The UT law school dropped back out of the prestigious top 14 law schools compiled by the U.S. News & World Rankings to No. 16, but officials say the drop is not a result of controversial administrative de-cisions made last fall.

The firing of the former law dean Larry Sager in Decem-ber did not influence the rank-ings since the U.S. News & World peer assessments were sent out in early October and were due in December. Interim law dean Stefanie Lindquist said the key to the rankings is the school’s peer assessment scores that have re-mained consistently strong for years, but other factors influence the fluctuations.

U.S. News & World began the rankings in 1990, with the most importance placed on peer as-sessments from the top adminis-trators and faculty of law schools, as well as a lesser portion by pre-selected lawyers and judges. An-other portion of the rankings is based on selectivity factors and faculty resources.

“The rankings do not necessari-ly reflect the true quality of the law schools,” Lindquist said. “Given that we know the quality of the school has not changed, it seems artificial.”

President William Powers, Jr. fired the previous law dean, Sag-er, in December after several law professors filed an open records request that revealed compensa-tion disparities among the faculty.

“The change in deanship here had no impact on the rankings,” Lindquist said. “The surveys were already in the seals.”

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Prospective freshmen from all over Texas came to campus yes-terday to embark on a two-day UT experience administrators hope will confirm their decision to at-tend the University in the fall.

The Office of Admissions host-ed UT Scholars, a two-day event brought about to recognize ad-mitted students who have received scholarships from the University.

The event educates prospective students on what UT has to of-fer as a university, as participants took dormitory tours, stadium tours, dined on campus, took

part in a scavenger hunt and at-tended UT student group perfor-mances on Thursday afternoon and into the evening. The second portion of UT Scholars will take place until 4 p.m. today and in-cludes sessions with college ad-visers and student services staff.

Deputy director of admissions Augustine Garza said the goal of the event is to bring students who have received scholarships to the University one last time before they have to make a decision.

“Generally speaking, we just are trying to get them to sat-isfy the enrollment deposit,”

Students walking the 40 Acres are often accustomed to the ring of morning alarm clocks, the chimes of the tower and the trumpeted tune of “Texas Fight.”

However, the 62 students who make up UT’s relatively small pop-ulation of deaf and hard of hearing students can’t hear those sounds.

For the first time in UT‘s his-tory, five students will participate in the National Association of the Deaf ’s College Bowl in Lou-isville, Ky. this July.

Lauren Kinast, assistant director for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Servic-es in the department of Services for Students with Disabilities, said the academic bowl began in 1988 and has traditionally been a competition between its three legacy universities,

top-tier schools for the deaf includ-ing Gallaudet University in Wash-ington D.C., California State Uni-versity-Northridge and the Nation-al Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Students from all uni-versities competing in the bowl will spend the upcoming months learn-ing trivia they will be quizzed on during the competition.

This year marks the first year that

the bowl has opened the competi-tion to non-legacy universities, and Kinast, who will serve as one of UT’s coaches, said she submitted a pro-posal to participate and immediate-ly began looking for students inter-ested in competing. Bowl competi-tors are required to be undergradu-ates in good standing with the Uni-versity and will attend opening cer-emonies as well as workshops and trainings, preliminary college bowl

competitions, a Miss Deaf Ameri-ca Pageant and a steamboat dinner benefit event at the bowl, Kinast said in an email.

Kinast, who is deaf, said com-ing to a large university such as UT can be overwhelming for a deaf student.

“The best way to get a sense of what the environment feels like

The Blanton Museum of Art was filled with Old West spir-it Thursday as museum patrons took part in various cowboy-themed activities.

At the biannual Student Fest, museum staff came together with the Blanton Student Guild

and various campus art organi-zations to present a free day of activities, food, offerings and exhibits for the general pub-lic. The event sported an Old West theme, and activities in-cluded student-led tours of the museum, an interactive cross-word puzzle and word search, an outdoor photo booth man-aged by the Texas Photography

Club and performances by UT’s Conjunto Ensemble, a band that played music with south Texas origins and Spitshine Po e t r y, a c a mp u s p o e t r y -reading organization.

“The museum hopes to be more conducive to the Aus-tin community’s needs in the future and is holding events l ike th is one to gain more

knowledge about public inter-est, get the public more involved and raise attendance,” said Dan-ielle Schulz, graduate student and University program coor-dinator at the Blanton Museum of Art.

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research for U.S. News & World, said the drop could be the result of small changes in a lot of fac-tors and because the law schools that historically make up the top 14, such as Yale and Stan-ford, score consistently higher.

“It’s that UT-Austin’s pro-

file is somewhat below them and they can’t raise it high enough to consistently be in that group,” Morse said.

Law student Joseph Keeney be-gan at the UT School of Law last fall and said he does not worry about the rankings. He said stu-

dents concerned with the rank-ings are looking for the prestige associated with the group.

“I’m still going to have the same job prospects that I had expected before I started,” Keeney said.

Keeney said the firing of Sager caused some distraction during fi-nals, but he did not think it would greatly affect his education.

“I haven’t noticed any change at all,” Keeney said. “I think we’re in good hands.”

L indquist said she does not think the issue of chang-ing deans will hurt next year’s peer assessments because the law school has moved beyond it and if a new dean is hired, it could bring positive publicity to the school.

for a deaf student is to picture yourself as a person who doesn’t know sign language in an envi-ronment where everyone signs,” she said. “Now, think of being in this environment every day. It can be tiresome and frustrations can kick in easily.” Deaf students face day-to-day challenges that students without hearing im-pairments aren’t often aware of, Kinast said.

“As a deaf person, I can’t just walk into the financial aid office and have a lengthy conversation with a counselor about my finan-cial support,” she said.

Kinast said UT has made sig-nificant strides in making things accessible for deaf students, such as emergency text messag-es and closed captioning on the Jumbotron at Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium, but day-to-day challenges still arise in the classroom setting.

“One of the challenges deaf

students face is when instruc-tors show videos in the class-room that aren’t captioned,” she said. “The assumption is because there are sign language interpret-ers, they can interpret the video, but this is not effective. Having to look at the interpreters then look at the video is very awkward and uncomfortable.”

Kinast said she is particular-ly excited for the bowl because of the awareness it will bring to the deaf and hard of hearing community at UT.

“The bowl will put UT on the map as a university with deaf and hard of hearing stu-dents,” she said. “We hope this will increase our visibility to prospective students from all over the U.S. to consider UT an option for their post-high school studies.”

Deaf students at UT enroll in the same curriculum for their chosen major as hearing students do, said Stephani Wolfe, Divi-sion of Diversity and Communi-ty Engagement executive direc-tor. Arrangements are made to ensure interpreters or captioning options are available for the stu-dents, she said.

Duggan Baker, a bowl team member and Plan II sophomore, said he is participating to meet other deaf students like himself.

“It is wonderful to hang out with these guys because we all seem to have an understanding of what the other has been through in order to get to where we are now,” he said in an email. “They provide something my hearing friends do not. They understand

what it is like to be deaf.”Baker said the team is training

steadily to prepare for the bowl, but said he’ll be thankful for the experience regardless of how the team fares against other schools in Kentucky.

“We’re working hard to study trivia and improve our knowl-edge base so that we can do our best to win,” he said. “Ultimately it will not matter if we win or lose. I will be happy with the friend-ships I have made and the things I have learned. Although, it would be nice to win.”

Hi s t or y s oph om ore L i s a Guerra is also participating in the bowl and said she is

looking forward to the competi-tion after months of trivia prac-tice with the team.

