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Website aids students in studyingBy Liz FarmerDaily Texan Staff

Plastic bag ban up for debate in AustinFanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff

Stu Bresson recycles cans and plastic bags at Austin Ecology Action, a recycling center at the corner of Interstate Highway 35 and Ninth Street on Monday afternoon. Austin administrators will be drafting a law on Nov. 1 to ban plastic bags in the city within the next year.

Alumnus credits UT, ROTC for success

Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff

James Mulva, UT alumnus and CEO of ConocoPhillips, speaks at the School of Social Work on Monday evening.

Entrepreneur aims to brew coffee with shot of ethics

More housing added by campus for 2013

Courtesy of 2400 Nueces

2400 Nueces, a new housing complex that will feature more than 300 units, should open by the fall of 2013.

After her first trip to Chiapas, Mexico, entrepreneur Susan Ja-mie decided she didn’t want to just start a coffee shop. She want-ed to transform the whole coffee industry, an admittedly big feat considering the fact that coffee is the second-most traded com-modity in the world, Jamie said.

Jamie said what she saw dur-ing that first trip “put a lot on [her] heart.” She met a coffee grower forced to feed her hun-gry children newspaper soup and a man begging her to buy his cof-fee beans so that he didn’t have to leave his family to get a job in the U.S.

“It’s amazing how you see once you start to look into coffee [trade] that you will experience the same thing that we did when we first traveled over there,” Ja-mie, owner of Ferra Coffee, said.

For an industry that raked in nearly $15.4 billion world-wide last year, Jamie said grow-ers are getting shortchanged. For a pound of coffee worth $1.39 on the New York Stock Exchange, growers are likely to get 5 to 9 cents, with middlemen pocketing the difference, she said.

By Nicole SanseverinoDaily Texan Staff

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When faced with more than 900 terms to learn for a pharmacy class, one UT student turned to the use of online flashcards that he can distribute among his study group.

Pharmacy student Richard Sabel said he joined the free study site, Qui-

zlet, to create flashcard reviews before tests. Quizlet is one of a growing num-ber of new online learning tools of its type, which has seen increasing popu-larity because of features that allow us-ers to create their own flashcards, ac-cess other users’ flashcards and make tests out of the information. Sabel uses the site on his iPad, but it is also avail-able through applications for other Ap-

ple, Android and Windows devices. “For me, it helps since I make the

cards,” Sabel said. “That’s part of my study habit — to turn the information into a question.”

The basic site allows users to apply text to cards and extended functions are available for a fee, which allow us-ers to apply images and create unlim-ited groups.

“If a professor can put it on a Pow-erpoint, you can put it on a Quizlet,” Sabel said.

However, Sabel said Quizlet has limitations that other online learning tools contain, such as only offering two sides for flashcards.

“One of the reasons that we have so many cards is that there isn’t a third side,” Sabel said.

He said each person in the study group enters information onto several cards, which are more accessible to ev-eryone than paper flashcards.

Quizlet founder and president An-drew Sutherland created the site to study for a high school French class in 2005. He said the site grew as his

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UT alumnus and ConocoPhil-lips CEO James Mulva said at-tending the University and the small habit of never wanting to lose is what got him to the top of his business.

To start off the year’s first Lib-eral Arts Council Speaker Series, Mulva participated in an informal

interview Monday, allowing cur-rent students to hear about the life and achievements of a prestigious UT graduate.

He said the education he re-ceived at UT and in the ROTC program was essential to his suc-cess in his career.

Mulva spoke about his success after graduating from the Univer-sity and what it took for him to get where he is today.

“I wouldn’t trade it for any-thing, I’m totally engaged in what I do,” Mulva said. “I think I work for a noble industry.”

Mulva graduated with a bache-lor’s degree in business adminis-tration in the class of ’68 and con-tinued on as a class of ’69 graduate with his master’s degree in busi-ness administration. He served

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A new addition to West Cam-pus is scheduled to open in the fall semester of 2013. 2400 Nueces, the new student and faculty housing, will consist of 304 units that will provide 622 beds ranging from studios to four-bedroom apartments.

“It’s not a [typical] UT hous-ing development,” said Amy Wanamaker, campus director of real estate. “UT owns the prop-erty, and we saw the opportu-nity to generate return on the property and the need for stu-dent, faculty and graduate hous-

ing within two blocks of the University.”

UT has ground-leased the property that was once old Wooldridge Hall to Education Realty Trust, one of the largest companies in the U.S. involved in developing and running col-legiate housing. Architectural firm PageSoutherlandPage de-signed 2400 Nueces to go along with the modern look of the University.

“PageSoutherlandPage are lo-cal, well respected architects that came up with a beautiful design,” Wanamaker said.

By Brianna PelayoDaily Texan Staff

Months of meetings with Aus-tin residents, business owners and city officials led to an open fo-rum Monday night seeking the

public’s final input on plastic bag prohibition.

City officials began discussing the possible bag ban in April and held several meetings during the past six months seeking public insight on the issue. At an Aug. 4 city council meet-ing, members voted to draft an un-

official ordinance outlining possi-ble provisions for ending the use of plastic retail bags. Officials support-ing the plastic bag ban believe it will improve the environment by reduc-ing waste and help cut city spend-ing used on cleanup programs. Lit-ter from the bags is also harmful to

area wildlife and increases flooding by clogging water passages, accord-ing to the unofficial ordinance.

T h e c i t y o f Au s t i n e n -gaged in a pilot study in 2007 encouraging residents to recycle

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‘The Infernal Comedy’“The Infernal Comedy Confession of a Serial Killer“ featuring John Malkovich is a stage play about notorious Austrian serial killer and author Jack Unterweger. The performance starts at 8 p.m. with ticket prices ranging from $10 - $52.

Night Terrors haunted houseNight Terrors haunted house opens tonight at 7 p.m. and goes until midnight. The 1900 square foot house features bloody and violent scenes for visitors to explore. Ticket prices range from $20 to $40 depending on the type of pass you purchase.

House of TormentHouse of Torment is back once again, featuring two main haunted house attractions “The Reckoning” and “Cursed.” Ticket prices range from $20 - $30 depending on the type of package. The attractions begin at 7 p.m. and end at midnight.

In 2002Today in 2002 Irish-born actor and two time Oscar nominee Richard Harris died of cancer at the age of 72. The actor whose career spanned six decades was better known for his roles as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and King Arthur in the movie “Camelot.” Harris made more than 70 films in his time and starred with such actors as Gregory Peck and Marlon Brando.

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Pumpkin patchGrace United Methodist is hosting its annual Pumpkin patch event, with free storytelling. Don’t wait too long – the event will end once the pumpkins have ran out or until the 31st. The patch will be open all this week from 4 - 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Sunday from noon - 7 p.m.

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friends used it to study and suggested changes to improve the site’s interface. User-generated content has grown to include arts and literature, languages, math and science, history and geog-raphy, standardized tests and profes-sional and career cards.

“There are bartenders who use it

to learn the names of drinks,” Suther-land said. “There’s a wide variety of reasons people use Quizlet.”

Last year, more than 110,000 serv-ers in the Austin-area went to Quiz-let, according to a Quizlet spokesman. He said the site is not its own curric-ulum, but it can help people achieve their own learning goals in this fast-paced, Internet age.

“Everyone is learning along a win-dow of knowledge that is constant-ly moving,” Sutherland said. “Peo-ple learn stuff for a test and then for-get it.”

Quizlet helps users retain informa-tion, he said, because they can con-tinue to review the information once they’re done actively working with the

material. “A lot of times because students

find it useful, teachers find it useful,” Sutherland said.

UT alumna Michelle Shadwick uses Quizlet to teach her French class-es at Bowie High School. She said she can see her students’ progress as they learn basic words in preparation for quizzes or tests.

“I always tell them don’t be happy with your first score,” Shadwick said.

Shadwick said for languages, one of the best features, on top of the na-tive language audio, is the drop-down keyboard that includes French ac-cents.

“For this age, that’s tough,” Shad-

wick said. “We have to change the way we teach to fit this generation.”

She said the accessibility of the site removes common excuses for stu-dents like forgetting a book or not having time to review, and her stu-dents enjoy competing with one an-other to achieve a high score.

“You have to make learning in-teresting,” Shadwick said. “You have to show them that it’s not just about typing something into Google Translate.”

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“Usually, [growers] get about a 70 percent lower price than they would get from a direct relationship through the roaster,” Jamie said. “So basically, they did not earn enough money even [to make a profit].”

Jamie said the problem is that a majority of the growers don’t under-stand the international markets, pro-duction costs or what their coffee is actually worth.

“Middlemen work like loan

sharks,” Jamie said. “Growers will ask [the middleman] for a loan so they can get money for the next harvest, and then he’ll say, ‘Sure not a prob-lem, and we’ll just take that loan out of your next harvest.’ So it is a cycle that they go through, and they nev-er get enough money for their subsis-tence or their survival or even to run their business correctly.”

Jamie said after realizing this prob-lem, she had to put herself in a situa-

tion to help these growers. She now travels to countries such as Guatema-la, Colombia and Mexico teaching growers how to make a profit with-out going through a middleman.

“The first thing we tell [growers] is you need to understand your busi-ness,” Jamie said. “And for you to be able to do that as a grower, you need to be able to understand your product.”

Marketing lecturer Elizabeth Danon-Leva said coffee businesses such as Starbucks are beginning to help growers.

“[They’re] saying we can still make money and we can still increase our sales and improve [growers’] life and have a sustainable product that is here

tomorrow,” Danon-Leva said.Jamie said consumers can join

the cause by buying “relationship coffee,” a certification meaning the grower has a direct relationship with the roaster.

