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Texas gets payback against Cyclones with 37-14 win

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TODAYOil SpillKenneth R. Feinberg, the person in charge of managing the $20 billion BP oil spill relief fund, will speak in TCC 1.110 at 6 p.m.

HAAM BenefitVenues and restaurants across the city will donate a portion of their proceeds to the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, which provides health care for uninsured musicians. For a complete list of shows, visit www.myhaam.org.

THE WEEK AHEAD

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAYBetter Shape UpNeed a study break? Stop by the Alamo Drafthouse Village to sing along with the 1978 musical “Grease.” Show starts at 7 p.m.

THURSDAYMichael Ian BlackThe writer, comedian and director will speak at 7 p.m. in UNB 3.202. Students can get free tickets on a first come, first serve basis from SAC 1.112.

FRIDAYAll Star ComedyShaquille O’Neals All Star Comedy Jam will bring together a group of comedians who have performed at NBA All-Star weekends over the past three years. Show starts at 8 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre.

‘‘ — Case McCoy

Sophomore quarterback

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“This game was big on our checklist. We

don’t speak of revenge, but we all had a nasty

taste in our mouth after this game last year.”

Quote to note

Two UT scientists earned 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for work in their independent research careers.

Ali Khademhosseini, Harrington Faculty Fellow in the biomedical en-gineering department, and assistant biology professor Sara Sawyer won the award, which was established by President Bill Clinton in 1996. The awards are coordinated by the White House’s Office of Science and Tech-nology Policy.

Khademhosseini received the award because his contributions to micro-engineering, such as the gen-eration of controlled micro-scale en-vironments and regulation of cell be-havior and fabrication of tissue-like structures, according to a release.

“Our research is based on gener-ating biological tissues that can be transplanted into patients to treat various diseases,” Khademhosseini said. “The ability to generate tissues outside the body can be used to al-leviate the challenge in a lack of or-

Tony Gust sits on a laminate floor assembling a black bookshelf while his 2-year-old son Nich-olas giggles beside him.

On the porch of the wooden rental home in Smithville, plastic bags filled with clothes and shoes lay untouched. New donations come in al-most every day from friends and family across the state, even relatives the Gusts haven’t spoken

to in years.“We probably have 35 new toothbrush-

es,” said Alicia Gust, Tony’s wife, who he calls a “professional volunteer.” “Same with tubes of toothpaste. I will never have to buy toothpaste again for the rest of my life.”

Of the 40 homes on Cardinal Loop in Bas-trop, where the Gusts lived, only three remained after the fires blew through on Labor Day.

Within a couple of hours, the fire reduced their two-story limestone home to little more

than a slab.Without social security cards or birth certifi-

cates, the Gusts are starting over.They say the community response has been

incredible and local organizations have tried to help the displaced families settle back into rou-tine, but they are still restless in their new sur-roundings.

Alicia glances at the black table stacked with

Sunday was the 142nd anni-versary of Gandhi’s birth. Gan-dhi’s words of wisdom, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” sparked the “Be the Change” National Day of Ser-vice held this Saturday.

Last year was the first time Austin chose to participate in the event. There were ap-proximately 500 volunteers

for 15 different service proj-ects in attendance. This year, about 1,000 volunteers par-ticipated in 20 different pho-to projects.

Ramey Ko, associate judge of the City of Austin Municipal Court, was emcee for the day’s kickoff at the State Capitol.

“Last year, approximately 3,000 people in the country par-ticipated. We have a third of that number here today,” Ko said. “Think about what a tremen-

dous accomplishment that is.”Keynote speaker Vinay

Bhagat said the National Day of Service is a good way to kick start community mem-bers into becoming involved in helping others.

“We have to view ourselves as a conduit for other people’s giving and other people’s want to help,” Bhagat said.

In his speech, Bhagat used

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Nicholas, Tony, Alicia and Mackenzie Gust moved into a rental house in Smithville, Texas, after losing their home in Bastrop to the wildfires. The Gust family credits their insurance, realtors, local organizations and community response for helping them resettle in new surroundings.

Family copes after fires

BLUEPRINTfor the FutureBy Liz Farmer Editor’s note: This is the last in

a four-part, weekly series examin-ing System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s plan to increase efficien-cy across UT institutions.

Each of the UT institutions con-front different cultural, financial and geographical challenges that affect the philanthropic revenue that can be generated. Philanthro-py efforts go towards scholarships, construction and endowments.

Under Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s Framework for Excel-lence Action Plan, he calls for the UT institutions to “enhance phil-anthropic success.” About 72 per-cent of philanthropy for the UT System is brought in by three out of the 15 UT institutions. The top three fundraising institutions in-clude UT-Austin, UT-Southwest-ern Medical Center and UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center, which raised a combined $510.2 million in the 2010 fiscal year.

Patrick Mulvey, vice president for development at UT-MD An-derson, said fundraising for med-ical education is based on main-taining donor relationships and has been more difficult in recent years because of the frail state of the economy.

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Ali Khademhosseini and Sara Sawyer have received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Independent research work earns Early Career Awards for scientists

Austinites volunteer for Service Day

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Chemical engineering junior Vaibhav Agarwala sings a solo at the Capitol on Saturday. Hum A Capella, a musical group, performed in the opening ceremonies for the National Day of Service.

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the examples of three active volun-teers to make the point that volun-teers are inspired by passion.

“All three of these people I just spoke of are change agents,” Bhagat said. “They have mastered Mahat-ma Gandhi’s ‘be the change you wish to see’ philosophy.”

Bhagat said he founded a so-cial venture entrepreneurship company, Convio, to aide non-profits by technologically ad-vancing their software.

“At Convio, we help nonprofits be more efficient and reach more people with the software we have created,” Bhagat said.

Following Bhagat’s speech, vol-unteers got to work on various ser-vice projects around Austin.

“I love being here as a commu-nity on this day to start this great work,” said Harish Kotecha, volun-teer and founder of Hindu Chari-ties for America. “Our purpose is to give back to the local communi-ties where Hindus live.”

Volunteer Sandra Tinney left the event quickly to begin working on volunteer grounds.

“We couldn’t waste a minute of time. It is so thrilling for us to be a part of this day and this commu-nity, but we definitely have a lot of work to do,” Tinney said.

Bhagat ended the speech by tell-ing community members to find what really moves them and to find a way to contribute to it.

“[Poet] Kahlil Gibran once said, ‘You give but little when you give of your possessions,’” Bhagat said. “‘It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.’”

gan donors. We combine cells and materials to develop tissues that mimic the function of the natu-ral organs.”

Sawyer received the award in the department of Health and Hu-man Services because of her re-search on the evolution of DNA repair genes. The research is pro-viding insight on both the forma-tion of cancers and susceptibili-ty to viral infection, according to a release.

“Using approaches based on evolutionary theory, we have done things such as creating a novel anti-HIV gene that is now under therapeutic development at Stanford,” Sawyer said. “They are discovering new human genes that are now being inves-tigated for their association with HIV susceptibility in human tri-al groups.”

Sixteen federal departments and agencies nominated scientists and engineers whose early work showed promise and contribu-tion to the departments and agen-cies’ missions. The candidates were then forwarded to the White House for final selections.

Khademhosseini was nominat-ed by the U.S. Office of Naval Re-search, which he is working with to produce micro-fabricated tis-sues that act as muscle-like actu-ators in robotic components.

An official at the National Insti-tute of Health nominated Sawyer for the award.

“A couple years ago [the offi-cial] was attending a study ses-sion where one of my grant ap-plications was being discussed by a panel of research scientists, and she became intrigued by the work that I am doing,” Sawyer said. “She funded my grant and has kept in touch with me since that point.”

Later this month, Khademhos-seini and Sawyer will be among the scientists and engineers who wil l personally receive their awards from President Barack Obama.

“Finding good staff to go out and raise funds is a challenge to all institutions,” Mulvey said.

He said philanthropy efforts for MD Anderson are closely

linked with its mission of elim-inating cancer.

“We have a magnificent facul-ty at MD that tells the story well to individuals who may want to

contribute,” Mulvey said. “You can see that where patients come from is where gifts come from.”

Mulvey said faculty in the de-velopment office travel around

the country to raise funds be-cause many patients come from the states that sur-round Texas. He said his office plans to increase philanthro-py through social media im-provements and outreach to first time donors.

The UT Health Science Cen-ter at Tyler brought in the low-est amount of philanthropic donations. Mac Griffith, vice president and chief develop-ment officer at the Health Sci-ence Center, said the center, which does not have a med-ical school, is the smallest of the UT medical institutions, making it difficult for the in-stitution to establish a widely known reputation.

“We had a very small donor base and because of the physi-cal constraints, we also have a small development base,” Grif-fith said.

He said the center does not have a full-fledged devel-opment department to raise funds, but philanthropy is im-

portant in sustaining the cen-ter financially.

“A small portion of our funds come from state funds,” Griffith said. “The rest are self-generated revenue, and the philanthropic part of that needs to grow.”

In the 2010 fiscal year the UT Health Science Center at Tyler raised $900 thousand in phil-anthropic donations. Griffith said he plans to better commu-nicate the center’s health mis-sion in hopes that it will bring in more donations.

“Fundraising is all about de-veloping relationships so our challenge is getting that message out to the Tyler and East Texas community,” Griffith said.

Philanthropy for UT-El Paso totaled $22.2 million in the 2010 fiscal year. Sylvia Acosta, asso-ciate vice president for develop-ment and alumni relations, said the location of El Paso on the far western tip of Texas makes phi-lanthropy efforts difficult.

“Raising money for us is a bit more expensive because we’re in El Paso,” Acosta said. “We can’t just get in our car and go to Houston.”

She said staff in the UTEP development office fly to do-

nors in Texas, specifically in Dallas, San Antonio, Aus-tin and Houston to stay in contact with previous do-nating alumni. Acosta said the office hopes to hire re-gional officers for these ar-eas to cut flying costs and establish consistent ties within the various cities to UTEP alumni.

UTEP serves about 22,600 students and about one-third of these students’ families live on an income of $20,000 or less. Acosta said students who attain a good job after attending UTEP can double their family’s income, but it can be a challenge to bring those philanthropic efforts back to the university.

“Many of their first incli-nations in giving are back to their family to help their family,” Acosta said. “In that, there’s a clear effect in terms of giving.”

However, she said this also leads alumni to be loy-al to UTEP fundraising ef-forts because they recog-nize the financial impor-tance of earning a col-lege degree. Acosta said philanthropy is especial-ly important at UTEP be-cause it allows the univer-sity to keep tuition from rising dramatically.

