The growing diversity of the UT student body has not spurred racial integration in student neighborhoods, census, city and UT records show.

The majority of Asian and white undergraduates living off campus reside in West Campus, while most Hispanic and black undergraduates live in East Riverside.

This trend has intensified in the past 10 years because of a convergence of socioeconomic inequality, disparate living costs in the two areas and alleged discrimination — and some fear it may not change.

Ryan Robinson, demographer for the City of Austin, said population growth in West Campus is the result of massive multi-family complexes built in the neighborhood since 2004 under a plan called the University Neighborhood Overlay.

Many of these new high-rises may not be affordable for

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Students walking along the Drag Thursday morning encountered a curious scene bordered by police tape and local authorities cautiously examining a closed cooler.

University of Texas Po-lice Department officers were dispatched to a call made by an unidenti-fied UT faculty member around 8:23 a.m. regard-ing a closed cooler left at the northeast corner of West 24th and Guadalupe streets, police said. Offi-cers from the Austin Police Department were called in to aid the nearly hour-long examination of the cooler. After assessing the

scene, an officer opened the cooler and discovered it was empty, police said. The case was declared closed at 9:19 a.m.

Austin resident Kati Ad-ams, who watched the in-cident unfold, said many onlookers were on edge as more and more authorities arrived to deal with the mysterious cooler.

“They had the corner where the cooler was com-pletely taped off, and the whole block was surround-ed by APD,” Adams said. “I sat there and just watched. I didn’t know what was going on.”

Adams said when an of-ficer opened the cooler, his relief was apparent.

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that had what looked like a shield,” she said. “He went around every angle of it and finally opened the cooler and yelled, ‘It’s empty!’”

Adams said the mass of authorities and concerned onlookers that had gath-ered around the mysteri-ous cooler soon began to disperse, and the drag was back to normal within a few minutes.

“Very quickly, they were gone,” Adams said.

Tony Ortiz, manager of The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, a coffee shop across the street from where the cooler was found, said the incident did not seem to affect business for his es-tablishment or halt other daily life in the area much.

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UT is filling a void in student financial aid with institutional grants after 60 students did not receive their Federal Pell Grants, a grant ranging from $555 to $5,550 for the neediest stu-dents, because of a change in federal policy effective this fall.

Thomas Melecki, director of Student Financial Servic-es, said the University is still reviewing potentially affect-ed students. He estimates UT will spend $250,000 in financial aid to students who were expecting Pell grants. Starting this fall, stu-dents nationwide can claim Federal Pell Grants for only 12 semesters instead of 18. The federal government implemented this rule to reduce spending on Pell grants by $11 billion over the next 10 years, cutting off students who had exceeded 12 semesters in school.

“We knew we had to act fast so these students wouldn’t be left without grant support they needed to pay tuition and other expenses,” Melecki said. “So we replaced their 2012-2013 Pell grants with grants from the Universi-ty. By doing this, we made sure none of this year’s students who were count-ing on Pell Grants got hurt by the new law.”

Melecki said the U.S. Department of Education notified UT last spring. Beginning this past April, UT’s Student Financial Services published the in-formation online and tried to notify students via Fa-cebook and Twitter. The University is dependent on the U.S. Department of Education to inform it of those affected. Because UT does not have access to the Pell grants students receive from other colleges, it can-not easily come up with these names itself.

“The education depart-ment provided this infor-mation in early August, less than 10 days before UT-Austin Pell Grant recipients had to pay their fall tuition bills,” Melecki said.

While 60 students were affected this year, Melecki said he did not think too many UT students will be affected in the future be-cause more than 80 percent of UT Austin’s undergradu-ate students graduate in 12 semesters. Melecki said the best way for students to avoid negative consequenc-es would be to take 15 hours per semester.

Music studies junior Joey Ovalle said while he is on a Pell grant to help him pay for his college educa-tion, he does not think this reduction will affect him

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When 23-year-old tran-sient Waylon Barnes asked another homeless man on the drag to be nicer to a group of pedestrians, he said he never could have imag-ined he would get stabbed.

The man stabbed Barnes in the back with a steak knife earlier this month and is in jail. Even though Barnes has recovered, he said the transient crime problem in West Campus is far from over, as this incident is just one example of the transient violence that has plagued the area for years. Although po-lice have recently increased their presence in the area and violence has decreased, Barnes and a group of area business owners have taken a stand, advocating for a new policy that would decrease transient violence in the area even more and make it a

more permanent change. Submitted to Austin City

Council Aug. 23, the pro-posal is titled APD Good Behavior Maintenance Policy of the Vagrant Population. It calls for a mandated seven-day-a-week police bicycle patrol dedicated to the area that would run during the day in addition to APD’s cur-rent evening and night pa-trols. The City Council has not taken any action on it.

