FEATURES St. Edward’s University student group

raising funds for disaster-stricken Japan.

ENTERTAINMENT “Proctorology” reminds

evasive celebrities that it is time to pay their taxes again.

SPORTS Men’s and women’s golf teams

putting in strong performanc-es at tournaments.

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This July, eight students from the St. Edward’s Uni-versity photocommunica-tions department will have their work featured at a local public museum.

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum will host St. Edward’s students’ photos in an exhibit called Texas High School Football: More Than the Game. The exhibit, which will run from July 2011 to January 2012, is the first to explore high school football in Texas.

Last fall, photocommunica-tions Professor Bill Kennedy taught a class that allowed

students and alumni to work directly with museum cura-tors. The museum wanted

the photographers to docu-ment the cultural and social importance of Texas high

school football. Students fo-cused on several different as-pects of football games, such

as the cheerleading, band, fans in the stands and mas-cots.

The purpose of the exhibit was to display the impact that high school football has on the community as a whole, according to Kathryn Best, the exhibit content co-ordinator. She said that the museum wants to show how football games get everyone involved, not just the players on the field.

The museum became in-terested in working with Kennedy when guest curator

Students’ sports photos featured in museum exhibit

Allie CrainThis photo will be in the main exhibit for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s exploration of high school football.

I’ve been dreaming about my first exhibition for a long time now, and this easily beats out anything that I dreamt up.”-Allie Crain

Christina Villarrealcvillar3@stedwards.edu

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Author holds Q&A at St. Edward’s

Author Anne Lamott spoke at St. Edward’s Uni-versity as a part of the Vis-iting Writers Series last weekend about parenting, her writing career and her most recently published novel “Imperfect Birds.”

Lamott has written 15 fic-tion and non-fiction books, including New York Times bestsellers “Grace (Eventu-ally)” and “Plan B.” She has also appeared on Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Re-port.”

The event was held in the Mabee Ballroom in the Ragsdale Center on April 9. It was hosted by St. Ed-ward’s in collaboration with the independent bookstore BookPeople.

While attendance was free for St. Edward’s stu-dents and staff, tickets were $16.50 for non-St. Edward’s attendees. Those who paid for admission also received a paperback copy of Lamott’s “Imperfect Birds.”

Professor Carrie Fountain worked with BookPeople to bring Lamott to St. Ed-ward’s.

“BookPeople approached us because I think they wanted a bigger venue than they were able to offer. Anne Lamott was also interested in working with a smaller college,” Fountain said.

Fountain gave the in-troduction speech. She mentioned that she reads a chapter of Lamott’s non-fiction book “Bird by Bird” with her Rhetoric and Composition classes.

During her introduction speech, Fountain also told the audience that Lamott’s birthday was the next day and presented Lamott with a cupcake from Quacks 43rd Street Bakery. The au-dience sang “Happy Birth-day” to Lamott before the scheduled reading.

Lamott, a woman with tidy, shoulder-length dread-locks, introduced herself while licking frosting from her fingers. She gave the audience the option to vote on how the event should proceed.

“How many people want me to do the reading I’ve done six nights in a row?” Lamott asked, prompting laughs from the audience.

Kristina Schenckkschenc@stedwards.edu

The only thing you have to write about is what you know.”-Anne Lamott

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Joe Nick Patoski saw some of Kennedy’s images of high school stadiums in his maga-zine, BK Magazine. Kennedy and Patoski then developed an elective class that would give students the chance to build their portfolios by having their work shown at a premier Texas public mu-seum.

Until recently, students did not know whether the muse-um would feature their work. There was no guarantee that the photos taken in the fall would be part of the exhibit.

However, a few weeks ago, Best told Kennedy that 53 images would be considered for use in the core of the museum’s main exhibit. Best said the museum is looking for very specific photographs for the main exhibit, and the curators will be able to choose from the pool of 53 images. Best had not planned to rely so heavily on these im-ages but said that the material was so rich that curators did not need to look elsewhere for other images.

In September, another ex-hibit will showcase student work for two weeks. Each student chose 10 of their im-ages to be shown for a total of 80 images to be included in the exhibit.

The exhibit will open on Sept. 21. The opening night of Sept. 23 will feature a guest speaker, Rice University Pro-fessor of Photography Geoff Winningham, the author of “Rites of Fall.” “Rites of Fall,”

published in 1979, was the first book to document Texas high school football. A few students from the class will also be speaking about their work in a panel.

During the course of the exhibit, a catalogue of stu-dent work will be on sale.

Kennedy said that he want-ed to prepare photocommu-nications students with real world experiences, such as the one offered last semester. He said it was a very intense educational process for stu-dents.

“The photocommunica-tions program, one of the best undergraduate photog-raphy programs in the nation, is dedicated to producing the next generation of exception-ally well-trained and success-ful photographers,” Kennedy said.

One of the students in the class from last fall, junior Al-lie Crain, said that she was

very honored and excited to be working with Patoski and the museum for the project.

“I’ve been dreaming about my first exhibition for a long time now, and this eas-ily beats out anything that I dreamt up,” Crain said.

Junior Christian Ryan Criswell also took the class, intrigued about the prospect of her photographs appear-ing in a museum.

In a blog entry written for St. Edward’s Celebrating 125 Years website, Criswell said the football games she at-tended were about more than just football.

“I learned that it wasn’t so much about the sports or the game of it, which kept me from going to games be-fore...but more about being with friends, performing, proud parents, relaxing after a school week and traditions,” Criswell said.

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Hilltop Views honored at TIPANEWS BRIEF

Hilltop Views received three honorable mention awards at the recent Texas Intercollegiate Press Asso-ciation Convention.

Junior Danny De Los

Santos was recognized for a sports story written about the Rugby football club team on campus; se-nior Jake Hartwell received an honor for the critical re-view category for a review of Resident Evil 3D; and sophomore Emily Blasdell

was honored for her photo essay of Hillfest.

The March 30–April 2 convention, hosted by the Hilton Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, recognizes the work of college newspapers from across the state.

Tristan Hallmanthallma2@stedwards.edu

Allie CrainCrain captured cheerleaders at football games.

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Tamara Clopton has made A’s in all of her classes since coming back to St. Edward’s University in 2009. Her transcripts, however, reflect a much lower representation of her New College efforts.

Because Clopton decided to return to St. Edward’s, her GPA from 20 years ago has followed her and lowered her 4.0 to just above a 2.0. This lower GPA has disqualified her for academic and finan-cial scholarships, even though she has risen to the top of her class.

For this reason, New Col-lege professor Vikki Totten successfully proposed the “Fresh Start” policy, which allows students returning to St. Edward’s after 10 years to start with a fresh GPA. The policy will take effect in the fall semester.

“I just got lost. I was one

of those people who just fell between the cracks,” Clopton said about her time at St. Ed-ward’s when she first enrolled 20 years ago. “I wanted to prove that it wasn’t because I wasn’t smart enough, it’s just because I was overwhelmed. I was working full-time, and at that time my son was very young. I wasn’t myself — not the self that I am now.”

The Fresh Start policy will allow Clopton, and other students like her, to prove that time does change a stu-dent. To have the policy ap-ply to them, New College students must apply for con-sideration with the dean of their school and meet certain requirements. Some of the requirements include that the student must have com-pleted 12 credit hours after re-admittance and maintain at least a 2.5 GPA during that time. Students who are currently enrolled are “grand-fathered” into the policy and

have one year to apply to be considered.

Totten, who wrote and pro-posed the policy, said that passing the Fresh Start poli-cy fits in with the university’s mission statement. Because students transferring to St. Edward’s from other univer-sities are not followed by their GPAs, Totten said it was un-fair that former St. Edward’s students who wanted to re-turn to St. Edward’s were fol-lowed by theirs.

“Before, we would essen-tially have our former stu-dents paying forever for past mistakes or failures. One of the things in our mission statement really talks about a caring faculty and social justice,” Totten said. “I felt like changing that policy was much more in line with who we say we are in terms of how we think about our students and the fact that we care about them.”

New College Interim Dean

Helene Caudill agrees that the Fresh Start policy fits the St. Edward’s mission state-ment. Caudill said that it will “put everyone on the same starting block,” which will help when it comes to gradu-ate school applications and financial assistance based on merit.

With the policy, Clopton will no longer have to worry about her old GPA damag-ing her chances at financial assistance.

“[The Fresh Start policy] will make me eligible for scholarships, and that is very exciting to me because there is a lot of cost involved in go-ing to St. Edward’s,” Clopton said. “Now I will get to grad-uate with honors, which I am more excited about.”

New College students get a “fresh start”Megan Ganeymganey@stedwards.edu

Health care in America is being threatened not only by spiraling costs, but by de-generation of ethical and civil discourse, a vice president of a Catholic health care net-work in St. Louis said last week.

The hour-long lecture by Dan O’Brien on April 6 was the 14th installment of the Most Reverend Bishop Mc-Carthy Series at St. Edward’s University. O’Brien, the vice president of Ethics at Ascen-sion Health, a Catholic health care network, focused his speech primarily on health care, but also briefly touched on ethical policies in America on such topics as abortion, religion and the roles of gov-ernment and individuals.