“We know that if we in-crease tuition, we’ll price out a lot of students,” Acos-ta said.

She said philanthropic ef-forts also go towards schol-arships for students who may otherwise not go to college.

“We have so much talent, and UTEP has been able to capture that talent,” Acosta said. “Our alumni know the commitment we have to our community.”

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s entry into the 2012 presidential race could dramatically reshape what has be-come a two-man race between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. But Chris-tie, who’s under pressure from par-ty elders to run, hasn’t faced national scrutiny — and he could join other early favorites who burned out fast.

The budget-cutting Christie is the latest heartthrob of Republicans who have been looking for a more excit-ing candidate than Romney.

Perry jumped in to much fan-fare only to sweat under the scrutiny his first national campaign brought. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bach-mann rallied restive conservatives long enough to win a key test vote in Iowa but just as quickly receded to the background.

Christie said in January he wasn’t “arrogant enough” to run for pres-ident. Now he is reconsidering in light of encouragement from GOP luminaries like Henry Kissinger, Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush.

If he runs, Christie probably would be able to raise millions for a campaign, though his rivals are ahead. As a Republican governor of a Democratic mid-Atlantic state, he could appeal to those who like Rom-ney’s business background but want more charisma.

If he does run, Christie would push a long list of second-tier candi-dates even further to the back of the pack. He would also face a nation-al spotlight that’s much harsher than those on the state or local stage.

“The swimming pool looks a lot better until you jump right in. The water may not be quite as warm as you think,” Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee in 2008, warned Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“The best thing to be is a poten-tial candidate,” said Rich Galen, a Republican strategist. “I don’t think anybody can stand up to that scru-tiny without laying the groundwork for a long time before.”

Just ask Perry. Two months ago, Republicans were pushing him to run. He shot to the top of nation-al polls after his announcement in mid-August. A few shaky debate performances and many attacks from Romney later, Perry has al-ready begun to fade due in part to a bill he signed that allows illegal im-migrants to receive in-state tuition at Texas universities.

Perry aides point to the fact that he has been running for about six weeks, while Romney has been preparing his second presidential bid since the first one ended. But they acknowledge that starting lat-er has made Perry’s path more dif-ficult and say Christie could face similar problems.

“The scrutiny that will come on his ideological and fiscal policies and social policies will be magni-fied greatly because of the short time period,” said David Carney, Perry’s top strategist.

Christie favors some restrictions on gun rights, civil unions for gay couples and opposes abortion but described himself as “pro-choice” at the beginning of his political career.

That will provide plenty of fod-der for Romney, whose campaign has moved steadily through repeat-ed rounds of other candidates.

“The Romney campaign has been built to withstand all elements and en-dure every candidate scenario,” said Kevin Madden, a senior Romney aide in 2008 who now serves as an informal adviser. And a Christie entry could end up actually helping Romney.

“Everyone will aim at the per-ceived frontrunner,” said Galen. “It helps Romney because it will keep

the pressure off of him for the next three to four weeks, and depend-ing what happens with the calendar, Romney just has to gather himself and sprint to the finish.”

But top operatives there say they haven’t yet heard from Christie’s team, and the story is much the

same in New Hampshire.“Gov. Christie would make a

compelling candidate for president, but there is no evidence whatsoev-er that he has reached out to top Re-publican officials and opinion lead-ers,” said Mike Dennehy, a top New Hampshire Republican strategist.

SANAA, Yemen — A government warplane bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers involved in months of in-tense battles against al-Qaida mem-bers, officials said Sunday.

The strike appeared to be a mis-take, but the soldiers hit were from a unit that had defected to side with protesters seeking the pres-ident’s resignation, raising ques-tions about whether the bombing might have been intentional.

Yemen’s government and the ren-egade military units both consider Yemen’s al-Qaida branch an enemy. But the president’s political oppo-nents accuse him of allowing Islam-ic militants to seize control of towns in southern Yemen earlier this year to spark fears in the West that with-out him in power, al-Qaida would take over.

The airstrike, which took place on Saturday evening in Abyan

province, targeted an abandoned school that soldiers of the army’s 119th Brigade who were battling the al-Qaida fighters were shelter-ing in, military and medical offi-cials said.

The school is located just east of Abyan’s provincial capital, Zinjibar, seized in May by Islamic militants taking advantage of Yemen’s politi-cal turmoil to expand their reach. In recent days, fighting in the area has been heavy; 28 soldiers and militants were killed there Saturday.

After the airstrike, militants in-specting the site shot and killed sol-diers who were wounded by the bombing, the military officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Yemen’s turmoil is of deep con-cern to the United States and Europe in large part because of the possibility that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsu-la will benefit from it and carve out an even bigger haven in Yemen from which to plot attacks on the West.

By Ahmed Al-HajThe Associated Press

By Kasie HuntThe Associated Press

New Jersey governor may enter race

Patrick Dennis | Associated Press

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ducked questions Thursday about his GOP presidential bid, while helping Louisiana’s Republican Party fund raise for the state’s fall election cycle.

Hani Mohammed Smith | Associated Press

A defected Yemeni soldier protests for the resignation of Yemen’s presi-dent Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen on Wednesday.

Yemeni military planes bomb own army position

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“Short-term research makes money for a company. Long-term research, if done well, instead will create new companies. It will create new markets. It will create new industries.”— Computer science professor Calvin Lin at the College of Natural Science’s Importance of Funding Research panel Friday, advocating for the need for the government and for universities to fund pure academic research. One of the criticisms of the public university model is that research bene� ts companies and should be privately funded.

“Why on earth would you give $100 million of your tax money to me study frog gastrulation? If instead of saying ‘I’m very interested in frog gastrulation,’ I say instead, ‘I’m using the animal models for human birth defects,’ then suddenly it makes a little bit more sense.”— Associate biology professor John Wallingford at the panel, arguing that re-searchers should better communicate the potential bene� ts of their research.

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“� e SEC is a perfect � t for us. It is a 100-year deci-sion. We are con� dent it will be there 100 years from now. We are not so con� dent that the Big 12 is going to be here 100 years from now.”— John Sharp, Texas A&M University System chancellor, in an interview � ursday with � e Texas Tribune on A&M’s decision to bolt the Big 12 and join the SEC.

“� e fact that one is in one conference and the other is in another conference has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you continue those games. � at is a game since 1894 that has belonged to the people of Texas.”— Sharp in � ursday’s interview on the issue of continuing the Texas-Texas A&M game each � anksgiving. Sharp has supported continuing the tradition, while UT Athletics Director DeLoss Dodds has said its continuation is unlikely.

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UT student faces espionage charges

By Zoya WalianyDaily Texan Columnist

By Samian QuaziDaily Texan Columnist

UT graduate student Omid Kokabee is scheduled to face espionage charges Tues-day in his native Iran. Kokabee, who had been studying optics as a � rst-year gradu-ate student in the UT physics department, stands accused of leaking Iranian nuclear secrets to the American government. � e UT community shamefully has remained silent on Kokabee’s ordeal, and this silence has serious implications for international students throughout the United States.

� e 29-year-old Kokabee traveled to Iran during winter break. A� er failing to return and not responding to e-mails, many of Kokabee’s faculty members became wor-ried about him. Word eventually leaked out that Kokabee was arrested by Iranian authorities upon landing at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, and he was transferred to Iran’s notorious Evin Prison sometime in early February.

Since his incarceration, Kokabee has been charged by the Iranian government of “communicating with a hostile govern-ment” and “illegitimate/illegal earnings.” According to the ScienceInsider maga-zine, the government has accused Koka-bee of selling o� intelligence on Iran’s nuclear technology and actively colluding with the CIA. Under Iran’s penal code, charges related to espionage can carry thedeath penalty.

� ese allegations against our fellow Longhorn would be laughably ludicrous if Kokabee’s situation weren’t so grave. � e American Physical Society, our nation’s largest organization of physicists, recently published a letter calling for his release that said, “Mr. Kokabee has no training in nuclear physics, is not politically active and

is not associated with any political move-ment in Iran. Rather, his primary concerns were his science studies in the � eld of op-tics. � is area of physics has essentially no overlap with nuclear technology.”

Our campus certainly attracts top-notch students from around the globe, but our departments aren’t geared for recruiting and cultivating potential spies on foreign nuclear programs. Moreover, Kokabee’s extensive research on optics both in his previous academic career and here at UT lacks even a tangential relationship to nu-clear physics. His UT webpage lists impres-sive research, conferences and educational background in optical laser technology.

� ere are some theories abound as to why Kokabee was arrested. Iran’s theo-cratic Shiite government may have sought to suppress ethnic and religious minorities from entering the ranks of the academic elite, as Kokabee is from the mostly Sunni Turkmen ethnic group. More likely, Tehran may have sought to try Kokabee as a warn-ing to its diaspora and students abroad as a chilling e� ect on pro-democracy advocacy against the regime.

In any case, UT’s failure to generate pub-lic awareness of Kokabee’s condition will embolden other authoritarian regimes to muzzle their international students. If UT administrators can’t advocate for the re-lease of a strictly non-political Iranian stu-dent, could we really expect them to defend a UT student arrested in China or Burma or Belarus?

It could be argued that since Kokabee isn’t American, he doesn’t deserve the support of UT. But the University’s non-discrimination policy states our students should be treated equally regardless of citi-zenship. UT student groups can similarly � nd comfort in espousing generalities on

supporting international justice and hu-man rights, but Kokabee gives us a face of a fellow member of our community in need of our open support.

Iran’s government has a storied history of arresting both its own citizens as well as foreigners on trumped-up charges of espi-onage. Freelance journalist Roxana Saberi was arrested for espionage in 2009, and three American hikers who accidentally wandered into Iran from the Iraqi border were convicted of the same charge two years ago. In each case, the respective detainees were freed a� er widespread international attention and strong pressure from foreign governments for their release.

But sadly, Kokabee’s case has garnered very little media attention. To their credit, the American Physical Society has joined the international optics society SPIE, the Optical Society of America, the European Optical Society and other reputable scien-ti� c organizations in writing open letters to Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, imploring his release.

Ironically, Khamenei himself personally honored Kokabee for the latter’s academic achievements. � e two met years earlier at a meeting of Iran’s National Elite Founda-tion, and Kokabee had demonstrated his intellectual and academic prowess by rank-ing as 29th in that country’s nationwide en-trance exams.

