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By Nolan HicksDaily Texan Staff
President Barack Obama will give a speech at Gregory Gym on Monday, White House of-ficials announced Thursday.
The invitation-only address is part of the president’s trip to Texas, which will also include a fundraising event for the Democratic National Committee in Dallas.
University President Williams Powers Jr. an-nounced Obama would be speaking on campus in an e-mail message sent late Thursday.
“I hope you will join me in welcoming Presi-dent Obama and his staff to our campus,” Pow-ers wrote in the message, alerting students about potential street and building closures to secure the campus for the Obama’s arrival.
The University said that Capital Metro and UT shuttle bus service would be re-routed to ac-comodate security measures. Disruptions to bus service will begin Sunday at 5 p.m. and will last through Monday afternoon. Cap Metro spokes-
By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff
Qualified faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts can take a voluntary retirement pack-age that includes two years’ pay, the dean of the college said Thursday.
To qual-ify, facul-t y m e m -bers must be tenured, full-time liber-al arts professors with a combined age and years of service to the University and the state amounting to 93 years. The retirements will be effective Jan. 15, 2011, and are part of the col-lege’s effort to meet budget obli-gations, which include the first of two state leadership-direct-ed budget cuts and making bud-get room for merit-pay increases. The first round of budget cuts to the college’s $100 million budget amounted to about $180,000. The lump sum of two years of the cur-rent pay rate will be dispersed on Jan. 7, 2011.
Liberal arts Dean Randy Die-hl said he appointed a committee of “highly distinguished” faculty members last year to advise him on possible budget cuts and consoli-dations. The group, called the Academ-ic Planning and Advi-sory Com-mittee, rec-ommended the incen-tive retire-ment pro-gram after it surveyed 62 percent of the college’s faculty members who
By Ashley MeleenDaily Texan Staff
Elena Kagan became the 112th justice to serve on the Su-preme Court after the Senate confirmed her in a 63-37 vote Thursday.
President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to succeed retired Justice John Paul Ste-vens. She was supported by five Republican senators, two independents and all but one Democrat, according to The Associated Press.
Kagan is the fourth wom-an to serve on the Supreme Court, and will join Sonia So-tomayor and Ruth Bader Gins-
burg as the first group of three female justices on the bench at the same time.
Prior to her confirmation, Kagan worked in the Bill Clin-ton and Obama administra-tions and served as the dean of Harvard Law School. While she worked as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thur-good Marshall from 1987 to 1988, she does not have previ-ous experience as a judge.
While Kagan has faced crit-icism for her lack of experi-ence, UT law professor San-ford Levinson, who taught Kagan at Princeton Universi-ty, said he “couldn’t be happi-er for her” and believes “she’ll be a fine justice.”
“She’s very smart, and the fact that she’s never spent a day on a court counts very much in her favor,” Levinson said. “She
actually has seen government operate at a quite high level in the Clinton White House.”
Kagan’s confirmation has brought mixed reactions from UT students, especially those involved in the University’s political organizations.
“We expect another activ-ist judge who doesn’t under-stand the kind of country the Founding Fathers laid out,” said Melanie Schwartz, pres-ident of College Republicans at Texas. “She was replacing a liberal judge, but she’s go-ing to have the opportunity to have a say in some very, very important things.”
Schwartz said young con-servatives fear Kagan will follow in the footsteps of Marshall, who she feels “let his own political bias affect the way he viewed the Con-
stitution.” Some Democrats, however, hope she will do the opposite.
“We’re hoping to see her reaffirm the Supreme Court’s commitment to legislating according to the Constitu-tion rather than pure polit-ical ideology,” University Democrats spokesman Cam-eron Miculka said.
While both groups have dif-ferent expectations for Ka-gan, neither feels her presence on the bench will significantly sway the court.
“I don’t think it will tilt the court completely to the right or left, since she’s replacing [Ste-vens], who was considered one of the center-left justices,” Mic-ulka said. “It might combat some right-wing influence, but I don’t think it will make it a ‘liberal court.’”
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Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff
Jacobe, Derke Barret and Baby Two play basketball in front of their apartment at the Housing Authority of the City of Austin on Thursday afternoon. The housing authority helps residents become financially independent.
Liberal arts o� icials incentivize retirement
Elena Kagan’s confirmation brings mixed feelings
Perry, Congress clash over education spending
Alex Brandon | Associated Press
The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th Supreme Court justice on Thursday.
FRIDAY
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15 minutes of fameCelebrate Andy Warhol’s birthday with Ringo Deathstarr and others at The Mohawk. Show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets cost $10 at the door.
‘I’m in love with you’Steve Forbert plays the Cactus Cafe at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $20 at the door.
— Barry SandovalComics division director
Heritage Auction Galleries
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‘Tuff enuff’Jimmie Vaughan plays Antone’s Nightclub at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $25.
SATURDAY
Just wanna be a cosmic cowboyCelebrate the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Armadillo World Headquarters with KUT as the station plays a song by every artist who ever played the legendary venue for five days straight.
SUNDAY‘Don’ call me mac, honey’Jack Nicholson stars in the 1970 film “Five Easy Pieces,” showing at the Paramount Theatre at 7:15 p.m. Tickets cost $9.
“All these guys [who invested hundreds
of dollars in comics] were dismissed as idiots back then,
but they got the last laugh.”