Austin Police Depart-ment crime statistics show a 57.14 percent drop in violent crime for the Central West area, which includes West Campus, this past August compared to August of last year. The statistic includes a decrease from seven to three violent crime incidents.

Barnes said he was stand-ing near the Church of Sci-entology at West 22nd and Guadalupe streets Sept. 3 when he noticed a homeless

man harassing a group of people walking by. In previ-ous reports, APD said the incident occurred in front of the University Co-op.

“He was talking about beating them up and robbing them,” Barnes said. “He was even talking in a fake Asian accent to make fun of them.”

Barnes said he simply could not bear to watch and decided to give the man some advice.

“I just went up to him and was like, ‘That’s not the way we are going to make any money, by you disrespecting them,’” Barnes said. “So I was like, ‘OK, whatever, I said my piece,’ and I turned around to walk away, and by the time I even got into the middle of the street, I felt it. Wham.”

Jennie Bennett, who is part of the group of busi-ness owners supporting the proposal, has owned a jew-elry stand in the 23rd Street Renaissance Market since 1996. The market is at the intersection of West 23rd and Guadalupe streets next to the University Co-op.

Bennett and other artisans began advocating two years ago to have an increased police presence put in place around the Renaissance Market and its surrounding West Campus area. With the appointment of APD Offi-

cer Gary Griffin as District 1 Representative, which in-cludes West Campus, earlier this summer, Bennett said she has seen their concerns taken seriously for the first time.

Griffin was once fired from the force and sued for beating up a mentally ill man at a bus stop.

In June APD Sgt. Alfred Trejo said Griffin tripled the police presence in the area, which he called a much-needed improvement.

Still, Bennett said the fight to clean up area crime is not over because more officers are still needed and a mea-sure needs to be put in place to make the increased police presence more permanent.

Trejo said Bennett’s re-quests are legitimate, but the issue with meeting them for APD is a lack of available resources.

“We are kind of operating on a lean budget,” he said. “They want a permanent presence on the Drag there, with a separate set of bike of-ficers, but we just don’t have the people to do it.”

Bennett said she under-stands APD’s position, which is why she has taken her plea to the Austin City Council, the organization that sets the budget for the city.

“It was time to take it to the next step,” she said.

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“Only 12 semesters is going under the guise that you have everything fig-ured out from the begin-ning of your college ca-reer,” Ovalle said. “I have a lot of friends who don’t like their majors now, but they can’t change it be-cause they don’t think they can afford it.”

Brittany Lamas, a journalism junior who is also on a Pell Grant, said 12 semesters should be enough for any student to graduate.

“Even if you change majors, it should not take you more than six years to finish your degree,” Lamas said.

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State health officials say a search is on for a missing piece of oil field equipment containing a potentially dangerous ra-dioactive material.

A Texas Department of State Health Services statement Thursday de-scribed the item as a small stainless steel cyl-inder, about 7 inches long and an inch across. The sealed cylinder con-tains radioactive Ameri-cium-241/Beryllium.

A Halliburton crew was taking the cylinder from a well outside Pecos to an-other well south of Odes-sa. When they arrived, however, the crew found the shielding in which the cylinder is transported was unlocked and the tool was missing.

The cylinder is stamped with the words “danger radioactive” and “do not handle,” along with a radiation warning icon. The statement says it isn’t highly radioac-tive but extended close contact could result in a harmful radiation dose.

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ANDREWS — An-drews County and the state have gotten their first payments from the company operating a ra-dioactive waste disposal site in West Texas.

Waste Control Special-ists spokesman Chuck Mc-Donald said Thursday that the Dallas-based company paid $630,000 to Andrews County and about $3.4 million to Texas earlier this month.

He says the payments cover the quarter that ended Aug. 31. Future payments will come within 31 days of the end of each quarter based on the revenue taken in for disposing of low-level radioactive waste.

McDonald says the county gets 5 percent from Waste Control Spe-cialists LLC and the state gets 25 percent.

Environmental groups worry about the site’s ge-ology and contamination of nearby underground water sources. However, the company says the site about 375 miles west of Dallas is safe.

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NEW YORK — The stock market staged a huge rally Thursday after investors got the aggressive economic help they wanted from the Federal Reserve.