“If you as a consumer take such a powerful commodity such as coffee, buy that coffee at an adequate price but also understand what is behind that cup and who is behind that cup, then you would see a lot of change,” Jamie said.

Elben Shira, senior computer sci-ence major and self-proclaimed coffee addict, said he doesn’t usu-ally think about where his coffee comes from but thinks Jamie’s work is “cool.”

“If I want to buy coffee that is bet-ter, I need to believe that it is,” Shira said. “If I can trace where the bean came from, I would be more moti-vated to buy those beans than just a bag with a Fair Trade logo on it.”

four years in the Navy before be-ginning his career with the Phil-lips Petroleum Company in 1973, where he became president in 1994. In 2002, he was involved in managing the merger of Conoco and Phillips together to form the ConocoPhillips Energy Compa-ny, the third largest energy com-pany in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

John Goodrich, Naval ROTC

Battalion Commanding Officer, said Mulva donated $15 million to the College of Liberal Arts, which will go towards the con-struction of a new building for the college on the East Mall and will also provide a centrally lo-cated home for the ROTC pro-gram.

“I understand the importance of liberal arts ... for any great uni-versity or institution. For engi-neering, medicine and all the dif-ferent disciplines to have a great liberal arts program is really re-quired for a great university like the University of Texas,” Mulva

said. “The ROTC units happen to be placed and resided in liberal arts, so when it comes to young men and women who want to do that, we really need to help and support them.”

Rebecca James, a liberal arts freshman who helped organize the event, said the purpose of the interview was to showcase a suc-cessful alumnus and to honor his donation to COLA.

“He is one of the most distin-guished alumni to graduate with a liberal arts degree from UT,” James said. “We want to hon-or his donation by giving him

the opportunity to speak in our Speaker Series.”

The series aims to connect current UT students with grad-uated alumni by bringing promi-nent UT graduates to come speak about the lasting significance of their degree and experiences at the University.

“The main purpose of having James Mulva speak to students is to allow current students to hear about the life of a highly success-ful UT graduate,” James said. “We want to show students that what happens at UT can really change the world.”

EDR is developing this new 16-story high-rise for the UT System Board of Regents and will proceed to own and manage it, said Susan Jennings, spokes-woman for EDR. The $63.9 mil-lion production will provide ame-nities such as structured park-ing, a swimming pool, a fitness center, a rooftop patio, granite

countertops and ceramic tiling, she said.

“ The apar tments are de-signed and marketed for grad-uate students, staff and up-perclassmen, but we abide by a l l Fair Housing Laws,” Jennings said.

In addition to apartments, the University Neighborhood Over-lay requires that the ground floor contain a “high percentage of local uses.” These uses may include retail and the possibility

of the International Office mov-ing into the building.

“[The] UNO requirement is for either office or retail, and we’re proposing that the Inter-national Office relocate back on the property for the board to approve in their Nov. 10 meet-ing,” Wanamaker said. “It’s not a guarantee until the lease has been negotiated and executed, and the board has approved the request.”

The International Office staff

has been temporarily moved off campus. Candace Shye, Interna-tional Office director, said they are excited about the possible transition to a new building.

“We used to be in 27,000 square feet. We’re in less than 18,000 now, and we’re in three different locations so they had to split our offices up,” Shye said. “One of the things I’m looking forward to if we get our office is that our whole office will be back under the same roof again.”

Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff

UT is currently building a 16-story tower on Nueces and 24th streets, which will provide 622 beds, a swimming pool, a fitness center and a rooftop patio. The $63.9 million building will be ready for occupancy in fall 2013.

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plastic bags, but Mayor Lee Lef-fingwell said during the forum that implementing a permanent ban would be more efficient than encouraging recycling.

“We have gone to an auto-sorting recycling system, but the one thing that doesn’t fit is plas-tic bags,” Leffingwell said. “People stand by the machines and have to pull them out by hand. If they miss them they can clog the ma-chines.”

Some opposing the ban, such as Texas Retailers Association president and CEO Ronnie Volk-ening, said it is not the city’s recy-cling system which fails but the inefficient marketing plan used to promote recycling of bags.

Volkening and other forum at-tendees shared personal input regarding exceptions to the or-dinance, a timeline for its im-plementation and fees associat-ed with implementation, as well as how to enforce the rule. Citi-zens participated in focus groups to discuss their ideas for bettering the ban. The meeting was the fi-nal opportunity for public com-ment, Austin Resource Recovery director Bob Gedert said, and city administrators will begin draft-ing an official ordinance Nov. 1 to ban the bags within the next year.

“You can go out any day of the week and find plastic bags flying,” Gedert said. “This past weekend on Saturday it was windy and I caught a few.”

Gedert said in addition to con-cerns listed in the ordinance, plas-tic bags can pose safety issues such as drifting through the wind and distracting drivers.

Some who oppose the ban feel more concerned with its possible affects on state jobs and the econ-omy. Mark Daniels, vice president of sustainability and environmen-tal policy at Hilex Poly Compa-ny which produces plastic bags, said his company employs more than 1,250 total in bag manu-facturing and recycling. Daniels spoke with city council members at the Aug. 4 regular meeting, fac-ing opposition to the viewpoints he presented.

“An alternative idea is to go down the same path they started with, having grocers and retailers push toward a very strong recy-cling infrastructure,” Daniels said. “If they ban plastic bags, they’re voting for higher greenhouse gas and the destruction of bags.”

Volkening and others sharing views similar to Daniels’ have de-veloped an alternative to the or-dinance city officials plan to im-plement, and Volkening said they plan to announce their proposal Thursday morning at City Hall.

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reporting error, Monday’s Page 1 news story about the Bastrop volunteer event should have said Buffi ngton Homes donated money to the project. The story also should have said AmeriCorps provided funding that enabled the project.

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Europe’s plans help raise stocks to highest level since August

NEW YORK — Stock index-es closed Monday at the high-est point since the U.S. debt lim-it showdown in August. The market was driven higher by a round of big corporate take-overs and reports that Europe’s bailout fund will be larger than originally thought. The Nasdaq composite turned positive for the year.

Netflix Inc. plunged 26 per-cent in after-hours trading af-ter the DVD-by-mail and vid-eo streaming company forecast a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits.

Investors are still waiting for a resolution to Europe’s debt problems. European leaders said they made progress at a week-end summit and plan to unveil concrete plans for containing the crisis by Wednesday.

The Dow Jones industrial av-erage was up about 40 points in the first hour of trading but moved steadily higher through midday following reports that Europe’s takeover fund will be greatly expanded. It f inished with a gain of 104.83 points, or 0.9 percent, at 11,913.62.

“The market is expecting that there will be some kind of deal worked out Wednesday,” when European financial ministers are scheduled to meet, said Uri Landesman, president of Plat-inum Partners. “If there’s not a deal by then, the market is go-ing down significantly.”

Even with concerns about Eu-rope, U.S. companies are still reporting bigger profits. “Al-though there is a good deal of economic and political uncer-tainty in the world, we are not seeing it much in our business at this point,” Caterpillar Chief Ex-ecutive Doug Oberhelman said.

The maker of construction equipment reported a 44 per-cent surge in income, more than Wall Street analysts were ex-pecting, thanks to strong growth in exports. The company said it expected the global economy to continue recovering, albeit slow-

ly. Caterpillar jumped 5 percent, the most of the 30 companies in the Dow.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 in-dex rose to 1,254.19. That is just 3.45 points, or 0.3 percent, be-low where it started the year. It’s the highest close for the S&P 500 since Aug. 3, just as Washington was resolving a showdown over raising the country’s borrow-ing limit. If the S&P 500 finishes the year with a gain, it will be its biggest turnaround since 1984.

The Nasdaq composite rose 61.98, or 2.3 percent, to 2,699.44. The gains turned the Nasdaq positive for the year. The S&P 500 is the only major market index that remains lower than

where it started the year.The Russel l 2000 index of

small companies rose 3.3 per-cent as investors moved money into higher-risk assets.

Netflix sank 26.4 percent post-market trading after forecasting fourth-quarter income that was far below what analysts were expecting. Through Monday’s close the stock had plunged 59 percent since July 12, when it raised prices and announced a plan to break its DVD-by-mail business into a separate compa-ny. The company abandoned the plan after it triggered a revolt among subscribers.

Other major U.S. companies due to report earnings this week

include UPS Inc., Ford Motor Co. and Procter & Gamble.

Analysts expect companies in the S&P 500 to report earn-ings growth of 14 percent for the third quarter, according to data provider FactSet. They expect a 10 percent gain in revenue.

Expenses are also expected to climb. Higher costs for raw materials helped drag down in-come 8 percent at Kimberly-Clark Corp., which reported re-sults Monday. The stock fell 5 percent. The company is a ma-jor consumer products maker whose brands include Huggies and Kleenex.

Higher costs also hurt ciga-rette maker Lorillard, which re-

ported a 3 percent drop in in-come. Lorillard’s stock fell 0.6 percent.

A series of corporate deals helped lift the market, said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors. “This is telling us that companies think stocks are cheap, and they’re willing to spend some of the cash that’s sitting around on their balance sheets,” he said.

Deals announced included:— HealthSpring Inc. jumped

34 percent after Cigna Corp. said it will buy the health insur-er for about $3.8 billion in cash. Cigna rose 1.4 percent.

— RightNow Technologies Inc. gained 19 percent after Or-

acle Corp. said it will buy the tech service company for about $1.5 billion. Oracle rose 2.3 per-cent.