“It is an honor because we, as a team, will be representing one of the largest public uni-versities in America,” she said in an email. “I wanted to par-ticipate because this is a great opportunity to expose myself in a cultural aspect.”

Kalie Kubes, a bowl team mem-ber and human development and family sciences sophomore, said she feels many students aren’t aware of the deaf community at UT.

“I just think that we’re such a small community that if you don’t see us walking around or sign-

ing or in class with an interpret-er, people don’t know,” she said in an email. “However, I’ve had won-derful professors who have been more than willing to help.”

Despite the day-to-day challeng-es she faces as a result of her hear-ing impairment, Kubes said UT has been a welcoming community.

“I’m actually enjoying being a deaf student in a mainstream school,” she said. “I love how cu-rious people are and how many students actually want to learn to sign. It’s really inspiring and it makes me feel more comfortable here among thousands of people who may have never even met a deaf person.”

Music Endowment and instruc-tor of UT’s Conjunto Ensemble, said he was delighted to have his band participate and sees major value in the museum’s work.

“The Blanton is representative of all things important in the art world,” Guzman said. “That also includes forms of art like music and poetry, and I see it as a real advantage that the Blanton has decided to showcase these oth-er art forms through this event. I hope they will continue to grow.”

The event developed as a re-placement of Student MIX, a similar event sponsored solely by the Blanton Student Guild held in previous years, Schulz said. Schulz said the event did not gar-ner as much attention as Student Fest because they did not have the resources to market it.

“We wanted to take the event and make it more wide-ly known,” she said. “By putting the full power of the Blanton

behind this event, we were able to use the Blanton’s PR and mar-keting professionals and really get the word out.”

Kate Stark, graduate student and event attendee, said the mu-seum and events like Student Fest bring together the campus and the Austin community.

“It brings people to cam-pus that wouldn’t normal-ly come here,” she said. “This way, it helps make UT a part of the community.”

Samantha Youngblood, UT alumnus and PR and marketing manager for The Blanton Mu-seum of Art, said the museum’s exhibits are a great way of shar-ing the University’s efforts with the public.

“The Blanton acts as a sort of bridge between the Aus-t in and UT communit ies ,” she said. “We’re here to serve them both and are very open to their ideas.”

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Garza said. “We see that a ma-jority do [pay their enrollment deposit] after the event, but even then we see some of the students change their minds because a lot happens between now and September.”

Garza said the s tudents meet with various represen-tatives on campus to help in their decisions.

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“I hope to learn the basic in-formation on prices and see what dorms I have the oppor-tunity to live in,” Elias said.

Adrian Ruiz, a prospective incoming philosophy major, said he came to the event be-cause he wanted as many op-portunities to see the cam-pus as possible before the fall.

Ruiz said he also hopes to re-ceive more information about the University than he did during previous visits, and in particular learn about the College of Liberal Arts and financial aid.

Pre-nursing sophomore Mi-cael Cano volunteered at the event and said he hopes he can provide students with the best information possible.

“I’m hoping students learn that UT is a great university as far as the learning environ-ment, diversity, resources, sup-port, and opportunities that it offers,” Cano said.

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NEWS BRIEFLYAustin officer shoots, kills man after chase, altercation on 51st

An Austin Police Department officer shot and killed a man in East Austin last night near 51st Street and Manor Road.

Assistant Police Chief David Carter said the officer, whose identity has not been released, pulled over a car being driven by a black man about 30-years-old at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Austin Ameri-can-Statesman. APD did not re-turn The Daily Texan’s request for comment.

When the off icer attempt-ed to make the traf f ic stop, the driver sped off before pull-ing over and exiting the vehi-cle on foot, the article stated. Carter told the Statesman the officer chased the man, catch-ing up with him as he attempt-ed to jump a fence, and finally met him in “a physical alterca-tion” near Manor Road and 51st Street. The officer fought with the man for control of the po-lice gun before firing what in-vestigators are considering one to three shots.

The wounded man received CPR treatments from other of-ficers, but died shortly after, according to the Statesman. The officer who fired the shot was treated for a hand inju-ry, neck injury and potentially broken bones.

Video of the traffic stop and audio of the chase taken from the patrol car is in custody of investigators.

— Jillian Bliss

Rebeca Rodriguez | Daily Texan staff

Delia Esmeralda Soto and Andy Ramirez enjoy cupcakes and ice cream while they listen to a poetry read-ing at the biannual Student Fest held at the Blanton Museum of Art. The Old West themed event included a free day of activities, food and student-led tours of the museum.

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Rocket fires into Israeli resort, responds with Egyptian tension

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Thursday warned that Egypt’s Sinai desert is becoming a “terror zone” and vowed to strike at militants there after a rocket fired from the area hit a southern Israe-li resort town.

The tough talk, however, was tem-pered by Israel’s desire not to disturb the already fraught relationship with Egypt. Israeli officials acknowledged their options are limited as the new government in Egypt — one of Is-rael’s few allies in the Arab world — tries to secure its sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli security of-ficials have repeatedly warned of a power vacuum in Egypt and say that Islamic militants have stepped up activity in Sinai.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and Egypt denied the attack was launched from its territory.

Sensing the growing threat, Is-rael has increased its surveillance and is building an electronic barri-er along the 150 mile frontier.

Ala. immigration law to change after endless bouts of criticism

MONTGOMERY, Ala . — Changes could be coming to Ala-bama’s tough immigration law that has been challenged by the courts, churches and businesses.

Its author, Republican Rep. Micky Hammon, on Thursday of-fered revisions that he said would make the law more workable for lo-cal governments, more enforceable for police, and less burdensome for law-abiding citizens and business-es. It also addresses sections that courts have put on hold.

The wide-ranging law requires police to determine citizenship sta-tus during traffic stops and requires government offices to verify legal residency for everyday transactions.

Bentley signed the law last June. Since then, the U.S. Justice Depart-ment and 30 separate organizations challenged it in court. In the mean-time, it caused both legal and ille-gal immigrants to leave the state for fear of arrest and caused farmers to complain about not having enough help to pick crops.

Free speech for military on trial after Marine lambastes Obama

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A Marine facing dismissal from the military for his Facebook com-ments went as far as posting super-imposed images of President Ba-rack Obama’s face on a donkey, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Prosecutor Capt. John Torre-sala said the behavior by Marine Sgt. Gary Stein repeatedly violated Pentagon policy limiting the free speech rights of service members. Stein’s security clearance was tak-en away and he has no future in the Marine Corps because he can’t do his job without that clearance.

Defense attorney Marine Capt. James Baehr said during the hear-ing that prosecutors were trying to dredge up any damaging infor-mation they could against Stein. “There is no basis in this case,” Baehr said. “Sgt. Stein has broken no law.”

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

NEWS BRIEFLY

Arab Spring coverage sweeps PeabodysRomney shifts focus as new front-runner

Syrian regime troops keep fighting despite UN

TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. — Mitt Romney is sharpening his focus on President Barack Obama and broadening his pitch to inde-pendents and Democrats. He has more security around him, his campaign team is growing and his crowds appear more excited to see him. It’s a different world for Romney now that he’s the al-most-certain GOP nominee.

Romney is more than halfway to the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the party’s nomination, and he could reach that total by June if not earlier at his current pace. On Tuesday, he racked up victories in Wisconsin, Maryland and Wash-ington, D.C., and immediate-ly shifted his focus to the Dem-ocratic incumbent with a pair of blistering speeches that castigated Obama and cast the fall contest as a choice between two competing

ideological visions.In the days since, Romney has

returned to the campaign trail with a confident tone despite the significant hurdles he faces as he seeks to overtake an incum-bent president at a time when the economy is showing signs of improvement.

