Fumes from the University’s tobac-co policy have ignited conversation over the future of the substance on UT grounds. Because of a new provi-sion from one of the University’s top research funders, UT will need to en-act a tobacco-free policy or risk los-ing millions of research dollars.

The Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, a voter-mandated organization that awards millions of research dollars each year to entities pursuing cancer research, released a statement on Feb. 2 stating it will now require all current and future grant-ees to create tobacco-free workplac-es as a condition for accepting the In-stitute’s funds. UT currently receives approximately $31 million for cancer research from the Institute and is ap-plying for $88 million this year.

The Institute has given UT until March 1 to make appropriate policy changes.

In a campus-wide email on Wednesday, University officials said they will be meeting with various or-ganizations on campus — including Student Government, Faculty Coun-cil and Staff Council — over the next two weeks to discuss policy op-tions. University spokeswoman Adri-enne Howarth-Moore said losing this money would be detrimental to the University’s research endeavors.

Howarth-Moore said if the Uni-versity adopts a tobacco-free poli-cy by March 1, it will seek to support current tobacco users by providing education and resources.

“Education, communication and

helping people understand the rea-son behind the change is going to be a challenge,” Howarth-Moore said. “We don’t just have a focus on re-search, but cancer research. We want to be able to eradicate cancer.”

If adopted, the smoking ban will also restrict smoking and tobacco during times of sporting events and tailgates, Howarth-Moore said. Ex-ceptions will only occur in special cir-cumstances, such as when tobacco is

used for research or as a prop in a fine arts production.

Current UT policy on tobacco only addresses smoking tobacco, which is not allowed in any University-owned or leased building or vehicle, but is al-

lowed on campus as long as it is 20 feet away from a building entrance. UT-Arlington, UT-Brownsville and the UT Health Science Center in San

Renovations are set to begin on Jester West Residence Hall in 2013 after the UT System Board of Regents approved the $36 mil-lion project at the Regents meeting on Thursday.

The plan is to renovate two or three floors each summer and fin-ish the 14th floor in 2018, said Bill Throop, director of UT proj-ect management and construction services. He said this project will

be similar to the project that up-graded floors, walls and furnishings in Jester East. The current built-in furniture will also be replaced with moveable furniture.

The funds for both projects come from the Division of Housing and Food Services. Throop said they could not hire a design firm and an outside contractor until the Regents approved the request.

Jester East and Jester West were built in 1969 and together house

While advocates from both the sci-entific and religious communities are debating whether or not the State Board of Education should decide if Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution will be taught in Texas public schools, some University students celebrated the theorist’s birthday.

The University’s chapter of the Texas Freedom Network hosted a celebration Thursday in honor of Darwin’s birth-day. The group brings students togeth-er with the goal of mobilizing them as advocates of issues surrounding science education, said Mackenzie Massey,

government senior and president of the chapter. Its main objective is to help stu-dents compete in a global market with countries that teach evolution in their curriculum, Massey said.

Massey said the goal of Thursday’s celebration was to educate students about the irresponsible efforts of the public school system to simplify their teachings about evolution and to high-light the debate over evolution.

“We want to ensure that students get a 21st century science education that prepares them for college and the jobs of the future,” Massey said.

She said next year the State Board of Education will adopt new science textbooks for public schools and

that evolution may not be taught if the board decides to only include intelligent design.

“We want for the decision to be made by experts and educators,” Massey said.

Ecology, evolution and behavior

graduate student Patrick Stinson said

The UT System Board of Regents voted to alter the post-tenure review process for faculty members, despite strong opposition from some faculty.

The Regents approved the provi-sions at their Thursday meeting, and the UT System administration pres-sured faculty who disagreed to ac-cept the changes. The change applies to the post-tenure review process at all 15 UT institutions.

Tenured faculty will now be cat-egorized into four groups: “exceeds expectations”, “meets expectations,”

“does not meet expectations” and “unsatisfactory.” If a faculty mem-ber receives two unsatisfactory an-nual reviews they could face possi-ble termination. The new process includes reinforcement regarding the importance of remediation to improve the teaching approach-es of professors “when it is clear that a faculty member would bene-fit from such support.” It states that faculty members who fail remedia-tion could face termination.

UT System Chancellor Francis-co Cigarroa said the changes were prompted by his concern that the post-tenure review process lacked

clarity. He said the provisions will al-low faculty members to get more as-sistance throughout their tenure.

“We need to provide support and guidance,” Cigarroa said. “It’s our responsibility.”

Alan Friedman, Faculty Council chair and English professor, said the new provision to the rule is a radical change and an assault on tenure.

“This administration has fired people with tenure on occasion, but carefully and with proper safe-guards,” Friedman said.

Friedman serves on the UT

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System Faculty Advisory Coun-cil and created an alternate version of the provisions with less extreme changes, which committee members approved in an electronic vote.

However, the chancellor’s office told the committee that they had to retract the alternative version and in-stead approve the original document, Friedman said.

“We were told that not doing that would embarrass the chancellor and would undermine tenure greatly in the eyes of the public,” he said. “So

the group did indeed do what they were told. Despite my protest, that’s what happened.”

Regent Alex Cranberg said he spoke with faculty who appreciate the provisions and thanked them for em-bracing the initiative.

Radio-television-film professor Ja-net Staiger said the change is very un-necessa ry and is an insulting move by the Regents.

“Becoming so rigid in formaliz-ing annual and post-tenure reviews is suggesting that the faculty is incom-petent in their current review pro-cess,” Staiger said.

Staiger, who previously served as the Faculty Council chair, said fac-ulty are not against being helped to improve their teaching, but the changes could cause friction in de-

partments as faculty members wor-ry about how their performance will be categorized.

“We don’t want people publishing inadequate work in order to meet the expectations,” Staiger said.

Staiger said the UT System Board of Regents and administration do not understand that tenured facul-ty are passionate about connecting to students and conducting signif-icant research.

“They think faculty aren’t working, aren’t doing their job,” Staiger said.

The UT System Board of Re-gents and administration are ap-proaching these issues as if the Uni-versity was a corporation that should meet annual reviews, but that is not the environment necessary for suc-cessful academic research to be done, Staiger said.

“The more these kinds of un-necessary and thoughtless poli-cies are put into place,” she said, “the more unfriendly the Univer-sity will seem.”

Antonio are currently tobacco-free. Austin Community College, Hus-ton-Tillotson University and Texas State University all banned tobacco use on campus last year.

In March 2011, UT President Wil-liam Powers, Jr. said he opposed a campus-wide ban on smoking dur-ing an address to Staff Council. Pow-ers said such a ban would overstep the limits a University should im-pose on its community.

“What we’re doing is saying we are going to limit the freedom of the person who wants to smoke for the benefit of the people who don’t want to be in a smoke-filled office or room,” Powers said in the address, according to a March 2011 Daily

Texan article. Student Government passed a

resolution in 2011 declaring UT to become generally smoke-free cam-pus over a period of seven years. The resolution called for the creation of a taskforce to decide policy imple-mentation and an expansion of the University Health Services student smoking cessation program “Quit-ters” to extend to faculty and staff. SG and the Student Organization Safety Board recently co-sponsored “Tobacco Talks,” a series of conver-sations with professionals and stu-dents on campus to discuss the neg-ative effects of tobacco.

Philip Huang, medical director for the Austin-Travis County health and human services department, spoke at Tobacco Talks on Thursday and said many entities around Austin have implemented tobacco-free pol-icies, including City of Austin librar-

ies, Capital Metro and Austin Parks and Recreation centers. Huang said 70 percent of people surveyed by Travis County said they wanted to quit smoking and 60 percent of all litter in 32 Austin parks comes from tobacco, equaling to approximately 23,000 cigarette butts.

Huang said a tobacco-free policy is a step in the right direction for UT and that in four years incoming stu-dents will know no other policy.

“A lot of it is changing social norms,” Huang said. “A lot of peo-ple put up with other peoples’ smoke but they hate it. People have more of a right to breathe clean air than smokers have the right to smoke.”

Alfred McAlister, public health adjunct associate professor, said the Institute’s decision will encourage administrators to consider a new to-bacco policy. McAlister advised the UT Texas Public Health student or-

ganization in conducting a recent survey to gauge student opinion of smoking on campus.

Of the 1,551 respondents, 77 per-cent indicated they want a stronger tobacco policy at UT. Among the people who identified as smokers and took the survey, approximately 33 percent said they wanted stricter limits on tobacco use.

“I imagine the survey results will convince President Powers that there is a lot more support for a new tobacco policy than he might have supposed,” McAlister said. “It’s been a bit embarrassing for this Universi-ty to be one of the last schools that’s not tobacco free.”

McAlister said some of the bene-fits of a tobacco-free campus would include less exposure to second-hand smoke and less tobacco litter. He said a ban would also help en-courage smokers to quit and pre-

vent some students from starting to smoke.

