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Faith versus fundamentalism Join in a discussion of fringe groups in Christianity and Islam in relation to the respective mainstream religions. The discussion will be held in JGB 2.324 at 6 p.m.

‘Get Sexy, Get Consent’Attend this highly interactive one-hour program that examines how we negotiate sex and consent, boundaries and safety in Burdine Hall from 7-8 p.m. Sponsored by Voices Against Violence.

In 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion began. More than 1,000 Cuban exiles, armed and trained by the United States, landed in the Bay of Pigs, where they were almost immediately defeated by Fidel Castro’s army.

Latino Comedy NightAttend Omega Delta Phi’s 13th annual Latino Comedy Night, featuring comedians Manny Maldonado and Dillon Garcia. The comedy show will be held at the SAC Auditorium from 7-9 p.m., and admission is free.

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Students may now list preferred name on records For some students, roll call

in a classroom is exactly what it sounds like — the reading of a name. However, for transgender students who identify by a dif-ferent name than the one listed, roll call can open the door to be-ing outed to classmates.

The University will promote a new policy this summer to allow transgender students to list their preferred names on University records, a name that may be dif-ferent from their legal name. Un-der this policy, a student’s pre-ferred name will appear on class rosters, identif ication cards,

medical files and other UT re-cords. While transgender stu-dents were first allowed to use a preferred name on their offi-cial documents beginning last fall, this new policy will also up-date the preferred name to their medical records. Patrick White, a student member of the LGBT presidential task force, said the task force plans to inform trans-gender students about the poli-cy through orientation this sum-mer and programs next fall.

This policy was initiated by the LGBT presidential task force, a committee of faculty and stu-dents who advocate for LGBT rights on campus. Transgen-der students were first allowed

to change the name appearing on their records in September 2011, but had to personally re-quest the change at the UT Gen-der and Sexuality Center.

Music studies sophomore Joey Ovalle identifies as a trans man and was approved for a preferred name last fall. Ovalle said when he first came out as transgender he asked all his friends to call him “Joey.” Ovalle said while he had never had a professor call him by the wrong first name because of the change, he did have a pro-fessor mention his middle name, which was a feminine name, be-cause the preferred name policy Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff

Music Studies sophomore Joey Ovalle, who identifies as trans man, changed his name on the UT records to differ from his legal name. NAMES continues on PAGE 7

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Theatre and dance students Josephine McAdam and Emma Dirks embrace during the Virginia Tech commemoration Monday morning. In honor of the 2007 shooting at the Virgina Tech campus, theatre and dance students performed 27 monologues simultaneously from “What a Stranger May Know.”

Credit card theft burdens UT students

Information stolen from some students’ credit and debit cards has been used at the same on-line stores, leading to privacy and safety concerns on campus. Law enforcement officials urge students to report card informa-tion theft.

Six UT students interviewed by The Daily Texan reported having their credit card infor-mation stolen in the past two weeks. Two victims said their cards were used to buy items from Sephora, while others re-ported charges from Bloom-ingdales and Fandango. The amounts of the reported fraud-ulent charges ranged from $200 to $600. All of the victims in-terviewed by The Daily Texan were able to have the fraudulent charges dismissed, however none of them had filed police reports with UTPD or the Austin Police Department as of Monday.

Supply chain management ju-nior Cheyenne McClaren said she thinks her information might have been stolen when she pur-chased a restaurant gift card from a door-to-door salesperson.

“I swiped my card through the reading device that was at-tached to a [mobile cell] phone,” McClaren said. “I really should not have done it, because I know those devices are not secure.”

She said she has not yet report-ed the incident to the police, but

The UT community remembered the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre Monday with a theatrical memori-al that schools around the country also performed.

UT commemorated the shooting by having theatre and dance students come together to perform “What a

Stranger May Know,” a dedication to those who died, by Erik Ehn on the South Mall.

Each participant represented a victim that lost his or her life. Only 27 monologues were performed out of respect to the families who re-quested their loved ones not be a part of tribute, journalism and the-atre and dance junior Isaac Gomez said. The monologues, which groups

across the U.S. at schools includ-ing Brown University, UT-Arlington and Whittier College performed si-multaneously, took place between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. to coincide with the time when the attacks occurred on April 16, 2007.The Virginia Tech massacre was the deadliest attack by a single gunman in the history of the U.S., which ended when perpetrator Seung-Hui Cho died by suicide af-

ter killing 32 people and wounding 25 others.

This commemoration piece is an act Ehn wrote to be performed out-doors, Gomez said. Audience mem-bers and performers who serve as “witnesses” are able to walk through other performances until the end-ing moments when the ensemble

Hot topics at Monday afternoon’s mayoral debate included the addi-tion of a medical school to the UT campus and solutions for traffic congestion throughout the city.

Candidates in the debate includ-ed former city councilwoman Brig-id Shea, who works as an environ-mental consultant, Clay Dafoe, self-proclaimed citizen activist and re-cent UT alumnus and incumbent Mayor Lee Leffingwell, who was first elected to City Council in 2005

and elected mayor in 2009. The debate was held at the Bass Lec-ture Hall in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where can-didates discussed a range of issues involving making Austin a more

Former Texas Gov. William P. Clements Jr. will be memorialized with a new hospital as part of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

With an expected completion in late 2014, the new William P. Cle-ments Jr. University Hospital will replace the existing St. Paul Uni-versity Hospital.

UT Southwestern CEO Dr. John Warner said the hospital will not only be innovative and beautiful-ly constructed, but its focus will be centered on patient care.

“This new hospital focuses on the three aspects of UT South-western medical care,” Warner said. “It will be there to provide outstanding patient care, an area for education as well as serve as an institution.”

The new facility will be able to take patient care to a new level, and the hospital is excited to have the support of the Clements fami-ly, Warner said.

“The Clements family has been involved with the efforts of med-ical care in Dallas for decades,” Warner said. “Having this new hospital named after former Gov. Clements will be an honor.”

According to the plans for the hospital, the new facility will have 460 all-private patient rooms and will integrate research and clini-cal care by providing patients with technology they need in each of the rooms. Gov. Clements donat-ed $100 million to the university in 2009 that will be used to construct the $800 million hospital.

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Incumbent Mayor Lee Leffingwell, right, and his opponents, Brigid Shea, middle, and Clay Dafoe, left, prepare for more ques-tions during the mayoral debate held Monday afternoon at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

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she is planning to file a report as soon as possible. McClaran said having her information stolen led her to monitor her online interactions more carefully.

“After I got the charges tak-en off my card I made a point to change all of my passwords,” McClaren said. “I also created a second bank account as a secu-rity measure where I kept less of my savings. I use it when I make purchases that I think are less secure.”

UTPD officer Darrell Hal-stead said he has not seen an increase in reported fraudulent credit and debit card activity or information theft, but this could be explained by the fact that students are often reluc-tant to report these incidents.

“A lot of times people think there is nothing that the police can do about [credit and deb-it card information thefts] so they do not report these inci-dents,” Halstead said. “In not reporting crime, they prove themselves right because there is absolutely nothing we can

do about a crime if we do not know about it.”

He said the first step in find-ing the perpetrators who are stealing credit card information is for victims to report the inci-dent with UTPD or the APD.

“What I would like to see is people getting involved in re-porting crimes that happen on this campus,” Halstead said.

Once officers know that a student’s credit card informa-tion has been stolen, they can begin to work with the cred-it card company to verify that a crime has been committed, Halstead said. Officers can then investigate the locations where the credit and debit card num-bers have been used illegally.

According to APD’s inci-dent report database there were three reported incidences of “credit card abuse by fraud” for each of the past three weeks in the City of Austin. Cpl. An-thony Hipolito with APD said incidences of credit and deb-it card theft are classified with all other types of theft by the police department. Therefore, he said it would be difficult for APD representatives to know if the number of thefts has been increasing in recent weeks.

congregated at the steps of the main mall and stood in silence as they ex-tinguished their candles.

“It’s not just important that this performance took place on campus, but all over the world,” Gomez said. “For UT’s rendi-tion, the monologues were per-formed in various spots around South Mall because the space is inherently performative for this kind of thing, and we cannot for-get the shooting that occurred on our very own campus [in 1966]

on that location.”In 1966, UT student Charles

Whitman killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in a shooting rampage primarily in and around the UT Tower.

He said this was the first year the shooting was honored through this performance and he felt honored to have used Ehn’s work to remember the victims.

“Through ‘What a Stranger May Know,’ Ehn challenges the idea of ‘what is civic mourning’ and how we come together as a community to commemorate an event when we are so disconnected by it,” Gomez said.

Theater and dance sophomore Marissa Forsyth said she was a last

minute addition to the cast, and af-ter reading the monologue of one of the victims she immediately felt the meaning behind the text.

“The Virginia Tech massacre was an event that I had heard about when it happened and nothing more,” Forsyth said. “Being a part of this performance reminded all of us how valuable life is, and it al-lowed us to do something great for the victims and their families.”

Felicia Fitzpatrick, ethnic stud-ies and theatre and dance sopho-more, said she hoped the commu-nity remembered the significance of the tragedy.

“There are times where we think we have forever, but the kids in-volved in this tragedy were our age,” Fitzpatrick said. “While this happened far away from us, there is a huge relevance to our genera-tion and we need to appreciate the time we have with our friends and loved ones.”

affordable and accessible city for everyday citizens. The mayoral election will occur May 12.

Both Leffingwell and Shea sup-port the proposal from Senator Kirk Watson to build a medical school near UT. Austin is one of the largest cities in the nation lack-ing a medical school, Shea said.

“I think that a medical school is important for the future of this city,” Shea said. “I have met with hospital officials for briefings on this. They do make a very power-ful case that a medical school is a very important way to retain top-flight doctors with the best experi-ence with medical specialties.”

The positive aspects of building a medical school in Austin may be outweighed by the further debt it would cost the city, Dafoe said.

“While having a medical school in Austin sounds like a great idea, I do not believe we [can] afford

a medical school,” Dafoe said. “I think we should focus our energy on providing a better infrastructure for Austin, reigning in the spend-ing, and decreasing the scope and size of city government.”