— Mattel Inc. rose 2 percent after it agreed to buy Hit En-tertainment, the owner of the Thomas & Friends and Bar-ney brands, for $680 million in cash.

— The J.M. Smucker Co. add-ed 0.7 percent after it bought most of Sara Lee Corp.’s North Ame r i c an fo o ds e r v i c e c of -fee operations for about $350 million.

Five shares rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was average at 4.2 billion shares.

Moammar Gadhafi’s body taken from freezer, security guard says

MISRATA, Libya — The bod-ies of Moammar Gadhafi, his son Muatassim and a former aide have been moved from a commercial freez-er in a warehouse area of Misrata in anticipation of burial, a security guard said.

Local military spokesman Ibrahim Beitalmal has said the burial is likely to take place Tuesday. He said the three men would be interred in unmarked graves in a secret location to avoid vandalism. Asked about the removal of the bodies from the freezer, he said he was unaware of the process of buri-

al getting under way.However, Salem al-Mohandes, a se-

curity guard at the warehouse complex, said the bodies were moved late Mon-day from the freezer, where they had been on display for the past four days.

“Our job is finished,” said al-Mo-handes. “He [Gadhafi] was trans-ferred, and the military council of Mis-rata took him away to an unknown lo-cation. I don’t know whether they bur-ied him or not.”

An Associated Press Television News team saw three vehicles leave the warehouse area late Monday. The team then entered the freezer and found it empty.

— The Associated Press

Haiti plan to restore army faces new UN requirements

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hai-ti — The top U.N. official in Haiti says the government’s plan to restore the army will require a new agreement with the world body.

Head of U.N. Mission Mari-ano Fernandez tells The As-s o c i ate d Press t he ex i s t -ing agreement has no provi-sion to allow peacekeepers to work with a Haitian military. Fernandez says the Security Council would need to change the mandate.

Fernandez is in charge of the 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers who have kept order in Hai-ti since 2004. He said Monday the country has been making progress in reducing political conflict. He praised President Michel Martelly for recent meetings with former leaders.

Haiti’s army was disband-ed in 1995 after years of abuse and military coups.


Suitable home sought for blindGreat Dane, helpful partner

LONDON — An animal shelter has been inundated with offers of help after it requested a home for a pair of Great Danes — one of which is blind and totally dependent on the other.

Louise Campbell, the manag-er of Dogs Trust Shrewsbury, said that more than 200 people have re-sponded to the call for help and pos-sibly a new home since the shelter went public about the dogs’ plight a few days ago.

“It’s been phenomenal,” she said, Campbell said that 6-year-old Lily.

became reliant on Maddison, 7, af-ter a rare medical problem caused her eyelashes to grow into her eye-balls, leaving them so severely dam-aged that they had to be removed.

“Everything they do involves close contact. They check in with each other all the time,” she said.“They have developed such a strong bond ... we wouldn’t split them up, that would be unfair to both dogs.”

Campbell said potential own-ers had previously just walked past the pair, “put off by the idea of hav-ing two large dogs, and one without eyes can be a bit shocking.”


CAIRO — Thousands of Egyp-tian police launched a nationwide strike on Monday to demand bet-ter salaries and a purge of former regime officials from senior secu-rity posts.

About 3,000 lower ranking po-lice rallied in front of the Interior Ministry in central Cairo to push their demands, including a 200 percent pay raise. They also called for an end to military trials for lower ranking police.

Police said they would hold an open ended sit-in until their de-mands were met, as around 12,000 went on strike. Egypt has 350,000 police altogether.

Some of the officers at the pro-test waved banners reading “Good treatment equals better service.”

Another banner called for “Purging the ministry of the ma-fia and the remnants of el-Adly,” a

reference to former Interior Min-ister Habib el-Adly, who is on tri-al for deadly police attacks on un-armed protesters during the upris-ing that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

In the eight months since Muba-rak’s ouster, the discredited police force has been unable and reluc-tant to fully take back control of the streets since the uprising. Ha-tred of the police and their brutal tactics were main motivations be-hind the uprising.

Karim Medhat Ennarah of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights told The Associated Press that the Interior Ministry has been more responsive to calls for change since Mubarak’s ouster in Febru-ary, but there is no political will in the ministry to cooperate and ini-tiate reform.

In March, the Interior Ministry dissolved the contentious State Se-curity Investigations agency, in line with a main demand of the protest

movement that led the 18-day up-rising to oust Mubarak. Many pro-test leaders have said that the agen-cy’s former members remain ac-tive in protecting the remnants of the old regime and trying to sabo-tage the transition to democracy.

“If we don’t start the reform pro-cess now, we are inevitably driving toward another clash between the state and people,” Ennarah said.

Coinciding with Monday’s strike, former police and rights groups published a proposal to re-form the Interior Ministry.

Former police officer Mohamed Mahfouz said one of the main ob-stacles to reform are top ministry officials who are worried about an internal uprising among lower ranking policemen.

“Officials turn a blind eye to corruption in order to control the possibility of a revolt from within,” he said, referring to bribes as well as the torture and abuse of detain-ees by the police force.

Richard Drew | Associated Press

Trader Walter Lundon, second from right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

Nasser Nasser | Associated Press

In this Sept. 24 file photo, Egyptian riot police line up to separate pro-Mubarak supporters and the families of the slain protesters during the trial session of ousted president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt.

Thousands of Egyptian police go on strike

By David Randall& Stan ChoeThe Associated Press

By Aya BatrawyThe Associated Press

Bailout fund reported to be greater than expected, US companies report profits

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OPINION

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Another one bites the crustBy Samantha KatsounasDaily Texan Columnist

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� e meteoric rise of pizza executive turned presidential candidate Herman Cain is one of the most perplexing developments in the Republican Party’s pursuit for the White House. Virtually unknown a few months ago, Cain has gone from “� avor of the week” to front-runner in a lackluster � eld of GOP candidates. � e former Godfather’s Pizza CEO can trace his newfound popularity to the 9-9-9 plan he cra� ed as his ultimate � x for our federal tax code.

Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would replace our cur-rent federal tax system with a business tax, � at income tax and a national sales tax at 9 percent each. � ough the 9-9-9 plan is ee-rily similar to the tax structure in the video game SimCity , it is far from a joke. Disturb-ingly, the 9-9-9 plan is exactly the opposite of what most Americans want, as it provides a regressive structure that cuts taxes for the wealthy while raising taxes for the poor- and middle-classes.

While the Occupy Wall Street movement makes a statement about the inherent in-equality in American economics, Cain is pursuing a path to tax reform that ignores this growing trend. � e arrangement has even been labeled a “distributional mon-strosity” by Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to Ronald Reagan , according to � e New York Times.

Cain’s national sales tax is characterized as regressive because it does not itemize any exceptions for necessities that low-income brackets spend proportionally more on, such as food and clothing. Students are an-other group that would be disproportion-ately a� ected by his tax proposal. For ex-ample, students who were previously issued

exemptions as dependents would be forced to pay income taxes.

� e � at income tax proposed by Cain has also been almost universally acknowledged as regressive, despite new plans for a 9-0-9 alteration for those at or below the poverty line.

At last week’s GOP debate, Cain noncha-lantly and repeatedly de� ected opponents’ criticism of the plan by simply claiming their attacks were wrong. In his defense, he invit-ed “every American to do their own math.” However, others have done math repeatedly and have come up with negative results. A former chief of sta� of nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation has labeled 9-9-9 as “� scal hocus-pocus.” Similarly, nonpro� t organizations Factcheck.org and Politifact.com have called Cain’s plan “murky” and his promises “false”.

With the kind of self-assured cadence that engenders absolute trust, Cain pitches his signature plan with this gem : “When you expand the base, we can arrive at the low-est possible rate, which is 9-9-9.” Audience members at debates have delivered zealous applause time and time again to this line, but his message is far from populist. Cain’s expansion of the “base” clearly indicates that the burden of taxation would be shi� ed to the low- and middle-income brackets. � is new “base” of revenue would include college students, as well.

Moreover, the 9-9-9 plan billed as a simple solution is actually a misleading distraction. Cain talks about his plan as if it is the end game, but it is really just an intermediate step toward his larger goal: “� e Fair Tax.” � e Fair Tax would replace all other federal taxes with a sales tax on goods and services ranging anywhere from 23 to 30 percent . For students, this would exacerbate the pain

of gas or textbook costs with a combined federal-state sales tax of more than 30 per-cent. Such a large sales tax is hugely regres-sive because people in lower-income brack-ets spend a much larger proportion of their earnings than do those in upper brackets, who tend to invest more. Feasibility aside, neither the 9-9-9 nor the Fair Tax plans ben-e� ts Americans who are not in the upper echelons of wealth.

Cain’s transformation from long-shot dark horse to top-tier candidate is intrigu-ing. If Cain’s popularity is not based on his economic know-how, it has to be based on something else. Almost every post on Cain’s Twitter account uses gratuitous exclamation marks, and it is hard not to be infected with his enthusiasm. His a� ability and optimism are o� en cited as reasons why Americans identify with him.

� ough certainly jovial, Cain’s campaign is plagued with cringe-inducing ga� es that make even Joe Biden’s worst lines seem tame by comparison. Cain recently proposed that an electric fence be built along the Mexico-US border, according to USA Today , and he once said that he neither knew nor cared who the “president of Ubeki-beki-beki-be-ki-stan-stan” was, according to CNN . Both statements were later claimed to be “jokes.”

Herman Cain, though probably un-electable, is mostly being lauded for his bold and unique approach to campaigning. Cain recently told the Wall Street Journal , “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.” Cain and his forceful apho-risms may be changing the way the GOP ap-proaches its base, but 9-9-9 is an injurious proposal that is out of touch with the cur-rent political climate.

