. The top eight teams in the nine-team conference qualify for the Big 12 tournament, and the Long-horns sit just one game behind Texas Tech for the final spot.
“We’re one game out of the tournament, and that’s what we have to play for,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We’re one game behind. Whether it’s one game behind in first place or one game behind in last place, you’re still one game behind. I know that our players see that we can play with anybody be-cause they have.“
Because Texas Tech won the season series against the Longhorns, the Red Raiders hold the tiebreaker over Texas in the event that the two teams finish with the same record. The Red Raiders have three-game series against Oklahoma State and Baylor remaining, both of which will be played
in Lubbock.Texas could improve its
chances of making the tourna-ment with a strong showing at home this weekend against Kansas State, who sits in third place in the conference with a 9-6 record. The first game of
the three-game series is sched-uled to begin Friday at 6:35 p.m. CT.
The final Big 12 series for the Longhorns will take place in Fort Worth against TCU on May 16-18. Texas sits three games behind the
seventh-place Horned Frogs and would have the oppor-tunity to jump them in the standings if the standings remain the same. TCU plays West Virginia on the road
Topping a national cham-pionship from the year be-fore can be tough, but last week the Longhorns accom-plished something the team from last year didn’t: win a Big 12 title.
But now the Longhorns are looking to turn that momentum from the con-ference championship into another NCAA national championship run.
“We’ve won our last three tournaments and we’ve got a lot of momentum,” senior Cody Gribble said. “We still have a lot of work to do.”
The 2013 version of the Longhorns is different from the team that won the na-tional championship last season. Dylan Frittelli grad-uated last spring and Jor-dan Spieth turned pro back in December. Head coach John Fields said the team this season is using that as motivation.
“There’s a challenge to them and no matter what we say, they’re going to take that challenge on,” Fields said.
Last year’s team ended the regular season with seven wins, compared to four for this year’s team. The Longhorns headed into the NCAA Championship last season as the favorites to win it, but this year are sitting behind Alabama and California.
Even with the under-dog title, Gribble said he
doesn’t know if that benefits the team.
“We know that we can beat them,” Gribble said. “Seven times out of 10, they might have their day, but if we play to our capabilities, we can beat any team out there.”
Texas’ Big 12 Champi-onship title last week was the team’s first conference title since 2004, the last of three straight titles for the Longhorns. Despite delays for weather, the Longhorns came out with a four-stroke win and freshman Bran-don Stone took home the individual title.
Stone said the team title means more to him that the individual title.
“At the end of the day, peo-ple at Texas remember the team and not the individu-als,” Stone said.
Gribble, who finished tied for third at five over, said winning the Big 12 tournament was a big goal for him and fellow senior Julio Vegas.
“Winning nationals was great, but the Big 12 is some-thing that you can keep and in this region it’s just as big. It’s something we’re never go-ing to forget.”
The Longhorns will be-gin their NCAA run at the Regional Championship May 16-18 at a site to be de-termined. Gribble said this team still feels like it can get a second national title.
“When we get there, we’re going to go down swinging,” Gribble said.
Boasting a record of 42-6, 12-2, No. 6 Texas hits Stillwater this weekend for a battle of the oranges. Burnt or not, the Long-horns have the advantage over the Cowgirls if rank-ings, winning percentage or conference standings are any indicator.
But that was also the case when the Longhorns faced Oklahoma State last season. At 35-6, 9-4, 2012’s No. 5/6 Texas faced a 22-16, 5-6 opponent in Okla-homa State. And yet the Longhorns slipped after capturing a 3-2 win Fri-day, with an embarrassing shutout at home that near-ly lost them the series. The Longhorns came through with the rubber match, but head coach Connie Clark was disappointed.
“We talked a little about showing more excite-ment for the game,” Clark
said after last year’s series. “They have aspirations to keep momentum on their sides and to do that, you have to have the action to show that. I just didn’t see that yesterday, so we talked long and hard about the consistency.”
As one of just four teams to have both a slug-ging percentage of .485 or more and an ERA of 1.65 or better, Texas brings that consistency this year. The team is 8-0 on the road and a series sweep would match the program record for single-season road vic-tories. Before this season, the Longhorns never had fewer than three road loss-es during a campaign.
“Everyone says going on the road is really hard, but I think it’s almost more fun,” freshman pinch run-ner Rachel Scott said. “You don’t have any distrac-tions like you sometimes do at home. It’s all about softball and I like the sense
of team bonding.”Scott uses the traveling
experiences to excel on the field. Most recently, she scored in all three match-ups against Texas Tech last weekend — bringing her season total to nine runs though she has just six official at-bats.
“We just need to take it one pitch, play and game at a time,” Scott said. “We need to focus on what we have left and not get ahead of ourselves.”
