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Following President Barack Obama’s announcement late Sunday night of Osama bin Laden’s death, students celebrate at Cain & Abel’s. Out on the street, fireworks went off in West Campus.

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Robert Pigford, a custodian at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, watches a television report announcing the death of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden.

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WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mas-termind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in a fire-fight Sunday with U.S. forces in Pakistan, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade.

“Justice has been done,” said President Barack Obama in a dramatic late-night announcement at the White House.

A jubilant crowd of thousands gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden’s death. Hundreds more sang and waved American flags at Ground Zero in New York.

U.S. officials said the helicopter raid in Pakistan was carried out by CIA paramilitaries together with the elite Navy SEAL Team Six. The U.S. team took custody of bin Laden’s remains, which American of-ficials said were being handled in accordance with Is-lamic tradition.

The death marks a psychological triumph in a long

struggle, although its ultimate impact on al-Qaida is less clear.

The greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. is now considered to be the al-Qaida franchise in Yemen, far from al-Qaida’s core in Pakistan. The Yemen branch almost took down a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas in 2009 and nearly detonated explosives aboard two U.S. cargo planes last fall. Those oper-ations were carried out without direct involvement from bin Laden.

Obama said he gave the order for the operation af-ter receiving intelligence information that he did not further describe.

Former President George W. Bush, who was in of-fice on the day of the attacks, issued a written state-ment hailing bin Laden’s death as a momentous achievement.

Senior administration officials said the terror-ist mastermind was found inside a custom-built compound with two security gates. They said it ap-peared to have been constructed to harbor one

By Julie Pace & Matt ApuzzoThe Associated Press

“I was in disbelief and then immediate celebration. I think it’s a significant event in the war on terror because the widest-known terrorist has been killed by the U.S. Strategically, I’m not sure how much it matters, but it helped close the chapter on 9/11.”’

Cameron BinaPsychology senior

“Every time 9/11 rolls around, I don’t know how to feel because so much was twisted to justify so much. So tonight, I’m cynical about the national security brouhaha, but I’m glad Obama got him rather than Bush. In a decade where American security looked helpless, intelligence triumphed over brute force.”

Travis KnollLatin American Studies sophomore

“Some people are going to be really partisan about it, and you can’t avoid that happening, but I think most people realize the hunt for Osama has been going on since the Clinton administration. It’s one of those nights where no matter who your source is, everyone is saying the same thing.”

Melanie SchwartzHistory senior

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Al-Qaida, an

international terrorist

organization founded

by Osama bin Laden,

begins operations.

Bin Laden and four

others sign a fatwa

to declare a holy war

against the West and

Israel.

Trucks with explosives crash

into U.S. embassies in East

African cities. The attacks were

linked to bin Laden. President

Clinton responds with cruise

missile strikes in Sudan and

Afghanistan.

• Oct. 12, 2000

Planes crash into the World

Trade Center, the Pentagon

and a field in Shanksville, Pa.

About 3,000 people die in

the attacks, which bin Laden

claimed responsibility for.

• Oct. 7, 2001

Barack Obama inaugurated as the

44th President of the U.S. In his

May 1 speech, Obama announced

that shortly after taking office, he

asked CIA director Leon Panetta to

make the killing of bin Laden top

priority of the war against al-Qaida.

American intelligence

agents brief Obama on

a possible lead about

the whereabouts of bin

Laden.

President Obama

announces the

assassination of bin

Laden in a Abbottabad,

Pakistan, by a small

team of Americans.

• August 1988

• Feb. 23, 1998

• Aug. 7, 1998

Al-Qaida organizes a

suicide attack against

the U.S. Navy destroyer

USS Cole. Bin Laden later

bragged about the attack

in a recruitment video

and encouraged further

violence.

U.S. Armed Forces launch

Operation Enduring

Freedom and send

troops to Afghanistan in

response to 9/11.

• Sept. 11, 2001• Jan. 20, 2009

• May 1, 2011

• August 2010

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Thursday’s Page 1 news story about concealed carry on campus, the story should have clarifi ed Sen. Judith Zaffi rini, D-Laredo, opposed the amendment fi led by Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio.

US court decision repeals ban restricting stem cell research

A U.S. appeals court lifted the ban on federal funding used for embryonic stem cell research in a 2-1 vote Friday.

Paul Simmons, director of the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Health Science Center in Houston said the ban had not yet affected the school’s research funding.

“Had the appeals court ruling gone the other way, that could have been a very different scenar-io from now on,” Simmons said.

Two groups at the Houston Health Science Center are re-searching the use of embryonic cells in curing immunology and blood deficiencies.

Embryonic stem cells’ potential use in curing diseases is based on the flexibility of the cell to ad-just itself to mirror any cell in the body and the potential impact of curing diseases and removing strains on the health care system is enormous, Simmons said.

Research at the UT Health Sci-ence Center in San Antonio will not be affected by the ruling be-cause research at the center uses adult stem cells, said vice presi-dent for research Brian Herman.

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Texas senators are expected to de-bate two controversial pieces of leg-islation this week — the budget and concealed carry on campus.

The state House and Senate are looking for methods of easing the $15 to $27 billion budget deficit for the 2012-13 biennium. The House passed its version of the budget bill last month, which included major cuts to education and health care. Last week, the Senate Committee on Finance passed its version, which re-stores some of that funding.

The Senate’s proposed budget would cut UT’s funding by about $51 million and attempts to tap into the Rainy Day Fund, a $9.4 billion emergency fund lawmakers can use during financial crises.

Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San An-tonio, filed a bill that would allow concealed-handgun license holders to carry on campus. The bill, which seemed likely to pass without much opposition at the beginning of the session, lost support after constituent pressure. Wentworth will try to give the concealed carry on campus issue new life through an amendment.

Senate on the State BudgetA week after the Senate Commit-

tee on Finance passed the budget bill, senators may soon begin to de-bate the 2012-13 biennial budget on the chamber floor.

The Senate budget bill, which to-tals $178.6 billion and would re-store $12 million in funding for UT from the House version, was origi-nally slated for debate Thursday, but the legislation did not have enough votes and was pushed back. Sena-tors anticipate the bill will reach the floor today.