It’s not just Romney’s message that’s evolving. The Secret Service agents protecting him have started to implement additional measures.

His campaign announced Thursday that former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie will serve as a senior adviser, the first of what aides say will be a big expansion of the Bos-ton-based campaign team. Until now, Romney has kept his cam-paign on the small side and has re-lied on an intimate group of advis-ers. He knows he needs more as he prepares to compete across the country against a major Obama re-election effort.

ATHENS, Ga. — Coverage of the Arab Spring dominated the Peabody Awards when the oldest honors in broadcasting were hand-ed out Wednesday at the Universi-ty of Georgia.

CNN, Al Jazeera English and Na-tional Public Radio received the prestigious award for their coverage of the pro-Democracy movements that led to leaders being unseated in the Middle East, including Tuni-sia, Egypt and Libya. Two Japanese news outlets won for their coverage of the deadly earthquake and tsuna-

mi that killed more than 19,000 peo-ple and unleashed the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

CBS News won for reporting on Syria, where President Bashar As-sad’s forces have violently cracked down on a yearlong uprising.

Peabodys were handed out to Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Re-port,” IFC’s “Portlandia,” Showtime’s “Homeland” and the long-running quiz show “Jeopardy!” NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” was also honored.

Website TED.com received an award, as did BBC.com. Oral

history project StoryCorps won for its 9/11 series on the 10th anniversa-ry of the terrorist attacks. PBS’ “Austin City Limits” won an institutional Pea-body Award for its 37 seasons on air. A documentary about the 2004 assas-sination of Cambodian trade union leader Chea Vinchea won a Peabody.

The University of Georgia’s jour-nalism school has administered the awards since 1940. All entries become a part of the Peabody Archive in the University of Georgia Libraries, one of the nation’s oldest archives.

— The Associated Press

Steven Senne | The Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate and now-apparent front-runner Mitt Romney speaks on a roof in Harrisburg, Pa. on Thursday.

Courtesy of The Associated Press

Youth stand in a building damaged by tank shells in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria on Thursday.

By Kasie HuntThe Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syria launched a blis-tering assault Thursday on the out-skirts of its capital, shelling residen-tial areas and deploying snipers on rooftops as international envoy Kofi Annan demanded every fighter lay down arms in time for a U.N.-bro-kered cease-fire.

The bloodshed undermined al-ready fading hopes that more than a year of violence will end soon, and France accused President Bashar Assad of trying to fool the world by accepting Annan’s deadline to pull the army back from population centers by April 10.

According to the plan, rebels are supposed to stop fighting 48 hours later, paving the way for talks to end Assad’s violent suppression of the up-rising against his rule. The U.N. says more than 9,000 people have died.

“Can we be optimistic? I am not. Because I think Bashar Assad is de-ceiving us,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told reporters in Paris.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the crisis was getting worse, even though the Syrian government accepted Annan’s plan March 27.

Activists have accused the regime of stepping up attacks across the coun-try, and they described Thursday’s as-sault in Douma as among the worst around the capital.

“Cities, towns and villages have been turned into war zones. The sources of violence are proliferating,” Ban told the U.N. General Assembly.

Black smoke billowed from res-idential areas of Douma, about 8 miles outside Damascus, amid heavy cracks of gunfire. Douma, which has seen anti-Assad activities since the uprising began, has been subjected to several campaigns by Assad’s regime over the past year.

Activists said soldiers occupied Douma’s Grand Mosque, one of the largest in the area.

“No one dares to walk in the streets because of the snipers,” Syrian activist Omar Hamza told The Asso-ciated Press by telephone. “They are like stray dogs attacking sheep.”

He said the shelling went on for eight hours, damaging homes and setting shops on fire. Hamza said the government appeared to be trying to put the heavily populat-ed suburb under control before the cease-fire goes into effect for fear that there will be massive anti-gov-

ernment demonstrations near the capital if regime troops withdraw.

As the fighting raged in the north, more Syrians f led to

neighboring Turkey, where the For-eign ministry said some 2,350 peo-ple arrived Thursday. Some 1,600 refugees arrived Wednesday and

earlier Thursday, according to its disaster management agency. That pushes the number of displaced Syrians in Turkey to 22,000.

By Zeina KaramThe Associated Press

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Drawing a line between private and professional

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By Rui ShiDaily Texan Columnist

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Less taxes, more liberty

I would like to address the editorial cartoon published on the Opinion page in Wednesday’s issue of The Daily Texan. The cartoon depicts a man, presumably a Republican, saying, “I’m sick of the government taking so much in taxes. That’s my money and they’re wasting it. I should be able to use it as I see fit and to invest it wisely!” In the next scene, the same man tells a store clerk “Gimme $300 in Mega Millions tickets!!” Clearly the cartoon is mocking those of us who advocate lower taxes. However, the cartoon perfectly illustrates our point. What people in favor of lower taxes promote is individual liberty and personal responsibility. Frankly, I don’t care how other people choose to spend their money. That’s their choice. So if the man in this cartoon chooses to buy $300 in lottery tickets, who has to deal with the con-sequences? He does. Lower taxes allow people to choose what they think is best for them. The cartoon’s artist obviously supports the paternalistic notion that politicians and unelected bureaucrats who work thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., are more capable of judging how to best spend our money. Our $15.5-trillion national debt might be evidence to the contrary, but that is your decision to make. Ultimately, this debate boils down to two options. One option allows citizens to keep as much of their money as possible while still funding the constitutional duties of the federal government and allows individuals to decide how to they would like to spend the money they earned. The other is a government that confiscates as much money as possible from its citizens to prevent them from making decisions the government doesn’t approve of because “the government knows best.” The bottom line: The less you are taxed, the more liberty you have.

Jordan NicholsGovernment junior

Treasurer, College Republicans

John Doe is a successful engineering student in his final year of school. Armed with a 4.0 GPA, numerous academic awards and a long list of professional ex-perience, Doe is primed to enter the job hunt. He has no shortage of suitors and receives an interview request from a top technology company. With his impres-sive resume and interview skills, Doe is virtually assured of securing his dream job. He goes through the motions of the application process but in the fine print he finds the phrase: “Please hand over your Facebook password so that we can inspect your profile.”

Say what?The House recently voted down an

amendment that would have banned employers from demanding access to Facebook accounts . This amendment was a part of a larger Federal Commu-nications Commission (FCC) reform package, and its failure could be attrib-uted to other factors, such as its vague language. For example, one clause gave the FCC the power “to adopt a rule or to amend an existing rule to protectonline privacy.”

Granted, the amendment needs to be rewritten to ensure that people would not have to put blind faith in the FCC to

do the right thing. However, the amend-ment should have still passed in its cur-rent form because of the magnitude of what was at stake. This failure shows a disconnect between lawmakers and the general public on the issue of privacy.

The phenomenon of requiring an ap-plicant’s Facebook username and pass-word as a part of the hiring process is a gross violation of an individual’s privacy. There is a fine line between a person’s private and professional lives. Many feel the need to separate the two, and employers have no right to forc-ibly obtain that information. In rough-and-tumble economic times, it is ex-tremely unfair for employers to force applicants to choose between theirprivacy and getting a job.

Although it is important for appli-cants go through a background check, requiring Facebook passwords is a step too far.

