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CalendarGubernatorial inaugurationGov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst will be sworn in for Perry’s third term. Begins at 11 a.m. on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol.

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Amid thousands of shoppers pre-paring for their Sabbath dinners, a few dozen UT students took in the sights, smells and sounds of the Machne Yehuda Shuk, Jerusalem’s largest open-air market.

Thirty-eight Texas Hillel students, like thousands of others, traveled to Israel over winter break as part of the Taglit-Birthright Israel program. The program began in 2000 and offers 18- to 26-year-old Jewish people the op-portunity to take an all-expenses paid

trip to Israel for 10 days with the fi-nancial support of philanthropists and the Israeli government.

“The program is a way for young Jewish people to strengthen their Judaism and connect to the land of Israel,” said Texas Hillel Rabbi Da-vid Komerofsky, who traveled with the group.

In Israel, Hillel students said they experienced a sense of belonging and a familial connection to the people they met there. Broadcast journalism senior Samantha Unell

The College of Liberal Arts will feel the effects of a retirement incen-tive program, which offered buyouts to 87 tenured professors that 27 pro-fessors accepted. The initiative will save the college about $2.4 million annually, an administrator said.

James Southerland, assistant dean for business affairs, said 87 profes-sors in Liberal Arts received buyout offers in the summer of 2010, and 27 accepted the offer. In order to quali-fy, Southerland said faculty members had to satisfy the rule of 93 — their age plus years of service had to equal at least 93. The college compensated those who agreed to retire at the end of the semester with the equivalent of two-years’ salary.

“Our plan over the next few years is to let the number of faculty decline as people leave,” Southerland said.

Southerland said the college of-fered buyouts to prepare for coming cuts in funding from the state legis-lature. He said the college is prepar-ing for a 10-percent cut on top of last year’s $3.3 million 5-percent cut. He said the buyouts will also help the college pay for its new building.

Six faculty members in the College of Fine Arts and three in the College of Communication took similar re-tirement incentives, spokespersons for the colleges said.

Daniela Bini, the French and Ital-ian department chair, said the ad-ministration decided on the retire-ment incentive plan democratically.

Spoken word poetry, gospel songs and prayers could be heard across the East Mall on Monday morning as students from UT, Aus-tin Community College, St. Edward’s Univer-sity, Huston-Tillotson University and members of the Austin community gathered at the UT’s statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday’s celebration marked the 17th an-nual MLK Community March. Participants marched from the statue to Huston-Tillotson University in honor of King’s legacy and to pro-mote the ideals he fought for.

Government freshman Cortney Sanders opened the rally before the march with her original poem, “A Peculiar Man Who Took a Stand.” King traveled, she said, singing, shout-ing, praying and preaching to give others the freedom to dream.

“I find myself asking, ‘What is wrong with daring to dream?’ Allowing my heart to sing, dancing carefree, shouting for glee, believing one day that all will truly be free,” she read.

The product of years of planning will debut today with the opening of the Student Activity Center.

The $68 million building fea-tures a black box theater, auditori-um, study lounges, meeting rooms, dance halls and new food options, including a Taco Cabana and Zen.

Former Student Government Vice President Marcus Cisner-

os, who was in office in 2006-07 when students passed a referen-dum to add the $65-per-semester tuition increase that will pay for the center, said it was important that the center reflect what stu-dents wanted.

“We asked ‘What do you want, what do you like, and what do you need?’ And we tried to put that together to make the best build-ing possible,” said Cisneros, who was on the planning committee.

The students involved in the planning process worked with the Campus Environmental Cen-ter and the Students with Dis-abilities Agency to make sure the

building was both environmen-tally sound and easily accessible to all students.

“We worked w i t h s t u -dents with disabilities t o m a k e s u r e t h a t every space was accessible by wheelchair and accommodating to students with different needs,” Cisneros said. “We also wanted our building to have elements of sustainability

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Austin Police Department Officer Patti Robinson walks with Taisier and Alaiha Briggs down Chicon Street during a march to commemorate the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday morning. UT’s connection with Dr. King goes beyond his statue on the East Mall. In March 1962, he spoke at the Texas Union to a crowd of 1,200 and spent the night in a guest room on the fourth floor.

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“Free to enter as they are, regardless of house, job or car, children will not be discouraged to dream.”

State Rep. Dawnna Dukes, who authored the house bill for the MLK statue, spoke about the impact of King’s work at the rally. Several law-makers, including Rep. Lloyd Dog-gett, D-TX, former Texas State Rep. Wilhelmina Delco and State Sena-

tor Kirk Watson, D-Austin, joined Dukes on stage.

“The reason I ask my colleagues to join around me this morning is because we all know that the work that Dr. Martin Luther King did, he did not do alone,” she said. “He did

it by building coalitions, through a civil justice and an unarmed truth. He believed that by everyone work-ing hand in hand, we could make

this world a better place.”The first MLK Community

March was planned and sponsored 28 years ago by the African Amer-ican Culture Committee, which Huston-Tillotson University later joined, said Brenda Burt, spokes-

woman for the Division of Diver-sity and Community Engagement at UT. Today, the Austin Area Her-itage Council oversees the planning of Austin’s MLK Day celebrations.

A new department is being opened on UT’s campus for African and African Diaspora Studies, said University President William Pow-ers Jr., and more than half of this fall’s entering class is composed of students of color, a first for UT.

“MLK’s presence here on our

East Mall, César Chávez on our West Mall and Barbara Jordan un-der the Battle Oaks — these are stone symbols of diversity and in-clusion on our campus, of tolerance and respect,” Powers said. “But they must be more than symbols.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dreams are still as relevant to stu-dents as ever, given events such as the recent renaming of Creekside Hall dormitory, said student body president Scott Parks during the march’s opening rally. The dorm was previously known as Simkins Hall dormitory in honor of former UT law professor William Stew-art Simkins, a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

“That’s a very important, symbol-ic moment for our campus in my mind, and one that Dr. King would be incredibly proud to see happen,” Parks said. “Simkins was a racist, and the renaming of that dormito-ry brought about a lot of really pro-ductive and honest and amazing conversations on this campus, espe-cially among students. It was a real-ly valuable experience for everyone, and today is a fitting day to thank everyone involved in that decision.”

and efficient energy usage.”The center is held to high

environmental standards with flower gardens and the cisterns to collect water and reduce the building’s wasted resources. The University is seeking a sil-ver LEED certification for the building, which would indicate high levels of efficiency and sustainability, said UT sustain-ability director Jim Walker.

Cisneros said perhaps the most important element of the center was making it activity-driven with expanded facilities.

“Students who didn’t have a space to conduct certain dance practices, for example, now have a space to do that,” he said.

SAC director Crystal King said she hopes students em-brace the center as a special place and make it their own.

Student Government Presi-dent Scott Parks said the cen-ter’s many new features and convenient location will soon make it a new high traffic area. SG offices are moving from the Student Services Building to the SAC this month.

“I think that the Student Ac-tivity Center will be a really nice compliment to the Union that we already have,” he said. “It will be a more vibrant, flex-ible space for all different kinds of student groups to meet and hang out.”

In addition to SG, the cen-ter is now home to the Of-fice of the Dean of Students, the Multicultural Information Center and the Gender and Sexuality Center, among oth-er organizations’ offices.

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Patsy Williams and Jacob Ervin, employees for the Eddie Deen catering company, fold unused tablecloths Monday in preparation for Rick Perry’s inaguaration barbeque at the Capitol this afternoon.

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“... These are stone symbols of diversity and inclusion on our campus, of tolerance and respect.“ — William Powers, UT President

She said all faculty members voted from a list of about 20 cost-cutting options, including cutting off profes-sors’ phones and reducing paid trav-el, and the incentives were the most popular choice.

The Academic Planning and Ad-visory Council, a nine-member pan-el, created and distributed the facul-ty survey. Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl appointed the committee and charged it with finding ways to cut the budget.

Bini said she has already had to cut courses in the face of the state legis-lature’s reduced allocations, and her department lost three faculty mem-bers to the retirement incentives.

College of Liberal Arts spokesman Gary Susswein said by shifting teach-ing loads and allowing fewer unfilled spots in classes, the college can soft-en the impact on students of the re-duced number of professors.

The English department lost six of its 76 tenured professors; more than any other department. English de-partment chair Liz Cullingford said the reduction in faculty will primar-ily impact specialty and graduate courses, some of which have already been cut.

She said because she knew the cuts were coming, she and other depart-ment chairs had time to adjust before spring registration opened.

“My son going to UT has given me a new appreciation of what hell it causes to drop a class after regis-tration,” Cullingford said. “In a way it’s a juggling act, and we have to jug-

gle classes all the time. We’re hav-ing much more trouble figuring out what to do about a class where the professor got sick.”

Cullingford said her biggest sched-uling hurdle from the reduction came when two professors slated to teach sections of the same course took the offer. She said she had to cancel one section of about 20 offered and in-crease the size of other sections.

“It makes no difference to a lectur-er whether there are 250 or 300 stu-dents in a section,” Cullingford said. “I don’t think students are going to notice an increase of 22 to 25 stu-dents in a discussion section.”

Cullingford said the faculty is gen-erally happy with the buyouts con-sidering the alternatives. She said de-spite drawbacks, the incentives of-fered new opportunities for those who took advantage.

Jose Limon, a former UT English professor, took the offer of the in-centives to continue his career at the University of Notre Dame. He said he ignored the buyout offer when he got it last summer. Then a col-league nominated him for a posi-tion at Notre Dame. He said while these nominations are an honor, he ignored them in the past because he wanted to stay at UT.

“I’ll be making more money than I was making at UT on top of the incentives, so I took it,” Li-mon said. “I think all of us were surprised [about the buyout], but it certainly reflects the seriousness of the budget problem.”

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TERESOPOLIS — Brazil’s army on Monday sent 700 soldiers to help throw a lifeline to desperate neighborhoods that have been cut off from food, water or help in recovering bodies since mudslides killed at least 655 people.

Troops have already set up at least one bridge in the mountain vacation city of Teresopolis, officials said, but at least 10 main highways remain blocked in the rug-

ged area north of Rio where the slides hit, hampering efforts to move in the heavy ma-chinery needed to begin massive clean up efforts and eventually dig out bodies stuck under tons of mud and debris.

Days of heavy rains unleashed tons of earth, rock and raging torrents of wa-ter down steep, forested mountainsides Wednesday, directly into towns that are weekend getaways for the Rio area.

Rescuers had yet to reach about 20 neigh-borhoods, though a break in rains and bet-ter visibility allowed about 12 helicopters

to begin taking supplies and firefighters in, while shuttling injured survivors out.

But pilots said flying was still treacherous in the area full of jagged mountain peaks, where there are few safe landing zones and power lines are draped between peaks through seemingly clear space.

All levels of government have come un-der heavy criticism for not alerting people to the dangers — and of allowing homes to be built in high-risk areas. Local mayors have said they did not receive any warning a storm of that magnitude was about to hit.

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Rescue workers cover the body of landslide victim Samara Coelho da Silva in Nova Friburgo, Brazil. Brazil’s army sent 700 sol-diers to help throw a lifeline to areas cut off from food, water or help.

