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Administrators call the pro-gram a cost-saving, centraliza-tion initiative. Student protes-tors and some members of faculty council claim the plan will “dehumanize” certain Uni-versity services, lead to an un-determined number of layoffs and increase the pressure on the staff who remain. Amidst the controversial claims, one fact is certain: as Kevin Hegar-ty, vice president and chief fi-nancial officer, told The Daily Texan in January, “Shared Ser-vices is not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.”

The Committee on Business Productivity, a group charged with identifying ways for UT to cut costs, first introduced the idea of Shared Services in January 2013. Since then, the Shared Services Steering Committee has worked to determine how to implement the initiative on campus. The committee presented its final report and recommendations to President William Powers Jr. earlier this month.

Since its introduction, Shared Services has been de-fined in many ways by differ-ent parties across campus, and the steering committee itself has undergone multiple roster changes at the request of stu-dent and faculty governance groups. Student protestors also oppose the involvement of Ac-centure, a consulting firm with a controversial history, in the plan’s development. Mean-while, across the country, other universities have begun to

In an email to UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigar-roa, Paul Foster, chairman of the UT System Board of Regents, suggested Regent Wallace Hall accused Cigar-roa of not doing his job weeks before Cigarroa an-nounced his resignation.

Foster praised Cigarroa in the email, which was origi-nally obtained by The Dal-las Morning News, and said “virtually all” of the regents appreciated the work he did as chancellor.

“I absolutely do not agree with [Hall’s] tactics in trying to pressure you into taking an action that you do not feel is in the best interests of UT-Austin or of the UT System,” Foster said in the email. “It is clear what he hopes to accomplish, but to disparage your reputation

in the process is neither fair nor is it appropriate.”

State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, a member of the legislative committee investigating

Hall, submitted a letter Fri-day to State Reps. Dan Fly-nn, R-Canton, and Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, after he saw the email, asking them to reconvene to hear

testimony from Cigarroa and Foster.

Flynn and Alvarado are co-chairs of the House

Student Government members are trying to increase student action against a city code change, proposed in November, which may further limit the number of students who can legally live togeth-er in a house.

If Austin City Coun-cil passes the change, the number of unrelated adults who may live together in duplexes and single-family houses would be reduced from six to four. These high-occupancy houses are also known as “stealth dorms.” The coun-cil approved the proposed change on its first read-ing — though the coun-cil must hear the change twice more before it is

finalized — but suggested that an economic study be conducted to assess the proposed change’s impact on area housing affordabil-ity. The council will hear a second reading of the pro-posed amendment at its meeting Thursday.

The SG-city relations task force has been devel-oping legislation against the proposal since the be-ginning of the semester, ac-cording to Jordan Metoyer, urban studies and econom-ics senior who founded the task force. According to Metoyer, SG has attempted to educate students about the issue and increase their involvement in the city’s decision-making process. SG will pass a resolution against the change on

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In a lecture titled “The New Middle East Cold War,” Gregory Gause, politi-cal science professor at the University of Vermont and a senior fellow at the Brook-ings Institution, said many people have a flawed under-standing of conflict in the Middle East.

“The regional upheav-als that the Middle East has seen since 2011, and partic-ularly the international rela-tions aspects of it, have been misunderstood,” Gause said.

Gause thinks the conflict should be labeled as a “cold war” because the nature of the conflict is not focused around any country’s mili-tary but, rather, revolves around each country’s influ-ence on the region.

“It’s a cold war in that your military power is not the centrally important fac-tor in determining who’s go-ing to win and who’s going to lose,” Gause said.

Gause believes it is not a religious conflict, as many see it, but a result of many Arab countries struggling to take care of themselves and requiring help from their neighbors. According to Gause, two of the larg-est powers who are fighting for control of the region are Iran and Saudi Arabia.

“This is a conflict, I would argue, that is based on the breakdown of state author-ity that invites regional

intervention,” Gause said.Humanities junior Lucas

Asher said he attended the lecture because he wants to take as many opportunities to learn about the topic as he can, despite this goal not fitting his career path.

“There’s a lot of disagree-ment among scholars and analysts,” Asher said. “The Middle East is such a com-plex region [that] you need to hear as many views as possible.”

Katie Aslan, undergrad-uate coordinator of Middle Eastern studies, said there are approximately 140 Middle Eastern studies majors on campus, in ad-dition to hundreds more

enrolled in Arab and Per-sian language classes. Aslan said lectures such as this one are important be-cause they offer a different kind of setting for students to learn in.

“It’s more interactive, and you can ask questions and feel more comfortable ask-ing questions,” Aslan said. “It’s a nice change from a classroom environment.”

Gause said the United States is inconsistent in its foreign policy and should focus on building states that can function independently.

“We are much better at state-destroying than state-building,” Gause said. “I don’t think the United States has much to offer as far as the long term issue that un-derlies the new Middle East cold war.”

Third victim dies from SXSW car incident

On Monday, 26-year-old Sandy Thuy Le died from injuries sustained in Thurs-day’s South By Southwest car crash.

Le, who is originally from Pass Christian, Miss., had been in critical condition at University Medical Center-Brackenridge since Thurs-day. Her death marks the third fatality resulting from the collision.

Eight hours after the crash, Christopher Ziebell, emergency department director at Brackenridge, said he was not optimistic about the recovery process for Le and for DeAndre Tatum, another patient in critical condition who has not yet been released from the hospital.

“The two most critical pa-tients, I have a great deal of concern and worry about,” Ziebell said at a press con-ference Thursday. “We’re going to do our best for them, but these are some of the worst injuries that we see, and not everybody with these kinds of injuries is go-ing to survive.”

Thirty-five-year-old Ste-ven Craenmehr and 27-year-old Jamie Ranae West were pronounced dead shortly af-ter the crash. West’s husband, Evan West, was also injured.

Travis County district judges issued a formal ar-rest warrant Friday after-noon for 21-year-old Ra-shad Charjuan Owens, who has been accused of driving his car through a crowded area of downtown during SXSW activities, killing two people and injuring 23 others on the spot. Ow-ens was charged with one count of capital murder, and his bond has been set at $3 million.

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Tuesday, said Metoyer.“Students want to have

a seat at the table about these decisions and poli-cies that affect students for generations to come,” Metoyer said.

Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole said, because the proposed change has a potentially large impact on students, she will at-tend the SG meeting Tuesday to give students information and gather more student input.

“I had really felt like students had not had a voice in this discussion, and I thought that they should,” Cole said.

Advertising senior Robert Svoboda created an online petition against the code change, which had more than 1,100 sig-natures as of Monday.

“We said that we’re [go-ing to] get students on board with this issue, and there were students in-volved in this, but there wasn’t a unified media or even a Facebook group that was really capturing all of the stakeholders and voices that are being affected by this problem,” Svoboda said.

Svoboda, who is also part of the SG task force, said he regrets that SG did not garner student in-volvement earlier.

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Svoboda said he thinks apartment complexes are a better alternative to “stealth dorms” to solve the Austin housing affordability problem.

“Down the road, multi-family housing is prob-ably more vital,” Svoboda said. “Putting more peo-ple on a piece of property is going to be more effec-tive long-term.”

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Dr. Gregory Gause, political science pro-fessor at The University of Ver-mont, speaks in a lecture entitled “The New Middle East Cold War,” at Batts Hall on Monday afternoon.

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There’s a lot of disagreement among scholars and analysts. The Middle East is such a complex region [that] you need to hear as many views as possible.

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Shared Services here: Shared Services is a plan to centralize University finance, human resources, procurement and information technology services. A list of recommendations has been submitted to President William Powers Jr. for consideration.Projected savings: $30-$40 million a yearConsulting firm: Accenture, $4 million totalPilot program: Existing centralization on cam-pus will be observed and shared services will by implemented at various colleges, schools and units who volunteered for a pilot.Community involvement: Hegarty and the com-mittee held campus dialogue sessions where they discussed the plan with the community.

The University of Texas at AustinShared Services here: The UT System is work-ing to centralize payment process across all six health institutions. Scott Kelley, executive vice chancellor for Business Affairs for the System, said, if they see success, then more services will be centralized. Consulting firm: Yes, but it has not been selected yet. Community involvement: All the chief financial of-ficers of the health institutions sit on a committee together and are welcome to bring in proposals for how the centralization will look. Communica-tion with communities in each campus will be handled individually by each institution.

University of Texas SystemShared Services here: The University of Michigan is in the process of centralizing financial and hu-man resources transactions into one central unit for the University. The central office is expected to become operational in winter 2015.Projected savings: $5-$6 million annuallyConsulting firm: Accenture, contracted for $11.7 millionPilot program: Various units and colleges across campus have implemented shared services. These versions of Shared Services will all eventu-ally be moved to the central office.Community involvement: Members of the faculty signed a letter criticizing Shared Services. As a re-sult, the timeline for implementation was extended.

University of Michigan

Shared Services here: The University of Florida is in year 1 of a four- to five-year implementation.Projected savings: University of Florida is not pro-jecting savings but will be tracking cost savings throughout implementation and thereafter.Pilot program: Launched the Tigert Hall Shared Services Center, a center that provides finance and human resource services to campus, to test potential success.Community involvement: Administration created options for electronic communication from the campus community, had “work groups” for discus-sion and one-on-one meetings.

University of Florida

Shared Services here: Shared Services at The University of North Carolina are part of the Carolina Counts program, a program launched in 2009 based on recommendations from a consult-ing firm.Projected savings: Ranged from $16.9 million in the first year to $66.2 million last year.Actual savings: $21.8 million the first year, $54.3 million last yearConsulting firm: Bain and Company

The University of North Caolina at Chapel Hill

Shared Services here: Campus Shared Services are in their final stage of implementation and provided business and financial services, human resources, academic personnel office support, information technology and research administra-tion to approximately 60 percent of campus.Projected savings: 2016 — $6.9 million annually, by 2020 — $13.7 million annuallyCommunity involvement: Twenty “work groups” of faculty, staff and students helped provide feed-back and shape Campus Shared Services.

University of California at Berkeley

Kevin Hegarty is the chief financial offer at UT and the chair of the steering com-mittee. He was charged with reviewing and test-ing the recommendations made by the Committee on Business Productivity, including Shared Services.

Major Shared Services Playersadopt Shared Services plans — with varying levels of success.

For administrators, Shared Services means cutting costs by centralizing services. At present, various colleges, de-partments and units across campus organize and deliver their procurement, finance, human resources and infor-mation technology services in different ways. According to Hegarty, 500 positions will be eliminated through the centralization process — ideally through natural attri-tion and retirement.

“Rather than Shared Ser-vices, it’s really sharing re-sources — sharing people,” Hegarty said. “We have people all over the campus, down to the department level, that do very similar activitie. … These people do essentially the same thing. This whole concept is, if you amalgamate that work into fewer, more concentrated units, you achieve potentially a different result.”

According to the steering committee’s report, imple-menting Shared Services will cost the University ap-proximately $35-$40 mil-lion. Each year thereafter, the University’s projected savings will sit somewhere between $30-$40 million annually, Hegarty said.

Some members of the UT community have voiced their concerns about the limited amount of hard data and evi-dence currently available to support the administration’s claims of increased productiv-ity. The Faculty Council passed a resolution in January request-ing more information about Shared Services and also asked the committee to add two non-administrative UT employees to its ranks. After the resolu-tion passed, one faculty mem-ber and one staff member were added to the committee.

A month later, the Graduate Student Assembly also passed a resolution regarding Shared Services, requesting more information about the

initiative and for a graduate student to be added to the committee. A graduate student was added to the committee after the resolution was passed.

“The issue isn’t with Shared Services; The issue is with the manner in which it’s being rolled out,” said David Villar-real, communications director and president-elect for GSA and one of the resolution’s au-thors. “The only thing we re-ally need is our involvement. At the end of the day, we’re not trying to stop Shared Services in its tracks. We’re just saying, as it’s being developed, let us know what’s going on so that we know and so that we can be part of the conversation.”

Villarreal said he is con-cerned about the projected elimination of 500 positions.

“[Hegarty] has outlined a plan that explained how this would happen, under the as-sumption that those 500 jobs would be voluntarily eliminat-ed within an extremely short calendar,” Villarreal said. “If he had given a more realistic plan and one that just didn’t paint the rosiest of pictures on the job loss, I would probably have helped him and support-ed him at the end of the day.”