OBAMA continues on page 2
Student leaders hope Supreme Court justicewill remain unbiased
COLA continues on page 2
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In Life&Arts:New movie adds acting talent to summer lineup page 4
In News:Batman No. 1 sells in Dallas for more than $50,000 page 2
In Opinion:Hunger: a growing problem across the country page 3
In Sports:Nolan Ryan purchases the Rangers page 6
By April CastroThe Associated Press
Gov. Rick Perry and other Tex-as Republicans angrily called on Congress to strip a state-specific provision in a financial aid pack-age to states, saying the measure will cost Texas schools more than $800 million intended to spare them from layoffs.
The measure, given final ap-proval Thursday by the U.S. Senate, requires Perry to prom-ise Washington that Texas will maintain certain state educa-tion spending levels through 2013. Perry says the require-ment is unconstitutional be-cause the Texas Constitution
prohibits him from committing future legislative spending.
“Washington is deft at placing targets on the backs of Texans, and this proposal paints a target on our school teachers and school children,” Perry said. “It is ap-palling to think other elected offi-cials in Congress, especially Tex-as’ Democratic congressional del-egation, would forsake the inter-ests of Texas school children for partisan politics. I urge the House to make sure this measure does not ultimately pass.”
The House is scheduled to take up the measure again next week, but changes are not ex-pected. Republican Lt. Gov. Da-
vid Dewhurst said Thursday that he’ll file a lawsuit against the federal government if the language is not removed.
“We’re going to file a suit and I will be pushing. I’d be delight-ed to be a named plaintiff,” Dew-hurst said shortly after a meeting with members of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s staff.
Democrats say that it is not un-constitutional and that schools could get the money if Perry would sign off on it.
“There is no constitutional lim-itation on doing right by our Tex-as schoolchildren,” said U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the Austin Dem-ocrat who originally crafted the
amendment. “The only obliga-tion that this amendment plac-es on Texas is not to penalize our local school districts for receiving federal moneys intended solely for education.”
Doggett’s amendment has been endorsed by Texas Association of School Boards and other state-wide educator groups.
“Compliance is very easy, un-less there remains a desire to en-gage in more of the shenani-gans of last year, which replaced state education dollars with fed-eral dollars, leaving our schools no better off than if we had done
PERRY continues on page 2
Pablo Martinez Monslvals | Associated Press
President Barack Obama will speak at Gregory Gymnasium on Monday as part of his trip to Texas.
Courtesy of Marsha Miller
Randy DiehlLiberal arts dean
OPINION PAGE 3
SPORTS PAGE 6Oklahoma State, Colorado have high Big 12 hopes
LIFE&ARTS PAGE 4
Why online classes shouldn’t be the norm
‘StarCraft II’ blasts off with B rating
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DALLAS — A rare copy of Bat-man No. 1, the character’s first solo spinoff, sold at auction Thursday for more than $50,000.
The Batman No. 1 comic from 1940 sold to an unidentified buyer who bid $55,269 by telephone, said Barry Sandoval of Heritage Auc-tion Galleries.
Batman No. 1 includes the orig-inal appearances by two of the character’s key foes, the Joker and Catwoman.
“When I was a teenager col-lecting comics, I never thought I would see the Batman No. 1 com-ic,” Sandoval said.
The issue is believed to be one of fewer than 300 of that comic still in existence.
The copy had been owned by Alaska comic book buff Mike Wheat, who found it in an antique dresser sold at a 1974 garage sale.
“All of these guys were dis-missed as idiots back then,” said Sandoval about people who in-vested in comic books in the 1970s. “But they got the last laugh.”
— The Associated Press
John Wagner | Associated Press
Comic book collector Mike Wheat poses with a book showing the cover of Batman No. 1 at his Fairbanks, Alaska home on July 29. His copy of the 1940 comic sold at auction for more than $50,000.
Rare comic sells for thousands
woman Misty Whited said the public transit provider would an-nounce schedules and routes for re-routed bus lines Friday.
Officials also announced that all cars must be removed by Sunday at 5 p.m. from street-side parking on San Jacinto Bou-levard between MLK Boulevard to 21st Street as well as from street-side parking on 21st Street between San Jacinto Boulevard and Speedway.
SG executive director Jimmy Talarico said Student Govern-ment officials found out about the president’s trip Tuesday and they’ve been working around the clock planning for the event.
“We’re doing the best we can to make sure the students who work the hardest to get those tickets, [get tickets],” SG Vice President Muneezeh Kabir said.
The city of Austin and the White House have been work-ing together to arrange this trip, said Matt Curtis, spokesman for Mayor Lee Leffingwell.
“We have been working with the administration on [Obama’s] visit,” Curtis said. “The mayor plans to participate in some as-pect of the visit — we haven’t put that together yet.”
Austin Democrats were ecstat-ic about the president’s speech at UT. Obama will speak about is-sues relating to higher education during his Monday address.
“We’re very excited,” said Andy Brown, chairman of the Travis County Democratic Par-ty. “I’m psyched he’s coming; Austin’s generally very sup-portive.”
ranked 23 budget-cut options in order of preference. The volun-tary retirement program was the top-ranked option.
“If we could incentivize re-tirements for, say, 30 to 40 fac-ulty, we would be able to more or less cover that [budget] short-fall,” Diehl said. “Before the cuts were announced, what we were told by the central [Universi-ty] administration was that we were looking at a flat budget for the next four or five years. That meant that if we were going to offer any kind of merit increases for faculty and staff, we’d have to pay for those by cutting else-where in the budget.”