Texas will close regular season with a final match against Baylor at home May 12. The senior day game is the teams’ third matchup
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Gunnin’ for a Big 12 spot
Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan StaffFreshman C.J Hinojosa has played well for the struggling Longhorns all season, currently batting .298 which is good enough for third on the team. He has also posted a team-high 25 RBIs with just two series left for the team.
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Horns want more after clinching a Big 12 title
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All signs point to win for TexasBy Jori Epstein
As hard a pill as it will be to swallow, the Longhorns won’t reach the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row.
Despite boasting a Big 12-best 2.56 team ERA, Texas is 5-12 in conference play — good for last place in the Big 12. With six of their last eight regu-lar season games against Big
12 foes, the 23-20 Longhorns could finish at or below .500 this year. Their 3.8 runs per game and 3.31 runs per game in Big 12 play are the fewest in the conference.
They won’t do it, but it’s time that fans started focusing on next year. Corey Knebel, Erich Weiss and Mark Payton might be gone, but Texas will have the pieces in place to have a solid squad in 2014. There are obvi-ous strides to be made from a hitting standpoint. Texas’
lineup has let its outstanding starting pitching down all year long.
“I know it doesn’t look like it but we do practice, we do talk to them, we do have offensive signals,” head coach Augie Gar-rido said. “I’m really not that confused. I think it’s a matter of them getting their confidence and we’ve been waiting for it. And it hasn’t happened. Only in hindsight will we know if it
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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff Corey Knebel, who was just named to the midseason Golden Spikes Award watch list, has a 2.33 ERA and eight saves for the Longhorns this season. But the MLB may be in his near future.
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Kim Bruins has been an inte-gral part of the dominant Texas pitching staff this season, posting a 9-0 record with a 1.65 ERA.
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Longhorns sign Martez Walker
The Longhorns signed Pershing (Detroit) guard Martez Walker to a let-ter of intent, Texas announced Thursday.
Walker, a three-star pros-pect, according to rivals.com, becomes the fourth player to sign with the Longhorns this year, join-ing fellow guards Demarcus Croaker, Isaiah Taylor and Kendal Yancy. Walker aver-aged 20.4 points and seven rebounds per game as a senior last season, earning a spot on the Detroit Free Press Class A All-State First Team. Pershing went 46-4 over the past two seasons, including a 22-0 record in conference play and a 25-1 mark last year, when Walker led the Doughboys to the Michigan Class A state quarterfinals.
“Martez is an unortho-dox player who has a knack for scoring,” head coach Rick Barnes said. “The thing that gives him a chance to be really good at our level is his competitive nature. Like most young guys, he’ll have to get stronger. When he does, his ability to score the basketball along with his mental toughness and pas-sion to compete will allow him to be very successful.”
—Christian Corona
Knebel named to Golden Spikes list
On Thursday afternoon, USA Baseball announced the 60-man midseason Golden Spikes Award watch list.
Since 1978, USA Baseball has honored the top ama-teur baseball player in the country with the Golden Spikes Award. Following the first-ever presentation of the Award to Bob Horner of Arizona State, the Gold-en Spikes Award has been presented each year to the player who exhibits excep-tional athletic ability and exemplary sportsmanship.
Among the 60 names that appeared on the list was Texas pitcher Corey Knebel.
Knebel holds a 3-3 re-cord this season with a 2.33 ERA in 37 innings of work. He also has eight saves as opponents are hitting just .185 against him.
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of the season, after Texas trumped the Bears on both turfs in March. Though the
5-1 home match March 24 went smoothly, Texas struggled in Waco on March 23 through eight scoreless innings against Baylor’s ace Whitney Can-ion. Finally, Taylor Thom and Kim Bruins connected
on bases-loaded plays to aid Luna’s 14 strikeouts in the win.
“[Canion] is a great pitcher,” Bruins said af-ter the match. “You have to be really strong men-tally and have confidence
in yourself knowing that you can succeed. I was just thinking stay calm, keep your hands up and try to hit something hard somewhere.”
Texas opens in Stillwater Friday at 7 p.m.
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Big 12 series before hosting the Longhorns.
Although they are unhappy with their current place in the standings, the Texas play-ers remain motivated and focused on their final games and fight for a spot in the conference tournament.
“We’re a great team,” ju-nior pitcher Josh Urban said. “Honestly we could be first in the Big 12 right now but we just have to keep battling. I know luck hasn’t gone our way, so we’ll keep battling and hope things turn out the way
we want it.”After failing to qualify for
the NCAA tournament last season for the first time in 14 years, the Longhorns are in danger of missing the tourna-ment again this season. Texas would likely need to win the Big 12 tournament to qualify this season.
Despite this, freshman catcher Jeremy Montalbano says his team has no plans of giving up without a fight.
“We’re the University of Texas,” Montalbano said. “We have too much pride to throw in the towel.”
The home stretch of the outdoor season be-gins Friday for the No. 10 women’s team as it participates in the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in Waco.