Each candidate had a differ-ent approach in dealing with Aus-tin’s heavy traffic congestion. Leff-ingwell said current initiatives for solving the city’s traffic issues will be beneficial in the future.

“We’ve been pursuing innovative solutions,” Leffingwell said. “We just completed recently the fly-overs at I-35 and Ben White [Bou-levard]. Currently under construc-tion are the fly-overs at Mopac and Ben White [Boulevard]. Those fly-overs are going to be completed and they’re going to save Austin drivers 2000 hours of driving time every day, by estimates of our driv-ing department.”

Shea said higher efficiency for Capital Metro’s bus system is a crit-ical part of increasing the quality of public transportation in the city. The issue of congestion through-out the city has not been made a

significant priority by current offi-cials, Shea said.

“We’re smart enough and cre-ative enough as a community to come up with these solutions,” Shea said. “I don’t think the city has made resolving congestion in general enough of a priority. Either that or we just flat failed miserably at addressing it, be-cause we are still such a con-gested city.”

Sherri Greenberg, lecturer and director for politics and gover-nance at the Lyndon B. John-son School of Affairs, was one of the panelists appointed to pose questions for candidates. Green-berg said student involvement should be an important part of these local elections.

“Students live here, and what happens in the city affects stu-dents,” Greenberg said. “We have 50,000 students here liv-ing all over the city. Turnout has been very low, but students can register to vote here and participate. I encourage stu-dents to get involved.”

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Afghan special forces on top of a building previously occupied by militants, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. Insurgents were earlier holed up in the building but were overcome by heavy gunfire.

US nears final Afghan offensiveKABUL, Afghanistan — For Tal-

iban militants and U.S. strategists alike, all roads in this impoverished country of mountain passes, arid deserts and nearly impassable goat tracks lead to this ancient capital of 3 million people nestled in a high and narrow valley.

The Taliban made their intentions clear over the weekend, mounting spectacular coordinated attacks that spawned an 18-hour battle with Af-ghan and NATO forces. And now, the U.S. is gearing up for what may be the last major American-run of-fensive of the war — a bid to secure the approaches to the city.

While bombings and shootings elsewhere in Afghanistan receive relatively little attention, attacks in the capital alarm the general popu-lation, undermine the government’s

reputation and frighten foreign-ers into fleeing the country. That’s why insurgents on Sunday struck locations that were so fortified they could cause little or no damage, in-cluding the diplomatic quarter, the parliament and a NATO base.

“These are isolated attacks that are done for symbolic purposes, and they have not regained any territory,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.

The U.S.-led spring offensive, expected to begin in the coming weeks, may be NATO’s last chance to shore up Kabul’s defenses before a significant withdrawal of combat troops limits its options. The fo-cus will be regions that control the main access routes, roads and high-ways into Kabul from the desert south and the mountainous east. These routes are used not only by militants but by traders carrying goods from Pakistan and Iran.

The strategy involves clearing

militants from provinces such as Ghazni, just south of the capital. The pivotal region links Kabul with the Taliban homeland in the south and provinces bordering Pakistan.

Afghan and U.S. officials blamed the Pakistan-based Haqqani net-work, which is part of the Taliban and has close links with al-Qaida, for the weekend attacks that left 36 in-surgents, eight policemen and three civilians dead in Kabul and three eastern provinces. But Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said officials have not concluded whether the at-tacks emanated out of Pakistan.

Declining numbers of interna-tional troops in the coming months are also forcing coalition forces to focus less on remote and thick-ly populated places such as eastern Nuristan. They hope to move re-sponsibility for those areas to the Afghan security forces.

By Patrick QuinnThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Gener-al Services Administration inspec-tor general said Monday that he’s investigating possible bribery and kickbacks in the agency, as a central figure in a GSA spending scandal asserted his right to remain silent at a congressional hearing.

Inspector general Brian Miller, re-sponding to a question at the hear-ing, said, “We do have other ongoing investigations, including all sorts of improprieties, including bribes, in-cluding possible kickbacks.”

Jeffrey Neely, who asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege before the committee, has been placed on leave as a regional executive in Western states.

Neely was largely responsible for an $823,000 Las Vegas conference in 2010 that was the focus of Mill-er’s report. Three other congressio-nal committees also are looking at the conference spending and a cul-ture of waste at the agency in charge of federal buildings and supplies

“Mr. Chairman, on advice of counsel I decline to answer based on my constitutional privilege,” Neely said in response to questions from chairman Darrell Issa, R-Ca-lif. The conference was the sub-ject of a highly critical report by Miller issued on April 2. Taxpay-ers picked up the tab for a clown, a mind-reader, bicycles for a team-building exercise.

Martha Johnson, who resigned as chief of the agency after the in-spector general’s report was issued

this month, said the Western Re-gions Conference “had evolved into a raucous, extravagant, arrogant, self-congratulatory event.”

Previously, Neely had told in-spector general investigators that a $2,700 party he threw in his Las Vegas hotel suite was an employee-awards event, according to a tran-script of the interview.

“This is an award recognition ceremony ....” Neely insisted to an internal investigator. “That’s what this was. That’s...not a Neely par-ty right. I actually...it was in a suite that wasn’t even mine.”

The investigator then confront-ed Neely with his email saying that he and his wife “are hosting a party in our loft room. There will be wine and beer and some munchies....” There was no mention of awards.

By Larry MargasakThe Associated Press

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By Melissa MacayaDaily Texan Columnist

By Stephen McGarveyDaily Texan Columnist

Longhorn of the Year is back!The Daily Texan Editorial Board is seeking suggestions for our Longhorn

of the Year distinction. The Longhorn of the Year is an individual who had the most positive impact on the UT community throughout the 2011-12academic year.

You can suggest a candidate by emailing the name of the nominee and a short explanation to [email protected] for potentialpublication or tweeting us @DTeditorial.

We’ll print finalists later in the semester and announce our selectionin May.

I have a problem — and a serious one at that. You see, I have quite a lot of trouble making decisions. Just this a� ernoon I was in my local Walmart for two full hours trying to choose the right type of lightbulb. When I reached the checkout line, I held up the oth-ers behind me trying to choose the bag that best � t my needs. And as I got gas on the way home, I saw some tempting Marlboros that le� me quite curious about what it would be like to become a smoker. � ankfully, my country, city and most recently University have all got my back, happily ready to remove those pesky decisions from my life.

Banning incandescent lightbulbs was a fantastic idea. � eir so� , warm light � lls me with rage, and the way they immediately turn on at full brightness makes me suspicious of potential black magic. I much prefer these newfangled compact � uorescents, and my government agrees with me. Waiting for the bulb to illuminate in any room I walk into adds a quaint sense of suspense and joyous anticipation. I love when my household ap-pliances can do that.

But the federal government really doesn’t do enough. � ere are still far too many choic-es I make in the day. For example, President Barack Obama is OK with my choosing what type of bags I use! What nonsense. I have 1,001 decisions to make every day, and I don’t want my type of bag to be one of them.

� ankfully, the ever-benevolent city of Austin has come to the rescue, banning those insidious disposable bags. Hallelujah! � ose darn bags were too convenient. And having them right there at the register made me feel like I was being a lazy American. I want to work to buy my groceries, dang it.

Reusable bags know how to keep me on my toes. By having to consciously lug them around everywhere from Walmart to the Home Depot, I exert far more time and energy. While some might call that an ob-noxious burden, I call it a glorious govern-ment-imposed workout, as well as useful mental exercise.

Also, I used to reuse those plastic bags as elegant liners to the trash can in my dorm. But with the ban in place, I get to buy speci� c liners, thus supporting the trash can liner in-dustry and stimulating the economy. Austin really is brilliant.

But I still feel like more could be done to really streamline my day and inhibit those pesky choices. � ankfully, I am a proud student of the University of Texas at Austin, where they understand my need for this. � erefore, they recently helped make it al-most impossible for me to choose to use to-bacco products by banning them everywhere on campus.

And I’m not the only one ecstatic about this new authoritarianism. I know a bril-liant professor who has also been greatly as-sisted in his decision making as well. Forced to choose between teaching at UT or Har-

vard, this poor man and casual smoker was plagued for months with the choice. But with the new tobacco ban in e� ect, the decision was made much easier, and my dear friend Winston Smith is now happily enjoying life in Cambridge.

Still, more could be done. We all know that water is better for us than soda, so it would be smart to ban all carbonated beverages. And since electric vehicles are better for the environment than gas vehicles, perhaps UT should make it illegal to park on its campus without an EV. And while we’re at it, we all know PCs are better than Macs, so let’s just ban those, too.

Despite the inherent brilliance of all of this, some people disagree for some reason. � ey are against government intrusion in their lives, and they feel that these govern-mental and institutional moves are over-bearing and infringe on people’s rights. I say pish posh. � ose silly anarchists must realize we’re far too dumb to be le� to make any decisions ourselves.

I am in love with government. In fact, I truly think it is infallible. Every decision it makes about my life is surely for the better, and the less choice it leaves to me as a con-sumer, the better o� I am. I know it has my best interest at heart and could never com-promise that for the sake of any corporate, political or � nancial gains.

� at would be utterly absurd.

McGarvey is a business honors freshman.

� roughout my journalism education at UT and various internships, I have � rmly believed that journalism is not dying but rather is changing in new and exciting ways. As I prepare to graduate and enter the professional world in one month, it is comforting to see those changes acknowledged at the School of Journalism.

� e department is undertaking the biggest change to its curriculum in almost 20 years and moving across the street to the state-of-the-art Belo Center for New Media. Rather than selecting one structured track in top-ics such as print or broadcast, students will now undertake � ve levels of coursework where they will learn multiple storytelling techniques, create their own digital portfolio, complete a senior capstone and participate in an internship. Students will also still be instructed in the basics of writing and media ethics.

� e “new digital-based, state-of-the-art curriculum,” as it is described on the website, is a breath of fresh air for the University and symbolizes the vi-tality of journalism in both the academic and professional realms. � e shi� also represents a wave of change toward positive modernization and away from the pessimistic rhetoric that has been plaguing the media environ-ment for the past � ve years. Multiple journalism schools around the nation, such as Columbia University and the University of Missouri, have also madecurriculum changes.