Marc Musick, the college’s as-sociate dean for student affairs, said liberal arts students won’t feel the loss of 30 to 40 faculty members after January because of the vast number of unclaimed classroom seats. The college is prepared to make changes if necessary, Musick said.
The Daily Texan: About how much is the total merit payout for the College of Liberal Arts?
Randy Diehl: This year, [we have] a 2-percent merit pool, and it’s in the neighborhood of $1.8 million.
DT: What are the incentives of the voluntary program?
RD: The main incentive is
money. It’s two years of a faculty member’s current academic [pay] rate in January 2011. ... If a facul-ty member is currently a principal investigator on a grant, they can continue to serve as principal in-vestigator even if they retire. With the permission of the department
chair and the dean, they could hold onto their research space for some period of time to continue their projects. For faculty mem-bers who do not require research space other than an office, assum-ing the space is available, they could perhaps share an office and still have access to a computer, li-brary privileges and parking.
DT: How will this affect course availability for students?
Marc Musick: Last year, we added a net of 30 or so facul-ty, and students may not have even realized that. The thing you have to keep in mind is that every semester, [the college] of-
fers over 800 classes and over 2,500 sections — we’re not a small college, we’re huge — and when you have that large of an amount of instruction to your students, even losing 20 or 30 faculty members, they’re not go-ing to notice that much of a dif-ference. ... Because we have so many open seats, I don’t think we even need to make any ad-justments. But if we do, we know exactly what kind of ad-justments we’ll need to make, and we’ll make them.
DT: What other nonpersonnel cuts have been either proposed by the Academic Planning and Advisory Committee or enacted by the college’s administration?
MM: The problem is that we just don’t have enough mon-ey tied up in numbers. About 70 percent of the budget is sal-ary and benefits. ... What are we going to cut, the copy machines? The telephones? The comput-ers? I mean, we can make some of those cuts at the edges, and we have certainly made some of those. ... You can find these ways of cutting funds for non-personnel items, but we’re talk-ing little bits of change in the grand scheme of things. There’s just not enough money floating around in those pots to make significant cuts. But we try, be-cause it is so much easier to cut a program than it is a person.
nothing,” Doggett said.The squabble between Perry,
who is seeking re-election, and House Democrats is the latest ex-ample of the governor’s resisting federal presence in state policy.
Texas’ longest-serving gov-ernor has slapped at Washing-ton over federal spending, bor-der security, health care, nation-al school standards and other is-sues, positioning himself as a champion of states’ rights.
But lately, Democrats in Wash-ington are pushing back.
In addition to the Texas spend-ing provision in the education bill, President Barack Obama’s administration overturned Texas’ air permitting program for refin-eries and petrochemical plants.
Perry has been defiant.Led by Doggett, Democrats in
Congress said they put forth the provision because of the way the state handled federal stimulus dollars last year.
Doggett says state lawmakers used $3.2 billion in federal stim-ulus money last year to replace state money and ended the legis-lative session with billions in the
state’s Rainy Day Fund.That was an abuse of the intent
of the federal stimulus act, Dog-gett has said. He said his provi-sion was intended to ensure state officials don’t divert education dollars to other parts of the bud-get if they get more federal aid.
The $800 mill ion would help save nearly 13,400 jobs in Texas education, according to estimates from the National Education Association.
Perry’s Democratic re-elec-tion opponent Bill White said in a campaign statement the move is “another example of Rick Per-
ry failing to protect the interests of Texas in Washington.”
Republicans in Texas say it’s not fair to make teachers pay for a move that amounts to political payback.
“ I ’ m v e r y d i s a p p o i n t -ed congressional Democrats would hold Texas school chil-dren and teachers hostage for an unconstitutional prom-ise,” Dewhurst said. “The only thing this flawed leg-islation guarantees is Texas public schools will miss out on nearly $1 billion in federal education funding.”
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obama: Arrivalto cause closureof campus streets
perry: Duel between Texas, Washington commences
‘‘The problem is that we just don’t have
enough money tied up in numbers.”
— Marc Musick Liberal arts associate dean
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Friday, August 6, 2010OPINION 3THE DAILY TEXAN
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The problem with online classes
Hunger pangs
By Paige HaleDaily Texan Columnist
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Editor-in-Chief: Lauren WinchesterPhone: (512) 232-2212E-mail: [email protected] Editors: Heath Cleveland Doug LuippoldDave Player Dan Treadway
Dylan isn’t strumming!
In Wednesday’s article, “Gear up for show tonight with Bob Dylan’s best,” Madeleine Crum mentioned how Bob Dylan’s “frantic strumming” in “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” somehow “reveals his suppressed confusion” in the somewhat retrospective-y look back at what a few Texan staffers consider Dylan’s greatest songs. Consider me unimpressed and less than wowed at these song selec-tions (most of which Dylan likely won’t be playing as he eschews greatest hits-style performances) if Crum and the Texan can’t even get simple facts straight. There’s abso-lutely zero strumming in the song men-tioned. Dylan is playing clawhammer gui-tar on the track. A complex picking method. Crum has revealed her own confusion.