Thomas Haviland, public health senior and president of the UT Texas Public Health Organization, said there is a definite possibility UT will implement a tobacco-free policy on campus. Haviland said he has seen people violating the current policy all over campus and smoking within 20 feet of build-ings, some of which contain ash-trays five feet away from their en-trance.

Haviland said even though the Institute’s decision plays a huge part in the administration’s ac-tions, the issue has been building up and needed to be addressed.

“They had to do something,” Haviland said. “On top of stu-dent desire, health benefits and fi-nancial savings, a lot of people on campus really do want it.”

about 3,000 students, according to the University website.

“I’m under the impression that this is going to be the first major up-grade,” Throop said.

Mike DeBow, associate direc-tor of UT project management di-vision, said the tight schedule re-quired to complete renovations each summer makes it imperative to choose a contractor who can meet those deadlines.

DeBow said Jester East renova-tions will be completed in the sum-mer and includes additions that will be part of the renovations in Jest-er West, such as windows put indark hallways.

“The idea is to create the best looking living space for our students so they can be close to classes and close to studying,” DeBow said.

Government sophomore Hope Os-born lives in Jester West and said she

believes the dorm is fine the way it is. “Our rooms aren’t fabulous, but

they have everything you need,” Os-born said. “I never thought to my-self ‘I wish we had new floors.’”

Osborn said the one as-pect she would like to change is the bathrooms.

“The showers are terrible,” Os-born said. “They are so short.”

Human development and fami-ly sciences senior Tommy Macalik currently lives in the renovated area of Jester East and previously lived in Jester West for two years. He said the free-standing bed in his current room is nice because he has long legs that used to hang off the end of the pull-out bed in Jester West.

“I definitely did not like the beds,” Macalik said. “They’re so difficult to pull out.”

Macalik said the moveable fur-niture in the renovated sections is a plus because he can set up his room as he chooses. Macalik said overall, everything in his current room in Jester East is better than the furnish-ings in his old room in Jester West.

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DARWINcontinues from PAGE 1Darwin’s theory of natural selection of-fers a plausible explanation for the ap-pearance of design in evolution.

“Before Darwin, most philoso-phers did not have a compelling ex-planation for the appearance of de-sign except for actual design by an omnipotent force such as the Chris-tian God,” Stinson said.

Biology freshman Cassandra Rodri-guez, who was raised Catholic, said her religious perspective has influenced her to stand against Darwin’s theory, and said she does not agree with evolution.

“I haven’t seen any evolutionary theories to convince me to believe in it,” Rodriguez said. “Opportunities to learn more about evolution are not readily available.”

Rodriguez said she thinks if the theory is taught in schools, it should not be taught to grades younger than high school.

Darwin’s theories are regarded as very perceptive, thorough and well thought out and are an excellent start-ing point for any person who needs to understand evolution, said ecology, evolution and behavior graduate stu-dent April Wright.

“As an evolutionary biologist I am often in awe of his writing and how his ideas have stood the test of time,” Wright said.

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Due to a reporting error, Wednesday’s story “Spending limits aff ect SG campaigns” failed to mention mechanical engineering senior Thor Lund and psychology senior William Brown are also running for president and vice president. In addition, the deadline for sign up to run for SG is Monday Feb. 13 at 12 p.m.

Because of a reporting error, Wednesday’s article “Graduate student examines classic Texas twang accent” described certain speaking patterns as a characteristic of the general population when in fact the research only applies to Hispanic females in East Austin.

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico — The historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in west-ern Mexico, equal to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009, feeds growing speculation that the country could become a world platform for meth production, not just a supplier to the United States.

The sheer size of the bust an-nounced late Wednesday in Jalisco state suggests involvement of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, a major international trafficker of cocaine and marijuana that has moved into meth production and manufactur-ing on an industrial scale.

Army officials didn’t say what drug gangs could have been be-hind the dozens of blue barrels filled with powdered meth. Army Gen. Gilberto Hernandez Andreu said the meth was ready for pack-aging. There was no information on where the drugs were headed.

Jalisco has long been considered the hub of the Sinaloa cartel’s meth production and trafficking. Mean-while, meth use is growing in the United States, already the world’s biggest market for illicit drugs.

The haul could have supplied 13 million doses worth over $4 billion.

The Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is equipped to produce and distrib-ute drugs “for the global village,” said Antonio Mazzitelli, the re-

gional representative of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.

“Such large-scale production could suggest an expansion ... into Latin American and Asian mar-kets,” Mazzitelli said. But he also noted, “it may be a product that hasn’t been able to be sold, and like any business, when the market is depressed, stockpiles build up.”

But that may not ultimately mean less meth in the U.S. Law enforce-ment officials in California’s Cen-tral Valley, a hub of the U.S. meth-amphetamine distribution network, say a cutoff in the Mexican supply could mean domestic super labs will increase production.

The supply of methamphet-amine in the United States has been growing, mainly due to its manufacture in Mexico, according to U.S. drug intelligence sources.

Between 2007 and 2009, seizures of methamphetamine by U.S. au-thorities along the Mexican border increased by 87 percent, according to the 2011 U.N. World Drug Re-port, the most recent statistics the U.N. has available.

Few drugs do as much wide-spread damage — both to users and the general public — as meth, which is highly addictive. Chronic use can lead to psychosis, which includes hearing voices and experiencing hallucinations. Users are known to lose massive amounts of weight, suf-fer scabs on their bodies and even lose teeth to “meth mouth”.

BEIRUT — Between blasts of rockets and mortar fire, Syri-ans used loudspeakers to call for blood donations and medical sup-plies Thursday in the stricken city of Homs, where a weeklong govern-ment offensive has created a deep-ening humanitarian crisis.

Government forces are trying to crush pockets of violent resistance in Homs, the epicenter of an 11-month-old uprising that has brought the country ever closer to civil war. The intense shelling in restive neighbor-hoods such as Baba Amr has made it difficult to get medicine and care to the wounded, and some areas have been without electricity for days, ac-tivists say.

“Snipers are on all the roofs in Baba Amr, shooting at people,” Abu Muhammad Ibrahim, an ac-tivist in Homs, told The Associat-ed Press by phone.

“Anything that moves, even a bird, is targeted. Life is completely cut off. It’s a city of ghosts,” he added.

As he spoke, explosions could be heard in the background.

“The bombardment has not eased, day or night,” he said, ask-ing to be identified by his nickname for fear of reprisals. “Do you hear the sound of the rockets? Children have been wounded, elderly with extreme injuries.”

Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed since early Satur-day in the heaviest attack the city has endured since the uprising began in March, activists said.

“This brutal assault on residen-tial neighborhoods shows the Syri-an authorities’ contempt for the lives of their citizens in Homs,” said Anna Neistat, associate emergencies direc-tor at Human Rights Watch. “Those responsible for such horrific attacks will have to answer for them.”

Human Rights Watch also said eyewitness accounts, as well as vid-eo reviewed by the group’s arms ex-perts, suggest Syrian government forces are using long-range, indirect fire weapons such as mortars.

Such weapons “are inherently in-discriminate when fired into dense-ly populated areas,” the New York-based group said.

The wounded have overwhelmed makeshift hospitals and clinics, and there were growing concerns that the locked-down city could soon run out

of supplies.“There is medicine in the phar-

macies, but getting it to the field clin-ics is very difficult. They can’t get the medicine to the wounded,” Moham-med Saleh, a Syria-based activist, told the AP by telephone.

Baba Amr, he said, has been with-out electricity since Saturday.

The assault on Homs began af-ter reports that army defectors and other armed opponents of President Bashar Assad were setting up their own checkpoints and taking control

of some areas. The reports could not be confirmed.

But the city is the capital of Syria’s largest province, stretching from the Lebanese border to the Iraqi frontier. If rebel forces keep gaining ground there, some believe they could ul-timately carve out a zone akin to Benghazi in eastern Libya.

Saleh said most of the govern-ment attacks have been “bombard-ment from a distance,” with regime forces keeping armored vehicles out of the neighborhoods.

Fighters from the rebel Free Syri-an Army have been firing back with rocket-propelled grenades and rock-ets, according to activists’ accounts.

The Britain-based Syrian Obser-vatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees were trying to compile numbers and names of those killed Thursday. The LCC, an activist group, said up to 100 people were killed in Homs, but the toll was impossible to independently verify. The Observatory reported 63 deaths in Homs.

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Suffering deepens in bombarded Syrian city of HomsBy Elizabeth A. KennedyThe Associated Press

Gigantic seizure of meth concerns drug officials

Large settlement with banks will provide $25b to foreclosed

WASHINGTON — A landmark $25 billion settlement with the na-tion’s top mortgage lenders was hailed by government officials Thurs-day as long-overdue relief for victims of foreclosure abuses. But consumer advocates countered that far too few people will benefit.