Although the new curriculum’s focus on digital skills is essential, it is also instrumental that the department continue to stress the importance of courses that are theme-oriented and provide students with the critical think-ing skills they need to navigate complex reporting scenarios. Critical skills, not equipment or video skills, help a journalist report a story in a thorough way. Even more of these courses should be added to the curriculum.

During my four years at the School of Journalism, it was the courses that taught me about journalism’s role in historical, international, political and social processes that I found most valuable. � rough my certi� cate in La-tino Media Studies, I learned about the press’s role in Hispanic and Latin American communities. � ese types of academic opportunities help give the contextual knowledge needed to e� ectively report a multifaceted topic.

� e department must also expand its study abroad opportunities and internship partnerships across the country. Annual summer internships at local and national news organizations could be set aside for UT students. A journalism career fair organized in partnership with prominent news or-ganizations would also be very bene� cial to graduating students. � e school currently supports three short study abroad programs in China, the Czech Republic and Austria. In order for students to report about the world and their communities, they must see the world. International experiences, alongside skills acquired in the classroom, will help create even more well-rounded journalists.

As I have discovered in my undergraduate career, the traditional lines of print, broadcast and Web are long gone. � e path is now the convergence of all of these. � is merging has created an industry that is exciting, quick, creative and challenging. � is path does not lead to death, as many would like to believe, but opportunity. � ere are now unparalleled ways to tell sto-ries in even more engaging and powerful mediums. Students at journalism schools are now at the center of this change and can even be creators of newstorytelling techniques.

Although I will not be able to take advantage of the curriculum chang-es, I am proud to be part of a department that not only embraces change, but creates it as well. I am looking forward to seeing the results infuture generations.

Macaya is a journalism and Latin American studies senior.

Leave the policing to the police

While I thank Nick Roland for his service to our country, it’s entirely misguided and inappropriate for him to use the fifth anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings to espouse a pro-guns-on-campus line in his firing line published Monday. His two institu-tions, Virginia Tech and UT, have been the scenes of some of the most violent mass shoot-ings on college campuses in this country.

Proponents of guns on campus think that their ability to “come to the rescue” is val-iant, but it disguises the real issue. I think back to the incident of Sept. 28, 2010. Imagine if we had a campus full of armed students trying to take out Colton Tooley. What would have happened when armed police officers, knowing that there was an active shooter, had come across Roland or some other student “taking out” the real gunman? An evengreater tragedy.

Leave the policing to the police, and keep guns off this campus.Michael Redding

Graduate Student Assembly presidentTexas Student Media contract employee

As Marvel Studios gets ready to roll out its planet-saving team in � e Avengers, President William Powers Jr. trium-phantly announced the creation of his own squad of well-footed business leaders to improve the University’s e� ciency.

� e group of 13 individuals, many of them with ties to the McCombs School of Business, will be charged with examin-ing three primary areas to increase e� ciency: the University’s administrative structure, technology commercialization and asset management, according to � e Daily Texan.

� e group is composed of several regarded business lead-ers, ranging from Hector Ruiz, the former CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, to Charles Tate, an investment banker whose � ngerprints are scattered from the Cancer Prevention and Re-search Institute of Texas to the Commission of 125.

� e team plans to examine various aspects of the Universi-ty’s business processes and issue recommendations at the end of 2012. � e frequency and logistics of their meetings, such as who will pay the travel costs and accommodations, are all still being worked out.

While the squad is o� cially dubbed the Committee on Business Productivity, we will take the opportunity to toss out a few potential movie titles — in case the Longhorn Network wants to pick it up.

� e � rst possibility is � e Defenders, which is likely the University’s � rst pick for the title. A� er all, the committee’s involvement brings positive publicity for UT, as many of the individuals are alumni who are able to use their expertise to assist in the state’s higher education goals in an active way, rather than just writing a big check. And while administra-tors are quick to point to the low administrative costs as apercentage at UT compared to other institutions in the state, there will always be ways to be more e� cient and e� ective in

the depths of a $2.3-billion budget.Powers has also been careful in conveying that the commit-

tee will be dealing with the University’s operations and not its academics. � is somewhat quells the signi� cant concern of corporate models being blindly applied to higher education, at least in this manner.

However, another possible title for the group could be � e Cut-Spenders. Kevin Hegarty, executive vice president and chief � nancial o� cer, said that while it’s much too early to speculate on layo� s, “It’s hard not to eventually a� ect the numbers of jobs.”

In an era of reduced funding from the state, sacri� ces are being shared across campus. Yet sta� have been hit hardest by budget cuts. � ough the majority of sta� reductions have taken the form of not � lling open positions rather than layo� s, sta� job security and morale continue to be an overlooked and unappreciated aspect in budgetary decisions made at the top.

Finally, it’s hard to escape the most probable of potential titles: � e Pretenders. � ough well-meaning and innovative, a committee digging for cost savings in the operational budgets strays far from answering the fundamental � nancial questions that hound higher education. For that matter, deploying the committee reinforces the talking points that University crit-ics wield with fervor: that all of higher education’s � nancial problems can be solved by e� ciency tweaks such as reduc-ing the number of grapes in the Jester City Limits parfaits — not the refusal of state leaders to value higher education, or the emerging view of higher education as a private and not apublic good.

So as the committee members begins meeting in the com-ing months, we need to see them for what they are: hope but no hero.

Words can hurt as much as sticks and stones, as many people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexu-al or transgender can attest.

Students gathered Monday to discuss the power of language during “Word! Your Language Matters,” a workshop hosted by the student organizations Voices Against Violence, Queer Student Alliance and the Gender and Sex-uality Center Leadership Council.

For members of sexual violence or gender discrimination, words can trigger debilitatingly pain-ful memories, said biology senior Kirsten Callaway, who helped or-ganize the event.

“‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me’ is a total fallacy,” Callaway said. “We don’t need to walk on eggshells when we speak, but we should be mindful of what we say.”

Callaway said the use of the words “rape,” “gay” and “whore” s h o u l d b e r e m o v e d f r o m casual conversation.

“Using the word ‘rape’ as in ‘Dude, I raped that test’ has be-come so normal that we don’t rea l ize how harmful i t i s ,” Callaway said.

Callaway attributes the inclu-sion of offensive words in our everyday vernacular to the in-creasing heteronormativity of our society.

“It’s not because of an erosion

of values, it’s a symptom of het-eronormativity,” she said. “Words like ‘fag’ are common and harm-ful like the N-word used to be.”

Journalism freshman Ken-ny Chilton, who works for a dat-ing abuse hotline, said even com-mon words can initiate debilitat-ing flashbacks.

“A woman called the hotline because someone said ‘You’re being really bitchy right now,” C h i l t on s a i d . “He r abu s e r used to say that and it brought back memories.”

We cannot always know which words will offend or hurt oth-er people, but we should be straightforward and ask others if we suspect we offended them, Chilton said.

Journalism freshman Shan-non Price said we should be more aware of how the words around us affect our thoughts.

“Media makes society think the way we do,” Price said. “I think I’m relatively aware but I always need to be on guard.”

Monday’s event was a new spin on the Panty Line Project, a lan-guage awareness event that Voices Against Violence hosted in years past, Callaway said.

“A lot of people in Voices Against Violence who identify as LGBT made it known that [the Panty Line Project] was not gender inclusive,” she said. “We’re trying to be more gender inclusive with this event be-cause people from all genders are victims of sexual assault.”

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Students listen as Kirsten Calloway and Donnesh Amrollah conduct a workshop on the power of language and how it impacts the LGBT community. This workshop is a part of Sexual Awareness Month.

By Samuel LieblDaily Texan Staff

PALMVIEW — A 15-year-old South Texas boy charged with nine counts of murder after he crashed a minivan packed with illegal immigrants, killing nine of them, cried and expressed re-morse before a judge Monday, police said.

The boy, who is not being iden-tified because he is a juvenile, ap-peared at a probable cause hear-ing at a juvenile detention facil-ity. He was also charged with 17 counts of smuggling of a person causing serious bodily injury or death, and one count of evading.

Border Patrol agents pulled over the van last Tuesday night about 10 miles west of McAllen. As it stopped, one person jumped from the vehicle and ran. When agents pursued him the van sped off. It crashed just a few blocks away scattering a parking lot with bod-ies, backpacks and water bottles. The driver escaped, but was ar-rested two days later at his home.

Pa lmview Pol ice worked with agents from Immigra-tion and Customs Enforcement’s

Homeland Security Investiga-tions to arrest six people suspect-ed of involvement in the smug-gling operation on charges re-lated to harboring illegal immi-grants. At least four of the six crash survivors were detained as material witnesses.

Through inter views with them they found the teen driv-er, said Palmview police Chief Chris Barrera.

“He wanted to come clean so he came out and gave us a state-ment,” Barrera said. “He ex-plained to us exactly what had happened, what he had done.”

Palmview Detect ive Saul Uvalle, who attended the prob-able cause hearing, said the teen told the judge that if he didn’t drive the van they were going to kill his family. Uvalle said the teen didn’t say who “they” were. “He was very remorseful of what happened,” Uvalle said.

State prosecutors can pursue the felony murder charges because the deaths occurred during the commis-sion of a felony, in this case evading Border Patrol. A judge will eventu-ally decide whether the boy will be tried as an adult.

By Christopher ShermanThe Associated Press

HOSPITAL continues from PAGE 1remarkable gift more than two years ago was that it be used for some-thing that would have a transforma-tional impact on UT Southwestern,” said UT Southwestern President Dr. Daniel Podolsky. “We were deep-ly honored by his confidence and are now pleased and proud to name our new hospital in commemora-tion of a true Texas giant, certain that it will have the transformation-al effect he envisioned.”

Anthony de Bruyn, assistant vice chancellor for public affairs said the Board of Regents’ said members were unanimous in their decision making because of the long-stand-ing relationship between the UT System and the Clements family.

