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Today in historyIn 1789 The United States Congress created the offi ce of United States Attorney General, the federal judiciary system, and the order for the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States by passing the Judiciary Act.

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By Alexa Ura

Cuts proposed for medical program Additional cuts to a medi-

cal program for economically disadvantaged students may impact student enrollment and the state’s ability to keep prospective doctors in Texas.

Passed in 2001 by the Texas Legislature, the Joint Admis-sion Medical Program, JAMP,

guarantees eligible college students a spot in one of the state’s nine medical schools. � e program will face a $3 million cut in funding by 2013. However, state o� cials will consider an additional $1.4 million cut proposed by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which would be e� ective by 2015, during the upcoming legisla-

tive session. � e joint admission pro-

gram maintains an enroll-ment of more than 500 stu-dents a year. � e budget cut forced the program to go from enrolling 150 students in every incoming class of sophomores to 96 students, program executive director Scott Wright said.

Wright said the joint ad-

mission program council, which is made up of deans and professors from Texas medical schools, voted to cut down the students it accepts per class rather than reducing scholarships for enrolled stu-dents. Although the program used to accept up to 150 stu-dents per class, it reduced that number to 96, the bare mini-mum mandated by the state

legislature. With additional cuts looming overhead, the joint admission program ad-ministration will have to cut other services for students to make up for lost funding.

“The money will have to come out of somewhere,” Wright said. “Part of the pipeline plan is to bring

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UT will use $500,000 gathered from student fees to fund various new sus-tainability projects on cam-pus this year, a move some hope will make the univer-sity’s green initiatives more widely known.

The Green Fee Initia-tive, funded by a $5 fee on every student’s tuition, will fund green projects includ-ing a rooftop garden, a mi-cro farm, energy efficiency initiatives and a bat house. Collin Poirot, student vice chair of the Green Fee Com-mittee, which coordinates

the funds, said more project applications demonstrate student awareness of the initiative have grown.

“Students are finding out more and more that this resource exists for them,” he said.

Since its inception in 2010, the Green Fee has funded a tree nursery, re-cycling initiatives, water bottle filling stations on fountains and various com-posting projects.

Architecture senior Dan-iella Lewis received fund-ing for the Micro Farm, a student initiative to grow

By Miles Hutson

Ricky LlamasDaily Texan Staff

Kent Hance, Texas Tech University system chan-cellor, and UT System Cancellor Francisco Cigarroa at the Texas Tribune Festival Saturday.

TribFest discusses UT issues

Higher education costs and procedures were a fre-quent discussion topic at the Texas Tribune Festival this past weekend and of-fered what some say is a preview of the upcoming legislative session.

Sponsored by � e Texas Tribune, a nonpro� t digital news outlet focusing pri-marily on Texas politics, the second annual festival featured Texas politicians, experts, UT administration and other relevant speakers

who participated in panels. Gov. Rick Perry made higher education a talking point in the festival’s opening session when he endorsed freezing student tuition at UT-Austin for the next four years.

The UT System Board of Regents raised tuition in some form at all UT System institutions this past May. Perry has been adamant about decreasing higher education costs in the past and said he would not sup-port any tuition increase. The freeze would lock in tuition for each entering freshmen class students for four years.

“If you get out of the University of Texas with a $50,000 debt, I don’t know if we’ve served you well,” Perry said.

Perry said if students do not graduate in four years, they can expect to see tu-ition rates increase during their fifth year. UT’s cur-rent four-year graduation rate is 52.2 percent.

According to an As-sociated Press report, the average student at a state university in Texas is pay-ing 55 percent more for their education than they

By Bobby Blanchard & David Maly

With more than 50 majors in the College of Liberal Arts, de� ning a liberal arts student is not always easy. But this year’s Liberal Arts week will attempt to explore that, start-ing with an essay contest and a panel on religion in Ameri-can politics.

Government senior Mor-gan Caridi, president of the College of Liberal Arts coun-cil, said this year’s annual Liberal Arts week will show-case the college’s resources for students. Caridi said the Liberal Arts week is held an-nually, and students outside of the college are encouraged to attend. Each year has a theme, and this year’s theme is “You know you’re in Lib-eral Arts when ...”

Plan II Honors senior Christine � orne-� omsen,

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College of Liberal Arts EventA lecture and discussion on the role of religion plays in American politics 5:30-7 p.m. at SAC 2.302.

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students from all geo-graphical regions into the pipeline preparing them for medical school with the ultimate goal of keep-ing them in Texas.”

All nine UT System uni-versities are part of the 65 participating public and pri-vate four-year undergradu-ate institutions in the JAMP program. � e program has matriculated 350 students into medical schools since 2003, the � rst year it accept-ed students.

Azael Arizpe, biochemis-try pre-medical senior and joint admission program student ambassador, said the program has been a vital part of his preparation for medical school. Arizpe said the program exposed him to medical school � rsthand through summer intern-ships at state medical schools where he worked alongside current medical students.

“This program is great at informing students what is expected from them and how to do it

successfully,” Arizpe said. “This is something that as a disadvantaged student I took as gold. I did not have someone in my fam-ily that could tell me what I needed to do or what I should focus on.”

� e joint admission pro-gram helps students stay in Texas instead of attending medical school out of state, Arizpe said.

David Laude, faculty di-rector for the University’s chapter and senior vice provost for enrollment and graduation management, said participation in the program has grown in re-cent years despite legisla-tive cuts because most stu-dents apply to the program for the educational bene� ts and guaranteed admission to a medical school.

“Even with the most recent cuts, a large class of accepted students was achieved last year,” he said.

During a Senate Com-mittee of Higher Educa-tion interim hearing this month, Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, questioned the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s pro-posed cuts to the Joint Ad-

mission Medical Program. “You’d agree with me

that making sure we edu-cate and that we get more doctors in the state of Tex-as is a critical area,” West said at the hearing. “But we are talking about cut-ting a program that pro-vides a return for the state when it’s been successful. It makes no sense.”

Raymund Paredes, Texas Higher Education Coordi-nating Board commissioner of education, said it’s di� cult to justify policy shi� s when tough cuts have to be made. � e coordinating board over-sees legislature appropria-tions for state � nancial aid programs, including the Joint Admission Medical Program. Paredes said the program promotes initial access to a bachelor’s degree.

“We aren’t going to have any doctors if they don’t complete baccalaureate degrees first,” he said at the hearing.

� e Texas Legislature will determine � nancial ap-propriations for the 2014-2015 biennium, including funding to Joint Admission Medical Program, during this year’s session.

program director on the Liberal Arts council, said trying to de� ne what makes a liberal arts student is a challenge.

“It is not just one de� -nition,” � orne-� omsen said. “I think that is what makes us liberal arts stu-dents. We are all over the place. We are passionate about all di� erent things.”

On Monday, “The Lib-erator,” the College of Liberal Arts’ news-mag-azine, is hosting an essay contest with a $250 prize. The winning essay will also be published in the October edition of “The Liberator.” The topic is “How would your liberal arts education influence your personal platform for the presidency of the United States?”

Mallory Foutch, com-munications director of Liberal Arts council, said this is the second year the College of Liberal Arts has hosted an essay contest with a cash prize.

“It is very common that if you’re in the liberal arts col-lege, you have good writing skills, just because they’re critical no matter what your major is,” Foutch said.

� e essay is due at 5 p.m. by email to [email protected]. � e coun-cil is also hosting a panel Monday discussing religion’s role in American politics.

“We have such a diverse college, we really like to highlight the smaller

departments,” Caridi said. “We’re showcasing a pro-fessor that specializes in different religions.”