Among those in attendance were Sr. Donna Jurick, exec-utive vice president and pro-vost; Fr. Lou Brusatti, dean of the School of Humanities; Fr. Rick Wilkinson, direc-tor of Campus Ministry, and

administrators of the Seton Family of Hospitals. John E. McCarthy himself, bishop of Austin from 1986-2001, also attended.

O’Brien, who was intro-duced by university Presi-dent George Martin, began his lecture by reading Rob-ert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” O’Brien then

offered observations and his thoughts on the state of the politics of health care.

“I was discouraged by the injustices in our health care system and by our national lack of will and lack of action to ensure coverage and access to health care for all,” O’Brien said. “It doesn’t take a long look down the road to where

it thins in the undergrowth to see that our health care system isn’t taking us where we need to go.”

O’Brien voiced support for the health care overhaul bill passed last year by Con-gress and signed by President Barack Obama and derided those who opposed the bill for the values underlying

their arguments, as well as for spreading what he said was misinformation about the law.

“We like to talk about the value of individualism and about the evils of big govern-ment, and it seems to ring true in our national psyche, identity and history,” O’Brien said. “But in fact, we are al-ready deeply entrenched in government-reimbursed health care and have been for many decades.”

The “angry voices” of the health care debate, he said, were unfortunately spread through the same technolo-gies that have sparked revo-lutionary movements in na-tions across the Middle East.

But the biggest concern about the immediate com-munication that O’Brien ex-pressed was about a lack of local community. People are drawn to idolizing ideology, he said.

“This new form of global-ization and connectedness actually encourages and re-inforces individualism more

than ever,” O’Brien said. “Now we can say we are citizens of the world while neglecting the community in front of us.”

Ultimately, O’Brien con-cluded, the country needs to continue on the path of health reform that includes both the public and the pri-vate sectors and incentives for preventative medicine rather than just funding emergency care when it is too late. The Catholic health care model can serve as an inspiration to reform, he said. And the technology of today, while threatening, could be helpful to public discussions.

“Contrary to what we might think, globalization engen-dered by the immediacy of the Internet and other com-munications media has not led, as some used to fear, to a single worldview or to a sin-gle cultural dominance, but to a proliferation of religious ideas and philosophical in-terpretations,” O’Brien said.

Courtesy of Kate RosatiFr. Lou Brusatti, Dan O’Brien and Bishop John McCarthy in Jones Auditorium.

Tristan Hallmanthallma2@stedwards.edu

Juniors Vianney Becerra and Ryan Villarreal will be the new president and vice president, respectively, of the Student Government Association after a land-slide victory.

Becerra and Villarreal overcame the opposing ticket of Karissa Eudy and Noah Corn by taking 61 percent of the vote over Eudy and Corn’s 39 per-cent.

The 22-point win trans-lated to a difference of 146 votes. Out of a total of 692 votes over the course of a week-long election that ended Monday at 5 p.m., the Becerra-Villarreal ticket had 419, and Eudy-Corn had 273.

The total number of stu-dents voting seems to be

decreasing for the second year running. During last year’s spring elections, 770 students voted, which was down 25 percent from 2009, when 1,052 voted.

This year’s elections also had nine students running unopposed for senator po-sitions. Last year there was one other contested race — for sophomore class senator.

Becerra, currently chief justice of the Student Court of Appeals, said she and Junior Class Senator Vil-larreal are grateful to have been elected.

“There is a lot of work to be done, and we are fully committed to tackling each and every issue that comes our way,” Becerra said in a statement to Hilltop Views. “We will always put each student first and will fight for their needs.”

Ari Auberaauber@stedwards.edu

Becerra-Villarreal ticket win election

McCarthy series lecturer favors continued health care reforms

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After only one person raised her hand, Lamott decided to begin the event with a spon-taneous question-and-answer session and end with a short reading. She warned the au-dience that there would only be time for a few questions as a result of her chattiness.

“How have you learned to let go of your son?” an audi-ence member asked, referring to Lamott’s 21-year-old son, Sam.

Lamott responded with a 20-minute answer. She said finding a community of peo-ple to relate to both for her son and her was a major part of the process of letting go.

“Yeah, I have children — me too. Hold on, I need to go get my tubes tied,” Lamott said, joking about finding other parents to relate to. “If

you’ve been an effective par-ent, you’re raising your child to let go.”

After Lamott finished talk-ing about parenting, another audience member asked La-mott to talk about her writ-ing.

“I think the greatest thing in the world is to find people to say ‘oh, me too,’” Lamott said, referring back to find-ing people to relate to. ‘Me too’ was Lamott’s most-used phrase of the night.

Lamott said she often bas-es characters in her fiction novels on people she knows, and not one person has ap-proached her to say they rec-ognized themselves in any of the characters in her novels.

“The only thing you have to write about is what you know,” she said.

Lamott said she based one fictional character in her nov-els on a person she referred to as “the world’s most nega-tive person.”

“We could walk outside and say, ‘oh, what a beautiful day it is,’ and she would be in the back saying ‘melanoma,’” Lamott said about the char-acter she created.

Though she does create fictional characters based on friends or acquaintances, La-mott said she never discloses secrets in her writing, wheth-er fiction or non-fiction.

“By the time I tell some-thing, I know it’s universal,”

Lamott said in regards to writing about personal expe-riences and family members.

After the question-and-an-swer session, Lamott read a few short passages from “Im-perfect Birds.”

A San Francisco, Calif., na-

tive, Lamott currently lives in Marin County, which she uses as the setting for many of her fiction and nonfiction books, including “Imperfect Birds.”

CorrectionsIn the April 6 issue of Hilltop Views, the story, “Cel-

ebrated poet kicks off First Annual Literary Arts Festi-val” on page 6 incorrectly featured a photo of Michael Dickman. The poet that came to St. Edwards Univer-sity was his twin brother, Matthew Dickman.

In the same issue, there was an error in the story “Co-ed soccer scoring system confirms gender inequality” on page 13. There is currently only a co-ed indoor soc-cer team, and the option for a women’s team exists, but none have been formed yet.

Sparks fly at Student Government Association candidates debate

The Student Government Association presidential and vice presidential candidates debated in front of a full room of students on April 7.

The large turnout in the Mabee Ballroom was not the only surprise as the debate started with a meet-and-greet rather than ending with one. The candidates walked around the room, shaking hands and introducing them-selves to potential voters who were helping themselves to the courtesy finger food and sodas that were set up in the back.

At 7:30 p.m., everyone was seated and the debate was underway.

The first order of business was the introduction of sena-torial candidates.

Each candidate was given 30 seconds to let the audi-ence know what sort of sena-tor they would be and how they would serve their St. Edward’s University student body.

Out of all eight candidates, two were new to SGA, two went over their time limit, and two took the last few moments to plug The Big

Event.After all prospective sena-

tors spoke, they were seated, and the presidential and vice presidential candidates were presented to the audience.

The presidential candidates sat as their running mates took to the podiums on stage and the first line of question-ing began.

Noah Corn and Ryan Vil-

larreal, the vice presidential candidates, had two minutes to answer each of the ques-tions that were written and asked by moderators Phillip Lacey of St. Edward’s Ad-vancement and former SGA President Austin Lytle.

The candidates were first asked about their individual qualities or strengths that are important to being vice presi-dent and chair of the Senate.

Corn stated that his two years of experience with SGA would provide him with the knowledge necessary to be a formidable vice president.

“I have seen rules as they are written,” Corn said. He went on to list specific titles that he held within SGA and named a few of his.

Villarreal’s response began, “Definitely. Actually, I dis-sent in strong disagreement.”

“It’s about being passionate,

it’s about being proactive, it’s about a new vision for SGA. It’s not about rehearsing, it’s not about experience,” Villar-real said, though he did not clarify what “it” was.

More questions were asked, and the candidates contin-ued to contradict each other, Corn standing by his experi-

ence, Villarreal standing by his lack thereof.

These positions were so-lidified as the moderator al-lowed each of the candidates to asked a question of their opponent.

Corn questioned Villarreal on his experience with SGA and how it would benefit him should he be elected.

“There’s all this legislative experience, but in what? Ab-solutely nothing,” Villarreal responded, criticizing both Corn’s emphasis on experi-

ence and SGA’s previous sys-tem of operating.

When Villarreal’s turn to ask a question came, he pulled out a copy of Hilltop Views and read to Corn a statement Corn gave about his efforts in “stabilizing” SGA. Villarreal then asked Corn to give his definition

of stability and how he has brought it to SGA.

Corn replied with his list of accomplishments with SGA this year, including appoint-ing senatorial positions in what Corn describes as “tur-bulent times.”

As Corn concluded his re-sponse, both candidates were seated, and the presidential candidates took their places on stage.

Presidential candidates

Karissa Eudy and Vianney Becerra were given the same specifications for answering questions as their running mates, but for Eudy and Becerra, a 30-second rebuttal was allowed during the can-didate-to-candidate ques-tioning.

The first question asked was about the presidential candidates and their respec-tive running mates’ leader-ship styles and how they compliment and contrast each other.

Becerra stated, “I have a very diplomatic style of governing. He [Villarreal] brings a little more of an assertive, aggres-sive style of governing. This is why we’re the best choice, be-cause we balance each other out.”