“When an institution puts in a name request for the approval of the Board of Regents, we analyze what

it will mean to have a new facili-ty with their namesake,” de Bruyn said. “UT Southwestern submitted the request in to the Board, and we were eager to memorialize the Cle-ments name in the UT System.”

Ehssan Faraji, biomedical engi-neering and pre-med junior said the plans for integrating research in the health care system is an innova-tive step that he believes will help the overall care of patients in the long run.

“Incorporating elements such as in-room monitors to ana-lyze charts and images as well as video conferencing capa-bilities might seem like mi-nor changes to a room,” Fara-ji said. “But these are all things that can s igni f icant ly im-prove the diagnostic process.”

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Oscar Brockett, a former UT pro-fessor, was one of the world’s leading theater historians, and his leadership will continue to be honored by the development of an academic research center in his area of expertise.

The Oscar and Lenyth Brock-ett Professorship in Theatre History has been established as the first en-dowment in support of the develop-ment of the Oscar G. Brockett Cen-ter for Theatre History and Criticism. The professorship will fund faculty and student research in theater his-tory, allowing the plans of the cen-ter to move forward, said Brant Pope, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance.

“With the assistance of Brockett’s daughter, Francesca Brockett, and

her husband Jim Pedicano, we’ve achieved stage one of the plans to build the center,” Pope said.

Pope said the center will begin as a think tank in order to discuss how it will be structured.

“The legacy of Brockett will extend into the 21st century by being a think tank and will allow the discussion of all aspects of theater history and per-formance,” Pope said. “We will be able to craft what that field of study would be in the 21st century, what kind of things we should be studying in that area, what kind of labs should we build and what the curriculum should be.”

During this stage, the center will also be able to fundraise and build to-ward raising enough money for an endowed chair of the Brockett Cen-ter, Pope said.

At the core of the center will be

Brockett’s collection of books, pa-pers, journals and artifacts, which will allow scholars to study and use his collection to write theater history, Pope said.

“Now that he’s gone, scholars that used to come to talk to him can now come to the center as a place of inspi-ration where [they] can use his col-lection and write and study theater history,” he said.

Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, said UT has long been a top center of theater ed-ucation in Texas and a center of cut-ting-edge theater scholarships in the country.

“Brockett, along with many oth-er former and current faculty mem-bers, have been responsible for ele-vating UT’s theater history program to a top 12 ranking in the Nation-al Research Council’s evaluation of

Ph.D. programs in theater,” Demp-ster said. “The creation of the Brock-ett Center and the Brockett Profes-sorship is an expression of our and of our supporters’ institutional determi-nation, to remain in this elite compa-ny of Ivy League and public flagship research universities.”

Heather Barfield, theater and dance graduate student and former student of Brockett, said he was a gentle pro-fessor, a thorough historian and an inquisitive thinker.

“Our opinions as students were re-spected and, in fact, requested in or-der to cultivate an appreciation for both the mysteries and grounded evi-dence of theater history,” Barfield said. “Having a professorship in his honor is a testament to Brockett’s profound effect upon countless students, schol-ars and historians, including those in-side and outside theater studies.”

Universities may use voice rec-ognition technology similar to Ap-ple’s Siri to analyze data collected about students, faculty and staff.

John Rome, deputy chief in-formation officer at Arizona State University, spoke Monday to a crowd of about 40 business intel-ligence professionals from colleges and universities around the world. Business intelligence, also known as BI, is the use of data systems to improve decision making. Rome’s talk about voice recognition tech-nology was part of the Higher Ed-ucation Data Warehousing Con-ference hosted by UT April 15-17.

Rome said the convenience and accuracy of technologies like Siri prove that universities will inevi-tably apply voice recognition tools to business-oriented tasks.

“The future, sooner rather than later, is that we will use something like Siri on top of BI,” he said. “There will come a day when we can use phones for data analytics.”

Rome said universities use data analytics to more effec-tively recruit students, identi-fy struggling students and dif-ferentiate between good and bad teaching techniques.

As content and businesses be-come more geared toward smart-phones and tablets, so too will data analysis tools, Rome said.

“By 2013, 33 percent of BI will be consumed on mobile devices and 80 percent of businesses will support tablets,” he said. “By 2014, there will be more mobile devices than laptops or desktops.”

IT professional Carrie Shu-maker of the University of Mich-igan, one of UT’s peer institu-tions, said students demand more data-driven applications from her university.

“Students want to develop apps and to access data to build their apps around,” Shumaker said. “We will develop the app if it’s worth-

while, but if it’s something our university puts out, it needs to fol-low our standards.”

Jeff Stark, a data warehouse manager for Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute and an organiz-er of the conference, said the field of data analytics is trying to find a balance between usability and technical depth.

“Many of our tools are too ro-bust for mobile apps because they were developed for researchers and statisticians,” Stark said.

Among universities, UT is at the forefront of developing data analy-sis tools and making those tools more accessible, said Vijay Thiru-vengadam, the director and data architect of the University’s Infor-mation Quest project.

“Our mantra is ‘Crawl, walk, run,” he said. “We take an incre-mental approach and do smaller things first.”

In the opinion of other universi-ties, UT is more than running — it is flying, Thiruvengadam said. But only high-level faculty and staff currently have access to UT’s busi-ness intelligence tools, and the In-formation Quest project has a lot more scaling up to do, he said.

“[Information Quest] has 1,800 users who can look at financial, student and faculty data,” Thiru-vengadam said. “People want us to be at the fly stage, but we’re at the walk stage now.”

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The whole point of the policy is to assist transgender students in transitioning to the University in a way that will correspond to how they live and identify.

— Jeffrey Graves, associate vice president for legal affairs

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A private U.S. company is on track to become the first commer-cial visitor to the International Space Station.

NASA said Monday there’s a good chance that Space Explora-tion Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will make its April 30 date to launch a cargo ship to the space station. More software testing is needed be-fore a final “go” is given. Managers said they will meet again next Mon-day to review everything.

The Dragon spacecraft will be hoisted aboard the company’s Fal-con rocket from Cape Canaveral.

The company’s chief executive of-ficer and chief designer, Paypal co-founder Elon Musk, said the Falcon and Dragon are proven vehicles. What’s new is getting the supply ship to the space station. Musk was hesitant to give out odds for success, stressing that this is a test flight.

NASA has paid $381 million to SpaceX to get this far, under its post-shuttle push for commercially pro-vided cargo and, in three or more years, possibly crew. Musk said the company has put about $1 billion of its own money into the venture.

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did not apply to middle names at the time. Ovalle said he also faced problems buying foot-ball tickets because his preferred name did not match the one on his credit card.

Ovalle said he felt outed when people would call him by his birth name instead of his preferred name.

“It’s not necessarily being outed by it that bothered me,” Ovalle said. “It’s the questions and the explanations that people feel entitled to after that which can be difficult to deal with.”

While only students who request the change through the center will have their name changed on class rosters and other official records, all students will be able to take ad-vantage of the UHS policy and use a preferred name on their medical records. However, preferred names cannot go on an official University diploma or transcript.

According to the center’s website, preferred name changes are granted after the student has a conversation with a staff member who determines that the use of the name would facil-itate a student’s success at UT. The preferred name appears on class ros-ters, the private Texas Enterprise Directory, clips class information pages, Blackboard and official UT

identification cards.Ixchel Rosal, Gender and Sex-

uality Center director, said about five students have updated their re-cords using the preferred name pol-icy since it launched last fall. Ro-sal said she does not ask if studens are transgender when she meets with them about their request but that most students who requested it were. Rosal said all the feedback from students who were approved for a preferred was positive.

Jeffrey Graves, associate vice president for legal affairs, said UT considered many factors before ap-proving the policy. Graves said pre-ferred names cannot go on diplo-mas or transcripts without a legal name change.

He said one of the legal issues UT faced was putting preferred names on UT ID cards.

In cases such as police stops or when asked to surrender an ID card, Graves said, UT officials need to be able to confirm a student’s official name with the name on record with the University regardless of their pre-ferred name. To address this, a stu-dent’s preferred name goes on the front of the ID card and the official name goes on the back.

“The whole point of the policy

is to assist transgender students in transitioning to the University in a way that will correspond with how they live and how they identify,” Graves said.

White said the task force ad-dresses many policy issues af-fecting the LGBT community by breaking down barriers and pro-moting a climate of inclusion and togetherness. White said the com-mittee tries to address big and small things in the UT communi-ty that would make a difference.

For instance, White said the addi-tion of many family and gender-neu-tral bathrooms on campus last year

not only benefited people who iden-tify as transgender, but also people with disabilities, people with a med-ical condition who need a private place to administer medication and people with small children.

“It’s not about acknowled-ing an accomplishment,” White said. “It’s the fact that we were able to put a different lens on something that should be there for all our students.”

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Parker French was an All-State pitcher in high school and a four-year letter winner for Dripping Springs. Despite his All-Star background, he still can’t remember a longer or more impressive outing than his scoreless, eight inning gem against Oklahoma State Saturday.

“One time in high school I went eight, but this is the first time I went eight scoreless,” French said.

Coming into the start Texas need-ed French to produce a long out-ing to help ease the burden that a doubleheader can put on a bullpen if the starters don’t pitch well, and he delivered.

In his eight innings on the rubber, French scattered six hits and only al-lowed one walk. He kept the Cow-boys’ hitters on their toes all after-noon by mixing his hard sinker and slider with an on-point breaking ball, which caused the Cowboys to make weak contact and hit a lot of soft

ground balls.“My sinker was moving late and

working really well, and being able

Following a pair of impres-sive conference wins, the Long-horns are ready to face off with an old rival.

The team is 6-0 in Big 12 play and ranked No. 13 in the coun-try. Victories over the likes of top 25 teams such as Baylor and Tex-as Tech proved that these accolades are no fluke.

“Texas Tech came in undefeat-ed in conference play this year and has been playing some great tennis with some very scrappy players,”

said head coach Patty Fendick-Mc-Cain. “It is just a really good win to get at home.”

Sophomore Elizabeth Begley has emerged as of late, becoming a kind of backbone for the wom-en. She currently holds an unde-feated conference record and a 12-1 record overall after two wins last weekend.