Politics is a consistent theme throughout this year’s week, Caridi said, because of the presiden-tial election in November. Tuesday, the council is host-ing an open discussion on the 2012 presidential elec-tion called “� e Amazing Presidential Race.” Caridi said some of the topics they will focus are the roles of media and mud-slinging in the election.

� orne-� omsen said not all of the events will be strictly serious. On Wednes-day, the council is co-hosting a game of New York Times Jeopardy with a New York Times representative.

The council is also in-forming students about destressing techniques on the West Mall. Caridi said the Wednesday event is the last big event of the week — she said the week is “top heavy.”

� roughout the week, the College of Liberal Arts will have a white board near the Six Pack, where liberal arts students are encouraged to write why they love being a part of the college and have their photo taken. � e pho-tos will be used as part of a collage in the new Liberal Arts building when it opens in the spring.

Cardi said Monday through Wednesday on the West Mall, the Campus and Community Focus com-mittee of the Liberal Arts Council is partnering with Hook the Vote to register students to vote.

sustainable food on cam-pus. Lewis said the farm works across several sus-tainability groups and hopes to make a visible difference with the fund-ing it receives this year.

“I think part of a well-rounded education in-cludes thinking about food and where it comes from,” she said.

Lewis said while her project is still in its be-ginning stages, she hopes it will eventually provide food for UT’s Division of Housing and Food Service like spices, herbs and or-ganic tomatoes.

While the Green Fee has had more applications each cycle than it can fund, it is set to expire a� er sum-mer 2016, according to the committee. In 2009, the state legislature authorized the fee and put a � ve-year limit on the collection. To be enacted a� er fall 2015, the fee must be voted on by a student referendum.

“There are going to have to be students who will

gather themselves up for a campaign to reenact it,” UT Director of Sustain-ability Jim Walker said. “I think we’re implementing it really well, but stories about how well campus did on the green fee are going to be what enable students to feel confident about reenacting it again.”

Ladybird Johnson Wild-flower Center also received funds this year to establish a green roof on what once was a patio cafe. Director of Gardens and Growing Andrea DeLong-Amaya said the roof should make some of the center’s re-search into green roofs more accessible to people.

DeLong-Amaya said while plans haven’t been finalized for the green roof ’s layout, they have tentative plans for what it would look like.

“We want to have sea-sonal planting,” she said. “The idea is to have moveable walking surfac-es, like grates that would be movable, and that they would cover plants that were dormant, and fea-ture plants that are active-ly growing and blooming and looking nice.”

did a decade ago, when the legislature deregulated tu-ition, allowing schools to set their own rates.

Later that weekend, UT System chancellor Fran-cisco Cigarroa said he would support a tuition freeze for students.

However, Cigarroa said

it is also important for UT-Austin to address the needs of students who may not be able to gradu-ate in four years because of other responsibilities, such as those with hectic work schedules.

“I think one has to be care-ful to make sure one size does not � t all,” Cigarroa said.

Not all undergraduate degrees at UT can be ob-tained in four years. For example, a professional bachelor’s degree in ar-chitecture is a five-year program. Neither Perry or Cigarroa said anything regarding UT students in five-year programs.

The festival hit a loud note Friday when about 300 individuals from across the state came to Austin to protest Perry’s stance on Texas health care during the opening session.

Protesters chanted “Rick makes me sick” out-side the AT&T Executive Education and Confer-ence Center Friday night, as Perry spoke inside in a question-and-answer forum with Evan Smith, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune.

The protesters wanted Perry to endorse the Af-fordable Care Act, a federal initiative that would give Texas more federal funds for the low-income pro-gram Medicaid and other health initiatives.

At the 83rd Legislative Session Preview, a panel covering higher and public education Saturday, an au-dience member asked high-er education legislative of-� cials about the possibility of giving the student regent member of each university system a vote.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, said add-ing a student vote would bring the total number of voting board members to 10 and boards could reach impasses on issues.

But State Sen. Judith Zaf-� rini, D-Laredo, said the issue is complicated and students would need to consider quali-� cations for a student regent, as current voting regents have years of experience.

“There is some support for a student regent voting, but I do not believe the votes are in place to pass it,” Zaffirni said.

Later Saturday, an audi-ence member asked Cigarroa about his stance on Fisher v. Texas — the upcoming Su-preme Court case challeng-ing the UT’s consideration of race in admissions.

Cigarroa said he believes a holistic admissions pro-cess is important.

“I’m not sure UT would be getting the rich diver-sity it is getting right now without this process,” Cigarroa said.

Additional reporting by Olivia Arena.

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Maria Arrellaga | Daily Texan StaffTwo boys enjoy a sunny Saturday afternoon playing in the Barton Springs spillway.

College of liberal arts EventsWhat: Liberator Essay ContestDate: MondayWhen: Due at 5 p.m.Details: A 500-700 word essay answering: “How would your liberal arts education infl uence your personal platform for the presidency of the United States?”Email essays to: [email protected]

What: You know you’re in liberal arts when ... religion is like politics.Date: MondayWhen: 5:30-7 p.m.Details: A lecture and discussion on the role religion plays in American politics.Where: SAC 2.302

What: The Amazing Presidential RaceDate: TuesdayWhen: 6 p.m.Details: An open discussion on the 2012 presidential election, featuring three government professors.Where: MEZ 1.306

What: New York Times JeopardyDate: WednesdayWhen: 6 p.m.Details: A game of jeopardy hosted by a New York Times repre-sentative. Questions will come from New York Time stories.Where: PHR 2.110

What: “You know you’re in liberal arts when ... you already need to d-stress!”Date: WednesdayWhen: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Details: Learn about various mental health services the University offers, while beating out your stress on bongo drums.

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WASHINGTON — � e combined e� ects of voter roll purges, demands for proof of citizenship and photo identi� -cation requirements in several states may hinder at least 10 million Hispanic citizens who seek to vote this fall, warns a new report released Monday.

Hispanic voters are consid-ered pivotal to the presidential election this November, and should they turn out in large numbers, could sway the out-come in several swing states.

In an analysis based on government data, civil rights group � e Advancement Project identi� ed legal bar-riers that could deter voter registration and participa-tion among eligible Hispan-ics. In some of those states, the group’s researchers said, the number of voter-eligible Latino citizens potentially blocked by those barriers ex-ceeds the margin of victory in the 2008 election.

Illegal Libyan militias ordered to disband BENGHAZI, Libya — � e Libyan army on Sunday said it raided several militia outposts operating outside government control in the capital, Tripoli, while in the east, the militia suspected in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate said it had disbanded on orders of the country’s president.

President Mohammed el-Megaref said late Saturday all of the country’s militias must come under government authority or disband, a move that appeared aimed at harnessing popular an-ger against the powerful armed groups following the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador.

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Nine killed, six missing in avalanche KATMANDU, Nepal — An

avalanche hit climbers on a high Himalayan peak in Nepal on Sunday, leaving at least nine dead and six others missing, of-� cials said. Many of the climb-ers were French or German.

Police o� cial Basanta Baha-dur Kuwar said the bodies of a Nepalese guide and a German man were recovered and that rescue pilots had spotted seven

other bodies on the slopes of Mount Manaslu in north-ern Nepal, the eighth highest mountain in the world.

In Madrid, Spain’s Foreign Ministry said one of those killed was Spanish, but did not release the person’s identity.

The identities of the other victims were still being confirmed.

Ten other climbers sur-vived the avalanche but many were injured and were � own to hospitals by rescue helicop-ters, Kuwar said.

Rescue pilot Pasang, who uses only one name, said three injured French citi-zens and two Germans had been transported to hospi-tals in Katmandu.

He said rescuers were also attempting to bring the bod-ies of the dead back to the base camp.