This practice is akin to requiring ap-plicants to hand over the keys to their house so that employers can make sure that everything is nice and tidy. While they are at it, why not let them also get the mail out of your mail box? Because both actions would be crimes.

Facebook’s own terms of use state that “you will not share your password ... let anyone else access your account or do anything else that might jeopardize the

security of your account,” yet employ-ers are now forcing some applicants to violate this agreement.

People ought to be outraged, as em-ployers who engage in this practice seem to have lost their sense of what privacy means. Such blatant violations of individual privacy should be deemed illegal. Congress, however, does not feel the same way.

A decade ago, privacy meant that others could not intrude into a per-son’s private property or disseminate a person’s private information. With the explosion of social media, however, that definition, along with the laws that protect it, are no longer adequate. Fa-cebook has played an active role in this redefinition process but has also per-petuated the loss of privacy. Facebook’s past insensitivities about user privacy have propelled sensitive personal in-formation into the public domain. This new access to information has prompt-ed employers to take the next step by getting to know everything aboutan applicant.

The practice of requiring Facebook passwords as a part of the job applica-tion process must end. Congress must take action to ban this practice and en-sure that modern privacy is respected.

Shi is an electrical and computer engineering junior.

Editor’s note: From redistricting to the state’s B-On-Time loan program, these are among our favorite quotes from the past several days.

“There would be very little time before Novem-ber to advertise, ‘here’s what the districts look like,’ and more important, there would be rela-tively very little time for the public to weigh in on what those districts ought to look like withthe commission.”— Bill Spelman, Austin City Council member and UT professor, on the proposal from the Charter Revision Committee to create single-member city council districts, according to KUT.

“This is no time for defensiveness. Rather, UT is to be commended for caring enough about student learning to be one of the first univer-sities to institute annual Collegiate LearningAssessment testing.”— Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in his column Wednesday in The Hous-ton Chronicle on the implementation of the Collegiate Learning Assess-ment (CLA) at the University. The CLA has been criticized for simplify-ing what students learn while in college.

“Texans want to be relevant. We’ve been passed by in the process before, and we’re tired of sit-ting on the sidelines.”— Weston Martinez, member of the Texas Republican Executive Com-mitttee and Rick Santorum supporter, on the potential for changing the state’s Republican primary to a winner-take-all system, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Supporters argue that the change would allow Texas more of a voice in the selection process.

“Growth is something that, of course, Tex-ans like. I think it reflects very positive things about the state. Of course, the other side is that it continues to place tremendous demands on public services in Texas, in areas like educa-tion and health care.”— Steve Murdock, former U.S. Census Bureau director, on the growth rate of Austin, according to the Austin American-Statesman. According to new data, Austin is the second fastest-growing city in the nation.

“I’d love to be able to promote this loan to the student body, but our hands are kind of tied.”— Tom Melecki, UT Student Financial Services director, on the ad-vertisement of the state’s B-On-Time loan program, according to The Daily Texan. The program is being criticized after new data showed that the full available value of the loans was not distributed toUniversity students.

Americans need to take more ac-tion to prevent abuse instead of just talking about a problem that impacts children around the country, said Jim Hmurovich, CEO and president of Prevent Child Abuse America.

The Kappa Delta sorority hosted a town hall meeting fea-turing Hmurovich at the SAC Ballroom on Thursday night. Hmurovich spoke about PCAA and its goal to create a nation-al strategy against child abuse with the help of suggestions by university students and com-munities nationwide.

Hmurovich suggested students sign a pledge on the PCAA website for the development of a national prevention plan and to stand up for children when given the chance.

“We have a culture in this coun-try that children are important but when we see something that isn’t good for their healthy development, we step back and point out that it’s not our child,” Hmurovich said. “We need to change that attitude because even though parents are the most important influence, we all have a role to play.”

According to a 2007 UNICEF Re-port, the United States ranked 20th out of 21 countries in a child well-being report of the wealthiest na-tions in the world. Hmurovich said this fact is one of the main reasons to create a national strategy.

“With the development of policies, strategies and mecha-nisms, every child can have an

equal opportunity for healthy growth,” Hmurovich said.

In order to change the way child abuse issues are treated and to stop child abuse altogether, there must be cooperation for change in the relationships of the person-al, community and societal levels, Hmurovich said.

Sabier Kim, public relations soph-omore and chair for Kappa Delta, said she hopes students realize the severity of child abuse in America and how much students can do to bring awareness to the issue.

“[Hmurovich] inspired us to take action and work to prevent abuse from happening in the first place,” Kim said.

Public health freshman Emi-ly Webb suggested that Hmurovich include a program in the nation-al strategy that integrates guidance counselors into students’ lives.

“In my experience, unless you sought them out, counselors didn’t really have a relationship with you,” Webb said. “If there were a day where counselors went into the classroom to hold a workshop of some sort, students would feel more comfortable reaching out and talk-ing to them,” Webb said.

Hmurovich said the students’ suggestions were practical and continue to shed light on what the main solutions for preven-tion of child abuse could be.

“The suggestions they offered could be done and it proves that it doesn’t just take govern-ment ruling but people caring about people to make a change,” Hmurovich said. To protect the health needs of

more students, Student Government is working on a plan to make drink-ing water without flouride available on campus.

Student Government passed a bill last week to install fluoride filters on at least two drinking fountains on campus, making UT the first col-lege in the nation to offer such a plan, said SG representative Robert Love, public affairs graduate student and co-author of the bill. Love said he hopes to unveil the fluoride-free fountains by the end of the semes-ter, but is still waiting on a signature from the SG President and approval from the University.

“We’ve all heard that fluoride is good for our teeth because it’s in our toothpaste,” Love said. “But, the toothpaste label says not to swallow. When the fluoride is in the water, it is being swallowed so it’s not just on our teeth anymore. It’s in our bodies where it’s not helpful.”

Dr. Griffin Cole is a mem-ber of Flouride Free Austin and said he recently spoke to stu-dents about the harmful effects of consuming fluoride.

“I’m excited for UT to be do-ing this,” Cole said. “Fluoride works topically only. Drinking it does not bring the same benefits and

can actually be damaging. I’m so glad [SG] is bringing this issue to students’ attention.”

UT Environmental Health and Safety assistant director Dennis No-lan said water fluoridation is a con-troversial issue, so having an option for students is a good answer.

“I know there are positives and negatives to drinking fluoride,” No-lan said. “It can help make teeth stronger but there have also been some studies suggesting it is harm-ful when consumed. It’s good to of-fer the students an option and give them the opportunity to be educat-ed. It’s definitely worth a try.”

Love said fluoride is especially harmful to those with kidney dis-ease, thyroid disease and diabetes. Fluoride forces the kidneys to work harder because it is another sub-stance to filter, and it replaces io-dine in the thyroid. Because people with diabetes must drink more wa-ter, they are more at risk of devel-oping brittle bones if the water con-tains fluoride, Love said.

“The resolution will be signed,” outgoing Student Government Pres-ident Natalie Butler said. “I think it is fine that those students who are concerned about fluoride have op-tions on campus.”

Love said the cost of the fountains is estimated at about $200 per foun-tain per year, which is much cheaper than originally estimated. He said he

hopes this increases support.Love said he does not support

all the fountains being filtered be-cause he believes students deserve a choice.

“Having clean water is so impor-tant to having good health,” Love said. “If there is something wrong with the water, it hurts the people and the plants and animals we eat be-cause they also drink that water. Wa-ter fluoridation is an issue of helping those who cannot afford dental care, but at the expense of others. If you are going to enact a health policy it needs to help everyone.”