According to Hegarty, UT already lays off 150-200 in-dividuals every year. Hegarty said individuals criticizing the plan do not understand that the University’s current busi-ness model is not sustainable.

“We’re getting starved on the academic end for dollars to hire teachers and retain people,” Hegarty said.

In February, hundreds of students, university employ-ees and community members marched on campus against the Shared Services Plan. Bi-anca Hinz-Foley, Plan II ju-nior spokeswoman for United Students Against Sweatshops, said she is primarily concerned with Accenture’s involvement in the Shared Service initiative.

As well as assisting in the project management of the Committee on Busi-ness Productivity, Accenture also played a role in col-lecting data for the steering

committee. According to Hegarty, the combined cost of these services amounted to more than $4 million. Two members of the Committee on Business Productivity and one member of the steering committee are former Accen-ture employees.

“Some of the big mov-ers and shakers behind the Shared Services Plan at UT are either current or former Accenture executives,” Hinz-Foley said. “That’s troubling because we want the Uni-versity to make changes the community wants and not something an outside corpo-ration wants to implement.”

In 2006, the legislature out-sourced the call centers for the state’s food stamps and Medic-aid programs to Accenture in an effort to save money. The state terminated the contract in 2007 after issues with tech-nical operations led to prob-lems with benefit distribution. According to a report from the Austin-Statesman in 2009, the state of Texas paid Accen-ture approximately $243 mil-lion for their services.

UT is not the only univer-sity with ties to Accenture. The University of Michigan has an approximately $11.7 million contract with Accen-ture for cost-cut consulting, including Shared Services. Since 2003, the University of Michigan has paid Ac-centure a total of about $19.4 million, according to docu-ments provided by Michigan spokesman Rick Fitzgerald.

“We used Accenture, the consulting firm, to help us identify areas [conducive to shared services], how much we might save, what the scope of the operations that could be pulled into a shared services operation — so that’s been going on for a couple of years,” Fitzgerald said.

In November 2013, ap-proximately 1,000 faculty members signed and sub-mitted a letter to Michi-gan administrators, criti-cizing the centralization efforts. Fitzgerald said Mich-igan’s plan for implementing

Shared Services was altered as a direct result of this sort of feedback from faculty.

“What we found as we started rolling this out is that the campus community, primarily the faculty, didn’t really have enough infor-mation about how [shared services] would be working,” Fitzgerald said. “We learned that we needed to slow down the process and make sure we gave the schools and col-leges more time to figure that out.”

The University of Califor-nia-Berkeley is currently in the process of finalizing the implementation of shared services on their campus. Ac-cording to Berkeley spokes-woman Melanie Hurley, Cam-pus Shared Services, which was launched in January 2013, currently provides business and financial services to 60 percent of the campus.

Hurley said Campus Shared Services was developed through more than 20 “work groups” on Berkeley’s campus.

“Throughout implemen-tation, the team has relied on campus work groups made up of staff, faculty and students who collabo-rate with [Campus Shared Services] staff to identify the most effective processes for Berkeley,” Hurley said in an email.

According to Hurley, sav-ings will not actualize until the 2016 fiscal year, when Berkeley will see $6.9 mil-lion in annual savings. Hur-ley said, by 2020, annual sav-ings are predicted to increase to $13.7 million.

At UT, Hegarty said the end goal of Shared Services is to ensure that the Univer-sity can operate efficiently.

“We want to minimize ad-ministrative costs to maxi-mize investment in our core missions,” Hegarty said. “We’re not in the business of just doing administration for the sake of doing admin-istration. We’re not in the business of just employing people for the sake of em-ploying people.”

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Accenture is the con-sulting firm that pro-vided services to the Committee on Business Productivity and the steering committee. In 2006, it mishandled the state’s food stamps and Medicaid pro-grams and charged the state $243 million for its services.

Elizabeth Thompson Ger-shoff, human develop-ment and family sciences associate professor, and Stuart Tendler, graduate admissions and place-ment coordinator in the College of Liberal Arts, were added to the steering committee following the passage of a Faculty Coun-cil resolution.

Elizabeth Cozzo-lino, sociology gradu-ate student, was added to the committee as a graduate student repre-sentative following the passage of a Gradu-ate Student Assembly resolution.

Alberto Martinez, his-tory associate professor, and Dana Cloud, com-munication studies asso-ciate professor, are both Faculty Council represen-tatives who have been vocal in their criticism of Shared Services.

Bianca Hinz-Foley, Plan II junior, has been a loud student voice against Shared Services. She is a member of United Stu-dents Against Sweatshops, a student organization that participated in a protest against Shared Services.

Texas has been at the forefront of the 2016 presidential election for some time now — not only because our Republican-dominated state holds the second highest number of electoral votes, but also be-cause Gov. Rick Perry has his eye on the GOP ticket. However, Perry was far from a substantial contender in this year’s Con-servative Political Action Conference straw poll, which occurred from March 6-8, ranking in ninth place, despite his con-certed effort this year to appeal to a more conservative base.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the son of

Libertarian Ron Paul, came in first place with 31 percent of the vote, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz came in second place with 11 percent. Paul calls himself a Libertarian-Re-publican but has written two books touch-ing on the Tea Party platform. Cruz, in case you haven’t noticed, is perhaps the most vo-cal Tea Party advocate to ever have held the national spotlight. Together, the two men garnered 42 percent of the vote, highlighting the growing influence of far right ideology within the GOP.

Historically, the CPAC poll has been a good indicator of whose names we’ll find on the Republican presidential ticket. With the exception of Ron Paul, the 2010 and 2011 victor, each individual who has won the straw poll more than once since 1976 has appeared on the Republican ticket for the presidency, making Rand Paul, who con-secutively won the 2013 and 2014 poll, the apparent front-runner.

Cruz didn’t do so badly either, though. In fact, numerous second-place CPAC vic-tors in polls two years before the national election have appeared on the ballot — Mitt Romney took second place in 2010, John McCain took second place in 2006 and George W. Bush took second place in 1998.