Weather conditions were deteriorating and it was not possible to continue air search-es of the mountain Sunday af-ternoon, Kuwar said.

� e avalanche hit the climb-

ers at a camp at 7,000 meters (22,960 feet) early in the morn-ing as they were preparing to head toward the summit, which is 8,156 meters (26,760 feet) high.

� ere were Italian, Ger-man and French teams on the mountain, with a total of 231 climbers and guides, but not all were at the higher camps, o� cials said.

It is currently the beginning of Nepal’s autumn mountain-eering season. � e autumn season comes right a� er the

end of the monsoon rains, which make weather condi-tions unpredictable, and is not as popular among mountain-eers as the spring season, when hundreds of climbers crowd the high Himalayan peaks.

O� cials were investigating the cause of Sunday’s avalanche.

Nepal has eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world. Climbers have complained in recent years that climb-ing conditions have deterio-rated and risks of accidents have increased.

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Associated Press

Photo courtesy of Simrik Air | Associated PressIn this photo provided by Nepalese airline Simrik Air, an injured victim, center, of an avalanche is rescued at the base camp of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, Sunday. The avalanche swept away climbers on a Himalayan peak in Nepal on Sunday, leaving at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said.

In the past two weeks a debate has arisen about UT students’ right to free speech. On Sept. 15, 18 UT stu-dents who occupied President William Powers Jr.’s of-fice to persuade the administration to join the Workers Rights Consortium attended a hearing in a downtown courtroom. 17 students ended up accepting plea deals rather than continue fighting the trespassing charges. Because UT did in fact engage in talks with the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition and joined the Work-ers Rights Consortium this past summer (presumably because of the students’ argument, although this has been denied by the administration) it has been argued that the administration is inconsistent in praising the students but failing to drop the charges, and press-ing charges will discourage future student activism. I strongly disagree with all of these assertions, and be-lieve that when one protests, one chooses to accept the consequences.

I do commend and admire the students for protesting and eventually accepting the plea deals that were offered. They showed selflessness and highlighted what Lucy Griswold, spokeswoman for the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition, called the “collective struggle that has always been at the heart of our movement.” These students have set a fine example of the “maturity” that President Powers spoke of after meeting with the Coalition.

Other columnists have argued that the administration’s refusal to drop the charges, even while conceding to the protesters’ demands, sets “a tone” regarding “nonviolent protest or even freedom of speech.” Griswold says the arrests send the message that consideration of students’

grievances only comes “after a night in jail.” She argues, “It sends the message that no amount of rationality in [the students’] argument, in their facts, and in their tactics will ever undo the single ‘irrational’ act of getting arrested.”

This argument is lacking because it sets up a false di-lemma for President Powers. He can either agree with the protesters and drop the charges — possibly setting a precedent that will encourage other, less noble protest activities — or remain stubborn in his position so as to uphold what he believes to be the rule of law. Griswold’s argument also ignores the difference between the ability to speak one’s mind without fear of reprisal and blanket immunity from normal sanctions against illegal actions. I propose a different mindset for the protesters: Celebrate your victory and accept, without complaint, the penalty for violating laws for the sake of the greater good.

In 1917, Gandhi, one of the founders of modern non-violence action, faced trial for intervening illegally on behalf of workers who were being treated improperly by indigo planters in the Champaran district in the Indian state of Bahir. He resolved “to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience.” In explaining his reasoning he “ventured to make this statement [to the judge] not in any way in extenuation of the penalty to be awarded against me, but to show that I have disregarded the order served upon me, not for want of respect for lawful author-ity, but in obedience of the higher law of our being -the voice of conscience.”

Gandhi affirmed that in civil disobedience, one must follow one’s conscience, and those who make and en-force the laws must allow for the sentences prescribed by law. Participation in nonviolence requires a cheerful acceptance of the penalties imposed upon you. President Powers, in bowing to the pressure to talk to the protesters

and eventually joining the Consortium, recognized the substantive allegations behind the protesters’ complaints. This recognition does not, however, release him from his duty to allow the law to be enforced.

My father, an anti-nuclear protester in the 1970s, al-ways refused to intervene when I wound up in in-school suspension for physically defending myself or others, even as he agreed that I was not wrong in doing so. He remind-ed me that he had arranged trespasses with the police in order to stop the construction of a nuclear power plant in Tulsa, Okla. He gladly paid the resultant ticket because he knew, as Gandhi did, that to satisfy one’s conscience, one sometimes has to break laws. In order to maintain justice, one also must pay the penalties for that disobedience. Trespassing laws, while inconvenient, deserve respect.

If students truly believe in their cause, they should con-sider the trespassing fines immaterial. They should not allow the punishment to impede their activism. When students learn that every action has consequences, and that the price is worth paying without complaint, then this campus will see more, not less, activism. Activists who look to Gandhi’s example will become stronger and less deterred by penalties, whether they be jail time or fines. This mettle can inspire other activists, and hope-fully grab the serious attention and respect of those in power.

Knoll is a Latin American studies senior from Dallas, Texas.

One would be hard-pressed to find anyone advocating against doing ev-erything possible for the veterans of our nation’s two most recent wars. Most Americans recognize the great adversity those veterans face today. The unfortunate reality is that veter-ans’ needs are not being met by the entities that are supposed to work on their behalf. One of these is the Reg-istrar’s Office here at the University of Texas at Austin.

In order for student veterans to re-ceive the federal and state benefits promised to them by the Veterans Ad-ministration, the University of Texas must first certify the eligibility of their classes. That requirement is cur-rently the largest road block prevent-ing student veterans from accessing their education benefits, which cover tuition, books and a monthly stipend for housing.

Since the war in Iraq has ended and as the conflict in Afghanistan comes to a close, the number of veterans seeking educational opportunities has greatly increased. At UT’s veterans’ banquet last year, a guest speaker from the Stu-dent Veterans of America spoke about the exponential growth in veteran en-rollment across the nation. Despite this trend, UT has failed to hire an adequate number of Registrar person-nel to handle the growing burden class certification presents.

The challenges student veterans face in the certification process in-clude complex requirements, uncer-tainty, frequent delays and lost pa-perwork. My own paperwork for the summer semester was lost and my pa-perwork for the fall semester has only just been certified after f ive months. From my discussions with personnel within the Registrar, I know out of the roughly 750 individuals using VA ben-efits, only about 150 were certified as of the third week of classes. Veterans are a distinct group within the univer-sity in that none of us are claimed as dependents. Many students, if they en-counter delays with financial aid, can call on parents to provide financial as-sistance. Veterans, on the other hand, have gone out into the world, worked full time jobs, paid taxes and become

self-sufficient. We generally do not have the luxury of hiding under our parents’ f inancial umbrella. We pay for our educations with VA benefits and savings from our time in the mili-tary, and delays in certification mean that we must cover our tuition out of pocket. I have been required to sell shares of my retirement funds to cover costs that were supposed to be paid by federal and state programs. Delays like these create financial burdens for veterans and reduce the effectiveness of programs designed to support their transition into civilian life.

I am not accusing the Registrar’s Office of malicious intent; indeed my observation has been that they are committed to doing all they can to aid student veterans. Rather, it seems that they’re understaffed and unequipped to handle veterans’ needs and the cer-tification process. If UT is committed to serving student veterans’ needs, they need to hire more personnel and streamline the certification process.

Ultimately what is really required is a paradigm shift in the way UT views veteran benefits. Student veterans do not regard these VA programs as “ben-efits” but rather payment for services rendered. They were guaranteed in our enlistment contracts and many of us paid into the system during our military service. These benefits should be recognized as a paycheck veterans earned for their sacrifices. When they are recognized as such, the obstacles that UT has put in veterans’ way are clearly inexcusable. If UT President William Powers, Jr. went months with-out salary, there would be administra-tive hell to pay, but for the roughly 700 student veterans on campus it is allowed to happen semester after se-mester.