The proposed budget has drawn heat from both political parties, with some legislators opposing the use of $3 billion of the Rainy Day Fund. The disagreement over the fund is one of the main reasons the bill has stalled.

“While each of us could point to something in the budget we would change, I am comfortable with the method of finance for the budget,” said Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a letter to senators last week.

Dewhurst said he prefers to use recurring nontax revenue, such as economic growth, to balance the budget instead of using the Rainy Day Fund.

On Friday, lawmakers approved Sen. Robert Duncan’s, R-Lubbock, fiscal matters bill, which would add $4.1 billion from existing tax rev-enue to help ease next biennium’s budget deficit.

The budget bill’s author and chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, said members have been di-vided on the use of the Rainy Day Fund.

“If we’re not going to use the Rainy Day Fund when it’s raining, we might as well get rid of it,” Ogden said.

Concealed Carry on CampusSenators are likely to take up the

concealed carry on campus debate this week after Wentworth lost sup-port for his original bill, which left the issue looking dead. Senators had also proposed amendments to allow public universities to opt out of the requirement as well as an amend-ment to leave the decision up to re-gents, both of which were not ac-cepted and resulted in lost votes.

Last week, Wentworth sur-prised senators when he proposed an amendment to allow concealed carry on campus during debate for the higher education bill by Sen. Ju-dith Zaffirini, D-Laredo. Zaffirini’s bill would reduce reporting require-ments for higher education institu-tions and in turn translate into low-er tuition fees.

“That was the first bill I saw this [amendment] would be eligible for,” Wentworth said. “I have 20 votes to suspend the vote for freestanding, but you only need 16 votes for an amendment.”

Wentworth said the move was a “routine parliamentary tactic used by members all the time.”

Concealed carry on campus has generated heated opinions through-out the legislative session. Support-ers said the measure would allow for personal protection, while opposers said it could make campuses more dangerous.

Zaffirini accepted six prior amendments to the higher edu-cation bill but pulled it down af-ter Wentworth brought his final amendment forward.

The San Antonio Republican may be left searching for another option to pass concealed carry be-cause Zaffirini said she is likely to kill her bill.

“If he is able to successfully pass his amendment, I will have to kill the [higher education] bill,” Zaffirini said. “It is unfortunate that it might happen because the [higher educa-tion] bill could help save universities millions of dollars. We will have to see what he does.”

Texas Senate to tackle budget, concealed carry items this week

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high-value target and that for un-disclosed reasons, officials believed the hideout was bin Laden’s.

Officials also said they believe the death puts bin Laden’s al-Qai-da on a path of decline that will be difficult to reverse, but there was no word on the whereabouts of bin Laden’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri.

The stunning end to the world’s most widely watched manhunt came just months be-fore the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by al-Qaida, that killed nearly 3,000 people.

The attacks a decade ago seemed to come out of no-where, even though al-Qaida had previously struck Ameri-can targets overseas.

The Sept. 11th attacks set off a chain of events that led the Unit-ed States into wars in Afghani-stan and then Iraq, and America’s entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.

A senior administration offi-cial said Obama gave the final or-der for U.S. officials to go after bin Laden on Friday. The official added that a small team found its

quarry hiding in a large home in an affluent suburb of Islamabad. The raid occurred in the early morning hours Sunday.

Administration officials offered some details of the operation.

Based on statements given by U.S. detainees, intelligence offi-cials have known for years that bin Laden trusted one al-Qaida couri-er in particular, and they believed he might be living with him in hiding. In November, intelligence officials found out where he was living, a huge fortified compound in an affluent suburb of Islam-abad. It was surrounded by walls as high as 18 feet high, topped with barbed wire. There were two security gates and no phone or In-ternet running into the house.

Intelligence officials believed the $1 million home was custom-built to harbor a major terrorist. CIA experts analyzed whether it could be anyone else, but time and again, they decided it was almost certainly bin Laden.

Three adult males were also killed in Sunday’s raid, including one of bin Laden’s sons, whom of-ficials did not name. One of bin Laden’s sons, Hamza, is a senior member of al-Qaida.

Obama spoke with Bush and former President Bill Clinton on Sunday night to inform them of the developments.

The president struck a less than boastful tone in his brief an-nouncement, although he said the death of bin Laden was “the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to de-feat al-Qaida.

“His death does not mark the end of our effort. There’s no doubt that al-Qaida will contin-ue to pursue attacks against us. We must and we will remain vig-ilant,” he added.

Moments after Obama spoke, the State Department put U.S. em-bassies on alert and warned of the heightened possibility for an-ti-American violence. In a world-wide travel alert, the department said there was an “enhanced po-tential for anti-American violence given recent counterterrorism ac-tivity in Pakistan.”

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Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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NEW YORK — Thousands of workers and immigrant laborers took to the streets on Sunday to cel-ebrate May Day, demanding rights for those “who toil in the sun” while others pocket the profits.

The message in Manhattan — de-livered with bullhorns and drums — was echoed by millions of work-ers around the world, from Havana to Berlin and Istanbul.

The burning issues were the same: more jobs, better working conditions, higher wages and de-cent health care.

May 1 is a traditional date for

pro-labor demonstrations. Immi-gration advocates in the United States latched onto the celebrations in 2006.

At dozens of rallies around the country, they vowed to fight on behalf of undocumented immi-grants who are being rounded up and deported.

“STOP the deportations!” read a placard in Manhattan’s Union Square, where about 1,000 people gathered at noon before marching down Broadway for a rally in down-town Foley Square.

The square is feet from a fed-eral building that houses the New York office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency,

which is in charge of removal oper-ations involving illegal immigrants.

Across U.S. farmlands, “they toil in the sun, they toil so hard — and yet, others are making the most money,” said Jocelyn Gill-Campbell, an orga-nizer for Domestic Workers United.

She stood atop a pickup truck to address the Union Square crowd, which chanted in Spanish: “Prime-ro de Mayo, dio proletario,” mean-ing, “May 1, workers’ day.”

Immigrant advocates were joined at the Manhattan rallies by members of U.S. labor unions whose voices were heard loudest in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states where in recent months they pro-tested efforts to curtail the right to

collective bargaining.Underlying Sunday’s gather-

ings was seething anger over the rising cost of living and growing disparities between rich and poor — exacerbated by the global eco-nomic squeeze.