“I would say Noah and I are actually the opposite,” Eudy said, continuing the contrast that Corn and Villarreal set up through their portion of the debate.

The candidates were later asked to list three goals that they would each set and meet should they be elected. Their responses are summarized as follows.

Eudy’s three goals:•Be more proactive.•Require office hours for

SGA members to be outside of the office.

•Increase communication within and out of SGA.

Becerra’s three goals:•Establish common ground

within SGA•Increase collaboration

with staff•Increase the usage of so-

cial mediaThe two candidates then

posed questions to each other.

Becerra asked a question about the internal structure of the judicial section of SGA and how Eudy plans to increase collaboration with specific positions. Eudy re-sponded by saying that she wants to see the chief justice on the executive board.

Eudy asked about Becerra’s relationships with adminis-trators and how they’ll ben-efit her should she be elected president. Becerra responded by adding that she hadn’t developed any strong rela-tions with administrators as of yet, but she looks forward to doing so if she were to be elected.

Senatorial Candidates

Vice President Candidates

Presidential Candidates

It’s about being passionate, it’s about being proactive, it’s about a new vision for SGA. It’s not about rehearsing...”-Ryan Villarreal

Paul Rochaprocha@stedwards.edu

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Courtesy of Kate RosatiLamott read an excerpt from her new book.

Lamott discusses parenting and inspiration for her books

GAMES | Page 5 Hilltop Views | Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Look for the answers to both games in next week’s issue!

Answer to last issue’s Sudoku:

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 FEATURESPage 6 | Hilltop Views

Student groups raise funds for JapanThe world watched in shock

as an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter scale rocked Japan on March 11. Then, a tsunami hit, leaving 12,600 people dead and 14,700 missing as of April 7.

While aid organizations worldwide continue to call for donations for victims of the disaster, members of St. Edward’s University student groups the Asian American Association (or A3, as they are often called) and Asian Pop are collaborating on a

fund-raising event of their own.

The students have titled the event “1000 Wishes for Japan,” during which they are selling three-inch pins for $2 apiece that read “United for Japan.”

Additionally, they will be auctioning off an origami swan sculpture created by Christophe Chahine.

According to Asian Pop president Roxy Mendoza, in-spiration for the event came from Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who died of leukemia following exposure to radia-tion from the atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiro-

shima on August 6, 1945.The story of Sadako’s death

is tied to an ancient Japanese legend, which states that any-one who folds 1,000 paper cranes will be granted their heart’s desire.

As she was dying, Sadako decided to fold 1,000 cranes with the wish that it would end her suffering and that of others. Because of this, the origami crane has become a symbol of peace.

“Along with our fund-rais-ing, we will be making 1,000 cranes and are hoping to ex-hibit them somewhere on campus,” Mendoza said.

Students are invited to cre-

ate their own paper cranes and add them to the collec-tion.

So far, 1000 Wishes for Japan has raised over $200, which does not include funds that the group is expecting to receive from private donors.

1000 Wishes for Japan is scheduled to continue until April 14.

“The disaster in Japan makes me realize how devas-tating earthquakes and tsu-namis can be,” Mendoza said. “It makes me sad to see these tragic events go on in places all over the world.”

Danny De Los Santosddeloss4@stedwards.edu

“Hot Dog Story” encourages viewers to think outside the bun

For days, students all over campus were puzzled by posters for “Finding Your-self in America: A Hot Dog Story” which depict various people making crazy faces while holding hot dogs. Three nights last week, doz-ens watched the short play and got the answer to their pressing question: what is up with those hot dogs?

The half-hour show “Find-ing Yourself ” was a series of off-the-wall scenes inspired by thoughts and personal anecdotes that were woven together to create an enter-taining performance.

The all-American cuisine is a metaphor for humanity, ac-cording to those involved in the production. At our core, we’re all the same crimson tubes of meat — and it’s the condiments we choose that make us all unique.

At one point in the show, junior Matthew Frazier pointed to someone in the audience and asked them how they liked their hot dogs. The answer? Lots of mustard and relish.

“There!” Frazier said. “Can’t

we all just get along and cus-tomize our hot dogs as we wish?”

There was even an a cap-pella R&B number about hot dogs, but “Finding Yourself ” was truly about much more.

In one scene, two of the show’s actresses hearkened back to their first day of col-lege, when they feared hav-ing the weird roommate as much as being the weird roommate. One thought of the classic one-cute-guy-in-every-class with a sense of possibilities, while the other dreaded that all of the cute boys would have girlfriends back home.

Junior Ginger Grossman gushed about her journey to France and how she got the travel bug, and now she can’t imagine getting engaged to a guy and settling down.

Junior Lainey Murphy shared a poem about em-bracing individuality.

“Life is wonderful when you’re just being you,” she said. “Shakespeare said it best: ‘To thine own self be true.’”

Junior Andrew Zimmer joined a conversation about high school, when “bad” meant “good” and how they

never knew which one people meant.

“And I don’t know what a ‘Bad Romance’ is,” the actors all exclaimed, “but [expletive] it sounds exciting!”

With eight different people sharing their musings and memories, anyone could watch the show and take home something different than the person sitting next to them.

The idea and motivation be-hind creating “Finding Your-self ” came from the director and producer of the show, Meredith Montgomery.

It began when Montgomery received a Brown Scholarship to assist her to pursue a com-munity service project. Like many other scholarship re-cipients, she chose the route of theater.

In August of 2010, Mont-gomery selected a crew of eight volunteers who would eventually become her ac-tors.

The first four months were spent brainstorming. The ac-tors recorded memories from their pasts and personal lives, and even made art pieces and poems to keep the creative juices flowing. In the writing

process, said one actor, they “found themselves” — hence the title.

Then Montgomery sent out a 10-question sheet to the members of the group, ask-ing them to choose two ques-tions to answer.

The questions were deep and introspective, until one that asked, “What is your re-lationship to hot dogs?”

Some loved them, some hated them, and some could not eat them due to their re-ligious affiliations. Regard-less, everyone had an opinion about hot dogs. And so, with a solid common ground to build from, a show was born.

After the show, Montgom-

ery and the other stars lined up to answer questions and talk about the play.

According to one per-former, hot dogs were just a relatable way to express the journey of self-discovery and knowledge.

“We’re all trying to get an education, but we’re also try-ing to figure out, ‘What are we going to with our lives?’ And most of us can fool each oth-er into thinking we do know what we’re going to do.”

The show was originally going to be performed for high school students, but the

schedule clashed with TAKS testing, so “Finding Yourself ” premiered at St. Edward’s in-stead.

Montgomery is currently in talks to incorporate her show into Freshmen Orientations.

More ambitious still are her plans for Cultural Founda-tions classes. If all goes ac-cording to her plan, future students would be able to make their own plays and find themselves — hot dogs or not.

Abe Clabbyaclabby@stedwards.edu

Dave Hernandez“Finding Yourself in America: A Hot Dog Story” is about personal discoveries.

Angela Truong1000 Wishes for Japan aims to help disaster victims.

Why Hot Dogs?

A Project a Year in the Making

The Future of “Finding Yourself”

Beyond the Hot Dog

FEATURES | Page 7 Hilltop Views | Wednesday, April 13, 2011

With all of the planned changes in the coming year, St. Edward’s University is also trying to maintain its Holy Cross Catholic heritage as part of the 2015 Strategic Plan.

“Going toward 2015, we really want to reaffirm who we are,” President George Martin said at the Feb. 23 president’s meeting.

Playing a large role in achieving this goal will be Campus Ministry.

The goal isn’t all about

Catholicism. St. Edward’s founders, the Congregation of the Holy Cross, are an in-ternational order of priests and brothers with a focus on education.

“Education was the im-petus for our Ministry,” As-sistant Director of Campus Ministry Larry Atkinson said of the Brothers of the Holy Cross. The Holy Cross tradition is an integral part of the university Mission State-ment, Atkinson added.

“The courage to take risks, an international perspective, and the commitment to pro-vide educational opportuni-ties for students of varied...backgrounds,” as the univer-sity’s Mission Statement says,

are all important components of the Holy Cross tradition.

Incorporating Holy Cross values into education can help students have “the com-petence to see and the cour-age to act,” Atkinson said.

“We will not educate the mind at the expense of the hearts…to create a time bet-ter than ours,” Atkinson said, quoting founder of the Con-gregation of the Holy Cross Basil Moreau.

Atkinson said he believes that expanding St. Edward’s into a global campus will help prepare students to be com-petent but passionate.

Though Catholic in origin, the university’s Holy Cross tradition includes people of all faiths and backgrounds.

“[Holy Cross tradition] was never meant to convert people,” Atkinson said. “It is to encourage people in their own faith journey.”

Campus Ministry serves as a spiritual resource for

the campus community, and seeks to make others aware of the Holy Cross tradition through organizing and host-ing programs as well as com-munity service projects.

“Campus Ministry seeks to be a welcoming presence within the community of St. Edward’s University,” Atkin-son said. “While our Catho-

lic character informs our role as educators in the faith, we minister to and with peoples of all faiths. Through the for-mation of heart and mind, in the Holy Cross tradition, we hope to catalyze both per-sonal and communal trans-formation. Such transforma-tion invites all people into the right relationships with self, others and God. These relationships are expressed through spirituality, service and social justice.”