UT administrators, faculty and students alike need to break the silence on Kokabee’s condition. Denied of a fair trial, and forced to confess under interrogation, a UT stu-dent risks becoming a symbol of selective injustice worldwide. As his trial gets un-derway, UT needs to raise awareness and activism for his freedom.

Quazi is a nursing graduate student.

Recently, School of Information professor Lecia Barker was featured in � e Daily Texan for her com-mitment to increasing the number of women involved in computer and information technology-related ca-reers. Barker received a $442,000 grant from the Na-tional Science Foundation to � nd new methods to en-list and retain women in technology � elds.

Barker argues that American women need to in-crease their visibility in technological areas, and the lack of female participation impedes our nation’s ability to compete internationally in an increasingly technological world. She draws her arguments and statistics from her experience as a senior research scientist for the National Center for Women and In-formation Technology, a nonpro� t organization aim-ing to increase the number of women pursing careersin technology.

Barker’s argument is apt, as there is a shortage of women studying technology at UT. According to the O� ce of Information Management and Analysis, in 2010 the Cockrell School of Engineering had 1,669 female students and 5,993 male students, whereas the College of Liberal Arts had 5,875 females to 4,939 males. � is male disproportionality in technology � elds proves true throughout our nation’s higher edu-cation institutions. � e Guardian reports that in 2009, only 15 percent of university engineering and technol-ogy-related majors in the United States were women.

Commendably, UT recognizes the importance of female participation in technology, supporting pro-grams such as the Women in Engineering Program, an initiative within the Cockrell School of Engineering to increase female enrollment from 22 percent to 50

percent. � e need for greater female presence in these types of stereotypically male-dominated � elds links to the gender gap in the nation. � e gender gap can be de� ned in a multitude of ways, including the di� erence between female and male income earnings or partici-pation in the work force. While women have made leaps and bounds in their presence across the board — from increased political participation to claiming greater roles in civic engagement — technology is one � eld where women still lag signi� cantly behind men. � us, this � eld has acquired the reputation of being a traditionally male-dominated one, while, the stereo-type continuing, women are more likely to be found in � elds such as education.

Archaic ways of thinking about the woman’s place in higher education has led to the development of the belief in “traditional academic roles.” � e stereotype of traditional academic roles goes so far as to even per-meate the roles of our nation’s president and � rst lady. Generally, many people view the work done by our country’s � rst ladies as work appropriate for females, as their programs o� en deal with topics including nu-trition, education and � tness (these generalizers seem to be forgetting the work of one of our most notewor-thy � rst ladies: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton). To demolish this stereotype, women must increase their presence in � elds such as computer science, engineer-ing and information technology.

Not only is increased presence imperative to bridg-ing the gender gap in all respects and ending the ste-reotype of “traditional subjects” of female study, but Barker also notes that the technology � eld is brim-ming with career opportunities for women. She said the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics foresees a faster growth in the number of professional computing and information science jobs than all other forms of sci-ence combined through 2018. Barker poses a pertinent

argument about natural sciences, as the O� ce of In-formation Management and Analysis reports that the College of Natural Sciences is the second most popular among female students with 4,583 incoming women in 2010 — 107 more female than male students. � us, if the regulatory feminist argument for equality among the genders isn’t convincing enough, perhaps watching a couple of Republican debates about the lack of jobs in the United States will scare women into thinking fur-ther about the budding career avenue of technology.

I’m not calling for women studying business or liberal arts to pack up and switch majors. Unques-tionably, there is still a signi� cant demand for female participation in politics, academia, business and other � elds. � e United States ranks 72nd in the world in women’s participation in politics. Of the 61 professors of the UT government department, only nine are fe-male. USA Today reports that only 2.6 percent of For-tune 500 Companies were led by female CEOs in 2009. Increased female participation across the professional world is still vital to the plight for gender equality.

However, the work of Barker and others on the struggle to increasing female participation in technol-ogy � elds is likewise extremely vital. Business Week argues that increasing women’s presence in technology will unlock a major source of growth to fuel our coun-try for years to come, rendering the United States more eligible to compete on a global scale with countries that focus on technological growth. Increasing female participation calls for improved recruitment and re-tainment tactics, as Barker is researching, and interest in female students from these technological compa-nies and organizations. Moreover, the current societal assumptions of traditional educational roles must be broken if we wish to further our nation’s progress.

Waliany is a Plan II and government senior.

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hangers and chairs set up in the middle of the room by the kitch-en. It doesn’t look anything like the huge open kitchen of her old home, graced by ample counter space and a pot rack hanging over the island.

Mackenzie, their 7-year-old daughter, pops up behind the couch brandishing a pink Nintendo DS she got for her birthday a few days earlier. It’s playing a message record-ed in her voice.

“I love you, Mommy. I love you, Mommy.”

Alicia cracks a smile and goes into her empty pantry to retrieve a basket of artifacts found at the site of their home. The eyes and hair of Mackenzie’s glass dolls have disap-peared without a trace, leaving be-hind the hollow shells.

“I collected a lot of antiques, and not like Henry VIII foofy crap,” Ali-cia said, recalling her great grand-mother’s china set she brought from

Bavaria during World War II and pieces of rusted farm equipment she placed around her home.

Alicia’s father, Fred Moses, came down from California with a trail-er to put on his daughter’s property while they sifted through the ashes. Now, he sits at the table entertain-ing his grandson and surveying the bookshelf construction.

Moses, a volunteer firefight-er for more than 30 years, said the average house fire usually burns at 1,500 degrees, but glass melts at 3,200 degrees.

Some pieces of a china set sur-vived the flames to be added to Alicia’s new antique collection. Alicia says the creepiest remnant is their son’s Radio Flyer wag-on, which was found behind the house — a bright red spot against the ashen backdrop.

On Sept. 5, the Gusts were cele-brating when the sirens went off an-

nouncing a fire the next street over from their home in Circle D-KC Es-tates. They got in the pool just as the winds shifted, sending a pine tree from the forest encircling their home down almost on top of the family. Mackenzie was hysterical.

“We all got dressed and just got her calmed down when the sheriff came by and said, ‘Get out. Don’t pack your things. Get out now,’” Alicia said.

Now, an eerie quiet hangs in the corridor between Bastrop and Smithville. The forest, once lush and opaque, stands thin and pierced with blackened tree trunks.

Once Tony returns to the solar-electric company where he works in Austin, he will have to make the drive every day through what re-mains of their town. For now, they only have to go as far as Mackenzie’s school by their old house.

Occasionally, Tony catches him-self wanting to take the turn toward their old home.

“It sucks,” he said. “But the good thing is, we only lost stuff and one cat.”

Like many other evacuees, the Gusts had no time to pack and didn’t think it was necessary. Tony and Alicia grabbed the kids, their two dogs and the two cats they could find before heading out to a friend’s house, then to a shelter in Paige and eventually to Ali-cia’s mother’s house in Wimberley.

In a fog, Alicia remembered to grab what remained of her baby blanket, her laptop and the ashes of their first child who died at birth. The crowns and banners from her pageant days are now indistinguish-able from the rubble.

Looking back, it’s apparent what they would have taken.

“My father’s gun,” Tony said. The gun and some pictures on his com-puter were all that was left of Tony’s father, who died about 10 years ago.

“Photos,” Alicia said, recalling the five boxes of photos from differ-ent stages of their lives that she had neatly packed away. “They would have taken two seconds to grab ... and that [cherry-red] Jeep,” she add-ed.

Weeks later, things left at friends’ houses or at stores are be-

ginning to surface. The silly things normally forgotten now become the most important.

“In my work truck, I just so hap-pened to have all my rock-climbing gear and a koozie and spatula and a skillet,” Tony said. “It’s just like this silly koozie, but now it’s like, ‘This is my koozie! This is the only koozie I have left.’”

It might not seem that way, but the Gust family is lucky.

For the care they received after the fire, Alicia credits their insur-ance and the realtors who pooled together to find the victims tempo-rary houses. Others without insur-ance have not been as fortunate.

But the Gusts don’t plan to move back to the place they lived — to the house surrounded by pine trees from a different region that grew “by some fluke of nature,” Alicia said.

“I have moments where I’m so grateful for this house and this stuff and that we’re safe,” she said. “But then I have other days where I just wake up crying and spend most of the day crying and go to sleep crying.”

Tony bangs a hammer against the nails to put the finishing touches on the shelf that will house some of the donated toys.

Nicholas struts across the room splashing cereal and milk onto the floor and yelling some-thing incomprehensible.

“Are you going to eat your cere-al?” Tony asks.

“Oh, you’re going to put that bug in the cereal,” Alicia laughs.

Nicholas jumps around not both-ered by the spilled milk. Oblivious to the situation, he lifts up his shirt and dances for his parents.

Even with all the donations and new things they bought, the Gusts still feel like they’re in somebody else’s house wearing somebody else’s clothes.

“You just want to lay down in your bed, lay down in your ham-mock and watch your TV and kick your feet up on your couch,” Tony said.

“But it’s not even about the stuff,” Alicia said. “It’s not about the couch or the hammock, it’s about the feel-ing of home.”

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Mackenzie Gust, 7, and Nicholas Gust, 2, play with toys that were donated from community response. The large amount of donations led Mackenzie to think that her birthday had been extended, as it was her birth-day 10 days after the fires blew through.


Mackenzie Gust, 7, brushes her teeth while her mother Alicia Gust cleans their new house in Smithsville and helps her children get ready for bed. The Gust family received many donations from friends, family, co-workers and even strangers.

HAMPTON, N.H. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, facing criticism for his immigration record, has begun to counter by portraying himself as the presidential candidate with the most credibility on the issue.

Perry’s Republican rivals for the 2012 nomination have made inroads by highlighting his support for a pol-icy that gives illegal immigrants in-state tuition at Texas colleges.

No one in the GOP field, Perry said at a town hall meeting Saturday in New Hampshire, “has been any stronger on securing our border.”

Perry said it was a state’s rights is-sue that the majority of Texas officials

thought would benefit the local econ-omy.

The question, he said, was wheth-er illegal immigrants would be on the “government dole” using state so-cial welfare programs or a subsidized education program that would allow them to become productive mem-bers of society.

In Hampton, Perry went over his immigration record.

He said he vetoed a Texas bill that would have given illegal im-migrants driver’s licenses, helped pass a bill requiring voter identifi-cation at the polls, spent $400 mil-lion on security measures to help secure the state’s border with Mex-ico, and strongly opposed granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.