In Turkey, some 200,000 pro-testers flooded a central plaza in Istanbul, making it the largest May Day rally there since 1977, when at least 34 people died and more than 100 were injured after shoot-ing triggered a stampede. Turkish unions weren’t allowed back until last year.

VATICAN CITY — Some 1.5 million pilgrims flooded Rome on Sunday to watch Pope John Paul II move a step closer to sainthood in one of the largest Vatican Mass-es in history, an outpouring of ad-oration for a beloved and histor-ic figure after years marred by church scandal.

The turnout for the beatifica-tion far exceeded even the most optimistic expectation of 1 million people, the number Rome city offi-cials predicted. For Catholics filling St. Peter’s Square and its surround-ing streets, and for those watching around the world the beatification was a welcome hearkening back to the days when the pope was almost universally beloved.

“He was like a king to us, like a father,” Marynka Ulaszewska, a 28-year-old from Ciechocinek, Poland, said, weeping.

Pope Benedict XVI praised John Paul for turning back the seem-ingly “irreversible” tide of com-

munism with faith, courage and “the strength of a titan, a strength which came to him from God.”

John Paul is universally credit-ed with helping bring down com-munism in his native Poland with support for the Solidarity labor movement, accelerating the fall of the Iron Curtain.

“He rightly reclaimed for Chris-tianity that impulse of hope which had in some sense faltered be-fore Marxism and the ideology of progress,” Benedict said. “He re-stored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope.”

John Paul’s beatification, the fastest in modern times, has how-ever triggered a new wave of an-ger from sex-abuse victims be-cause much of the criminality oc-curred during his 27-year watch. Critics also say John Paul’s legacy is clouded by evidence of a dwin-dling faith: empty churches in Eu-rope, too few priests in North and South America, priests who vio-late their celibacy requirement in places like Africa and a general decline of Catholicism in former Christian strongholds.

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Policy Foundation (TPPF) hosted a panel to discuss several issues pertaining to Texas higher education, including a set of contro-versial reforms published by the foundation. Former TPPF staffer Rick O’Donnell gener-ated controversy when he was hired as an adviser by the Board of Regents in February and was subsequently fired last month. UT President William Powers, Jr. attended on behalf of the University. The following quotes were reported by The Texas Tribune.

Discussing higher education

“The big bulk of what we do is undergraduate teaching, and that needs to undergo revision and change as well. If the issue is change, we embrace it and have been doing it for a long time.” — UT President William Powers Jr., at the panel, responding to criticisms of the role of research within the University.

“I agree with almost everything Bill said. I agree with almost nothing Dr. Trowbridge said.” — Texas A&M accounting professor Robert Strawser who sat on the TPPF’s panel on behalf of A&M’s faculty senate.

“I’m not certain what that means.” — Strawser responding to a question on “results-based contracts,” one of the TPPF’s seven “breakthrough solutions.”

“A recent study issued by the American Enterprise Institute reveals, for example, that from 1980 to 2006, 21,674 schol-arly articles were published on Shakespeare. Do we need the 21,675th?” — Forum attendee and TPPF senior fellow Ronald Trowbridge in a column published in The Texas Tribune. Trowbridge, who has been critical of what he calls an overemphasis on re-search by universities, cited several points from his column throughout the forum.

“Football coaches, who work with bodies, are subject to in-tense accountability. Professors, who work with minds, are not. Go figure.” — Trowbridge calling for increased account-ability measures for professors in his column.

“How is research actually practiced throughout all aca-demic disciples in a research university? My suspicion is that no one fully knows and that the assumption is that all research is valuable.”— Trowbridge, reiterating his criticism of the status quo regarding university research.

Pay attention, be vocalBy Holly HeinrichDaily Texan Columnist

As summer approaches it’s tempting to let thoughts of the University slip into the back of our minds. But if you’ve been advocating for higher education at the Capitol, it’s time to pay closer attention and get more active: Ma-jor decisions are still being made. With one month left in the regular legislative session, many major higher education decisions are still up in the air. It’s possible the Legislature will intentionally bring up heated higher edu-cation issues while most students and faculty are out of Austin. That’s happened before. The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, for instance, scheduled a key hearing on legisla-tion regarding guns on campus during spring break, when the committee was aware that students would be out of town. So whether you’re staying in Austin or heading home for the summer, don’t let the Legislature believe you’ve stopped paying attention to politics. If students don’t stay aware and involved, policy-makers will be far more comfortable making decisions that students oppose. No one wants to return to campus in the fall to discover their University has been downgraded from an institution striving to reach the top tier of academic excellence to one that has become a budget education superstore, the Costco or Sam’s Club of public universities. The follow-ing are a few issues to follow and contact your legislators about in summer and fall 2011.

The Board of Regents The Board of Regents has considerable

power to set University policy — and it is also one of the least transparent and accountable policy-making entities in the state. Recently,

the regents have been embroiled in a conflict centered around the hiring and subsequent firing of an adviser who advocated cutting back research, a goal which is out of step with the University’s long-standing mission to be a top research institution. There is also controversy surrounding a recent challenge by Gov. Rick Perry, who asked university re-gents to create a $10,000 bachelor’s degree (including textbooks), a feat which many experts say is only possible if most classes are online. The Board of Regents has as-sembled two task forces to review these is-sues: the Task Force on Blended and Online Learning and the Task Force on University Excellence and Productivity. Be on the look-out for their recommendations because their findings may influence the Regents’ deci-sions on whether to implement plans which would make the quality of a UT degree very different from what it is today.

The regents are also expected to raise tu-ition during the upcoming school year, but due to expected state budget cuts, this deci-sion wouldn’t be surprising. State contribu-tions to the University have been decreasing since 2003, when the Legislature gave the regents the power to set tuition; between 2003-2008, tuition and fees rose 63 percent. Students have the best chance of preventing drastic tuition increases by advocating for university funding from the Legislature.

The Board of Regents will hold public meet-ings on May 11-12, July 13-14 and Aug. 24-25.