Put simply, the result poll’s results seem to indicate that the next GOP tick-et could be even less moderate than the last, all while national polls indicate that the country as a whole is becoming more progressive, particularly on social issues such as same-sex marriage, immigration reform and marijuana legalization. While it is unlikely that Cruz has a shot at the White House, considering his far-right stance, Cruz’s second-place victory should still mean his party is hell-bent on ignor-ing the nation’s feelings on progressive is-sues such as gay marriage.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll this year found that 58 percent of people believe Americans should be able to marry whom-ever they choose — a stance that neither Rand Paul nor Ted Cruz supports. Even the youth in the GOP are erasing the lines on social issues. A February poll by the Pub-lic Religion Research Institute found that the percentage of millennial Republicans who favored same-sex marriage stood at 50 percent.

Immigration, another issue that is par-ticularly important to Texas, was also largely avoided in the CPAC convention, but it re-mains one of the most divisive issues among conservatives. This continual gap between

conservatives and the nation as a whole on key issues raises a crucial question: Where is the Republican Party headed? With con-servatives moving further and further away from moderate Republicans, and politicians such as Cruz and Paul taking center stage, particularly in the CPAC poll, it seems as though moderates are losing their place in the Republican Party. Thus far, the GOP strat-egy to deal with this divide has been to avoid touching on social issues altogether, touting a so-called fiscal conservatism to attract young voters to the party.

But, rather than falling into the trap of giving into such rhetoric, young voters, par-ticularly voters in a state as conservative as Texas, must think carefully before throwing support behind either party. Austin may be a bubble in regard to its progressive stances on social issues, but the rest of the nation is not. So voters should pay attention to which groups politicians vying for the 2016 GOP ticket appeal to in the early campaign stages. Because, while trying to draw sup-port from conservatives, otherwise moder-ate leaders may be pushed into taking a more right-wing stance. And that’s something to be aware of, especially in a state that has re-cently shown overwhelming support for the Republican party.

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Point/Counterpoint: Should alcohol be served at athletic events?

By Jasmine JohnsonDaily Texan Columnist

@AllThatJasss

By Matthew Gill Daily Texan Columnist

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I attended my first Red River Rivalry game in October of last year. After the Long-horns’ unexpected victory, while wandering the state fairgrounds, for every excited UT fan I saw, I also saw an OU fan upset by the Longhorns’ unexpected victory, and far too many of them were both angry and drunk — a potent combination enabled by the al-cohol readily available at the Cotton Bowl. I expected bickering from students, but, when I saw heated exchanges between alums in their ’30s and ’40s, I knew that alcohol had to be the culprit.

Consequently, I’m less than thrilled about the University’s recent decision to sell beer and wine at sporting events. Alcohol brings out the worst in people, and fans are no exception.

According to findings from a study by Harvard School of Public Health on col-lege drinking, published in 2001 (making it a little bit outdated, but still worthwhile), 53 percent of sports fans usually engage in binge drinking. This makes them more sus-ceptible to committing or being the victim of alcohol-fueled crimes. Sure, many stu-dents binge drink before the game or sneak flasks into the stadium already. But selling alcohol on the premise both allows them more access to alcohol and condones their drinking in public.

Granted, not everyone drinks at games. But those who don’t drink are also affected by alcohol-related problems. The afore-mentioned study, which surveyed more than 14,000 college students at 119 nation-ally representative four-year colleges in 39 states, found that students at schools where at least 40 percent of the survey respondents

described themselves as fans were more likely to fall prey to the secondhand effects of others’ binge drinking, such as disruption of sleep, property damage and verbal abuse.

Some universities, such as West Virginia University, have, however, successfully de-creased the number of game-day alcohol related incidents by implementing alcohol sales at sporting events.

According to West Virginia University Police statistics, their University saw a 35 percent decrease in the number of game day alcohol-related incidents after authorizing the sale of alcohol at sporting events. But WVU doesn’t allow fans to leave the stadium and come back by showing their ticket stub, which Longhorn fans can do at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. By imple-menting this policy, WVU has more control over how much alcohol their fans consume as compared to UT, since UT has no such policy restricting fans from returning to their tailgate during the game.

Since our University lacks such a policy, there should be more precautionary mea-sures by police to help monitor fan behavior. Sadly, according to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey, UTPD will not increase the number of police patrols for games but will closely monitor sporting events for increases or decreases in safety issues. Like UTPD, the Austin Police Department hasn’t planned any changes in game-day patrols.

“It’s not going to change the way we do business,” APD senior police officer Veneza Bremmer told KVUE.

According to Athletic Director Steve Patterson, the decision was made to “en-hance the fan experience” rather than to generate more revenue. My question to Patterson, assuming I really believed his claim, would be, “which fans’ experience is he aiming to enhance:” the fans who genuinely care about the successes and failures of our athletic teams or those that show up just as an excuse to tailgate and binge drink?

Johnson is a journalism junior from DeSoto.

On Feb. 28, the University began a trial period of selling beer and wine at spring sporting events. During the trial period the University, UTPD and the Texas Al-coholic Beverage Commission will evalu-ate the effectiveness and safety of the policy in order to decide whether or not to sell alcohol at fall sporting events, in-cluding football at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

“We could look into expanding it for other sports events next fall provided the outcome of the trial is positive,” said Athletic Director Steven Peterson.

Drinking while watching sports is part of American culture, and the change in UT’s policy is both welcome and smart — it gen-erates revenue for the University while bet-tering the fan experience and encouraging safe drinking.

Allowing beer and wine sales at games could reduce the amount of tailgating, pre-gaming and binge drinking that occurs

before the games even start. When the pur-chase of alcohol is prohibited, it forces an individual who wants to drink to consume excessive amounts to hold them off during the duration of the game. It is no secret that many fans are intoxicated before they hit the stands.

Undeclared sophomore David Lessenber-ry, who just retired from the U.S. Navy after 26 years, supports the idea of alcohol being sold at sporting events.

“People want to complain about the ven-ues selling beer,” Lessenberry said. “But then they think it is OK to sit in the park-ing lot and get tanked before a game. Very hypocritical.”

I’ve attended multiple football games. Whether the venues sell alcohol or not, there will always be students and other patrons who will pre-game and tailgate prior to attending sporting events. It would be unrealistic and impractical to have a sober environment at any college sporting event.