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As the nation tries to understand last week’s tragic shooting in Tuscon, Ariz., many point to the shooter’s history of mental illness while in col-lege as a red flag.

With this in mind, as administra-tors and student leaders approach the unenviable task of analyzing and cut-ting campus budgets, we urge them to protect our mental health resources. Much like October’s campus shoot-

ing and death by suicide of Colton Tooley, the events in Tuscon are a sad reminder that mental illness is not only a health issue, but a security one as well.

Similarly, we also hope state law-makers remember the importance of mental health services when formu-lating their own budget cuts. While the multibillion-dollar state budget deficit makes some cuts inevitable,

mental health services protect citi-zens’ well being and our communi-ty’s safety.

Lastly, we hope students remember — and use — the mental health re-sources available on campus. The UT Counseling and Mental Health Center is located on the fifth floor in the Stu-dent Services building and exists for the sole purpose of helping the UT community stay safe and healthy.

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Texas politics haven’t cooled since November’s midterm elections, which saw a wave of Republican victories across the state. On Thursday, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senior Texas senator who has served since 1993, an-nounced she will not seek re-election in 2012. The announcement sparked a litany of speculation about possible candidates from both parties for what are sure to be a hotly contested pair of primaries. High-profile figures such as Railroad Commissioner Michael Wil-liams, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert have all been linked to a possible Senate run.

Much of the clamor over winter break revolved around the possible oust-

ing of State Rep. Joe Straus as the state Speaker of the House. In 2008, the state representative from San Antonio led a successful coup against then-speaker and fellow Republican Tom Craddick, a move that angered many of the more conservative members of the party. Prior to the current session, represen-tatives Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, and Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, attempted to channel Tea Party sentiments and the latest Republican upswing to replace Straus with a more conservative speak-er. However, both candidates dropped out of the race after the Republican caucus decided to stick with Straus; last week on the session’s first day Straus was reelected by a margin of 132-15.

The current legislative session will have to account for the state’s current $27 billion budget deficit. Today, the House Appropriations Chairman Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, is set to introduce a new budget that assumes no new sources of revenue and no use of the state’s “Rainy Day Fund.” Such a bud-get would certainly entail a decrease in state services as well as even less state funding for UT. Higher education in Texas has already faced several reduc-tions in state funding that have had a measurable impact on the University’s academic operations. We hope that a more “moderate” speaker will be open to other solutions that won’t gut the state’s colleges and universities.

After passing in the House of Represen-tatives, the DREAM Act failed to receive enough votes to advance in the Senate in December. A 55-41 Senate vote to end the debate and take an immediate vote on the act turned up short, as 60 votes were needed for cloture.

The act’s failure to advance to a vote in the Senate is disappointing, especially be-cause it essentially — but not formally — killed the legislation. Rather than taking an official vote on the measure, Senators relied on parliamentary procedure to kill the act.

The passage of the DREAM Act would have granted conditional permanent resi-dency for qualifying undocumented mi-nors who entered the United States before

age 16 and who either earn a college de-gree or join the armed services for at least two years. According to the National Im-migration Law Center, 12 percent of all potential DREAM Act beneficiaries live in Texas.

Supporting the DREAM Act not only supports providing undocumented mi-nors with a path to citizenship but also supports higher education and the state, as it would allow universities to recruit a variety of talented students and would generate billions of dollars in revenue for Texas, according to the center.

The Senate’s blockage of the act is dis-heartening, but we hope legislators and students, among others, continue to push for support and passage of the act.

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If you’re wondering what $65 in student fees looks like, head to the newly opened Student Activity Center on the East Mall.

Here’s a hint: It’s glitzy and could eas-ily be the most brochure-worthy building on the campus.

The activity center is decked out with uber-modern Ikea-style furniture and light-ing fixtures. There are two fireplace study lounges, an executive conference room with leather chairs, a ballroom with mes-quite floors and, of course, a Starbucks.

It’s natural to raise an eyebrow at such sleek decorations amid a recession and budget cuts, but decor aside, the center provides much needed classroom and study space for the rapidly expanding student population. The building pro-vides large meeting rooms, a 474-seat auditorium and it is also the new home to several student organizations.

The building is very much geared to-ward serving students, as it should be. We’re paying for it.

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Visitors tour the Texas State Capitol the day before the second week of the legislative session.

While lobbyists asked lawmak-ers to consider using the Rainy Day Fund — a state emergen-cy fund that can be used during budget shortfalls — some legis-lators, as well as Gov. Rick Perry, said they do not want to use the fund or increase taxes. Green-berg said with such large num-bers looming, the obvious effect will be budget cuts.

“What we’re looking at is mas-sive cuts in public education and health human services, like Med-icaid,” she said. “Higher education agencies have been told to look for a 10-percent budget cut in the budgets they submitted for the next biennium.”

According to a budget sum-mary published by the Center for Politics and Governance, 95 per-

cent of 163 former office holders, lobbyists and consultants expect cuts to higher education.

Larger class sizes, salary freez-es and fewer teaching assistants are some results of budget cuts that government professor Bruce Buchanan has noticed during the 2010-11 school year.

“There have been activities of various departments in the Col-

lege of Liberal Arts and elsewhere that have offered faculty early re-tirement as a way of reducing ex-penses,” he said. “One of the things that has bothered some of my col-leagues is that we no longer of-fer discussion sections in most of our larger classes. This is a rough patch and the University is going to have to do its part along with other state agencies.”

The Legislature will also address a bill state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, filed that could allow stu-dents to carry concealed handguns on campus.

“It has been a very controversial bill, and previously it did not have the majority support from students and faculty,” Greenberg said. “Par-ticularly with the [Sept. 28] inci-dent, it still will gender discussion.”

On Sept. 28 2010, former math-ematics sophomore Colton Tooley

fired several rounds of his AK-47 on campus before taking his own life in the Perry-Castañeda Library.

Lawmakers filed a similar bill last session but never took a vote on it.

“With all the issues of budgets, redistricting and immigration tak-ing up time, there hasn’t been much discussion on it lately,” Greenberg said. “This issue will get attention and be discussed. It did last session, and it will this session. This bill will get its day in the sun this session.”


Security personnel guard the north entrance to the State Capitol. The halls of the Capitol are once again bustling as the biennial legislative session returns.

Lawmakers get second shot in campus firearms debate

Focus falls on Rainy Day Fund, more cuts

B y The 82nd Texas Legislature reconvened once again under the Capitol dome on Jan. 11, and this year’s session is expected to tackle some major issues, including a budget deficit and a concealed carry bill.

Lawmakers will face the task of balancing and managing the 2012-13 bien-nial budget deficit, which is estimated to be anywhere from $15 billion to more than $25 billion, according to the LBJ School of Public Affairs Center for Politics and Governance.

“Budget and redistricting will take out all the oxygen this session, the budget has to pass and the congressional redistricting has to be done by the Legislature,” said Sherri Greenberg, former Texas House representative and UT LBJ School lecturer. “By the time you get through the two of those, there’s not going to be much oxygen left. The budget is the gorilla of the session.”

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The UT-El Paso College of En-gineering aims to carry the man-ufacturing process into the future with a new center that will devel-op emerging technologies that could impact technology in many areas.

The Structural and Printed Emerging Technologies Center’s goal is to marry additive manu-facturing processes and printed electronics processes, said Ryan Wicker, the center’s co-director. In additive manufacturing, a ma-chine adds material layer by lay-er to create a product, and with printed electronics, separate cir-cuit boards are traded for materi-al with electronic properties that serve the same purpose as a cir-

cuit board. The result of this combination

would be lighter and more dura-ble products — such as a football helmet that can detect concus-

sions — because products will be made of one piece with electronic components integrated into their physical structure.

“Overall, the goal is to devel-

op a technology where from the ground up you can make basical-ly anything,” Wicker said.

The center’s other co-director Kenneth Church came to UTEP

from the private manufacturing industry to bring in experience with technology commercializa-tion and printed electronics. He said he created a UTEP-based

company called 3D Monolithics to license technologies developed at the center.

The processes they devel-op have the potential to localize manufacturing by simplifying the procedure, he said.

“Imagine walking to a dealer-ship: You walk up to a comput-er, design your car and push print and make your car,” Church said.

The center, which will be com-pleted in March, received a total of $9 million in start-up and op-erating costs — $3 million each from the state’s Emerging Tech-nology Fund, the UT System and Lockheed Martin, an aerospace company. Lockheed Martin will benefit from the manufacturing processes developed at the center by influencing the specific direc-tion of the research. Church said

at least 30 other companies will work with the center to develop the manufacturing process.

UTEP Engineering Dean Rich-ard Schoephoerster said he hired three additional faculty members with expertise in the field to work in the center.

“I recognized the opportuni-ty and how important the work they’re doing in this field is,” Schoephoerster said. “They are doing work we believe is really going to transform the manufac-turing industry, not just here but also nationally and worldwide.”

Schoephoerster said the center will also bring in funds through commercialization and licens-ing of technologies and will in-crease the curriculum and create research opportunities for engi-neering students.

UT-El Paso aims to modernize manufacturingBy Matthew StottlemyreDaily Texan Staff

Departmentlaunches site, links historyto technology

By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff

The Histor y Department launched an all-inclusive website Jan. 10 that will keep former stu-dents connected with UT’s history department while bringing technol-ogy-based world history resources to everyone interested.

Not Even Past is an interactive history website that grants access to book and film recommendations and reviews, history articles from professional archives and collec-tions, interviews and live chats with history professors.

History professor Joan Neuberg-er, chief editor of Not Even Past, said the site is a unique, highly interac-tive database that works as a compi-lation of sources.

“No other site combines this va-riety of articles and media,” she said. “Most innovative are our vir-tual courses where anyone who registers on the website can take part in seminars on books offered by our faculty.”

The site’s content is complete-ly generated by UT professors and graduate students and is available to free of charge to anyone who regis-ters on the site.

“We want this to be a valuable teaching tool for anyone anywhere,” Neuberger said. “We want to use the resources of our award-winning fac-ulty and graduate students to teach history to anyone cruising around the Internet.”

Associate history professor Char-ters Wynn will conduct one of the three courses offered through the website. Participants will read three assigned books that will be dis-cussed throughout the course.

“This site is a way to bring histo-ry outside the University for peo-ple who would like to have a little bit of history in their lives,” Wynn said. “They can use it to bring 15 minutes of history into their day or they can do something a little more ambitious, like sign up for one of the courses.”

History department website con-sultant Rick Geyer said they worked with various statewide agencies that are in touch with school districts all over Texas to find out how to make the site a tool for social stud-ies teachers.

“We are wanting to connect and give them a resource that they’ve never had before in terms of con-tent that their students will be inter-ested in.”

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The goal is to develop a technology where from the ground up you can make basically anything.“ — Ryan Wicker, Structural and Printed Emerging Technologies co-director

Poll finds public opinion split over repeal of healthcare law

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an As-sociated Press-GfK poll finds raw feel-ings over President Barack Obama’s overhaul have subsided.

Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong op-position to the law stands at 30 per-cent, close to the lowest level registered in AP-GfK surveys dating to Septem-ber 2009.

The nation is divided over the law, but the strength and intensity of the opposition appear diminished. The law expands coverage to more than 30 mil-lion uninsured, and would require, for the first time, that most people in the United States carry health insurance.

The poll finds that 40 percent of those surveyed said they support the law, while 41 percent oppose it. Just af-ter the November congressional elec-tions, opposition stood at 47 percent and support was 38 percent.

As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans sup-port for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.

Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engi-neer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is.

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Dr. Elliot Tucker-Drob led research for a recent study comparing genetics and poverty in children.

A UT study published in the journal Psychological Science provides a new take on the nature versus nurture debate — the so-cioeconomic class of a child might have more to with his or her de-velopment than genes.

UT psychologists found that children who grow up in wealth-ier homes are more likely to reach their full cognitive potential than children who grow up in poverty.

The study followed data from the U.S. Department of Educa-tion that studied 750 families with twins located across the country whose mental ability was tracked from 10 months to 2 years old. Psychology professor Elliot Tuck-

er-Drob, who led the research at UT, examined the Department of Education numbers to find trends that indicate the impact of genetic and environmental elements.

“The big paradox in the study of cognitive development is the idea of nature versus nurture,” Tuck-er-Drob said. “In the past, people have looked at one or the other, but only recently we have started thinking it is not one or the other but how genes and environments go together to produce healthy development with gene and envi-ronment interplay.”

When researchers observed the data, socioeconomic status did not play a role in the cognitive de-velopment of 10-month-olds. But when observed at 2 years old, the children’s socioeconomic statuses

started to become a factor.In contrast, when genes of

twins raised in different homes were compared, they maintained similar characteristics regardless of the environment.

“If we really want to help peo-ple make the most of themselves, we need to get them the best op-portunities, because we’re finding these effects happening very early in childhood,” Tucker-Drob said. “It’s a combination of poor families not having enough resources, hav-ing less income and being over-worked; they don’t have enough time to interact with their children and promote their development.”

Psychology professor Aletha Huston said this year-long study puts depth into the simple views of nature versus nurture.

“We’ve known that for a long time, but it has taken a while for data to show how genetic influenc-es may vary depending on different types of environments,” she said. “The study is especially impor-tant because it counteracts the ar-guments that social class differenc-es in intelligence are due to genet-ic differences. Instead, it shows that environments make a difference, especially for children from disad-vantaged homes.”

Tucker-Drob is starting a study similar to the Department of Ed-ucation’s research this year using Austin twins.

“We are starting a twin study at the University of Texas that’s based on children going to public schools in the Austin and Round Rock community,” he said.

This is the first study to show gene and environment interac-tion impacting children at an ear-ly age and is gaining attention.

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The Co-op’s new partnership with CourseSmart, an eBook provider, offers students more than 100 popular textbooks used at UT.

For the past nine years, the Co-op has provided digital text-books to students with various providers. Chad Stitch, direc-tor of course material, said the Co-op decided to partner with CourseSmart be-cause they have lower prices and a wider selection of eBooks UT students need.

“We think stu-dents want op-tions and we’re going to provide them,” Stitch said.

L a s t i n g f o r 180 days, eBooks s ave s tudents about 40 percent off the textbook price, Stitch said. He believes stu-dents will be ini-tially attracted to the price of the digital version of books, but eBooks will sat-isfy their needs.

“You don’t have to carry it around, and it has some inter-esting features,” Stitch said. “You can highlight, extract the high-lighted text, you can mark the book, stick a note in there and pull your notes to review later.”

Stitch said usually one half of one percent of the actual enroll-ment of students in the courses offered use eBooks, though the number is increasing.

“I think the holidays brought lots of attention to the Kindle

and the Nook offered by Barnes and Noble and certainly the iPad being the big gift of the season, a lot of people bought eBook reading devices,” Stitch said. “We think they’re going to start experimenting with that at this point.“

CourseSmart CEO Sean Di-vine said they cover 90 percent of textbooks, so students can find most of their textbooks in digital form.

“Saving mon-ey and anytime anywhere access are the principle things that stu-dents tell us that they enjoy,” Di-vine said.

Students and society in gener-al are much more mobile and that prov ides more benefits, Divine said. C ourseS-m a r t prov i d e s iPad and iPhone applicat ions to access eBooks.

“What a lot of students do is they use their iPhone device to look at their notes in their textbook right be-fore a test,” Divine said. “It’s a lot eas-

ier to look that up in your iPhone than paging through a book.”

Social work freshman Tammy Jitnoom said she knew about the eBook offered at the Co-op but did not purchase any. She said she likes to highlight and copy things from her textbooks.

“I study better with them,” Jit-noom said. “We spend so many hours on the computer with Fa-cebook and other websites al-ready, so I’d rather have a pa-per copy.”

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A new car-sharing program that launched this week will help the UT com-munity save money and become more en-vironmentally friendly with vehicles avail-able for anyone to use at any time of the day.

Operated from campus through Park-ing and Transportation Services, Zipcar allows students, faculty and staff to rent vehicles on-demand hourly or daily, re-ducing the need for students to bring a car to campus. Zipcar aims to help univer-sity administrators maximize the use of limited on-campus parking, reduce cam-pus congestion and decrease their car-bon footprint, according to the company’s website. Zipcar, founded in Massachusetts in 2000, is the largest car-sharing service in the world, with about 225 universities that participate in the program. UT is the latest addition.

“We chose to bring the service to UT to help the University become a little more green and sustainable,” said Blanca Juarez,

PTS Alternative Transportation manager. “It also encourages students not to bring a car to campus because we will provide one for them.”

A group of eight cars are now available to the UT community, including various sedans, trucks and sports utility vehicles, Juarez said.

The cars are available for personal or business use to all drivers on campus 18 years or older who create an online ac-count for the service. Drivers 21 and old-er have access to Zipcars in some major cities around the world including Atlanta, Boston, London, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

There are 530,000 Zipcar mem-bers who have access to thousands of cars around the globe. Cars can be re-served over the phone or online, or even through an iPhone application, accord-ing to the Zipcar website.

“We created a new category of car-sharing that helps us re-think owner-ship,” said Matt Malloy, Zipcar Vice Pres-ident of International University Rela-tions. “The majority of students who bring cars to campus use them only a lit-tle bit. When you use Zipcars, you’re sav-ing green while being green.”

Rates start at $8 per hour and $66 per day, which includes gas, insurance, re-

served parking spaces around campus, roadside assistance and up to 180 free miles per day before the member would have to start paying for miles, according to the Zipcar website.

“Zipcar saves about $500 to $600 com-pared to personally owned vehicles,” Mal-loy said. “We often ask our members to do the math on everything else that comes along with owning a car.”

For every Zipcar, 15-20 personal-ly owned vehicles are taken off the road, Malloy said.

The first step to becoming a Zipcar member is joining online and paying a $35 membership fee per year. Approval comes after a background check on driving his-tory, and then the member is free to re-serve a car after receiving a “Zipcard” in the mail, according to the Zipcar website. Cars are located curbside in various loca-tions throughout campus.

Zipcar representatives will be on cam-pus Jan. 19 and 20, answering questions about the program and helping students learn more about the membership pro-cess, Malloy said.

“Just like you download music song-by-song, think about how you can apply that to a car,” Malloy said. “We encourage people to bike and walk and use public transportation, and only use a car when they need it.”

By Allison KrollDaily Texan Staff

Car rental program zips to UT A fleet of eight Zipcars became available to the UT Austin campus in mid-January for students, faculty and staff to rent by the hour or the day.

Trent Lesikar Daily Texan Staff

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said she may change her post-graduation plans so that she can travel back to Israel for a longer period.

“I’m homesick for a place I nev-er thought I’d feel that way toward,” Unell said. “Making that trip to Isra-el is the most welcoming feeling I’ve ever felt as a Jew.”

Unell said the highlight of the trip for her was meeting eight mem-bers of the Israeli Defense Force who stayed with the Hillel group for five days of their trip. In every Birthright trip, Israeli soldiers join the groups to meet Jewish youth from other coun-tries and share what it is like to grow up in Israel, and Komerofsky said it is an important way to meet people directly involved in the Israeli-Pales-tinian conflict.

“Many of the students on the trip have only heard negative things about Israel and the army from the media,” he said. “Meeting these young people gives them a way to see that the young Jewish people in the [Israeli Defense Force] are much

like them, even though they are liv-ing a very different life.”

Government junior Dale Hanson said he decided to go on the trip to learn more about Israel, but that he was disappointed by the lack of bal-anced information with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he said is much more complicated than most people believe. Hanson noted that the group attended a Birthright event at which Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu spoke and encour-aged them to advocate a very specif-ic pro-Israel viewpoint.

“It’s definitely a wonderful experi-ence — the trip of a lifetime — but it was filled with Israeli propaganda,” he said. “There was very little men-tion about the Palestinians and some of the human rights violations and failures of the Israeli Defense Force.”

However, Hanson added that the trip opened his eyes to an unbreak-able bond between Jews and Isra-el and said he made strong connec-tions to people he met and places he saw there. A woman he met at a gro-

cery store in Golan Heights, a range of hills on the border between Syr-ia and Israel, felt like a grandmother when she offered her help and showed him pictures of her family, he said.

U n e l l said she felt that she had a much broader perspective on the conflict after the trip and would encourage any eligi-ble Jewish student to go on a Birth-right trip.

“There’s no reason at all not to go,” Unell said. “You can be religious, you can be not religious, you can be an-ti-Israel or pro-Israel. Traveling there gave me a wider view and an expe-rience outside of what the media says. You can take from this experi-ence what you want to and apply it in your own way.”

— Additional reporting by Erika Rich

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Birthright participants from South Florida take a quick stroll by camel through the Southern Israeli Desert. Every year thousands of Jews from around the world participate in Birthright, many of whom travel with orga-nizations like the Jewish Community of South Florida or Texas Hillel.

Erika Rich| Daily Texan Staff

Allison Rude hugs Israeli soldier Yogev Henig just prior to the soldier’s departure. Henig was one of eight soldiers from the Israeli Defense Force who traveled for five days with the Texas Hillel winter Birthright trip, during its 10-day tour through Israel.


The Birthright Mega Event brought together thousands of Jewish youth from various groups across the world that participated in the program, which is enter-ing its second decade.


Tour guide Yoni Ben-Tsedef leads a conversation concerning tensions in the Middle East with a South Florida Birthright group at an Israeli memorial overlooking the Gaza Strip.


Participant Jenna Montero leads a South Florida Birthright group in a morning yoga session before a hike through the rocky desert of the Negev in Southern Israel.


Birthright participants from different parts of the United States dance to the beat of drums in Jerusalem during a gathering in the midway point of the winter Birthright trip.

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Bill Parcells has quite an impres-sive coaching tree, full of former as-sistants now doing bigger and bet-ter things in both the profession-al and collegiate ranks. Texas’ new defensive coordinator Manny Diaz also has Parcells to thank for his current situation, even though he never worked under the two-time NFL champion.