The Higher Education Budget Tuition increases and financial aid are

dependent on the amount of funding the University receives from the state. The Uni-versity has postponed releasing financial aid

offers to next year’s incoming freshman class because the University does not know how much aid, if any, it will be able to provide. The budget passed by the Texas House cuts nearly $1 billion from higher education. The proposed Senate budget cuts less, but still reduces higher education funding by $500 million. This is an important issue to speak out on now, and when you return home, ask family and friends to contact legislators and tell them to continue funding universities.

Redistricting Congressional redistricting has never

been a hot-button issue for college students, but it matters, especially at UT. Logically, the University would be best represented by a congressperson who lives in Austin and un-derstands the concerns of the University and its students. Instead, the University lies in Republican Congressman Lamar Smith’s dis-trict, which stretches all the way to San Anto-nio, where Smith resides. UT students make up a minor part of his constituency, so the University does not have to be a significant consideration in his congressional votes or elections. Redistricting has long been viewed as a political game, but voters are increasing-ly taking interest, especially in areas where a community has been intentionally gerry-mandered and people cannot elect the repre-sentative who best represents their needs.

The University we return to in the fall will be directly affected by the decisions made by the Legislature and the Board of Regents dur-ing the summer. If you care about the quality and cost of your degree, keep paying atten-tion, and stay vocal while you’re away.

Heinrich is a government freshman.

By andres MartinezDaily Texan Guest Columnist

In a guest column in The Texas Tribune on Friday, Ronald Trowbridge, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, out-lined the TPPF’s position that universities are prioritizing research over teaching. Citing a recent study by the American Enterprise In-stitute, Trowbridge stated that from 1980 to 2006, 21,674 scholarly articles were published on Shakespeare and then asked, “Do we need the 21,675th?”

At a panel discussion on Friday on higher education reforms, which included Presi-dent William Powers Jr., Trowbridge stuck to his script and read from his column in The Texas Tribune. However, in a seemingly unscripted moment, Trowbridge looked up from his paper and asked: “Why don’t they instead read the plays?”

Trowbridge neglects to examine what ac-tually goes on inside the classroom. Never in my experience as an English major at

UT have professors forced research upon me. Trowbridge could have discovered this had he glanced at a couple of English class syllabi. The vast majority of classes require readings of these “plays,” novels and poems — never any scholarly articles. After reading the actual texts, our professors prefer that we discuss the texts in class rather than lecture on what others have had to say about them. It is then our responsibility to interpret the texts in some original way and compose an essay — one that with time and dedication could very well become the 21,675th schol-arly article on Shakespeare. As students, we need those 21,674 articles on Shakespeare to inform us and guide us in our search for an original thesis.

While researching for term papers, it was always rewarding to encounter scholarly ar-ticles and books published by my professors. Their research and publications emphasize their qualifications and makes me proud to be studying at UT. To have an authority on the text take the time to seriously discuss the

text with you and guide you through it leaves a lasting impression. After finding those publications, my professors have always been there to discuss their relevance with me and offer any additional help with compos-ing a strong, original argument. Never have they been too busy with their own research to skip their office hours or to accommodate me at another time.

As a senior English major at UT, I take of-fense at Trowbridge’s assertion that another scholarly article on Shakespeare would con-tribute nothing to academia. If that 21,675th Shakespeare article is unnecessary, then I ask myself, what is the point of an English ma-jor at all? The essence of the English major is to critically engage these texts and consider them in a new light, not exclusively read others’ opinions about them. Perhaps Trow-bridge should consider attending a few class-es himself before leveling ignorant charges at the academy.

Martinez is an English senior.

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after Walsh grounded into a 5-4-3 double play.

With the bases loaded in the sixth, Walsh batted nicely against Oklaho-ma’s Dillon Overton, drawing a full count. But he swung and missed on what would have been ball four — a fastball at his eyes.

“I just can’t believe I swung at that,” Walsh said. “I came up with a couple situations where I had guys on base, and I didn’t come through for the team, so that was my bad.”

Head coach Augie Garrido sin-gled it out as a turning point in the game.

“You strike out on ball four with the bases loaded, and that’s a mo-mentum buster,” he said.

This stinker of a game looked like Texas’ 10-1 loss to Maryland or its 7-3 loss to Brown — early-sea-son defeats that featured an offense somewhere in between lethargic

and nonexistent.“That’s something we struggled

with early in the season,” Walsh said. “It’s something we’re still work-ing on.”

The relapse comes at a bad time. Not only was the dud featured on national television, but it knocks the Longhorns out of the catbird’s seat in the Big 12 conference race. With Texas A&M losing two of three at Missouri this weekend, a sweep over Oklahoma would have put Texas in prime position to finish first in the standings, all but guaranteeing a national top-eight seed and home-field advantage for the Regional and Super Regional tournaments.

But the Sunday loss puts the Longhorns tied with the Aggies, meaning the mid-May series against A&M is now a must-win.

“We really would have liked to come and sweep this series,”

Walsh said.That would have been accom-

plished if the Texas bats had shown up like they did in the first two games of the series — a 5-0 win Fri-day and a 4-3 win Saturday. But only one Longhorn finished with multi-ple hits (Shepherd), and two of the team’s best players failed to register a hit, as Brandon Loy went 0-for-5 and Erich Weiss went 0-for-3, which means that the freshman’s hit streak comes to an end at 15 games.

“We didn’t have that burning de-sire,” Garrido said. “There’s a lev-el of complacency that sets in after you’ve won a series, if you let it.”

Clearly, Texas had their old foes, contentment and complacency, come back to haunt them again Sunday. But how could the Long-horns let it happen again?

They’re still scratching their heads trying to figure that out.

Sam Stafford started for Tex-as (33-11, 15-6 Big 12) but lasted only 3.2 innings. He allowed the leadoff runner on in the first three innings and picked up his second loss of the season.

Cale Ellis led of the third in-ning with a single for Oklahoma, and consecutive sac-bunts moved him to third base. Then Tyler Ogle slapped a double to right field that scored Ellis.

“I left it up in the strike zone, and he did his job with that RBI double, which was big,” Stafford said.

Garrett Buechele then hit a line drive directly at shortstop Brandon Loy, but Loy tried to backhand the ball and misplayed it for an error, which scored Ogle from second base to put Oklaho-ma up 2-0.