Ultimately, selling alcohol will allow those who would rather not pre-game or tailgate a chance to drink at the game and promote fan retention after halftime when many leave the venue to drink and don’t return for the last two quarters. If UT sold beer at the football games, it would become the third Big 12 school to do so, after Iowa State and West Virginia.

According to a Bloomberg report in 2011, West Virginia generated $700,000 in revenue from alcohol sales. It seems that the sale of beer would bring just as much revenue to UT.

Any increase in criminal or disruptive behavior should be monitored by the po-lice to see whether there are adverse ef-fects before making the sales permanent. But, given the many benefits of expand-ing beer sales, it’s hard to believe that the University will come to any conclusion other than that the sales should continue into the fall.

Gil is a sociology sophomore from San Antonio.

Alcohol ruins game environment Beer sales at games are profitableIllustration by Connor Murphy / Daily Texan Staff

Allowing beer and wine sales at games could reduce the amount of tailgating, pre-gaming and binge drinking that occurs be-fore the games even start. … It is no secret that many fans are intoxicated before they hit the stands.

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hour of medium data usage on Netflix — after which stu-dents are moved to a slower, second-class network. Stu-dents have the option of pur-chasing additional bandwidth from 5 GB to 150 GB. In the fall 2013 rate card, 5 GB per week costs $4.25 per semester.

The proposal would elimi-nate the 500 MB of Inter-net, and require students to purchase bandwidth each semester. Green said the pro-posal was created as a way to avoid potential liabilities that could come from providing free Internet.

“Depending on what the student does, the University could have some liability for what happens,” Green said. “If someone does something that is illegal, the University could be liable or could be brought into various cases.”

According to Green, the proposal would also create the funding needed to pro-vide Internet access. Last year, students, faculty and staff generated $132,000 in bandwidth revenue, while the University spent over $750,000 in bandwidth.

Green said ITS generally receives its funding from the University to accomplish the services set out by IT gover-nance. Bandwidth is purchased through four sources of income — ITS operations, residential

network operations, tiered public network access and research network operations.

“We are not quite meeting what we’re spending, but as we get people buying into it they’ll start to make up that money,” Green said. “It also means as people consume more we have the funds to buy more.”

As of last spring, University computers make up 52 percent of the bandwidth being used on campus, while wireless, nonresident students are us-ing 48 percent of bandwidth. Because additional bandwidth charges are included in their tuition fees, students living on campus are excluded from

usage statistics. Green said at its busiest

time, Tuesdays at 2 p.m., the University is using an aver-age of 5 GB per second.

Undeclared freshman Madeline Barham said she does not pay for additional bandwidth and has not gone over the allocated 500 MB.

“I already pay enough money to go to UT, but, if it were only five dollars a semester, I would think that would be reasonable,” Barham said.

Government and history senior Mauricio Garcia said the allocated bandwidth was not a sufficient amount for

him, and he purchased 25 GB of bandwidth this se-mester for $7.25. Garcia said he thinks the rates for last semester were a reasonable price for bandwidth.

“I like the idea because by the third day of class I’m all over my bandwidth,” Garcia said. “If the University upgrades this, I think that would be perfect because the minimum band-width runs out so easily.”

Green said ITS is review-ing rates for next fall and stu-dents may see a decrease in the cost of bandwidth as con-sumption increases. Green said he hopes for a decision to be made in April.

Committee on Transpar-ency in State Agency Op-erations, which is trying to determine whether Hall overstepped his duties as a regent and whether he should be recommended for impeachment. Hall filed open records requests with UT for more than 800,000 pages of information and has been accused of con-ducting a “witch hunt” to oust President William Powers Jr.

Martinez Fischer said Foster’s email raises ques-tions about Cigarroa’s true motive for resigning, and testimony from Cigarroa and Foster could provide the committee with an-swers. In December 2013, Cigarroa testified in front of the committee and said Hall’s actions were dis-ruptive to the System and caused a drop in morale.

Alvarado said the com-mittee will consider Mar-tinez Fischer’s request, but no decision has been reached about reconvening.

“I have not talked to the other committee members or my co-chair about [the letter], but it’s something that I hope we will have dis-cussions about,” Alvarado said. “We were hoping our report would be done soon, but, again, we have stressed

all along that we are not in a rush. We want to make sure that we’re being thorough and that we don’t leave any-thing uncovered.”

In February, Martinez Fischer sent a different letter to the committee co-chairs addressing his concerns about Cigarroa’s true motives for stepping down, especially in light of other System em-ployees resigning — includ-ing Barry Burgdorf, who re-signed as the System’s general counsel in March 2013.

“I am concerned that, without proper leadership and experienced staff, there will be continued commu-nication and administrative issues between the Board of Regents and the com-ponent institutions of the System,” Martinez Fischer wrote in February.

In February, Cigarroa said he is resigning as Chan-cellor in order to pursue medicine full time. He said the existing tension between the board and Powers did not factor into his decision.

“As it relates to President Powers, this decision is completely separate from that,” Cigarroa said. “I will continue to do my work as chancellor every day until my last day, as I’ve always done, based on facts and performance. I support President Powers, and I will continue to evaluate all presidents every day.”

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Sunday night, freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis did something she hasn’t done often this season — give up the eventual game-winning grand slam in a relief appear-ance, as the Longhorns fell to Iowa 6-5.

But Monday night, Davis was on a mission in the cir-cle, striking out nine batters and holding the Hawkeyes to one hit as Texas won its first series of the year with a 3-0 win.

“She wants the ball,” head coach Connie Clark said. “It’s just about getting her con-sistent and dealing with sce-narios like that.”

Davis came out firing to start the game, striking out four of the Iowa’s first seven batters.

Iowa (5-12) threatened Texas in the top of the third inning as the first two run-ners reached base for the top of the Hawkeye lineup. But Davis got a fly out to center, a strikeout and a ground out to get out of the jam. In the fourth, Davis fired back, striking out all three batters in the frame, keeping batters off balance with a mix of fast-balls and off speed pitches.

Davis, who improved to 7-7 this season and leads the team with a 2.36 ERA, also worked around bit of a jam in the fourth with two on and one out for her 10th com-plete game and first career shutout. She said she trusts her defense when she gets in those tough situations.