Katsounas is a finance and government sophomore.

Leaving no stone unturned

I read Thursday’s Daily Texan feature on rapper Kreayshawn and thought it was awesome! I commend The Daily Texan for choosing to chronicle what is a very real shift that is occurring in hip-hop. It is a scene that is not given its due respect, and there are so many young, talented rappers who are not getting the attention they deserve. Not only is it a disservice to the artists themselves, but also to the potential audience of people who can have their lives enriched by expe-riencing a rich culture that is transforming the music industry. The genre has entered a renaissance that can’t be ignored. I have to thank you all at The Daily Texan for not leaving any stone unturned and bringing to the UT community many promising artists and diverse representation fromall genres.

Desiree Monique RiosPhilosophy junior

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The Tuition Policy Advisory Committee begins its first of many regular meetings today, as it will deliberate from now through November on a tuition rate to recommend to Presi-dent William Powers Jr. Powers will make his recommenda-tion to the Board of Regents, who will then set the final tuition rate for the next two years.

According to its Oct. 12 forum, TPAC is operating under two cost-conscious directives from the UT System, which include tying any requests for an increase in tuition to four-year graduation rates and capping all tuition increases to the change in the consumer price index.

The CPI is a statistic calculated by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics . It is a relatively basic calcu-lation of changes in the cost of living in an area. It measures the changes in the prices of commonly purchased items and services, including coffee, cereal, gas, toys and haircuts, to de-termine how much more or less people have to pay to live somewhere.

Based on Texas’ CPI, the UT System determined all tuition increases will be capped at 2.6 percent.

Yet, the CPI for the United States is about 1 percent high-er, a fact mentioned only as a side note at TPAC’s forum but one that has much larger consequences for the oft-side-noted one-fifth of our student population: out-of-state andinternational students.

The average undergraduate tuition cost for Texas residents at UT is $9,416 per year, which is the fifth lowest among the University’s peer institutions . But the average undergradu-ate tuition cost for non-residents, who, according to the Office of Information and Analysis , make up about 9 per-cent of the undergraduate population, is $31,266 per year, which is the fourth highest out-of-state rate among the samepeer institutions.

Affordability is a crucial part of the UT identity. Yet this supposed identity excludes a subset of the student body. Push-ing costs onto non-residents is a long-serving tradition among cash-strapped public universities. Last year, the University of California System’s decision to admit more out-of-state stu-dents as a way to offset large state cuts was part of what fueled mass protests at its campuses.

But few schools uphold this tradition as deliberately or as openly as UT does. For example, out-of-state tuition for undergraduates is 3.3 times greater than its in-state tuition, which is the second biggest difference among peer institu-tions, behind only the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, whose numbers tend to be skewed because of the awe-inspiring amount the state invests per student. Additionally, if the Board of Regents decides to increase all in-state tuition by 2.6 percent and all out-of-state tuition by 3.6 percent, the University would receive an additional $12.4 million per year from its undergraduates — more than 30 percent of which would come off the backs of its 3,400 non-resident students, who would be paying a higher percentage from a larger initial tuition bill.

The most common reason given for higher education’s “out-sider tax” is that public universities are financed by the people of the state and therefore should belong to the people of that state. In 2008-09, the Legislature invested $7,353 per full-time undergraduate student, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But non-resident students pay signifi-cantly more than this amount with their inflated tuition bills, which was about $30,000 in the same year.

As decision-makers begin deliberating on tuition policy recommendations, we ask that they refrain from the tradition-al temptation to disproportionally charge the minority. The University benefits greatly from a diversity of ideas, and main-taining a fresh mix of international and out-of-state students is a step in the right direction. It’s time to honestly examine if UT is truly the good value it claims to be.

— Shabab Siddiqui for the editorial board.

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The plant kingdom has been a source of inspiration for the man-agement of the human population, said Lesley Stern, a professor at the University of California in San Di-ego.

Stern spoke to the Department of Anthropology on Monday as part of this year’s seminar series, titled “Sensorium: Anthropology and the Senses.” Her lecture focused on con-nections between plant genetics and views of the human gene pool.

“Anthropology is a very diverse field,” said anthropology assistant professor Craig Campbell. “One of our concerns is to figure out how to link these disciplines.”

Campbell said this year’s lecture series focuses on keeping students actively engaged and considering the five senses, common points of linkage throughout the individual

areas of study within anthropology. Stern’s lecture focused not only

on the sensory experiences we have through color but also on the ways that color relates to plants and humans. She discussed at length the vibrant colors of the sweet pea plant and the many genetic princi-ples formulated from careful stud-ies of the plant.

One major issue discussed by Stern was the parallel between plants and human ideas surround-ing natives and immigrants. She discussed the ugly sides of moder-nity and globalization.

“I’ve always been interested in gar-dening, and I became very interested in these terms: ‘native’ and ‘exotic,’” Stern said. “I started writing [about] a parallel track of what was hap-pening in my garden and what was happening in the United States and thinking of migration and immigra-tion in terms of plants and people.”

Stern connected her discussion of

native versus exotic plants to one eu-genicist’s paralleled debate about im-migrants as good or “bad stock.” She said Charles Goethe, a Californian eugenicist — a scientist who sup-ports the idea of a perfect gene pool — advocated strict border patrol to keep out potential threats to the puri-ty of the American gene pool.

However, Stern said not all eugen-icists have the same negative views of immigration as Goethe did. She mentioned Luther Burbank, anoth-er eugenicist who also saw an anal-ogy between plants and people but had more humanitarian views on how to treat immigrants.

Department of Anthropology chairwoman Kathleen Stewart said this discussion of plants brings up issues relevant to human life.

“There’s [a mix of] naturalistic and racial realities,” Stewart said. “It becomes an interesting depiction of forms of living, of how things hap-pen, of how decisions are made.”

China is an architectural pow-erhouse with new projects con-stantly underway, said Qingyun Ma, dean of architecture at the University of Southern Califor-nia.

Ma presented a multitude of projects currently in progress or recently completed in three ma-jor Chinese cities: Beijing, Hang-zhou and Shanghai, as part of a four-lecture series hosted by UT’s School of Architecture on Monday.

“So much is going on in Chi-na — it’s become a laboratory of architectural ideas,” said School of Architecture dean Frederick Steiner. “Some of the most in-teresting ideas in the world are there.”

Ma approached the topic of China’s rapid growth with hu-mor and noted the rapidity of the projects currently in progress.

“In China, if you have an idea, it will be done,” he said, laugh-ing. “So you’d better be respon-sible with your idea because they might build it.”

Ma discussed larger projects, those he said resolve urban is-sues and bring different pro-grams together to form projects. One of these projects was titled the “Shopping Zoo,” which used the principles of a zoo’s close-ly connected buildings to draw shoppers into spending an entire day at the center, he said.

Ma also discussed the impor-tance of small-scale projects within Chinese architecture by showing pictures of the build-ing processes. Some of these im-ages included local workers con-structing the buildings brick by brick. He said these small proj-ects took place in both China and the United States, and in-cluded a hotel, an addition to a bridge and even a house Ma de-signed for his family in Los An-geles.

Despite the large amount of architectural development, many

projects have halted because of loss of funding, Ma said. These dead projects included the addi-tion to a new natural history mu-seum in Shanghai, a mountain-cut memorial and an art museum in Pasadena.

Ma said he is hopeful the proj-ects have potential to resume construction in the future.

“We have a very good attitude to the notion of dead projects,” he said. “Some will get built be-cause it’s the right fit.”

Graduate architecture student Nate Schneider said he found the

lecture to be enlightening about some of the most current exam-ples of Chinese architecture.

“It’s kind of amazing — the scale that they’re designing and building in China,” Schneider said. “I thought the speaker had a fresh approach to architecture.”

Ma said he hoped to convey architecture as something with a broader goal than the construc-tion of new projects.

“My hope is that we realize that architecture is global,” he said. “[And] that our goals are interconnected.”

Professor parallels plant genes, humans

By Rachel ThompsonDaily Texan Staff

By Rachel ThompsonDaily Texan Staff

Pu Huang | Daily Texan Staff

Lesley Stern presents as part of the UT Department of Anthropology’s annual seminar series Monday.

China a hotbed for innovation,according to architecture dean

Qingyun Ma, dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture, exhibited his past architec-tural projects as part of the Chinese Architecture Lecture Series on Monday afternoon. Ma has created various award-winning works in several major Chinese cit-ies, including Shanghai and Xian.

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In China, if you have an idea, it will be done.“ — Qingyun Ma, Dean of Architecture at USC

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DAY OF REFLECTION

AMARILLO — A Texas death row inmate just weeks from exe-cution asked a federal court Mon-day to keep his civil rights lawsuit alive while his attorneys try to get knives and other evidence turned over for new DNA tests they claim will show he didn’t kill his girl-friend and her sons nearly two de-cades ago.

But prosecutors said Henry Wat-kins Skinner is just trying to delay his death with a merit-less request.

Skinner, 49, came within an hour of lethal injection last year before the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and now has a Nov. 9 execution date. His lawsuit claims the state vi-olated his civil rights by withhold-ing access to the evidence he wants tested. Monday’s hearing came af-ter the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Skinner could ask for the untested evidence but left un-resolved whether the district attor-ney had to surrender those items. A state court will make that deci-sion.

The request for testing is the third from Skinner but the first since a state law about evidence

testing took effect Sept. 1. The new law allows DNA testing even if the offender chose not to seek testing before trial. Prosecutors maintain the new law doesn’t ap-ply to Skinner.