“He makes that play 99 out of a 100 times,” Stafford said.

Shepherd’s third home run of the season cut into the Soon-ers’ lead an inning later, but the Longhorns were, for the most part, stagnant on offense. Jona-than Walsh had runners on first and second in the fourth in-ning but grounded into a dou-ble play. He was up again in the sixth with the bases loaded and a full count but swung at pitch out of the zone to strike out and end the inning.

“That was terrible,” Walsh said. “It was definitely a ball, it wasn’t even close. I can’t do that in that situation.”

The Longhorns left eight run-ners on base, five of which were in scoring position. Texas didn’t

get a leadoff runner on base un-til the ninth inning, when Paul Montalbano walked. Walla lined a single up the middle two batters later, but it wasn’t enough.

“We competed differently in the ninth inning than we did in innings one through eight, and if we can recognize that and get back on the competitive platform to be consistent, then it’s worth a loss,” Garrido said. “If we just blow it off and start making ex-cuses, that’s when we’ll have a problem.”

Though they lost the final game, the fact that they won the series was not lost on the Longhorns. The two wins move them into a tie with Texas A&M for first place in the conference, with only six con-ference games remaining.

by junior Courtney Craig, who set the record last year.

A pair of back-to-back singles by freshmen Brejae Washington and Taylor Thom put the Horns in scoring position. A sacrifice bunt by Amy Hooks and a wild pitch by Oklahoma starting pitch-er Keilani Ricketts allowed Wash-ington and Thom to score, putting the Longhorns ahead for good. A

home run by Craig in the bottom of the fifth inning capped off the afternoon’s scoring.

“I think this is the hardest week-end we have had to play with the challenge and just battling back and really showing what we can do in the conference,” Craig said. “It is just a great feeling to know that we did get the turnaround today and have a great week coming up.”

Clark insists that this weekend was a good learning experience for her team. After going 12-0 in conference play, she said that her team needs to remember that any-thing is possible, especially during postseason.

After the win Sunday afternoon, the Longhorns are now 44-5 on the season and still lead the con-ference with a 13-1 record.

“We were better confidence wise,” Luna said. “I feel like yester-day after the first run was scored, we were a little defeated, but today, we didn’t give up.”

She settled down in the sec-ond and got out of the inning without a scratch. But then, in the following two innings, the Sooners managed to tack runs on the board by using small balls and walks.

After that , Luna worked through the rest of the game without allowing another runner to cross home, leading the Long-

horns to a comeback victory over their rivals. Luna wasn’t flawless, as she allowed a runner to reach base in almost every inning of the game, a rarity for her.

“It was definitely one of the most stressful games I’ve ever pitched,” Luna said. “Oklahoma did a great job, their pitchers and their hitters, and I’m just really glad we split with them.”

Perhaps the biggest teller of Luna’s struggles was her lack of strikeouts. She is normally in dou-ble digits in that category, but on Sunday she only managed to fan

two batters, forcing her to rely on the defense to make the plays be-hind her.

At the very least, Luna found out that she does not need to strike out every batter to be successful. In-stead, she can just watch one of the best defenses in the country make the plays, for the same end result.

“She learned trust. You don’t have to have 10 strikeouts every time if you trust that defense and those hitters who are in the foxhole with you,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. “She doesn’t have to be the dominator every time.”

WEEKEND RECAPSPORTSMonday, May 2, 2011 5

Last season, Texas entered the Big 12 tournament as the confer-ence’s No. 1 seed and had the ad-vantage of playing in Austin. It was a different story this season — af-ter going 3-3 in conference, Texas wound up with the No. 3 seed and had to go through the top teams in the conference if it was going to have a chance to repeat.

That spelled defeat for Texas, which was swept by Texas A&M 4-0 on Saturday in the semifinals at Baylor Tennis Center in Waco.

The Longhorns found them-selves in a rubber match against A&M with a spot in the finals at stake. Using a different lineup than usual, Texas struck first at the sec-ond doubles spot. The tandem of sophomore Ben Chen and senior Kellen Damico got out to an ear-ly 3-1 lead against the Aggies. They eventually secured the 8-3 win, but A&M followed up with an equally dominant win at the No. 3 doubles spot over Texas’ Chris Camillone and Daniel Whitehead, 8-2.

In the first doubles match, Tex-as got up 3-1 with senior Ed Cor-rie and sophomore Vasko Mladen-

ov breaking A&M. But the Aggies came back, winning the next five games to claim the match and the doubles point. That gave the Aggies the lead, which they never lost.

“We played well at No. 2 doubles, and I thought we had some chanc-es at No. 1,” said Texas head coach Michael Center. “But they just out-played us.”

A&M won every first set of sin-gles, and was able to put away both Corrie and Damico in straight sets to advance to the finals on Sun-day. The Aggies eventually won the conference title, defeating Oklaho-ma 4-0.

Winning the Big 12 tourna-ment has become commonplace for Texas, which picked up its third-straight conference crown over the weekend, but the meet is still an important test for the Longhorns as they gear up for the rest of the postseason.

No. 15 Texas earned 111 points

over the weekend, besting Oklaho-ma, Kansas and Kansas State. The Longhorns won all five of their races, including a 10-second victo-ry in the first varsity eight, clock-ing in at 6 minutes, 47.7 seconds compared to second-place Okla-homa’s 6:57.9

Texas has now won all of the Big 12 rowing conference tourna-ments, which began in 2009. This year, however, the team is hoping

to carry that momentum further into the NCAA tournament. That starts in two weeks at the Confer-ence USA Championship, which begins May 14.

Texas rows as part of Conference USA because the Big 12 only fields four teams. The two-step confer-ence finals will prepare the Long-horns for the national tournament, set to begin May 27. The team hasn’t been to the NCAAs since 2009.

Texas had a rough showing against No. 7 Baylor in the Big 12 finals Sunday, beginning the match by winning the first doubles match but the 25th-ranked Longhorns never found their stride after that and lost 4-1 to the Bears.