Ollar is an economics senior from Midlothian, Texas and the president of the UT Student Veterans Association.

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Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

Opinion4Monday, September 24, 2012

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Every Monday we’ll provide a list of the top three opinion-worthy events to expect during the coming week.

I have been required to sell shares of my retirement funds to cover costs that were supposed to be paid by federal and state programs.

If you’re a freshman, remember to vote in the Student Government First Year Representative election Wednesday. Log on to

utexasvote.org to cast your ballot.

President William Powers, Jr. will deliver his seventh State of the University address at 4 p.m. � ursday. You can catch the speech at the B. Iden Payne � e-atre, on the Longhorn Network or on campus cable channels 11 and 13.

Austin City Council will vote on an amendment that would make it more di� cult to build cooperative and Greek housing in neighborhoods around campus � ursday. � e council will vote on the issue around 5 p.m. at Austin City Hall. “Save the Co-ops,” a group opposing the amendment, will host a teach-in at City Hall beginning at 3 p.m.

By Travis Knoll

Daily Texan ColumnistI believe when one protests, one chooses to accept the consequences.

Facing consequences is a part of protesting

Anik Bhattacharya | Daily Texan Cartoonist

Aiming to integrate sustain-ability with UT’s needs and identity, UT o� cials met Friday and presented additions to the campus master plan designed to make the University more environmentally friendly.

Members of the UT com-munity presented research and proposals at the Universi-ty’s third annual sustainability symposium Friday. David Rea, campus planning and capital projects management director, said UT is focusing on eight areas to accommodate popu-lation growth and revitalize the core campus using sustain-

able methods. � ere are three phases to the plan, including identifying campus needs, ex-ploring sustainability options and review and implementa-tion of the � nal plan. UT is currently in the � rst phase of the plan and hopes to imple-ment it in upcoming years.

Rea said aspects of the plan include forging strategic partnerships with businesses and neighborhoods in sur-rounding areas and facilitat-ing safer and more e� cient mobility on campus, among other initiatives.

Jeri Baker, assistant director of parking and transportation services, said UT plans to in-crease environmentally friend-

ly forms of transportation on campus by encouraging stu-dents to ride bicycles, join car-pool programs and ride Capital Metro buses when commuting to and from campus.

“It’s time for everyone to embrace the idea that having burnt orange blood on this campus is the same thing as bleeding green,” she said.

Only people who register their bicycles are allowed to park them on campus. Baker said more than 10,000 bicycles are registered with Parking and Transportation Services. She said the University hopes to encourage more students, fac-ulty and sta� to ride bicycles by holding bicycle sales and waiv-

ing the registration fee.Baker said UT has about

75,000 daily commuters but only about 15,000 parking spaces, and UT is trying to en-courage commuters to carpool. She said UT’s carpool program currently has 1,100 members.

Steve Kraal, associate vice president for campus planning and facilities management, said the University plans to reduce campus energy use by 20 percent. To do this, it will derive 5 percent of its elec-tricity, or 17 million kilowatt hours, from alternative en-ergy such as solar power.

Kraal said UT also plans to reduce its water consumption to 20 percent by 2020. He said

the University currently uses 900 million gallons and re-claims 100 billion annually.

In addition, Kraal said the Uni-versity aims to derive 40 percent of its water usage from reclaimed sources and divert 90 percent of campus waste from land� lls by emphasizing recycling.

“[Recycling] will require a signi� cant change in campus behavior,” Kraal said.

In August, � e Daily Tex-an reported UT produced 140,000 pounds of trash and 66,400 pounds of recyclable waste per week during the spring semester.

Jim Walker, o� ce of sustain-ability director, said the Uni-versity aims to implement sin-

gle-stream recycling, a method that allows recyclable materials to be deposited in the same bin. UT’s Division of Housing and Food Service is currently im-plementing single-stream recy-cling in residential and dining halls across campus.

Architecture professor Law-rence Speck said he does not think using less energy and fewer resources is a sacri� ce. For example, he said he stopped using � uorescent lighting in his o� ce, which makes it easier for him to see his computer screen and makes conversa-tions with students and fac-ulty more engaging.

“It’s not a sacri� ce, it’s an asset to your life,” Speck said.

Chanting slogans in Span-ish, UT students and commu-nity members marched into the Texas Union building Fri-day a� ernoon and disrupted a conference hosting top Mexi-can government o� cials.

Holding signs written in Spanish such as “We are the Outraged” and “Felipe Calderón: Murderer,” the demonstrators protested a potential teaching position being o� ered to Mexico’s outgoing president, Felipe Calderón. Some said they belonged to the Yo Soy 132 group, a group � ghting the democracy in Mexico, and that they believe that Calderón is responsible for crimes against humanity and the deaths of thousands of Mexicans. Demonstra-tors expressed concern that a teaching position at UT would be a way for the Mexi-can president to avoid pros-ecution in Mexico.

“� ere’s currently a petition going around in Mexico and the international community to get Calderón to be tried by an international court for crimes against humanity for the deaths of over 60,000 peo-ple,” Spanish-Portguese gradu-ate student Rene Carrasco said. “[A teaching position] is a way to open the doors for immuni-ty and not to get justice done.”

In August, the Dallas Morning News reported that Calderón and President William Powers Jr. had met at least twice to discuss the idea of teaching at UT a� er his term is over in November. � e protesters aimed to con-vey their opposition to Mexi-co’s Secretary of Interior, Ale-jandro Poiré Romero, who spoke at the conference. � ey held signs accusing Calderón of crimes against human-ity and said they hoped their message of opposition would reach the Mexican president.

UT Police Department o� cers responded to the protest but no arrests were made because it was a peace-ful protest, police said.

UT spokesperson Tara Doolitte declined to com-ment on any talks regard-ing Calderón and his future teaching position at UT.

Charles Hale, director of Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, said he welcomed the view-

points of the demonstrators, but that they could have been expressed in a more constructive manner.

“[� e Institute] strongly endorses the principles of free speech,” Hale said. “In this particular case, my reac-tion was to endorse and re-spect the protesters’ right to express their views. In fact, I wanted to hear their views articulated more fully, and I was disappointed that their participation was mainly in the form of chants and slo-gans rather than substantive questions and challenges to the speaker.”

� e Friday workshop in the Union Building was or-ganized by the Long Institute for Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public A� airs and the UT School of Law. Speakers included Poiré, Instituto Federal Electoral ad-visor Benito Nacif Hernández and Mexican election judge Manuel González Oropez.

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Students protest Calderon, UTBy David Lowenberg

By Joshua Fechter

Police said a UT art his-tory graduate student and a 35-year-old man were arrest-ed while � lming Austin Police Department o� cers Friday.

Antonio Buehler and Sarah Dickerson were both arrested around 1:30 a.m. near the 1300 block of West Sixth Street and charged with interfering with public duty — a class B mis-demeanor punishable with a � ne of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days in jail, according to police. Both Buehler and Dickerson were released on

bond later that day. Buehler and Dickerson

were � lming Austin police o� cers conducting a � eld sobriety test at a driving-while-intoxicated stop on West Sixth Street, when an o� cer involved in the stop asked them to back away.

It is not illegal to � lm police o� cers in the city of Austin unless it begins to in-terfere with a police investi-gation, police said.

Police said Buelher and Dickerson failed to follow

a police order to move to a speci� c location while � lm-ing, causing their arrest. Buehler and Dickerson said they followed orders and were arrested anyway.

Since Buehler’s � rst arrest in January, he has founded the Peaceful Streets Project, a grassroots organization that works to increase police accountability. � e coalition � lms o� cers and works to better educate the community about their legal rights.