After weeks of compet-ing in non-scored events the Longhorns have had more than enough prepa-ration to enter these last phases of the outdoor season.
For interim head coach Rose Brimmer, her ex-pectation for the Big 12 Indoor Championships can be summed up in one word: winning.
“I expect to win,” Brimmer said. “The up-perclassmen have expe-rienced winning a Big 12 title and they know what it takes. But in order to get
there we will need every-one from the freshman to the seniors to have our goals in mind.”
How much Texas can succeed this weekend will depend heavily on how well its stars perform in favored events like the 400-meter hurdles and sprint relays.
Last year, then-soph-omore Danielle Dowie won the 400-meter hurdles while the 4X400 and 4x100-meter relay teams finished in 2nd and 4th, respectively.
With Texas A&M’s de-parture of the conference, No. 2 Kansas will be the only real threat stand-ing in the way of Texas and a repeat Big 12 Out-door Championships title on Sunday.
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does or doesn’t. We’re running out of time.”
But if the Longhorns can take a page out of their playbook from 35 years ago, they’ll be fine.
Three years removed from its last national championship, with 12 Southwest Conference titles in the previous 13 years, Texas came into 1978 with high expectations.
The Longhorns had won 11 straight games going into their SWC opener against Arkansas. After a pair of one-run losses to the Razorbacks to begin the se-ries, shortstop Ron Gardenhire broke his thumb sliding into second base as Texas was try-ing to avoid being swept in the series finale.
“There’s no way he can play,” the team doctor said. “He’s got a broken thumb and it’s going to require surgery.”
“Let me try to finish the game,” Gardenhire told the team doctor.
There were two men on when Gardenhire stepped to the plate in the next inning.
“Now, look. You can practice swinging and if you can’t swing,
sacrifice bunt,” head coach Cliff Gustafson told Gardenhire.
“I think I can swing,” Gar-denhire told Gustafson.
“Ok, go ahead and swing,” Gustafson said. “But if hurts you, just bunt.”
Gardenhire launched a three-run home run. He went on to double and homer again, racking up a school-record 10 RBIs in the game. It would be his last of the season.
Texas, also without start-ing pitchers Ricky and Kem Wright, went on to go just 12-12 in SWC play, miss-ing out on the conference and NCAA tournaments that year.
The Longhorns went on to win 10 consecutive SWC titles after that season, going to the College World Series eight of the next 11 years.
Texas isn’t going anywhere this year. If they were, the Longhorns would have scored more than four runs during a three-game sweep at the hands of Baylor last weekend and more than one run in a win over Prairie View A&M on Tuesday.
This season won’t be sal-vaged, but don’t count on Texas missing the postseason three years in a row.
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Here’s to everyone who has spent an entire day and most of the night in the remarkably vibrant basement that houses The Daily Texan.
To Frank Serpas, who will likely go unnoticed by many, but is the life support keep-ing things running behind the scenes at Texas Student Media. Frank, you’re awesome. To Trey Scott, who gently pushed me into the field of journalism, even if my only experience was writing snarky notes on Face-book about cats.
Natasha Smith, master of all things design and one of the most accommodating people I have had the pleasure to work with, keep doing your thing, girl. Elisabeth Dillon and Law-rence Peart became the cutest, most conscientious couple of photographers to ever grace the Texan with their presence and will go on to flourish in what-ever endeavor they choose.
To Christian Corona, who can crank out stories with more depth and brute force than anyone I have ever seen, much respect to you, sir. Susannah Jacob, you may have never fully understood my appreciation for you, but I think you have a great head on your shoulders
and I know you will succeed as a thought-provoking journalist sooner rather than later. Laura Wright, you may think I’m a prick who daydreams about yoga pants and sports, and you’re probably right, but I still respect you and think you’re one hell of a journalist.
Bobby freaking Blanchard, the man of many bowties and different hues of orange, your mark on the Texan will always be a fanciful and productive one. Keep up the good work, Bobby, and for goodness’ sake, take a nap once in awhile. Pu, I can’t spell your last name, but thanks for always making me laugh.
To Jorge Corona, an under-rated filmmaker who should have his compass set on Cannes or Sundance, save me a seat! Life and Arts would be nothing without the superb direction of Kelsey McKinney, who happens to employ some of the coolest business cards in the game. Hannah Smothers, I don’t think I’ll ever under-stand all the angst you harbor toward seemingly everything, but I do enjoy reading your ex-cellent stories whenever I can. Hayley Fick, a woman of few words but many passions, in-cluding NASA. That’s inspiring and don’t ever stop doing what you love. There are too many
people to list individually, but the news team continually pro-duces great content and even if no one is reading your work now, the experience you are gaining now will benefit you in the future. You know this al-ready. That’s why you work for the Texan, right?
To the designers, copy edi-tors, comics crew, photo staff and countless others that worked their tails off every day to produce an excellent daily newspaper, know that I love each and every one of you.