He also said he may favor send-ing U.S. troops into Mexico to com-bat the drug trade.

“It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and keep them off of our borders,” he said.

The host of the Hampton town hall, conservative activist Jennifer Horn, said that Perry’s revamped im-migration message was stronger.

“It is extremely important for him to convince Republican primary vot-ers that he’s not, so-called ‘soft,’ on il-legal immigration,” she said.

When asked if he convinced her Horn didn’t answer directly.

“I want to hear more. I want to hear him be consistent in that mes-sage,” she said.

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Physics meets graphic nov-els in Jim Ottaviani’s newest graphic novel about the famed physicist, Richard Feynman.

Ottaviani said most peo-ple aren’t aware of the many nuances that come into play when writing a graphic nov-el . He said he has to create the scene through his writ-i n g f or a r t i s t s t o re f e r t o when they are drawing out the graphic novels.

“I think a lot of people are t o t a l l y w ron g a b out c om -ics. There is definitely a lot that comes into play,” Ottavi-ani said. “I mean I might sit there and write out an 800-page script for a 200-paged graphic novel.”

Many of the attendees at a speech by Ottaviani in Robert A. Welch Hall on Friday were physics majors, and physics graduate student Maria Beck-er said she was interested in the graphic novel because of her admiration of Feynman’s work on quantum mechanics. Feynman received the Nobel prize in physics in 1965 for his work in the field.

“I was primari ly interest-ed in hearing about Feynman, and I knew the book was going to be here as well. Of course, I was also interested in the graphic novel,” Becker said.

Ottaviani detailed the plan-ning, processing, drawing and editing of graphic novels.

“The way it starts for me is page one, panel one. Give the artist a feel for the setting,”

Ottaviani said. “You want to give the artists a feel for the setting by including those re-ally minute details.”

Ottav iani shared some of t he t r i ck s he us e s to ma ke his graphic novels with the audience.

“If you want a surprise to happen, you put it at the top l e f t - h a n d s i d e o f a n o d d -nu m b e r e d p a g e ,” h e s a i d . “ Then, the reader turns the page and bam!”

Ottaviani said that after he writes the scripts, his degree of usefulness to the project varies on how much he trusts the artist. He said sometimes h e i s v e r y i nv o l v e d w h i l e ot he r t i mes he re a l i z es he would just interfere with the

artist’s creativity. Many were interested in the

creative process that went into the graphic novels, but others were more interested in hear-ing about Feynman himself.

“I came to see him speak because I am a physics ma-jor, and it’s Feynman,” said p hy s i c s ju n i or A l e x R e i n -hart. “It’s obligatory.”

O t t a v i a n i s a i d h i s a d -m i r at i on for Fe y n m an i n -spired him to create his lat-est graphic novel.

“I think, though, that part of what made Feynman great was his curiosity,” Ottaviani said. “The desire to learn and expe-rience more made him great.

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HealthPoint fair gives health tips to UT employees

UT employees had the op-portunity to learn about what it takes to live a healthy life-style at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus on Saturday. The Com-mons Learning Center at the Pickle Campus and UT’s occu-

pational health program, called HealthPoint, hosted the fair for employees. They of fered chair massages along with re-sources that included informa-tion about nutrition and tips on dealing with sleep disor-ders. The event also included food samples and a prize raf-fle. University Health Servic-

es was on hand to provide flu shots, which are offered at no cost to employees with the UT Select insurance plan. UHS will continue to offer flu shots at no cost to students and employees with certain types of health in-surance until Oct. 20, or until vaccine supplies run out, at var-ious locations on campus.

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Jim Ottaviani, author of the comic novel “Feynman,” stressed the importance of graphic novels in literature and the impact Richard Feynman’s life had on the physics community.

Perry counters criticism of immigration policy by highlighting image of credibility, experience

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Melony Davis checks Leo Garcia’s blood pressure at the Health and Lifestyle Expo. The event provided information regarding dif-ferent aspects of healthy living from diet to daily cardiovascular exercise.

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As federal research funding fac-es budget cuts and shifting priori-ties, some UT faculty have empha-sized the importance of maintain-ing funding for investigative sci-ence research.

The National Science Founda-tion cut its budget almost 1 per-cent from $6.926 billion in 2010 to $6.859 billion in 2011 but has re-quested a budget of a $7.767 bil-lion, which would be a 12.1 per-cent increase from appropriations in 2010.

Such programs have been prior-itizing “applied research” to solve specific problems over “basic re-search” which seeks to investigate phenomena, said biological scienc-es research educator Antonio Gon-zalez. Gonzalez said the USDA has stopped funding research on Ar-abidopsis plants, which are often used as model organisms in basic plant research, to focus more on crop science research. He said the line typically drawn between basic research and applied research is a false dichotomy.

“It’s very difficult to predict what

basic research will yield and when it will yield it,” Gonzalez said. “So you can think of it as some kind of progression or continuum.”

Biology freshman Juan Herre-jon, student and faculty chair for the Natural Sciences Council, said the group organized a panel dis-cussion Friday for Natural Sciences Week in response to budget cuts in the past couple of years from fed-eral programs that fund research, such as the USDA and the National Science Foundation.

Herrejon said such cuts threaten the University, which is known for its research.

“At UT, we’re known for being a research institution, and a lot of the stuff that goes on here is basically research-driven,” Herrejon said.

Associate biology professor John Wallingford said basic biological research has helped in past health crises including the emergence of AIDS, SARS and the H1N1 bird flu virus.

“A new epidemic could come along, and there’s going to be a group of people who have been studying this and nobody cared, and Sarah Palin’s mocking them, and they have the answer,” he said.

Wallingford said researchers should make efforts to communi-cate the potential benefits of their basic research to the public more effectively, especially when taxpay-ers fund the research.

“Why on earth would you give $100 million of your tax money to me to study frog gastrulation?” Wallingford said. “If instead of say-ing, ‘I’m very interested in frog gas-trulation,’ I say instead, ‘I’m using the animal models [to study] hu-man birth defects,’ then suddenly it makes a little bit more sense.”

Computer science professor Cal-vin Lin said it’s crucial for govern-ment programs and universities to fund basic research because private firms are unlikely to do so because it’s not immediately profitable.

“Short-term research makes money for a company,” Lin said. “Long-term research, if done well, instead will create new companies. It will create new markets. It will create new industries.”

Lin said the creation of new in-dustries, such as the Internet, from long-term research helps create new jobs but that such research can also have psychological benefits.

“Part of what makes us human

is this desire to learn more and to make progress,” he said.

Prepharmacy freshman Tania Joakim Jr. said the panel made her

think of basic research differently.“Even though it seems like [basic

research] is not doing anything to maybe politicians, it could actual-

ly be important in the future,” Joa-kim said. “It can lead to applied re-search, so that’s why I disagree with decreasing funds.”


Antonio Gonzalez stresses the importance of funding research to promote education at a panel Friday afternoon. Gonzalez was one of three panelists at the event hosted by Natural Sciences Council.

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Training 80 percent of the student body to conduct CPR chest compressions is one of the many safety goals of John Suffredini, Longhorn Emergen-cy Medical Services director. He demonstrated proper CPR execution Friday during the city’s tenth National Night Out at Jasper Park as a part of the kick-off for UT’s annual Cam-pus Safety Week.

National Night Out was the first safety week event spon-sored by Student Government and the University of Texas Police Department. The event covered topics of safety and se-curity and included children’s games and activities and host-ed organizations such as Long-horn EMS, University Health Services, Austin Fire Depart-

ment and the UT Police Depart-ment. Also in attendance was a Target representative who gave away school supplies for stu-dents of all ages.

The event had many tables, each of which displayed topics related to neighborhood and crime awareness, children’s ed-ucation and health and safety.

“Ten years ago, Austin’s Na-tional Night Out started out with one sponsor and only two people showed up,” said Dar-rell Halstead, UTPD Crime Preventions Unit officer. “Now, we have a great turnout of both people and university and city departments.”

Campus Safety Week will continue to address one dif-ferent crime or safety issue per day, focusing on student safety. Student Government, UTPD, the Residence Hall Pro-gram Team, the University Res-idence Hall Association, Uni-

versity Health Services, Rec-Sports and Parking and Trans-portation will all bring events to students.

Activities for the week will include a Rape Aggression De-fense System workshop, a fire safety demonstration and Na-tional Night Out, said Ashley Baker, SG vice president.

“This week is tremendous-ly important because it is pro-moting safety and wellness through various different edu-cational campaigns and aware-ness initiatives,” said Alisha Patel , Student Government campus safety agency director. “It is promoting all aspects, in-cluding physical, emotional and sexual safety, both on cam-pus and in student residential areas.”

Student government chief of staff Andrew Townsell said safety is the most relevant top-ic for students to focus on, and

many organizations joined the effort because they felt the same way.

“One of our primary objec-tives is to make sure students are safe,” Townsell said. “It’s one of our commitments as an administration. We have to be relevant to student life, and nothing is more relevant than safety.”

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It was a nice win for Texas on Saturday night, exacting revenge for last year’s loss to the Cyclones — pretty boring second half though.

And that’s a good thing.Fans of this team have been

treated to nail-biters and wrong-ended blowouts since the 2010 season. So I don’t think anybody’s complaining that the Longhorns fi-nally got to rest their starters, play some backups and switch the dial to cruise control.

“If you would have asked me last week if we would have won this one 34-17, if I would have liked it, I would have said I would be real-ly excited about it,” said head coach Mack Brown.

This isn’t to say it’s okay for Tex-as to lose the second half 3-14, just that it’s a nice luxury the team hasn’t been able to afford lately.

Last season saw the Longhorns fighting for their lives in the sec-ond half — coming up short in comeback attempts against UCLA, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas A&M. I left Oklahoma State and Kansas State out of there be-cause, if we’re being honest, the

Longhorns had no chance in those games.

With the exception of Jordan Hicks and Dominic Espinosa — who should be able to go for the Oklahoma game — Texas man-aged to get its starters cleanly off the field, as well as keep both quar-terbacks alive and intact.

Even bigger was the opportuni-ty to play members of the vaunted 2011 recruiting class. Josh Turner, Leroy Scott, Mykkele Thompson and Sheroid Evans made up an all-freshmen secondary by the fourth quarter. Scott got called for pass in-terference on a deep ball but, hey, it’s part of the learning curve.