— David Maly

Activists arrested for � lming police

UT reviews plans for campus sustainability

Antonio Buehler speaks with sup-porters after his release from Travis County jail Friday afternoon. Buehler was arrested near the 1300 block of West Sixth Street at approximately 1:30 a.m. Friday morning.

Nathan GoldsmithDaily Texan Staff

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‘‘I wanted to hear their views articulated more fully, and I was disappointed that their participation was mainly in the form of chants and slogans rather than substantive questions and challenges to the speaker.

— Charles Hale, director of Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies

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Every time the Bastrop Bears defense takes the � eld, University of Texas com-mit Antwuan Davis lines up at cornerback. Every time the o� ense snaps the ball,

Antwuan Davis instinctively glues himself to an opposing receiver’s back hip. And every time Antwuan Davis looks for his opponent’s eyes to get wide at the sight of the ball coming their way, they don’t.

� e ball doesn’t come to-ward Davis too much.

“He hasn’t given up a pass all year,” Bastrop head coach Ger-ald Perry said a� er Bastrop’s fourth game of the season, a 21-12 loss against Manor.

Davis is the de� nition of a shutdown corner. Opposing o� enses rarely allow them-selves to be frustrated by his

sticky coverage — they sim-ply disregard his side of the � eld altogether.

“� ey know better,” An-thony Davis, Antwuan’s fa-ther, added. “[Manor] said they were going to throw at him. � ey said they had something for him.”

� at “something” amount-ed to Manor quarterback Christopher Johnson testing Antwuan Davis only two times during Friday’s game. Antwuan Davis de� ected the � rst pass, slapping the ball

It was almost too easy. � e No. 9 Longhorns blew past Oklahoma e� ortlessly in three sets during their � rst home Big 12 match of the season Saturday night at Gregory Gym. � e Long-horns, who extended their record over Oklahoma to 39-3, used the energy of the crowd during their 3-0 win (25-18, 25-14, 25-10).

With the win, the Long-horns improved to 9-3 on the season and 2-0 in Big

12 conference play. � e win � rmly cemented the Long-horns atop the Big 12 con-ference. � ey maintain a one game lead over Kansas, TCU and Iowa State who are tied for second with one win apiece.

� e crowd showed up loud and proud and in droves Saturday night for the match, which also fea-tured the Texas Traditions spotlight. � e showing was more than twice that of the previous weekend. Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott praised the crowd for their

spirit against rival Oklaho-ma and commented that the energetic audience played a huge part in the victory.

“First and foremost, I want to take the time to thank the fans for coming out,” Elliott said a� er the match. “It was a great environment for our team, made them feel real special, and it is nice to have that kind of support behind us in a big match.”

� e team turned in a com-bined hitting average of .365 while committing only 10

Senior utility Sha’Dare McNeal made her presence known with a career-high nine blocks, surpassing her previ-ous record of seven blocks in 2010. McNeal also posted a season-high 13 digs and nine kills, just missing a triple-double in a performance that greatly aided the Longhorns in a victory over Oklahoma.

McNeal credited much of her success to the vibrancy of the crowd.

“Just [playing] o� the fans was a big thing and coming into the match really energetic, focused, knowing what we had to do on our side of the net, and executing it,” she said.

Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott highlighted McNeal’s performance as one of the strongest of the night.

“I thought Sha’Dare Mc-Neal had a career night, not only in terms of attempts but also her blocking,” he said. “I haven’t seen her block like that in her career.”

Consistent error improvementTexas committed a total of

only 10 errors, four of which were service errors, a vast improvement from previous games. Texas committed 10 service errors against Illinois

and 13 against Cincinnati during the Time Warner Ca-ble Texas Invitational tour-nament last weekend.

Elliott noted service errors were one particular area the Longhorns needed to polish up before heading into Big 12 play.

“We pretty much scored 45 percent of the points for the other teams,” Elliott said of that tournament’s service errors. “It is part of being young and part of understanding how to man-age a game. It is key for us.”

Blocks remain strong pointTexas ranked second in

the nation in blocking head-ing into Saturday’s game, and the Longhorns upheld their strong blocking reputation against Oklahoma. Sopho-more middle blocker/outside hitter Khat Bell tied her sea-son-high of � ve blocks, while junior outside hitter Bailey Webster had three solo blocks. Sophomore outside hitter Ha-ley Eckerman had one block along with McNeal’s career-high nine blocks.

“Overall, I thought we played consistent the entire night and things that we have been working on in practice carried over in terms of our blocking and sequencing,” El-liott said. “We scored high in transition and we did a nice job on the defensive side.”

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One week a� er � nishing its nonconference schedule strongly, Texas began con-ference play the same way. A dominant 4-0 win against Iowa State followed by a 1-0 win over Oklahoma sealed an outstanding opening weekend for the Longhorns.

A� er having � ve scoreless � rst halves in the early por-tion of the season, Texas got on the board early against Iowa State with two goals within three minutes of each other in the � rst half. Sharis Lachap-pelle got the scoring started in the 14th minute with an assist from Hannah Higgins.

Lachappelle set up a goal for Kristin Cummins to put Texas up 2-0 in under 20 minutes.

“We have to be very ad-vantageous in every situa-tion,” Texas head coach An-gela Kelly said. “I thought we did a good job taking of our opportunities tonight.”

Texas took 14 shots to Iowa State’s 10, while forcing � ve more corner kicks against the Cyclones in a physical game that saw 31 fouls between the two teams.

Nursing a two goal lead, Texas put the game away later in the half with two goals from Lindsey Meyer in the 29th

and 40th minute with the as-sists from Gabby Zarnegar.

In the net, Abby Smith pitched a shutout in her � rst Big 12 game, register-ing four saves.

On Sunday, Texas had a much closer game against the Sooners. Lachappelle logged her fourth goal of the season in the 9th minute in what would be the only goal in the game. � e deciding goal came o� of one of Texas’ four corner kicks with Zarnegar connecting with Lachapelle for a header.

“Set pieces are a huge part of the game of soccer,” Kelly

said. “We have to have struc-ture within how we play.”

A� er su� ering through a four game stretch where they were outscored 11-1, � e Longhorns have settled into a groove and outscored their last four opponents 11-3.

� e wins extend Texas’ un-beaten streak to four games, and have put it at the top of the conference with six points. West Virginia also had two wins over the weekend cre-ating a tie for � rst place with Kansas three points behind. Oklahoma State su� ered two losses to begin its conference slate and are now facing an

uphill battle to repeat as con-ference champions. Texas will host Oklahoma State Oct. 5 in what could be a season de� n-ing game for the Longhorns.

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errors. The low error count was a sharp improvement from last weekend’s error riddled per-formance in the Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational.

The team broke the .400 hitting mark during the last two sets, turning in aver-ages of .406 and .419. The Longhorns held the Sooners to a hitting average of .037 throughout the match. In the final set, the Sooners turned in their highest average of the night of .056.

Sophomore All-American outside hitter Haley Eckerman led the Longhorns Saturday night with 14 kills while hitting .345. She also turned in two service aces, a season high two assists and five digs.

Sha’Dare McNeal also had a good outing against

Oklahoma. The senior util-ity player turned in a ca-reer performance with nine blocks, nine kills and 13 digs. Junior outside hitter Bailey Webster posted 12 kills and three solo blocks.

Keila Rodriguez led the Sooners with eight digs and nine kills. The loss brought the Sooner’s record to 12-4 on the season and 1-1 in Big 12 conference play. The Longhorns snapped the Sooner’s six game win streak which featured a 3-0 sweep over No. 11 Kansas State.