Doug Warren, I’ve learned a lot from you and I appreciate the time you devoted to help us kids out. My time at the Texan isn’t about what I was able to do, because believe me it wasn’t anything groundbreaking. Rather, I feel that the enriching environment I was in for the past two years and change has shaped me into a more helpful and understanding person who is primed to achieve his goals outside of the classroom and this university. Looking back, I would not have spent any less time in that once gloomy base-ment because it would have meant missing out on some of the most memorable moments I’ve had as an undergrad. Long live the Texan.
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About three years ago, a friend challenged me to try out for the Texan. He had seen an ad seeking ap-plicants and pushed me to give it a shot. Not be-ing a journalism major, I dismissed the idea but his challenge quickly turned into a dare. I quickly put together an article about Justin Tucker and one of his many game-winning kicks and a week later I was at my first staff meeting.
That first semester, I started out on the swim-ming and diving beat. It was a fun one to learn on — not too many events to cover and a large range of feature topics. I even got a chance to meet Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps at the USA Swimming Grand Prix that January!
I transitioned to the softball beat the next two springs. It was my first ma-jor beat, and I remember feeling proud that I could be trusted with one of the major sports. It was incred-ible watching them play. They are truly a talented set of athletes.
This past fall I finally got
a chance to write about vol-leyball, a team I had been watching from the side-lines for years. As a sports writer, it is easier, and more enjoyable, to write an ar-ticle about a winning team, and I was given plenty of opportunities to do that. I concluded the season with a trip to Louisville to watch them win the na-tional championship — the highlight of my time at the Texan.
My final beat at the Texan was baseball. I re-member how excited I was when Christian, my editor, told me that I was going to cover baseball this spring. Baseball is by far my fa-vorite sport and I had been itching for that assignment since I started.
Even though the base-ball team has not been as successful as desired, it has certainly been a good ex-perience. Texas head coach Augie Garrido is a charac-ter in an interview and al-ways made me laugh.
I want to thank everyone I came into contact with at the Texan. Even though I didn’t share your ma-jor or your class schedule, you incorporated me into a community that I will
never forget.Thank you to Christian
and Trey, who coached me through these last two semesters as a permanent staff member and who gave me the opportunity to cover both the base-ball team and the national championship volleyball team. I truly learned a lot, and this has been one of my favorite years at the Texan.
I also want to thank the other sports editors over the past three years: Nick, Dan, Will and Sameer. Thank you for giving me a chance and helping me to improve! Thank you to Chris, Rachel, Peter, Garrett and Wes for be-ing fabulous co-beat writ-ers! Those games in the press box were some of my favorite times!
Looking back on the week I was hired, I am in-credibly thankful that I was given this opportunity. I have learned so much and have enhanced my writing ability since I started. Plus, being at the Texan gave me the perfect excuse to spend all of my time watching sports rather than doing my homework!
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This weekend Texas will travel to Kansas City, Kansas, for the annual Big 12 Championship regatta. Although the spring sea-son has been filled with ambiguity and struggle with injuries, Texas is op-timistic heading in to the weekend to defend their Big 12 title.
Sara Walton expe-rienced her first Big 12 Championship as a novice last year in Okla-homa when Texas took the win by a single point over the Sooners. Overall Walton has been a huge
contributor to the varsity team this season. Landing herself in Texas’ second boat lead by coxswain Kassie Budzik, Walton holds herself and her boat to the highest of standards.
“There is obviously a huge rivalry with OU. Af-ter they challenged us at the Longhorn Invitational in March, our momentum dropped dramatically.,” Walton said. “As a team we are all finally showing up for each other in our boats making the fight for our title this weekend an exciting one.”
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Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan StaffRyan Enrique Sanchez started in the Web department as senior Web staff in the summer of 2010. He has risen to the Web editor position, but now is the social media editor.
Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan StaffAmyna Dosani is a graduating journalism senior. She started in fall of 2010 as a reporter and copy editor. She has also worked as an associate copy desk chief and recently joined the Web staff.
I often find myself sur-prised when I keep com-ing back to the Daily Texan basement, but after two years, I find myself de-scending the steps for one last night of work.
As a bilingual education major with little real inter-est in writing or reporting, I never thought I would work on a newspaper, but when my roommate told me that the Texan was starting a Web department and need-ed members, I figured why the hell not. I felt complete-ly out of place, surrounded by people who had worked together for at least a year, and was in a foreign setting, with newspaper jargon be-ing thrown left and right and me not sure what the hell it meant.
After the first web edi-tor left, I was quickly given the mantle of responsibil-ity and made my own Web team. Now, two years later
as the social media editor, I couldn’t feel more at home.
I’ve tried to leave before, but I couldn’t pull myself away from this new fam-ily I had bonded with, and had to help however I could. Even though I know I will never forget the time and experiences I’ve had here, I know I will miss working at the Texan more than anything.