The deal will reduce loans for only a fraction of those Americans who owe more than their homes are worth. It will also send checks to others who were improperly foreclosed upon. But the amounts are modest.

It’s unclear how much the deal will help struggling homeowners keep their homes or benefit those who have already lost theirs.

About 11 million households are underwater, meaning they owe more than their homes are worth. The set-tlement would help 1 million.

“The total number of dollars is still small compared to the value of the mortgages that are underwater,” said Richard Green, director of the Uni-versity of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate.

Price of beef could rise 10% as Texas faces small cattle herd

LUBBOCK — The smallest cattle herd since the 1950s likely will mean higher beef prices at the supermarket for the next two years.

Experts said beef prices could climb as much as 10 percent a year in 2012 and 2013, and the increase could be even greater if demand from other countries increases.

Those higher prices would follow steady increases that have seen the average retail cost of a pound of ham-burger rise 23 percent, from $2.38 in December 2010 to $2.92 last Decem-ber, according to the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture.

Last month the USDA reported the U.S. herd had declined to 90.8 million cattle, 2 percent less than the previous year and the lowest invento-ry since 1952.

“We’re producing less beef so pric-es are going to go up,” Texas AgriL-ife Extension Service livestock econ-omist David Anderson said.

Ranchers have sold more of their cattle in recent years to meet in-creased costs for feed, fuel and oth-er expenses. The soaring feed costs come amid heightened demand for corn to produce ethanol and to meet a growing export market.

There are 1.4 million fewer cattle in Texas this year compared with the previous year, accounting for about 74 percent of the drop in numbers nationally. The animals were moved to another state or slaughtered.

Famous judge in Spain convicted of overstepping his authority

MADRID — The superstar Span-ish judge who won global fame for aggressively taking on internation-al human rights cases was convict-ed Thursday of overstepping his ju-risdiction in a domestic corruption probe and barred from the bench for 11 years, marking a spectacular fall from grace for one of the nation’s most prominent citizens.

Baltasar Garzon was unanimous-ly convicted by a seven-judge pan-el of the Supreme Court. Because he is 56, the punishment could end his Spanish judicial career. Hours after the verdict, hundreds of Garzon sup-porters braved freezing weather in Madrid’s central Sol plaza shouting “Shame! Shame!” in protest.

It was just one of three cases pend-ing against Garzon, who is still await-ing a verdict in trial on the same charge — knowingly overstepping the bounds of his jurisdiction — for launching a probe in 2008 of right-wing atrocities committed during and after the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 even though the crimes were covered by a 1977 amnesty.

In Thursday’s verdict, the court ruled that Garzon acted arbitrarily in ordering jailhouse wiretaps of detain-ees talking to their lawyers, the court said, adding that his actions “these days are only found in totalitarian re-gimes.”

Ironically, Garzon is best known for indicting a totalitarian ruler, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, in 1998, and trying to put him on trial in Madrid for crimes against humanity. He also indicted Osama bin Laden in 2003 over the Sept. 11 attacks.

—Compiled from Associated Press Reports

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Damian Dovarganes | Associated Press

A Syrian rebel peers through a window in Idlib, Syria on Thursday. Syrian forces fired mortars and rockets that killed scores of people Thursday in the rebellious city of Homs, activists said, the latest strike in a weeklong assault as President Bashar Assad’s regime tries to crush increas-ingly militarized pockets of dissent.

Bruno Gonzales | Associated Press

A soldier stands in a room full of barrels containing white and yellow powder after a seizure of a small ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Mexico on Thursday.

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From the presidential race to increases in Austin Energy rates, the fol-lowing quotes are among the best from the last few days.

“If it’s halftime in America, I’m fearful of what the final score’s going to be if we let this president start the second half as a quarter-back.”— Texas Gov. Rick Perry at the Conservative Political Action Com-mittee meeting Thursday, referencing a line in Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl commercial, according to KUT News.

“Many Austinites are struggling financially right now, and we need a rate proposal that reflects that reality.”— Austin City Council Member Kathie Tovo, according to KVUE. Tovo and council member Laura Morrison introduced a new proposal for a 3.5-percent increase to Austin Energy’s electric rate. Austin En-ergy’s previous plan has been criticized for falling disproportionately on low-usage residents.

“If we were to experience an identical sum-mer to last summer ... we would still have a very tight summer ... We would have to have conservation.”— U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett testifying to the Texas House State Affairs Committee about the danger of electricity shortages this summer, according to CBS.

“I hope the administration will back down from this rule that violates conscience. If it does not, I can guarantee you that we will do everything within our power to repeal it.”— Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in a press conference Tuesday vowing to fight a new federal mandate that would require religious employers to provide birth control in their health care plans.

“We believe that when Texas is over, we’ll be very, very competitive in delegate count.”— Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on his high hopes for vic-tory in the Texas Republican primary in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.

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Challenging legacy bias in admissions

By Zoya WalianyDaily Texan Columnist

As Fisher v. Texas — the af� rmative ac-tion case involving a Caucasian female de-nied admission to UT — makes its way to the Supreme Court and gains prominence in the media, other similar university admission policies are being criticized. A di� erent demographic, Asian-Amer-icans, are challenging the status quo of legacy admissions policies at institu-tions including Harvard University andPrinceton University.

In 2008, an Indian-American student, among the top students in his California high school class, claimed Harvard and Princeton rejected his application because of his race. � is student’s case is part of the growing debate about whether elite uni-versities’ admissions processes discrimi-nate against Asian-Americans. Tied with Fisher v. Texas, some view these com-plaints as a contest of a� rmative action practices at universities that favor blacks and Hispanics. However, this student’s challenge should instead address the un-fair admissions policies of legacy prefer-ence at elite universities.

Advocacy groups defending this stu-dent’s case argue that Asian-Americans, the fastest growing and most a� uent de-mographic in the United States according

to Bloomberg , face higher obstacles to university admission despite having the highest average SAT scores, according to a 2009 study . � eir race is not considered in a� rmative action practices, and they o� en lack legacy status at elite schools, as many of them are � rst-generation Ameri-cans. A� rmative action practices are in place to create equal footing for students whose socioeconomic backgrounds limit their access to essential resources — such as SAT tutoring or adequate college coun-seling — and thereby hinder their chances of being admitted to universities. � ough Asian-Americans do not fall into this cat-egory, they still may not have high repre-sentation at elite universities because of legacy preferences — that is, applicants who are children or siblings of university alumni and consequently have an advan-tage in the admissions process. While some critics argue that legacy status plays a small role in admitting applicants and is on the decline, others contend that the practice is still rampant and emphasizes the income inequality and status obses-sion of our country. � e reason that this practice is in use is because private insti-tutions, such as Harvard, use the prospect of legacy admissions to generate dona-tions from alumni.

For Asian-Americans, who are o� en � rst-generation Americans, this practice is

unfair because these students do not have the same privileges and position in soci-ety as those with alumni parents. When a student with higher test scores and an all-around better application is rejected in favor of a student whose father attended the college and recently o� ered a gener-ous donation, it breeds an environment of elitism and nepotism that will hinder our country’s growth. Donations from alumni should come from a desire to expand and enhance the school, not to exercise power over the school.

Many of the rejected, yet deserving, students could have � ourished at these schools and might have become part of the nation’s next generation of leaders, further increasing the participation rate of Asian-Americans in � elds in which they are still underrepresented, such as politics. Any � rst-generation American without such status or any American whose parents went to a di� erent univer-sity than he or she wishes to attend are in a similar position. Rather than simply ac-cepting a large percentage of legacy appli-cants — as Princeton did in 2009, when it accepted 41.7 percent of legacy applicants, compared with 9.2 percent of the overall applicant pool — universities should com-mit to admitting students based on merit.

Waliany is a Plan II and government senior.

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With preleasing pressures becom-ing more prominent in the spring se-mester, students transitioning from dorm life to off-campus living must consider new responsibilities before signing a lease.

Legal and financial advisers worked to familiarize students with the contracts and obligations in-volved when moving to off-campus housing Thursday night as part of a Bevonomics workshop sponsored by the Office of Student Financial Services. A lease is a financial obli-gation and students should consid-er the fine print of their contract be-fore signing anything because it is difficult to get out of the agreement, said Sylvia Holmes, an attorney for the University’s Legal Services

for Students. Students need to choose their

roommates carefully because they will become financially tethered to them, Holmes said. Individual leas-es limit financial liability and are usually offered by bigger complex-es, whereas traditional leases require more trust and include all room-mates on the same contract.

“Students should check move-out terms and conditions because land-lords will sometimes try to nickel and dime tenants with carpet clean-ups and other requirements,” Hol-mes said. “To me, that seems like a scam and I would advise students to walk away.”

Jarrod Byer, property manager of the Villas on Guadalupe, said living off-campus comes with new respon-sibilities for students who haven’t lived on their own before, including paying rent and utility bills on time.