Though St. Edward’s is a

Catholic institution founded by the Brothers of the Holy Cross, Campus Ministry welcomes people of all faiths.

“Each person at St. Ed-ward’s is an essential part of the mission. Therefore, it is important that each person understand where the mis-sion of the university gets its roots and meaning,” Atkin-son said.

Atkinson speaks with staff members as a part of his

work at Campus Ministry to encourage the incorporation of Holy Cross values into the university curriculum.

“By reminding the staff of what they bring to the mis-sion and demonstrating how they play an important role in living out of the Holy Cross mission, then we can con-tinue to live out our mission in light of the Holy Cross heritage we have received,” Atkinson said.

In addition, Campus Min-istry encourages staff and faculty to become involved in their programs.

“We try to include faculty and staff in programs such as ASB [Alternative Spring Break] and as speakers for service and retreats,” Atkin-son said.

Atkinson praised President Martin for “recognizing the value” of the school’s Holy Cross tradition, and for “en-couraging the living out of the rich heritage.”

“I am thrilled, as are the other Brothers of the Holy Cross, of President Martin’s inclusion of Holy Cross val-ues in the strategic plan,” At-kinson said.

Junior Matthew Norris at-tended a Holy Cross high school, and he supports the incorporation of Holy Cross values into the 2015 Strate-

gic Plan.“It allows current students

to better understand Holy Cross tradition and educa-tion,” Norris said. “Having experienced Holy Cross education for the past seven years has allowed me to de-velop my personal character and better my understanding of Catholic tradition in soci-ety today.”

Kristina Schenckkschenc@stedwards.edu

University reaffirms Holy Cross values

Hilltop Views ArchiveOur Lady Queen of Peace Chapel is a landmark on the St. Edward’s campus.

‘Tique of the Week is an Austin-wide search for unique and interesting antiques. With dozens of antique shops around Aus-tin, one-of-a-kind items from the past are not in short supply. Each week we’ll find a new favorite item and feature it as our “’Tique of the Week.”

This week’s search for Austin antiques took us to Dreyfus Antiques on Lamar Boulevard. The store specializes in French antiques, including clocks, furniture and art dating back to the 19th century.

Inside the store, beneath a ceiling covered wall-to-wall in chandeliers and light fixtures, there was a wide array of marble candlestick holders, deco-rative plates with scenes from the French Coun-tryside, and a collection of grandfather clocks larger than we’d ever seen.

The clock we chose to feature this week was a grandfather clock de-signed and built by De-nis Blachin. The clock is hand-carved from pine wood and is estimated to have been built in

the 1860s in Bordeaux, France.

The origin of the grand-father clock dates back to 1670 after the invention of a specialized pendulum that needed less room to swing back and forth and power the clock mecha-nism. Grandfather clocks were also originally called long-case clocks, since the pendulum was typically enclosed in a case beneath the face of the clock.

The term grandfather clock comes from a popu-lar song written in 1876 by Henry Work that was written about a clock that once stood in the George Hotel in North Yorkshire, England.

According to the story, two brothers ran the ho-tel and there was a grand-father clock — or a floor clock as it was known back then — in the lob-by. Both men grew old, and after one died, the clock began to slow and lost time everyday. Re-pairs were attempted, but nothing helped. After the second brother died, the clock stopped working completely.

This 19th century grandfather clock, along with the history of the grandfather clock, make for a timeless ‘Tique of the Week.

‘Tique of the Week’

Wendy CawthonMatthew Frazierwcawtho@stedwards.edumfrazie2@stedwards.edu

Wendy CawthonThe grandfather clock was made in the 1860s.

[Holy Cross tradition] was never meant to convert people...It is to encourage people in their own faith journey.”-Larry Atkinson, director of Campus Ministry

[19th century clock]

The University’s Holy Cross Heritage

Campus Ministry Upholds Holy Cross Values

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 ENTERTAINMENTPage 8 | Hilltop Views

Mother Falcon seeks 100 string players

The Mary Moody North-ern Theatre’s new hit produc-tion has been selling out fast.

The production, a musical called “Carousel” runs April 7–17, showing Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. An additional show has been added for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Michael McKelvey, the show was written by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III and was first presented in 1945.

Since then, “Carousel” has been performed countless times with Rogers himself calling it his favorite musical he ever wrote.

The show centers on Julie, who stops by a carousel with her best friend one day af-ter working at a mill all day. There, Julie meets Billy, a car-ousel barker. Though Julie is not too keen on ever getting married — or the idea of romance in general — and though Billy is a gruff, hard-hearted carousel worker, the two take a liking to one an-other to the chagrin of Mrs. Mullin, a widow who owns the carousel.

Billy and Julie sing, dance and talk their way to romance and eventually more. But things eventually take a turn for the worse, leading Billy to find himself struggling to find a way to support his new family, even if it means sup-porting them from beyond

this world. “Carousel” chronicles the

surprising story of love be-tween two unlikely people and the lengths a husband and father will go to in order to protect and provide for the people he loves.

“Carousel” opened to the public April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Word of the show has sparked high demand among theater-goers. Tickets have already sold out, but the box office allows people to join a ticket waiting list. One hour before the show, those hoping to see that night’s production have the opportunity to join the list and get the tickets of people who have already paid for their tickets, but have not shown up at the theater to re-trieve them by show time.

Molly Williamsonmwilliiaj@stedwards.edu

Bret BrookshireElizabeth Newchurch and Joshua Denning perform a scene in “Carousel.”

If you play a string instru-ment, now may be your op-portunity to show your skills. Austin band Mother Falcon is on the hunt for 100 local string players.

The players would accom-pany the ensemble band in its upcoming show at the Seaholm Power Plant on April 20 for the Fusebox Fes-tival. The show will be free to the public.

What’s Mother Falcon like? Think a more classically re-fined Ra Ra Riot, or if Jens Lekman threw a cathartic pity party with refreshments and a backing orchestra. Boasting about having up-wards of 10 or more band members at once, the band’s musical performances blos-som with orchestral build-ups, chamber pop melodies and feathery jauntiness that resonates with weary senti-ment. Mother Falcon’s latest theatrical endeavor hopes to retain these defining charac-teristics while exploring new ones.

This experiment is a highly

detailed set. Delving into a realm rich in musical tex-tures, sounds, the effects of unison and eccentricity in ar-rangement, the band is con-structing a show that flows like one stunning piece.

“You might hear one por-tion of our songs and then

the rest 10 minutes later,” said Maurice Chammah, a Mother Falcon violinist. “We’re trying to have a lot of dramatic moments,”

Auditioning 100 string players seems like a daunting feat. However, Mother Falcon members believe they have

completely annihilated that fear by refusing to acknowl-edge it. There is no audition process. Instead, the band is relying on the vastness of the proposed group to accom-modate a large range of play-ers on various skill levels.

The band is also trying to

compose music that should prove accessible for amateur musicians. The search is re-portedly going well, though the band is still searching for a high school program to bring out a “large chunk of students.”

The performance will be at Seaholm Power Plant, a large venue with resonant acoustics. Keeping these cavernous characteristics in mind, Mother Falcon view the venue not as a vacuum of sound, but an opportunity for unheard of fullness.

“The arrangements will really be about making the space fill with rich sounds and simple, stark textures, rather than, for example, try-ing to do the songs the same way we would in a crowded,

small room,” Chammah said.This idea originated from

Graham Reynolds, a local composer and mentor to the band who is involved with the organization of Fusebox Fes-tival. Mother Falcon ran with the grand project in hopes to take the audience on an un-predictable adventure. This unknowing sense of wander-lust is exactly what Cham-mah said he wants people to show up for.

“The point is to explore what can be done with such a big, striking medium,” Cham-mah said. “We hope the audi-ence wants to go on that ride with us.”

Jonathan Cokerjcoker@stedwards.edu

“Carousel” draws large crowds for opening weekend at MMNT

Holly AkerMother Falcon had another big performance last fall at Austin’s annual Fun Fun Fun Fest.

Think a more classically refined Ra Ra Riot, or if Jens Lekman threw a ca-thartic pity party with re-freshments and a backing orchestra.”

ENTERTAINMENT | Page 9 Hilltop Views | Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Music was in the air at St. Edward’s University last week.

Rebecca Butler, Battle of the Bands winner, started off the night by playing a set with The Richards, and The Bright Light Social Hour ended the night with a bang.

Rebecca Butler’s sweet voice and tough guitar won the crowd over at Battle of the Bands on March 28 and again the Spring Concert on April 6. The Bright Light Social Hour then delivered a show that was unforgettable.

The Bright Light Social Hour includes members Curtis Roush (guitar/vo-cals), Jack O’Brien (bass/vocals), A.J. Vincent (keys/vocals) and Joseph Mirasole (drums). Born and bred in Austin and Round Rock, the members of The Bright Light Social Hour do not mess around.

The Bright Light Social

Hour was originally formed in a university setting at Georgetown’s Southwestern University. The band has gone through a number of changes since then and has been creating a name for itself

in Austin. The band recently won a number of awards at the Austin Music Awards in-cluding Band of the Year and Album of the Year.