“Usually me and Mandy [Ogle] have a head nod or something, and it re-minds me to relax and just throw the ball and trust my

defense,” Davis said.The Longhorns (18-14),

who have struggled to take advantage of scoring oppor-tunities this season, struck in the first inning when sopho-more right-fielder Lindsey Stephens got the offense go-ing with a two-out triple. Then, with the bases loaded, sophomore designated-hitter Holly Kern ripped a double to left-center field to score the first two runs of the game.

Kern said she benefited

from Davis’ 11-pitch at bat right before she stepped to the plate.

“Coming into the at bat, I was like, ‘She had a really good at bat, so I’m going to get a hit for her’,” Kern said. “It felt really good to score some runners.”

In the next inning, the Horns added another run when senior center-fielder Brejae Washington hit a two-out triple to left-cen-ter to score senior catcher

Mandy Ogle.Meanwhile, for Iowa, se-

nior pitcher Kayla Massey settled down after the first two innings. Despite allow-ing nine hits, Massey kept Texas off the board in the last four innings, including pitching out of a bases loaded situation in the sixth inning.

Texas will get one last non-conference game Wednesday night against Houston before opening up Big 12 play at Waco on Saturday and Sunday.

6STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsTuesday, March 18, 2014

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Texas baseball looks to recover after slump

The Longhorns’ pitch-ing staff continues to look poised for an NCAA Tournament run, but, af-ter a 1-2 start in Big 12 play, Texas must figure out how to do more than just pitch.

Texas (15-6) was out-scored 10-5 in last week-end’s series with Kansas en route to losing two of three games after win-ning four of its previ-ous five games during Spring Break. Although losing the first confer-ence series of the year is difficult, head coach Au-gie Garrido knows the team will stick together moving forward.

“Obviously, we lost two games, and the way we finished makes it difficult for everyone to make it very positive, but that is what this game does to you,” Garrido said. “We have won 15 games and lost six now. We have won 15 together and we have lost six together, and we continue to move on together.”

The Texas offense was outhit 22-17 in the Kan-sas series while posting a sub-.200 combined batting average for the three games.

Senior center fielder Mark Payton continues to lead the offense with a .417 batting average and 13 runs on the season. His team-leading 17 walks have also given opportu-nities to players such as junior right fielder Collin Shaw, who is second on the team with a .344 bat-ting average, to help push runs across.

Many of the recent struggles at the plate have come from the start-ing Texas freshmen — a group which includes first baseman Kacy Clemens, catcher Tres Barrera, third baseman Zane Gurwitz and third baseman Andy McGuire. The group post-ed just four of Texas’ 17 hits in the Kansas series, with three coming from Barrera, who has raised his batting average to .197 with the effort.

The Longhorns will battle Dallas Baptist (15-4) Tuesday, a team riding a six-game winning streak into Austin. Despite weaker competition, the Patriots’ numbers appear more consistent across the board, especially on offense.

As a team, Dallas Bap-tist is hitting .270 with 135 runs scored in 19 games while Texas is hit-ting .237 with 79 runs scored in 21 games.

Pitching for both teams appears even as well, with Texas holding a combined 2.19 ERA, compared with 2.48 for the Patriots. Dal-las Baptist pitchers have proven they can strikeout hitters, however, tallying 190 punch-outs to 123 for the Longhorns.

With similar numbers on paper, Texas will have to find its groove at the plate against Dallas Bap-tist to prove its record is no fluke.

—Matt Warden

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TEXAS IOWAVS.

Horns gain first series win of the seasonBy Jacob Martella

@ViewFromTheBox

PHOTO BRIEFLY

Longhorns to face Penn on Sunday in NCAA Tournament The Longhorns have put on their dancing

shoes as they head to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament for a date with No. 12 Penn, which will take place Sunday in College Park, Md.

The Quakers recently captured the Ivy

League championship but had just the 130th toughest schedule in the nation com-pared to fifth-seeded Texas’ 10th toughest schedule. The game will be aired on ESPN at 2 p.m.

—Jori Epstein

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Although Texas still has only seven verbal commits for its 2015 recruiting class, the Longhorns’ Junior Days appeared to have made an impact on recruits.

Ryan Newsome, a wide receiver from Aledo High School, has expressed high interest in Texas and its coaching staff. The four-star athlete is a highly recruited prospect that received an of-fer from Texas in February and has other offers from schools, including Baylor, Florida State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Oregon. In his junior year at Aledo, the 5-foot-9-inch, 163-pound receiver recorded seven punts for touchdowns, tying a national record.

Newsome helped Aledo — which also happens to be the alma mater of Longhorn sophomore running back Johnathan Gray — win its fourth state championship since 2009.

Toby Weathersby, an of-fensive tackle from West-field High School in Hous-ton, attended one of the Longhorn Junior Days. The 6-foot-4-inch, 295-pound lineman received an offer from Texas in late January. Currently, Weathersby has Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M as his top schools, and he has indicated that he might make a verbal commitment sometime in the summer.

Another Houston product, receiver Kemah Siverand plans to visit Texas and Texas A&M in the near future. Both schools have offered to the junior and are high on his list. Siverand did not attend one of Texas’ Junior Days. despite an invi-tation. The four-star recruit from Cypress Ridge High School caught 25 passes for 611 yards in his junior season and recorded seven touchdowns.

Among many of the prospects the Longhorns target for their 2015 class, the list includes five-star cornerback Kendall Shef-field, four-star defensive end James Lockhart and Damarkus Lodge, one of the state’s top-ranked receivers.

Defensive back Jalen Campbell verbally com-mitted to Texas in March 2013, but reports suggest he will visit other schools and evaluate his options. The three-star commit from Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi suffered an ACL injury last year during a spring game.

Away from the recruit-ing trail, the Longhorns are about two months away from learning where for-mer USC quarterback Max Wittek will transfer to. Wit-tek’s short list of options includes Texas, Hawaii and Louisville. The 20-year-old already visited Austin and stated in an interview with OrangeBloods.com that his trip exceeded expectations. The quarterback would have two years of eligibility after completing his undergradu-ate degree at USC.

Tarale Murry thought he gave up a dream to come to Texas.