“Elizabeth Begley was terrific out there [against Tech],” Fendick-McCain said.

Cierra Gaytan-Leach has earned numerous victories in doubles play this year, but her nail-biting victo-ries in the last few matches have

earned her attention for her singles play as well. She fought back from a third set deficit to clinch the match point for the team against Bay-lor and proceeded to do the same

against Texas Tech the next day.“I went down 3-0 and was kind

of moping around a little bit and trying to keep my head up, but I told myself, ‘Okay, I know it is com-

ing down to me and I have to do it for Texas,’” Gaytan-Leach said. “I stepped it up and everything went

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David Snow has always want-ed to be an NFL player. But come draft day on April 26, he won’t be sitting around eagerly watching the television. Instead, he will be out fishing with his friends.

“I’m going to be really excit-ed,” Snow said. “But I’m not go-ing to be sitting around.”

Once he was offered a schol-arship to UT, the center from Gilmer knew that his dreams to play professionally could hap-pen. Snow graduated in De-cember and has been training and preparing for the draft ever since. Leaving UT was difficult for Snow, but he is ready to be-gin the next part of his career.

“I really like starting new stag-es of life and I am really excit-ed about the opportunity of the next level and getting to play some more football,” Snow said. “You’re kind of sad, but at the same time you’re also really hap-py. It’s a weird combination of the two.”

Snow has no preference to what team he goes to, as long as

he can continue playing football. Snow appeared in all 52 games

during his four-year career at Texas. Snow prides himself on versatility — he can play center, left guard and right guard. He said he will play wherever he is needed in the NFL. Scouts have told him they like his versatility.

“Being able to play multi-ple positions does ultimate-ly help you a whole bunch in the NFL,” Snow said. “You nev-er know when someone’s go-ing to go down and you’ ll need to move over and play a different position.”

In his senior year, he start-ed all 13 games at left guard, but in his junior year, he spent most of the season at center. He plans to be ready to step up whenev-er his potential team needs him. The Longhorns’ practices are set up very similar to NFL practic-es, so he feels confident that he is ready to play professionally.

“Center is a unique position, of course, and you can’t get ev-eryone to play that position,” said Texas head coach Mack Brown.

Texas coaches have helped him progress, and the advice and help of Longhorn alumni will also help him. Snow knows he won’t have any problems, but

BASEBALL

Rebecca Rodriguez | Daily Texan file photo

Freshman pitcher Parker French has yet to allow a run in more than 25 innings at home this year. French improved to 4-1 in his last outing, throwing eight scoreless innings Saturday against Oklahoma State.

French fooling hitters in role as starter

One of best at Texas, Garrido deserving of two-year extension

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Head baseball coach Augie Garrido instructs sophomore Mark Payton. Garrido’s two-year contract extension has him signed through 2015.

Senior Krista Damico helped Texas get past Texas Tech by winning her singles match in straight sets. The Longhorns are 6-0 against Big 12 foes and will try to improve to 7-0 when they face Texas A&M Tuesday.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Longhorns look to stay perfect against conference competition

By Matt WardenDaily Texan Staff

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NFL DRAFT 2012

by Lauren Giudice

Texas vs. Texas State

Date: TodayTime: 6 p.m.

Location: Austin

Texas has its fair share of great coaches.

Head football coach Mack Brown brought the Longhorns their first national title in more than three de-cades and, until a brief hiccup in 2010, made them a perennial power-house once again. Men’s swimming coach Eddie Reese, who will lead

the American swimming team in this summer’s Olympics, has made winning conference titles and top-five finishes at the NCAA Champi-onships. Longtime coaches Connie Clark and John Fields have the soft-ball and men’s golf squads ranked No. 5 and No. 1, respectively.

But Texas head baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest skip-per in Division I history, is arguably the best coach on the 40 Acres. He’s

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After delivering a pair of match-clinching victories, sophomore Cierra Gaytan-Leach was named the Big 12 Women’s Tennis Player of the Week for the first time in her career. Gaytan-Leach took down Ema Burgic, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, to break a 3-3 tie and give the Longhorns a win over Baylor last Saturday. The following day, against Texas Tech, Gaytan-Leach triumphed over Caroline Starcks, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, despite trailing, 3-0, in the third set. She becomes the second Longhorn to earn conference player of the week honors. Senior Krista Damico became the first March 19.

Sport: TennisHeight: 5’ 10”Class: SophomoreHometown: Corona del Mar, California

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Snow prepared for pro careerThree-year starter’s versatility helps chances of being drafted

SENIOR (2011):Games Snow played- 13Average Points per

game-28.7Average total offense per

game- 404.0 yardsAverage rushing per game-

210.4 yardsAverage passing per game- 192.6 yards

JUNIOR (2010):Games Snow played- 12Average points per game- 23.8Average total offensive per game- 382.5 yardsAverage rushing per game- 150.5 yardsAverage passing per game- 232.0 yards

SOPHOMORE (2009):Games Snow played- 14

Average points per game- 39.3Average offense per game-

421.2 yardsAverage rushing per game- 147.6Average passing per game- 273.6 yards

FRESHMAN (2008):Games Snow Played- 13Average points per game- 42.4Average offense per game- 475.8 yardsAverage rushing per game- 167.5 yardsAverage pass-ing per game- 308.3 yards

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my way.”Gaytan-Leach’s resolve did not

go unnoticed.“You could see the determina-

tion in her eyes when she came back out for the third set,” Fendick-McCain said. “I felt good about it. I just kind of sat back and enjoyed the third set because I felt really good about it.”

Veterans Krista Damico and Ae-riel Ellis have buoyed the team’s charge all season long and not much more can be said about their impact. However, the bottom of the Longhorn’s lineup is filled with newcomers who are performing at a level impossible to miss.

“Lina [Padegimaite], Eliza-

beth [Begley] and Cierra [Gay-tan-Leach] have been playing so great at four, five and six [singles],” Fendick-McCain said. “I thought those three matches were going to be over with pretty quickly today [against Baylor] because they’ve all been playing well.”

Padegimaite, a freshman for the Longhorns, currently holds 12 sin-gles wins this year, putting her near the top on this solid team. But her doubles play may be the most im-pressive feat of her first season, as she and fellow freshman Noel Scott are ranked No. 42 in the country as a duo.

“They’ve worked so hard in the last couple of weeks to re-

ally get back on form, because they’ve struggled, but I thought it was great to see them clinch the point [against Baylor],” Fendick-McCain said. “That couldn’t have been better. It was awesome.”

With all of this momentum, the women will head to Col-lege Station for a battle with the Aggies.

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won two of his five national champion-ships and 686 of his record 1,837 games since taking over at Texas in 1997. Gar-rido, the only Divison I baseball coach in history to win 600 games and win na-tional titles at two different schools (Cal State Fullerton and Texas), received a two-year contract extension last Friday through 2015. The 73 year old current-ly earns a salary of $935,000 and will get an annual raise of $50,000.

After his Longhorns dropped their series opener against Oklahoma State, 3-1, in 11 innings at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Friday, Garrido claimed to be unaware of the extension.

But the way Texas bounced back from that heartbreaking defeat, sweep-ing the Cowboys in a doubleheader the following day showed why Garri-do deserved it.

“Last year’s team and this year’s team are the same way. There’s just something inside of us that just lets us battle. We hate to lose,” said soph-omore right fielder Mark Payton, who has reached base in all 33 of the Long-horns’ games this season and who hit a go-ahead home run in Texas’ most recent victory Saturday afternoon. “There’s an instinct inside us that just says to pick it up another notch.”

As Garrido is well aware, the bot-tom line at Texas is simple — get to Omaha. In more than 40 years as a college baseball head coach, Garri-do has taken his team to the College World Series 12 times, including sev-en times in 14 seasons. The five-time National Coach of the Year is also the only Division I coach to win national titles in Omaha in four different de-cades. He led Cal State Fullerton to national titles in 1979, 1984 and 1995 while bringing championships to Tex-as in 2002 and 2005.

Longhorns head men’s basket-ball coach Rick Barnes hasn’t quite struggled the past few years, but his squads haven’t excelled, either. Barnes signed the nation’s fourth-best recruiting class, according to ESPN, the fourth straight year he brought in a top-five class. Texas will welcome the likes of ESPNU 100 members Cameron Ridley (No. 8 on the ESPNU100), Prince Ibeh (No. 59), Javan Felix (No. 72) and Connor Lammert (No. 93). But, despite the annual haul of top-notch prospects, the Longhorns have just one NCAA Tournament in the last three years to show for it, not winning multi-ple postseason contests since a trip to the Elite Eight in 2008.

At least Barnes still has his job. Gail Goestenkors became the former Tex-as head women’s basketball coach after resigning a month ago. Like Barnes,

Goestnekors took the Longhorns to the NCAA Tournament each of the five seasons she was in charge, win-ning only one game at the Big Dance and ending her tenure with four straight first-round exits.

Texas’ chances to return to Oma-ha aren’t as good as they were when it made a NCAA record 33rd College World Series appearance last season. The Longhorns began this year 2-5, the worst seven-game start in school his-tory since 1944. But they’re 18-8 since then and have won all four of their conference series so far with a three-game set against Kansas on the hori-zon. Texas has yet to play top-10 teams Baylor and Texas A&M as it saves its best Big 12 opponents for last.

But, as long as Garrido is in the dugout, don’t count the Longhorns out. They’ll always have a chance to get to Omaha.

former players like Derrick John-son and Jamaal Charles have told him to be responsible once he en-ters the NFL, especially early in his career.

“A lot of people when they go to the NFL and they get paid a bunch of money off the top, they want to go spend it,” Snow said. “That can cause you a lot of prob-lems. They told me to get in there and work your tail off.”

Although Snow was not invit-ed to the NFL Combine, he feels he performed well enough at Tex-as’ pro day to convince coaches and scouts that he is ready to play at the next level. But he knows that it’s a combination of four years that teams look at when de-termining who they will call on April 26. Last year 59 players who were not invited to the combine made it on a pro team.