There is really no proper way to describe the group’s

style of music. It includes mostly rock and roll with a little bit of dance and some old-fashioned southern soul. At times, the band’s music blends into a strangely per-fect mix of sounds. The ini-

tially timid crowd could not help but sway to the music, slowly transforming the con-cert into a true dance show.

The entire show was orga-nized by Residence Life. St. Edward’s students respond-ed positively to the perfor-mance.

“It was like a lunar sex ex-plosion,” freshman Spencer Hall said. “The only other way I can think of to describe them is as funky southern cowboys who just might be from another planet. After the show I kept asking my-self, ‘How in the world have I never heard of this band before?’ Their radical stage presence and ability to inter-act with the crowd was sur-passed only by their astound-ing musicianship.”

In a brief interview after their performance, the band members admitted that they’ve had their fair share of bizarre memories involving overcrowded rooms in cloth-ing optional co-ops, falling asleep under mattresses and

being pelted with flying ob-jects on stage.

“Being on the road is always a blast — just going to new cities and partying with new people,” O’Brien said.

Next on the agenda for the band is a five-week tour of the Southeast, the East Coast and the Midwest while the band works on new ma-terial for its record.

Although The Bright Light Social Hour is likely bound for greatness and playing sold-out shows everywhere, the band seems to be happy to just have a place to share music with fans. While the band has come a long way, members appear to cling to their Austin roots where their musical inspiration first emerged. The musicians share the motto of just hav-ing a good time with fun mu-sic and great hair. They also try to stay humble.

When asked if he had any more thoughts on playing at St. Edward’s, Roush said, “Just, thanks for having us!”

Bright Light Social Hour turn spring concert into dance partyAsta Thrastardottirathrast@stedwards.edu

Aaron ReissigBright Light Social Hour’s keyboardist A.J. Vincent plays in front of the Main Building.

[slapdash] “The Land Before Twitter”

Page 10 | ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | Hilltop Views

“It’s time to lose your mind and let the crazy out,” Ke$ha, popular glitter ad-vocate, said in her most re-cent single, “Blow.” The song is basically about allowing your primal nature to break free (on the dance floor, of course), a sentiment that could explain Ke$ha’s own perverse attraction to a freakishly feral head piece, the SpiritHoods.

The headwear line Spir-itHoods claims to be “a symbol of the bond and the connection we have to our primal and wild natures.” However, this primitive bond between furry cap and our spirit animal comes off ridiculously campy, like Furries without all the kinky connotations. Spirit-Hoods are characterized by hanging slabs of faux fur su-perbly cloistering your face like a hirsute bear trap. The hoods come in a variety of animals from “Night Owls” to “Grizzly Bears” to some wacky lump of frazzled lint called a “Nasty Rabbit,” so you can parade around town pretending to be al-most any fearsome creature of the animal kingdom. But there is a cost to the luna-cy, and I’m not even talk-

ing about the absurd price range ($59.99–$199.99).

Walk out of your room wearing one of these faux-fur head pieces and expect tragic looks of confusion, pity or childlike uneasiness. Maybe all three at once.

Therefore, take this as a blatant warning: if you see one of these bestial accesso-ries cavorting towards you on the street, don’t panic. Instead, stop what you are doing, turn the other way and run before the predato-ry cap swallows you whole.

Lastly, don’t even worry about the poor sap whose already got the animal glued to their head for they are a lost cause — save yourself.

Ke$ha graced the cover of the tragically hip “Paper Magazine’s Music Issue” in the summer of 2010 wear-ing her own SpiritHoods, aptly titled “Wolf.” It’s go-ing for $129 at spirithoods.com if you feel like the seemingly scalped canine would be a worthy com-panion for your wardrobe (you really shouldn’t). And if you’re looking for a posi-tive view in this discussion, don’t look twice, for it’s dif-ficult to uncover a pro to this SpiritHoods’ debacle when they’re basically one big hairy con.

FASHION COMMENTARY

Headware looks more like headcase

Jonathan Cokerjcoker@stedwards.edu

Courtesy of Davey LopezThis furry faux pas resembles cavemen couture.

New album from Lupe just shy of a fiasco

Creeping out from under Atlantic Record’s oppressive force emerges Lupe Fiasco’s third album, “Lasers.”

It’s not too difficult to com-prehend the circumstances that birthed this album: Atlantic demanded a more commercial piece opposing Fiasco’s own form of eccen-tric hip-hop. Thus, the album was delayed until Lupe fans across the world demanded its release. But instead of a commercial masterclass, they got a limp compilation.

“Lasers” starts out with “Letting Go” and “Words I Never Said,” setting a tone of unrest, bitterness and in-ternal dilemma that remains consistent for the duration of the album. “Till I Get There” plucks along effortlessly, bub-bling like a satisfying flavor of lite-pop and is easily one of the most accessible tracks on the album.

“I Don’t Wanna Care Any More” simply screams of Top 40 conformity but doesn’t really reach dance floor re-

vival nor feel-good anthem territory. Lead single “The Show Goes On” samples the eternally inescapable Mod-est Mouse sing along, “Float On,” latching on to the song’s coattails and showboating around in all of its sad glory. This gallivanting is amusing enough for radio play, but repeated listens disclose just how deflated the track is.

Dive into the middle of the album to find Fiasco playing with extremes. “Beautiful La-sers (2 Ways),” probably the most earnestly morbid song on “Lasers,” somehow comes off like a more deprived and hopeless Drake just reeking of sap and banal pathos. In contrast, “Coming Up” rings with much of the enthusiasm that has gone missing lately in hip-hop.

On standout, “Break the Chain,” Lupe actually mends the synthesizer and dance beats to his advantage, bouncing lyrics around the music instead of suffocating beneath the production gloss. The most memorable track, “All Black Everything,” calls to mind a rapper at his most boundless as he speaks of a world turned upside down, race tensions distorted, “Mal-

colm Little dies as a old man/Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him/Followed by Bill O’Reilly who read from the Quran/President Bush sends condolences from Iran Malcolm Little dies as a old man/Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him/Fol-lowed by Bill O’Reilly who read from the Quran/Presi-dent Bush sends condolences from Iran.”

“I’m telling you all of this from my therapist’s couch,” said Fiasco in “Till I Get There,” one of the prime mo-ments where his character actually overpowers the re-cord label monster. Although a chunk of his album comes off glib and pedantic, there are moments that Fiasco does manage to blast something memorable and something stunning our way.

ALBUM REVIEW

Lupe Fiasco [Lasers]

Jonathan Cokerjcoker@stedwards.edu

Wikimedia Commons“Lasers” is the third album from Lupe Fiasco.

The Joy Formidable, a Lon-don-via-Wales trio, is a band who are not ashamed of their M.O. Much in the same vein as Muse or even the Smash-ing Pumpkins in their heyday, the band’s debut album, “The Big Roar,” is filled with songs that aim for the rafters.

It shouldn’t come as a sur-prise that the band wasn’t picked up by major label Atlantic Records after releas-ing their first EP, “A Balloon Called Moaning,” last year, as the group will likely be a

big attraction come summer festival time. However, while the band is certainly com-petent and capable of some good musical moments, there is nothing about “The Big Roar” that is particularly memorable which can be a problem if the group’s aim is to fill stadiums.

While there is nothing wrong with opening an al-bum with a seven-minute track, “The Everchanging Spectrum of A Lie” feels self-indulgent more than anything. The song seem-ingly drags on and feels like it should end at several junc-tures before it actually does. It’s a good blueprint for what to expect of the rest of the al-bum, though.

The band does everything in its power to make every note sound as earnest and epic as possible, and it occa-sionally they succeeds. Lead singles “I Don’t Want to See You like This” and “Whir-ring” both demonstrate the band at their most focused and coherent. Too often, however, the band gets lost in their ambitions.

Vocalist/guitarist Ritzy Bryan has a decent singing voice, but her guitar skills get lost among the haze when the band goes for its biggest mo-ments. In addition, all of the songs on the album begin to blend together and sound the same. The constant buildups and massive choruses keep coming at you with very

few moments to catch your breath. As such, the majority of the songs slip by unno-ticed failing to make any sort of imprint.

There is nothing inher-ently wrong with the music the band is making since this kind of Muse-inspired urgency has been relatively common in Britain for the last decade or so. However, in going for broke on their debut, The Joy Formidable have only partially succeeded in its quest to be the biggest band in the land. With only a few memorable songs and its repetition of the same sound, “The Big Roar” is more of a big missed opportunity than anything.

Ryan Lesterrlester@stedwards.edu

Joy Formidable [The Big Roar]

Welsh band’s debut full-length falls shortALBUM REVIEW

ENTERTAINMENT | Page 11 Hilltop Views | Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Weekly ‘Flix Fix takes the legwork out of wading through thousands of film choices on Netflix, bringing you the most truly bizarre, quirky and out-right amazing gems instant streaming has to offer.

Somewhere underneath the amateur cinematogra-phy, cheesy title cards and fuzzy UFO footage of “Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs” lurks utter genius.

After more than 30 years of his comic antics, it’s tough to tell whether this one deserves a serious look or another round of laughs.