Diaz was an ESPN production as-sistant during an interview with Par-cells, then head coach of the New England Patriots, prior to Super Bowl XXXI. It was then, in New Or-leans, listening to the coaching leg-end nicknamed “The Big Tuna” that Diaz decided he wanted to coach.

Forget that he had no coaching ex-perience or that he never played football in college.

“At that moment, I didn’t want to coach,” Diaz said. “I had to coach.”

He got a job as a graduate assistant at his alma mater of Florida State and made it to the NCAA champi-onship in his first year. In his second season in Tallahassee, the Seminoles won the national title.

“I was like, ‘Man, this is easy, this coaching thing. I got this down pat,’” Diaz said. “The great thing is that I was able to learn from a guy like [former FSU defensive coordinator] Mickey Andrews.”

Diaz’s lack of experience allowed him to absorb everything Andrews threw his way.

“When I came, I was a clean sheet of paper,” Diaz said. “I had no pre-conceived notions. No one needed to go into Florida State and tell them how to do anything. They were the industry standard there in the late ’90s as a football program and abso-lutely on defense.”

With the taste already acquired, Diaz has said he’s hungry for anoth-er national championship and brings the type of youthful passion last seen when Will Muschamp came over from Auburn.

“He’s a very bright young coach,” Mack Brown said. “He will be a great fit to the coaches that we have on campus.”

The staff that Mack built

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WHERE THEY’RE GOING: Arizona

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WHERE THEY’RE GOING: Retired

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WHERE THEY CAME FROM: Mississippi State

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BO DAVISPOSITION: Defensive tackles coach

WHERE THEY CAME FROM: Alabama

BRYAN HARSINPOSITION: Co-offensive coordinator

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While students were gone for the semester break, Tex-as began the long-expect-

ed rebuilding process with a number of high-profile hires, including the courtship of Idaho-native and long-time Boise State coach Bryan Harsin to team up with fan-favorite and for-mer Texas quarterback Major Ap-plewhite as co-offensive coordina-tors. Head coach Mack Brown also brought on up-and-coming defen-sive coordinator Manny Diaz from Mississippi State after Will Mus-champ gave up his $900,000 salary and head-coach-in-waiting title for the top job at Florida. In Diaz and Harsin, Brown got his men as the two coaches accepted their offers rel-atively quickly. However, the over-haul is still incomplete with no of-fensive line coach to speak of after both Auburn’s Jeff Grimes and Okla-homa State’s Joe Wickline decided against joining the program. After the most extensive overhaul in recent history, the staff is finally returning to a semblance of peace, although observers are sure to remain criti-cal until the team gets back on the field against Rice eight long months from now.

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By Jon ParrettDaily Texan Staff

Bryan Harsin saw firsthand Saturday what Texas fans ex-pect the Longhorn offense to do against Oklahoma next fall. The Longhorns’ new co-offensive coordinator sat courtside with Major Applewhite as the Tex-as men’s basketball team pum-meled the Sooners in the Frank Erwin Center.

It will be Harsin and Applewhite’s responsibility to duplicate those re-sults on the football field in 2011.

“I know our expectations here,” Harsin said in a press conference last week. “We have a champion-ship program. We have a cham-pionship head coach, and it’s my job to help put together a cham-pionship offense.”

Harsin will also serve as the Longhorns’ quarterbacks coach, replacing Greg Davis, who re-signed early last month after 13 seasons at Texas. Harsin and Ap-plewhite, who was promoted to co-offensive coordinator, will work together to develop an of-fensive game plan, with Harsin handling the play-calling duties.

“As a coordinator, there are times when you need help and times when you don’t need help,” Applewhite said before introduc-ing Harsin last week. “I under-stand that role, and so I want to help Bryan in installing this of-fense and whatever we need to do to just simply win games and do what is best for us here at Texas.”

Harsin arrived in Austin af-ter coaching for 10 years at Boi-se State. He spent the previous five seasons as offensive coordi-nator and quarterbacks coach for

the Broncos and was a finalist for the Broyles Award in 2009, which is given to the nation’s top assis-tant coach.

The Broncos had one of the most prolific offenses in the country the past several years, consistently ranking among the best in major statistical catego-ries. Their offense, primarily fu-eled by the passing game, helped them to BCS bowl wins in 2007 and 2010.

Harsin brings a multiple-style offense that’s different from the spread offense Texas has run for

nearly the past decade.“[At Boise], we’ve had to try to

create matchups in our favor, and I think that was one of the things that pushed into going into this type of system,” Harsin said. “From that it just evolved into kind of a scheme that we felt be-came ours. We had a formula of how to do it that we felt worked

very well.”To compare, the Longhorns

lined up in six formations on offense during their 34-7 win against Wyoming last fall. Boise State lined up in 26 formations and beat the Cowboys 51-6.

Harsin and Applewhite will team with newly hired receivers coach Darrell Wyatt to improve an offense that scored just fewer than 24 points per game, ranking 88th in the country.

Co-offensive coordinators are unconventional in college football but not unheard of. Justin Fuente and Jarrett Anderson constructed a TCU offense that ranked fourth in the country in scoring offense in 2009. Last month, Oklahoma named Josh Heupel and Jay Nor-vell co-offensive coordinators, after previous coordinator Kyle Wilson took the head coaching job at Indiana.

Co-coordinators have worked out in the past for Texas. Gene Chizik and Duane Akina were co-defensive coordinators in 2005 whewn Texas won the na-tional championship.

“It’s an effort that we’re going to do this together,” Harsin said. “We’re going to put our minds to-gether. There’s a lot of knowledge that’s going to be in that room, and we’re going to make this sys-tem a Texas system.”

Texas still has a vacancy at of-fensive line coach and the athlet-ics department seems primed to fill that spot as the new co-co-ordinators begin to rebuild the Longhorn offense.

“They’re anxious to get started, and we can’t wait to watch what they do,” said Texas head coach Mack Brown.

Diaz moved from FSU to North Carolina State before taking over co-ordinator responsibilities at Middle Tennessee in 2006, where his defens-es never finished worse than third in the Sun Belt in sacks and tackles for loss through four seasons. It was with the Blue Raiders that he earned a reputation for coaching aggressive, multiple-look sets.

“I am absolutely humbled by the turns my career has taken,” he said. “The fact that for whatever reason that I was chosen to do this is some-thing that I don’t take very lightly.”

Now Diaz is tasked with rebuild-ing a Texas unit that forced the sec-ond-fewest turnovers of any Big 12 team in 2010 and generally un-der-performed, given expectations. Brown selected Diaz because the 36-year-old coach did just that with Mississippi State last season, helping the Bulldogs improve dramatically across the board in his first season as coordinator at a BCS school.

Mississippi State allowed 119.1 rushing yards per game in 2010. Bulldog defenders also recorded 91 tackles for loss and 26 sacks.

With the recent addition of Jerry Gray as defensive backs coach, Di-az’s staff is complete and the new co-ordinator can get to work preparing for next year. He also has Bo Davis, who was brought on from Alabama to work with the interior linemen, and holdover Oscar Giles to coach defensive ends.

“The first thing our defense was going to do was be designed to hunt negative plays. We’re always hunt-ing negative plays, and I know that there are a bunch of guys at this school that don’t need a map to get into the backfield,” Diaz said. “I al-ways like to say that we’ll sum it up in two simple terms: we’re going to stop the run and we’re going to hit the quarterback.”

Just how Diaz plans to accomplish those two goals is still unknown. He

preaches the importance of showing different fronts to confuse offenses and is known to bring pressure from all over the field.

“I always think that schemes are overrated,” he said. “If I had my dru-thers, I’d like to play a 5-4-5, which you’re not allowed to do, but I want the offense to feel that way. That’s all I want. I want them to look at us and feel like we got about 13 to 14 guys running around. When we got it going the way we want it, we just want to look like we have an unfair advantage.”

Despite Diaz’s unorthodox career path, he’s been well received at every stop since joining the Seminoles 12 years ago.

“If I told you it was a good plan, I’d be lying,” he said. “It was a crazy plan.”

Crazy might just be what this coaching staff needs after the worst season in Brown’s tenure and a dra-matic staff overhaul.

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Derek Stout | Daily Texan file photo

Major Applewhite, right, watches as Chris Whaley and Cody Johnson participate in drills prior to a game. Applewhite was promoted from running backs coach to co-offensive coordinator.

Applewhite, Harsin expected to change up offensive scheme

FBS SCHOOLS WITH COOFFENSIVE COORDINATOR IN 2010• TCU (13-0) points for 41.6, passing yards 229, rushing yards 247

• Rutgers (4-8) points for 20.8, passing yards 194, rushing yards 100

• Mississippi (4-8) points for 30.6, passing yards 192, rushing yards 207

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SPORTSTuesday, January 18, 2011 3B

A few post-season thoughts:• Before playing Penn State for the

second Final Four in a row, Head Coach Jerritt Elliott implied that the two teams look to be headed for a long-term rivalry of sorts.

“It’s another opportunity,” Elliott said. “When you look at Penn State’s program and where our program is at and the future recruits that are coming in and the players that we have, this could be a battle that con-tinues for the next couple of years in the Final Four.”

It turns out the two teams have far more in common than they could have ever imagined. They are two of only three teams to win a na-tional championship east of Califor-nia. Both teams were captained by senior outside hitters who were fin-ishing off illustrious careers as the winningest players in their respec-tive program’s history (Juliann Fau-cette and Blair Brown). Also, both teams played the year without top returning sophomore outside hitters due to ACL injuries (Bailey Webster and Darcy Dorton).

Both research universities are their state’s flagship institution with large undergraduate enrollments (about 38,000 at both). Texas is ranked 45th by the U.S. News and World Report National Universities rankings, while Penn State is 47th. Both also have large alumni bases (about 450,000 at Texas and 510,000 at Penn State).

Both schools take pride in their football programs and have two well-known coaches (Mack Brown and Joe Paterno), very recognizable brands (Longhorns and Nittany Li-ons) and two of the six largest sta-diums in the country (DKR with a capacity of about 100,100 and Beaver Stadium with a capacity of

about 107,300).They both have also regularly

made Princeton Review’s top par-ty school list and usually sit within the top few.

• The winner of the “Most Fans Without a Team at the NCAA Fi-nal Four” contest goes to Nebras-ka. The Cornhusker faithful poured into Kansas City, and it is unclear what team they were cheering for. Lincoln is only about three hours away, so some fans probably decid-ed it was a worthy trek. Others may have just been stuck with non-re-fundable Final Four tickets and ho-tel bookings that they made before No. 3-ranked Nebraska was upset by Washington during the Region-als, a match which ended with the two coaches having to be separated.

• Speaking of Nebraska, how good will the Big Ten Conference be next year? By boasting the na-tional champion and thrusting six teams into the Sweet 16, the confer-ence has unofficially wrestled away the Pac-10’s dominance. The addi-tion of the Cornhuskers only takes that a step further. Meanwhile, the Longhorns will need to find a dif-ferent team to circle their calen-dars for. Iowa State, Oklahoma and Missouri have all put together sol-id seasons, but none compete for a national championship on the near-yearly basis that Nebraska did.