“I put up a lot of solid numbers during my four years at Texas and that helps a lot, so now we just wait,” Snow said.

He has filled out questionnaires for all 32 teams and has worked out for coaches from Denver. But if he is not drafted, he will go as a free agent and try out. He hopes he will earn a spot on a team.

“Everything in life that I do, I

always want to be the best at it,” Snow said. “When I started play-ing football, I always wanted to be the best at it. I’ve always felt like I could always outwork every-one. That was just my mentality about it.”

Snow graduated from Tex-as with a degree in corporate communication and could see a future for himself in commer-cial real estate. But he will al-ways have his time at UT to look back on.

“I had a great time at UT,” Snow said. “The greatest thing is that a lot of the guys helped me do my spiritual walk and we get to play football together. The combination of the two gave me a great experience.”

No matter what the future holds for Snow, he is going to keep pushing and working.

“My work ethic is really great,” Snow said. “So I am just go-ing to keep on working no matter what.”

to mix in the slider and the changeup kept them off balance,” French said. “It was around the fifth inning where they just started pounding the ball in the ground, and the defense went to work. It was awesome.”

Perhaps the most impressive part of French’s performance is that he’s just a freshman, but he makes up for his lack of experience by displaying a high lev-el of maturity on the mound. He never seems to be rattled and is often able to work out of tough spots, whether it be a 0-2 count or a bases loaded jam.

The calm demeanor he has on the mound might also account for the way he’s been able to handle his two distinct roles on the team this season — as a re-liever and, about a month into the sea-

son, a starter.Early on, he was a key member of

the Texas bullpen serving as the set-up man to closer Corey Knebel. He per-formed well in that role, and was effec-tive as a bridge pitcher to Knebel — he even picked up two saves in his time as a reliever.

But, after John Curtiss and Hoby Milner struggled in the beginning of the season, French was given the op-portunity to start March 18 against Oklahoma. He did not waste the op-portunity. In a hostile rival ballpark, he went 6.2 innings and allowed four earned runs, narrowly missing out on a quality start in his first ever collegiate start.

French has done nothing but im-prove since that moment. For the sea-son his record sits at 4-1 with a 3.31 ERA, both bests among starters for the Longhorns.

However, French’s best statistic isn’t

seen in a normal box score. His most impressive number comes when he’s on his home mound at UFCU Dish-Falk Field, where he sports a pristine 0.00 ERA for the season and where the Longhorns will face Texas State Tues-day at 6 p.m. They beat the Bobcats, 6-1, March 13 earlier this season.

“It’s a great ballpark to pitch in — you have the fans behind you,” French said of pitching in his home park. “I think we feel comfortable pitching here. There’s definitely a comfort lev-el pitching at home compared to on the road.”

French may have taken an odd road into the rotation for Texas, but since he has secured his spot he has made a huge impact for Texas in the win col-umn. He has gotten better almost ev-ery time out, and being as young as he is, he will only continue to improve. Heck, maybe next start he can go all nine.

FRENCHcontinues from PAGE 8

SNOWcontinues from PAGE 8

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan file photo

David Snow made 32 starts over the last three years, showing his versatility by starting all 13 games this past season at guard after moving over from center, where he started all 12 games in 2010.

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Augie GarridoWins: 1,837CWS Appearances: 12Conference titles: 25Conference tournament titles: 4National Titles: 5Coach of the Year awards: 6

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Arron Afflalo scored 26 points, Ty Lawson had 25 and the Denver Nug-gets continued their playoff push with a 105-102 victory over the fading Houston Rockets on Monday night.

Al Harrington added 15 points and Andre Miller had 13 assists for the Nuggets, who swept back-to-back games with the Rockets, the team di-rectly behind them in the Western Conference standings.

Denver began the night holding the No. 7 spot in the Western Conference, one game ahead of the Rockets. Hous-ton was only one game ahead of Phoe-nix and 1 1/2 games ahead of Utah,

who were both playing later Monday.Goran Dragic and Chandler Par-

sons scored 21 points apiece for the Rockets, who have dropped four straight after a four-game road win-ning streak.

Denver led 75-74 after three quar-ters, and the fourth was tight all the way to the end.

The Nuggets took a 99-98 lead into the final 2 minutes, and Afflalo found Harrington with a wraparound pass for an easy layup with 1:19 left to make it 101-98. Parsons rattled in a jumper from the free-throw line, but with all the Nuggets standing on the sideline, Lawson hit a 3-pointer from the corner with 45 seconds left to si-lence the noisy crowd.

Patrick Patterson hit a short jump-er, and Luis Scola had a chance to tie it, but his runner in the lane rattled out with 6 seconds left. Afflalo, a 79 per-cent free-throw shooter, split two free throws with 3.9 seconds remaining, giving the Rockets a chance to tie it.

But Parsons’ desperation 3-pointer hit off the front of the rim, and Den-ver sent Houston to its fourth straight home loss, a season high.

Brewer scored all 11 of his points in the second half, and the Nuggets finished 9 for 18 from 3-point range to win in Houston for the first time since October 2010.

The Nuggets shot 33 percent (8 for 24) in the first quarter, and Mc-Gee missed a point-blank layup on

the first shot of the second as Denver trailed by as many as 11 points.

But with Houston center Marcus Camby sidelined with a back injury, Denver got some easy baskets down low. Afflalo cut inside for consecu-tive layups to trim the deficit to 38-33 and force Rockets coach Kevin McHale to burn a timeout.

The Rockets, meanwhile, went cold in the second quarter, miss-ing 8 of their first 11 shots, includ-ing three 3-point attempts. Kyle Low-ry hit a 3-pointer with 5:41 left in the first half, but Houston missed its next two shots and Lawson swished an an-swering 3 with 4:36 to go before the break. Afflalo then drove for another layup to tie it at 41-all.

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Houston Rockets forward Patrick Patterson secures a loose ball between a trio of Denver Nuggets defenders. Patterson scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds in Houston’s 105-102 loss to Denver Monday night, the second time the Nuggets lost to the Rockets in as many nights.

By chris duncanThe Associated Press

The Round Rock Express lost 3-2 to the Iowa Cubs Monday night, capping a four-game series that saw the teams take two wins apiece.

The Express drew first blood in the bottom of the second with a sacrifice fly from third basemen Tommy Mendon-ca, giving the Express a brief lead before heading into the third. Express starter and top Rangers pitching prospect Mar-tin Perez threw a strong 5 2/3 innings, but the defense behind him did him no favors. Perez only allowed two hits in his outing, but the four errors behind him, two by Mendonca on consecutive plays, allowed two unearned runs to be scored in the top of the third, and the Cubs would not forfeit the lead. Facing a 3-2 deficit in the bottom of the ninth, Express outfielder Joey Butler singled to start the inning. Second baseman Greg Miclat walked with two outs, moving the tying run into scoring position for former Rangers center fielder Julio Bor-bon. However, Cubs relief pitcher Blake Parker slammed the door on the Ex-press rally by striking out Borbon, con-cluding the seventh straight one-run game for the Express.

The series kicked off Friday with Omaha taking the opener in what would become a series of nail-biters. Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo belt-ed his fourth and fifth home runs of the season, and Iowa took a 6-2 lead into the bottom of the ninth. In the bottom of the ninth, the Express tried desperate-ly to mount a late comeback, thanks in large part to total loss of the strike zone from the Cub’s pitching staff. Three walks and two hit-by-pitches scored the first run of the inning, and the Express would tack on two more runs before falling short on a Leonys Martin fly out with the tying run 90 feet away.

Saturday was the night of the Express outfielders as Borbon, Martin and But-ler combined to go 7-for-12 with a home run and three RBIs in the Express’ first home victory of the young season. Ex-press starter Zach Johnson went five in-nings, allowing 10 hits and four earned runs in the seesaw battle that saw the Express score three runs in the bottom of the seventh, giving them a lead they would not relinquish and snapping their six game losing streak.

Sunday afternoon presented the Round Rock faithful with free baseball as the Express went to extra innings for the second time of the season. Open-ing day starter Mark Hamburger had a rough outing as he gave up 12 hits and seven earned runs in only 2/3 innings. The Express clawed back in the bottom of the second, scoring four runs of their own. Martin continued his hot start at the plate, doubling to right field and plating two runs. Brad Nelson tacked on a two out single and the Express had dug themselves out of the early hole. After trading runs down the stretch, the ninth inning ended with the teams tied at 10 runs apiece, and on to extras they went. The Express won the game in the bottom of the 13th with a sacri-fice fly from Matt Kata that scored Luis Hernandez who had singled to lead off the inning.

After the loss on Monday, the Express saw their record fall to 4-8, good for a tie in last place with the Albuquerque Iso-topes and five games back of the Ameri-can Southern Division leading New Or-leans Zephyrs.

Round Rock begins a new series Tuesday, matching up with the Omaha Storm Chasers who swept a four game series with the Express just a week ago. Neil Ramirez, who has a 5.00 ERA in nine innings this season, gets the start on the mound for the Express.

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For Ramona Gonzalez, com-posing music and songwriting is second nature. Recording under the moniker Nite Jewel, Gonza-lez has approached music-making through a much different method than her contemporaries — that is, until recently. While she usu-ally records on portable 8-track cassette deck, arranging her songs through layered tape edits, she’s transitioned into a cleaner sound with her second full-length al-bum, One Second of Love.

Gonzalez, who will return to play in Austin tonight at Mohawk after her last visit during South By Southwest, spoke with The Daily Texan about her new album.

The Daily Texan: When you were younger, what was your ex-perience with music?

Ramona Gonzalez: I started writing lyrics in journals as a kid and used my mom’s tape record-er at night in my room. Every-thing on the radio was emblemat-ic of the time, so I would listen to radio shows in my room at night and would mimic an announce-ment or song that was on popular music radio.

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Gonzalez: The songs them-selves, except for one or two of them, are less convention-al than the songs on the first al-bum. They’re a little bit weirder in style so I wanted the production to be really accessible. I think I also just wanted to make a record that sounded really classic this time around.

DT: In what sense are those songs weird?