“Because Skinner has not met the standards required by law and does not seek to test newly discov-ered evidence, the Court should deny his claims,” Bean wrote.

Skinner was sentenced to death for the 1993 deaths of his girl-friend, 40-year-old Twila Bus-by and her sons, Elwin “Scooter” Caler, 22, and Randy Busby, 20. The victims were strangled, beat-en or stabbed on New Year’s Eve at their home in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle.

NEW YORK — Forget style, quali-ty and customer service. This holiday season, all that matters is price.

A week before Halloween and two full months before Christmas, stores are desperately trying to outdo each other in hopes of drawing in custom-ers worn down by the economy.

Wal-Mart, the biggest store in the nation, joined the price wars Monday by announcing that it would give gift cards to shoppers if they buy some-thing there and find it somewhere else cheaper.

Staples and Bed Bath & Beyond have already said they will match the lowest prices of Amazon.com and other big Internet retailers. Sears is going a step further, offering to beat a competitor’s best price by 10 percent.

Almost four years after the on-set of the Great Recession, custom-ers have learned to expect a deal. In better times, retailers could afford to keep prices higher and use promises of higher quality and better service to lure people into stores.

Those days are over. In a recent poll of 1,000 shoppers by America’s Research Group, 78 percent said they were more driven by sales than they were a year ago. During the financial

meltdown in 2008, that figure was only 68 percent.

Wal-Mart last year went back to its “everyday low prices” roots, a bedrock philosophy of founder Sam Walton, rather than slashing prices only on certain items to draw in customers. Now everyday low prices might not be low enough. So it’s trying some-thing it is calling the Christmas Price Guarantee: if you buy something at Wal-Mart from Nov. 1 to Dec. 25 and find the identical product else-where for less, you get a gift card in the amount of the difference.

The deal excludes online prices and some categories of merchandise.

But it is good even if weeks pass between your purchase and spotting the better deal. And it applies even to big items like TVs, for which pric-es can drop steeply as Christmas ap-proaches.

Duncan MacNaughton, chief mer-chandising officer for Wal-Mart’s U.S. stores, told reporters Monday that he has noticed “much more pro-motional intensity and gimmicks” among competitors.

“This gives customers peace of mind that we are an advocate for them,” he said.

Retailers are responding to a cus-tomer base that is better informed and more comfortable shopping on-

line than ever. In a survey of rough-ly 1,000 customers by Citi Investment Research & Analysis, shoppers also indicated it would take deeper dis-counts to get them to buy. Two-thirds said it would take 30 to 50 percent off to entice them to buy, compared with a little more than half last year.

Jenna Wahl, a cardiac nurse from Bloomington, Ind., said she expects to spend about as much on holi-day gifts this year as last — roughly $500 — but will try to get more for her money.

She’ll be asking stores to do more price-matching and plans to use her iPhone to check prices and coupons.

The holiday price wars mark an ac-celeration of a trend that has already swept the retail industry. Lowe’s, the nation’s No. 2 home improvement store, said in August it was starting to focus on everyday low prices for items that customers can easily com-parison-shop at rivals such as Home Depot and Sears.

Amazon, which typically beats its competitors on prices does not ap-pear to be backing down either.

“We will have our hands on ev-ery Black Friday circular we can find so that we can meet or beat advertised deals on the prod-ucts we carry,” said Sally Fouts, an Amazon spokeswoman.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A 15-year-old student was shot in the neck with what appeared to be a small-caliber bullet during a lunch period outside a North Carolina high school Monday, and police have not been able to find the gun or any suspects.

Catilyn Abercrombie was in fair con-dition after surgery at Cape Fear Val-ley Medical Center, according to sher-iff ’s office spokeswoman Debbie Tan-na. Abercrombie was able to respond to questions by nodding and shaking her head, Tanna said. Cape Fear High School and a nearby middle school were locked down for hours before stu-dents were allowed to go home.

Police were still combing the rural, wooded area on the outskirts of Fay-

etteville, searching for clues.“Right now, we don’t know what hap-

pened or who’s responsible,” Tanna said.

Police are investigating several pos-sibilities concerning how the shooting might have happened Tanna said, in-cluding the chance that it might have been an accident. The area is popular with hunters, and hunting season is un-der way.

“There is nothing in stone as to what happened today,” she said.

A police officer assigned to the school was standing near Abercrombie when she was shot at about 1 p.m. and immediately called 911, Tanna said.

Students from Mac Williams Mid-dle School were sent home before their

high school counterparts, who were still gradually leaving the campus by 6 p.m. Students were searched by po-lice and left the building in long lines holding their hands above their heads before boarding buses that took them from campus.

Cumberland County school offi-cials plan to have heightened security in place for when classes start on Tues-day.

“There will be metal detectors and beefed up security inside both schools,” Tanna said. “Some parents have said they don’t plan to send their kids to school. Those who do come can be as-sured there will be increased security on both campuses.”


North Carolina student shot during school lunch

Inmate delays execution, claims violation of rights

Retailers attempt to out-discount each other

Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff

Lisa Miragliuolo, a tourist from Washington D.C., peruses community altars made for Day of the Dead at the Mexic-Arte Museum downtown on Monday afternoon. The altars were made by volunteers in Austin and will be exhibited until Nov. 13.

By Betsy BlaneyThe Associated Press

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In this Feb. 22, 2010, file photo, a store associate helps a customer at the Sears store in Burbank, Calif. A week before Halloween and two months before Christmas, stores are trying to outdo each other.

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Parents of students from Cape Fear High School east of Fayetteville, N.C., where authori-ties say a 15-year-old was shot, pray outside the East Regional Branch Library on Monday.

Henry Skinner Death row inmate

It was all smiles in Pluckers on Monday night as the Rangers took Game 5 in the World Series. The wing restaurant and bar on Rio Grande Street has always been a popular hangout spot to watch the games, but has become even more crowded with Texas in the World Series. Rangers shirts were seen in every direction and almost all the eyes were set on the 14 televisions showing the game. Although there weren’t many big lines on Monday, almost every table was filled dur-ing the game.

For many Ranger fans, includ-ing freshman engineering ma-jor and Fort Worth native Ar-thur Sheridan, a World Series win is something that has been a long time coming.

“It feels good to be in this posi-tion. After all those bad seasons, it’s exciting and feels great to be in the World Series, if only now they can come out with a win,” he said.

Sheridan, like most diehard Rangers fans, remembers the pain after last years World Series where the San Francisco Giants beat the Rangers in only five games, and before that when they had only won one playoff game since their establishment.

However for another, new-er, Rangers fan, this series means just as much. Freshman Jozabad Sanchez moved to Dallas four years ago and has been a Rangers fan since.

“It’s amazing to have the Rangers

in the World Series,” he said. “The Cowboys aren’t doing so great, but with the [Dallas] Mavericks’ NBA title last year and the Rangers this year, Dallas is becoming a huge sports city. It’s great to watch.”

As the game progressed and Pluckers got more and more crowded, screams and sighs could be heard around the restaurant. Loud cheers erupted when Tex-as third baseman Adrian Beltre hit a homerun in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game up at two runs apiece. However, fans didn’t spend the whole game cheering: Sighs of relief were prev-alent throughout the game. When Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson got out of a pinch in the top of the fifth in-ning, deep breaths were taken at every table.

Even the employees the Pluck-

ers were getting into the game. John Wamsley, a native of Tex-as and host at the restaurant, is a big Cardinals fan, so he’s devel-oped a natural rivalry with the other employees.

“It’s fun,” Wamsley said. “Every time the Cardinals are winning, I rub it in their faces and then when the Rangers are winning, they do it right back.”

With Texas holding a 3-2 lead in the series, the thought of a cham-pionship is becoming more tangi-ble for many fans.

“If the Rangers won the World Series, that would be epic,” said fan Emily Schendel. “As long as history doesn’t repeat itself and they don’t blow it like last year, it looks good.”

Another fan threatened to go berserk.

“I would go absolutely crazy if they won. It would be awesome,” said Texas fan Neil McCormick.

As the Rangers took the lead in the bottom of the eighth and shut down the Cardinals to win the game, you could sense the excite-ment around the restaurant. It’s tough to say where the series is go-ing to go from here but hopefully this starts a strong baseball tradition in Dallas,” fan Ben Kovour said.

Kovour, Sheridan and Sanchez all agreed that catcher Mike Napoli should be the MVP of the series.

Where the crowds outside Rang-er Ballpark in Arlington came on TV, fans in Austin saw the excite-ment and hope. “I wish I was there right now,” Kovour said. “Imagine how crazy it must be there. I want to be in that crowd and celebrate this even more.”

ARLINGTON — Mike Napoli hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the eighth inning against Marc Rzepc-zynski, and the Texas Rangers ral-lied from a two-run deficit to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Mon-day night and take a 3-2 World Se-ries lead.

Solo home runs by Mitch More-land in the third and Adrian Beltre in the sixth off Chris Carpenter sparked the Texas comeback. Michael Young doubled off loser Octavio Dotel lead-ing off the eighth.

Darren Oliver got the win in relief of C.J. Wilson, and Neftali Feliz fin-ished for his sixth save of the post-season, striking out Albert Pujols as part of a double play when Allen Craig was caught stealing second.

Colby Lewis starts Game 6 for the Rangers on Wednesday in St. Louis, trying to wrap up their first title. Jai-me Garcia starts for the Cardinals.

After Young’s double, Beltre struck out and Nelson Cruz was intention-ally walked.

Dotel relieved Rzepczynski and David Murphy reached on an infield single to load the bases and Napo-li doubled to deep right field, mak-ing it 4-2.