“It’s important for students to know the associated fees included in a contract before signing a lease,” he said. “Students should do their re-search and not just sign a lease be-cause they like an apartment.”

Byer said students should also be sure their roommate is someone they trust living with because cohab-itation problems are very frequent between tenants.

Some apartment complexes ad-vertise amenities such as gyms, study rooms and tanning beds to attract prospective tenants, but are not con-tractually obliged to provide them if they were promoted in market-ing materials, Holmes said. Apart-ment complex amenities are consid-ered a “luxury” in the legal sense and are not usually included in the lease, she said.

Financial aid counselor Reanna Addison said students should con-

sider safety and additional costs of living when moving to an off-cam-pus apartment.

“Utilities and Internet are fac-tored into your dorm bill at a flat rate now, but rent is a monthly expense and extra costs are not included in a rent amount,” Addison said. “The fi-nancial aid office determines student aid based on the average cost of liv-ing in Austin, and that’s about $500 a month.”

Undeclared sophomore Brian-na Moehnke said she attended the Thursday night workshop because she wanted to learn more about liv-ing off-campus after her mother sug-gested she should leave dorm life be-hind.

“I’m trying to get more informa-tion and figure out what’s cheaper but still close to campus,” she said. “Looking for an apartment for the first time is overwhelming.”

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Workshop educates students on leasingRebeca Rodriguez | Daily Texan Staff

Theatre and dance freshmen Andrea Fernandez and English freshmen Natalia Fonseca look at a mock apartment at the Quarters in hopes of finding a three bedroom place for the upcoming fall semester.

By Alexa UraDaily Texan Staff

By Sylvia ButandaDaily Texan Staff

If people had a window of oppor-tunity for more time off work, they would spend it on leisure activities rather than efficient actions such as studying or cleaning, according to a new economics study.

Economics professor Daniel Hamermesh co-authored a study examining how people spent their free time after a permanent cut in work hours by reviewing data from national time-use diaries from 1976-2006 in Japan and 1999-2009 in Korea. The study was complet-ed last year and was conducted with UT alumnus Jungmin Lee and asso-ciate economic professors from Ko-rea and Japan. Hamermesh said the study used thousands of daily time diaries from before and after the gov-ernments of Japan and Korea passed laws making it more costly for em-ployers to use overtime work. The study examined how those keeping diaries spent the time they had free.

Hamermesh said the re-sults showed that people spent their free time engaging in relaxing activities.

“In neither country was the extra time used to clean the house, take care of the kids, cook or shop,” Hamer-mesh said. “It was used for leisure and/or personal maintenance, such as grooming.”

Hamermesh said he has done much research on time use and finds the study to be a top-ic that has intrigued people for many years.

“It is very difficult to answer be-cause so many things are happen-ing at once, but this data provides the opportunity to get a clean answer,”

Hamermesh said. Although the study did not in-

clude Americans, Hamermesh said he firmly believes that Americans generally work too much and Eu-ropeans do much less work but seem happier.

Advertising senior Amanda Cummings, president of the Na-tional Society of Collegiate Schol-ars, said she spends every day studying and is constant ly d o i n g s o m e t h i n g f o r h e r organization or taking care of her priorities. However, she said she does separate some time to collect herself after she learned that relaxation is also a key aspect of living life, as the study has shown.

“I would always be busy and would emotionally break down,” Cummings said. “Now, I find it’s important to make free time for yourself.”

Psychology sophomore Ian Bell, an officer of the Long-horn Powerlifting team, said he spends his free time working out in order to stay fit and keep busy. However, Bell said his dai-ly routine includes about an hour of relaxation in order to keep his life balanced, which relates to the study’s conclusion that peo-ple do prefer more relaxing activities.

“Without my free t ime, I wouldn’t be able to work out as much as I would want to,” he said. “If you use your free time effi-ciently, then you can accomplish more things throughout the day and keep things from piling up.”

An in-depth view of Hamer-mesh’s study will be published this spring in the American Economic Review Journal.

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Horses find salvation at El Paso ranch

In this Feb. 8 photo,

Lore Heck coaxes a horse to

her as she checks the condition

of a new shipment of horses

and mules at M.H.

Ranches in Fabens,

Texas.

Mark Lambie Associated Press

The distinction between the established press and new me-dia continues to create differenc-es of opinion on the protection sanctioned by the First Amend-ment regarding organizations like WikiLeaks.

A panel of experts said the trans-parency produced by the publica-tion of classified state information and its implications on the sta-bility of society through govern-mental secrecy is dangerous at the Thursday night Free Speech Dia-logues, an event hosted once a se-mester by the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism.

Linda Greenhouse, a lecturer at Yale Law School and former New York Times reporter, said the val-ues of transparency and privacy are in a never-ending conflict.

“It’s scary when we look at WikiLeaks and realize that one in-dividual can disestablish Ameri-can society,” she said. “We honor the concept of whistle-blowers un-til they blow the whistle and then prosecute them as leakers.”

Greenhouse said the First Amendment should trump se-crecy, but society is still conflict-ed when it comes to government promoted secrecy.

“Unless we view the First Amendment as something we all share and the press as a public sur-rogate instead of a separate entity, the press will be in a serious strug-gle when it comes to the truth,” she said.

Wake Forest Law School pro-fessor Michael Curtis said he be-lieves the freedom of press and speech overlap because they have the same general purpose. But the institutional press, news corpo-rations and established organiza-tions have certain privileges that don’t belong to anyone else.

“This is undemocratic and a dangerous approach,” he said. “It is not a violation of freedom of expression because the govern-ment isn’t doing anything legal-

ly, but the functionality of the free speech system must be concerned with what private, organized mobs do.”

Curtis said the American peo-ple would think it was appropriate if The New York Times “passive-ly obtained” information and pub-lished it the way WikiLeaks did.

If the press is given informa-tion that is truthful and it is pub-lished, the media will not be pros-ecuted. However, the problem lies with who is considered “the press”, he said.

“Private action is not consid-ered a violation of constitutional rights,” Curtis said. “If organiza-tions like WikiLeaks are not con-sidered press, then what do we do?”

Jack Shafer, a Reuters columnist and former deputy editor of Slate, said the game of revealing secrets can become politically advanta-geous for an administration and it is not uncommon for the big-gest whistle-blowers to be politi-cal aides, secretaries and military officials.

“The more I read and write about government secrecy, the more I realize that it is not de-signed to keep secrets from ene-mies but from the public,” he said. “The tribes of Yemen and Soma-lia know about the military drones attacking their homes, but us as citizens are out of the loop.”

Shafer said the reason for so much secrecy among governmen-tal information is the result of a “desire to expand power” through the distribution of such secrets. Because of the government’s desire to prohibit investigation of secrecy, journalists are thought to discour-age this power, like WikiLeaks in-ventor Julian Assange is accused of doing, he said.

“I stil l believe in protect-ing acts of journalism,” he said. “The only real check we have on moments of hysteria, like that of post-9/11, is the press and that idea rejects the maxim that we can’t be freed because we must be saved first.”

Definition of free speech, press discussed by panel

By Alexa UraDaily Texan Staff

FABENS, Texas (AP) — After be-ing abandoned or suffering a life of abuse and hardship, horses that ar-rive at the M.H. Ranch don’t look as if they have much life left in them.

But with time and more than 25,000 acres to roam and graze, these horses are given a second chance to become bucking horses for the rodeo or even riding horses. Those horses that are not deemed fit for either are taken for slaughter in Mexico, where several of them were originally des-tined before they arrived in El Paso. Horses deemed totally unfit are sent to Mexico or Canada because horse slaughter ended in the United States in 2007.

On Wednesday, the M.H. Ranch received 17 additional horses that were unwanted and abandoned — a growing problem due to to-day’s economy, said Hank Webb, an equine expert from New Mex-ico. About 70 horses are now in the care of M.H. Ranch owners Lorie and Tom Heck.

“People can’t afford to take care of them anymore,” Webb said. “As a re-sult, there are many of them that are being abandoned. Some people who go riding have come back and find several horses hitched up to their trailer with a note saying, ‘Please take care of them.’ “

Lorie Heck said the M.H. Ranch is a for-profit enterprise whose main interest is the recovery of horses. Horses that are rejected by Mexi-can veterinarians who don’t allow them to go to slaughter due to ill-ness, open wounds, pregnancy, mal-nourishment and injuries are sent to the M.H. Ranch.

“Some of these horses come from Wisconsin in a trailer,” Lorie Heck said. “And they come in without food or water. And when they get to the border, they sit there for 10 hours with no water or food until they get rejected (for slaughter), and they come here to recover.”

When a horse first arrives on the property, it is assessed and placed on a recovery plan.

“The whole aim of this is to take them off this ranch and try to reha-

bilitate them and do something dif-ferent,” Tom Heck said. “We have connections with a dude ranch out in New Mexico and rodeo contacts as well.”