Over the course of the film, essentially a 100-min-ute interview with Ayk-

royd, the film’s host and the comedy veteran discuss

every facet of UFOs from government cover-ups, to mass sightings, to the me-chanics of interstellar travel. Their discussion is calm, collected, seemingly intel-ligent and entirely opposite the semi-coherent ranting of UFO-enthusiasts por-trayed by most mainstream sources.

By the end, viewers must decide if the host and inter-viewee are either madmen or perfectly sane people in a mad, mad world. Neither choice is comforting.

The film is technically ap-palling. The title sequence looks like director David Sereda cobbled it together with Microsoft WordArt. Much of the source foot-age is barely discernible, yet oddly creepy. The lighting

makes Akyroyd’s charac-teristic eyebrows look like swollen face-knuckles and the scene transitions are awkward at best. But ev-ery spoken word grows on you, festering in your mind like some psychotic brain fungus. Behind those eye-brows lies a complex man. So, if you’ve got a NetFlix account, it’s well worth it to at least experience such a character.

However, that suggestion is insidious. Be warned, the charming, chain-smoking visage of Aykroyd has an ir-resistible effect.

The cinematography is a clever ploy, its amateurism luring viewers into a false sense of security: “Look, someone learned to use Windows MovieMaker

and believes in aliens. How quaint!” And that’s how they get you. Halfway through the film, as the abduction section begins, the eeriest of tones befall this once pleas-ant cult experience. Even though it sounds insane, it becomes difficult to ignore the possibility of alien ab-duction — impossible to ig-nore, in fact, the possibility that you have already been taken.

So take a look at “Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs.” At worst, it’s 100 minutes of Dan Aykroyd being genuinely awesome, and at best it’ll forever change the how you think about your place in the uni-verse — if you’re gullible at least.

Weekly ‘Flix FixAykroyd unveils mystery behind UFOs in documentaryJake Hartwelljhartwe@stedwards.edu

“Dan Aykroyd Un-plugged on UFOs”

Courtesy of Jay LeeDan Aykroyd reveals that he is a believer.

As tax day approaches, celebrities will inevitably forget to filePROCTOROLOGY

Life is rough for the rich and the famous, what with all their money and drugs and expensive cars. I feel bad for them — I really do — but for the privilege of being Ameri-cans, there are certain things that we’re obligated to do.

These things aren’t always exciting. Stuff like voting and staying politically informed are just two of the unpleasant things we are tasked to do. And worst of all? Taxes.

Every April, United States citizens buckle down and file their tax returns, and then a few months later news in-evitably breaks about celeb-rity X or celebrity Y owing the government outrageous amounts of money because of back taxes.

On Monday, reports sur-faced that Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne owe the U.S. gov-ernment more than $1.7 mil-lion in back tax payments.

The government has placed a lien on one of the family’s Los Angeles homes. The Osbournes’ daughter Kelly, who currently serves as one of the hosts of E!’s “Fashion Police,” has owed back taxes to the state of California in the past.

America’s favorite dysfunc-tional family are not the only celebrities to have trouble paying their taxes. Willie Nelson, Nic Cage, Wes-ley Snipes and Girls Gone Wild’s always-classy owner/spokesman Joe Francis have all made names for them-selves as celebrity tax-evad-ers. Val Kilmer, Xzibit, Sin-bad, Ja Rule, Survivor winner Richard Hatch and Baldwin brother Stephen Baldwin have all also struggled to make their annual tax pay-ments to the government.

Now, to be fair, it really is harder for celebrities to file their taxes. They typically bring in more money then your average citizen and that

money is usually coming spo-radically and from multiple sources. I’m sure it gets hard to keep track of all that, but it’s kind of important.

So important, in fact, that they’ve developed a thing

called Turbo Tax to help you get through it very easily.

Now, I realize that this might seem like a lot of work to celebrities, but I promise, in the end, it’ll be worth it.

So, hop in your Escalade,

drive to Best Buy and drop $59.99 on the 2010 edition. Or better yet, go to the web-site. Then all you have to do is fill out a few blanks and press submit. That too much for you? Head to an H&R Block where there are profes-sionals that make a living off of filing people’s taxes.

Okay, to be fair, I don’t know H&R Block’s policies off the top of my head, and, in all seriousness if Nic Cage strolled into his nearest tax consultation chain store, they probably wouldn’t be able to work out all of his problems in a quick 15-minute session.

That isn’t the point. The point is that there are reliable and trustworthy profession-als who will file your taxes without stealing your money.

There’s an entire industry of tax experts and, in the case of Patrick Cox, tax masters, who do this job on a daily basis. There is absolutely no excuse for millionaires to not pay their taxes. Whether you’re the washed-up brother of Kabletown executive Jack Donaghy or just an average citizen, paying your taxes is almost as important as being on television or in movies. Almost.

Proctor Andersonpanders2@stedwards.edu

Wikimedia Commons Cage is notorious for his tax and financial problems.

There’s an entire industry of tax experts...who do this job on a daily basis. There is absolutely no excuse for millionaires to not pay their taxes.”

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 SPORTSPage 12 | Hilltop Views

The Texas Collegiate Cheer Championship provided a new opportunity for colle-giate cheerleading teams to compete, according to St. Ed-wards University Cheerlead-ing Coach and Spirit Direc-tor Anne Mary Carney.

St. Edward’s, along with Carney’s company, Nation-wide Cheer and Dance, hosted the competition. The competition was held in the Recreation Convocation Center on March 26.

All of the collegiate cheer-leading squads in Texas were invited to compete. Six cheer squads competed in the event, including Huston-Til-lotson University, St. Mary’s University, the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, How-ard College, Tyler Junior Col-lege and St. Edward’s.

St. Edward’s won a first-place trophy in partner stunt, a second-place trophy in skills routine, and a second-place trophy in the cheer division. Howard College took first place in the cheer division.

The competing cheerleading squads represented Division I, Division II, and Division III schools as well as junior colleges and the National As-sociation of Intercollegiate Athletics.

“What’s really unique about it is this just doesn’t happen,” Carney said. “College cheer-leading does not have this level of competition.”

According to Carney, 80 percent of college cheerlead-ing is made up of small col-leges and universities. The only opportunity for college cheerleaders to participate in competitions is to go to the three collegiate cheerleading competitions called Nation-als in Florida or California, Carney said.

Nationals are sponsored by the National Cheerlead-ing Association and are often broadcast on ESPN. The NCA is a part of Varsity, the governing company for high

school and collegiate cheer.“They’re pretty much

geared towards elite and large universities and programs,” Carey said, in regards to the competitions organized by the NCA.

Because attending Nation-als is costly, a program at a smaller university “doesn’t have the money and the sup-port to make it all the way to Florida,” Carney said. The Texas Collegiate Cheer Championship at St. Ed-ward’s gave schools in Texas the opportunity to compete without the high costs asso-ciated with Nationals.

“It’s an exciting thing for St. Ed’s and the fact that we’re doing it is going to give St. Ed’s a lot of recognition,” Carney said.

As a part of the event, Car-ney organized a coaches’ ses-sion to discuss the new com-petition and the new scoring sheets.

“I had new scoring sheets developed because it’s never been done before,” Carney said.

The cheerleading coach from Baylor University also spoke at the coaches’ session to discuss safety and what the Baylor cheerleading squad does to prevent accidents and injuries.

The event also provided recruiting opportunities for both St. Edward’s and the other schools in attendance, as well as networking oppor-tunities for coaches, some-thing Carney said “there is just not a whole lot of.”

Carney said St. Edward’s

will host the Texas Collegiate Cheer Championship again next year, and the event com-petition will also include an area high school competition. In addition, Carney plans to have a recruiting clinic at the event, an area of college cheerleading she said is “com-pletely neglected.”

“Junior[s] and seniors in high school in the Aus-tin area can come after the competition and do a clinic, and all the coaches from the university are there and can recruit and watch what’s up and coming,” Carney said.

The St. Edward’s cheerlead-ing team will also attend the Midwest Collegiate Cham-pionship at Maryville Uni-versity in St. Louis, Mo. This event will be similar in na-ture to the Texas Collegiate Cheer Championship in that college cheerleading squads from all levels can compete without the costliness of at-tending Nationals.

Carney said the most im-portant thing about the Texas Collegiate Cheer Champion-ship and the Midwest Col-legiate Championship is that they give college cheerleaders from smaller colleges and universities the opportunity to compete — something the NCA does not do.

“I think it’s a niche that they haven’t dealt with,” Carney said. “They haven’t ever made competition ac-cessible for teams that can’t travel. And I am.”

Kristina Schenckkschenc@stedwards.edu

Biggest Fan: Zac Graham and his Pittsburgh Steelers

“You know what it is, black and yellow, black and yellow.”

The song lyrics by Wiz Khalifa became the unof-ficial anthem of the Pitts-burgh Steelers this year as the team competed in Super Bowl XLV this past February.

Zac Graham, sophomore shooting guard for the St. Edward’s University men’s basketball team, has strong ties to the Pittsburgh Steel-ers. Although Graham was born in Austin, his father’s side of the family is from Pittsburgh. Graham and his family have been to Pittsburgh many times for family vacations.

“The first football game I remember seeing was when I was 5,” Graham said. “It was Super Bowl XXX and it was the Steelers and the [Dallas] Cowboys.”