Steve Edmond, that big bad beast of a linebacker, got some valuable action (while we’re at it, here’s a motion to play Edmond frequently throughout the game and not just in the final frame — he could be the best run-stop-per on the team). So did Kend-all Thompson and Tevin Jackson, who was technically a member of the equally vaunted 2010 recruit-ing class but was unable to play last year after he was flagged by the NCAA Clearinghouse.

“We had nine true fresh-men out there most of the fourth quarter on defense,” Brown said. “They hung in there pretty good.

They’re growing up.”The Longhorns need these guys

to get acclimated to the college game quickly, and not just for this year. The semi-dynasty that Brown fielded from 2003-09 was due in part to backups getting so much game action in Texas-sized blow-outs that by the time it was their turn to actually start, they didn’t miss a beat.

“They’ve been to the Rose Bowl now and played in front of 60,000 here on national TV, so they’re vet-erans now,” Brown said.

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Senior safety Blake Gideon (21) runs by Iowa State wide receiver Darius Darks (6) after an interception during Texas’ game against Iowa State on Saturday. Iowa State turned the ball over three times during the game and committed eight penalties.

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Freshman wide receiver Jaxon Shipley runs past Iowa State defensive back Jacques Washington during a first half touchdown reception.

The Longhorns are playing their best ball at the right time.

Texas turned in its most com-plete performance of the season on Saturday and easily handled Iowa State, 37-14, to remain un-beaten heading into the biggest game of the year against Oklaho-ma at the Cotton Bowl.

The Longhorns (4-0) benefit-ted from three Cyclones turn-overs in the first half as they jumped out to a 34-0 lead. It was quite a role reversal from a season ago, when Iowa State won the turnover battle and the game.

“Everybody knows the effect that getting turnovers or having turnovers can cause on a season — the outcome of a ballgame,” said senior safety Blake Gideon, who had his first interception of the season. “That was defi-nitely one of the main emphasis throughout spring ball and camp and these early weeks of the sea-son. It’s good to see all the hard work has come to fruition.”

Freshman quarterback Da-vid Ash showed he’s more than a running threat, completing seven of 12 pass attempts for 145 yards and the first two touchdown passes of his career.

Texas, though, did not finish the game strong as it was out-scored 14-0 after halftime. That will need to improve if the Long-horns want to beat the Sooners next Saturday in Dallas.

“In the second half, we have to dominate better than that,” said senior tailback Fozzy Whittak-er. “We still have a lot of poten-tial left in us.”

Still, the Longhorns have im-proved with each week and

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This time last year, he was t hrowing touchdowns for Belton. Now, he’s doing it for Texas.

David Ash was one of many Longhorn freshmen to turn in fantastic performances, throw-ing for his first two career touchdown passes. Mykkele Thompson, who was at Stevens High School in San Antonio last fall, blocked a punt in the sec-

ond quarter and fellow fresh-man Josh Turner took it all the way back. The play epitomized how Texas’ youngsters domi-nated its 37-14 win over Iowa State as the Longhorns’ leading passer, rusher and receiver were all true freshmen.

Ash had split snaps with Case McCoy for most of the last three games but had not seen the field as much as his sophomore counterpart. That

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Texas can finally breathe easy, rest in second half

Craig goes 4-for-4, leads team to easy victory over St. Mary’s

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Texas came out strong for the second straight weekend against an overmatched opponent and improved to 2-0 for the fall sea-son with an easy 15-1 win over St. Mary’s on Friday night.

“This gives us a good measur-ing stick and gives us a good op-portunity to get back to work and get better,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. The star on offense was senior outfielder Courtney Craig who went 4-for-4 with two RBI and three scores. Junior Taylor Hoagland and sophomore Brejae Washington also had productive nights with

two hits each. Washington con-tributed further with two scores and two RBI.

All four Texas hurlers saw time in the circle with junior Kim Bruins receiv ing cred-it for the win. Junior All-Amer-ican Blaire Luna started off the first two frames. Luna walked three and gave up two hits that led to St. Mary’s only score of the night. Bruins came in at the start of the third and threw two no-hit innings.

“It’s a sign of us having a lot of returners,” Clark said of the win over St. Mary’s. “They pick up where they left off. It really kind of bodes well for how hard they worked over the summer.”

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appear poised to give the Sooners all they can handle. Co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin didn’t hold back any of his trick plays against the Cyclones and is doing all he can to give Oklahoma plen-ty to prepare for.

In the second quarter, Harsin dialed up one of his s igna-ture gadget plays . Whittak-er took the snap before handing the ball off to wide receiver Jax-on Shipley who in turn flipped it to Ash before streaking down the sideline and hauling in a 40-yard touchdown.

“We haven’t saved a whole lot,” Harsin said. “We called that play because we needed it. There’s no holding back.”

Yes, it’s full speed ahead for the Longhorns as they continue their four-game stretch against teams that beat them in 2010. The revenge tour has gone as planned, so far, with the Long-horns blowing out UCLA 49-20 on Sept. 17 before handing Iowa State (3-1) its first loss of the season.

“This game was big on our checklist,” said sophomore quar-terback Case McCoy. “We don’t speak of revenge, but we all had a nasty taste in our mouth after this game last year.”

Texas, though, isn’t flying un-der the radar any more.

“I’m not sure a lot of people would’ve thought five weeks ago we would’ve been 4-0 right now,” said head coach Mack Brown. “Guys are playing with a lot of confidence. We know a lot more about us now than we did when we started the season.”

The Longhorns will find out a lot more about their team next weekend in Dallas against the top-ranked Sooners.

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Rory Tunningley led the Long-horns with a time of 25:43, which

was good for fifth at the Grass Routes Grand Prix on Friday. The junior runner helped Texas to a third place finish at the event de-spite the difficulty of the course.

“I think our team just want-ed to come out here and put in a good effort before our next meet in Wisconsin,” Tunningley said.

The hilly course combined with the 8:15 a.m. starting time

presented some challenges to the field.

“I thought it was fantastic. The atmosphere out here was really nice,” Texas assistant coach John Hayes said. “It’s early in the sea-son, but it was a great atmo-sphere. We had some teams and some great individuals that were running hard, and I hope it’s a tradition that we can continue.”

Texas placed three runners in the top five to win the Grass Routes Grand Prix at Morris Williams Golf Course last Friday.

The Longhorns were led by se-nior Mia Behm, whose time of 21:33 was good enough for third place in the competition. The

course was a challenge because of its hilly nature.

“The race today was pretty rough,” Behm said.

Rounding out the top five for Texas were sophomores Sara Sutherland and Marielle Hall.

“It felt like they wanted to make it as hilly as they could, but I was re-ally proud of our team,” Behm said.

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team spot, with its second team, Texas Horns, placing fourth.

“I am really happy with their per-formance,” said Texas head coach Stephen Sisson. “I would like to see faster times, but you should do vid-eo footage on this course to show people how difficult it is.”

Texas’ next event will come in two weeks on Oct. 15 at the Chile Pepper Festival in Fayetteville, Ark.

changed Saturday when Ash completed four of eight first-half passes, one more than he had attempted in his first three games combined, for 113 yards and two touchdowns. Both he and McCoy were 7-for-12 passing.

“I thought the rotation went well,” McCoy said. “David played really good. He made plays, and it worked out for us. We’re 4-0.”

The rookies made their mark on defense, too. Tex-as forced three f irst-quar-ter turnovers for the second straight game, scoring after each of them once again. The Longhorns got a field goal off the first one before Quandre Diggs popped the ball loose on the ensuing kickoff and Te-vin Jackson fell on it. Fittingly enough, both Diggs and Jack-son are freshmen. Texas scored its first touchdown on the fol-lowing possession.

“Tonight, we forced the turnovers,” said head coach Mack Brown. “If you force a lot of turnovers and you protect the ball like we did tonight,

you’re going to win a lot of football games.”

Eventually, the defense got tired of setting the offense up for scores. So they got one of their own. With the Longhorns leading 20-0, the Cyclones lined up for their second punt of the game. That’s when Thompson blocked the 75th kick in the Mack Brown era, the Long-horns’ first blocked punt re-turned for a touchdown since Malcolm William’s in 2009.

“I saw that ball got tipped so I just grabbed it and went,” said Turner, who was playing high school football in Oklahoma last season. “I was thinking I was about to score. It was a momentum shift, and it helped us a lot.”

On the offensive side, Malcolm Brown and Jax-on Shipley continued their fantastic first-year cam-paigns. Brown ran for 63 yards on 15 carries against a defense that honed in on the Texas backfield. Iowa State stacked the box and opened up throwing lanes for Ash and McCoy, who

both found Shipley for long gains. Ash hit Shipley for a 40-yard touchdown seconds af-ter Shipley pitched the ball to him while McCoy found Ship-ley for 49 yards on an acrobat-ic grab on the sideline in the second half.

The impressive catch wasn’t surprising. Shipley has been spectacular all season, as evi-denced by his six-catch, 141-yard showing against Iowa State this past weekend.

But Ash’s pair of touch-downs, Thompson’s and Turn-er’s blocked punt return for a score and true freshmen ac-counting for nearly 60 percent of Texas’ total offense? No one saw that coming.

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Tunningley’s time of 25:43 earns him fifth place finish in his first race since 2009

If Saturday night provided glimpses of talented defensive depth, it also showed that Texas is a couple of injuries away from be-ing in big trouble on offense.

Jaxon Shipley and Malcolm Brown are no longer exciting freshmen — they’re now also the team’s best two skill players. If something was to happen to Brown — and he’s certainly tak-ing some hard hits — the running game might revert back to its dis-mal form of 2010. We’ve learned by now Fozzy Whittaker is best served as a change-of-pace, take-the-direct-snap-and-run tailback. If the Longhorns were to lose Shipley, it’d be Mike Davis and a bunch of guys who haven’t proved much this season (paging: Darius

White). Not to say the rest of the young

offensive members aren’t talented, but there has to be a reason Tex-as just scored three points in the second half.

“I didn’t think we ran the ball effectively,” said co-offensive co-ordinator Bryan Harsin. “We had a couple opportunities on third downs, we didn’t execute. And when you’re stopping yourself, if doesn’t look very good.”

At the same time, stopping yourself when the game’s already won seems a whole lot better than being stopped by another team. And that might be the difference — finally — between the Long-horns of a year ago and the ones we saw Saturday night.

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Hilliard, Holiner earn berths in qualifying draw

Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff

Alex Hilliard came back to win both of his matches over the weekend. He defeated Southern Illinois’ Jorge Cavero and Memphis’ David O’Hare. The draw will occur today.