— Colin KalmbacherUT alumnus, class of 2008
Offer real support to student mothers
As a graduate student who began school as the single mother of a 2-month-old infant, I found Wednesday’s article, “UHS to offer discounted baby goods on campus” a relevant read. When I saw the headline, I was surprised and encouraged that UT would acknowledge the difficulty of being in school or in academia after having a baby, and that they would support the choice of female faculty, staff and students to have children by offering reduced prices on diapers, wipes and the like.
You can imagine my disappointment when I read the article. UHS will be offer-ing discounted breast pumps? Are you kid-ding me? I suppose if you haven’t actually read the article, this may seem like a nice step toward alleviating the financial burden of having a child; breast pumps can be expensive.
However, the article makes it clear that this movement is in the interest of getting graduate students back into their TA posi-tions as soon as possible after giving birth. This is not quite what I have in mind when I think of providing “the best support to student parents,” as the assistant dean of students is quoted as saying. Apparently, this gracious offering is part of a process instigated by a student-parent initiative, which, if the article is correct, seems to have noble enough intentions. “The ultimate goal of the initiative is the creation of a student-parent resource center, which will be dedicated to providing resources to ease the difficulty of having to juggle both obli-gations.”
This sounds reasonable to me. However, pushing mothers to return to work as quickly as possible after giving birth does NOT “ease the difficulty” of being a new mother and a student. Are student moth-ers supposed to be thankful that it will be slightly cheaper to get back to work as soon as possible? What about the postpartum difficulties of being sleep deprived, emo-tionally exhausted and physically healing? What about the financial burdens of hospi-tal bills, diapers and, once a mother does return, daycare?
I was particularly horrified at the per-ception of the Student Government vice president. She was quoted in the article as saying, “When you’re talking graduate students, this is like our school’s rankings — these are the people that we as under-grads have grade our papers.” It’s comfort-ing to know that students see my child as a threat to their grades, a distraction in my life that must be minimized. I’d hate to be encouraged to stay home to heal and bond with my child! Thank you for mak-ing it easier to get away from her and back into the classroom, where my efforts are truly appreciated! Maybe you could also subsidize a breast milk delivery system so I can mail it to my kid! Then I can stay on campus and focus on grading your papers, not to mention fail to get my research done, which is why I’m actually here! Although I’m in graduate school to learn how to do research, I actually enjoy a lot of aspects of being a TA; this self-involved dehuman-ization of graduate students is not one of them.
From reading the article, it seems that the student-parent initiative is genuinely try-ing to increase support to student mothers, but the intention of this first step is made undeniably clear. I can only hope that these discounted “baby goods” do not set a prec-edent for the initiative’s future actions or reflect the general attitude toward mother-hood at UT.
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Throughout my undergraduate career I have successfully completed two online courses, a number that could easily be four or five if I didn’t have a preference for attending lectures in person. My first online course was an art appreciation class that was beyond easy and required little work — we literally got to use crayons and mark-ers. I took my second on-line course this summer via Austin Community College. I was one credit away from completing my natural sci-ences requirement and there was no way I would spend my summer sitting through a daily biology lecture at UT. So I found an online science class at ACC, and voila. I watched a handful of videos, completed worksheets, col-ored diagrams and finished with a solid A.
Summers of online classes are not unusual for college students and certainly not uncommon. More and more colleges, especially in Texas, offer a substantial amount of their course cat-alogs in an online lecture format. While the classes certainly did not challenge me, I’ve heard from others that some are unorganized, stressful and offer the same burdens of a tra-ditional five- or six-hour lecture course.
Many colleges and universities are adapt-ing online classes to help more Texas resi-dents obtain degrees: Currently only 27 per-cent of Texans have college degrees. A recent panel on Texas higher education went so far as to suggest that at least 10 percent of course requirements for a degree should be obtained outside the classroom — otherwise known as online. In addition to their convenience, the panel recommends online classes for their
low cost to students and the institution. At a time when everyone is desperately trying to find ways to save, it makes sense to cre-ate cheaper alternatives. However, with on-line classes, any financial savings come at a high cost to the fundamentals of an educa-tion in a classroom.
In terms of convenience and affordability, do these classes work? Sure. I took two cours-es that were of little interest to me simply to
satisfy a University-wide de-gree requirement, and I easi-ly excelled in both.
On the other hand, I prob-ably would never take one of my core communications or business courses online. To me, those academic are-nas are too valuable and I want to take away as much knowledge as I can — in-cluding what the professor discusses in lecture, what I read in the text and other in-teractions that occur inside the actual classroom.
Although the panel sug-gested 10 percent, one can only anticipate that the next step would be reputable col-leges following for-profit
schools such as the University of Phoenix in creating entire degree plans that rotate on an Internet-based axis.
Will that work? I don’t think so. When stu-dents miss out on classroom discussions, they miss the tiny bits of information thrown about and they miss out on the teaching per-sonality of their professor. While I can per-sonally attest to the fact that some courses are better left online, I feel that others should never be taught exclusively on the Web.
Education began in actual classrooms, and I would love to see it stay that way for a lit-tle bit longer.
Hale is an undeclared senior.
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“... with online classes, any
� nancial savings come at a high
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classroom.”
Hunger in the U.S. is a major problem, and it’s only getting bigger.
In May, the number of Americans receiv-ing food stamps, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, rose to an un-precedented 40.8 million. That number is projected to reach 43 million in 2011.