Murry, a junior guard walk-on on the Longhorns’ basketball team, was a four-time varsity letter winner at Lehman High School in Kyle. He spent years build-ing his skills, and, when he graduated, he had a partial scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania and a full scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis.

But with the recommenda-tion of Pastor Billy Ray Johns of the Greater New Life Tab-ernacle, Murry attended UT to stay close to home.

“I actually cried when I made my decision to come here,” Murry said. “I wanted to make the right decision. I’m a man of faith, so I wanted to make the right choice, but I re-ally wanted to go [to UPenn] cause of their programs, the prestige and [because] I could have played basketball there. I thought I had everything there. Here, I thought I’m not going to make the team. It’s Texas.”

But, three years into his time at UT and now a mem-ber of the team, his decision paid off. But it also proved helpful when tragedy struck at home.

Last fall, his stepfather suf-fered a stroke, which landed him in the hospital for a long period of time. Murry’s mother was left with the task of raising his many siblings, which is when Murry Tarale stepped in to help raise his brother and sisters while his stepfather recovered and his mother tended to him daily.

“He woke up to that and said, ‘If I had went away, I wouldn’t have been able to help my mom at all,’” said

Johns, the pastor who has known Murry since he was 6 years old. “He took over and was there for those kids. He also went to school, ran er-rands for his mom and came back to the hospital to take care of his dad. He had to be a mentor to his siblings.”

Murry’s leadership has transferred to his time on the basketball team. As the old-est member on the squad, he has become a role model to the young team despite his limited playing time. While at home and on the road for games, Murry holds team meetings and helps guide his teammates in the right direc-tion, propelling him as one of the most respected members of the team.

“He doesn’t get to play re-ally a second of anything, but he’s still a great leader,” fresh-man guard Martez Walker said. “He’ll tell you what you need, he can preach and he could even be a starter if he had a chance to. We respect that of him cause we know that’s how [Murry] Tarale is.”

Sophomore guard De-marcus Holland said he sees Murry as his helper and mentor.

“I look to him as a big brother,” Holland said. “He helps all of us, tell-ing us what’s right and what’s wrong.”

Murry has played in just five games this season and has yet to record a basket. But, looking back, Murry, who is majoring in account-ing, said he wouldn’t change one part of his choice to attend Texas.

“I really believe that be-cause I made my decision to come here and followed my faith in God, He made this opportunity possible,” Murry said. “I’m blessed to be here. I wouldn’t change my decision.”

Jonathan GarzaDaily Texan Staff

Freshman Tiarra Davis pitches during Mon-day’s contest against Iowa. Davis earned her seventh win of the season and leads the Longhorns with a 2.36 ERA.

Walk-on Tarale Murry mentors young squad

Texas Junior Days attract 2015 class

By Jeremy Thomas@jeremyobthomas

By Garrett Callahan@CallahanGarrett

I look to him as a big brother. He helps all of us, telling us what’s right and what’s wrong.

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The beat thumps as a group of dancers move in sync to the music, their ex-pressions focused while their bodies tell a story. As they dance, the group members show deep connections with each other and occasionally stop to fist bump and com-pliment other dancers. The group, called I Got Sole, has a mission that goes much further than dance.

Jonathon “JT” Thomas, African and African dias-pora studies senior, created I Got Sole at UT with five friends in 2012 to provide an outlet for people want-ing to achieve their dreams. The group, which focuses on dance, produces videos of original choreography to popular songs. The dance videos are produced, edited and filmed by members of the group.

“The movement is geared specifically towards anybody trying to get out their dreams,” Thomas said. “Whatever they’re passionate for — per-forming arts, visual arts and anything that they are really driven by. It’s really trying to get people to dream again.”

I Got Sole’s first videos were components of a docu-mentary series that sought to inspire people to join. The videos have since become choreography pieces to songs instead of being solely about the movement. The group holds public auditions for each of its videos.

Once formed, the group began to grow quickly and currently has more than 100 members. According to Thomas, the group’s symbol, a fist, represents overcoming struggles to succeed.

“A lot of people call it a dance company, but I like to think of it as a movement,” Thomas said. “It’s really just trying to inspire people to get creative again and to be in that imagination mindset.”

Psychology senior Afia Twumasi joined I Got Sole

in February 2013 shortly after its creation. Twumasi recently starred in I Got Sole’s dance video to “Par-tition” by Beyonce.

“I guess coming to I Got Sole every Wednesday and Thursday [is] like [having] a family,” Twumasi said. “You talk with them or laugh with them, no matter what. If class was kind of stress-ful, you have a place to go dance and just release your stress. That’s what has been so important to me: to have

this movement around.”Damian Medrano, applied

learning and development junior, joined I Got Sole in September. Medrano also said the group helps him to release stress.

“When the week’s hard, I just come here and throw it all out on the dance floor and just have fun,” Medrano said. “I forget everything that’s going on for those two hours. I love it so much.”

I Got Sole allows anyone to audition for its videos and

attend its weekly sessions. Thomas said even people who think they can’t dance are welcome.

“You can always learn,” Thomas said. “I never send anyone away, especially if they are really willing and committed to learn. I think that everything is possible if you put your mind to it.”

Computer science fresh-man Kevin Avila, who re-cently joined the group, said I Got Sole has helped him grow socially as a first-year student.

“I love dance, and just [hav-ing been] able to find a group of people and friends that dance was great,” Avila said.

Thomas hopes the group will grow past the college campus and become a global movement. He said he wants I Got Sole to reach and in-spire as many people as pos-sible to follow their dreams.

“We want this movement to get as big as possible,” Thomas said. “We just want to show people what they are capable of doing.”

By Brigit Benestante@BBenestante

FILM

With quirky characters, colorful settings, speedy di-alogue and a splash of mel-ancholy, “The Grand Bu-dapest Hotel” encompasses all of the tools director Wes Anderson uses in his films.

Anderson, a UT alum-nus, showcased his latest feature at the Paramount Theatre last Monday as a part of South By Southwest Film. People arrived two-and-a-half hours before the showing started — creating a line that wrapped around two downtown blocks.

The enormity of the turn-out contrasts Anderson’s first movie screening of his 1996 feature “Bottle Rock-et” at Hogg Memorial Au-ditorium. Only nine people attended, two of which, An-derson said, left as the cred-its started rolling.