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Texas will add two more players to the qualifying draw of the ITA All-American Championships this week af-ter posting consecutive victories in the

pre-qualifying draws this weekend.Junior Alex Hilliard and sopho-

more David Holiner won two matches on Sunday to move in to the qualifying singles draw, which starts today. There they will join teammates Daniel White-head, Ben Chen and Soren Hess-Oles-

en, who are also in the draw.Holiner posted a straight-sets victory

over USC-Upstate’s Edgar Rodriguez in his first round match and won the first set 7-5 over SMU’s Arturs Kazijevs, be-fore Kazijevs retired.

Hilliard fought back from a set down

in both of his matches, getting the vic-tories over Jorge Cavero of South-ern Illinois and then David O’Hare of Memphis.

Sophomore Sudanwa Sitaram and junior Chris Camillone also posted first round wins. Both lost their second

round matches.Also competing in the doubles qual-

ifying round are the teams of Ho-liner and Hess-Olesen and Chen and Whitehead.

— Lauren Jette

Players have consecutive wins, give players berths in tournament

Texas jumps to No. 11 in polls, SEC teams lead the AP rankings LSU and Alabama are the top two teams in the country one month before their game in Tuscaloosa.

The SEC West rivals held the first two spots in The Associated Press college football poll released Sunday as the second-ranked Crimson Tide jumped past No. 3 Oklahoma.

Alabama’s rise gives the South-eastern Conference the top two teams in the country for the 10th time in the last four seasons. The Tide beat Flori-da 38-10 on Saturday night in Gaines-ville, then received 12 first-place votes in the media rankings.

Wisconsin also moved up after a big victory, jumping three spots to No. 4.

The top eight in the AP poll were all undefeated, with No. 6 Okla-homa State followed by Stanford and Clemson.

Oregon was ninth and Arkansas was No. 10.

Three more unbeaten teams were next: No. 11 Texas, which faces ri-val Oklahoma on Saturday in Dal-las, No. 12 Michigan and No. 13 Georgia Tech.

Nebraska fell six spots to No. 14 and Auburn jumped back into the poll all the way to No. 15 after the Ti-gers beat South Carolina 16-10 on the road. The defending national champions have fallen out of the rankings twice this season.

No. 16 West Virginia is the only Big East team in the rankings.

No. 17 Florida dropped five spots after getting thumped by Al-abama and No. 18 South Carolina dropped eight spots.

No. 19 Illinois has its best rank-ing since the final regular-season poll of 2007. No. 20 Kansas State is ranked for the first time since Oct. 14, 2007.

The final five were Virginia Tech, Arizona State, Florida State, Texas A&M and Baylor.

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ARLINGTON — Tony Romo put the Dallas Cowboys ahead by 24 points with his third touchdown pass right after half-time. That lead wasn’t enough af ter he fol lowed that with three interceptions.

Two of the picks were re-turned for touchdowns, and the third set up Detroit’s game-win-ning score with 1:39 left as the Cowboys blew their largest lead ever to lose 34-30 to the unde-feated Lions on Sunday.

“It hurts,” Romo said, not even talking about the still-sore ribs that forced to him take anoth-er pregame injection. “We were obviously in a position to win this game. ... It doesn’t feel good right now.”

Especially knowing the Cow-boys (2-2) are going into their bye week and won’t play again for two weeks.

“It’s devastating,” linebacker Sean Lee said.

The Cowboys had won two in a row since a season-open-ing loss at the New York Jets when Romo had an intercep-tion and a fumble at the 3 as Dallas blew a 14-point fourth-quarter lead for the first time in franchise history.

A week after that, Romo threw for 201 yards in the fourth quar-ter and overtime of a win at San Francisco despite suffering a fractured rib and punctured lung early in the game. They Cow-boys were coming off a win over NFC East rival Washington six days earlier.

“I view the success we have, I view what he does well and I put the mistakes right in with what he does well and don’t in any

way get discouraged about our future with Tony,” owner Jer-ry Jones said. “There’s no issue about faith in Romo, any place in this organization, period. ... If you’re going to try to make plays, then you’ve got a chance to have some bad plays. But however we go, we’ll go with Tony. As Tony goes, we’ll go.”

The Cowboys led 27-3 af-ter Romo hit Jason Witten for a 1-yard touchdown only 2½ min-utes into the second half.

Then came the two intercep-tions in a span of three throws. Bobby Carpenter, the former first-round pick by the Cow-boys and one of Romo’s good friends, returned the first one 35 yards for a touchdown and Chris Houston took another one back 56 yards for a 27-17 score.

Jason Hanson kicked a 51-yard field goal to get Detroit within 30-27 soon after Cowboys coach Jason Garrett declined a penalty that would’ve pushed the Lions back 10 yards, but given them an extra down.

On the first snap after Han-son’s second field goal in his 299th career game, Romo threw while trying to avoid pressure and came up short to Witten. Stephen Tulloch intercepted, set-ting up the Lions at the 40.

“I just didn’t get enough on the throw. ... I thought it was going to be a big play for us, honestly,” Romo said. “It’s disappointing because I thought he was com-ing open past all the lineback-ers and there’s no safety help to that side. I wish I could have that throw back and just throw it further.”

Instead, Dallas-born Matthew Stafford led the Lions on a sev-en-play drive that ended with his second touchdown to Cal-

vin Johnson, a 2-yarder with 1:39 left.

This was a bizarre way for the Cowboys to end an NFL-record streak of nine straight games decided by a field goal or less. The final play was wacky, too, with Felix Jones catching a short pass with no one around him on fourth-and-20, then running out of bounds after only gaining 8 yards.

While Stafford has the Lions off to their first 4-0 start since 1980, and they have won an NFL-best eight in a row, Romo and the Cowboys have another bitter loss.

“Nobody’s lost faith in Romo,” said safety Gerald Sensabaugh, who was knocked out of the game with a concussion in the third quarter.

“We believe in him. He’s our guy and we’ll fight through it,” Witten said. “We just need to eliminate this roller coaster of a ride, and that’s the next step for us.”

Dallas’ previous biggest blown lead was 21 against Washington on Nov. 28, 1965, when the Cow-boys led 21-0 in the second quar-ter on the way to a 34-31 loss.

Stafford had dozens of rela-tives and friends in the crowd, including his high school coach.

His first pass to Johnson was intercepted, leading to Dallas’ first touchdown and the defense was constantly in his face. He had a tough first half, but fin-ished 21 of 43 for 240 yards and did a better job of finding John-son after halftime. The game-winner came against tight cover-age on a play when the Cowboys had 12 defenders on the field.

Johnson caught eight passes for 96 yards, and tied Cris Cart-er’s NFL record of catching two

TDs in four straight games.Romo was 34 of 47 for 331

yards, with three touchdowns. Dez Bryant caught two TDs be-fore Johnson even had a single grab, and Laurent Robinson had seven catches for 116 yards.

Romo was on a roll of com-pleting 13 of 14 passes, the only incompletion a clock-stopping spike, when Carpenter made a leaping interception and a weav-ing 35-yard return.

“I know he’s going to get beat-

en up by (the media) this week,” Carpenter said of Romo. “He’s the same quarterback he was two weeks ago when he was the hero. He’s a tremendous play-er and a top-five quarterback, in my opinion.”

Struggling Cowboys blow 24-point lead, lose to Lions By Stephen HawkinsThe Associated Press

Tony Gutierrez | Associated Press

Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant (88) is pushed out of bounds by Lions free safety Louis Delmas during the Cowboy’s loss to the Lions. The Cowboys had a 24-point lead at the beginning of the second half.

LOS ANGELES — King Si-syphus, it turns out, had little on the folks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to push a giant rock up a hill for eternity. In modern-day LA, the city’s largest museum has spent months — and $5 million to $10 million — trying to get a 340-ton boulder from a dusty quar-ry in Riverside onto its campus west of downtown.

When the teardrop-shaped chunk of granite finally arrives, it will become the focal point of acclaimed earth artist Michael Heizer’s latest creation, “Levi-

tated Mass.” Museum visitors by the thousands are expect-ed to walk under what will be one of the largest environmen-

tal art creations ever placed in an urban setting.

Heizer “came up in a genera-tion that wasn’t just about what you could create or sculpt in the studio,” said Rochelle Steiner, dean of the University of Southern Cal-ifornia’s Roski School of Fine Arts. “It was about how you could inter-vene in the elements, in your own environment, in the landscape and how the environment became not just your subject matter but your situation as well.”

The reclusive Heizer is per-haps best known for “Double Negative,” the 1,500-foot-long land sculpture he cut into a des-

ert mesa in a remote section of southern Nevada.

“Levitated Mass” will be a ma-jor coup for the museum, Stein-er said, and will provide the gen-eral public a rare opportunity to see Heizer’s work up close.

But before that can happen, the museum has to get the rock here, and that’s proving a Sisyphean task.

At the Stone Valley quarry, a 196-wheel, 44-axle transport vehicle strong enough to hold more than a million pounds is being constructed. With driv-ers, steerers and police escorts, as many as 60 people could be involved in the move.

“It will be an entourage,” laughed Rick Albrecht, who is supervising the rock’s move for Emmert Inter-

national, an outfit that specializes in moving really big stuff.

Although Emmert has never hauled a rock the size of a two-sto-ry house before, Albrecht appears undaunted by the challenge.

“This might be the first time for a rock but our company moved a building in Salt Lake City that was equivalent to a five-story,” he said during a re-cent day at the quarry, as work-ers with welding torches worked on the transport vehicle. “It was almost 60 foot wide, it was a lit-tle over a hundred feet long, and we had to jack it up 14 feet, spin it 180 degrees, move it across the street and jack it back down.”

Compared to that, he indicated, the rock will be a piece of cake.

The hardest part so far has

been getting permission from the three counties, the state and the numerous cities through which Emmert will haul the boulder.

The museum has rescheduled the departure date several times as it works with local officials to find a route acceptable to every-body. The rock is now tentative-ly scheduled to leave the quarry sometime later this month.

The 60-mile trip to the mu-seum that would normally take about an hour in light freeway traffic is expected to take the rock at least 10 days.

It will rarely travel faster than 5 mph and its delivery people may have to drive as far as 20 or 30 miles out of their way to get around various obstacles like util-ity wires and freeway overpasses.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Rhode Island became the 13th state to allow in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at public colleges, sup-porters heralded the move as one that would give students the kind of advanced education they need to succeed in the work force.