The 54th-ranked tandem of se-nior Amanda Craddock and fresh-man Cierra Gaytan-Leach kicked off the doubles side with a bout against Baylor’s 59th-ranked Nina

Secerbegovic and Karolina Filipiak. Craddock and Gaytan-Leach were tied 5-5 with the Bears at one point but pulled away for the 8-5 victory.

But Baylor secured the doubles point with two wins after that.

The Bears rushed to a 2-0 lead over Texas, as Secerbegov-ic beat Maggie Mello 6-0, 6-3 at third singles.

Next up, No. 26 Aeriel Ellis faced 11th-ranked Sona Novakova at first singles. Ellis prevailed 6-2, 6-2 against her top-15 opponent put-ting Texas on the board at 2-1.

It was all Baylor after that.“We fought hard, as we expect

to each time out,” said Texas head coach Patty Fendick-McCain. “We didn’t play our best tennis, and we knew we needed to. We’re still wait-ing for everybody to play their best tennis on the same day. We’re look-ing for that in the postseason from this point on.”

Texas came through Kansas State and No. 22 Oklahoma to reach the finals. It was the Longhorns’ sev-enth consecutive appearance in the Big 12 finals.

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Texas rowers get ready to hit the water at practice, carrying their boat to the water. The rowers put the practice to good use on Sunday when they won their third straight Big 12 title.

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In some ways, it was an atyp-ical year for Texas players in the NFL draft, but there was a familiar theme to the seven-round affair — UT is still the place to look for tal-ented defensive backs.

Texas, which is colloquially nick-named DBU, or “Defensive Back University,” by some, lived up to its moniker with three corners going in the draft. They helped the team rank No. 6 overall in pass defense

last season.In all, four young men made the

official switch from Longhorn to professional over the weekend.

Former Texas cornerback Aar-on Williams went first, to Buffa-lo with the second pick of the sec-ond round and 34th overall. Fellow corners Curtis Brown and Chykie Brown (no relation) also had their names called by Pittsburgh and Baltimore, respectively.

The program hasn’t had that many defensive backs in the annual summer draft since 2007. Michael Griffin, a safety, went to Tennessee, where he still plays, while corners Aaron Ross and Tarell Brown were also selected. Griffin and Ross both went in the first round.

In all, 12 defensive backs have been drafted from Texas to the NFL since 2000.

But it was also the first time since 2008 that Texas did not have a first-round pick. Limas Sweed went in the second round that year to Pittsburgh. Jamaal Charles, now the starting running back for Kan-sas City and the league’s second-leading rusher last season, was also in that draft class and went in the third round to the Chiefs.

Sam Acho was the other ex-Longhorn picked over the week-end, going to Arizona in the fourth round.

Six other former Texas play-ers had hoped to be drafted but were not picked up as this went to

print: receivers James Kirkendoll and John Chiles, offensive linemen Kyle Hix and Michael Huey, tight

end Greg Smith and defensive end Eddie Jones. They are likely candi-dates for free agency.

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Texas failed to close out the sweep of Oklahoma on Sunday, falling 5-2 to the Sooners at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Tant Shepherd hit a solo home run in the fourth inning and Cohl Walla added another run in the ninth with a RBI single, but it was too little, too late for the Longhorns.

“You saw a difference in perfor-mance in the bottom of the ninth in-ning,” Texas head coach Augie Garri-do said. “We violated the inning-by-inning concept. We let them get the momentum, and we never fought hard to get it back until the ninth in-ning, when you saw a different qual-ity of at-bat.”

The Longhorns claim they just came out flat.

But how, against archrival Okla-homa? And how, with the chance to sweep the Sooners and claim sole possession of first place in the conference race? Flat with ESPNU in town?

“We didn’t try to come out lazy or complacent,” said sophomore Jonathan Walsh. “It might just be

subconscious.”The offense slept-walked

through the first eight innings — save for Tant Shepherd’s fourth-in-ning home run — and, by the time the bats came to life, it was much too late.

Oh, there were plenty of chanc-es for Texas to rectify its slow start. After Shepherd’s long ball, two Longhorns got on base via walks but were sent back to the dugout

ESPN picked a good weekend to focus on college softball. Af-ter dropping the first game of the series against No. 15 Oklahoma, the third-ranked Longhorns bat-tled back and earned a 5-3 victo-ry Sunday afternoon.

The cable network featured the Red River Rivalry on Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd at McCombs Field. The Sooners got on the scoreboard early in the top of the first inning and took it from there, earning five more runs in six innings.

The Longhorns didn’t let that happen Sunday afternoon. After allowing Oklahoma to again score in the top of the first inning, the Texas offense produced runs early to challenge the Sooners.

“I think it was tremendous that

we had to grind it out,” said Tex-as head coach Connie Clark. “We talked about the difference of be-ing under pressure and having to grind it out, having the right men-tality and not being too hyped. We need to understand that we

are down in the foxhole together, and we just need to keep battling and keep playing — It is not go-ing to be easy.

Taylor Hoagland punched an-other solid pitch out of the park in the bottom of the third inning

to bring her season homer total to 13. Hoagland now leads the team in home runs and is tied for the UT single-season home run record, which is currently held

She didn’t have her best stuff, pitches inside and out were be-ing called balls, and Oklaho-ma was being extremely pa-tient at the plate. But all-Amer-ican Blaire Luna still managed to come through. Luna allowed three runs in her 25th complete game of the year but did enough to help her team come out on top Sunday.

Luna came into the game fol-lowing one of her worst outings of the year, when she allowed five runs to a potent Oklahoma squad Saturday. Those five runs were more than she had given up in the last eight games combined.

Unfortunately for Luna, the same Sooner squad was there in the batter’s box the next day, and things were not any easier the second time she faced them.

Luna quickly fell behind to Oklahoma for the second day in a row, giving up a pair of singles in the first as the Sooners drew first blood. But unlike the day before, Luna and the team were able to battle back.

SIDELINEUninspired performance equals loss to rival Sooners

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Sam Stafford gets ready to deliver a pitch Sunday at Disch Falk Field against Oklahoma. Stafford had a sub par performance in the game and was pulled from the game in the fourth inning.

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Texas right fielder Taylor Hoagland celebrates while rounding second base after delivering a homer in the third inning. Hoagland’s home run tied her for the single season Texas home run record at 13.