The Longhorns held the Sooners to 42 combined points, the fewest allowed by Texas in the series since 2001.

“We were most focused on doing our job, playing as a team, and being consistent,”

Webster said of their domi-nant play over Oklahoma. “This does feel good to win, but we need to move forward, look ahead and get better day by day because we still have a lot to work on.”

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Antwuan Davis’ prowess in the secondary hasn’t gone un-noticed. An Army All-Amer-ican Bowl honoree, Antwuan Davis rates as the 10th best cornerback in the nation ac-cording to Rivals.com. On May 4, Antwuan Davis became the 14th player of the 2013 class to verbally commit to Texas.

Despite the fact that Tex-as’ entire complement of cornerbacks will return for the 2013 season, Antwuan Davis is optimistic about his role with the Longhorns.

“I don’t know if I’ll start right away or anything, but I know that I’ll be ready to start if they ask me to,” Da-

vis said. “I’m really excited about [next year].”

“I think he’ll fit in per-fectly,” Anthony Davis chimed in about his 6-foot, 180-pound son’s place in the Longhorns’ second-ary. “Physically, he’s already there. He just needs to work a little on his technique, and coach Duane Akina said he’ll fix that no problem.”

Akina, Texas’ defensive backs coach, personally recruited Antwuan Davis. Antwuan Davis says that his relationship with Akina played a large part in his de-cision to commit to Texas.

“I love Coach Akina,” Davis raves. “He and I talk a lot, still. He knows how to coach cornerbacks.”

For now, however,

Antwuan Davis’ focus is on Bastrop’s six remaining reg-ular season games. Accord-ing to Davis, the 1-3 Bears have nowhere to go but up.

“This is the best we’ve played all season, of-fense and defense, both,” Antwuan Davis revealed after the Manor game. “We just let it slip.”

Clearly, Antwuan Davis’ principal concern is how his contributions can make the team better, even in the midst of a season filled with individu-ally dominant performances.

“There’s things out there I can improve on, I’ve just got to find them,” Antwuan Davis said with a knowing nod.

Perhaps he could start with getting thrown at more often.

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— Bailey Webster,junior outside hitter

This does feel good to win, but we need

to move forward, look ahead, and get better day by day because

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Let us count the ways: He holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase “Totally sauc-esome!”; and he is the driv-ing force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the na-tion’s first pizza museum.

The quirky but unassuming establishment that Dwyer just opened with three partners in Philadelphia is part art gal-lery, part eatery. It’s a place to enjoy a slice or two of artisan pie while gawking at pizza-re-lated photos, records, knick-knacks and videos.

“We thought it was a funny idea, and we started doing some research,” Dwyer said. “And when we discovered that nowhere on earth was there a physical place, a monument built to pizza, we said, ‘This is going to be huge.’”

He was right: Hundreds of people turned out for the Sept. 7 grand opening of Pizza Brain, which occupies a pair of row house storefronts in the city’s Fishtown neighborhood.

One wall is covered with framed pizza-related photos and magazine covers; an-other boasts dozens of vinyl records, like the soundtrack to “Mystic Pizza” and a holi-day album from Domino’s. Display boxes are scattered throughout the eclectic space — including built into the floor — to show off piz-za-bearing figurines from Homer Simpson and Spider-Man to the Tasmanian Devil

and Pillsbury Doughboy. A cluster of small TVs plays pizza-related shows, while a huge pizza mural surrounds the back patio.

Dwyer, 28, said he had a nom-inal assemblage of mementoes a couple of years ago when friends decided to create an art exhibit called Give Pizza Chance. Re-action was so positive that he continued collecting, becoming the world-recorder holder with 561 items in July 2011. He now owns a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Drop arcade game and Star Trek Enterprise pizza cutter.

A few months later, Dw-yer quit his supermarket job to work on Pizza Brain full time. He and his team bought the row houses and raised some dough online — more than $16,500 — through the crowd-funding website Kick-starter. Grassroots publicity and social media created ma-jor local buzz.

Dwyer said he was caught completely off-guard by the overwhelming response. At the same time, he added that it’s not surprising so many people identify with pizza, which he calls “the great equalizer” and “the only food synonymous with the word ‘party’.”

“I think that’s why pizza is so powerful — it’s inher-ently communal,” Dwyer said. “Pizza is one of the few things that everyone can agree on.”

But only a sliver of the ever-growing memorabilia collection is on view. Dwyer values curation over quantity and plans to rotate exhibit items at Pizza Brain, noting the beauty of the project is that it’s not stagnant.

“I think, at the end of the day, it’s this big art installa-tion masquerading around as a pizza shop,” Dwyer said.

Speaking of which, what about the pizza? The menu offers pies with an array of ar-tisan ingredients and offbeat toppings, including beef bris-ket, pulled pork and meatloaf; one pizza made with gruyere, mozzarella, caramelized on-ions and fresh thyme tastes like French onion soup.

On his first visit to the shop last week, customer Sean McGettrick said that while he’d heard talk about the fancy pies, he wanted to play it safe. He downed a plain slice garnished with ba-sil leaves, gave it a thumbs-up and pledged to return.

As for the decor, McGettrick said, “Obviously they can’t have it all out at once. But it’s nice what’s out there ... As a pizza fan, I en-joyed it, especially the Ninja Turtles memorabilia.”

And in case you’re look-ing for dessert, Pizza Brain shares space with Little Ba-by’s Ice Cream, a specialty purveyor of flavors like Earl Grey Sriracha, blueberry gin-ger and — yes — pizza.

and one of the first female comics to come out of the ‘80s comedy boom and be super successful.”

Pengra loved the show was about Middle America and how it was one of the first shows that encapsu-

lated what it meant to be a blue-collar working family. Her love for the show runs skin deep as she inked the

crossroad signs of 3rd Av-enue and Delaware Street from the opening credits on her rib cage with the words proletariat underneath.

Pengra said she did not like the term “comedi-enne.” She said that most comedians refer to them-selves as being comics and the term “comedienne” sounds like you might just have a speech impediment. She feels that the gendered terms for artists, i.e. actor and actress, seem antiquat-ed as most go by comic and actor nowadays.

Pengra started comedy in 2011, yet it feels like old

hat when she is on stage. Ac-cording to Pengra, a perfor-mance background is what brings that natural feeling to her stand up.

“Yeah, comedy was always something I wanted to try,” Pengra said. “I had per-formed with either debate or theatre since high school and after college I went to LA to be an actor and joined a comedy group.”

After tiring of Los Ange-les, Pengra moved to Austin in 2010. She explained that she and her roommate in Austin decided one night, the night she broke up with a boyfriend, to hit up an open

mic night at Kick Butt Cof-fee. “You know you always take out a friend when they break up with someone, well, I wanted my break-up dinner to be stand-up,” Pen-gra explained.

Friend and fellow comic Roxy Castillo has seen Pen-gra since the very beginning of her comedic career.

“She’s personable, like your best friend from mid-dle school just shooting the shit and telling a story on stage,” Castillo said. “She’s grown leaps and bounds since she first started in the Austin comedy scene. She has developed her voice and confidence beautifully in the last year and what I respect about her is that she’s a go-getter.”

Pengra imparted that getting to know people and building rapport is a huge part of doing comedy in this town. Trying the Fun-niest Person in Austin com-petition is also a huge step to getting recognition as Comedy Central and other networks show up to take a look at the comics’ sets. Pengra’s second attempt at the competition won her best joke of the night and a shout out from Cap City Comedy Club’s owner in an email mentioning how funny she was and offering her a spot hosting at the legendary venue.