But students who are not here legally may still face a major obstacle even with the bene-fit of a college degree: Many have no immedi-ate pathway to legal status and, under current federal immigration law, employers cannot le-gally hire them.

“I know of students who have graduated magna cum laude and top honors in their col-leges, but right now they’re working minimum wage in restaurants,” said Antonio Albizures-Lopez, 20, who came to the U.S. from Guate-mala when he was one.

Albizures-Lopez, who is pursuing legal resi-dency, says the best solution is passage of feder-al legislation, known as the DREAM Act, which provides a pathway to legal residency for col-lege students.

The Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education, which oversees the state’s three public higher education institutions, unanimously approved in-state tuition for ille-gal immigrants last week, effective in the fall of 2012. The General Assembly had failed repeat-edly to take action on legislation that’s been in-troduced year after year.

Eleven states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah and Wash-ington — have laws allowing the children of illegal immigrants to receive in-state rates if they meet certain requirements, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Oklahoma allows in-state tuition for the chil-dren of illegal immigrants under a state Board of Regents policy.

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A majority of the clientele are women in their early 20s to 40s, but all of the instructors believe the art isn’t limited to women or a specific age range. A Boy Scout troop came recently, and all of them learned each skill and immediately wanted

to return to the class.“When most people come, they

say they’re going to try it once, but they keep coming back,” Torretto said. “Every time they come back, they realize their bodies are capa-ble of doing more and more.”

Originally, it was these same sentiments that hooked Torretto. He loved the pain and the physi-

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“The feeling is indescribable, and everyone around you is a profes-sional artist,” Torretto said. “What stops a lot of people is the mind, so I tell them to just go for it.”

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mansion in the woods could have been a commonplace home invasion film, but thanks to director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett, “You’re Next” is a smart, fun-ny and often scary twist on the genre. Thanks to the film’s quick pace, skill at subverting the audience’s expecta-tions and relentless, confident exe-cution of its premise and characters, Wingard has crafted a true crowd-pleasing slasher flick and perhaps the best American horror film of the year. “You’re Next” will probably see theat-rical release sometime next year, and this one is more than worth the wait.

“We Need to Talk About Kevin”

There was no better perfor-mance at Fantastic Fest than Tilda Swinton’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin” tour-de-force and director Lynne Ramsay’s challenging gut punch of a film is a red-tinged ex-amination of the odd relationship between a psychopath and his be-wildered mother. Swinton’s moth-er, torn between her maternal ob-ligation to her son and her instinct to get away from the malicious Kevin (Ezra Miller), is a fascinating character to watch, and Swinton sells the internal struggle with ev-erything she has, from the barely-contained sanity as an infant Kev-in sobs from sunrise to sundown to the pure devastation of the film’s final moments. “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is enthralling, dis-turbing stuff and a very hard film to shake, executing its deeply un-settling material with a nuance that makes the potentially exploitative feel creepily plausible.

“A Boy and His Samurai”

Who would have thought one of the best films at Fantastic Fest wouldn’t have a body count? Yoshi-hiro Nakamura’s understated ro-mantic comedy about a time-travel-ing samurai (Ryô Nishikodo) is per-haps the sweetest and most whole-some film of the festival, and its pre-dictable formula has enough new el-ements and easy charm that its pre-dictability is more or less irrelevant. Really, “A Boy and His Samurai” proves that Fantastic Fest-ers are a bunch of big softies at heart. Even if a film doesn’t fit into the tradition-al confines of the festival, it will still be wholly embraced if it’s as great as this one.

“Juan of the Dead”

“Juan of the Dead” is both the first independent film to come out of Cuba in 50 years and a rel-atively fresh, original take on the zombie comedy genre. As Juan, Alexis Díaz de Villegas is likeable even as he exploits the impending apocalypse for financial gain, and writer/director Alejandro Bru-gués stretches his budget to im-pressive levels, working in a few large-scale scenes of zombie may-hem and one of the most memora-ble mass undead decapitations to ever grace the silver screen. “Juan of the Dead” is heartfelt, just gory enough and oddly, kind of touch-ing, and one can only hope it finds a U.S. distributor so zombie fans all over can see this unique film.

“Sleep Tight”

“Sleep Tight” is a creepy, creepy movie, one that worms under your skin and wiggles around, so icky and squirm-worthy that it’s near impos-sible to stop thinking about. Direc-tor Juame Balagueró has a true ex-ercise in gross-out intensity with the film, which stars Luis Tosar as Ce-sar, a doorman obsessed with one of the tenants of his Barcelona apart-ment complex. The film doesn’t play nice, and a few of its late reve-lations up the creepiness to uncom-fortable levels, but nothing at this year’s Fantastic Fest came close in terms of nail-biting, seat-clutching intensity as “Sleep Tight.”

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game, but the volleyball game that apparently also happened. The game itself was in the 4:30 p.m. slot, airing hours after its conclu-sion and re-aired at 9:00 p.m. I could have watched Bailey Web-ster record a career-best 16 kills on .593 hitting one more time, but I didn’t know what any of that meant the first time so I made no plans to stick around.

Since I don’t live on campus, it was a chore for me to find some-where to actually watch the Long-horn Network, and it occurred to me that it might be possible that the sampling of programming I was able to observe on Sunday wasn’t truly indicative of the usual breadth of the Longhorn Network. The Longhorn Network posts its upcoming schedule on its website, so I was able to gain some insight into the diversity of its program-ming over the course of a week and it doesn’t get any better.

For the week of Oct. 2-8 at least, weekdays are dominated by repeats

of a program called “Longhorn Ex-tra,” an hour-long “daily record of all Longhorn sports” that airs new ep-isodes weeknights at 10 p.m. Five-hour blocks of that show are accom-panied by various decades-old foot-ball games against Oklahoma and episodes of “Friday Night Lights.”

All of this being said, I think it’s too early to really be able to judge the Longhorn Network based on its programming schedule alone. The original ESPN’s first broad-cast in 1979 began with a wom-en’s tennis recap on “Sportscen-ter” and followed with coverage of a professional slow-pitch soft-ball game. The network proved in-novative enough to diversify itself and become the cable giant that it is today. The same minds are at work behind the Longhorn Net-work, but whether or not diversi-ty is even an attainable goal for a venture with such a narrow focus is the real question, and one that will ultimately dictate the fate of the niche channel.

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The limited scope of ESPN’s Longhorn Network results in a banality of viewing options.

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ing their spirituality, it can be a crit-ical time to learn about as many communities as possible.

“We could be in the union hav-ing a coffee or drinking a beer and having these seriously important conversations,” Spencer said. “The content that we deal with is inter-esting if you’re 18 or 80, and I find it interesting to hear young people talking about searching.”

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Russell Torretto, owner of Trapeze Austin, pulls down on the safety net Thursday night in order to launch a cutaway bar up to the “catcher” above.

Museum agrees to return frescoes to Cyprus

Photo courtesy of the Church of Cyprus

This undated photo provided by the Cyprus church shows the fresco of Christ Pantocrator that the Church of Cyprus said will be returned to the island next year along with other rare frescoes from an American museum where they have been exhibited for the last 28 years.

NICOSIA, Cyprus— A Hous-ton-based museum exhibiting a set of rare 13th-century frescoes that were looted from Cyprus more than three decades ago has agreed to return them, the leader of the divided island’s Orthodox Christian church said Friday.

Archbishop Chrysostomos II said the Menil Collection plans to return the Byzantine frescoes early next year after the church insisted that they not “allow them to remain there even for one second longer.”

“I salute this decision by the Menil Collection because em-barking on a court battle would honor neither us nor the Collec-tion,” the Archbishop said.

Antiquities smugglers looted the frescoes from the Ayios Th-emomianos church in northern Cyprus following a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island into a Turkish-speaking north and a Greek-speaking south.

Menil Collect ion founder Dominique de Menil obtained the frescoes in 1983 and struck an agreement with the Cyprus church to keep and exhibit them at a purpose-built chapel in Houston.

A decade later, the Cyprus church granted the museum a loan extension until February 2012 in recognition of its efforts

to reassemble and restore the fragmented frescoes.

But Chrysostomos said he turned down requests to keep the frescoes longer, offering in-stead to dispatch an iconogra-pher to recreate them on the cha-pel’s dome and apses, along with a gift of 10 late-19th and early-20th century icons.

“While this moment is bitter-sweet, the story of these frescoes — from their rescue, to their long-term loan to us, and now to their return — very much reflects the essence of the Me-nil Collection, its focus on the aesthetic and the spiritual, and our responsible stewardship of works from other nations and cultures,” Josef Helfenstein, di-

rector of the Menil Collection, said in a Sept. 23 letter to friends and supporters.

The frescoes depict Christ Pan-tocrator surrounded by a frieze of angels, as well as the Preparation of the Throne attended by Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist.

Another section depicts the Virgin flanked by Archangels Michael and Gabriel.

The Cyprus Antiquities De-partment will oversee the trans-portation of the frescoes back to Europe, department Director Maria Hadjicosti said.

The church says scores of religious artifacts, including icons and mosa-ics, were looted from Greek Cypriot churches in the island’s north.

Many have since appeared on the international art market. Chrysostomos said “millions” have been spent purchasing them with the purpose of repatriating them. The church’s biggest suc-cess was the recovery of several priceless 6th century mosaics.

“We’ll rest only when all our antiquities, all our ecclesiastical objects return to where they be-long,” he said.

Christianity in Cyprus stretch-es to the faith’s earliest years. The Apostle Paul is said to have preached the gospel in Cyprus in A.D. 45 and converted the is-land’s Roman governor Sergius Paulus — the first Roman offi-cial to undergo conversion.

We’ll rest only when all our antiquities,

all our ecclesiastical objects return to

where they belong.

“ “ — Chyrsostomos II, archbishop

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A Christian Scientist, a mem-ber of the Ethical Culture move-ment and a Methodist-Unitarian explained how certainty relates to their faith while a Buddhist moder-ated their conversation at the Inter-faith Action of Central Texas Red Bench discussion last week.

This type of interfaith dialogue is critical in a global climate that of-ten encourages religious isolation, fear and violence, said Tom Spen-cer, the CEO of iACT. The organi-zation encourages faith and spiri-tual communities around Austin to connect with one another through dialogue and service work.

“Undercutting the threat of fear and working to prevent violence isn’t something we can just rely on happening in Cairo and Jeru-salem,” Spencer said. “All those historic tensions exist here in our backyard, and we have to make a difference where we can.”