At the party for this game, Graham remembers root-ing for the Steelers with his dad while everyone else was cheering for the Cow-boys. His passion for the Steelers was sparked and has not faltered since.

Besides his family ties to Pittsburgh, Graham also loves the team for its tradi-tion.

Steelers fans wave the infamous yellow “Terrible Towel” as a way to cheer on their players and sup-port the Steelers’ dynasty. Graham has five Terrible Towels of his own.

Graham also supports the Steelers for their style of play.

“I think their rough play represents the fans well be-cause the people of Pitts-burgh are a tough bunch,” Graham said. “The Steel-ers win with defense, and you don’t see that a lot in sports anymore. Most of the credit has to go to their

defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, who refined the zone blitz.”

Graham said the Steelers’ unique style of play helps fans relate to the players on a deeper level.

“I think the tough style of play really allows the fans to connect with the players because I think a lot of the Steelers fans feel like they can relate that to their life-style,” Graham said.

Graham said the Steel-ers have the most Super Bowl wins of any team in the NFL. The Steelers have played in eight Super Bowls and have won six times.

One of those appearanc-es was in this year’s Super Bowl, in which the Steel-ers played the Green Bay Packers.

“The Packers definitely deserved to win the game this year because the Steelers made too many mistakes in the first half,” Graham said. “I was defi-nitely proud of the team for making the Super Bowl

because they went through a lot of adversity.”

Graham explained that the Steelers faced problems on the field, as the Steelers were fined heavily because of illegal hits. He believes that some of the fines were questionable.

Of all his memories, Gra-ham narrowed his favorites down to two moments in Steelers history.

“Either Santonio [Hol-mes] making the winning catch in Super Bowl XLIII or them winning Super Bowl XL,” Graham said.

In Super Bowl XL, the running back and Pitts-burgh hero Jerome Bettis returned to his hometown of Detroit for the big game in his last season. The Steelers defeated the Ari-zona Cardinals and held off a late drive by former Super Bowl MVP Kurt Warner to claim its sixth Super Bowl title in its his-tory.

Cheerleading competition opens up new opportunities

Emily BlasdellSix squads were contenders in the competition.

Meredith Bardmbard@stedwards.edu

Courtesy of Zac GrahamGraham has five “Terrible Towels” of his own.

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The St. Edward’s Univer-sity golf teams are at work preparing for Heartland Conference Tournament on April 18 and 19 at the Tera Vista Golf Club in Round Rock, Texas.

Senior Dylan Davis said the teams are fully capable of performing well at the con-ference tournament.

“Every tournament we’ve been to this season has been showing steady improve-ments,” he said. “I think con-ference will be the tourna-ment where we get everybody on our team playing well.”

On March 29, the men’s golf team placed 17th at the Dallas Baptist Patriot Invita-tional. The Hilltoppers com-bined for a 902. Senior Mat-thew Henson shot a 75 in his third round, totaling 219 in all three rounds. Henson finished the invitational in a

four-way tie for 32nd. Junior Santiago Quintero shot a 72 in his third round, making a cumulative total of 220 and finishing in a five-way tie for 36th.

On April 5, the men’s golf team improved their per-formance by placing 12th at the Kickingbird Classic in Edmond, Okla. The Hilltop-pers combined for a team to-tal of 915. Henson shot a 75 and 73 in his last two rounds, resulting in a total of 225 and finishing the tournament in a five-way tie for 25th. Senior Matt Rogers shot a 75 in his last two rounds, resulting in a final score of 228 and finish-ing in a five-way tie for 39th. Davis shot a 78 and 74 in his last two rounds, resulting in a total of 229 in the tour-nament. Davis finished the tournament tied for 44th.

The St. Edward’s women’s golf team is currently ranked sixth in the nation by the Golf World/Nike Preseason Coaches Poll and fourth in the NCAA West Region Rankings.

The women’s golf team fin-ished fourth overall out of 18 teams in the Grand Canyon Women’s Invitational held in Goodyear, Ariz., on April 4–5. The team shot 39 over par.

Sophomore Wallis Spears shot 76 in the first round and 74 in the final round to tie for seventh place. It was her eighth top-10 finish of the season out of nine events. Sophomore Jacy Benites finished 16th in the tourna-ment, shooting a 73 in the first round and an 80 in the second round.

Spears was named Heart-land Conference Golfer of the Week on April 6 for the sixth time in her collegiate golf career. Spears has a 75.3 stroke average, the lowest stroke average on her team and in the Heartland Con-ference.

Both teams will be back on the green for the Heartland Conference Championship on April 18–19 in Round Rock.

Senior baseball player Eric Morgan plays left field and third base for the Hilltop-pers. Emily Blasdell: What year are you and when do you graduate? Eric Morgan: I’m a senior and will graduate next fall. EB: What are you study-ing and what would you like to do with it after graduation? EM: I am majoring in Kinesiology. I want to coach or be a strength and conditioning coach. EB: Where are you from? EM: Salt Lake City, Utah (801, baby!). EB: What do you put on your pizza? EM: Doesn’t matter. I like all pizza. EB: If you had a super power, what would it be? EM: To be able to appear wherever and whenever I wanted. EB: What are you cur-rently listening to? EM: I’m watching the Red Sox/Yankees game. EB: What was the last movie you watched? EM: “Due Date.” EB: What do you eat for

breakfast? EM: Breakfast tacos or cereal. EB: Do you have a pre-game ritual? EM: I listen to music. EB: Are you a MAC or PC? EM: PC. EB: What has been your favorite homework assign-ment ever? EM: No homework is ever worth remembering. EB: Dr Pepper or Coke? EM: For sure Dr Pepper. EB: What are your favor-ite professional sports team? EM: Utah Jazz, Red Sox and Dallas Cowboys. EB: What is your favorite home-cooked meal? EM: My mom’s London broil. EB: What is your best baseball memory? EM: Playing in the state championship game my junior year in high school. EB: What is the best ad-vice someone ever gave you? EM: “If you can’t out-smart people, outwork them” or, “Life will reward those who work hard.” EB: What is something most people don’t know about you? EM: I’m Mormon.

ATHLETE PROFILE

Baseball player Eric Morgan

Courtesy of Sports InformationEric Morgan plays baseball for the Hilltoppers.

Emily Blasdelleblasde@stedwards.edu

Golf teams swing strong at tournaments

Men’s Golf

Courtesy of Sports InformationWallis Spears was named Golfer of the Week.

Danny De Los Santosddeloss4@stedwards.edu

Women’s Golf

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When the Senate and House of the Texas Legisla-ture passed voter identifica-tion bills SB 14 and HB 16, they hoped to protect against the most prevalent forms of voter fraud. With the pass-ing of these bills, Texas vot-ers will now have to present a government issued form of identification at polling precincts, hopefully making it more difficult to commit voter fraud. However, the legislature missed the mark.

The most common forms of voter fraud facing Texas happen not at the polls, but with mail-in ballots, which the voter ID bills did not address. In 2006, the Texas Attorney General’s website targeted voter fraud as a cru-cial problem, focusing almost entirely on fraud committed

through mail-in ballots. But the legislature failed to ad-dress these concerns with the recent voter ID bills.

The lax regulations and en-forcements for mail-in ballots have allowed practices like vote harvesting, which in-volves paid political workers going to the homes of “shut-in” voters and encouraging them to vote for a specific candidate, to flourish.

Another major problem with mail-in ballots is how often the deceased manage to vote, a longstanding form of voter fraud. Since names often remain on voter regis-tration lists even after death, candidates can use those names as votes to boost their numbers.

Lyndon B. Johnson only won his Senate seat in 1948

due to the 202 confirmed ballots cast for him by dead voters, earning him the sar-castic nickname, “Landslide Lyndon.” Some researchers

estimate that thousands of ballots from deceased voters were cast during that election. Even then, the idea of using votes from the deceased was not an original one. Johnson lost his first senate race to W.

Lee O’Daniel by 1,311 votes. Many of these votes were also the subject of alleged fraud.

The problem persists to-day: The names of over 6,000

dead people were found on Dallas County’s voter reg-istration list in 2007. Even more recently in the 2008 election, an investigation by Texas Watchdog found that 4,000 people in Harris

Country were deceased and still registered to vote.

If voter fraud through mail-in ballots is a bigger issue than fraud at the polls, than why did Gov. Rick Perry make voter ID an emergency item at the beginning of this legislative session? Why did the legislature focus on pass-ing it? The answer, as it has been for many of the legisla-ture’s initiatives, is that voter ID is a partisan issue.

When the voter ID bill passed in the House, the re-cord was split along party lines at 101-48. All of the votes against the bill came from Democrats.

Increasing the partisan weight of the issue, some conservatives expressed wor-ries that illegal immigrants would infiltrate Texas elec-

tions in 2010. Instances like these have tied voter ID to illegal immigration issues in the minds of many Texans.

There is no evidence in-dicating that voter fraud at polling places — on the part of illegal immigrants or in-eligible citizens — occurred in 2010 on any organized or significant scale. The statis-tically relevant instances of voter fraud are perpetrated through mail-in ballots.