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movie reviewIN a better world

As far as Academy Award catego-ries go, Best Foreign Language Film is always a hard one to call.

It’s hard to tell if the Academy will decide to award a bold narrative coming from a fresh perspective or a more traditional, Oscar-bait film that happens to have subtitles. “In A Bet-ter World” is a little of both, telling a compelling, disturbing story in a very classical and deliberate way be-fore arriving at its lackluster ending.

It’s unclear where the film is going for most of its first act. Newly moth-erless preteen Christian (played by William Nielsen) befriends outcast Elias (Markus Rygaard) who is often picked on. Christian decides to stand up for his friend and proceeds to beat a bully with a bike pump and hold a knife to his throat.

Thus begins a sprawling medita-tion on the nature of violence, which also manages to drag in Elias’ father, Anton (Mikael Persbrandt), a doctor who spends much of his time in Af-rica. As both Elias and Anton find their moral codes shaken by the an-gry, vengeful Christian, the film turns into a ticking time bomb, building to an epic tragedy of an ending.

Unfortunately, the film’s final mo-ments are disappointingly toothless, ending with a whimper instead of the bang the audience has been ex-pecting. It also turns distressingly lit-eral, spelling out everything the audi-

ence already knows about the char-acters and their motivations.

Even if the film’s ending does fall flat, there’s a lot in the build-up that’s very much worth watching. Nielsen gives an absolutely chilling perfor-mance as a very damaged little boy, a debut on the level of Hailee Stein-feld’s performance in last year’s “True Grit.” Nielsen runs the film and is so convincing in his warped worldview that it’s easy to believe Anton would be affected by it.

Persbrandt’s Anton is a similarly great character, and while he spends much in the film in his own little overseas medical drama, Persbrandt is just as good negotiating with men-acing African drug lords as he is with spending time with his son.

In the hands of a lesser direc-tor, the film’s multinational narra-tive might have seemed disjoint-ed, but director Susanne Bier’s con-fident presentation ties the film to-gether easily. Bier stages several un-shakable moments of harsh brutality, often involving children, but always makes them feel organic to the story and the three-dimensional, fascinat-ing characters.

Thanks to a few great perfor-mances and an engrossing story, “In A Better World” is a solid film. While its flat ending keeps it from being the best nominee in this year’s Best Foreign Language Film catego-ry (an honor that goes to the rivet-ing “Incendies”), it’s a film well worth checking out.

By Alex williamsDaily Texan Staff

Film tells powerful story despite lackluster ending

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In a memorable debut performance, William Nielsen plays preteen Christian in “In a Better World.”

In Susanne Bier’s drama, “In a Better World,” Christian (William Nielsen), reeling from his moth-er’s death, draws his friend Elias (Markus Rygaard) and Elias’ father Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) into a vi-cious cycle of violence and revenge. The Daily Texan interviewed direc-tor Susanne Bier about her Oscar-winning film at this year’s South by Southwest festival.

“In a Better World” was Bier’s first nomination at the Oscars and won Best Foreign Language Film over other strong films such as Canadian “Incendies” and the Greek “Dogtooth.”

The film was written by Anders

Thomas Jensen, but Bier helped shape the direction of the film’s story line.

“He’d written some scenes where some boys were being interrogat-ed by police. We started somewhere, and we moved on to what it became. We’d talk about a lot of things, and then he’ll write like 10 pages, and then we’ll discuss those and move on from there,” Bier said.

Nielsen made his debut as Chris-tian, the role around which the film revolves. Casting was a long and dif-ficult process for Bier.

“We did an extensive search, prob-ably 120 kids. I auditioned 12 of them myself, but I was very keen on this guy [Nielsen],” she said. “I thought he had something really charismat-ic and fascinating. I was kind of anx-

ious to have a difficult part played by a boy, and that was a really big chal-lenge. He felt right, though. He was the boy I wanted.”

Ultimately, Bier’s gamble paid off, and Nielsen’s is easily the best perfor-mance in the film. However, there was a slight acclimation period for the young actor.

“[Child actors] are less experi-enced than grown-up actors,” she said. “At first, he felt a bit threat-ened to be this horrible kid who screams and hits his dad, but after he kind of caught on to it, he really enjoyed the fact that he was this vi-cious boy. He really understood the whole process of being someone else for a short while, and then becoming yourself again.”

When the film was nominated

for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards, many awards season pundits correctly pre-dicted it would be the winner over the other, less traditional nominees.

“It was amazing. I can’t really say what was go-ing through my mind, because it’s like ... When you’re on the stage, you real-ize that, sitting on the floor are all the people you’ve ad-mired your entire life. It’s pretty strik-ing,” Bier said about her Oscar win.

“In a Better World” opened Fri-day at the Regal Arbor and the Vi-olet Crown.

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Atmosphere, the peerless indepen-dent hip-hop duo comprised of MC Slug (Sean Daley) and producer Ant (Anthony Davis), have re-established its legacy once again. Its most recent album, The Family Sign, dropped last month as one of its most fully real-ized, streamlined and focused albums to date.

Ant, specifically, chose to go the more restrained route and found him-self crafting genuine love songs with sparse arrangements — ballad-ready piano, slide guitars, single drum ar-

rangements. Ant’s pro-duction, coupled

with Slug’s never-ending stream of witticisms and rumina-tions, makes

The Family Sign a far cry from the

rough, raw dynamic of the duo’s 1997 debut, Overcast!

The Daily Texan spoke with Slug via phone about The Family Sign’s hidden messages, dealing with criti-cism and why he has been disappoint-ed lately with his indie rap peers.

DT: Can you tell me a little bit about what was going through your

mind as you recorded The Family Sign? I get the feeling that it’s a little gloomier than your typical Atmo-sphere record.

SD: I don’t see huge changes be-tween each record, and yeah, I can try to step outside of it and see it from everyone else’s perspective but still. I don’t really hear this record as being gloomy, but it’s definitely a little bit of a quieter album than we’ve made in the past. It’s a little more introspective, too. But then again, that’s just a sign of where we are in our lives right now.

DT: I was surprised to see that “She’s Enough” was sort of the an-tithesis to the anti-“Lucy” songs you’ve done in the past. What was the reason for the optimism?