Unfortunately, SNAP benefits only go so far for families in need, and nonprofit orga-nizations — such as food banks, food pan-tries and soup kitchens — are often left to pick up the slack.
You can imagine why the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas is up in arms about the upcoming proposals that will reduce fund-ing for SNAP by tens of billions of dollars.
Why?Because Congress will soon vote on $10
billion in appropriations for teachers’ jobs and $16.1 billion for Medicaid — and that needs to be paid for somehow. So, Con-gress decided it would offset the costs by reducing funding for SNAP by $11.9 billion, marking the first time in history Congress has cut the amount that food-stamp recipi-ents receive monthly.
But, the legislation would do far more than just offset its costs. In fact, it would reduce the national deficit by $1.3 billion, suggesting that some of the cuts to SNAP are unnecessary.
On top of that, legislators are proposing to pay for another initiative, the Child Nu-trition Reauthorization Bill, by further re-ducing SNAP benefits. The Capital Area Food Bank says the legislation, which is aimed at bettering the nutrition of disad-vantaged children, “isn’t just robbing Peter to pay Paul — it’s robbing Peter to feed Pe-ter’s kids.”
The two legislative initiatives mark a dis-turbing shift in recognizing the necessity of food stamps and the consequences associ-ated with monthly reductions. The change will force many food-stamp recipients to depend even more on the limited and al-ready strained resources of nonprofit or-ganizations, such as the Capital Area Food Bank.
The food bank supplies more than 350 partner agencies — such as soup kitchens and food pantries — that, in turn, provide services to people in need over a 19,000 square-mile area.
Since the Capital Area Food Bank has a very limited supply of food, a substantial increase in demand at its partner agencies often causes it to run out of staple food items. In turn, the partner agencies have less food to give to more people, and those who rely on both food pantries and food stamps will have even less support.
Additionally, a reduction in SNAP ben-efits would put significant financial strain on most small food assistance organiza-tions, since they have limited funding and the Capital Area Food Bank charges a small fee for food to cover its costs. Undoubtedly, the amount of food that nonprofits can af-ford to offer will vastly decrease.
While the changes wouldn’t take effect until 2014, the SNAP benefit reductions will only put more strain on those hit hardest by poverty and the financial crisis.
— Heath Cleveland for the editorial board
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In a summer defined by “In-ception,” a blockbuster that re-lies more on computer-gener-ated imagery than narrative originality, “The Disappear-ance of Alice Creed” proves that a great script and out-standing acting can still pre-vail on screen. The film fol-lows two kidnappers, Danny (Martin Compston, “Sweet Six-teen”) and Vic (Eddie Marsan, “The Illusionist”) as they plan and execute the kidnapping of Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”), a wealthy business-man’s daughter.
Writer-director J Blakeson starts his feature career with a s imple and wel l -craf ted film that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats. Sim-
ple camera angles and an om-inous soundtrack heighten the tension and anxiety in the film, allowing the audience to become more invested in the narrative and the actors’ per-formances rather than mil-lion-dollar graphics and main-stream pop music.
The most notable aspect of the film is the chemistry be-tween its cast members. With only three actors in the entire film, “The Disappearance of Alice Creed” could easily have fallen flat. Instead, this film fea-tures one of the best ensemble performances since “Inglou-rious Basterds,” and each ac-tor gives an exceptional perfor-mance worthy of recognition.
Marsan stands out as mid-dle-aged kidnapper Vic. Mar-san has established himself as one of the most diverse and
talented actors in British film today. Nevertheless, American audiences may have only seen glimpses of his abilities in films such as “Gangs of New York” and “Hancock.” This film may be what Marsan needs to cat-apult him into the position of leading man in Hollywood.
Narratives have long been the calling card of outstanding British films, and “The Disap-pearance of Alice Creed” does not disappoint as it keeps you guessing until the final scene. The complex relationship and interaction between the char-acters will force you to pick sides and question your own level of sympathy and moral-ity. “The Disappearance of Al-ice Creed” is a rare summer treat that shouldn’t be missed.
Grade: A
By Mark LopezDaily Texan Staff
When you place a fierce cello player in a wicked, Victorian-era costume, it may seem a little too burlesque for rock music. Howev-er, Melora Creager and her brain-child, Rasputina, create and per-form vivid, imaginative music. The band formed in the early ‘90s, and two decades and seven albums lat-er, Rasputina’s latest release, Sister Kinderhook, boldly recalls the band’s earlier style.
The Daily Texan: Did you find it hard to revert back to that kind of sound after delving into more experimental work?
Melora Creager: No, it was re-ally natural. I’ve gotten more into how I can be heavy with my song-writing and not needing so much effect. This is what I wanted to hear at this place in my life, these sorts of sounds.
DT: You easily move from an organic cello piece to a massive wave of distortion and madness, as in the song “State Fair.” How do you alternate between these two musical concepts?
MC: The older albums always had a very clear intention of ‘OK, I’m going to have a ballad, I’m go-ing to have a heavy-metal song and I’m going to have an orchestra-type song.’ I would do that pretty
methodically, so with this record, I didn’t do that. I wanted to make a more cohesive album without hav-ing any of those assignments.
DT: Looking back on how you played the In Utero tour with Nir-vana, what memories or feelings do you have about those days be-fore Rasputina?