Pujols drew three intentional walks, including a pass with two outs and none on in the seventh. The St. Louis slugger then nearly used his legs to put his team ahead.

Pujols was running hard on a 3-2 pitch that Matt Holliday hit for a sin-gle to left-center. Pujols chugged around the bags and third base coach Jose Oquendo initially waved him home, only to put up a late stop sign.

Would Pujols have been safe on shortstop Elvis Andrus’ wide throw to the plate? Maybe. But it became moot when Lance Berkman was in-tentionally walked to load the bas-es and David Freese flied out against Alexi Ogando.

Beltre and Moreland hit solo home runs off Carpenter, helping Texas come back from an early 2-0 deficit.

Beltre made it 2-all with two outs in the sixth, dropping to one knee af-ter following through on a meaty cut. He connected on a big curve from Carpenter, who had easily handled Josh Hamilton and Young to start the inning.

Beltre’s other homers this Octo-ber came in a bunch. He hit three in a first-round playoff game at Tampa Bay.

Napoli almost gave Texas a cush-ion later in the inning. With the crowd standing and chanting his name as “Nap-Oh-Lee” flashed on the scoreboard, the catcher’s bid for a three-run homer was caught on the warning track in right-center field, just shy of the 407-foot mark.

The homer let Wilson avoid be-coming the first pitcher to lose four times in a single postseason. The ec-centric lefty who alternates red and blue gloves between starts had anoth-er uneven outing, working around five walks.

Wilson walked six while losing Game 1 to Carpenter and the Car-dinals.

Moreland atoned for some glove

Kansas’ defense is about as bad as it gets. The Jayhawks have the country’s second-worst pass de-fense, the second-worst rush de-fense and are dead last in total de-fense, giving up more than 550 yards per game.

So why is Mack Brown com-paring his team’s game against Kansas to last year’s 28-21 loss to Iowa State?

“People will not give Kansas credit this week,” Brown said. “Ev-erybody thought since Iowa State had lost to Utah [68-27] and Okla-homa [52-0], they couldn’t possi-

bly beat us.”But the Cyclones found a way to

beat the Longhorns on their home turf last October. Now, the Jay-hawks bring their statistically atro-cious defense to the 40 Acres as Texas looks for its first home win in conference play.

With Malcolm Brown grow-ing into the feature back role and Fozzy Whittaker wreaking hav-oc out of the Wild formation and in the kick return game, the Long-horns are more apt to take advan-tage of Kansas’ 119th-ranked rush defense than its 119th-ranked

pass defense. Brown, who set ca-reer-highs in yards (135), touch-downs (2) and yards per car-ry (7.1), has a great chance to top those marks this week while Whit-taker will try to take a kickoff re-turn to the end zone for the third consecutive game.

“The way we ran the ball against Oklahoma State showed promise,” Brown said. “Fozzy is playing re-ally well. Cody Johnson is a great fullback. We’ll have trouble replac-ing him next year. But Malcolm

We interrupt your continued celebration of Oklahoma’s 41-38 loss to Texas Tech for one very sobering message: Texas’ second-half schedule? Yeah, not as easy as we thought.

To reach a bowl game — which has suddenly become the goal at Belmont — the Longhorns need to win two games out of this group: Kansas, No. 20 Texas Tech, Missouri, No. 8 Kansas State, No. 16 Texas A&M and Baylor.

The upcoming game against the Jayhawks is as automatic a win as they’ll get. Everything else will be a challenge.

“[Texas Tech beating OU] goes to show you that if you’re not ready to play, anybody can beat you,” said senior linebacker and unofficial team spokesman Emmanuel Acho.

Tech proved itself very dan-gerous behind quarterback Seth Doege, who threw for 441 yards and four touchdowns against the Sooners. Texas better be awake for that 11 a.m. kickoff in

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SIDELINERangers take 3-2 World Series lead

Tony Gutierrez | Associated Press

Adrian Beltre admires his game-tying homerun on one knee in the sixth inning. Two innings later, Mike Napoli broke the 2-2 tie with a bases-loaded double as Texas beat St. Louis, 4-2. The Rangers are now one win away from winning their first-ever World Series championship.

By Garrett CallahanDaily Texan Staff

Fans celebrate Rangers being on the brink of history

By Ben WalkerThe Associated Press

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Kansas giving Texas chance for big night

Horns will have hands full after taking on Jayhawks, starting with Texas Tech

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For the first time in her career, Hannah Allison was named the Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday. The sophomore setter became the first Longhorn this season to earn the honor after spectacular showings against Baylor and Missouri. Allison averaged over 10 assists per set in the two matches, notching 30 assists against in a 3-1 victory over the Bears and 43 assists in Texas’ sweep of the Tigers. Allison has averaged 39.8 assists in her last 10 matches and 11.1 assists per set over that stretch. She did not have more than 38 assists in any of her first 10 matches, during which she averaged 5.8 assists per set. By earning conference player of the week accolades, Allison makes it four weeks in a row that a Longhorn has been honored by the Big 12 as Haley Eckerman was twice named Rookie of the Week and Khat Bell earned the honor once.

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two weeks.Missouri (3-4) is better than its

record suggests; the Tigers have lost four games by an average of 11 points and came within 10 of beat-ing the Sooners in Norman. KSU is undefeated and led by batter-ing-ram quarterback Collin Klein. You know the dangers in a trip to College Station, and you also know what RG3 and the Bears are capable of.

So, should you be worried? Head coach Mack Brown says no.

“This team has a good feel of where it’s going,” he said. “I can’t see them walking around with a swag-ger at all.”

That’s a big improvement over last season, when the team’s “swag-ger” morphed into complacen-cy. But good attitude and exciting young talent notwithstanding, the rest of the schedule is a bear: three ranked teams, three road games, four teams that beat the Long-horns last year. All six opponents average more points per game than them, too.

“The league’s probably the best it’s ever been from top to bottom,” Brown said.

Pundits who projected Texas to

finish 8-4 were assuming the team would have found a quarterback by now and that the conference wouldn’t be this strong. But an ear-ly-season switch away from Garrett Gilbert and a mid-season switch to David Ash requires that we re-eval-uate the team’s potential.

Do that, and then consider how well the rest of the conference is playing. KSU has come from no-where and is undefeated, the Red Raiders have lost two games by an average of six points and the Bears and Aggies boast offens-es ranked No. 2 and No. 7 in the nation, respectively.

Heck, 8-4 looks like it could be the ceiling at this point.

Following this weekend’s ITA Texas Regional Championship, junior Aeriel Ellis survived as the only Longhorn to reach the semifinals. Ellis, along with se-nior Krista Damico, built on her previous doubles success during the tournament but eventually met defeat in the doubles quar-terfinal. Meanwhile, the Tex-as doubles duo sophomore Cier-

ra Gaytan-Leach and fresh-man Noel Scott also fell in the quarterfinals.

The weekend proved over-all a success for Texas, as six players moved into the singles

round of 32. The Longhorns have proved to be a formidable dou-bles force so far this season, but this tournament displayed the depth of their singles lineup.

The ITA Texas Regional Cham-pionship is one Ellis presum-ably enjoys after wining the title her freshman year. Ellis moved through the tournament with considerable ease, especially in her quarterfinal match where she only needed to post one game be-fore her opponent retired. Head coach Patty Fendick-McCain had hoped Texas would win this tour-nament but Ellis retired in her semifinal match against Texas A&M’s Cristina Sanchez-Quin-tanar. Ellis, however, did quali-

fy for the ITA National Intercol-legiate Indoor Championships next week in New York City.

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Texas looks to win third-straight tourney, leads by 10 strokes after second round

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Brown is a big-time back as well.”With the inexperience and un-

certainty at quarterback, it’s a good thing for the Longhorns they can run the ball. David Ash made his first career start against Oklaho-ma State but struggled against the nation’s 89th-ranked pass de-fense, going 22-for-40 passing for just 139 yards while committing three turnovers.

The freshman from Belton took all the first-team reps in practice

last week after learning he would be the full-time starter against the Cowboys. But Ash and McCoy are back to splitting practice reps, with both taking the same number of snaps with the first team. Brown said a decision on this week’s start-ing quarterback would made ei-ther Thursday or Friday. Unless the quarterback play improves, Tex-as’ brilliant backfield could face more defenders creeping up to stuff the run.

“You can see teams loading the box on us,” said co-offensive coor-dinator Bryan Harsin. “When they do, we’ve got to be able to take ad-vantage of the throws outside and hit some of the plays and try to get the ball downfield.”

Despite the unimpressive num-bers posted by the Kansas defense, some Longhorns players aren’t so sure the Jayhawks are as bad as their stats say they are. Kansas’ last five opponents were all ranked

and unbeaten when they faced the Jayhawks.

“I’ve watched [Kansas] play and I don’t think they’re that bad,” said sophomore guard Mason Walters. “In the Big 12, someone’s got to be at the bottom. But I think they’re a good team. I think there are certain things we can exploit. Hopefully we do a better job of that than we have in the last couple of weeks.”

Kansas has faced top-notch quar-terbacks this season — Texas Tech’s

Seth Doege, Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden, Oklahoma’s Lan-dry Jones and Kansas State’s Col-lin Klein — a group that includes three of the country’s top five pass-ing yards leaders. Georgia Tech ex-ploited holes in the Jayhawks run defense, racking up over 600 rush-ing yards in a 66-24 win over Kan-sas Sept. 17.

“They’ve played some very good teams,” Harsin said. “I think they have some talented skill players in

the back half. I like the way those guys play. I think their linebackers are physical. And they do enough up front to give you problems.”