The organization iACT, former-ly Austin Area Interreligious Min-istries, has regular activities in-cluding a monthly dinner and Red Bench dialogue meetings, a refu-gee resource and education pro-gram and bi-annual home-build-ing weekends. These different pro-grams allow people who wouldn’t normally interact to become

friends and learn about each other’s ideas and cultures, Spencer said.

Rich Harrison started attending Red Bench dialogues about a year and a half ago after learning about the program through the Ethical Society of Austin, of which he is a member. The ESA emphasizes in-dividual worth and dignity and the creation of a more humane society, values Harrison said fit quite well with interfaith involvement.

“It’s always fascinating to learn what other people believe and prac-

tice, and I hope I can contribute as well,” Harrison said. “Most people grow up searching, I know I did. There is quite a lot to talk about.”

The student division of the Uni-versity Interfaith Council tries to bring similar dialogue to UT. Pres-ident Imad Khan has been working to revitalize the group for about three semesters and said up to 100 people attend their monthly programs.

“Here on campus, we want to teach people about other faiths and cultures so they get a better under-

standing,” Khan said. One of the council’s programs

pairs random students with each other and encourages them to make plans for lunch or coffee, and Khan said students have made close friends. Spencer said he hopes to reach out to the UIC to create a partnership that would allow iACT to bring its programs to a younger community. He said because many college-aged students are discover-

Margret Johnson lets out a shrill scream as she jumps off of the plat-form, both hands firmly gripping the swinging bar. As body posi-tions are called to her from the ground, she matches the timing as the bar swings overhead before fi-nally releasing her grip and, with the aid of the momentum, does a backward flip into the net below.

“Oh my goodness, it’s terrifying. It’s so hard,” Johnson said after her first attempt at the flying trapeze. “It’s so fast. It’s hard to know what to do at the right time.”

Flying trapeze has been around for more 150 years, but Trapeze Aus-tin only started two years ago. Own-er Russell Torretto learned the art form nine years ago while in Mex-ico working on a circus set design. The trapeze artists noticed him and waved him over to try it. He said he’s been hooked ever since and even traveled the country performing with small circuses before working his way into The Ringling Brothers.

“I was taught by circus families how to perform, but when I start-ed teaching, I had to relearn a more domestic approach,” Torretto said.

Trapeze Austin is the only in-structional trapeze facility in the

central United States. With the as-sistance of Cassandra DeBakey, Kris Sundberg and Jay-Bird Gib-son, Torretto has been teaching be-ginner to intermediate level flying trapeze for the last five years.

“Circus arts are completely differ-ent and illogical,” Torretto said. “It’s a unique process we teach you — it’s all about what you do with your body dur-ing the float.”

A l t h o u g h u n c o m m o n to practice in-doors, Torretto has a makeshift net he bui lt h imsel f that hangs above an indoor soccer playing field.

The lessons have a routine structure that has been able to teach those who have never taken a flying tra-peze class and reinforce previous lessons for those that have been coming for years. Beginning with simple stretches followed by a demonstration of the desired trick by the instructors, the students then practice on a low swinging

bar with assistance. Once the safe-ty belts are secure, they climb the ladder to a 25-foot platform and attempt the trick they have seen and attempted at the lower level.

“If your head is up and your hips are forward, you can do anything in tra-peze,” Torretto said. “All of the tricks happen at the apex of the swing.”

As s o on as the stu-dents reach the platform, listening be-comes key. The instruc-tors are pull-ing on the safety lines while call-ing out spe-cific instruc-tions at the exact peak of the swing of the bar while the students try to match

their body movements to the in-structions.

“It’s nothing about thinking; it’s about getting the feeling, the swing, the weightlessness,” Torretto said. “Once you accomplish that, it’s a great feeling.”

Unlike gymnastics, the bar swings toward and away from the flyer mak-

ing each movement in each trick all about timing and fluidity of motion. All of the instructors stress looking at your hands before, during and af-ter the swing to prevent flipping the wrong way over the bar.

“Less is more when it comes to body movement,” Torretto said. “There’s no physical strength — you don’t want to use muscles when you learn trapeze, that comes later.”

Torretto recommends anyone with a fear of heights to come out and try the art. He believes it’s only by standing on the edge of the platform with the safety belt on that one will conquer these fears and also embrace them.

“We use it as a metaphor to face fears that you wouldn’t ex-pect to face, and ultimately they leave with a product they never expected,” Torretto said.

Since its opening, Trapeze Aus-tin hasn’t had a single injury. The instructors attribute their overall safety to their attention to detail and hope to remove the miscon-ceptions concerning the safety be-hind the flying trapeze.

“They see flying trapeze and they think of falling, breaking a neck, but it’s safer than your drive over here,” Torretto said. ”We’re

Fantastic Fest, which was held at the South Lamar Alamo Draft-house from Sept. 22 to 29, is an annual film festival composed en-tirely of genre fare, from horror to sci-fi to fantasy to whatever genre the average Japanese film falls into. It’s also arguably the best week of the year to be a film fan in Aus-tin, both for the sheer eclecticism of the films offered and the great community of movie buffs that springs up at the Alamo Draft-house. Attendees range from Aus-tinites, filmmakers, fans from around the country and even from the furthest corners of the world.

While previous festivals have held their opening night gala at the Par-amount Theatre, often screening a hotly anticipated genre film, this year, the entire festival relocated to the Drafthouse, resulting in a small-er scale that carried over to the fes-tival. While last year’s opening night included a double feature of “Buried” and “Let Me In,” this year gave us the revolting “Human Centipede II.”

In fact, very little love was lost for major studios at this year’s festi-val. Lionsgate, which purchased the award-winning “You’re Next” after its Toronto debut, canceled a sec-ond screening of the film, making its sole Saturday midnight screening one of the most in-demand of the festival. Paramount’s “The Loved Ones” was pulled from the program a few days before its first screening (although they did make it up to the crowd with an early screening of “Paranormal Activity 3.”)

While the lack of major features was apparent at this year’s festi-val, this just made room for a wide range of wonderful, under-the-ra-dar titles that became popular as the festival went on. Small titles

like “Juan of the Dead” and “A Boy and His Samurai” were discussed at length, heralded as the best of the festival, and additional screen-ings sold out quickly.

Thanks to the staff at Fantastic Fest, actually attending the mov-ies was made much easier. In pre-vious years, lines formed outside the Drafthouse around 9 a.m. ev-ery day of the festival — not an easy schedule to keep when most attendees are operating under the explosive combination of mid-night movies and plenty of beer for the entire fest. This year, online ticketing was available, a huge ben-efit that removed the drawback of roasting in line outside the Draft-house to get tickets.

As always, Fantastic Fest re-mains the most fun and unusual of Austin’s three large film festivals, with opening night’s human cen-tipede-themed party, the first-ever Fantastic Fest prom and a closing night superhero carnival where the deep-fried culinary options could clog your arteries on sight. To put it simply, any Austin movie buff who misses out on Fantastic Fest is missing out on much more than the films — they’re missing out on a wonderful week where a small community springs up at the Ala-mo Drafthouse, fueled by a mutual love of food, beer and movies, and there is no better place to be in the last week of September.

Here are a few of the best films of Fantastic Fest:

“You’re Next”

The story of crossbow-wielding, animal mask-wearing menaces ter-rorizing an anniversary dinner at a

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Kris Sundberg catches Casey Dellinger on the flying trapeze Thursday evening at Trapeze Austin. The group offers weekly lessons in the rafters of an indoor soccer stadium in South Austin.

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Longhorn Network needs to get back to home roots

Photo courtesy of BBC Films

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother a demented child in Lynne Ramsey’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin.”

Fantastic Fest pleases crowds with smaller scale

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Christ-Singh Khalsa listens as Kelly Koonce talks about certainty and faith at the Interfaith Action of Central Texas Red Bench Discussion.

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Trapezist brings art of flying to Austinites

Knowing the network’s histo-ry, it’s difficult to understand ES-PN’s insatiable compulsion to create more and more programming with narrower and narrower focuses.

In 1978, Bill Rasmussen, the new-ly unemployed former communica-tions director of the New England Whalers conceived an idea for an all-Connecticut cable sports chan-nel. He went to RCA Americom with the intention of purchasing transponder time on their flagship commercial communications satel-lite, Satcom 1.

There were probably six people in 1978 that understood the potential of cable television, so RCA was hav-ing a difficult time selling the tran-sponders, which were used to re-lay programming information to ground-based cable providers. Low demand forced RCA to restructure its pricing so that it was actually more cost effective to purchase one of the satellite’s 24-hour transpon-ders than the ones Rasmussen ini-tially bid for that only transmitted for several hours at a time.

Wanting to take advantage of this but knowing that he couldn’t fill 24-hours of airtime with Connect-icut-only programming, Rasmus-sen was forced to expand the scope of the network to encompass sports from all markets. ESPN’s latest ven-ture, the Longhorn Network, doesn’t

benefit from that kind of foresight.Watching the Longhorn Network

is akin to watching some kind of bizarre CNN that only reports on things that happen in your neigh-borhood. There’s barely enough news in the entire world for CNN to not have to cut away to a You-Tube video of a bear on a trampo-line every 15 minutes; imagine what it would become if its coverage area were a mere 40 acres.

I caught up with the Longhorn Network early Sunday morning just as it was wrapping up a Texas-OU football game from 1994. From then on, most of the day’s program-ming featured the same dated edi-tions of ESPN College Football Fi-nal and the Longhorn Network’s Texas GameDay Final. Texas Game-Day Final is a well-produced pro-gram that recaps Texas football’s performance every Saturday. It runs for an hour and a half and is an hour too long — ESPN College Football Final is a national recap show that only lasts an hour. That rotation was broken up by a three hour program entitled “The Season: 2005 Texas Longhorns,” a documentary about the 2005 UT national championship team that I’m pretty sure you can buy at the airport for $5.

At 6:30 p.m., one more block of Texas GameDay Final and ESPN College Football Final followed coverage of the Texas-Iowa State game — not that Texas-Iowa State

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Organizations foster interfaith discussions

Photo courtesy of the Church of Cyprus

This undated photo provided by the Cyprus church shows the fresco of Christ Pantocrator that the Church of Cyprus said will be returned to the island next year along with other rare frescoes from an American museum where they have been exhibited for the last 28 years.

“ “ — Russell Torreto, owner

It’s nothing about thinking; it’s about getting the feeling,

the swing, the weightlessness.

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