• With Faucette gone, the team will look toward a new leader. Who that leader will be could be a little bit more challenging. Junior libero Sydney Yogi was the team’s co-cap-tain and will be back, but she was injured most of the season. Junior setter Michelle Kocher was an assis-tant co-captain, and with the team likely to go with a two-setter rota-tion next season, she could emerge as one of the leaders. Other possible candidates include freshman set-ter Hannah Allison, junior middle blocker Rachael Adams or junior outside hitter Amber Roberson.

With 2010 f i rmly in the rearview, it may be too early for the Longhorns to shake off their crushing exit from the Final Four, but one thing is for certain — Texas has plenty to look for-ward to in 2011.

Jerritt Elliott’s young team bat-tled adversity during its run to the Final Four, and his talented squad returns seven players who often started for the Longhorns in 2010. Elliott will rely on mid-dle blocker Rachael Adams and outside hitter Amber Roberson as the two roommates will re-turn to lead the Longhorn team this fall.

Both Roberson and Adams will assume the leadership posi-tion left by the departing senior class, but the two juniors careful-ly watched this season’s seniors and are confident they can pick up where veterans Juliann Fauc-ette and Jen Doris left off.

“Looking at them, you have to learn how to take control of a team at a certain time when there’s young players and they’re going to be looking up to you,” Roberson said. “You have to be the one to step up to that and be

the one they can count on rather than you counting on them.”

Setter Michelle Kocher and libero Sydney Yogi will also be seniors in 2011 and will inher-it a rather young but experienced team — one Elliott believes will find it’s way back to the Final Four once again.

“We’re going to keep get-ting back here and we’re close to cracking this,” Elliott said.

The Longhorns have been bounced from the Final Four in each of the past three years, com-ing within a point of the Nation-al Championship in 2009. This year’s group was quite young-er than the one that made the semifinals in years past, which is something that excites Elliott looking ahead to next season.

“These younger kids have got a lot more matches in them with this NCAA tournament,” Elliott said. “They learned a lot from adversity and going through that. It’s something.”

Texas was hampered by injuries much of the season, with Yogi, sophomore outside hitter Bailey Webster and freshman outside hitter Ashley Bannister missing significant time. Their return will deepen an already loaded Long-horns’ bench, giving Elliott all

the tools he needs to put together another run deep into the NCAA Tournament.

“Our program is very healthy, but again, that being said, we have new players and the culture will change dramatically each year doing that,” Elliott said. “We have to teach them, as a family, what it means to be a Texas Long-horn and represent this Univer-sity, because there are standards and they all have to live by them in the same way.”

The incoming freshman class is one of the top-rated recruiting classes in the nation, and there has been a buzz brewing around the Longhorns for quite some time regarding their chances for a title in 2011. Look for Katherine Bell, Haley Eckerman and Made-lyn Hutson — a trio of top-rated prospects — to contribute for the Longhorns from the get-go.

With a mix of talent young and old, a well-versed coaching staff and a recently impeccable track record, Texas could be the last team standing in 2011.

“They’re going to be very good next year, so I’m excited to watch them, and I’ll be one of those Longhorns texting Jerritt next year as they hopefully get back to the Final Four,” Faucette said.

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Senior Juliann Faucette attempts to spike the ball against Penn State in December’s national semifinal. The Longhorns were beat in the NCAA Tournament by the Nittany Lions for the second year in a row.

More to Longhorns, Lions than success on volleyball court

Texas begins to look toward next year

Michelle Kocher and Rachael Adams try to pump each other up during the game.

Rachael Adams celebrates a point during the Final Four in Kansas City. Adams will be one of the leaders of next year’s team.

Setter Hannah Allison attempts to block a shot from Penn State. The Longhorns managed to make the Final Four despite missing many players because of injuries.

Jen Doris prepares to serve during Texas’ loss to Penn State in December’s national semifi-nal.

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4B Tuesday, January 18, 2011SPORTS

Texas has been pretty busy dur-ing the last couple of weeks.

Prior to the beginning of the new season, the Longhorns competed in their last tournament of non-team competition. From Jan. 7-9, Texas dominated the Key Biscayne Invi-tational in Southern Florida. Texas swept the doubles matches on the first and third days, with two more victories coming on day two to give them a 10-2 doubles record for the tournament. Their doubles dom-inance was only matched by their overwhelming performance in sin-gles competition. Texas registered a 23-3 record in singles play, sweep-ing all the singles matches in the fi-nal two days.

Tabbed No. 5 in the 2011 pre-season polls, the Longhorns have been defending their ranking since team competition began earlier this month. Texas cruised to a 5-2 vic-tory against California on Jan. 15 thanks to doubles wins by Ed Cor-rie and Jean Andersen, who are the 5th-ranked doubles pair in the na-tion, and Vasko Mladenov and Ben Chen in a tie-breaker match. Tex-as also won four singles matches against the Bears with points from Jean Andersen, Kellen Damico, Ben

Chen and Vasko Mladenov.“This was a great way to start the

year,” said Texas assistant coach Ri-cardo Rubio.

The Longhorns followed up with an impressive 6-1 win against Tul-sa in Oklahoma. Texas claimed the

doubles point, and won five of the singles matches on Sunday.

Texas travels to Michigan this Saturday and still has both top-ranked Virginia and defending na-tional champions USC on its non-conference schedule. After that, it’s

on to the Big 12, which has four teams in the top 20.

“We don’t want to play teams where we know we’re going to win the match,” said Texas head coach Michael Center. “We want to play tough matches every time out.”

By Wes MaulsbyDaily Texan Staff

The Longhorns took first in five events en route to winning the sea-son-opening Leonard Hilton Memo-rial meet on Friday night. The team competed against Rice, Houston, UT-San Antonio and Louisiana Tech.

The Longhorns finished with 177 points, while Rice had 81.5, Hous-ton 81, UTSA 74 and Louisiana Tech 72.

Eight of the Texas women posted personal bests, and freshmen includ-ing Christy Udoh, Shanay Briscoe, A’Lexus Brannon and Jessica Harper helped add to the team’s total.

“I think the freshmen really made a difference in the overall team,” said Texas head coach Beverly Kear-ney. “There wasn’t one that stood out; they all did a really good job.”

Texas took the top two spots in both the mile relay and the distance medley relay.

Sophomore Alicia Peterson, ju-nior Angele Cooper, junior Stac-ey-Ann Smith and senior Chantel Malone finished in 3:42.21 for first place in the mile. Red-shirt senior Betzy Jimenez, freshman Marielle Hall, junior Julie Amthor and fresh-man Mia Behm won the distance

medley with a time of 11:49.52.The Longhorns also had podi-

um finishes in the high jump and long jump. Victoria Lucas won the high jump after clearing 5-9.25, and Shanay Briscoe placed third. Senior all-American Chantel Malone fin-ished third in the long jump.

In distance events, Jimenez won the mile in 4:47.40, and Behm fin-ished third with 4:51.56.

Senior Jenna Cuellar finished the 800-meter in third place with a time of 2:16.29, followed by sophomore Katie Hoaldridge in sixth, junior Anne Jones in seventh and fresh-man Jessica Harper in ninth.

Kearney was pleased with the team’s overall efforts and progress.

“I really thought we had a good meet,” she said. “We found some things that we really need to work on and found some things that we did really good on.”

This coming weekend, the Long-horns will split up and compete at separate meets. One group will head to the Razorback Invitational in Fayettville, Ark., and the remaining team members will compete at the Houston All-Comer’s meet.

“Overall, I think we are mov-ing in a really good direction,” Kearney said.

By Julie ThompsonDaily Texan Staff

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While many Texas students spent the holiday break enjoying time away from their daily routines on the 40 Acres, the Longhorns were still hard at work trying to further boost their status as a national con-tender. Despite early success, their confer-ence losses en-sured that their holiday was not entirely merry.

After a loss to Tennessee in mid-Decem-ber, the Long-horns turned t h e i r f o r -tunes around by sweeping the Basketball Travelers Invi-tational Classic in Las Vegas.

The Longhorns (11-6, 0-3) beat SMU in a game won by the contin-ued dominance of freshman Chas-sidy Fussell. Her 14 points marked her seventh double-digit scoring ef-fort of the season to go along with a career-high six assists.

Despite the victory, head coach Gail Goestenkors was unhappy with the early effort of her team, perhaps

foreshadowing the problems that have kept them at the bottom of the Big 12 standings.

“I said, ‘When we’re not in tran-sition, we’re not a very good team,’” Goestenkors told her team at half-time against SMU. “That’s when we turn the ball over. When we’re up tempo and attacking, we’re tougher

to defend and we do a better job of taking care of the ball.”

They won the tournament with successive wins over the Universi-ty of Nevada, Las Vegas, and South-ern Florida.

Texas contin-ued to trounce lesser opponents heading into the end of Decem-ber with wins over Cincinnati,

San Diego and Sam Houston. But as good as 2010 had been to Tex-as, the new year resolved itself with a series of crushing defeats against conference foes.

The Longhorns opened confer-ence play against Missouri with an 85-80 overtime loss. The loss came as a surprise to the team as they commanded the game early but blew a 12-point lead in the final

four minutes. Last season, Missouri earned just two conference victories and sat at the bottom of the confer-ence rankings.

“When we were up 12, I thought the game was pretty much over,” Goestenkors said. “We did just about everything you could wrong.”

Perhaps it was the collective hang-over of the Missouri loss or sim-ply Brittney Griner’s imposing pres-ence, but Texas fell flat in its sec-

ond conference game against Baylor at home.

Fussell’s career-high 25 points were overshadowed by Griner’s milestone of reaching 1,000 points in 51 games.

On Sunday, the Longhorns had a chance to climb from the gutter but only found themselves in a darker hole. Despite playing an extreme-ly strong defensive game, the Long-horns still found a way to lose to the

No. 14 Oklahoma Sooners.The Sooners blew an 11-point

lead in the second half, shot just 31 percent, went 3 of 21 on 3-point-ers and were out-rebounded 56-45. However, just as Goestenkors predicted would be their down-fall, turnovers and a lack of transi-tion led to the Longhorns’ demise. The Sooners forced 23 Texas turn-overs, went 20 of 25 from the free-throw line.

It was another chance blown by the Longhorns who are at a low in their program’s history. Last year, Texas went 10-6 in conference play. With already half as many losses in the Big 12 this year as they had last year, Texas has a lot of kinks to undo if it wants to regain its top-25 status.

“I’m just extremely disappointed,” Goestenkors said. “We have to start playing smarter basketball.”

By Sameer BhucharDaily Texan Staff

Eric Gay | Associated Press

Baylor center Brittney Griner goes up for an easy layup as the entire Longhorn team watches on. Texas’ loss to Baylor was the second of the Longhorns’ three conference losses thus far.