Kansas has proved vulnerable to high-octane passing attacks and hard-nosed ground games. But Tex-as’ two-headed monster at running back has been much more effective than the one at quarterback and is capable of keeping the Jayhawks run defense where it is now — near the bottom.

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Seth Doege attempts a pass against Oklahoma. The junior quarterback led Texas Tech to a 41-38 upset win over the Sooners, throwing for 441 yards and four touch-downs. The Red Raiders face the Longhorns in two weeks.

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RANGERS continues from PAGE 7woes with a home run in the third, hitting a drive halfway up the sec-ond deck in right field.

The Cardinals scored twice in the second, cashing in two leadoff walks sandwiched around a wild pitch.

Yadier Molina notched his fifth RBI of the Series with a sin-gle that left fielder David Murphy overran and fumbled for an error. Skip Schumaker followed with an RBI grounder to first that More-land boxed around, preventing any chance at a double play.

Murphy made a diving catch to end the inning, denying Nick Pun-to a run-scoring hit. Punto carried his bat all the way to first base and

tried to break the wood by bending it over his right thigh.

Already ahead 2-0, the Cards threatened in the third after Wil-son slipped coming off the mound trying to field Rafael Furcal’s leadoff bunt and made a poor, backhand-ed flip that skittered past Moreland. But with runners at the corners,

Wilson got Holliday to bounce into a quick double play. Not so surpris-ing, really — Wilson induced the most DP grounders in the majors this year while St. Louis hit into an NL-record 169 double plays.

Holliday flied out with the bases loaded, after an intentional walk to Pujols, to finish the fifth.

Yadier Molina notched his fifth RBI of the Series with a single that left fielder David Murphy overran and fumbled for an error.

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The Longhorns used their last two tournaments to become the nation’s No. 1 ranked team. Now they’re using this week’s tourney to keep that coveted spot atop the rankings.

Texas is well on their way to winning their third consecutive tournament at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational as Jor-dan Spieth maintained his spot at the top of the individual lea-derboard. The freshman shot a 1-over 73 and holds a four-stroke lead over Stanford’s Pat-rick Rodgers and Andrew Yun, who each sit at -2. Junior Julio Vegas and senior Dylan Fritelli

are not far behind Spieth. Vegas posted a 1-over 73 to bring his overall score to 143 (+1) for the tournament, good for fourth through two rounds. Fritel-li shot a team-best 1-under 71 Monday to break even for the tournament at 144 (E).

The Longhorns, who notched a 20-stroke victory in the Jer-ry Pate National Intercolle-giate and a 16-stroke win at the Jack Nickalus Invitational ear-lier this month, lead the Isle-worth Collegiate Invitational by 10 strokes halfway through the tournament. At -2, Texas is the only team under par with No. 32 LSU a distant second at +8. The Longhorns will tee off with the Tigers and No. 11

North Florida, who is in third place, at +11, beginning at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday.

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natural continuation of Tulsa. For the last two years of Tulsa, it was essentially a solo project. I just wanted to have a clean break from it and become inspired, and sometimes, a name does that.

DT: I read that you would play in the subways of New York?

Tanton: Yeah, I did that for like six months.

DT: To practice?Tanton: Kind of to practice, to

keep my voice strong. It sounds really good in the subways. That’s where I kind of first got into re-

verb and like the sound of re-verb on my voice. It was mostly to practice because for some rea-son, it felt more private to play in the subways than in my apart-ment and have roommates and neighbors hear me because the walls are so thin and everything is compact.

DT: You would play at strange hours of the night to avoid people?

Tanton: Yeah, I’d play at mid-night to three usually, to avoid rush hour. In rush hour, people are going to push around and nobody’s gonna listen. When

the train comes, you have to avoid playing for at least two minutes. It makes a lot of noise coming in, and then, you have to wait for it to leave, and it makes a lot of noise coming out. At night, fewer trains come, so you can play more. Honest-ly, I don’t know if I would have made a lot more money play-ing during the day just because I feel like at night time, people could listen more.

DT: Playing in the subways is a unique experience for an artist not from a place like New York

or Boston. How has that affect-ed you musically?

Tanton: I learned a lot of cover-ing songs, and it kind of got me on this kick of reinterpreting songs that I love. Cat Power’s cover re-cord influenced me in that sense. She’ll cover her favorite songs, and really loosely interpret that song and make it her own right from the start. I’m not too inter-ested in doing an authentic cov-er of the song. I learned a lot of covers in the subways because I wasn’t always comfortable playing my lyrics. I think I rely on covers a lot more than most bands.

NEW YORK — Give me your tired, your poor — your Internet-connected masses yearning to see. Lady Liberty is getting high-tech gifts for her 125th birth-day: webcams on her torch that will let viewers gaze out at New York Harbor and read the tab-let in her hands or see visitors on the grounds of the island below in real time.

The five torch cams are to be switched on Friday during a cer-emony to commemorate the ded-ication of the Statue of Liberty on Oct. 28, 1886. The ceremony caps a week of events centered around the historic date, including the debut of a major museum exhi-bition about poet Emma Lazarus, who helped bring the monument renown as the “Mother of Exiles.”

The statue’s webcams will of-

fer views from the torch that have been unavailable to the public since 1916, said Stephen A. Brig-anti, the president of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Founda-tion Inc.

Through the webcams, Inter-net users around the world will have four views, including a high-quality, 180-degree stitched pan-orama of the harbor with stun-ning views of Ellis and Governors islands. They will be able to watch as ships go by Liberty Island and observe as the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center goes up floor-by-floor in lower Manhat-tan. They can get a fish-eye look at the torch itself as it glows in the night.

The five cameras, which will be on 24 hours, seven days a week, were donated to the National Park Service by Earthcam Inc., a New Jersey-based company that man-ages webcams around the world.

box as much as possible,” Colbath said. “We often times go to Home Depot and find cheap tools that will do the trick.”

Regardless of whether or not the members had building experience be-fore, someone will almost always step up and help out those unsure with their robotics blueprints. The club notes how difficult building can be, yet the members continue to come back each week with even loftier goals.

“There’s always someone who comes in with these grandiose ideas and no idea how to implement it,” Col-bath said. “There’s always those people that come in with a few parts and ex-pect to make something talk, but it’s just not that easy.”

C o n t r a r y t o common belief, background in elec-trical engineering and other scienc-es isn’t required to have success with the hobby. Current members have de-grees ranging in ecology and physics to laser shop own-ers and even leath-er salesmen.

“We’re all here to help each other and learn from our tri-als and tribulations,” Waters said. “As far as having to know anything really specific, you just don’t need it.”

The members have their robotics give back to the community by send-ing members with their completed projects to local schools. In addition to showing students how to build, many attend science fairs and maker fairs.

“Our outreach to the young people is critical since, basically, the entire world is outrunning us,” Waters said. “We al-ways bring out the projects that really speak to the younger generation.”

Unlike many builders in the area, the club members generally do not participate in robot wars, a form of competition in which one robot ends up destroyed. They be-lieve that these wars are destruc-tive while also creating too com-petitive of an environment.

“We don’t tend to be really com-petitive; this is just a gathering of nerds,” Colbath said. “Some come be-cause they just want to talk about sci-ence and watch others build. We don’t want to hack our projects to death.”

Many of the group members agreed that putting the right amount of time and effort into each project is crucial

for its success. Colbath has been working on one of his projects for 10 years and still hasn’t finished it because of small-er projects that come up on the side.

A l l of t he group members bring their own diverse techno-logical expertise to the group, en-abling members to learn new skills

from friends while also expanding their knowledge on robotics. The mem-bers refer to themselves as “skill collec-tors” and believe with a large collection comes the ability to create anything.

“We all have this problem of col-lecting stuff; it speaks to us and tells us what we’re going to make out of it,” Waters said. “Your imagination is never limited — most of us are working on projects in the order of 100s all the time. All you need is a project that elicits interests, and people will be enthralled.”

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Lady Liberty to don high-tech webcamsBy Christian SalazarThe Associated Press

ROBOTS continues from PAGE 12

INTERVIEW continues from PAGE 12

“ “We don’t tend to be really competitive;

this is just a gathering of nerds.

— Don Colbath, group president

EarthCam shows the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Five torch cams will be switched on Friday for the statue’s dedication.

Photo courtesy of EarthCam Associated Press

Deer Tick’s rough alt-country sound has always had an in-your-face quality to it. In past albums, the group has skillfully alternat-ed between sincere, scratchy folk and those bitter country romps where boozy front man John Mc-Cauley really lets loose.

In its latest effort, the band has tossed that formula and aban-doned its folk side for a rowdier sound. Unfortunately, it sounds more unhinged than unleashed. With Divine Providence, Deer Tick’s raw directness has turned clunky and uncomplicated.

The first track, “The Bump,” sets the tone for the record. This unorig-inal tune features two techniques overused in this album: rock ‘n’ roll piano and bar room phrasing. “Let’s All Go To the Bar,” sounds promis-ing at first, but that’s only because it comes in like “I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones. Fortunately, things are uphill from there.

“Main Street,” features some of the band’s old sonic grunge and has interesting, angsty lyrics. Unlike the first three tracks, “Chevy Express” isn’t obnoxious, but it isn’t very interesting either and the rest of the album continues along these lines with some exceptions. In “Something to Brag About,” Deer Tick re-attempts a Ramones-inspired country punk tune, this time with success. Like

“Something to Brag About,” the last track “Miss K” is catchy. It has an upbeat charm that’s lacking in the rest of the album.