The idea for “The Grand Budapest Hotel” began first with a short story An-derson and a friend wrote about someone whom they knew. This character turned into Monsieur Gus-tave, the concierge played by Ralph Fiennes. Ander-son made this transition after being inspired by writer Steve Zweig’s work.

He decided to turn the short story into a film fol-lowing characters set in the ’30s in wartime Europe.

“It started with this one character, and then even-tually having an idea of the setting that this was going to be a European war background,” Ander-son said. “Then making the script, then all the vi-sual stuff came after the script was finished.”

The movie follows an or-phaned lobby boy named Zero, played by Tony Revolori, and his mentor Gustave. The story is told by Zero decades later, as he sits at dinner with a writer, played by Jude Law, in the now-dilapidated hotel.

“The writing is the first and foremost thing,” An-derson said. “The actors, they invent their perfor-mances themselves, but they work with the script.”

Jason Schwartzman saw the film for the first time at Monday’s SXSW premiere. Schwartzman is only in a few scenes, but his appear-ance, in addition to Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and others, follow Anderson’s fashion of sticking to the same company of actors with each of his movies.

“It was exciting; I’m a

fan of [Anderson’s films] so much,” Schwartzman said. “It’s so funny.”

This movie takes after Anderson’s earlier films with the same style of fram-ing, dialogue and use of color. He also uses anima-tion and miniatures along-side live action in “Grand Budapest Hotel,” as he did in his 2009 animated fea-ture “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” While the live-action por-tions were shot on location in a town between Poland and Germany, many min-iatures and the animation used were created in Berlin.

“With the stop motion, you edit the whole thing and then you shoot it,” An-derson said. “I started do-ing that with the live-action movies more where we do the same kind of animatic [sic] and kind of prepare it in more detail.”

Anderson’s trademark style is visible in “Grand Budapest Hotel,” but he does include new tech-niques. The film jumps around between various time periods, with a dif-ferent screen format to de-note each one.

Anderson is known for meticulousness. The nu-merous perfumes worn by Gustave and the fake

mustache worn by Zero during the movie intensify characterization and give a more tangible represen-tation of the personality these characters have.

“It’s either inspired by something we’ve stolen somewhere and forgot-ten where it came from, or it came from our life or something,” Anderson said on the subject of coming up with different details to use in his films.

Having Anderson’s latest success premiere in Texas, where his career began, emphasizes the all-encom-passing feeling that his lat-est movie holds.

While back in Austin for the SXSW premiere, An-derson took time to visit the UT campus, his alma mater and the place where he met close friend and ac-tor Owen Wilson.

“It’s great,” Anderson said. “I went to all my old classes and my old house where me and Owen lived. It’s the same. There are a few new buildings, but it’s very much the same.”

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” released this past weekend in select theaters making $811,166, the high-est grossing amount for a limited weekend debut.

Dance group inspires students to succeed

Miriam RousseauDaily Texan Staff

Nneoma Ajiwe, a human develop-ment and family sciences sopho-more, and “I Got Sole Movement” members audi-tion for the World of Dance team competition that will take place in Dallas on April 26. The move-ment is an outlet for dancers, videographers and visual artists to express their dreams.

Anderson film debuts at SXSW By Sarah Montgomery

@withalittlejazz

First lady encourages people to cook at home

WASHINGTON — Next up for “Let’s Move?” How about “Let’s Cook?”

Michelle Obama said Fri-day that a new focus of her anti-childhood obesity effort will be to help people cook more of their meals at home because they’re healthier.

Addressing a health summit in Washington, the first lady said home-cooked meals have less fat, sodium, cholesterol and calories than meals pre-pared in restaurants — and save money, too.

She said too many people think they don’t have the time or the skills to cook for themselves but that plenty of meals can be pulled together in fewer than 30 minutes for cheaper than takeout.

Mrs. Obama began fo-cusing on the nation’s childhood obesity prob-lem as soon as she got to the White House in 2009. She pledged Friday to stick with the issue long after she’s gone.

“We cannot walk away from this issue until obesity rates drop for children of every age and every back-ground,” she said. “We can-not walk away until every child in this country has a shot at a healthy life. And that’s why I’m in this thing for the long haul, and I mean long after I leave the White House, because I believe in finishing what I start.”

Mrs. Obama praised re-cent federal statistics that show a sharp decline in obesity rates among chil-dren of ages 2-5 as a small — though important — achievement but still not enough evidence to declare the problem solved. She urged everyone to keep working on solutions, espe-cially among older kids.

“Now is not the time to take our foot off the gas and congratulate ourselves on a job well done,” Mrs. Obama said. “Just the op-posite. Now is the time to fight even harder because we now know it is possible to make a difference on

this issue. We know that our strategies are begin-ning to work.”

Her strategy largely has been to cajole food and beverage makers, retailers, restaurants and others to make healthier products. Federal legislation and regulations are leading to changes in school breakfast and lunch programs and are expected to bring an updat-ed “Nutrition Facts” label to thousands of packaged products before the end of the decade.

The promised focus on helping families adopt healthier habits by doing more cooking at home fits that approach.

The first lady talked about working with super-markets to distribute reci-pes and offer cooking dem-onstrations with schools to develop the “home economics class of the fu-ture” to give students ba-sic cooking skills and with chefs to get them to offer affordable cooking classes in their restaurants.

She promised announce-ments of new initiatives in the coming months.

Mrs. Obama said re-search shows eating meals cooked at home is one of the best ways families can improve their health.

Mrs. Obama is honorary chairwoman of the nonprof-it organization, which was created in conjunction with “Let’s Move,” her initiative against childhood obesity. The partnership works to support the goals of “Let’s Move” and with businesses to bring them on board and hold them accountable for the commitments they make to improve the health of Americans.

It so far has more than 70 commitments from compa-nies of all sizes, according to Larry Soler, its CEO.

Among them was yogurt maker Dannon, which an-nounced Friday that it will begin reducing the amount of sugar and fat in all its brands.

—Associated Press

Jonathan ShortAssociated Press

This May 18, 2012, file photo

shows director and UT alumnus

Wes Anderson posing for a por-trait at the 65th

international film festival in

Cannes. Ander-son’s latest film

is “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

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