Loss to Oklahoma keeps Horns winless in conference play

We did just about everything you

could do wrong.”“ — Gail Goestenkors,

Head coach

Hundreds of swimmers de-scended on the University of Tex-as last weekend for the Austin Grand Prix. This meet, which was hosted by USA Swimming at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim-ming Center, is one of seven na-tional Grand Prix meets spon-sored by the official US swim-ming organization which spon-sors the Olympic team. Each swimmer who competes and plac-es in the top three during the fi-nal heat receives points based on their performances. At the end of the series, the swimmer with the highest point total is crowned the Grand Prix Champion.

This weekend featured several prominent swimmers including Olympic stars Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Eric Shanteau along with Texas alumni Ricky Berens and Dave Walters. The Grand Prix marked an impor-tant milestone in the training schedule for all Olympic hope-fuls. With the 2012 Olympic Games in London only a year and a half away, these athletes have already begun their prepa-ration training.

Many different races took place featuring outstanding perfor-mances across the pool. Olym-pian Kathryn Hoff was also seen throughout the weekend along with several up-and-coming teenagers hoping for their time in the spotlight. Despite the im-mense amount of talent on the pool deck, it was evident who the crowd was there to see.

The cheers from fans packed into the grandstands drowned out the announcers as Michael Phelps stepped onto the start-ing block for the 200-meter in-dividual medley. Approximately 10 years ago, a younger Phelps broke his first world record at the same place. He has since broken his own record; how-ever, his time of 1:57.39 still stands as the pool record at the swim center.

This race was highly anticipated all weekend because of the impres-sive line-up that was in attendance. Phelps was joined on the starting block by both Lochte and Shanteau, all Olympians attempting to make it to London.

Phelps’ famous arm stretch and flapping preparation drew eyes momentarily away from the shocking hot pink Speedo that Lochte chose to race in. As the buzzer sounded, the crowd followed the progress of these

two standouts as they charged through the water — both trying to prove something. Lochte was attempting to show that he has what it takes to stay on top of the swimming nation while Phelps was trying to show he has what it takes to rise again.

The event proved to be an ex-citing one as Lochte took the lead early on closely followed by

Phelps through its entirety. In the end Lochte finished first, edg-ing out Shanteau, who overtook Phelps during the breaststroke portion of the medley.

Lochte was positive about his progress throughout the week-end, especially after his perfor-mance in the 200-meter IM.

“[The meet] is good prepara-tion for what’s coming later on,”

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While the weekend produced no surprise records or contro-versial finishes, the chance to see some of the best swimmers in the sport’s history so close to home was an incredible experience. The times turned in across the board, while a bit slower than eventually desired, were unbelievable.

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Michael Phelps competes in last weekend’s USA Grand Prix. Phelps, the winner of 14 Olympic gold med-als, broke his first world record at the Lee and Joe Jamail Swimming Center nearly 10 years ago.

Men’s swimming and diving split weekend competitions

On an SEC road trip, top-ranked Texas followed up its first loss of the season against No. 3 Auburn on Friday by beat-ing No. 11 Georgia one day later.

Although the Longhorns won seven events on Friday, Auburn was victorious with a final score of 125.5-117.5.

Sophomores Nick D’Innocenzo and Michael Mc-Broom both had two wins. Mc-Broom won the 1,000 freestyle, with senior Jim Robertson fin-ishing second and freshman Matt Belecanech fourth.

Auburn took the lead after its one-two finish in the 400-yard medley relay. Texas had a strong team finish in the 200 freestyle with sophomore Dax Hill, senior Scott Jostes and ju-nior Kyle McNeilis finishing first, second and third. After that, D’Innocenzo won the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:48.25.

As usual, junior diver Drew Livingston had a strong per-formance with a winning score of 393.68 points in the one-me-ter event. Freshman Will Chan-dler came in third. Livingston finished third in the three-meter diving event.

Caskey’s victory in the 200 butterfly gave Texas a short-lived 72-59 lead on the Tigers. Texas had a one-two-three fin-ish in the 500 freestyle with McBroom, Robertson and Mc-Neilis leading the pack and D’Innocenzo added to his win total with a top finish in the 200 breastroke.

There was only one point separating the teams going into the final event of the day — the 400 freestyle relay. Longhorns Hill, Jostes, Miles Joye and Cas-key came in second, sealing the Texas loss.

The next day, the Longhorns faced Georgia at the Gabrielsen Natatorium. Texas was victori-ous in nine of 13 events and won the meet with a final score of 135-106. Feign and D’Innocenzo both had two wins.

— Lauren Giudice

USA GRAND PRIX SwIMMING

By Sara Beth PurdyDaily Texan Staff

Ryan Lochte edges out Phelps in Austin meetFormer, future Olympians gather at swimming center in preparation for 2012

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Horns start season with losses against Georgia, Auburn

The 3rd-ranked women’s swim-ming and diving team came away from the first two meets of the year with an 0-2 record after fall-ing to Auburn and Georgia l ast week.

The Longhorns won four events but lost to No. 12 Auburn by 66 points Thursday. The Tigers es-tablished an early lead with wins in the 200-yard medley relay and 1,000 freestyle and never let Tex-as catch up. Laura Sogar won both backstroke events but couldn’t close the gap by herself.

Two days later, the team ran into No. 2 Georgia. This time, the Longhorns won six events and al-most made a come back but ulti-mately fell to the Bulldogs 169.5-130.5. Two of the victories came from diver Maren Taylor, winning by slim margins in the one- and three-meter events.

Texas actually won the opening 200-yard medley relay but began to slip as Georgia swept the podi-um in the 1,000 freestyle.

“I’m happy with how the team faced a tradionally-tough Geor-gia squad,” said Texas head coach Kim Brackin. “I thought we start-ed off huge with the one-two re-sult in the medley relay, but they were just a bit tougher through the meet.”

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Band: TennisAlbum: Cape Dory

Tennis’ backstory is almost as in-credible as the album art that grac-es their first full-length LP. The Denver-based husband and wife duo, Alaina Moore and Patrick Ri-ley, gathered up enough cash to get a sailboat and coasted around the Atlantic for several months, all while writing the songs that would appear on their luminous EPs and now, Cape Dory. Equally informed by both the recent explosion in the surf pop revival (Best Coast, Beach Fossils, Real Estate) and by new groups recalling the girl-group harmonies of the 1950s (Vivian Girls, La Sera, Las Robertas), Ten-nis makes swooning, heart-swell-ing music with summery affecta-tions: jangly guitar, lovesick lyri-cism and open-ended candor.

Album opener “Take Me Some-where” sets the tone for the album with its perfectly lazy and hazy gui-

tar chords and simple pop drum-ming as Moore croons, “Take me somewhere, mmm, take me some-where.”

Much like Vampire Weekend’s penchant for all things nautical, “Marathon” venerates the increas-ingly familiar East Coast shore: “Coconut Grove is a very small cove, separated from the sea by a shifting shoal/we didn’t realize that we had arrived at high tide, high tide/will we make it out alive?” Bolstered by bouncy guitar work and sugary sweet melodies, “Mar-athon” is a pop gem like no other — accessible and unique in its take on the obsolete love songs of the mid-1900s.

The nautical theme is consis-tent throughout the album. Songs such as “Bimini Bay,” “Seafarer” and “Waterbirds” are glowing with maritime mirth to the point where salty sea breezes and a handful of sand seem so close you can smell them.

The album may have been bet-ter served by a release date closer to the spring air it so impeccably conceptualizes and venerates in its short 30 minutes of play, but for those looking for an escape from winter’s bite, Tennis’ breezy tunes may just be the perfect remedy.

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rience with events such as Mov-ie Mondays, Tarot Tuesdays and Spotlight on Local Chefs. Stand-out plates include a burger with brie and apple chutney, bruschetta with Moroccan carrot spread and scrambled eggs with salmon and spinach, each for $10 or less.

The Spice of LifeIf an empty stomach and an in-

teresting menu leave you feeling in-decisive, these buffet-style meals may satiate your taste buds.

Chon Som Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar is offering an All-You-Can-Eat Curry Extravaganza, al-lowing visitors to sample five vari-eties of the Taiwanese sauce, rang-ing from the creamy, spicy Panang to the chili-based green curry. The $12.99 meal includes your choice of beef, tofu, shrimp, chicken or pork.

Colibri Cuisine’s tasting menu features small, $3 portions of its Tex-Mex dishes, including quesadillas, “nacho-dillas” and “taco-dillas.” The ingredients may not be particularly inventive (cilantro cream, Monterey Jack cheese), but it’s a cheap way to

sample a broad range of the basics.

Bottoms Up If you’re looking to celebrate

the new semester or simply to take a moment to wind down before classes pick up, these drink specials should keep you hydrated.

Downtown artisan sausage joint Frank will serve compli-mentary Makers Mark cocktails and Live Oak beer at its $10 sau-sage tasting. Popular dishes in-clude the antelope, rabbit and pork sausage and the pork, bacon and jalapeno sausage.

Whole Foods is featuring a va-riety of $25 five-course tasting menus, with four optional wine pairings for $14. The seafood menu, which includes a shrimp lettuce wrap, mahi-mahi and al-mond Florentine, samples spar-kling wines and chardonnays. The vegan and raw bar menu, which includes seaweed Cae-sar salad and raw apple pie, pairs each course with wine made from organic grapes.

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The game industry learned many lessons in 2010. Blizzard can still make millions by releas-ing PC exclusive titles, such as the latest “World of Warcraft” expan-sion. Rockstar showed that summer blockbusters aren’t strictly films any-more. Sony and Microsoft proved that motion controls can still be sold by the truck-ton — well, at least Mi-crosoft has. Stories of studio schisms and Supreme Court hearings have left their stamp on this past year in gaming, but these are the outstand-ing titles from 2010.

VVVVVV (Mac, PC)Some games come out of no-

where, make an impression and are quickly buried by year’s end. This makes “VVVVVV” all the more impressive, considering it was re-leased more than a year ago. But some games aren’t easily forgotten, and the relentless pace and difficult platforming of “VVVVVV” hit like a punch to the gut. Like many oth-er indie platformers released this year (“Super Meat Boy,” “Limbo”), this is another attempt to decon-struct the 2D platformer with a for-giving checkpoint system, humma-ble soundtrack and Commodore 64-influenced graphics. The differ-ence here is that Terry Cavanagh’s one-man project manages to be styl-ish and fun without being frustrat-ing and self-important.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)Upon the announcement that

Nintendo would be making a rare direct sequel to its most success-ful franchise, there was a confi-dence in the public that it would be great and an underlying doubt that it would be better than 2007’s plan-et-hopping classic. At its core, not much has been changed since 2007, but every twist on a familiar trope, mind-bending mechanic and awe-inspiring level (sections of levels, re-ally) keep time spent with the game exciting and fresh in a genre that has long laid dormant. Not even the addition of the iconic Kuribo’s Shoe and Toonoki Suit can make this ti-tle better: it’s already perfect.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox360)

At first glance, Dice’s latest seems like a cash grab at the con-sole market with yet another dumb-ed-down rendition of a series that always played best on PC. Any-one who spent considerable time in “Bad Company 2’s” multiplayer

will know this to be untrue. Some of the things this title brought to the genre: user-friendly vehicles, build-ings that crumble around you piece-by-piece, fog and shrubbery that ac-tually conceals players, the ability to alert team members of nearby en-emies, an attractive award system and team work motivated by expe-rience points (space permitting, the list would continue).