The average weight of a healthy horse is estimated between 1,000 pounds and 1,300 pounds, depend-ing on the breed.

Horses that come into the M.H. Ranch are typically 400 pounds un-derweight, have abscesses from the saddle or have other open wounds. The recovery process can be slow.

“These horses came in from Will-cox, Arizona and lost 140 pounds during that trip,” Webb said, refer-ring to a group of three horses graz-ing on a bale of alfalfa. “But those 140 pounds will take several months to gain back.”

Each new horse is photographed from the front, rear and both sides. Any open wounds are cleaned and treated. Then every horse is wormed and receives a vitamin B-12 shot and equine antibiotics. Horses are then released into a 20-acre holding pas-ture where they have free access to grass, alfalfa hay and water. They also

receive a free choice of mineral salts and molasses.

After two weeks, each horse is re-evaluated.

Horses that die on the ranch are sent to the dead pile, at a far corner of the ranch, where other livestock that have died go, Tom Heck said.

“Horses, cattle, sheep and goats are all considered livestock,” Tom Heck said. “They are not pets. So they are treated differently. Generally ranch-ers move them to an area that don’t smell up the ranch headquarters, and their bodies are taken care of by the coyotes and nature. It all goes back to the earth.”

Because of the slow recovery pro-cess, a first glance at some of the new-comers raised concerns among near-by residents who reported horses be-ing malnourished in January. This spurred an animal abuse investiga-tion against the ranch.

Further evaluation by the El Paso County Sheriff ’s Office, the Doña Ana County Sheriff ’s Office, Webb and El Paso veterinarian Jose Ramos showed that the horses had sufficient food and water and closed the case.

By Alex HinojosaThe Associated Press

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The start of the new sea-son brought new records for the Longhorns Thursday night. Tex-as shut out the Titans from Cal-ifornia State Fullerton winning by a school record 23 runs. The five-inning game broke UT’s sin-

gle-game record, shattering the former of 17-0 from 1999. The Longhorns came out strong and consistent every inning, starting out with three in the first, nine in the second and eight in the third, giving them a 20-0 lead after only three innings.

Junior Blaire Luna earned her first victory of the season in the

complete-game shutout, giving up only two hits and one walk. Luna, who recorded her 28th career game shutout last night, recorded twelve strikeouts with eight com-ing in just the first ten batters. The two-time second team All-Amer-ican didn’t have a hit on her un-til the fourth inning and the only other one coming in the fifth.

Sophomore Mandy Ogle, who had a three-run homer in the sec-ond to build Texas’ lead to 12, was very impressed with her team’s play, especially Luna’s.

“Blaire was definitely on; the whole team was,” Ogle said. “We wanted to get this season rolling because we were excited about this year. Everyone was pumped.

We were all cheering [today] and we couldn’t focus in study hall.”

The 513 people in attendance at McCombs Field saw the Long-horns start the season how they wanted. Coming into the game it was unknown how they would re-cover from last season and how

The season has barely begun and the Longhorns are already re-writing the Texas record books with a 23-0 win against the Cal-ifornia State Fullerton Titans Thursday night. The Texas offense overshadowed a top notch Tex-as defense with a lights out per-formance in the first game of the Texas tournament.

Up 12-0 at the end of the sec-ond inning, the 18th ranked Long-horns broke their first record of

the night — a 12-year-old single game record for number of runs scored by a Texas team in a season opener. The record had previously been held by the 1998 Longhorn team who flew past St. Edward’s University 10-0 to open.

The second broken record, for most runs in a single game, came in the bottom of the third when sophomore Brejae Washington’s two RBI single plated sopho-more Mandy Ogle and freshman Gabby Smith for the 18th and 19th runs of the night. The 1999 squad had held the record pre-

viously with 17 runs against the University of Texas at San Anto-nio before Thursday.

Finally after four innings, the Titans pulled their starting pitcher — a junior who gave up 15 hits and 20 runs.

“You have to adapt to every pitch-er and we were helping each oth-er out,” Ogle said. “We would come in and tell everyone what we were seeing, everyone was working with each other and we were just on.”

Although the Texas offense

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SPORTS 7Friday, February 10, 2012 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Sameer Bhuchar, Sports Editor | (512) 232-2210 | sports@dailytexanonline.com

SIDELINE

Longhorns start season with dominating winJunior Blaire

Luna (1-0) threw a shut-

out for the Horns and only

allowed two hits. While

the Horns per-formed well on

offense, she led the defensive

effort.

By Garrett CallahanDaily Texan Staff

Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan Staff

Sophomore Mandy Ogle had her second career home run and set a career high with four RBIs during Texas’ convincing victory.OGLE continues on PAGE 8

In recent years, the Longhorns have been known for having a strong team of ranked players and senior leadership. This season, the Longhorns won’t be able to boast that luxury, as they have only one ranked player on a team with six underclassmen and no seniors.

Instead, they will rely on a junior

to lead them through a tough sched-ule against several top 20 teams.

Daniel Whitehead is the only ranked player on the young Texas team, at No. 112. But more impor-tant than his ranking is his ability to lead the team through the long season ahead.

“To be a leader on the team, you have to do a lot of things,” said head coach Michael Center. “You have to be a guy that does it your-

self first and foremost, works hard, shows up on time. [Whitehead] does a very good job of that.”

Elected a team captain by his teammates, along with redshirt junior Alex Hilliard and junior Chris Camillone, Whitehead is also able to rally the team around him during a match with his on-court show of emotion.

By Lauren JetteDaily Texan Staff

TENNIS continues on PAGE 8

Whitehead looks to lead young team

Junior Daniel Whitehead is ranked 112th

in the pre-season singles

rankings. He is the only

member of the squad ranked

in singles.

File photo byShannon Kintner

Daily Texan Staff

Going into the fourth week of the season, Texas was originally scheduled to split up this week-end to attend both the Univer-sity of Arkansas’ Tyson Invita-tional and the Flotrack Husky Classic in Seattle, will instead be staying together in the south, fo-cusing on Fayetteville, AR.

Although the team was faced with the decision to choose between the two events, the Longhorns are well aware that they are approaching an-other eminent “fork-in-the-road.”

Despite consistent top 10 in-dividual finishes, the team’s na-tional ranking has also shown a consistent negative trend.

Dropping from No. 2 to No. 4 af-ter the first preseason ranking, the now No. 6 Texas knows that its per-formance at the Tyson Invitational, where they will compete against No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Clemson, No. 4 Arkan-sas, and No. 5 UCF, could very well be the turning point in its season.

The whole team will show up in

full force this weekend, compet-ing in 11 track and field events.

On Friday, Shanay Briscoe, Victoria Lucas, Beverly Owoyele and Alicia Peterson plan to jump-start the team’s momen-tum in the high jump.

In the first race of the week-end, Julie Amthor and Mari-elle Hall — both having placed first in the event at meets earlier this season — will represent the Longhorns in the mile run.

With six runners on the race’s roster, Friday’s 400-meter dash holds the most potential for the team to dominate the top 10.

On Saturday, Sara Sutherland will kick off day two of the Invita-tional with the 3000-meter run.

Among the events of the week-end, races in which Texas could prove itself as a major threat in-clude the 60-meter dash and the 200-meter dash.

In the 4x400-meter relay, the final women’s event of the week-end, two Texas teams will rally to close out the meet with consecu-tive first and second places.

Texas’ ranking has slipped, aims to stop negative trend

By Kristen OttoDaily Texan Staff

Records broken in landslide victoryBy Sara Beth PurdyDaily Texan Staff

MEN’S TENNIS WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD

SPORTS BRIEFLYArmstrong investigation closed

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As far as Lance Armstrong is concerned, it’s all over.

The stress, the waiting, the whis-pers about whether he doped dur-ing his stellar cycling career, all of it ended when — after nearly two years — federal prosecutors closed an investigation of him last week without bringing any charges.

“I’m happy. I’m glad it’s behind me,” Armstrong told The Associated Press on Thursday in his first inter-view since prosecutors announced they were dropping the case.

The seven-time Tour de France winner said he remained confident he would not be indicted, but admit-ted the weight of the long investiga-tion took a toll on him personally.

“It’s not a pleasant experience ... It was difficult at times,” he said. “But I was confident that we would always end up in this place.”

Although Armstrong was con-vinced that he would not be indict-ed, the cyclist said he was ready to fight a costly legal battle if he was.

“You had to consider all possibil-ities,” he said.

- Associated Press

Cruz signs to two-year contract On Thursday, American League

MVP Nelson Cruz signed a two-year, $16 million contract with the Texas Rangers.

“Nelson is a cornerstone of our team for what really marks the whole turnaround of the franchise. He has been part of the winning core, he’s a huge part of that,” said assistant general manager Thad Levine. “He’s been a big-time per-former in the postseason. He’s part of the personality of this team, he plays the game with a ton of en-ergy, a very dynamic player, true five-tool athlete.”