Some things I’ll remember:Working late night and
early morning shifts to make sure that the pa-per’s content went online and spread through the Web and responding to our readers’ comments via our site and Twitter and Facebook pages.
Having the immense sup-port from Doug and Jenni-fer to acclimate me to the fast-paced setting of the newsroom, and amazing managing editors like Ve-ronica and Lena to help out the new blood, and Audrey, Aleks, and Trey to help me iron out any problems.
Having Hayley and the amazing Web staff to work through the night with, and many bleary-eyed mornings, as well as going through three versions of the website.
Working together with the department heads to fix any problems that might have come up. Coming into the office and hearing Jody’s singsong voice, and know-ing that there was a very good chance that a plate of her baked goods was not far off. Having Elyana nearby to let me know what was going on in the office and #BowTieBobby to share a laugh with.
If I’m completely honest, I still feel a bit out of place writing this column, as if I’ve walked in on someone else’s scene. But even though a newsroom is one of the last places I thought I would find myself, I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything — Except maybe for all the sleep I’ve lost.
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What’s that cliche about ups and downs? That’s how I’d describe my time at The Daily Texan. It’s been an incredible three years in this endearing basement, where I worked (very) briefly as a reporter, exten-sively as a copy editor and associate copy desk chief and recently as a member of the web staff. As a staff, we encountered a lot of learning opportunities, and I think that is exactly what made working here so great. I am so grateful to have worked here and to have contributed to such a dynamic, prestigious pub-lication throughout my college career with some truly amazing people.
I always knew, even in high school, that if I attended UT-Austin, I would most definitely work for The Daily Tex-an. I barely knew any-thing about the journal-ism department here, but you can bet I knew I was working for this paper. While I wasn’t a reporter
for long, I found my niche at the copy desk, where I could be the perfectionist grammar nerd that I am. I always looked forward to seeing all the cool hair-styles and makeup looks Elyana would rock that day, and I still don’t know if it was a blessing or a curse that Klarissa gener-ously fed my Snickers Ice Cream bar addiction ev-ery week with her leftover Dine-in Dollars. Overall, I don’t think anyone has sass like the copy and de-sign department. No copy cat or kitten can compare to Riley the copy LION. Except the very rad Kris-tine. Or Bow Tie Bobby.
Outside the copy desk I was surrounded by friend-ly faces, such as the kick-ass, inspiring personality of Audrey; the ever-sing-ing, ever-reporting, ever-deliciously-baking Jody; Bow Tie Bobby, who has worked with almost every department possible at this office; the witty, hilarious-ly cynical mind of Aleks; Omar and his beautiful wardrobe; and the cool and hardworking Pu.
And to my Web friends, I’ll never forget hacking the codes, puffing cheese polymers and watching out for those bouillon constric-tors and croissantulas in the bathroom. Thank you, Hayley, Ryan, Tyler, Omar and everyone else for mak-ing me feel so welcome and supported and, of course, for making me laugh until I couldn’t breathe. Now, can someone please call pest control already?
I’ll always be thankful for my time here and look forward to seeing how the paper continues to grow.
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In celebration of the World Wide Web’s 20th anniversary, research laboratory CERN will reinstate the first website. Originally brought online in 1993, CERN’s antiquated website was a public an-nouncement for free access to the lab’s database and per-mitted users to view docu-ments, projects and programs when connected. Operating under the URL info.cern.ch, CERN’s small project would later evolve into one of the most critical developments in technological history.
Glock family feudBehind Glock GmbH, one
of the best-known handgun manufacturers in the world, is an Austrian family em-broiled in a legal quagmire. After divorcing his wife of 49 years, Gaston Glock and his new wife, who is in her early 30s, ousted the family from its own business. The three children raised by Gas-ton and Helga Glock were expected to take control of the company over the next few decades, but this plan fell through. In an attempt to regain some custody of the company’s financial assets, Helga Glock has recruited the help of an Atlanta law firm to regain 15 percent of the family trusts, alimony from the divorce and a di-vision of property between the ex-spouses.
Intel announces new redesign for processor chip
The next generation of In-tel’s impressive Atom proces-sors, compact chipsets that first launched in 2008, will be revealed in a press conference May 6. Atom processors are used in a number of mobile devices and have a surprising amount of processing power despite their penny-sized
dimensions. The new chip-sets will feature a quad-core design and increased battery life.
Blackberry CEO claims that tablets are doomed
Tablet computers have created an extensive amount of buzz in the electron-ics market over the last few years, threatening to replace mobile platforms like lap-tops and even cellphones. In spite of success stories including Apple’s iPad and the Microsoft Surface, Black-berry CEO Thorsten Heins expressed skepticism about their continued success. In an interview at the Milken Institute conference on Mon-day, Heins stated that the tablet industry will fall from power in the next five years. Considering that Blackberry failed to stake a claim in the tablet market with its “Play-Book” device, this statement comes across more as a bit-ter admission of defeat than anything else. Blackberry has not released any official plans to re-enter the tablet market.