SD: I got away from Lucy in 2003 because it was no longer a thorn in my side. Lucy was never about a woman, really, and I was just having fun messing with the idea of who the protagonists or antagonists are in cer-tain relationships. Lucy was always a lot about being an alcoholic, and once I got over that, I pretty much stopped writing about Lucy. When I wrote “She’s Enough,” I wasn’t trying to cel-ebrate women necessarily, but I was trying to write about celebrating what you love. It’s definitely a far stretch from when I was writing about my codependency and issues in life. But this song is an ode to what I’ve done,

celebrating the fact that I’m fortunate enough to still be here.

DT: Any last comments or shout-outs you want to make?

SD: Actually, yeah. I haven’t told anyone this yet, but I feel like this needs to be addressed. I’ve been read-ing a lot of reviews of the record, and I keep hearing about how “Bad Bad Daddy” is about a belligerent parent, but that song is more of a criticism about my peers right now. Not so much my peers, even, but all the indie rappers that came out of my balls — they’re like my children. But it’s also expressing disappointment about the indie-rap scene, and it just sucks be-cause we created a community about sharing good vibes and sharing infor-mation among one another, and it’s turning into a thing that’s just, you know, “Hey, can I get some coke? Can I get some molly?” You know what I mean? That song is just my way of ex-pressing how disappointed I am with these indie rappers.

MUSIC MONDAYBy Francisco Marin

Indie hip-hop MC discusses latest album

Courtesy of Biz 3 Atmosphere, composed of MC Slug and producer Ant, is an indie rap duo based out of the Twin Cities. Critics hailed Atmosphere’s most recent album, The Family Sign, as the most mature and focused record to date.

ON THE WEB:Check out Michael Kaufman’s websitemagicalmystical-michael.com

Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff

Local magician Michael Kaufman does a sleight of hand trick that is part of his arsenal of magic tricks he has performed internationally for more than 40 years.

Using a quarter from the pocket of his shorts, local magician Michael Kaufman enchants his audience with his nimble hands and charming hu-mor. Like a human piggy bank, he knocked the coin into the top of his head and out it came from his mouth.

In his thick, raspy New York ac-cent, Kaufman said that he had just what he needed in his pockets to put on a show. Playing cards, a handker-chief, a metal ring and the quarter.

A full-time professional magician for more than 30 years, 58-year-old Kaufman, or Mystical Magical Mi-chael, has performed more than 20,000 shows and is one of at least 60

magicians in town. Austin has a surprisingly vi-

brant magic scene. Along wit h Har-r y Houdi-ni’s person-

al collection of theater arts at the

Harry Ransom Cen-ter, the city has three magic club or-ganizations: International Brother-hood of Magicians, Society of Amer-ican Magicians and Young Magicians Club. The Austin chapter of the most prestigious and oldest, the Society of American Magicians, is the second-largest assembly in the world.

Kaufman’s tricks all share a com-mon denominator: They tell a sto-ry. From small tricks such as “hyp-notizing” an upside down jug of wa-ter to spill on command to grand fi-nales such as levitating a person off a box, Kaufman’s acts lure the audi-ence in for a surprise.

“The art of performance is to suck people into my little world, my story. [The process] is kind of like a legal con game,” Kaufman said.

His goal is to have people jump ahead with preconceived an-swers and then stump them with a clever twist.

“Movies are like that, poems are like [that], music is like that, and magic is the same thing,” he said.

While working as a busboy at Colorado University in his 20s dur-ing the 1970s, he became intrigued when he saw a magician performing a changing color handkerchief trick in the lunchroom.

Coincidentally, the day after, he passed by a wizard magic shop in downtown Boulder. He went inside and told an employee what he saw the day earlier and bought the trick for about $2.50. He spent the next three hours under a bridge, trying to figure out the trick, looking at the step-by-step pictures. Unable to get the trick down, Kaufman returned to the shop the next day.

“He brought me back to the back-

room and showed me, and I go, ‘Ah, that’s so easy!’” Kaufman said. “Sud-denly, something that was so compli-cated became so easy.”

After buying more tricks and performing for family and friends, Kaufman began doing street shows full time. In 1978, he joined the Re-naissance Festival. With the festi-val ending in November in Hous-ton, performers often stay in Tex-as for their time off in the winter, Kaufman said. The low cost of liv-ing was what got Kaufman to liv-ing steady in Austin in the mid-’80s and performing at some of the city’s oldest venues.

In between touring with the fes-

tival and performing locally, Kauf-man has also performed internation-ally from Germany to Thailand to the Himalayas.

To settle his nerves, Kaufman talks to himself before every show. Com-munication is a key component in his show, Kaufman says, because dia-logue between him and the audience is what drives the show.

“I know sometimes I’m a little bit anxious, I move a little bit fast. I grew up from New York City, so my speech pattern is a lot quicker,” he said. “I’ve learned how to slow it up in performances so people could un-derstand me, and I don’t just roll over my punch lines.”

Through layers of stories, Kauf-man said he controls the minds of his audience and inspires them to distend their belief.

The trick where he levitates an audience member off a box, for in-stance, is an illusion.

“You know no one could just do that,” he said.

But for those who know how the tricks are done — magicians — the performance is enjoyable because of the unique style and personality the magician puts in the act.

“Sometimes, I know how he does what he does, but he still entertains me,” said Kent Cummins, fellow lo-cal magician. “And sometimes, I

think I know what he does, but he tricks me.”

Think of it as musicians, he said. A musician can watch anoth-er musician and know the chords but can also still admire that mu-sician’s skills. That’s the same way with magic and magicians, Cummins said.

For Kaufman, the applause that follows is just the cherry on top.

“When you have 300 people look-ing at you, and they all do some-thing [like applaud], their focus is all on you. It’s like the best drug in the world,” he said. “It is. It stimulates you, and when you’re done with the show, whew, you’re like buzzed.”

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By Julie Rene Tran

Sleight of hand

WHAT: Atmosphere w/ Blueprint, Grieves With Budo, Sab the Artist, DJ Abilities

WHERE: Stubb’s

WHEN: Tonight, 6 p.m.

TICkETs: $25