In last year’s AL Championship series, Cruz hit six home runs and had 13 RBIs. He also hit the first game-ending grand slam in post-season history. Last season he hit .263 with 29 home runs.

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LUNA continues from PAGE 7they would start their new season.

“I really didn’t know what to ex-pect,” said head coach Connie Clark. “I felt confident that we were going to play well and I believe in our team. We have tremendous tal-ent, but we have talked about how it is in the mental pieces.”

It was a team effort by Texas with multiple players on the team stepping up. Senior Lexy Bennett recorded a home run in the third, the 24th of her career. Junior Tay-

lor Hoagland tallied her 27th ca-reer home run, fifth in UT history, and got her 42nd stolen base. Fi-nally, sophomore Brejae Washing-ton hit three for four, scoring three runs and hitting four RBIs.

Hopefully this was the start of a strong season for the Longhorns. They take on UTSA in their sec-ond game of the Texas Classic tonight, where they look to stay consistent and carry the momen-tum from Thursday’s game.

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The Longhorns are starting to peak at the right time. The same holds true for Kansas State, though.

Texas hosts the Wildcats Saturday afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center and look to extend its winning streak to three games. UT (15-9, 5-6 Big 12) has not won more than two games in a row since stringing together seven victories from Nov. 26 to Dec. 17.

Freshman guard Sheldon Mc-Clellan has given Texas a reli-able scoring option in addition to J’Covan Brown over the past two games. McClellan scored 13 points in the first half of Monday’s win at Texas A&M and finished with 15. And against Texas Tech last Satur-day, McClellan scored 17.

But McClellan will have to re-main aggressive on the offensive end for the Longhorns to contin-ue their success. In the three games prior to his recent scoring uptick, McClellan had nine total points. UT was 1-2 in those games.

“We can’t celebrate too much, we have to stay focused,” he said.

Texas lost its edge in the second half against the Aggies, a trend that’s start-ing to irritate head coach Rick Barnes. The Longhorns built a nine-point lead, 55-46, only to allow A&M back in the game with an 11-5 run that made it 60-57. UT also had trouble closing the game against Texas Tech, when they surrendered a 10-0 run

after holding a 25-point advantage.Still, the Longhorns were final-

ly able to make winning plays down the stretch on Monday.

“I didn’t like the way we carried ourselves when we got the lead, we got too casual,” Barnes said. “But when we got down, our guys stayed together. I didn’t think at any point in time there was doubt.”

K-State is also on a two-game win streak. The Wildcats are fifth in the Big 12 with a 6-5 conference record and beat Texas, 84-80, on Jan. 18. They’ve won five of their last seven games, and head coach Frank Martin’s squad typically plays its best ball in February.

“It’s just the way we work,” Martin

said. “If you go back and look, that’s usually what happens. Our teams play their best basketball at the end of the year. If you go back and follow teams that I’ve been a head coach at, we play our best ball at the end of the year. That’s been consistent.”

Texas lost a heartbreaker to the Wildcats when Myck Kabongo and Brown fumbled an exchange at midcourt with the game on the line in the final seconds. But Ka-bongo is coming off his best game of the season (six points, six re-bounds, five assists, two steals).

“He ran the team like a point guard should,” said assistant coach Chris Ogden. “And he always de-fends the other team’s best guy.”

By Austin LaymanceDaily Texan Staff

Texas hopes to continue momentum“Daniel’s a very emotional guy on

the court,” Center said. “He is a fiery guy. He competes hard and I think he’s a guy that’s kind of a magnet for our team. They’ll see him get excit-ed and it gets them excited.”

That wasn’t always the case though, as Whitehead admits it took some time to adjust to play-ing on the collegiate level.

“When you come in [before college] you’re always playing with people around your own age, may-be one or two years off,” White-head said. “But when you come in as a freshman, you’ve got maybe a 25-year-old guy who just played two years pro, so it’s just more ma-ture of a game — quicker, more powerful and all that, so it takes a little bit of an adjustment.”

An adjustment Whitehead quickly made as he finished his freshman season with an 11-8 singles record and a 23-7 dou-bles record. Whitehead improved in his sophomore season with a 27-9 record in singles, a 22-5 re-cord in doubles and a dual-match singles record of 16-5.

“He was basically just trying to run balls down and put them in play using speed and quickness,” Center said of Whitehead’s game before he arrived at UT. “Now, he’s a much stronger player. He plays much more aggressively, he gets to the net a lot more, his vol-leys have improved, so he’s real-ly become a much more complete player since he’s been here.”

Center points to Whitehead’s play against Texas Tech in the Intercollegiate Tennis Associa-tion’s Kick-Off Weekend hosted by Texas as an example of White-head’s improvements. Not only did Whitehead knock off a top 20 ranked opponent in straight sets in his singles match, he and dou-bles partner David Holiner saved a match point and won the tiebreak-er to win the match and claim the doubles point for Texas.

According to Whitehead, he doesn’t think his ranking is the reason he is considered the team leader.

“I feel like I would be one of the leaders because there are a lot of young guys that haven’t played in a lot of matches,” Whitehead said. “So as one of the guys that has played more matches, I would help them in that way, but not be-cause of the ranking.”

While one might consider being a ranked player something to brag about, Whitehead’s focus is on the team, not his individual stats.

“I’m not too worried about in-dividual rankings; that will work itself out if we’re playing well as a team,” Whitehead said. “[The ranking is] not my big focus.”

The Longhorns will put their No. 14 team ranking to the test against rival Texas A&M this weekend as part of the Texas Cup. The non-conference dual against the No. 11 ranked Ag-gies is set to start at 6 p.m. at the Downtown Club at the Met. This is the fifth year Houston has hosted the Cup. Last year, No. 5 Texas defeated the No. 10 Aggies 4-3 to claim the cup.

Both the Aggies (4-1) and Longhorns (5-1) share a common defeat as both teams lost to No. 2 Virginia last weekend. Texas could face the Aggies again next weekend, as both teams are in the same half of the draw for the ITA National Team Indoor Champi-onship, hosted by Virginia. Texas will finish their weekend off with a match at Texas A&M Corpus Christi on Sunday.

men’s BAsketBALL TENNIS continues from PAGE 7

elisabeth Dillon | Daily texan staff

Sheldon McClellan has begun to make an impact offensively for the Longhorns. He scored 17 points against Texas Tech.

Daniel’s a very emotional guy on the court. He is a fiery guy. He competes hard and I think he’s a guy that’s kind of a magnet for our team.

“

“ — Michael Center, Men’s tennis head coach

OGLE continues from PAGE 7started out strong with three runs in the bottom of the first, it was the nine runs scored in the bottom of the second that really set the tone for the night. Junior power hitter Tay-lor Hoagland and Ogle headlined the power offense, each producing a multiple score home run. After a nine run second inning, senior team captain Lexy Bennett brought the home run count to three with her own multiple run bomb.

By the end of the third inning,

each Longhorn in the starting line up, with the exception of the ju-nior Blaire Luna, their All-Amer-ican pitcher, had scored. In addi-tion, all starters finished the night with at least one base hit, with the exception of junior first baseman Kim Bruins, who was walked and hit by pitch twice.

“It was pretty nice,” Ogle said. “We were just having fun, hav-ing our own little Texas party in the dugout.”

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It’s been more than two weeks since the Longhorns won a game, and with only seven regular sea-son contests left on the sched-ule, wins are at a premium. Tex-as’ last victory came on Jan. 25 against the Big 12’s last place Mis-souri Tigers. Since then the Long-horns have dropped four straight and are falling further and further from the NCAA tournament pic-ture. They will get another chance to prove they’re still worthy when they take on Oklahoma State, who also find themselves on the tour-nament bubble, Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center.

The Cowgirls got the best of the Longhorns, who were a top 25 team at the time, when the two teams met in Stillwater in early January. Oklahoma State, who at the time had the best field goal percentage defense in the nation, held Texas to a season worst 23 percent from the field en route to a 70-51 blowout victory. Chassidy Fussell missed all 11 of her field goal attempts as OSU held the Longhorns’ high-scoring guard trio of Fussell, Ashleigh Fonten-ette and Yvonne Anderson to just 18 points.

On the offensive end, the Cow-girls spread the scoring around, with four players scoring in dou-ble digits. Oklahoma State’s di-verse scoring attack wasn’t just limited to its starters. Junior for-wards Toni Young and Lindsey Keller had 14 and 13 points, re-spectively, coming off the bench.

“We don’t have enough guards, so if our guards aren’t hitting we don’t have a lot of options,” said Texas head coach Gail Goesten-kors after the first meeting be-tween these two squads. “We only have four on the team, so they need to come to play every-day for us to be successful.”