Pengra had a couple of words of advice for anyone looking to get into comedy.“If you get good at your own shit there’s plenty of places to move up,” Pen-gra said. “A lot of new kids think they deserve a lot without having to work for it. There are like ‘Hey, I’m here! Put me on your show!’ but don’t put the ef-fort in and pay their dues.”

There are a lot of avenues to try to get your art out in the public around Austin, and Pengra has tried a lot of them and guaranteed she has made everyone laugh while she was there.

Pengra hosts The Late Slots, which is billed as Aus-tin’s most outrageous com-ics do their nastiest, most offensive jokes at 11:30 p.m. every Friday night at The Velveeta Room.

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Pizza Brain parlor opens as first pizza museumBy Kathy Matheson

Associated Press

COMIC continues from page 10

— Sean McGettrick,Customer

As a pizza fan, Ienjoyed it,

especially for the Ninja Turtles memorabilia.

‘‘

Matt Rourke | Associated PressBrian Dwyer serves up a costumer’s order at Pizza Brain where visitors can eat a slice or two of artisan pie while gawking at a pizza-related memorabilia in Philadelphia.

Let us count the ways: He holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase “Totally sauc-esome!”; and he is the driv-ing force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the na-tion’s first pizza museum.

The quirky but unassuming establishment that Dwyer just opened with three partners in Philadelphia is part art gal-lery, part eatery. It’s a place to enjoy a slice or two of artisan pie while gawking at pizza-re-lated photos, records, knick-knacks and videos.

“We thought it was a funny idea, and we started doing some research,” Dwyer said. “And when we discovered that nowhere on earth was there a physical place, a monument built to pizza, we said, ‘This is going to be huge.’”

He was right: Hundreds of people turned out for the Sept. 7 grand opening of Pizza Brain, which occupies a pair of row house storefronts in the city’s Fishtown neighborhood.

One wall is covered with framed pizza-related photos and magazine covers; an-other boasts dozens of vinyl records, like the soundtrack to “Mystic Pizza” and a holi-day album from Domino’s. Display boxes are scattered throughout the eclectic space — including built into the floor — to show off piz-za-bearing figurines from Homer Simpson and Spider-Man to the Tasmanian Devil

and Pillsbury Doughboy. A cluster of small TVs plays pizza-related shows, while a huge pizza mural surrounds the back patio.

Dwyer, 28, said he had a nom-inal assemblage of mementoes a couple of years ago when friends decided to create an art exhibit called Give Pizza Chance. Re-action was so positive that he continued collecting, becoming the world-recorder holder with 561 items in July 2011. He now owns a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Drop arcade game and Star Trek Enterprise pizza cutter.

A few months later, Dw-yer quit his supermarket job to work on Pizza Brain full time. He and his team bought the row houses and raised some dough online — more than $16,500 — through the crowd-funding website Kick-starter. Grassroots publicity and social media created ma-jor local buzz.

Dwyer said he was caught completely off-guard by the overwhelming response. At the same time, he added that it’s not surprising so many people identify with pizza, which he calls “the great equalizer” and “the only food synonymous with the word ‘party’.”

“I think that’s why pizza is so powerful — it’s inher-ently communal,” Dwyer said. “Pizza is one of the few things that everyone can agree on.”

But only a sliver of the ever-growing memorabilia collection is on view. Dwyer values curation over quantity and plans to rotate exhibit items at Pizza Brain, noting the beauty of the project is that it’s not stagnant.

“I think, at the end of the day, it’s this big art installa-tion masquerading around as a pizza shop,” Dwyer said.

Speaking of which, what about the pizza? The menu offers pies with an array of ar-tisan ingredients and offbeat toppings, including beef bris-ket, pulled pork and meatloaf; one pizza made with gruyere, mozzarella, caramelized on-ions and fresh thyme tastes like French onion soup.

On his first visit to the shop last week, customer Sean McGettrick said that while he’d heard talk about the fancy pies, he wanted to play it safe. He downed a plain slice garnished with ba-sil leaves, gave it a thumbs-up and pledged to return.

As for the decor, McGettrick said, “Obviously they can’t have it all out at once. But it’s nice what’s out there ... As a pizza fan, I en-joyed it, especially the Ninja Turtles memorabilia.”

And in case you’re look-ing for dessert, Pizza Brain shares space with Little Ba-by’s Ice Cream, a specialty purveyor of flavors like Earl Grey Sriracha, blueberry gin-ger and — yes — pizza.

and one of the first female comics to come out of the ‘80s comedy boom and be super successful.”

Pengra loved the show was about Middle America and how it was one of the first shows that encapsu-

lated what it meant to be a blue-collar working family. Her love for the show runs skin deep as she inked the

crossroad signs of 3rd Av-enue and Delaware Street from the opening credits on her rib cage with the words proletariat underneath.

Pengra said she did not like the term “comedi-enne.” She said that most comedians refer to them-selves as being comics and the term “comedienne” sounds like you might just have a speech impediment. She feels that the gendered terms for artists, i.e. actor and actress, seem antiquat-ed as most go by comic and actor nowadays.

Pengra started comedy in 2011, yet it feels like old

hat when she is on stage. Ac-cording to Pengra, a perfor-mance background is what brings that natural feeling to her stand up.

“Yeah, comedy was always something I wanted to try,” Pengra said. “I had per-formed with either debate or theatre since high school and after college I went to LA to be an actor and joined a comedy group.”

After tiring of Los Ange-les, Pengra moved to Austin in 2010. She explained that she and her roommate in Austin decided one night, the night she broke up with a boyfriend, to hit up an open

mic night at Kick Butt Cof-fee. “You know you always take out a friend when they break up with someone, well, I wanted my break-up dinner to be stand-up,” Pen-gra explained.

Friend and fellow comic Roxy Castillo has seen Pen-gra since the very beginning of her comedic career.

“She’s personable, like your best friend from mid-dle school just shooting the shit and telling a story on stage,” Castillo said. “She’s grown leaps and bounds since she first started in the Austin comedy scene. She has developed her voice and confidence beautifully in the last year and what I respect about her is that she’s a go-getter.”

Pengra imparted that getting to know people and building rapport is a huge part of doing comedy in this town. Trying the Fun-niest Person in Austin com-petition is also a huge step to getting recognition as Comedy Central and other networks show up to take a look at the comics’ sets. Pengra’s second attempt at the competition won her best joke of the night and a shout out from Cap City Comedy Club’s owner in an email mentioning how funny she was and offering her a spot hosting at the legendary venue.

Pengra had a couple of words of advice for anyone looking to get into comedy.“If you get good at your own shit there’s plenty of places to move up,” Pen-gra said. “A lot of new kids think they deserve a lot without having to work for it. There are like ‘Hey, I’m here! Put me on your show!’ but don’t put the ef-fort in and pay their dues.”

There are a lot of avenues to try to get your art out in the public around Austin, and Pengra has tried a lot of them and guaranteed she has made everyone laugh while she was there.

Pengra hosts The Late Slots, which is billed as Aus-tin’s most outrageous com-ics do their nastiest, most offensive jokes at 11:30 p.m. every Friday night at The Velveeta Room.

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— Sean McGettrick,Customer

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Matt Rourke | Associated PressBrian Dwyer serves up a costumer’s order at Pizza Brain where visitors can eat a slice or two of artisan pie while gawking at a pizza-related memorabilia in Philadelphia.

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Editor’s note: The interviews in this article have been trans-lated from Spanish.

The themed lamp posts and the small benched waiting area, conjuring the Alamedas and the central plazas of many Hispanic cities, announce to the prospective diner that he won’t be in Texas much lon-ger. Not completely, anyway.

Inside, the walls are adorned with maps of Colombia and small “fachadas,” miniature fa-cades of colonial house fronts that instantly remind of child-hoods left behind.