Gonzalez: I was really exper-imenting with things. Like that track, “She’s Always Watching You.” I started by making these weird drums. I was listening to a lot of Prague and Prince at the time. I just think the song is a weird mixture of styles and it’s pretty strange. I wanted to make it punchy because I wanted it to be able to be heard under all the stuff that’s happening.

DT: What do you hope that people get from your music? Has it changed over time?

Gonzalez: I guess I’ve never re-ally thought about it that much. I think if they were to see me at a show I would want them to get this anti-industry-capitalist, an-

ti-status quo vibe. It’s for people who are not just eating up what-ever the media gives them as reg-ular. It can be somewhat really off-kilter and you relate to it be-cause you feel off-kilter as a per-son. That’s what I love about mu-sic. It speaks to the part of me that feels like I don’t fit in and I want to be able to give that back.

DT: Are you over using the fuzz and layers that were more embedded in the music from your past albums?

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Hailing from Provo, Utah, al-ternative rock group Neon Trees’ upbeat, pop-savvy vibe, is com-plimented by a strong, new-wave rock backbone. It works — their debut album, Habits, peaked at No. 15 on the U.S. Billboard Alterna-tive Albums chart, and today the group releases their follow-up al-bum, Picture Show.

Vocalist and keyboardist Tyler Glenn spoke with The Daily Tex-an about the band name’s origin, being influenced by punk and the Talking Heads and what neon sign he’d like to be.

The Daily Texan: The band’s name derives from the In-N-Out Burger neon sign. Have you con-tacted them for any endorsements, or free food yet?

Tyler Glenn: [laughter] What’s funny is that I’m a vegetarian, so I don’t even eat hamburgers anymore. I still go to In-N-Out for their fries, and I’ll order off the menu items sometimes, but I wouldn’t want to push a fast-food band agenda, you know? I think it’s fun and nostalgic that the band kind of derives from our youth and hanging out, but I don’t think the name goes much fur-ther than that.

DT: I also think the name rep-resents the band’s sound very ac-curately, considering how upbeat and vibrant your music is.

Glenn: Yeah. Originally when the name came up, I imagined it would be for an energetic band. Sometimes I think it’s a silly name, but then

I’ll see it on a billboard, and realize that it represents the type of music we create.

DT: How was it recording your debut album, Habits, with produc-ers Ian Kirkpatrick and Tim Pag-notta, and what would you say is the main theme present through-out the album?

Glenn: With Habits we wanted the album to have a very upbeat feel to it. With Tim [Pagnotta] being a mu-sician and a singer in a band already, he just pushed and helped us to write some great songs.

DT: What would you say is dif-ferent from your upcoming al-bum, Picture Show, in comparison to Habits?

Glenn: The sound of the album [Picture Show] is definitely fresh. We didn’t flip the script completely — it’s still a pop album, but a rock re-cord at the same time.

DT: One song that I enjoyed in particular from your first album, is “Love and Affection.” It reminds me of the Talking Heads because of the new-wave, funk feel it has. Have groups like that influenced your sound?

Glenn: That’s actually one of my favorite songs [off of Habits]. The Talking Heads are a massive influ-ence on us. David Byrne is superb. We’re also heavily influenced by the energy and attitude of punk music.

DT: You guys were a part of the VEVO showcase during this year’s South By Southwest. How did that come about?

Glenn: I remember that when

VEVO first started, we [Neon Trees] had just started. When we put Hab-its out, VEVO did a lot of things to help us promote the album. I feel that they’ve always been in our band life since the beginning. I’m excit-ed to do a show with VEVO be-cause they’re always trying to help out an artist.

DT: If you could be any neon sign in the world, which one would you be?

Glenn: [laughter] I would be the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign be-cause, it’s so prominent, and I think when people think of neon, that sign comes to mind. Honestly, the McDonald’s sign in Times Square popped up into my mind first, but I would totally choose Las Vegas over that.

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Alternative rock group Neon

Trees returns this week with

their sopho-more album, Picture Show. Vocalist and keyboardist Tyler Glenn

spoke with The Daily Texan

about the album, among

other things.

Photo courtesy of Neon Trees

Picture ShowNeon TreesGenre: New Wave, alternative rockFor fans of: The KillersWeb: fameisdead.com/pictureshow

Artist reflects on her relationship with music

Singer/song-writer Ramona Gonzales will be performing as Nite Jewel tonight at the Mohawk.

Photo courtesy of Nite Jewel

Nite JewelWhere: The Mohawk

When: April 17

Tickets: $10 in advance,

$12 at the door; Outdoors

and all ages

Web: nitejewel.com

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was founded.Pokemon Club

If you’re interested in a club fo-cused on a specific game rather than a free-for-all, Pokemon Club might be the place for you to catch ’em all with a kick of nostalgia. Founded in fall 2010 by radio-television-film senior Lee Caffee, Pokemon Club focuses on everything from the old Game Boy games to the more re-cent additions to the series.

“Once a year we hold a Pokémon Stadium tournament and Pokémon Snap tournament, and we’re cur-rently watching every episode from the first season as well as every movie,” Caffee said.

Pokemon Club is also involved with the Intercollegiate Pokemon League (started in 2010 at Penn-sylvania State), in which they bat-tle other schools and universi-ties competitively through the card game.Delta n Delta

However, not all gaming organi-zations require a controller — if ta-bletop role playing games are more your style, you can roll your dice with Delta n Delta, a Dungeons & Dragons organization at UT.

“The club was originally found-ed to help people who play DnD (or any role-playing game) find other people to play with,” said An-drew Bieber, electrical engineering senior and president of the club. “A

lot of people have groups in high school and when they come off to college, they lose contact with those groups but still want to play. When they come to the meetings they get to meet with a bunch of other play-ers and hopefully find someone to play with.”

According to Bieber, many of the people who come to the meetings have never played the game before, and the organization is happy to help teach newcomers the ropes.

“Our favorite event is the dice draft,” Bieber said. “We try to hold one or two of those every semes-ter. We buy a few hundred dice, put them into a bunch of gi-ant piles and people take turns pulling out what they want to complete their set.”

Although many may associ-ate tabletop games with the cli-che of basement dwellers, the sheer amount of activity and di-versity in UT’s gaming commu-nity has proven that the hobby is inclusive enough for anyone to get involved. Delta n Delta jok-ingly claims to offer “no preferen-tial treatment towards basements because that would be unfair to-wards study lounges and other playing environments.”

Regardless of specific inter-ests or preferred platform, get-ting your game on at UT has never been easier.

“Our meetings are usually small enough that you can get to know everyone there by name after com-ing a few times,” Bieber said. “We mostly just like spreading a great game around.”

Brittany Howard already had her life planned out by the time she hit her 20s, and it didn’t include any of this.

The lead singer and force of na-ture in Alabama Shakes, rock ‘n’ roll’s newest phenomenon, already had a good job delivering mail and hoped to hold onto it. Like many folks reared in the rural South, she didn’t expect much more. Maybe she could carve out a little happiness with a husband and some kids.

“Where we’re from, playing music and just playing music is not an av-enue to take,” Howard said. “It’s not an option. Because like, where we’re from, most of the people, they’ve tried their best to get the best job they can and then they stay with that job until they can retire. So mu-sic was just kind of like our hobby. It was something we would do to like release at the end of the day or still feel like human beings.”

In less than a year, all that has changed and her quartet from Ath-ens, Ala., has become a success sto-ry so unlikely even the band’s man-ager calls it “an anomaly.” Max-imum buzz has preceded the Shakes’ debut album “Boys & Girls” with sold-out tours of the Unit-ed States and Europe, fawning me-dia coverage and an endless string of surprises.

Howard, 23, sat down for a morn-ing interview early in the band’s overstuffed run through the South By Southwest Music Festival last month. The band rented a house in a tony section of town and was loose and celebrating over breakfast tacos after a successful “Austin City Lim-its” taping and in anticipation of a heavy schedule of live showcases at the music conference.

They’d just learned they’d be join-ing Jack White for part of his tour and big opportunities seemed to be coming up every day. Howard ad-mitted it all still felt a bit miraculous, even in the age of instantaneous In-ternet buzz. Until the band start-ed to tour she’d never been farther away from Athens “than somewhere in Tennessee.”

Warm and open, but a little shy and hesitant to make eye contact, Howard hardly resembled the larg-er-than-life figure she is on stage. With only an EP, a handful of pro-fessionally produced videos and a le-gion of YouTube fan postings, there’s been little for the curious to go on since the band first started gaining attention last summer. But every time Howard and her bandmates — bassist Zac Cockrell, drummer Steve Johnson and guitarist Heath Fogg — play live, they gain more true believers who turn and pass on the word.

The Shakes’ musical approach is laid back — simple riffs that sway and build laid down over fertile grooves. There’s nothing elaborate and no need to be because with-in a few bars, Howard comes in with a voice that rattles the room and shakes the soul. Already visual-ly arresting — it’s not often you see a bespectacled, full-figured black woman with a red electric guitar strapped over her shoulder fronting a rock ‘n’ roll band — when Howard opens her mouth and sings, it’s like completing a circuit.

Patterson Hood, The Drive-By Truckers frontman who spread the gospel as an early adopter and took

the group on the road, compared her ability to mesmerize a crowd to Bruce Springsteen’s audience-winning ways. He says she has “the undescribable thing — the thing that separates people who are real-ly good from those that have that extra something.”

“To me that applies there,” Hood said. “There are people who tech-nically have as good a voice as she does; I’m sure better. She doesn’t do anything fancy. It’s not a new way of doing anything. But it’s the way that she connects with the people in the audience that, so far everywhere I’ve seen them, it’s been pretty amazing. It seems like the bigger the room, the greater the connection seems to be.”

Kevin Morris remembers be-ing a part of that connection for the first time as a transcendent experi-ence. The band invited the prospec-tive manager to a show in Tuscaloo-sa, home of the University of Ala-bama. Morris boarded a “dilapidat-ed cruise thing” with 150 college kids crammed aboard and found the Shakes jammed into a corner.