American studies senior Tay-lor Metting said she has osteope-nia, an early form of osteoporosis, and dental fluorosis, a condition re-sulting from fluoride replacing calci-um in teeth. She said her doctor rec-ommends she consume as little flu-oride as possible, so she has had to avoid drinking on campus unless she brings her own treated water, which gets expensive.

“The fact that people are unaware of the potential negative health ef-fects of fluoride is disheartening, and having fluoride free fountains could help educate people on this topic,” Metting said.

Water naturally includes fluoride but the government adds more in an attempt to prevent cavities, Love said.

“This is really great for the Univer-sity,” Love said. “Hopefully we can get

more than two filtered fountains so people all over campus can get fluo-ride-free water.”

New information on suicide of suspected murderer revealed

A recent report from the Of-fice of the Medical Examin-er revealed more information about the suicide of James Lo-ren Brown who is a suspect in several assaults as well as the Jan. 1 murder of Esme Barrera.

Brown died from asphyxi-ation by placing a plastic bag over his head, said Austin Po-lice Department spokesman Anthony Hipolito.

“Mr. Brown’s DNA is linked to seven assaults as of right now,” Hipolito said. “Although DNA was not recovered from the homicide scene, Brown is still the prime suspect for ‘Murder One’ of Esme Barrera on New Year’s Day.”

He said APD has circumstan-tial evidence to connect Brown to the Jan. 1 murder of Barre-ra, an Austin resident and avid music fan. The investigation is still open and APD is exhaust-ing all resources to further con-nect Brown to the homicide, al-though most of the DNA analy-sis has already been conducted, Hipolito said.

“The homicide unit will con-tinue to look at all the evidence as we attempt to put the pieces of this puzzle together,” Hipoli-to said. “We are still fairly con-fident that Brown was involved in this incident and that he will remain the primary suspect.”

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If there’s one thing the Long-horns can say they definite-ly have, it’s leadership. The 32-2 team exudes composure not only from the seniors but from all of Texas’ players.

The Longhorns have a total of eight upperclassmen, including three seniors. All are important leaders on and off the field. While it is great to have veteran leaders, the younger players from Texas are also learning to take the reins.

The biggest sign of leadership on the team comes from senior captain Lexy Bennett, the sec-ond baseman who showed this in the team’s first game of the home stand against Missouri on Thurs-day. As Texas took the 9-5 victory Thursday night, Bennett broke the

school’s career RBI record. Going into Thursday night’s game, she was tied for the record with Loryn Johnson (2007-10) at 139 but took the lead in the sixth inning when she tallied one more RBI.

Bennett has always been a strong presence on the team. While start-ing out a little shy, she has grown to be where she is now.

“It’s been fun to see her really grow into being a captain and just becoming more vocal,” said head coach Connie Clark. “No doubt she was always somebody who led by example through work ethic or just her athletic abilities from day one as a freshman.”

A common characteristic said about Bennett is her competitive spirit, which has helped carry the team. Even her teammates and

The game started out slowly for the first time all season, but the Longhorns scraped together five runs in the fifth inning to come out with the 9-5 win over the Mis-souri Tigers in game one of a three game series.

“I think it’s definitely what we needed,” senior right fielder Court-ney Craig said of their comeback victory. “It’s something that makes us different from teams in years before. We’ve been challenged [this season] and in years before we haven’t been able to come back. This year we’ve needed to see it over and over again to get us ready for more games.”

The No. 3 Longhorns extend-ed their winning streak to 10 games Thursday evening bringing their season record to 32-2 and 6-0 in Big 12 Conference play. After a streak of non-conference competition,

the Longhorns’ only remaining op-ponents for the 2012 season are of conference caliber.

“You have to give it to them. They kept fighting all the way until the end,” said senior left fielder Torie Schmidt. “We’ve been pretty consis-tently good at not letting things get to us and shaking things off. Teams have been scoring before us and we’ve stayed calm. We don’t let it get to us.”

Junior All-American pitcher Blaire Luna spent all seven innings in the circle for the Longhorns. She gave up five runs off of seven hits, the most she’s given up all season. Luna had an impressive eight strike outs in seven innings and is now 13-1 with a 1.43 ERA.

Freshman pitcher and desig-nated player Gabby Smith scored the first run in the fifth inning to break the scoring drought for the

Coming into Thursday, it had been nearly a month between Nathan Thornhill’s last two wins — victories over Rice and Cali-fornia. But, thanks to an offense that went from nonexistent to lethargic in the fifth inning, the sophomore picked up victories in consecutive starts for the first time this season after beating the Golden Bears last week and the Red Raiders last night.

Each of the first 13 Longhorn hitters were retired by Texas Tech starting pitcher, sophomore Trey Masek, but the Texas lineup bounced back in a big way. Af-ter more than four innings of of-fensive futility, the Longhorns put 12 of their next 15 batters on base and held a 6-3 lead after the sixth inning, despite trailing 1-0 after the fifth inning. Thornhill

gave up a three-run homerun in the fifth inning, but was good enough to improve to 4-2 on the year as No. 25 Texas (16-11, 6-1) took down Texas Tech (17-14, 2-8) 7-4 in Lubbock Thurd-say night.

Freshman second baseman Brooks Marlow’s one-out walk in the fifth inning broke up Masek’s perfect game campaign and freshman designated hit-ter Taylor Stell’s RBI single lat-er in the frame broke up Masek’s no-hit and shutout bids. Later in the fifth inning, senior short-stop Jordan Etier drew a bases-loaded, four-pitch walk to give the Longhorns their first lead at 2-1.

The Red Raiders took that lead right back by capitalizing on a triple from junior second baseman and leadoff hitter Ja-modrick McGruder and an in-tentional walk drawn by junior

center fielder Barrett Barnes. Another junior, first baseman Scott LeJune, deposited a 1-2 changeup from Thornhill over the right-field wall for a three-run homerun, giving Texas Tech a 4-2 advantage.

Another lead change took place in the top of the sixth in-ning when sophomore right fielder Mark Payton led the frame off with a walk.

“When you walk leadoff guys, and when you walk guys, they usually score,” Red Raider as-sociate head coach Tim Tad-lock said. “Leadoff guys usual-ly score. [Texas has] a history of being real good of getting guys over and getting guys in and that’s what they did today.”

Sophomore third baseman Erich Weiss followed with an in-field single while freshman left

Seeing him walk off the track at Texas Relays, sporting a huge smile as he became the new focal point of every flashing camera, you could al-most see the imaginary cape draped across his shoulders.

But Isaac Murphy’s smile was ac-tually one of shock and disbelief that he had accomplished something so

great. What appeared to be an almost effortless series of events leading to his victory were almost unbearable the week before.

“I was kind of nervous before Texas Relays because the week be-fore, all the things that you’re sup-posed to take care of and feel good about, weren’t really happening for me,” Murphy said. “Things at school

Imagine Texas Relays with a slightly cooler breeze and equal levels of excitement — and you get this weekend’s 38th Stanford Invitational. A select group of the No. 5 Longhorns will barely have a chance to come off their runners-high as they pick up the intensity on the road.

Top high school, collegiate and professional athletes will be com-peting alongside Texas at the ex-travaganza in search of qualifying marks for the postseason. Long-horn sprinters and fielders will rest up from last weekend’s Texas Re-lays, while a group of distance run-ners head to Cobb Track and Angell Field at Stanford.

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Isaac Murphy,right, runs in a Texas Relay event. He won the decath-lon last weekend, but still feels he has a lot of areas to improve upon.