MC: I actually started Rasputi-na already when I did the Nirva-na tour, and that’s something peo-ple tend not to know. The aesthetic was something that interested Kurt Cobain, and the different bands I played with confirmed for me that I wanted to be in the rock business. I liked touring, and it led me away from calling myself a performance artist or working in that world.
DT: Were you a big performance artist before then?
MC: That’s more how I start-ed, and I had lots of older drag-queen buddies that would get me to do just about anything in their little shows.
DT: You seem to have a deep fascination with storytelling. How important do you feel it is within a song and why?
MC: I do whatever is interest-ing to me, and if I was doing some kind of writing about my feelings and my life, I would think that is too self-indulgent rather than when
I write about characters. My psy-chology is still in there, and things come out. But it’s more subtle, and I think it’s interesting.
DT: What can Austin audiences expect to see at your show?
MC: I think it’s always amazing for everyone to see some rip-roar-ing cello playing with some beau-tiful costumes surrounding them. That’s why we have the costumes — because we don’t move. We are really sitting there and focused, but it’s the cool physical act of seeing us do it.
DT: With the new album, you have two new band members: You have a male cellist for the first time and a female drummer. What brought about these changes aes-thetically and personally?
MC: I got Daniel [DeJesus], and he was so great. He grew up listening to Rasputina and knows all the songs, and he’s a natural cellist and singer. But, once I had a guy — which I never thought I would do, at least on cello — I could only have a woman on drums be-cause I wasn’t going to have
a backup band of men. That wouldn’t be Rasputina at all.
DT: What’s your view on music today and where it’s headed?
MC: I think there’s a lot of good, organic stuff going on. I think it’s great that we don’t need re-cord companies to record or get the music out to people. But that also means there’s a whole bunch of stuff in front of your face, or on your computer. So, how are you going to find anything if you aren’t just a buddy with the band? I think the whole freak-folk music
and stuff that’s come out of that over the past few years, that’s re-ally quality stuff. But, Lady Gaga, I argue about with my 11-year-old daughter every day.
By Zach MillerDaily Texan Staff
Last week, Blizzard Entertain-ment released “StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty,” more than a decade af-ter the original best-seller.
“Starcraft” is a strategy PC game that allows players to build armies and strategize to defeat enemy armies. In the game, there are three competing species: the Terran, a group of humans exiled from Earth; the Zerg; and the Protoss. “Starcraft II” centers around the story of Jim Raynor, a Terran who is trying to overthrow his power-hungry nemesis Arcturus Mengsk.
Blizzard Entertainment took its sweet time with the release of “StarCraft II,” but the wait was well worth it — the graphics are epic. You can customize the qual-ity aspects of gameplay so the ex-plosions look better.
The multiplayer aspect of the game is a huge addition to the playing experience. Blizzard En-tertainment hit a home run by making online play more seam-less. Now gamers can play against computers at various levels of dif-ficulty or play other competitors
online. There is a cooperative mul-tiplayer setting, too, so you can work with your friends.
The only real shortcoming of the game is that when you purchase the download, you only get to play one side of the story. There will be expansions building on the sto-ry of Kerrigan, who now leads the insectoid race of Zerg, and a story for the Protoss. The download for “Starcraft II” costs $60, and these two plot-expansion downloads will probably cost an additional 60 big ones. This price tag isn’t out of the ordinary for a new game, but it may be hard to spend $120 or $180 just for a new campaign.
Costumed trio takes cello rock back to basics
‘Alice Creed’ rides on strength of individual performances
Courtesy of CinemaNX
“The Disappearance of Alice Creed” features Gemma Arterton as the titular character, who is held captive by two kidnappers played by Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan.
WHAT: Rasputina with Larkin Grimm
WHERE: The Parish, 214-C E. Sixth St.
WHEN: Tonight; doors open at 9
TiCkETs: $15 advance; $17 at the door
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StarCraft II: Wings of LibertyGrade: B
Courtesy of Rasputina
Rasputina, a band known for its Victorian-era costumes and cello-driven rock music, will play with singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm tonight at The Parish. Doors open at 9, and tickets cost $17 at the door.
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The Mark Cuban we’ve all gotten to know since he pur-chased the Dal las Maver-icks in 2000 should have been ready for any amount of mon-ey, wielding his checkbook like Excalibur in battle.
And for a moment Wednes-day, when the team of Cuban and Jim Crane were up $25 mil-lion over Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, it looked like all that was left to make it official inside a Fort Worth courthouse was the pounding of a gavel.
Dropping F-bombs like co-median Dane Cook, the lawyers screaming in the hallway out-side the courtroom should have indicated that the day wouldn’t end well for Rangers fans while also solidifying Cuban’s first job to fight as hard as he could to keep Ryan around the ballpark .
But sometime around 11:45 p.m., when Cuban had seeming-ly amassed a pile of money that Greenburg and Ryan couldn’t surpass, something happened away from the auction in Seat-tle that changed the momentum. Call it a sign, an omen or a second chance. More than 2,100 miles away, the Rangers won a battle of their own.
Down 2-0 and 4-2 in the game, the boys from Arlington wrapped up an 11-6 win over the Mariners thanks to a fifth-in-ning three-run blast from David
Murphy and a grand slam from Michael Young.
Just like that, Young and his team went from celebrating an-other win — increasing their di-vision lead to eight games over the Oakland Athletics — to cele-brating one of the biggest front-office decisions in the history of the Texas Rangers.