“And they go into ‘Hold On’ and within 30 seconds I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Morris said. “I started texting every single person, ‘Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh,

my God!’ And so we sort of started working with them right then.”

“Boys & Girls” — a self-funded album of raw, jubilant rock ‘n’ roll that’s very much of the northern Al-abama soil it was recorded on — sold 25,000 albums during an iTunes exclusive release last week, good for No. 16 on the Billboard 200 list, and was released wide last week. No one knows what to expect next because everything so far has been, well, un-expected. Morris hasn’t experienced anything like it.

“I’ve never seen something spread word of mouth like this,” said Mor-ris, who manages the band with Christine Stauder. “It doesn’t usually happen like this. Usually the record comes out and there’s a build after the record comes out. This, so much of this happened for them pre-re-cord. It’s an anomaly.”

One that lets Howard imagine a very different future for herself these days.

“I know the thing I want to do is sit in my own studio,” How-ard said. “Not something elabo-rate. Just something where I can sit in the corner and write songs. Because that’s where it all start-ed: I was just sitting in a corner writing songs.

By Chris TalbottThe Associated Press

Band has look, sound that makes a phenomenon

Pu Ying Huang | Daily Texan Staff

Danny Banh plays Street Fighter X-Tekken on club provided equip-ment such as TV monitors, consoles and different controllers.

GAMINGcontinues from PAGE 14

Photo courtesy of the Alabama Shakes

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“We have been listening to a lot of Prince over the years, so it’s definitely an influence on this re-cord,” said Maps and Atlases gui-tarist Erin Elders of the group’s lat-est album, Beware and Be Grate-ful in an interview with The Dai-ly Texan during this year’s South By Southwest. In renovating their sound by following a more new-wave, ’80s funk direction, the band takes a new and unpredict-able approach on their second full-length album.

The influence seems unlike-ly — Maps and Atlases, who have often been praised by crit-ics and fans alike for their odd time signatures and intricate du-eling guitar parts (a genre more commonly known as math-rock), don’t come off as Prince fans upon listening through their discography. Until now, that is. Beware and Be Grateful is Maps and Atlases’ funky road less traveled.

Take album-opener “Old and Gray” for example. Reminiscent of Prince’s 1999, “Old and Gray” moves creepily with moody chords that grow with layered vocals from frontman Dave Da-vidson. Strangely, it works. Da-vidson imitates Prince’s fal-setto-to-low-mumble singing technique precisely, but pri-

marily relies on his own moun-tain-man nasal drawl to re-tain that definitive Maps and Atlases sound.

Songs like “Old and Gray” and “Remote and Dark Years” shine because of Davidson’s funk-laced vocal delivery. On the latter song, the vocalist may be at his best. It’s not necessarily the lyrics that make “Remote and Dark Years” so great, but rather the way he says a certain word. How he re-peats “I” in the chorus, which receives the shrill and desper-ate reply “Don’t want anymore,” paints a tale of absolute sorrow. It’s like Cyndi Lauper’s “Time Af-ter Time” — you can’t help but want to slow-dance and cry at the same time.

It’s kind of a 1980s dance par-ty with Maps and Atlases on this album, but they still retain what makes them Maps and Atlases. “Be Three Years Old” has that Pe-ter Gabriel tribal guitar that en-compassed much of Maps and Atlases 2010 LP, Perch Patch-work, while “Bugs” has the folksy, finger-tapped/picked electric guitar technique that has been a staple of the band’s sound since their inception. Unlike past re-leases though, the guitar is sec-ondary. The band has incorpo-rated new instruments and other sounds, using the guitar to em-phasize a certain melody or pro-gression in the song.

Although you won’t be seeing Maps and Atlases bringing Pur-ple Rain-era neon suits, heels and makeup back (although David-son’s beard with a touch of neon blue might be great to see), it’s impressive that the band takes inspiration from such unforeseen sources on Beware and Be Grate-ful, all while maintaining the cre-ativity and energy that has made them so great in the first place. Since 2002, lover-boy Jason Mraz

has become a part of an acoustic beach-rock scene shared by artists like Jack Johnson and, more recent-ly, Eddie Vedder. Mraz relies on sim-plicity in his music, using straight-to-the-point lyrical content and sooth-ing, soft-rock arrangements, to cre-ate multiple radio hits. Having spent some time away from music, Mraz re-turns with Love Is a Four Letter Word, his follow-up to 2008’s We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.

It’s undeniable that Mraz knows how to write a catchy pop song. His down-by-the-beach acoustic guitar and luscious, ukulele-driven melo-dies have spawned hits such as “The Remedy,” “I’m Yours” and “Lucky.” But they’ve come with a price: His lyrics are often laughably cliche and akin to high school pickup lines. This seems to be the case as well with the singer-songwriter’s latest release.

For example, album-opener “The Freedom Song” would be great if it did not have lines like, “When I feel good, I sing,” or “We’ve got some life to bring / We’ve got some joy in this thing.” It’s just so banal — the listener could imag-ine such lines being sung in a fast-food commercial or as a corporate slogan.

“In Your Hands” further epitomizes Mraz’s songwriting mediocrity. “I love making breakfast for someone, instead of me,” or “It’s like diving into a pool without water and praying for rain.” It’s unintentionally laugh-out-loud ma-terial that undermines the moody at-mosphere of the arrangements that ac-company it. It’s as if Mraz is trying to use every break-up cliche possible in under five minutes, hoping that his lover will fall for his self-proclaimed wittiness. But it’s not clever at all — these are the reasons the girl left.

There’s an imbalance between the lyrical content and the music that supports it. Take “Be Honest,” fea-turing the lovely songstress Inara

George. The song has the potential to be this generation’s “Girl From Ip-anema.” Its tropical, bossa nova feel is pina colada friendly, but when Mraz opens his mouth you can’t help but down as many drinks as you can in the hopes that the singer’s lyrics will fade into incomprehensibility.

It’s great that Mraz is all lovey-dovey, but it comes off as complete-ly artificial. There’s no heart and soul behind the album when there should be, considering the album’s name. At least contemporary Jack Johnson bal-ances out his cliches with introspec-tive beach narratives and Vedder em-bodies all that is right with his ukule-le riffs and insightful lyrical content. Mraz is at the bottom of the totem pole, satisfied in making songs that sacrifice originality for radio appeal.

Love Is a Four Letter Word is just bad. If you can find an instrumentals-only version, go for that, but if lyrics are included, do yourself a favor and skip this one.

Delta n Delta Where: Garrison Hall 1.126

When: Thursdays 7 p.m.

Web: facebook.com/groups/

DeltaNDelta

Longhorn Gaymers Where: Mezes Hall 1.210

When: Thursdays 7-10 p.m.


longhorngaymers

Pokemon Club Where: Garrison Hall 3.116

When: Wednesdays 7-9 p.m.


pokemonclub

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LIFE&ARTS14Tuesday, April 17, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Katie Stroh, Life&Arts Editor | (512) 232-2209 | [email protected]

Gamers unite for friendly funMathew Vogel plays against Chris Henao in “Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom” on console No. 1 at Caffe Medici Saturday afternoon. Longhorn Gamers hosted a video game tournament open to members and non-members where proceeds made went to the Japanese Tsunami and Earthquake Relief Fund.

Pu Ying HuangDaily Texan Staff

By Rainy SchermerhornDaily Texan Staff

With summer quickly approach-ing, many video game enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the new gaming re-leases and announcements that often come with the heat wave. As gam-ers wait for summer titles to hit the shelves, student organizations are of-fering platforms for gamers to keep busy in the meantime, from fighting hoards of zombies to scorching their opponents with a Charizard card.Longhorn Gaymers

Longhorn Gaymers, an LGBTQ-based gaming organization, was founded in fall of 2010 by Asian cul-tures and languages senior Brian Da-vis. Although LGBTQ gamers may seem like it might be narrow demo-graphic, with a count of 88 members in its Facebook group, Longhorn Gaymers provides a surprisingly ac-tive meeting place for students of any sexual orientation — whether they’re into saving the princess or more in-terested in leveling up with the over-all-clad Italian plumber.

“The organization is basically a safe place for people of LGBTQ ori-entation to have fun and play games in an environment that’s extremely warm and friendly,” said Daniel Jen-kins, journalism sophomore and vice president of Longhorn Gaymers. “During a typical meeting we play games, make announcements about future plans and pretty much just give the students some time to un-wind, which is something we all definitely need.”

Longhorn Gaymers recently host-ed a fighting game tournament at Caffé Medici Espresso & Coffee House, and all the proceeds went to the Japanese Earthquake and Tsuna-mi Relief Fund. Throughout the se-

mester, Longhorn Gaymers holds various themed meetings (such as “Horror Night,” focusing on surviv-al horror games) along with special events and tournaments.

“Brian [Davis] founded the club to help with his own coming out pro-cess,” Jenkins said. “He wasn’t a ‘ste-reotypical gay guy,’ he was more re-served and not very outspoken, and to these people, is who we want to

open the club up to.”While Longhorn Gaymers was

founded as a safe place for LGBTQ gamers to hang out. Students of all sexual orientations and gender identities are welcome to attend, as long as they share a love of gaming and respect the LGBTQ prin-cipals from which the organization

Cliches fill Mraz’s latest release

Band finds unusual influence in PrinceBy Elijah WatsonDaily Texan Staff

By Elijah WatsonDaily Texan Staff

Pop heartthrob Jason Mraz returns with his fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word.

Photo courtesy of Jason Mraz

MUSIC REVIEW

MUSIC REVIEW

Love is a Four Letter WordJason MrazGenre: Acoustic rock, popFor fans of: Jack John-son, Colbie CaillatWeb: jasonmraz.com/four-letter-word/

GAMING continues on PAGE 13

Indie rock group Maps and Atlases

gets funked-up for their latest

release, Beware and Be Grateful.

Channeling artists like Prince, the

band explores a more electronic

sound, while maintaining

their definitive sound.

Photo courtesy of Big Hassle Publicity

Beware and Be Grateful

Maps and Atlases

Genre: Folk/indie rockFor fans of: Vampire Weekend, PrinceWeb: mapsandatlases.org

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