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac, PC)

“Starcraft II’s” record-setting re-lease in July, following eight years of off-and-on development, could have been nothing more than an-other success on the behalf of Bliz-zard’s marketing team. Rather, it’s the development team that de-serves the credit. Korean e-sports leagues and bedroom strategists alike have not been let down. “Star-craft II” is a bold game that dares to elevate its player base through in-tuitive design and a cinematic sin-gle-player component, dividing its competitive player base into tiers and stat tracking that puts Xbox

Live to shame. At any given min-ute, there is a Korean planning for his next nationally televised game and someone on the other side of the world casually enjoying a skir-mish with a friend.

God of War III (PS3)To most of the series’ player base,

testosterone-fueled teenage day-dreams and Greek tragedy are one and the same. This is something critics of the series love to point out, as if the game wasn’t built upon this principle. In an effort to disgust your girlfriend and literature profes-sors, Santa Monica Studio managed to ham-fist more Greek gods into more moments of gruesome death than previously thought possible in this epic finale. All this bastardiza-tion of Greek myth is for the sake of the most basic gaming truth: If you senselessly beat things, something awesome will happen.

In the past, the month of Janu-ary has been a dumping ground for major studios trying to get rid of all their clunkers before they start ramp-ing up for the rest of the year. For this reason, many January releases get a bad rap. In the past few years how-ever, January has become something of a haven for genre films, with quali-ty films such as 2009’s gloriously vio-lent “Taken,” or last year’s post-apoca-lyptic “The Book of Eli.” This January, audiences are treated to Michel Gon-dry’s hilarious adaptation of “The Green Hornet.”

Seth Rogen stars as Britt Reid, a hard-partying brat who inherits his father’s newspaper after the elder Reid dies suddenly. Britt bonds with Kato (Jay Chou), an employee of his father’s, over their mutual dislike for the man, and the two drunkenly de-cide to vandalize a recently erect-ed statue of him. This quickly esca-lates into the duo fighting off a group of muggers, and they decide to infil-trate the criminal underworld in an attempt to fight crime.

Continuing his move away from the loser roles that made him fa-mous, Rogen brings his usual charm

and likability to Britt Reid. Howev-er, Rogen also handles the film’s ac-tion scenes surprisingly well. By the end of the film, he’s believable as an action hero; perhaps the film’s most pleasant surprise.

However, Chou easily steals the show. He gets the biggest laughs and the coolest fight scenes, but more im-portant is the complete confidence Chou exudes in every moment of his performance. The friendship Kato builds with Britt gives the film its heart, and the easy chemistry and banter between the actors makes it feel like a real partnership.

Following his Oscar-winning role in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglouri-ous Basterds,” Christoph Waltz cre-ates another disarmingly charm-ing villain with Chudnofsky, a crime lord wracked with insecurity about his ability to inspire fear in his peers. On the other hand, Cameron Diaz is mostly useless in the film, exist-

ing solely to provide obvious exposi-tion and some eye candy for Rogen to ogle. Additionally, Edward James Ol-mos is wasted in his small role, rele-gated mostly to standing in the back-ground and looking wise.

The mostly impressive cast would be useless if the film wasn’t backed with a strong, funny script from Ro-gen and Evan Goldberg, along with Gondry’s uncharacteristically re-strained direction. Gondry trans-forms the film into something spe-cial, more a loving riff on superhero films than an actual superhero film. He also stages the action scenes with an energetic flair, and the climactic action scene is both memorable and surprisingly violent for PG-13, with both heroes wracking up an impres-sive body count.

While “The Green Hornet” will probably be largely forgotten by the time summer rolls around, it’s an un-deniably entertaining start to 2011.

tar chords and simple pop drum-ming as Moore croons, “Take me somewhere, mmm, take me some-where.”

Much like Vampire Weekend’s penchant for all things nautical, “Marathon” venerates the increas-ingly familiar East Coast shore: “Coconut Grove is a very small cove, separated from the sea by a shifting shoal/we didn’t realize that we had arrived at high tide, high tide/will we make it out alive?” Bolstered by bouncy guitar work and sugary sweet melodies, “Mar-athon” is a pop gem like no other — accessible and unique in its take on the obsolete love songs of the mid-1900s.

The nautical theme is consis-tent throughout the album. Songs such as “Bimini Bay,” “Seafarer” and “Waterbirds” are glowing with maritime mirth to the point where salty sea breezes and a handful of sand seem so close you can smell them.

The album may have been bet-ter served by a release date closer to the spring air it so impeccably conceptualizes and venerates in its short 30 minutes of play, but for those looking for an escape from winter’s bite, Tennis’ breezy tunes may just be the perfect remedy.

gaining financial, political and sci-entific support for cancer research. Perhaps it’s these underpinnings of hope for advances in the struggle against cancer that have made this biography of disease such a critical and commercial success.

“The Sherlockian” by Graham Moore is an Arthur Conan Doyle fan’s dream. Moore’s debut novel ex-plores the world of the hundreds of societies and clubs run by Sherlock Holmes fans (or as they call them-selves, “Sherlockians”) to discuss Doyle’s classic mystery hero’s ad-ventures. “The Sherlockian” focus-es on the grandfather of all Holm-es societies: the Baker Street Irreg-ulars. Freelance literary research-er Harold White has just been in-ducted into the BSI and is contact-ed by Alex Cale, the world’s most prominent Sherlockian, about the whereabouts of a missing volume of

Doyle’s journal. But before Cale can divulge the secrets of the journal, he’s found dead and the volume has been stolen. It’s up to Harold White to track it down. Moore pays hom-age to Doyle’s masterful mysteries by setting his own puzzling story with-in the real-life world of Sherlockian societies.

“Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Cu-rie” by Lauren Redniss is a “biogra-phy in collage” that blends sketches, anecdotes, photographs, newspaper clippings, quotes, gravestone rub-bings and lectures to create a por-trait of scientific power couple Ma-rie and Pierre Curie. This innova-tive approach allows the author to create her own artistic interpretation of a nonfictional couple and connect the Curies’ historical findings to cur-rent issues. Redniss’ fusion of objec-tive science and subjective art makes “Radioactive” an incredibly unique

and fascinating new release. “An Object of Beauty” by Steve

Martin marks the third novel from the comedian and actor, which ex-plores New York’s high-end art trade. Young art dealer Lacey Yea-ger is ambitious, acquisitive and amoral, ready to do anything to get ahead in her entry-level job at Sotheby’s auction house. The nov-el follows her Machiavellian rise through the art world ranks, in-cluding illicit deals and sexual en-counters with artists and patrons. Informed by his own art-collect-ing hobby, Martin withdraws from his usual goofy antics to submit a thoughtful and cutting com-mentary on ambition and greed. In 2000, Martin proved that he could be a serious writer with his impressive debut “Shopgirl.” “An Object of Beauty” only confirms his talent.

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Kato (Jay Chou) confronts Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), the new owner of the newspaper he inherited after his father died. The film opened Jan. 14.

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Whether you’re looking for an excuse to bend the rules of your dessert-free New Year’s resolution or simply a good reason to cash that $15 check your grandmother sent you for the holidays demanding that you “buy yourself something nice,” Sip & Savor Austin has you covered.

A two-week culinary event benefiting The Wine & Food Foundation of Texas, Sip & Sa-vor will feature a tasty sampling of everything from discounted prix fixe menus to free appe-tizers. Resembling Austin Restaurant Week, Sip & Savor is arguably more expansive, as events aren’t limited to marginal markdowns on high-end cuisine, but will include happy hour deals and limited-time cocktails. The following are among the more notable discounts and oppor-tunities to dig in to Austin’s restaurant scene.

Bargain Bites If $40 is a bit much for any meal — regard-

less of how many courses are offered — these restaurants may whet your appetite without drying your wallet.

Urban An American Grill is serving a $15 three-course lunch menu featuring butternut risotto, tiger shrimp or a New York strip as the main dish options. Though a trip to The Do-main can be quite a trek, experiencing its cre-ative flavor pairings, such as tres leches cake with sun-dried tomato creme, might be well worth your time.

If you’re not a fan of candlelit dinners or a bustling ambiance, The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of Austin is also offering a $15 prix fixe menu. Serving steak dressed with chili salsa, “street-style quesadil-las” and a chipotle brownie with cinnamon ga-nache, this meal is not for the faint of palate.

The reasonably priced Snack Bar, located on South Congress, is amping up its dining

The holidays were the perfect time for catching up on long-ne-glected leisure reading: School is out, food and drinks are plentiful and the frosty weather is practical-ly begging us to curl up in front of a fire with a hot new bestseller or a well-worn favorite. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to keep up with the deluge of new releases, so here are the literary highlights from this hol-iday season.

“The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a non-

fiction biography of one of the most devastating diseases of our time: can-cer. Oncologist and author Mukher-jee traces cancer’s origins using an epic, sweeping voice. He focuses on the struggles and ingenuity of de-cades of physicians to distinguish what could easily have become dry subject matter. Specific patient his-tories also create a personal touch that allow for an emotional connec-tion among the otherwise daunting facts and statistics. Finally, Mukher-jee offers potential solutions for

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Holiday bestsellers cover tales of mystery, sickness

An Object of BeautyBy Steve Martin

The SherlockianBy Graham Moore

The Emperor of All MaladiesBy Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Not only are the majority of LUSH products vegan, but the company also prides itself in ethi-cally sourcing its ingredients. For instance, its organic vanilla beans come from co-op mountain planta-tions in Papua New Guinea, where the beans are grown without the use of herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers or artificial additives. Its seaweed is collected from waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia by a family-owned business. Its top-selling bath bombs include Honey Bee, and tof-fee, which leaves the skin extra soft, and Sex Bomb, a purple and pink ball of jasmine, clary sage and ylang ylang. Since a LUSH bath bomb av-erages $5 per ball, it should be re-served for the occasional at-home spa night.

For everyday use, a best-selling soap such as Lemslip is perfect and is filled with Irish moss gel and co-coa butter, to moisture and soften, and lemon, lime and sweet wild or-ange for a clean scent. Another is Ring of Roses, a sweet and soothing soap with nodes of oranges, lem-ons and Turkish rose along with in-

fusions of honeysuckle, marigold and cornflowers, which are perfect for getting clean, smelling good and feeling divine. The soap is sold by the pound and ranges from $5 to $12 per pound.

Evolution of Smooth All the rage last year with recog-

nitions from magazine health and beauty editors such as Marie Claire and InStyle, Evolution of Smooth’s egg-shaped lip balm hasn’t quite hit that mark of overexposed, mainstream consumerism just yet. Available in drugstores such as CVS and Walgreens, the unique-ly shaped lip balm grabs the atten-tion of consumers. As a medicat-ed lip balm with shea butter, anti-oxidant-rich vitamin E and jojo-ba oil, EOS lip balm is also gluten-free. While the lip balm’s unusual shape makes it a bit inconvenient to tuck into a jean pocket, the ben-efits this cooling balm does for the lips overshadows this minor draw-back. Available in five flavors — summer fruit, lemon drop, hon-eysuckle honeydew, tangerine and sweet mint — EOS lip balm does not have the overly fruity, artificial

taste found in other popular drug-store lip balms. With its fresh scent and the smooth balance of cream-iness from the beeswax, shea but-ter and jojoba oil, it softens the lips for hours.