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Corey Knebel prepares to hurl a pitch against California last weekend. Corey Knebel fanned six of the seven batters he faced in two innings to earn his sixth save of the season and the 25th of his career.

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ARLINGTON, Texas — Nine months after a Texas Rangers fan died after falling over an outfield railing at a game, his 7-year-old son helped unveil a statue Thursday honoring his father and others who love America’s pastime.

The life-size bronze statue de-picts Shannon Stone and his son, Cooper, wearing baseball caps. They are holding hands and look-ing at each other as if they’re talk-ing. The inscription reads: In mem-ory of Shannon Stone and dedicat-ed to all fans who love the game.

“Today is a celebration of spirit, family and love of the game,” Rang-ers President Nolan Ryan said. “This bronze represents so many things that are good about baseball — competition, happiness, mem-ories — and I think Shannon em-bodied what we as an organization hope for in our fans.”

On July 7, Stone was reaching for a ball tossed to him by Josh Hamil-ton, Cooper’s favorite player, when he fell headfirst about 20 feet and landed on concrete behind the out-field wall. Before the game, Stone had stopped to buy his then-6-year-old son a new glove in the hope of catching a ball.

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fielder Collin Shaw laid down a sacrifice bunt that moved Weiss and Payton to second and third base. Freshman sec-ond baseman Brooks Marlow took advantage of the runners in scoring position, delivering a two-run single that tied the game at 4-4. Then, sophomore first baseman Alex Silver and Stell each hit RBI doubles that gave the Longhorns a 6-4 lead that they would not surrender.

Thornhill allowed five hits and four runs over six innings of work, with four of those five hits being of the extra-base variety. A pair of third-inning doubles allowed Texas

Tech to score its first run be-fore the three-run bomb in the fifth. After junior Hoby Milner tossed a scoreless seventh in-ning, Corey Knebel came in to seal the Longhorns victory.

Knebel gave up a two-out sin-gle in the ninth inning, but that was the only baserunner the Red Raiders had in the final two frames as the All-American sophomore closer lowered his ERA from 1.08 to 1.00.

Texas’ leading hitter, junior left fielder Jonathan Walsh was taken out of the game after run-ning into the outfield wall, and replaced by Shaw, who Long-horns head coach Augie Garrido indicated would likely stay in the lineup Friday when Texas plays the second game of a three-game series against Texas Tech, also at 6:30 p.m.

Longhorns. The initial run was scored off a two RBI single by Schmidt with one out in the bot-tom of the fifth inning. Schmidt went 3-for-3 with two runs and three RBIs. Craig contributed three RBIs to the win off of her 1-for-4 night.

“The pitches were just com-ing inside and it was jamming me up on both at-bats,” Craig said. “I went into the dugout and told myself to focus. ... I set the play up a little bit, made

an adjustment, kept my hands inside and did what I needed to do for my team.”

Senior third baseman Nadia Taylor also had a successful and productive offensive night as she went 2-for-3 for the night. Taylor has been on a hot streak lately af-ter her record setting three double performance against New Mexico last weekend.

“She has been on a streak late-ly and got us all a hit,” Craig said. “When one person on our team hits, the energy starts going. It’s a domino effect. Nadia really started that and the team really kept going with it.”

Game two against Missouri comes at 7 p.m. Friday evening with

weren’t going that great and I was feeling sick a couple of days before. I didn’t feel like I wanted to feel. I felt flustered.”

Murphy felt pretty heavy-lad-en, like everything was crash-ing down on him on the week he needed to feel the most secure. Mental toughness and a fresh mind are crucial for decathletes and their success. But Murphy felt like his was completely blown.

And just when he thought his sit-uation couldn’t get any worse, it did. Thursday’s forecasted clear skies and warm weather suddenly transformed into rain showers. Sand pits turned to mud and the lanes lost their traction. But for Murphy, such a simple unex-

pected act of nature was enough to overhaul his entire outlook on the re-mainder of the weekend.

“I remember getting ready to line up for the 100 meters [on the first day of relays] and it started raining,” Mur-phy said. “It felt good to feel the rain. And I thought to myself, ‘Are you go-ing be upset about it or you going to relax and run anyway?’ I didn’t care about anything after that. In my head, that was the turning point.”

Eventually the drizzle stopped, but Murphy’s personal records kept coming. He set or matched personal records in seven of the ten events, joining former UT de-cathletes Trey Hardee and Aaron Fox as decathlon champions.

“I didn’t realize how much cov-erage our decathlon was going get,” Murphy said with a smile. “We usu-ally don’t get as much love as we did that weekend.” But what really got

head coach Bubba Thornton’s blood pumping was a talented young ath-lete finally listening to his advice. On Thursday, while Murphy was sit-ting in the grass taking off his track spikes after clenching fourth place in the 1500-meter run, coach Thorn-ton approached him.

“Now, what’s different about this feeling and the feeling you felt at In-door Nationals sitting on the bench after getting 10th place?” coach Thornton asked. Murphy replied with a grin, “You told me to have fun Bubba, and I listened.”

Murphy knows that he can per-form better all around.

“I want to jump farther in the long jump because I know that I can. I want to throw a couple of feet far-ther in the shot put because I’ve done it in practice. I want to jump a few inches higher in high jump because I felt like I could’ve at Texas Relays. I

want to run faster in the hurdles be-cause I felt like my arms were loose during the race. I want to throw far-ther in the discus because my person-al record is 10 feet farther than what I threw at Relays. I want to jump high-er in pole vault because I know I can get on some bigger sticks come con-ference time. I want to throw farther in the javelin because I know the im-pingement in my shoulder will feel better by then.”

And no matter what challeng-es and setbacks the weeks ahead at-tempt to hurl at him, he’s already got his game plan set in stone. Practice is for working out the kinks and fixing all the small things. On meet days, Murphy will now be concerned with a much simpler goal.

“Trust my training, trust my coach and go out there with a smile. I think if it’s going to happen that day, it will.”

fellow captains notice the en-thusiasm she brings.

“Lexy is a great competitor pe-riod,” said co-captain Courtney Craig. “You can tell she is just very focused on the games and very focused in the dugout. She is always telling you little tips for you to progress [and allows you] to do better in the game. She is a great team player with great competitive spirit. She gives her all in every game, every at bat, every pitch, just all the time — just 100 percent great.”

Now while her time at Tex-as is almost over, she has def-initely made her mark on the program. Not only has she bro-ken records all season long, her name is now at the top of the Texas softball program with the

most RBI’s, and her career isn’t quite over yet.

Bennett is definitely not the only leader on the team. Ju-nior Blaire Luna has consistent-ly been a presence for the Long-horns. While gaining her 13th win of the season in Thursday’s game, the Austin native has been a huge part of the success the team has had this season.

In her start versus the Tigers, she tallied eight strikeouts, giv-ing up only seven hits. The All-American pitcher has continued all season to lead the pitching staff and lead the Texas defense to give up very few runs.

There’s much to say about the Longhorns, who are on track to have one of their best sea-sons yet. However one thing that can’t be denied is the lead-ership that surrounds the team. On and off the field, all players contribute to proving just how good they are.

Sophomores Austin Roth and Collin Smith will compete in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Roth won the event at the UCLA Dual meet at the start of the outdoor season, while Smith came in third.

Boys and girls high school events will be scattered through-out the day, leading up to the cli-max of the evening. What’s known as the ‘distance carnival’ will be-gin today at 5:15 p.m. and contin-ue late into the night. Collegiate

and professional athletes will com-pete in a slew of ongoing distance races that will conclude with the men’s 10000-meter run scheduled for 10:44 p.m.