Republicans estimate the cost of the voter ID bill at $2 million, but Democrats set it at $14 million. However, in financially tight times, the legislature should do its re-search before spending any amount of taxpayer money on any bill, especially one that ignores the problem it purports to solve.

Texas voter ID bills forget mail-in ballotsOUR VIEW

Creative Commons encourages originality through sampling

Sampling is a concept that has been around since the early days of funk and hip-hop, with many of the best songs from that era having been sampled at some point.

In more recent years, how-ever, copyrights for sampled works have been harder to come by, especially for inde-pendent artists, and the legal ramifications for breaking copyright looms over artists’ heads. If copyright laws were to be revised, especially in terms of sampling, it could lead to more original and cre-ative works and possibly help relieve some of the antagonis-tic feelings many people have toward the music industry.

The process of obtain-ing copyright licenses is a long and drawn out process. Australian group The Ava-lanches featured nearly 3,500 samples on their 2000 debut album, “Since I Left You,” us-ing everything from spoken lines in movies to deep cuts

from lesser-known albums to Madonna. The liner notes for the album contain sev-eral copyright acknowledge-ments. The band has yet to release a follow-up, though they have been working on clearing samples since 2009.

Many major labels have the

financial resources to pay the fees for using a sample and can afford to give a portion of the royalties to the original artist. However, independent groups like The Avalanches or artists who are just start-ing out are at a disadvantage. They may not have the money

to clear samples. If copyright laws were to be changed to the point where the process was easier and fewer royalties had to be paid to the original artists, more artists would be able to sample other works to create something inventive and exciting.

One possible form of more open copyright laws already exists. In November 2004, the Beastie Boys graced the cover of Wired Magazine alongside the title “Fight For Your Right To Copy: The Free Music Revolution Gets Real.” Packaged with the is-sue was a CD full of music, with songs from the Beastie Boys, Spoon and David By-rne, among others, which gave people permission to do with the songs what they pleased.

All of the artists allowed you to swap songs with oth-ers over the Internet without fear of retaliation. Thirteen out of 16 artists gave users permission to use the songs as samples in their own work. They allowed users to

sell these songs as their own, as long as the end result was “highly transformative” of the original and as long as songs were not used in commer-cials.

The article, and the concept behind it, was a huge victory for Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that pushes for the legalization of sampling and building upon existing creative works. If more artists were to follow in these footsteps and sub-ject their work to Creative Commons licenses, which combine different copyright licenses to remove barriers, the possibilities would be practically limitless.

Another possible effect of revising copyright laws is that it may help to people to reevaluate the negative im-age of the music industry. Sampling is one method of artistic expression that cor-porate executives are exceed-ingly harsh on, giving off the idea that they are ready to pounce on anyone who uses someone else’s work to bol-

ster their own. If laws were to be changed, however, people may see the industry as more open to the sharing of ideas and more accepting of the notion of reinterpretation, which may actually help in the long run.

This is not to suggest that we get rid of intellectual property rights. If someone samples a work without at-tributing the original artist or uses it improperly, they should still be punished by copyright law.

However, if laws were to be revised to make it more accessible for artists to use other’s work in a construc-tive way, it can both help the music industry reshape its image and bring about more creative uses of the original source. This would give fans and artists new avenues of interpretation. Through the use of Creative Commons and future revisions of copy-right laws, sampling can re-turn to its proper place as a vital source of inspiration for musicians everywhere.

Wikimedia CommonsThe Beastie Boys helped open copyright laws by allowing its music to be sampled by other artists.

The most common forms of voter fraud facing Tex-as happen not at the polls, but with mail-in ballots, which the voter ID bills did not address.”

Ryan Lesterrlester@stedwards.edu

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Gay acceptance in the United States is on the rise. If a network wants a show to survive, it seems like it has to have a gay character. A slew of well-known figures as diverse as Lady Gaga and Cindy McCain promote self-esteem and being happy with oneself, regardless of sexual orientation.

Unlike in other countries, U.S. gay pride marches are usually not met with vio-lence. When news broke that many gay and lesbian teens were committing suicide due to bullying, journalist and author Dan Savage launched the “It Gets Better” campaign, and an outpouring of support for LGBT youth ensued. It seems that our culture has moved towards a general ac-ceptance of gays and lesbians in society. Frankly, it is “cool” to be cool with LGBT indi-viduals.

In fact, U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, the facet of the Department of Homeland Security that processes visa applications, released a statement say-ing that it would no longer

deny applications from im-migrants who are marrying U.S. citizens of the same sex. These applications will be la-beled “pending,” allowing the gay immigrants to remain in the U.S. as the Defense of Marriage Act’s constitution-ality is decided.

This change appeared to be a small sign of the govern-ment’s quiet move toward repealing DOMA, which federally defines marriage as between one man and one woman. The attitude toward gay and lesbian marriage has shifted in recent years, but USICS’s statement was a concrete example of the move towards change — or so we thought.

President Clinton signed DOMA into law on Sept. 21,

1996. The Act also enables states to choose whether or not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, which has proved con-tentious because many argue that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution requires all states to recog-

nize marriages performed in other states. However, most states do not allow same-sex marriages or recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

USCIS’s change could have indicated the beginning of the end for DOMA, but that hope left as quickly as it ap-peared. Citing the need to follow the law regardless of what may come in the future, USCIS has returned to deny-ing same-sex petitions. This

could be code for, “We don’t anticipate a change in current policy, so we’ll continue to act as we always have.”

Unfortunately, our laws and agencies do not reflect our cultural progress. There are — and probably always will be — people against same-sex marriage, but a re-cent ABC/Washington Post poll shows that 53 percent of Americans support it. However, this number does not include people who fa-vor same-sex marriage ben-efits or some legal union for same-sex couples in lieu of marriage. Included in these numbers are some Republi-cans and, surprisingly, evan-gelical Christians. Even some people who initially voted for DOMA have come forward and called for its repeal.

Although our laws still bar gay and lesbian couples from receiving the 1,138 federal rights, benefits and privileges of federally recognized mar-riage, the climate is changing, and USCIS’s earlier choice to allow same-sex petitions is a testament to that. There is still a long way to go on the slow march toward equal rights, but at least the nation is on the path.

Whether it’s an escaped go-rilla or a serial-killing whale, every once in a while, a cap-tive animal grabs headlines for attacking a human.

The incident usually sparks a national debate over the morality and safety of hold-ing wild animals in captivity. But once the next big story breaks, the headlines quickly subside and the animals re-main caged.

It’s been just over a year since Tilikum, a 30-year-old killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando took the life of experienced trainer Dawn Brancheau just before a pub-lic performance. What was most shocking about the at-tack was that Tilikum had

killed before — twice.After a yearlong hiatus, it

was recently announced that Tilikum is back to perform-ing in SeaWorld’s shows.

While trainers can no lon-ger swim with the whale, they will still be conducting shows from the shallow portion of the pool. This has caused outcry because Brancheau

was not actually underwater when Tilikum attacked her, yet she still suffered fatally.

The fact that Tilikum is once again performing in SeaWorld’s shows is outra-geous, not because of the danger to just the trainers but to the whale’s wellbeing.

There have only been a handful of wild killer whale

attacks on humans through-out recorded history, and none of them resulted in a fa-tality. However, according to ABC News, captive whales have attacked humans ap-proximately two dozen times since the rise of marine parks in the 1970s. Many have been fatal.

This statistical disparity suggests that it is highly dan-gerous to hold whales in cap-tivity. But it is not just unfor-tunate for the humans who interact with them; captivity also takes a devastating toll on whales’ quality of life.

SeaWorld’s slogan reads, “As real as it gets,” but there is nothing real about the stark walls and claustrophobic habitats that confine the ani-mals, in many cases for their entire lives.

Killer whales have much shorter life spans in captiv-ity. They are deprived of the highly structured, matrilineal social orders and long-stand-ing migration patterns that characterize their lives in the wild. They are also robbed of many of their natural food sources. Killer whales are considered apex preda-tors, meaning they have no natural predators in the wild. That view from the top of the food chain, coupled with the stress of captive life, could be responsible for their attacks on humans.

When SeaWorld opened in 1964, it was probably the first time many visitors saw a killer whale outside of shaky nature documentaries and encyclopedia photographs. But in a world of Planet

Earth, YouTube and Animal Planet, we can now learn more about these creatures than ever before without having to venture into the “Splash Section.”

But what happens now? After nearly 28 years in captivity, SeaWorld cannot exactly throw Tilikum back into the ocean like some catch-and-release fish. Once an individual animal has its own Wikipedia page, it’s safe to say it probably isn’t a great candidate for life in the wild.

Hopefully, Tilikum’s trans-gressions will serve as a re-minder that marine parks are relics of the past, made in-creasingly obsolete with time. The more we learn about these species, the clearer it is that they belong in the wild.

Killer whale attacks come as a result of stressful captivityCaroline Wallacecwallac2@stedwards.edu

Gay acceptance more cultural than legalRina Gandhirgandhi@stedwards.edu

Associated PressSeaWorld’s killer whale, Tilikum, killed three people.

There are — and probably always will be — people against same-sex marriage, but a recent ABC/Washington Post poll shows that 53 percent of Americans support it.”

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BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Photos by Aaron Reissig