The worst thing about Divine Providence is the stupid soundbites in some of the songs. Like the drunk-en banter and burping at the end of “Let’s All Go To the Bar:” “Who’s nasty? I am! Let’s go get drunk!”

One of the great things about Deer Tick’s past albums was the way Mc-Cauley’s scratchy-sweet voice and thoughtful lyrics sculpted a dark and serious sound laced with moments of hope. In Divine Providence, there’s al-most no hope and little seriousness ei-ther. With clumsy songs such as “The Bump” and folk ballads such as “Elec-tric,” it’s the frying pan or the fire. The band never finds its stride in this al-bum. Still, it is a great live act with a strong repertoire of older work and well worth seeing tonight at Emo’s East.

E lectronic music is of ten the underdog.

Many see it as unoriginal or stagnant considering that most of it derives from computerized bits and samples from artists that range from rock, hip-hop and techno. It is challenging to find an electronic group that seam-lessly combines the electron-ic formula (busy synths, kicking bass drum and distorted vocals) with a refreshing approach. This is the case with Justice’s latest al-bum, Audio, Video, Disco.

Audio, Video, Disco does not conform to the dubstep direc-tion that has recently taken over dance music. Rather, it nostalgi-cally looks back at dance godfa-thers Daft Punk and present-day dance punkers MSTRKRFT and Death From Above 1979 to cre-ate an album that has one goal — to keep things funky and simple.

Opener “Horsepower” fore-shadows just how lively the album is with its menacing, fuzzy synths and dance club drums. The in-tro begins like Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” with its eerie bass drops, followed by arena rock synth gui-tar in the bridge that produces an impeccable harmony between the old and new school.

“Canon” and its video game synths reverberate all over the place, appearing and disappear-

ing rapidly among hi-hat cym-bals and distorted bass. “On’n’on” sounds like the result of a jam session between Aerosmith and Daft Punk: Guest vocalist Mor-gan Phalen does his best Steven Tyler impression over ’70s rock drums and throbbing bass. “Pa-

rade” could easily replace the Death Star theme song with its blistering, spacey bass, “We Will Rock You” foot stomps and hand claps and laser-like synths.

Unfortunately, this album’s sim-pleness is also its downfall. Justice’s debut album Cross was great be-cause each song kept the momen-tum up and there was an underly-ing sexiness and swagger to each track. Audio, Video, Disco does

not have that. You can pick and choose the good from the bad, and after “Parade,” the album becomes extremely repetitive. It begins to rely on the same disco rock formu-la and if you are not paying atten-tion, you would assume you have been listening to one continuous song the whole time. If Justice is going to stick to this road and ex-pect results, they need to structure their songs like Daft Punk’s “Robot Rock.” Keep the synths and drums the focal point and the heavy rock guitars at a minimum.

Justice’s return does not satis-fy in the ways of its predecessor. Four years in the making, Audio, Video, Disco is creative in its ap-proach, but it moves too far away from what made Justice one of a handful of bright flickers of hope for electronic music. The album has great ideas, but when those ideas are regurgitated for each song, you will find yourself look-ing for refuge in the more famil-iar arms of Cross.

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AUDIO, VIDEO, DISCOJustice

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Grade: C-

Deer Tick gets rowdy on album

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their career. The band easily experiments, tak-ing elements from its past that propelled it into the mainstream, while successfully adding a component of unfamiliarity.

Though, it can be displeasing at times. “Up In Flames” leans too far into the elec-tronic realm, and unlike most songs on the album, there is no captivating build. “Us Against the World” can also be redun-dant: it would have been perfect on Viva

La Vida, but its significance on Mylo Xy-loto is out of place. This is where Coldplay experiences trouble — rather than sticking to its guns, it either leans too far to the left or right. The struggle between the compla-cency of its old, definitive sound and fasci-nation with its newfound sound is appar-ent in these songs, taking away from the al-bum’s overall fluidity.

Mylo Xyloto indicates a turning point for Coldplay. Yes, the piano and acoustic guitar still remain a part of the band’s music, but it is the exploration of new territory and how it will manipulate it that will prove why Cold-play is a noteworthy band.

Singer Chris Martin of the music group Coldplay per-forms on the “Today” show on Friday in New York.

Photo courtesy of the Associated Press and NBC

Photo courtesy of Partisan Records

Deer Tick will be playing songs from their new album Divine Providence tonight at Emo’s East.

This album’s simpleness is also its

downfall.

COLDPLAYcontinues from PAGE 12

Divine ProvidenceDeer TickGenre: AlternativeFor those who like: The Cave Singers, The Felice Broth-ers, Drive By Truckers

Grade: B-

Check the Life&Arts pages every Tuesday for new music reviews.

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Carter Tanton has managed to carve out a unique niche for him-self within music. Despite giv-ing off the appearance of a folk, singer-songwriter acoustic type, his music runs the genre gamut. His debut album, Freeclouds, has the makeup of an acoustic album with all sorts of other elements running through it: Rich, devel-oped sample patterns are woven throughout his calming guitars with his soft, yet powerful, voice layered atop it. Electronic influ-ences also run deeply through his music.

His live shows represent a far more experimental effort of disso-nant, complex riffs, coupled with his voice that he uses as more of an instrument than a mechanism for story telling. His wide range of sounds makes sense given his wide musical influences which range from the slightly more expected Neil Young and Mojave 3 all the

way to J Dilla and Baths. The Dai-ly Texan caught up with Tanton for his show last week at Emo’s to talk about his new name and playing in New York subways.

The Daily Texan: What’s the dif-ference between the Carter Tanton project and your old project, Tulsa?

Carter Tanton: If Tulsa had kept going, it would have sound-ed like something much more similar to this. Much more kind of layered sounds. We constant-ly get compared to My Morning Jacket and, you know, for a good reason. We kind of sound like My Morning Jacket. My new stuff is kind of embracing on one hand the more singer-songwriter stuff but also layered production, so I guess that’s the difference.

DT: Why did you choose to ditch the Tulsa name?

Tanton: Symbolically, it was like a fresh start. It’s kind of a

As a lover of science fiction, Don Colbath couldn’t say no to helping his dad with everything.

He assembled televisions and was always up for a new do-it-yourself project.

“I’m just a general nerd,” said Colbath, president of The Robot Group. “I like everything technical from robots to airplanes and any-thing else in between.”

The Robot Group started in 1989 at the former Austin science muse-um Discovery Hall. The robotics

members continued their interests despite the eventual disbandment of the museum. Now, the group mem-bers meet every Thursday night to discuss building, how to deal with financial aspects and also their love of the hobby.

“We teach that simpler is better,” said group member David Treadwell. “When you have such a short time frame to build, it’s much easier to just save the complexities.”

The group mostly consists of men in their 50s just wanting a group of friends with the same interest. How-ever, the group also attracts children to come learn with their parents and

those that appreciate the value of de-stroying and rebuilding.

“I want to hang out with people that won’t get mad if I take apart their stuff,” Treadwell said. “We only some-times put it back together.”

Most group members use micro-processing to incorporate the sophis-tication of computer programming into the simple design of the robotics devices. With microprocessing, the members feed digital data into their robots, where the information is then stored in the memory, resulting in a robot that can paint, wheel around the room or even make noise.

“In order to make something have

a behavior, it’s very easy to write some sort of software that tells the robot what to do,” said group member Bruce Waters. “There’s still some people out there using analog and solar cells for power and that’s just not as easy.”

Most of the members tend to build their robotics individually but will still collaborate on implementation tech-niques and ask around for supplies. Because of the expensive nature of the building supplies, the members rely on each other for the tools they need.

“We tend to try to think out of the

Genre-blending musician starts fresh with latest album

Robotics enthusiasts share expertise, hobby

Carter Tanton holds a unique place in music, bridging the gap between sample based acts like J Dilla and singer songwriters like Neil Young.

Mary Kang Daily Texan Staff

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Britpop mainstays go electronic

When Coldplay released its de-but album, Parachutes, with its layers of beautiful, melanchol-ic arrangements contrasting with the light-hearted lyrics of front-man Chris Martin, the band im-pressed audiences worldwide and started a movement that still res-onates today. Alongside Radio-head, Coldplay has solidified it-self atop the Britpop pedestal, each release a progressive climb towards pop icon status.

Mylo Xyloto continues in the Coldplay tradition — multiple cre-

scendos, intricate ar-rangements and

reflective social commentary — but with a more elec-tronic, new

wave direction.Similar to its

predecessor Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, Mylo Xyloto shows the group branching out into different realms of music: “Hurts Like Heaven” is reminiscent of The Cure with its soaring, moody vocals and synthy passages. “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” and its arena rock gui-tars are complemented by a thump-ing bass drum. The subtle harmo-nies are enthralling, veiled by lightly strummed acoustic guitar that adds to the song’s powerful sound.

“Princess of China” and its fuzzy synths, electronic hand claps and vocal

contribution from Rihanna, showcas-es the band’s admiration for hip-hop. Martin comes off as confident in ter-ritory that is familiar to the hip-hop diva, resulting in a strangely intriguing union between the two.

The album bridges the gap be-tween Coldplay’s poppy, piano-driv-en past and its electronic future: There is an almost flawless balancing of the two worlds, indicating the band’s de-sire to intermingle sounds and ideas that might have been difficult earlier in

Mylo XylotoColdplay

Genre: Alternative RockFor those who like: Radiohead, U2

Grade: B-

INSIDE:To see the rest

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Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff

Bill Knapp, secretary of The Robot Group, tinkers with a circuit board at a group meeting Thursday. Small circuit boards like this one can be programed to do anything from flashing LED lights to operating much larger robotic contraptions.

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