Art of ShavingMale hygiene and grooming,

such as shaving, is what transforms a man into a gentleman. Living up to that creed is the high-end male cosmetic line, The Art of Shaving. While the company carries an ex-tensive line of beauty products as well as handheld and electric ra-zors, its shaving cream is the best seller. Made with 100-percent pure essential oils and high-quality bo-tanical ingredients, the shaving cream comes in a small tube with four kinds of scent and skin types — lavender essential oil and un-scented for sensitive skin, lemon

for all skin types and sandalwood for normal to dry skin. Just a small dab of cream gets the job done. Applied onto the skin with a brush or hand, the cream softens and lifts the hair for a close and com-fortable shave and then protects the skin from irritation and cuts, leaving it silky smooth. While the unscented shaving cream is a safe bet, try the sandalwood for its rich wood scent. Although the shaving cream is made for men, it would work perfectly well for women. However, The Art of Shaving has a line dedicated to the fairer sex as well.

Coola Suncare Wearing sunscreen is almost as

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There’s a wide selection of sun-screen for all skin types, lifestyles and protection. But what makes Coola Suncare a standout from others is how it protects the skin beneath its outer layers. Coola’s moisture-rich sunblock and sun-screen products contain natural,

botanically derived ingredients such as red algae and beeswax, in addition to age-defying antioxi-dants and vitamins that provide a fundamental boost to the skin’s natural immune system. Anoth-er plus is its variety of scents — including cucumber, rose, man-go, citrus, plumeria and grape-fruit — that leave the skin smell-ing tropical and not distinctively like sunscreen.

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lowed halls of music. And finally, the new kids on the block — such as Har-lem, Sarah Jarosz, Sahara Smith and White Denim — only validate the claim that Austin is one of the best cities in the nation for new music.

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Along with the new year comes new resolutions, often along the lines of self improvement or the goal of feeling better. While some of these aspirations are ambitious, such as losing the extra 10 holiday pounds or kicking old habits and vices, wellness can be found in sim-ple pleasures, such as beauty prod-ucts. Everyday essentials such as soap, lip balm, shaving cream and sunscreen are often regarded as ba-sics, but the difference between a bar of generic soap and one made from the best ingredients can be

pure luxury. Here are The Dai-ly Texan’s favorite beauty products that will hopefully leave you feeling good in the new year.

LUSHThere’s nothing like a long, warm

shower or bath to wash off a day of deadlines, drama and dirt. But in-stead of resorting to your usual bar soap for a calm, clean wash, turn it up a notch and try LUSH hand-made soaps and bath bombs — balls of essential oil that dissolve and fizzle when dunked into a tub

While you were out:

Free WeekThe first nine days of the new

year in Austin were filled with rev-elry and melody. Free Week once again allowed music fiends to check out up-and-comers and heavy hit-ters alike at venues all around cen-tral Austin. At The Parish on Jan. 4, Final Exam’s nouveau take on Tele-vision-informed jams was refresh-ingly earnest and impassioned. Fi-nal Exam, composed of mem-bers from Battle Bend and Mar-malakes, is a recent addition to the Austin music scene (it only formed in September), but if the expertise with which they played The Parish is any testament to their ability, Fi-nal Exam may just be the next big thing. Visit finalexam.bandcamp.com for more information.

Four days later, at the Mohawk, Mother Falcon played to a sizable audience, commencing with their show right as a cold rain began to pour on the outdoor stage. Rath-er than flee, the enthusiastic mass-es stayed to hear the orchestral pop group play a full set — and thankful-ly were rewarded with an as-of-yet-unnamed new song. With only about five weeks left until Mother Falcon releases their full-length album Al-hambra at the Central Presbyteri-an Church, the show was a welcome treat to tide fans over until then. Visit motherfalconmusic.bandcamp.comfor more information.

South By SouthwestNo, you didn’t miss it, but the

upcoming Feb. 11 deadline to get your badge at a discount before having to pay for a walk-up rate is fast approaching. Keep in mind that not many students can afford to shell out $400-$1,200 for SXSW badges, but fortunately, there are twice as many free shows, secret house shows, day parties and all-night ragers that the Texan will advise you on in our SXSW guide closer to the date. But for those of you who intend to do South By Southwest one way or anoth-er, there is another affordable op-tion: volunteer. There’s a three-part process that allows volunteers to apply and create a work sched-ule that still leaves enough time to see new films and bands through-out the festival. Volunteer calls will be held at the Hilton Hotel downtown this Sunday and next Wednesday, so apply quickly. Visit volunteer.sxsw.com/apply for more information.

In retrospectSo ends the first decade of the

new millennium. We saw the rise of headline-worthy hometown he-roes Spoon, The Sword, The Oc-topus Project, Ghostland Obser-vatory and The American An-alog Set to new heights. Austin City Limits set the bar higher and higher every year for better head-liners with relevance to an emerg-ing young crowd. South By South-west became the gold standard for mass networking with music

In general, the holidays are never a great time for excit-ing new television. Like us, net-works tend to shift into break mode, mainly airing time-tested holiday specials and marathons of reliable TV and movie favor-ites. However, a few shows man-aged to capture the attention of viewers and critics alike this hol-iday season. Here are some of the holiday TV highlights you might have missed.

Community The “Community” Christmas

special both subverted and cel-ebrated classic Rankin/Bass an-imated specials such as “Ru-dolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” In keeping with Rankin/Bass tradition, almost the entirety of “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christ-mas” was rendered in old-fash-ioned claymation. “Communi-ty” is becoming known for these theme episodes and for good reason; creator Dan Harmon and his writers know how to work within the conceit of an ac-tion movie or a zombie flick and keep things from becoming gim-micky. It’s the snarky sincerity of the lovable misfits on “Commu-nity” that keeps the more ambi-tious episodes grounded.

This year’s Christmas special was no different. While the con-cept sounds outrageous on paper — pop culture buff Abed comes to school one day to find that his friends are suddenly stop-mo-tion animated and has to under-go hypnotic therapy to under-stand why — the show’s signa-ture tonal mix of sarcastic, mel-ancholic and sentimental make “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christ-mas” an episode that deserves to become an enduring Christmas classic.

30 RockThe “30 Rock” holiday epi-

sode couldn’t be more different from the “Community” special. While “Community” freely em-braces the inherent sentimen-tality of the holiday season, “30 Rock” instinctively shies away from that kind of emotionalism, undercutting any touching mo-ments with a biting punch line (as demonstrated by the episode’s title, “Christmas Attack Zone”). The result is that although the show might not have the emo-tional resonance or character depth of “Community,” there’s more room to pull off rapid-fire jokes. “30 Rock” essentially exists to make the audience laugh, not to tell a particularly compelling story. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; the writers have a strong sense of the show’s identity and its strengths, and they use them to their full advantage.

“Christmas Attack Zone” finds Liz Lemon visiting the Don-aghy family for Christmas in the midst of considerable family dra-ma. Jack hasn’t told his oppres-sive mother Colleen (played to

perfection by Elaine Stritch) that his fiancee, Avery, is pregnant. When the truth finally comes out and Colleen is predictably livid, Jack invites his former-ly estranged father to Christ-mas dinner. Thus begins a ma-nipulative game of one-upsman-ship Jack calls the “Christmas attack zone,” and Jack and Col-leen spend the episode trying to play each other, to hilarious ef-fect. The episode isn’t nearly as touching as “Abed’s Uncontrol-lable Christmas,” but it’s hard to care when Liz is throwing out brilliant one-liners such as this: “As hard as you try, no one can escape the horror of Christmas, so you may as well be with your own family.”

Fringe The midseason f ina le of

“Fringe,” titled “Marionette,” in-jected December TV’s holiday cheer with an undercurrent of creeping horror. Not since the days of “The X-Files” has there been such a chilling episode of television. “Fringe” tends to ex-

cel when it’s spinning ambi-tious, overarching story lines, but “Marionette” is a perfect ex-ample of a tightly written, com-pelling stand-alone episode. The Fringe Division investigates a se-ries of murders, all involving sto-len organs, and deduce that a man called Roland Barrett is try-ing to piece together the donat-ed organs of his deceased par-amour, intending to reanimate the corpse. Meanwhile, our her-oine Olivia deals with the fallout of coming home after months of inhabiting a parallel universe and discovering that Peter has slept with her doppelganger, an acci-dental-yet-wounding betrayal.

The episode is rife with un-sett ling and uncanny imag-es, including a man stumbling around a dark room with his eyes plucked out and Barrett conduct-ing a grisly ballet with his dear departed girlfriend. However, it’s the quietly tense and emotional scenes between Peter and Olivia that propel the episode to great-ness and make it one of the best of the winter months.

Band: Smith WesternsAlbum: Dye it Blonde

There was no way to tell that both Smith Westerns and the first review of Tennis’ new album would coin-cide so well together. It’s a testament to the constantly changing aesthet-ic of indie-pop music — if freak folk was the foremost indie subgenre of the early 2000s, surf pop is the new game in town.

But whereas Tennis makes soft saccharine pop appropriate for an indie prom mixtape, Chicago’s Smith Westerns are more on par with the ramshackle indie rock of bands such as Harlem and The Strange Boys (both bands hailing from Aus-tin). This isn’t music for sweethearts anymore, as evidenced by the jad-ed lyrics in “All Die Young” off their new album Dye it Blonde: “I wanna grow old before I grow up/I wanna die with my chin up/I don’t know if you mean you are the one to love/I don’t know if you mean you are the one to love.”

But what really sets Dye it Blondeapart from the rest of Smith West-erns’ small catalog of songs is how

the band has improved since the re-lease of their self-titled debut, which dropped in June 2009. Their first al-bum showed promise and potential, but for a band that emulated artists such as Marc Bolan and No Bun-ny, there wasn’t much new material to grab a hold of; there were catchy hooks and memorable melodies, but there was no cohesive identity be-hind the much-buzzed-about band. Dye it Blonde finds Smith Westerns finally coming into their own and feeling comfortable in their own skin with a confidence that bleeds through the album.

On the surface of the new album, the music is alluring with its fuzzy guitar riffs, tempo changes and vo-calist Cullen Omori’s reverberated vocals filling the negative space, but a closer look at the songs’ annoying-ly simple lyrics reveals much more; on album-closer “Dye it Blonde,” Omori speaks-sings “Are you a dream or something in between?/Is this fantasy or am I just lucky?”

Like the album that preceded it, Dye it Blonde shows that Smith Westerns have the makings of po-tential stars of the indie rock scene — much more so now than ever —

LIFE&ARTS12BTuesday, January 18, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Amber Genuske, Life&Arts Editor | (512) 232-2209 | [email protected]

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