Such is the enchantment of Casa Colombia, a restau-rant of eponymous genre hidden on East Seventh Street and helmed by man-ager Jazmin Nuñez and chef Emilia Hurtado.

Before their partnership the place was originally called “Mi Colombia,” man-aged solely by the current chef, Hurtado, and nearing bankruptcy. Nuñez recalled the times:

“[Emilia] had Mi Colom-bia, and she was about to close [permanently]. Then my husband — an American — said we couldn’t lose the only restaurant dedicated to Latin American food.”

As friends of Hurtado’s, Nu-ñez and her husband stepped in, managing the house while Hurtado focused on the kitch-en. Nuñez’s intention was to partner up for a year only.

“Now we have five years with Casa Colombia, and it’s been going very well,” Nunez said.

Casa Colombia evokes deep-seated emotions in the visitor, Latino or not, with its carefully crafted elements of nostalgia. Centerpiece to this is the food;

a potpourri of South Ameri-can options that are as close to comfort food as comfort food gets. Hurtado’s touch keeps the platters as typical Latin Ameri-can home style as she can.

Pechuga de Pollo, a chicken filet, grilled and bathed in a smooth lemon butter sauce, served with green beans, fried yucca (a potato-like vegetable) and a white rice pilaf tastes like a recipe that a grandmother could have made but forgot to. Much of the same can be said of the Churrasco, a steak served with an olive oil chimi-churri sauce, a South Ameri-can staple. Or for those willing and wishing to go big, there’s the Bandeja Paisa, a meat lover’s delight with beef skirt, chicharron and egg over white rice, fried plantains, avocado and a thin bread called “arepa.” For the fish-driven, the Cevi-che Peruano with fried plan-tain is fresh, limey, avocado-y

and delicious.For Chef Hurtado, a shy

and humble emigre from Colombia, owning her own restaurant was always a dream. But it was not easy.

“I learned [to cook] by ob-serving. I worked as a house-keeper, where I learned a little,” Hurtado said.

After arriving in Austin in 1994 and working in lo-cal schools, she started sell-ing tamales and empanadas from home, as well as mak-ing meals for her group of friends. Hurtado’s dream was always to open her own restaurant. Hurtado is quick to correct with humility.

“My dream was always — not a restaurant like this ... but [just] selling rotisserie chickens and roasted pota-toes. That was my dream,” Hurtado said.

She cites her lack of formal training as the source for the

formidable and homey taste of her food.

“I am not a ‘chef.’ I didn’t go to any culinary school to get any training. What I make are home recipes. They’re not every [Colombian] recipe, but what I can, I make. I’ve tried to preserve that. To keep the food like that ... typ-ical,” Hurtado said.

Hurtado’s effforts have paid off, earning her ac-colades from organizations like spanish news publica-tion El Mundo.

Then, not-a-chef Hurtado smiled a slow, building smile with a bright, honest shine in her eyes.

“My source of great pride is that people come here from all over. Central Americans, North Americans, Asians ... all nationalities,” Hurtado said. “That’s what satisfies me the most. To see that someone of humble origins like myself is making something that ev-eryone who comes here loves. That brings me great pride and I thank God for it.”

With all of its heartbreak, loneliness and womanizing, Junot Díaz’s new book “This is How You Lose Her” carries all the impact of a drawn-out, screaming break-up.

“This is How You Lose Her” is a gut-wrenching composition which — like any great work of literature — builds itself around the poor choices and relation-ships of a flawed protago-nist. Yunior, the reckless “sucio” with a bumbling approach to love, is a rec-ognizable figure to readers of Díaz’s work. He appears to be the same Yunior who narrated both of Díaz’s previous books.

Composed of nine short stories, “This Is How You Lose Her” tracks Yunior’s failed pursuit of love. These disjointed snapshots chronicle Yunior’s child-hood immigration from the Dominican Repub-lic, the death of his older brother and his betrayal of almost every woman in his life. Díaz’s mixed use of English and Spanish slang intertwines through all nine stories though they range across decades of Yunior’s life.

Yunior is older in these stories than in Díaz’s pre-vious books. He is middle-aged, plagued by childhood trauma and struggling through love and a lack of it. As the title suggests, Yunior’s love life is satu-rated with infidelity and its consequences. Díaz is un-abashed in his descriptions of Yunior’s cheating, and his dissection of the emotions that follow.

With the exception of “Otravida, Otravez,” a story

from a woman’s perspective and the only one not featur-ing Yunior, the stories of “This Is How You Lose Her” are agonizing snapshots from Yunior’s life.

As Yunior says, “There are surprises, and there are sur-prises and then there is this”: a broken, inter-connected web of stories that wound the reader in a way that only a master of composition and prose can.

The last story of the book, “The Cheater’s Guide To Love,” sadly lacks the finesse and power of the previous eight. At 37 pages, the length of the story bur-ies the beauty of Yunior’s struggle with a second per-son narration that is awk-ward and often distracting. Few authors can succeed with a second-person nar-rative and, while Díaz does it better than most, the sto-ry is the weakest.

“This Is How You Lose Her,” is a return to first love: the short-story col-lection. His debut collec-tion “Drown” received mixed reviews when it was released in 1997, but was reappraised as an impor-tant piece of contemporary American literature after the publication of “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” in 2008. Díaz’s highly praised novel

was awarded both the Pu-litzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Díaz’s reign in American literature continues in these stories of cheating, loss and the grapple for cultural identity. “This Is How You Lose Her” is more realistic and more compact than the writing of “Oscar Wao,” but nearly every story exempli-fies the narrative voice and concise style that readers of Díaz adore.

The heaviness that set-tles deep in the bottom of the stomach and stays there like a weight pulled down by all of the heartbreak, loneliness and desperation of each story is the bril-liance of “This is How You Lose Her.”

Junot Díaz will be speak-ing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sep-tember 25th at BookPeople.

A recent stand-up show at the Velveeta Room in-cluded all sorts of funny, but Katie Pengra’s funny stood out amongst the other locals. Whether it was wax-ing about the shape of her moles or detailing the intri-cacies of scraping Cheetos dust off her fingers with her teeth, Pengra’s com-edy felt more human than

most other comics’ overly-rehearsed spiel.

Local comic Bob Khosravi feels that Pengra’s connective human element comes from “a sweet welcoming charm that enables her to explore darker premises without los-ing her audience.”

When it was mentioned that Pengra’s fourth Google image result was a picture of Roseanne Barr holding a machine gun, her face cracked a wide smile. It

seems Pengra has quite the affinity for Miss Barr.

“I love Roseanne so much mainly because my dad forbade me from watching [‘Roseanne’] growing up for it being so trashy,” Pengra said. “As an adult, I appreci-ate that it showed the parents constantly struggling with employment and kids being fuck-ups. But Roseanne Barr herself is just a loud-mouth

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Book: “This Is How You Lose Her”Author: Junot DíazPublisher: Riverhead Booksgenre: Fiction short-story collection

Break-up book breaks hearts,details nine failed love stories

Chef keeps food close to homeCasa Colombia

hours: Tuesday-Thursday 11a.m.-9p.m. Friday & Saturday 11a.m.-10p.m. Sunday 11a.m.-7p.m. Closed Monday

location: 1614 East seventh Street, Austin, TX 78702Website: casa-colombia.com

For more, check out our video on Casa Colombia at http://bit.ly/dt_casa

Zachary StrainDaily Texan Staff

After an acting stint in Los Angeles, comic Katie

Pengra is now a regular per-former at The

Velveeta Room on Friday nights.

Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff(From left to right) The Pechuga de Pollo, Bandeja Paisa (bottom), Tamal Valluno (top), and Ceviche at Casa Colombia, a Latin American restaurant in east Austin.

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