Depth will likely be an issue once again for the Longhorns on Saturday night. With Chel-sea Bass out of the lineup for three of Texas’ last four games, Texas’ starting backcourt has been forced to log big minutes. Fussell, Fontenette and Ander-son have played no less than 32 minutes in each game through-out the Longhorns current four-game slide.

“We’ve had a short bench the last couple of games,” said Goestenkors after Wednesday’s loss at Kansas. “So I think we do get a little bit fatigued and we showed that.”

If Texas is going to be suc-cessful against Oklahoma State, they’re going to have to be par-ticularly selective with their shots and convert when they have the opportunity. The Cow-girls don’t give up easy baskets and if the Longhorns can’t find a way to create open shots and convert on those opportunities, it’s going to be a long night. Tex-as is shooting just 40 percent from the field over the course of its four-game skid. No matter the score, we can expect a hard-fought battle from start to finish between two teams desperate for an important conference win at the Erwin Center Saturday.

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After an extended off-season, Texas looks to get back into tour-nament form when they travel to Sorrento, Florida for the UCF Challenge this weekend.

In the final tournament of the fall, the Longhorns, ranked 10th nationally by GolfWeek, cruised to a 12-stroke victory in the an-nual Betsy Rawls Invitation-al, led by senior Nicole Vander-made and junior Madison Pres-sel. The Texas pair finished first and second individually, giving Vandermade her first career col-legiate victory.

“It feels amazing,” Vander-made said. “I’ve been working really hard. I knew my game was there. We are getting more and more confident with each tournament.”

Heading into the spring, the defending Big 12 Champs are looking to keep the momentum going and improve on last year, when they fell just short of qual-ifying for the NCAA Champi-onships. With four starters re-turning from 2010-11, an old-er squad should keep the Long-horns on the right track.

“It’s always a good thing to have more experience,” said head coach Martha Richards. “They’re just that more comfort-able because they’ve been there and they know what to expect.”

In the 2011 UCF Challenge, the Longhorns finished fifth behind eventual NCAA finalist Coastal Carolina. However, following a

three month absence from com-petitive play, Richards likes what she sees out of her team.

“We’ve come back just as ready as I’ve seen them to play going into the spring and I think that has to do with just having a more experienced team,” Rich-ards said. “We’ve practiced hard. I’ve been very impressed with what I’ve seen at practice.”

The Sorrento weather forecast looks clear, but should heat up into more ideal conditions for the final round Tuesday. Playing in Austin year-round, the Long-horns have learned how to play in fickle weather and should be prepared for the sporadic and chilly conditions Sunday.

“You have to remind them of the weather conditions so they don’t get frustrated and they just focus on the task at hand,” Richards said. “I think the big-gest challenge is getting back into your tournament toughness and your focus in competitive rounds, and that’s what we’ve tried to work on.”

After missing the NCAA Cham-pionships in 2011 for the first time since Richards’ arrival in 2007, Texas is primed to get back to the May championships, but be-fore that, they must have a strong showing in 2012’s first contest.

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On the heels of two c o n s e c u t i v e w i n s i n the International Ten-nis Association Kick-Off Weekend, the Longhorns are heading to Charlot-tesville, Va. for the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.

Currently ranked No. 15 in the country, the team has had a great spring se-mester thus far, upset-ting No. 4 North Caroli-na, while posting victories against No. 23 Alabama and No. 17 Vanderbilt.

Junior All-American Aeriel Ellis has led the women all season long, as she has competed in eight consecutive nation-al championship events. Ellis is currently ranked as the No. 47 player in the ITA and is poised to

surpass the 30-wins mark for another year.

A new addition to the team this season, fresh-man Noel Scott, is cur-rently ranked No. 119 and looks to keep improving on her early success as a Longhorn. She joined teammate Cierra Gaytan-Leach to win the doubles final in the Longhorn In-vitational and clinched her biggest win to date against the No. 43 player in the nation at Alabama.

Sophomore Elizabeth B egley is another no-table performer for the team, winning the sin-gles title and advancing to the doubles semifinals at the Cougar Fall Draw tournament.

The National Team In-door Championships will be a four day event start-ing today and running through Monday.

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agent Matt Weston, the guard-ian of a safe house in Cape Town who receives an unexpected vis-itor — notorious rogue agent Tobin Frost (Washington). After a vigorous waterboarding session at the hands of torturer Robert Patrick, the safe house is com-promised and Weston and Frost are on the run.

The plot for “Safe House” isn’t especially dense, and that gives director Daniel Espinosa plenty of excuses to layer on the style. This is Espinosa’s U.S. debut, and he instills the Cape Town set-ting with a grimy, dangerous at-mosphere. The action scenes are nicely staged throughout, espe-cially a chase through the slums and an extended, brutal hand-to-hand battle between Weston and a colleague.

Unfortunately, Espinosa’s tal-ent for style doesn’t extend to the narrative. “Safe House” is pre-dictable to a fault, and the sup-posedly secret identity of its vil-lain is made clear from the very beginning thanks to obvious foreshadowing. While the film’s narrative is mostly built around Reynolds and Washington kick-ing ass all over South Africa, its denouement tries to say some-thing profound about govern-ment corruption and doing the right thing, but ends up sput-tering out some nonsense about honor and accountability that’s been covered many times before in much better films.

Thankfully, Washington and Reynolds are very well cast. Washington is at a point in his career where he’s likeable and watchable in almost every film he’s in, and “Safe House” is no different. Though Reynolds is os-tensibly the star, Washington is the center of the film, and it’s in-teresting to see the way that years of violence have hardened his

Tobin Frost to the point where he makes killing seem almost ca-sual, cutting down enemies with a menacing familiarity. Reyn-olds has done good work in oth-er films (2010’s “Buried,” for in-stance) and he’s serviceable here but never really shines outside of his more quiet scenes with Washington. It doesn’t help that his character arc is in service of a narrative with the subtlety of a neon billboard, yet Reynolds still manages to emerge from “Safe House” unscathed.

“Safe House” is by no means a terrible film. It’s got intensi-ty and style to spare and a good sense of forward momentum, not to mention a strong pairing in its two leads and some mem-orable action sequences. While that alone (along with the slim cinematic pickings of this week’s new releases) is enough to earn “Safe House” a recommendation, audiences sensitive to clunky ex-position, over-predictability and what proves to be a weak, silly ending may want to steer clear.

when Pope Gelasius I declared Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day as an effort to Chris-tianize the festival and possibly to hon-or the Roman priest, St. Valentine, who married young lovers behind Emperor Claudius II’s back during the third cen-tury. Legends aside, it is clear that there is little to no historic meaning left in the modern-day version of Valentine’s Day, which instead emphasizes candy and card consumerism.

According to the National Retail Federation, Americans will spend an average of $126 each, totaling over $17 billion for the population, on the holi-day and on something that’s supposed to be priceless: love.

On New Year’s Eve, there’s an inevi-table pressure to have the coolest plans, the trendiest outfit and the steami-est New Year’s kiss because we’ve con-

vinced ourselves that the way we spend New Year’s Eve is the way we’ll spend the rest of the year. This mind-set has seeped through January and into Feb-ruary, as we think of Valentine’s Day as the day that sets the tone for the rest of a relationship, whether it’s five dates or five years in. From Hallmark to Vic-toria’s Secret, there’s not a retailer in this country that won’t try to take advantage of the pressure people feel to shower their sweetheart with superficial love.

The shallow stereotype of Valen-tine’s Day was baked into our early childhood just like the heart-shaped brownies the PTA moms brought to class. Consider for a moment your elementary school days when Val-entine’s Day was not known as a day of love, but instead as one of the rare days that candy wouldn’t be confis-cated. It was always the homemade valentines in the basket that got over-looked — that is unless, of course, they came with homemade candy, or

better yet, fun-size Snickers bars. I can’t recall a single time from my

elementary school days of looking at a valentine from a classmate and thinking, “Wow, this message is real-ly thoughtful.” It’s no surprise that as adults, we’ve continued the tradition of translating love into desserts and dispensable gifts. As it turns out, no-body cares if you wear your heart on your sleeve unless it’s made of cash-mere. It’s easy to assume that the av-erage Valentine’s Day hater must also hate love, but it is the so-called haters that support and believe in love the most; not a princess-cut love set in a platinum band, but a euphoric feel-ing that no material item could ever replicate. Not everyone who hates Valentine’s Day is a bitter-because-they’re-alone castaway, but perhaps just a person who is more concerned with the message inside the bot-tle, rather than with what the bottle looks like and whether they can get one of their own at Pottery Barn.