Apple sells $17 billion in debt
In the absence of Steve Jobs’ galvanizing presence, Apple Corporation Inc. has been on a steady de-cline in profits over the last year. With a slowdown in sales, company sharehold-ers are itching to gain a cut of Apple’s impressive cash pile, which rests at $145 bil-lion. Hoping to give a boost to declining stock values, CEO Tim Cook announced on April 23 that he would begin selling about $17 bil-lion worth of company debt. These bonds mark not only a financial precedent within the company, but also within the United States. Apple has not sold bonds in more than 15 years and the $17 billion offering marks the largest of its kind in history.
because there aren’t very many stories that show us different paths for them. They’re usu-ally the girlfriend or the wife or the sister or the sex object, and when they are strong and acting with a lot of agency, it’s usually because the script was written for a man, and then the gender was changed at the last second.
DT: When Sarah is prepar-ing to infiltrate The East, or when The East is carrying out one of its “jams,” the members put on nice suits or bleach their hair to slip into the role. Do you ever find yourself doing some-thing similar as an actor?
Marling: That’s such a great
observation! We’re obsessed with presentation and the surface of things. Everybody’s Facebook is literally just about them pitching themselves as they see themselves, and try-ing on different versions of themselves, and selling it or sharing it. I think the same is true in this story. The mem-bers of The East have realized that you shave the beard, you cut the hair, you pop in some pearl earrings, you put on a Rolex and a suit and suddenly you can infiltrate a totally dif-ferent space from how you feel. They’re very interested in the idea of disguise and play-ing with the fact that people are so obsessed with the sur-face of things that they’re willing to overlook the fact that they’re letting a group of eco-terrorists into their home because they present well. It’s true that that’s also
very much the part of an ac-tor’s life. You have to get really comfortable with dissolving your identity and refashion-ing as a character and doing it a couple of times a year with different people and still holding on to who you are in between those things. It’s not an easy process.
DT: The terrorists in the film have an eye-for-an-eye philosophy. To what length do you think people should be held accountable for their actions?
Marling: That’s a good question, and that’s why we made a movie about it. It’s funny how the film, we feel this way, we don’t know the answers. All we can do is present the questions. It doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum you’re on, people are frustrated and
angry right now. The ques-tion becomes, what do you do? You look at past protest movements. The nonvio-lence of the freedom riders who got on buses and went from D.C. into the Deep South. That’s really brave. Is that the right way? Or … as some movements have done, [do] they go to structures and say, “What’s happening here is wrong. We have a right to set it on fire”? Is nonviolence correct, or is violence because violence is being used against you correct? We don’t know the answers. We’re not saying, “Corporations are bad and eco-terrorists are good.” We’re saying, “There are bad and good ideas and bad and good people on both sides.” That makes it massively confusing as to what we should do next, but we can’t do anything right until we start talking about it.
and even the ability to breathe fire. While Marvel’s films have delved into some pretty out-landish concepts, from demi-gods to alternate dimensions, Black never figures out if he should handle this as science fiction or supernatural fanta-sy, which results in a sloppily-executed threat for Tony Stark to battle.
Even if the villains don’t necessarily work in concept, one of “Iron Man 3”’s most pleasant surprises is Kingsley’s performance as the terroristic Mandarin. Kingsley is all blus-ter and threats in his terror-istic dispatches, but when he and Stark come face-to-face, Black’s wry sense of humor comes into play in an unex-pected but hugely entertain-ing fashion. James Badge Dale plays one of Killian’s cronies, and he brings a menacing in-tensity to some of the film’s
most harrowing sequences.Despite moments of cha-
risma and competence, Pearce is a much less effective antago-nist. As his character becomes more brazenly evil, Pearce gets increasingly hammy, and by the time “Iron Man 3” ar-rives at its rousing fireworks show of a finale, he’s swing-ing for the fences with his delivery of every line, missing more often than he connects. While “Iron Man 3” handles its multitude of villains better than most films, this may be an instance where Black gets a little too clever for his own good, and it’s hard not to wish he had given Kingsley more to do.
Although “Iron Man 3” isn’t Marvel’s best effort, it’s a strong outing and another exciting, hilarious collabora-tion between Downey Jr. and Black. While the film suffers
from the same overstuffed syndrome as many other comic-book sequels, it’s the rare comic book film that’s able to explore new territory for its hero in a roundly com-pelling, well-acted fashion, making for an impressive start to the summer movie season.