A Texas trio featuring Ryan Dohner, Craig Lutz and Brock Simmons will run as competitors in the 5000-meter. Dohner and Lutz will run in the second sec-tion of the event, while Simmons will compete in section three. This will be Lutz’s first race of the out-door season, as the cross-country All-American was busy compet-ing in cross country this past fall.

The Longhorns’ second trio of athletes, Mark Pinales, Will Na-

tion and Rory Tunningley, will debut in the 10000-meter run for the first time in 2012. This event will also be the first go-round of the outdoor season for Nation and Tunningley.

The Cardinal boasts that their athletes will be among the top of the featured competition, and one of particular interest to Tex-as is senior Chris Derrick. The distance runner is a 13-time All-American and a three-time NCAA Runner-Up, as well as one of six men to finish in the top 10 all four years at the NCAA Cross Country Championship. He will use the 1500-meter run

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There’s no denying that “Ti-tanic” was a genuine cultural phenomenon when it hit the-aters, spending a staggering 15 weeks at the top of the box of-fice, and setting records left and right. Even so, it’s a film that our generation didn’t really get a chance to see in theaters. My first memory of the film was watching it in a hotel room with my parents and really only pay-ing attention to the part where the ship goes down. For that rea-son alone, re-releasing “Titanic” is a solid idea to show the land-mark cinematic event to a new generation of youngsters, even if the film’s 3D reconversion is a mostly perfunctory excuse to get it into theaters again.

“Titanic” is an epic of the highest caliber, and James Cam-eron directs it with a real ele-gance, treating the story’s in-herent t ragedy respect fu l ly while also making it massive-ly entertaining in its own way. The story of Jack and Rose has been parodied and referenced so much that one might think it’s become diluted at this point. Thankfully, it’s still sweeping and genuinely romantic, mostly thanks to the pitch-perfect cast-ing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

Both of these actors had sol-id careers up to this point, but nothing like this, and going back to “Titanic,” they both look so young and eager to please. There’s an honesty and heart to their performances that’s sur-prising. DiCaprio in particular has aged into a very different kind of performer, full of hard edges and aggressive characters, but here, he’s full of infectious joy for everything life throws at him, and the chemistry he has with Winslet is a huge reason why the film works.

A lot of us (myself includ-ed) grew up watching the film in a two tape VHS box set, and that makes it even easier to de-tect when the film shifts from charming romance to epic trag-edy, right around the time Jack

sketches Rose in one of many famous scenes. Cameron han-dles both halves of the f i lm wonderfully, and his staging of the Titanic’s demise is disas-ter filmmaking at its absolute best. Tales of the grueling, six month shoot have become no-torious, but this is Cameron showing mastery of his craft. Even as this unimaginably mas-sive ship goes into the ocean, Cameron excels at finding the small, human moments, and he gives each member of his enor-mous supporting cast a chance to stand out.

But that’s enough about “Ti-tanic.” Let’s talk about the 3D. Obviously, the huge draw for this re-release was the 3D con-version, and while that will cer-tainly translate into healthy box office numbers, it’s complete-ly inessential. Sure, the 3D is

impressive enough, but watch-ing “Titanic” in a third dimen-sion doesn’t add anything to the film. In fact, with such a lengthy f i lm, 3D can almost be a detriment, as the human eye can only take so much 3D before it starts to wear out, a boundary that “Titanic” comes dangerously close to crossing. It would have been enough to put “Titanic” back into theaters on the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking, and people still would have come out in droves to see DiCaprio and Winslet on the big screen once again.

The chance to see these huge, culture-defining films on the big screen is undeniably appeal-ing. Films like “Titanic” and “Star Wars” are cornerstones of pop culture for a reason, and 1997 sure was a long time ago. Scenes like Jack and Rose’s

moment on the ship’s bow or the ship’s final, hellish descent into the water lose some of their impact when viewed on a televi-sion, and that irritatingly catchy Celine Dion song is even more effective at drilling its way into your psyche on the big screen. But even more than that, the theatrical experience is unques-tionably the best way to watch a film, and that alone makes these re-releases a valiant effort.

As useless as 3D is, I almost hope this trend of re-releas-ing classic films continues, with or without a post-conversion. I would jump at the chance to see something like “Goodfellas” or “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in theaters, and if I have to shell out a few extra dollars for some glasses that don’t really enhance the film that much, that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

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the party anyway and proceeds to wreak havoc.

“American Reunion” really has one goal in mind: to let us catch up with these characters almost a decade later, and it succeeds in that goal. The best scenes are sim-ply those that let the original cast members reunite and reminisce, and while the film refrains from

being nothing but lazy referenc-es to its predecessors, it pays off a few long-running jokes in satis-fying fashion. Even more impor-tantly, the film reaches for insight into what it means to be growing up. Even though most of its sen-timents are obvious and unin-spired, the fact that it’s trying at all is commendable.

As nice as it is to see these char-acters again, they’re saddled with a pretty standard plot. There’s plenty of sexual tension between long-lost lovers, and Jim finds

himself fighting off freshly legal girl next door Kara (Ali Cobrin). Eugene Levy even pops up to give Jim some awkward advice, and their relationship continues to be one of the sweetest and most gen-uine things about the franchise. Too many of the film’s plots and jokes are standard sitcom fare. One setpiece involving sneaking a drunk girl into her parents’ house is uninspired and lazy in its setup and humor.

“American Reunion”’s biggest misstep is how it writes its fe-male characters. No one’s go-ing to be parading the first film around as a paragon of femi-nism, but at least its women had some surprising depth to them. “30 Rock” has proven that Katrina Bowden has a real comedic gift to go with her stunning looks, but “Reunion” doesn’t give her a sin-gle joke to play. Even worse is its

absolute waste of Alyson Hannigan, whose character has grown from a charming dork to a nagging wife; most of her screentime is spent telling Jim to go hang out with his friends.

Eve n w it h i t s shor tc om-ings, “American Reunion” is still just likeable enough to recom-mend. When it tries for laughs, the film almost always fails, but when it just lets its cast bounce off of one another, it’s hard not to crack a smile.

Timothy J. Loving, Benjamin Le and Marci Gleason, roughly one in three men and one in five women have committed sexual infidelity. With so many cheat-ers roaming wild and unmarked, it seems that getting cheated on is some kind of twisted rite of passage.

Whether the cheating was a drunken encounter with an ex at your fraternity’s formal or long-distance relationship adul-tery, the single biggest conse-quence of infidelity is the loss of trust. Without trust, a re-lationship will not succeed in making both partners genuine-ly happy and instead could take an ugly turn down the road to resentment.

Often, what’s more difficult than actually finding out your partner cheated is dealing with the consequences after ward. As Justin Timberlake bitter-ly crooned, “just so confused about it,” in his single “What G o e s A rou n d C om e s B a c k Around,” confusion almost im-mediately sinks in as you try to figure out if cheating is a for-givable offense. On one hand, there’s the “once a cheater, al-ways a cheater” theory, and on the other hand, there are your partner’s genuine apologies that suggest a second chance is with-in reason.

While a breakup following in-fidelity is a surefire way to pro-tect yourself from future betray-al, it also disregards the love or feelings you may still have for your partner. Second chances should be considered only after each person in the relationship has established that they would like to move past the betrayal and both agree to stay faithful to each other.