“Nolan Ryan gives anything he is associated with instant credibility,” Young told The Dal-las Morning News. “We defi-nitely appreciate what it means to be associated with him.”
For a while the score in-creased with the bidding. The game went from 2-0 to 4-2 as the bids went from $335 million to $355 million before Ryan-Green-berg slammed the door shut with their $385 million bid.
At 12:45 a.m. CST, it was over. No matter how you look at it,
Greenberg and Ryan’s courtroom victory is good for the Rangers and even for Cuban himself.
I’m not saying that Cuban owning the Rangers would have been a bad thing — far from it. In fact, I’m sure he would have done a fabulous job as an owner.
His energy and passion for franchises and players is some-thing the Rangers have needed for many years now. There is no doubt we would have seen Cuban screaming at umpires or hanging with fans in the center-field bleachers and the “Home Run Porch,” but his presence is overshadowed by “The Strike-out King.”
Cuban can’t match the great-ness of Ryan’s performance on Aug. 4, 1993 — 17 years ago to
the day of Wednesday’s auction — when Ryan sidestepped Rob-in Ventura as he charged the mound before corralling him into a headlock and landing five or six solid punches.
Cuban isn’t more impos-ing than Ryan’s presence in the bullpen with the starting pitchers during the offseason, demanding they throw deep-er into games. I can guarantee one of the biggest reasons the Rangers signed Cliff Lee back in July was because of “The Ryan Express.”
“We just want the best group to represent us,” Murphy said after Wednesday’s win. “And how could you not want a group that had Nolan Ryan in it?”
I can’t see why you wouldn’t. If Cuban had won Thursday morning, he would have done everything in his power to keep Ryan working for him, but Ryan had been in that position be-fore working under Tom Hicks. It would have lasted a couple years, maybe.
As for Cuban, he has more important things to worry about in Dallas, such as his continually underperformingbasketball team that can’t ad-vance into the playoffs and beat the Lakers, Suns or Spurs — the same team that’s losing close to $20 million a season, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Losing this bidding war saved Cuban a lot of money and a lot of ridicule from a Tex-as Rangers fan base he could only win over with a World Se-ries title within the next two
seasons. It would be like Cu-ban trying to buy the Yankees from Mickey Mantle or Joe DiMaggio.
Unlike his purchase of the Mavericks, Cuban was stand-
ing in the way of a Rangers icon — everyone’s favorite Ranger and everyone’s favor-ite pitcher.
Just ask Robin Ventura how that feels.
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Ex-pitcher Ryan ropes in Rangers
Matt Faulkner | Associated Press
Nolan Ryan leaves Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Thursday morn-ing after placing the winning bid to own the Texas team.
By Austin RiesDaily Texan Columnist
Texas, Notre Dame agree to football series to begin in 2015
Texas and Notre Dame have agreed to a four-game series starting in 2015 that brings together two of the most successful and storied pro-grams in college football.
The Longhorns are scheduled to play in South Bend on Sept. 5, 2015. The Fighting Irish are slated to play in Austin on Sept. 3, 2016, and again on Aug. 31, 2019.
The Longhorns return to South Bend on Sept. 12, 2020.
Texas is No. 2 in NCAA history with 845 wins. Notre Dame is third with 837.
They have played 10 times, with the Fighting Irish winning eight. The last time the Longhorns beat Notre Dame was in the 1970 Cotton Bowl. The victory capped off Texas’ national championship season. The Irish and Longhorns last played in 1996 in Austin.
Quarterback changes rattle OSU, Colorado game plans
2010 scheduleSept. 4 Colorado State @ DenverSept. 11 @ CaliforniaSept. 18 @ HawaiiOct. 2 GeorgiaOct. 9 @ MissouriOct. 16 BaylorOct. 23 Texas TechOct. 30 @ OklahomaNov. 6 @ KansasNov. 13 Iowa StateNov. 20 Kansas StateNov. 26 @ Nebraska
Coach: Dan Hawkins (16-33 with Col-orado)
2009 record: 3-9
Last game: 28-20 loss against Ne-braska.
Returning starters: 15 starters (eight of-fensive starters, seven defensive starters)
Key players: Offense - WR Scotty McKnight (2009
stats: 12 games played, 76 catches, 893 yards, six touchdowns)
Defense - CB Jalil Brown (2009 stats: 12 games played, 52 tackles, two inter-ceptions, two fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles)
Key losses: Running back Darrell Scott, linebacker Jeff Smart, wide receiver Riar Greer, running back Demetrius Sumler
Key matchup: Sept. 4 vs. Colorado State
Outlook: With a difficult schedule ahead of them, it will be tough for the Buffaloes to become bowl-eligible with six wins, but they will return the majori-ty of the team from 2009. If the Buffaloes are able to win the games they are sup-posed to and get an upset or two, Dan Hawkins’ job could be saved for one more year.
By Dan HurwitzDaily Texan Staff
Even though Col-orado has agreed to join the newly named Pac-12 as early as
next year, the Buffaloes are still ready to make a run at the 2010 Big 12 title.
Head coach Dan Hawkins returns for his fifth season in what could very like-ly be his final year with Colorado. To avoid losing his job, Hawkins first has to get the Buffaloes back on the winning track after a disappointing 3-9 season.
As with many teams, it all starts at quarterback for Colorado. The Buffa-loes have a quarterback controversy as Hawkins is watching them closely to make the decision between senior Cody Hawkins — the coach’s son — and ju-nior Tyler Hansen.