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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan StaffA PLACE TO CALL YOUR OWN — LAWRENCE PEART AND JORGE CORONAI’m not as huge a Daily Texan self-promoter nor a journalism defender as many other people who work at this paper. What I am is a tenacious fan and defender of a place where one can meet like minds and grow in doing what one loves. A place to dis-cover. I’ve made great friends here. I’ve started a journey. When a board cuts wages, the people who depend on those wages cannot spend as much time and effort at their workplace, having to make up for the loss of living expenses. Content will suffer, and therefore readership will suffer. The few who can work as much as they could before will not be able to keep up the work of many. I hope the board realizes this before others are unable to start their journey. I was lucky to come when I did, and I think we may be lucky to leave when we do. My future will forever have an echo of my time here. -30-
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Even if the villains don’t necessarily work in concept, one of “Iron Man 3”’s most pleasant surprises is Kings-ley’s performance as the terroristic
Mandarin.
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Life & Arts12Friday, May 3, 2013
Writer-actress Brit Marling first came to South By South-west two years ago with low-key sci-fi films “Another Earth” and “Sound of My Voice.” “The East,” her newest collaboration with “Sound of My Voice” director Zal Batmanglij, was the Closing Night film at this year’s festival. Marling stars as Sarah, a private security contractor asked to infil-trate eco-terrorist group The East.
The Daily Texan sat down with Marling at SXSW to talk about her new film.
The Daily Texan: What in-spired this project?
Brit Marling: Four sum-mers ago, before I had started acting and before Zal had started directing, we were just young people trying to make sense of our lives and figure out what we wanted to do. We spent a summer traveling and fell in with different anarchist communities and different col-lectives and lived on organic farms and learned to train hop and spent time dumpster-div-ing. We were different people at the end of it, more able to find a kind of freedom in living, and we wanted to try and tell a story about that. We wanted to tell a story about all the in-tense political and moral ideas behind it, how complicated it all is. But we wanted to put in
a really fun, entertaining espio-nage thriller where that stuff is happening in the background.
DT: What were some of the distinct experiences you brought from your summer into this film?
Marling: The spin-the-bottle moment in the movie actually happened. It was re-ally beautiful. It wasn’t spin the bottle the way you’d play in middle school, with every-one trying to figure out how to make out for the first time. It was spin the bottle as a way of connecting with people, and giving voice to what you did or didn’t want, and being physical and affectionate with friends and lovers.
DT: What are some of
the challenges of writ-ing the character of Sarah for yourself?
Marling: Sarah was interest-ing to me because she’s so un-like me. She’s conservative, and has a really strong sense of her opinion and morality about things, and is not easily swayed by other ideas. She’s a bit of an action hero. She has a tough-ness to her. I think we have a hard time writing about wom-en. Even women have a hard time writing about women
The law of diminishing returns is the bane of Hol-lywood executives’ existence and often pushes them to stuff sequels to the point of bursting simply because au-diences expect the spectacle to get more expansive and grandiose with every film in a franchise. Finding a way to follow up the massively successful “The Avengers” is no easy task for Marvel, and “Iron Man 3” responds by telling a scaled-down, inti-mate story about a Tony Stark in peril, while still pushing the scope of the franchise to grander heights.
After his close call with death in “The Avengers,” Tony Stark is a broken man for the first time, wracked with anxiety. His girlfriend and assistant Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) is being courted by mysterious scientist Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce). Even worse, the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a ruthless terrorist with an agenda, is wreaking havoc on the nation.
Robert Downey Jr. defines Iron Man, and he’s so com-fortable in Tony Stark’s skin at this point that he could ef-fortlessly coast through “Iron Man 3.” In the first two films, Tony Stark was a brash freight train of charisma, barreling through every problem in his path with an offhand barb, a smile, and occasionally his
collection of Iron Man suits. But here, Downey Jr. plays Stark with unusual anxiety and fear. “Iron Man 3” gives Downey Jr. heftier dramatic material than he’s been asked to shoulder thus far, and he turns in a series-best perfor-mance, bringing Stark’s arc home with grace, humor and the same unflappable confi-dence that made him so great for the role in the first place.
Shane Black directed Downey Jr. on the criminally underrated “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” and it’s a delight to see him working on the massive scope that Marvel can afford. Black is one of the sharpest writers in Hollywood, and “Iron Man 3” has an excellent script that is endlessly witty and clever. By exploring how the presentation of a hero, or villain, can be just as im-portant as his actions, Black incorporates the “Iron Man”
iconography in new and surprising ways. Black also stages some grand moments of spectacle, particularly the thrilling destruction of Stark’s mansion.
Unfortunately, Black’s di-rectorial voice occasionally chafes against the guiding hand of the Marvel franchise hive mind, especially in his handling of the film’s multiple villains. Aldrich Killian is a scientist who’s been develop-ing a limb regeneration pro-gram, and his Extremis proj-ect is an ill-defined utility belt for bad guys, giving villains invincibility, super strength
Finals are almost here, so The Daily Texan wants to help you procrastinate to your fullest po-tential. What better way to avoid studying than to go out and take advantage of all the quirky en-tertainment Austin has to offer? Here’s an event calendar that will have you partying all night and feeling miserable for your 9 a.m. final the following morning.