Sometimes the shame associ-ated with cheating is not limit-ed solely to the cheater, as the person who was cheated on of-ten feels embarrassed and made a fool of. Even if the person who was cheated on didn’t do anything to deserve it, they may blame themselves for their part-ner’s infidelity before they judge their partner.

For those who have been on the wrong end of inf idel ity, the easiest way to avoid blam-ing yourself is to remember that your partner’s unfaithful act is not a reflection on yourself. For the cheaters who are interest-ed in continuing the relation-ship despite your betrayal, you should be willing to accept the responsibility for your actions by openly admitting why you were unfaithful.

B ot h p ar t ners des er ve to know the truth no matter how painful it may be to fully move on, instead of leaving things to the imagination that can be more torturous than the truth.

“American Reunion”

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 113 minutes

Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg

Titanic deserves cinema re-watching despite 3D excess

Photo courtesy of Paramount PicturesLeonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are shown in a scene from the 3D version of James Cameron’s romantic epic “Titanic.”

By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff

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“Titanic”

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 194 minutes

James Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hopper Stone | Universal Pictures

From left, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Chris Klein and Eddie Kaye Thomas are shown in a scene from “American Reunion.”

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When it tries for laughs, the film fails, but when it just lets its cast bounce off of one another, it’s hard not to crack a smile.

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Woody Allen’s weird infatuation with Europe.

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This is the world’s first edible cookbook. The pages are made of pasta.

Carly Rae Jespen’s “Call Me Maybe.” Just let it happen.

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Can we call Mitt Romney the republican nominee yet? Please? These primaries are getting exhausting.

Not winning the mega millions jackpot. Too good to be true indeed.

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memorable book covers.

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Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Jason

Sudeikis might leave ‘SNL.” This is only okay if they leave to make more funny movies.

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LIFE&ARTS10Friday, April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Katie Stroh, Life&Arts Editor | (512) 232-2209 | dailytexan@gmail.com

It’s about that time of year when music critics and casual pop-lovers alike are struggling to anoint the coming summer’s Top 40 anthem. Likely candidates in-clude Nicki Minaj’s house-in-spired jam “Starships” and Ush-er’s slick new single “Climax.”

But one earworm of a ditty is poised to become the stealth jam of the summer: Carly Rae Jepsen’s bouncy tale of flirtation, “Call Me Maybe.” At this point, you’d be easily forgiven for not having heard the song, or even of Jepsen herself; she was the 2007 runner-up on Canada’s version of “American Idol,” and her single hasn’t yet broken the Billboard Top 40 radio charts (it’s currently floating around the 70s).

But Jepsen’s irresistibly sugary tune has flourished online. As of Thursday night, “Call Me May-be” occupied the No. 7 slot on Billboard’s digital chart, which tracks online downloads re-gardless of genre. The seeming-ly golden touch of Justin Bieber’s recommendation rocketed “Call Me Maybe” to its current level of Internet fame.

After initially tweeting his love for the song back in December (“Call me maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen is possibly the catchiest

song I’ve ever heard lol”), Jepsen signed to Bieber’s own School-boy Records, making her a shoo-in for the position of new teen-pop darling despite her practi-cally ancient age of 26.

The real clincher for the pool of Bieber fans ripe for Jepsen’s picking is a homemade montage YouTube video of Bieber, girl-friend Selena Gomez (also a fa-vorite of the tween set), former “High School Musical” star Ash-ley Tisdale and various members of the apparently swoon-worthy Nickelodeon boy band Big Time Rush dancing and lip-synching to the song.

The video (which has now been viewed more than 29 mil-lion times) looks like the famous bunch filmed it at a co-ed slee-pover; they’re dancing in what looks like someone’s kitchen and living room, sporting fake mustaches and ultra-casual T-shirts and tank tops, making sil-ly faces and at one point form-ing a conga line. In short, it’s a fascinating glimpse of super-star teens acting like the goofy kids who live down the street — catnip for tween fans who want to believe more than anything that their favorite stars are just like them.

As for the song itself : it’s the prefect teen pop crossover bound to follow in the foot-steps of Gomez’s “Love You Like

a Love Song” and “Boyfriend,” Bieber’s new single that shows off a slightly edgier side; wheth-er that attempted edginess actu-ally works is up for debate.

The song’s lyrics are a strange mixture of summer romance cli-ches (“Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad,” any-one?) and surprisingly apt de-scriptions of what it’s like to be struck with infatuation by some-one so blindingly good-looking as the object of Jepsen’s affec-tions (“It’s hard to look right at you, baby”).

For all of the song’s virtues (Jepsen’s perfectly bland, unob-trusive vocals; the fun, bouncy tempo and its simplicity), what makes “Call Me Maybe” an un-forgettable song is just that — it’s unforgettable. After a few spins, you’ll be incessantly sing-ing about r ipped jeans, hot nights and trading your “soul for a wish” (whatever that means) for weeks.

I have a feel-ing that “Call Me Maybe” will be the pinnacle of Ms . Jeps en’s c a r e e r — while she’s a s e r v i c e -able singer, cute and reasonably fun to watch on-screen (the “real” music video depicts Jepsen

checking out a guy through her win-dow only to dis-cover that he’s gay), the song itself is the true star here. Sel-e n a G o m e z herself could be s inging i t i n s t e a d o f J e p s e n and it would have the same effect.

But hey, we’ve j u s t m e t h e r. There’s a chance she’ll surprise us.

Radio epidemic maybe?

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By Katie StrohDaily Texan Staff

Album: CuriosityGenre: Pop

“Call Me Maybe”Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen

Newcomer Carly Rae Jepsen anticipates summer with stealth hit

Overcome infidelity, regain trust

‘American Reunion’ offers few laughs

Ever since it was announced that Universal Pictures were mak-ing “American Reunion,” the film had an uphill battle to fight. Since the undeniably fresh and funny “American Pie” came out 13 long years ago, the franchise has de-volved from entertaining imma-turity to crass scatological refer-ences that belonged in the dis-count DVD bin where most of the

film’s sequels can be found. With “American Reunion,” the entire cast of the original is back, and the film does an admirable job justifying its own existence, even if it still fails to reach the heights and originality of the first film.

The film picks up roughly 13 years after the original gang left high school, and nine years after Jim (Jason Biggs ) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan ) got married in “American Wedding.” Now saddled with a kid, some of the

romance has gone out of their re-lationship, and Jim looks forward to getting back together with his friends from home. Oz (Chris Klein ) is a sportscaster and is dat-ing a model (Katrina Bowden ), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas ) is happily married and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas ) is still as mature and composed as he was in the first film. Stifler (Seann William Scott ) wasn’t invited , but crashes

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Illustration by Carlos Pagan | Daily Texan Staff

If a relat ionship’s single greatest strength is the ability for both people to trust one another, then its greatest en-emy is infidelity. Not so con-veniently, the college envi-ronment — with its alcohol-fueled parties, high concen-tration of people in the same age group, and freedom from curfews and other parental rules — isn’t exactly condu-cive to staying faithful.

From Usher’s Confessionsa lbum to tabloids embla-zoned with celebrity cheating scandals, it seems that cheat-ing has become more sensa-tionalized than ever before. According to a 2011 study published in the book, “The Science of Relat ionships ,” by Gar y W. Lewandowski,

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Can we call Mitt Romney the Republican nominee yet?

Jepsen’s

Photo courtesy of 604 RecordsCanadian up-and-comer Carly Rae Jepsen’s addictive pop song “Call Me Maybe” is mak-ing a stir online and may be this summer’s surprise jam.