“I think Tyler [Hansen] probably had a little bit of an edge coming out
of spring ball,” Dan Hawkins said. “But it’s very tough to get through a whole season with one guy anyway. Good chance we’re going to need both of those players.”
Last season, the two split time and had nearly identical statistics, but Hansen has a slight advantage as he threw for more yards and fewer interceptions in 2009.
An inconsistent offense last year left Colorado near the bottom of the Big 12 standings once again. Hawkins sees a difference in this year’s squad, however, and believes the Buffaloes could play in a bowl game because of the little things.
“Sometimes it can be a catch here, a turnover there, a penalty there,” Hawk-ins said. “It’s just [about] garnering a little momentum that way and under-standing that the difference is very thin and understanding, preparing that way, practicing that way, as well as playing that way.”
COLORADO BUFFALOESBy Will AndersonDaily Texan Staff
Oklahoma State is coming off its most successful streak since joining the Big 12, in-
cluding a record four-straight bowl ap-pearances. The biggest question facing the Cowboys, and their largest obsta-cle in South Division ascension, is how long it will take the OSU offense to ad-just to a new offensive coordinator and quarterback in 2010.
That offensive coordinator, Dana Holgorsen, went to Stillwater after eight seasons with Texas Tech and two with Houston, bringing with him ru-mors of the “Air Raid” offense.
Meanwhile, the new quarterback is Brandon Weeden, a 26-year-old ju-nior who spent several years play-ing minor league baseball before en-
rolling at OSU. Weeden played in three games last season, most nota-bly when starter Zac Robinson was injured against Colorado.
Luckily, there’s a good deal of ex-perience at Oklahoma State’s other of-fensive skill positions. Kendall Hunt-er rushed for 1,555 yards in 2008, the most in the Big 12, but missed almost all of the 2009 season with an ankle in-jury. Receiver Hubert Anyiam caught 42 passes for 515 yards as the Cow-boys’ No. 1 man after star Dez Bryant was suspended by the NCAA.
The defense was also rattled by graduation, with only three returning starters in the front seven and just one in the secondary. The ‘Pokes probably won’t improve any from last season’s 21.7 points per game, so it will be up to the offense to carry the burden, es-pecially in big games against Nebras-ka, Texas and Oklahoma.
Receiver Hubert Anyiam breaks away and gets free during a game against Texas last year.
Bruno MorlanDaily Texan file photo
2010 scheduleSept. 4 Washington StateSept. 11 TroySept. 18 TulsaSept. 30 Texas A&MOct. 8 @ LouisianaOct. 16 @ Texas TechOct. 23 NebraskaOct. 30 @ Kansas StateNov. 6 BaylorNov. 13 @ TexasNov. 20 @ KansasNov. 27 Oklahoma
Coach: Mike Gundy (36-27, all with Oklahoma State)
2009 record: 9-4
Last game: 21-7 loss to Mississippi State in 2010 Cotton Bowl
Returning starters: 10 starters (four offensive starters, four defensive start-ers, two special-team starters)
Key players: Offense - RB Kendall Hunter (2009 stats:
Eight games played, 382 yards rushing, 83 yards receiving, one TD)
Defense - DE Ugo Chinasa (2009 stats: 13 games played, 30 tackles (23 solo), nine TFL, team-leading 6.5 sacks)
Key losses: Quarterback Zac Robinson, plus three starters from the offensive line. Also lost defensive standout Perrish Cox, the leader of the Cowboys’ secondary in 2009.
Key matchup: Nov. 27 vs. Oklahoma
Outlook: Uncertainty swirls around Okla-homa State this year on both sides of the ball. Pay attention to Kendall Hunter, eas-ily the conference’s most talented running back when injury-free, because his resur-gence could mirror OSU’s own climb back into contention for a Big 12 South title. But if Hunter can’t stay healthy, it will be a long year for first-year QB Brandon Weeden.
OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS
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back Tyler Hansen
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an open receiver
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last season.
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West Virginia ‘unintentionally’ violates several NCAA limits
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia student managers, gradu-ate assistants and other non-coach-ing staff worked with football players on their skills and tech-niques in violation of NCAA lim-its during the Rich Rodriguez era and under current coach Bill Stew-art, according to NCAA allega-tions released Thursday.
The NCAA said this week that there were five major and one sec-ondary rules violations commit-ted by the Mountaineer football pro-gram between 2005 and 2009.
The NCAA said both Rodriguez and Stewart failed to promote an at-mosphere of compliance. Similar al-legations were leveled against Rodri-guez during an earlier, separate in-vestigation at Michigan, which in May admitted it had committed a se-ries of violations related to practice time and coaching activities.
Rodriguez led West Virginia, his alma mater, to two Bowl Champi-onship Series berths and a 60-26 re-cord in seven seasons before taking over at Michigan in December 2007. He left West Virginia two weeks after the Mountaineers lost to Pittsburgh in the 2007 regular-season finale and failed to secure a spot in the national championship game.
Rodriguez said in a statement that he has always taken compliance seri-ously and has “sincerely felt our pro-gram was open and transparent.”
“I regret any mistakes that were made or rules that were misinter-preted,” he said in the statement. “Any errors certainly weren’t made intentionally. I openly discussed my past practices with NCAA investiga-tors and will continue to cooperate fully during this process.”
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