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If you can’t fork out the $18+ to see psychedelic rockers of Montreal, check out the after-show with tunes provided by Austin’s own Easy Tiger and Gang Sign. It’s sure to be pop-rock-tacular, and it’ll keep you out till at least 2 a.m.
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What: Austin Poetry Slam and Mic ExchangeWhen: 8:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.Where: Spiderhouse BallroomCost: $5
Feeling uninspired? Apa-thetic toward finals and per-haps life in general? Head to Spiderhouse for some inspira-tion and energy, courtesy of their legendary slam poetry and hip-hop open mic night.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8What: Spite Club – The Insult Comedy Game ShowWhen: Doors at 9 p.m., show at 10 p.m.Where: Red 7Cost: Free for 21+, $5 for under 21
Local comedians go head-to-head in insult comedy. Come watch some people try to be funny and mean at the same time. Who knows, it could provide you with the much-needed fuel to finally tell
off that snarky T.A.
THURSDAY, MAY 9What: The Encyclopedia Show: Puberty!When: Doors at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m.Where: North Door Main StageCost: $5
Each monthly edition of “The Encyclopedia Show” is a hodgepodge of creative presen-tations on a theme taken from “an actual encyclopedia.” This month’s theme is that magically cringe-inducing phase known as puberty. If you just can’t get enough of something you went through in middle school, then this is the show for you.
FRIDAY, MAY 10
What: Walking Ghost Tour – Ghosts of the Warehouse DistrictWhen: 8 p.m. Where: Moonshine Patio Bar
and GrillCost: $20
Take a walking ghost tour around downtown and lose your ability to sleep for the rest of finals. You can totally spend all those waking hours studying and not worrying that a ghost or two followed you home and is now haunting your dorm room closet.
What: Super Heroes Costume Party with Super Creeps: Da-vid Bowie Tribute Band and DJ ManateemannWhen: 9 p.m.-2 a.m.Where: Spiderhouse BallroomCost: $10, $8 with a costume
If ghosts aren’t your thing, don your superhero costume (admit it — everyone has one) and watch a David Bowie trib-ute band at the Spiderhouse Ballroom. Also, there will be a disc jockey named DJ
Manateemann, and that’s kind of amazing.
SATURDAY, MAY 11
What: Rocky Horror Picture ShowWhen: MidnightWhere: Alamo Drafthouse VillageCost: $5
Come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab! If you don’t know what that means, then you are an RHPS virgin, and you need to fix that ASAP. Lucky for you, Austin’s Rocky Horror live cast Queerios per-forms the cult classic every Sat-urday night at the Village. Get ready for a whole bunch of line-shouting, time-warp-dancing, “Sweet Transvestite”-singing, toilet-paper-throwing fun.
What: Animal Party – Second Saturday Silent DiscoWhen: 10 p.m.Where: Spiderhouse Outdoor
ChapelIt’s a silent disco dance par-
ty, and you get to dress up as your favorite animal. Sounds a heck of lot better than study-ing, right? FYI, I’ll be the girl dressed like the quokka.
SUNDAY, MAY 12
What: The Great Gatsby 3-DWhen: 10 p.m. and after, various timesWhere: Alamo DrafthouseCost: $13
Admit it, you’re mildly in-terested in seeing what has be-come of the highly anticipated “Great Gatsby.” But hey, 3-D Leo DiCaprio should be rea-son enough to check this out. Bonus points if your finals have anything whatsoever to do with “The Great Gatsby.”
MONDAY, MAY 13What: Clubhouse
Where: The New MovementWhen: 9:30 p.m.Cost: Pay what you canBy this point in finals, your
brain is most likely fried be-yond the point of creating any original thought whatso-ever. So instead of staring at the wall, check out the Club-house, where you can watch 10 comics try out totally fresh material. It’s nice to see someone else on the spot for a change, huh?
TUESDAY, MAY 14
What: Natural Child w/ BirdcloudWhen: 9 p.m.Where: Red 7Cost: $10, $12 at the door
Wait – it’s Tuesday? And fi-nals are over? Rejoice and be merry! Go forth to Red 7 to party with some dirty Nashville garage rockers. And then get some sleep. Seriously.
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THE EAST
Director: Zal BatmanglijGenre: ThrillerRuntime: 116 minutes
IRON MAN 3
Director: Shane BlackGenre: ActionRuntime: 130 minutes
Austin’s Procrastination Station
Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight PicturesSarah (Brit Marling) and Benji (Alexander Skarsgard) in “The East,” a movie about eco-terrorism.
Photo courtesy of AP ExchangeTony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is challenged like never before in “Iron Man 3.”
Illustration by Amanda Nguyen | Daily Texan Staff
Sequel’s scaled-down plot surprises
IRON continues on page 11
EASTcontinues on page 11
Filmmaker shares inspiration, challenges of eco-terrorism film
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