Odds are it’s not easy to find tons of college-aged fans — or fans over five years old — of 2008’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Even so, producers have risen to the non-existent demand for a sequel and made “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” a film with an almost iden-tical plot, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson taking the action hero reins from original star, Brendan Fraser.Much like the first film, “Journey 2” finds Sean (Josh Hutcherson) dragging an unwitting father figure (Johnson, his mother’s boyfriend, Hank) into an adventure to find his grandfather (Michael Caine). Their journey leads them to a titular mys-terious island, where Sean and Hank quickly find themselves trapped, along with tour guide Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his daughter Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens).On the surface, “Journey 2” is a for-gettable, lazy follow-up to a film that no one liked much in the first place, and it’s easy to label it as such. After all, its teenaged hero is a stock reb-el without a cause (with boatloads

of daddy issues to boot), and his only character trait is an encyclope-dic knowledge of Jules Verne nov-els. Even worse is Guzman’s role as a woefully misguided tour guide who exists solely to provide bizarre, markedly unfunny comic relief. It’s too bad “Journey 2” isn’t just lazy; it’s aggressively stupid.If there’s one thing a movie needs, it’s a sense of internal logic. A film needs to be able to build a world that viewers can invest in. Otherwise, it fails on a basic level and makes it incredibly easy to recognize all the flaws and inconsistencies, of which

“Journey 2” has many. While minia-ture elephants and giant lizards add to the undeniably impressive specta-cle of the film, the size of the charac-ters in relation to the world around them is in constant flux. Characters can go from walking through a nor-mal-sized jungle to evading gargan-tuan birds through trees hundreds of times their height in the blink of an eye, and that’s just one of many nonsensical elements the film tries to explain away with shoddily writ-ten pseudo-science.As a pure, goofy spectacle, “Jour-ney 2” almost works. The stupid-

ity of its script keeps it watchable, if only to see where it’s going to go next, and the film’s special ef-fects are undeniably strong. Caine looks like he’s laughing all the way to the bank in this film. He earns every dollar of his check with a big, silly performance. Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson continues to im-press as an action hero. Johnson

was the best part of last year’s “Fast Five” and he’s game for whatever the script throws at him here. Even if he never quite creates a character, Johnson makes the audience be-lieve he’s certainly having a good time traipsing around this island, and in a better movie, his enthusi-asm might be infectious. “Journey 2” won’t win any fans

over to the “Journey” franchise, and as a narrative, it’s a poorly constructed, laughably terrible failure. As a silly, 90-minute di-version, there are certainly better films out right now (“Haywire,” for example), but adolescents who haven’t graduated past the PG rating yet should enjoy “Jour-ney 2” enough for all of us.

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the attention of the media and the audience, Williams and Candler came up with a distinct viral marketing campaign to set “Hellion” apart. Aside from the usual film festival parapherna-lia (postcards, stickers, posters, t-shirts, pins) the filmmak-ers released a series of videos chronicling the experience of making the film and going to Sundance called “The Hellion Sundance Chronicles.”

Private press screenings were also held for the film pri-or to the festival to get as much coverage as possible — and it seems to have worked. Ear-lier in January, Candler wrote about “Hellion” and Sundance for The Huffington Post as part

of an ongoing blog called The Sundance Diaries.

“That Huffington Post blog we did was huge for us,” Can-dler said. “It got a lot of nation-al eyes on our trailer and our film early on.”

Making short films is a com-pletely different skill set than feature length filmmaking. Williams, who was the film program director for the Austin Film Festival, understood what was expected of a short film in order to be chosen for a top-tier festival like Sundance. Festivals are on the lookout for shorts that can tell a compelling story in an ingenious and brief man-ner but, most importantly, have enduring characters that audi-ences care about.

Williams, also a UT alum-nus, attributes the film’s suc-cess to Candler’s ability as a sto-ryteller. “She has the rare abili-

ty to take a simple story and ex-pand the world and the charac-ters in it,” Williams said. “And, in the case of ‘Hellion,’ she does it all in six minutes.”

The filmmakers are cur-rently working on developing “Hellion” into a feature film. “Right now our plan with ‘Hel-lion’ is to play as many festivals as possible,” Candler said. “But because we’re developing a fea-ture film based on the short, it’s a tool to further that de-velopment. That’s our ultimate goal: make the feature.”

Candler is also teaching her signature advanced narrative production course at the RTF department this semester and although she ‘skipped’ a week of class to go to Sundance, it is safe to assume that none of her stu-dents were complaining — after all, some of them might have even worked on the film.

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Acceptance into the Sundance film festival is both mystical and a grim reality check. At least, that’s how ra-dio-television-fim lecturer Kat Can-dler feels about her short film’s ap-pearance in the showcase.

The Utah-based behemoth of a film festival is a defining moment in any filmmaker’s career, and Candler understands this all too well. After all, she just returned from Park City where her short film “Hellion” made the Sundance Film Festival Official Selection. The story of three young brothers dealing with the conse-quences of their actions, “Hellion” was one of the 64 short films se-lected to screen from a record 7,675 submissions.

“Getting into Sundance is the pres-tigious stamp of approval that you’re hoping to get for most of your ca-reer,” Candler said. “It has been huge for us. It’s already opened a lot of doors that were otherwise closed.”

Even though the festival has be-come a somewhat polarizing event because of the staggering number of happy-go-lucky socialites and mar-keting savvy start-ups that descend every year upon Park City, the Sun-dance Film Festival is still the defin-ing arena for American independent cinema. Sundance is notorious for defining yearly critical taste by set-ting the pace for the year in filmmak-ing. Films like “The Kids are All Right”, “Winter’s Bone” and “Lit-

tle Miss Sunshine” were all Sun-dance premieres before going on to critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations.

As “Hellion” cinematographer and RTF lecturer Drew Xanthopoulos said, “Sundance offers fantastic ex-posure to new or lesser-known talent to both the larger commercial indus-try and within the smaller, indepen-dent one. The short film serves pri-marily as a sampling of everyone’s work and typically leads to connec-tions and support for the artists’ more ambitious projects.”

Candler, who wrote and directed “Hellion,” said the short was inspired by a childhood story.

“My mom told me about her three younger brothers when they were little and set my grandfather’s jeep on fire,” Candler said, “and what happened when my grandfa-ther got home and found the de-struction in the front yard.” Even though the script was written sever-al years ago, she was reluctant to go forward with it because “it involved three little boys going through a range of extreme emotions.”

The film was shot over three days in July 2011 in Georgetown and re-lied heavily on UT alumni and cur-rent students for crew positions, many of whom have taken classes with Candler.

“I knew I could trust them to do great work,” Candler said. “When I’m looking for crew and cast, first thing that’s important to me is that they’re good human beings...then talent. I

don’t want to work with assholes.”Kelly Williams, “Hellion’s”

producer, agrees. “Living in Austin, it is hard to get

too far away from the RTF depart-ment. It can be a great resource for Austin filmmakers,” Williams said. “There is a great deal of talent com-

ing out of the department, not just directors, but sound recordists, pro-duction designers, editors, etcetera.”

Because of the overwhelming na-

ture of the festival, where hundreds of filmmakers have to fight for both

“Safe House” stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reyn-olds, who are both at odd plac-es in their careers. Washing-ton is in the middle of a Liam Neeson-style career reinven-tion, lending the charm and gravitas that have worked so well in dramatic films to inten-sify stylized action films like “Man on Fire” and “The Book of Eli.” Meanwhile, the obvious-ly talented Reynolds seems to be making a disastrous string of career choices, appearing in two absolute disasters last sum-

mer, “The Change-Up” and “The Green Lantern.” Team-ing the two actors up for “Safe House” ultimately proves to be

a smart move for both, even if the film around them doesn’t

Every year, as February brings a flood of jewelry commercials and preset dinner menus for two, I can’t help but look over at the box of chocolate covered strawberries I embarrassingly bought for my-self and think, “perhaps this is my only comfort this time of year.”

I can already envision the pho-tos of Russell Stover chocolate box-es and mass-produced neon pink teddy bears with heart-shaped noses that will surely hijack my Facebook newsfeed; the abundant aroma of Baby’s Breath wafting through the air that will be reason enough to stay in with the compa-ny of a horror film; and the con-versation hearts that proudly de-clare messages I hope never come out of my mouth. Thank God (or rather St. Valentine) the day is

only 24 hours long. Perhaps it is the holiday’s allegedly horrific his-toric beginnings or that it brings out the worst of our consumerist culture, but Valentine’s Day has never found its fit into my life.

While the exact origins of Valen-tine’s Day have yet to be confirmed, legends suggest that the holiday may have had bloody beginnings. According to History.com, Valen-

tine’s Day could be traced back to the ancient Pagan mid-Feb-ruary festival, Lupercalia, when Romans took to sacrificing their livestock and then proceeded to publicly whip women with the leftover hides, believing it would increase a woman’s fertility.

It wasn’t until the fifth century

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one wants to see “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

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Kat Candler, a Radio-Television-Film lecturer, wrote and directed a short film titled “Hellion” that was selected for the Sundance Film Festival. Candler’s six-minute movie was inspired by a true story about her three uncles when they were kids.

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Film provides good leads, predictable plot

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