The Dow Jones indus-trial average spiked more than 200 points and cleared 13,500 for the first time since the beginning of the Great Recession. The aver-age is within 625 points of its all-time high.

The Fed said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage secu-rities a month until the econ-omy improves. It left open the possibilities of buying other assets and of buying af-ter the recovery picks up.

The central bank also ex-tended its pledge of super-low short-term interest rates into 2015, and extended a program to drive down long-term rates.

It was the package known as QE3 — a third round of quantitative easing, in mar-ket-speak. It was just what investors were hoping for.

“They’re saying that the punch bowl, the fuel for the economy, isn’t going away. It’s going to be here as long as you need it,” said Tony Fratto, a former aide to President George W. Bush and manag-ing partner at Hamilton Place Strategies, a policy consult-ing firm in Washington.

The Dow closed up 206.51 points, the seventh-biggest gain this year, at 13,539.86, its highest close since the last days of December 2007, the first month of the recession.

The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 23.43 points at 1,459.99, also its highest since De-cember 2007. The Nasdaq

composite index, which has been trading at its highest levels since 2000, was up 41.52 at 3,155.83.

David Abuaf, chief invest-ment officer at Hefty Wealth Partners, said he expects in-vestors to keep shifting from safer assets like government bonds to stocks. That could push stock prices higher and start a cycle of increased wealth and spending.

“People will feel more con-fident, consumers will buy more goods and GDP growth will increase,” he said, refer-ring to the gross domestic product.

The stock market had al-ready enjoyed a summer ral-ly, in part because investors were betting on more Fed

action. The Dow has climbed more than 1,100 points since the start of June.

Still, stocks spiked Thurs-day in industries across the economy. Materials compa-nies, which tend to do well when the economy picks up, enjoyed the biggest gain — 2.6 percent as a group. Bank stocks also surged.

This is the third round of bond-buying by the Fed since the financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008. The goal is to lower long-term interest rates, get people to borrow and spend more and push in-vestors into stocks.

If history is any guide, stocks could rally a bit more. In the three months following March 2009,

when the Fed said it would expand its first round of buying, the S&P 500 rose 18 percent. In the three months after the Fed hint-ed at a second round of buying in August 2010, the S&P rose 14 percent.

Some economists and investors have warned that the bond-buying will have a limited impact because in-terest rates are already near record lows.

Critics of the stock rally say investors should focus on why the Fed is acting in the first place: The U.S. economy is weak. Economic growth in China is also slowing, and much of Europe is in reces-sion and struggling with very high debt.

Earlier this month, Ma-rio Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, said the bank would buy the debt of countries that use the euro and are desper-ate to keep their borrowing costs down.

“I’m not buying anything,” Gary Flam of Bel Air Invest-ment Advisors said as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke at a press conference.

Flam added, referring to Draghi and Bernanke: “These two guys are prop-ping up market in the hope it will trickle down to the economy, but after several years of this we haven’t seen a sustainable impact. The underlying problems of debt and deficits remain.”

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Top education leaders in the Texas Senate are examining ways to extend school days and years to improve learning.

Members of the Education Committee heard testimony Thursday from a school administrator at Houston Independent School Dis-trict, where officials sought permission to increase the school year by 10 days at some struggling campuses.

The district also made the school day longer by an hour at some campuses using government grants for at-risk children and donations from businesses and the community.

More time at school helped students improve dramatically academically.

Volcano explodes near Guatemala city

ESCUINTLA, Guate-mala — A long-simmering volcano erupted Thursday outside Antigua, one of Guatemala’s most famous tourist cities, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks.

Guatemala’s head of emergency evacuations, Sergio Cabanas, said more than 33,000 evacuees were ordered to leave some 17 villages around the Volcan del Fuego, about six miles southwest from the colo-nial city of Antigua, home to 45,000 people. Authori-ties said the tourist center was not currently in dan-ger, but they expected the eruption to last for at least 12 more hours.

—Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Richard Drew | Associated PressSpecialist Frank Babino works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. The Federal Reserve unleashed a series of aggressive actions intended to stimulate the still-weak economy by making it cheaper to borrow and spend.

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Imagine your football team in the midst of losing on the field, and an op-posing team player suffers a fatal inju-ry. In response, a yell leader for your team begins a disrespectful chant at that very moment. Yuck, right? Then factor in that the yell leader was a player who hadn’t made the cut to stay on the field.

Okay, now you have the metaphor-ically apt description for what hap-pened Sept. 12, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former yell leader for Texas A&M, whose bid for the Republican presidential nomination crashed and burned with his goofy gaffes, issued his statement criticizing the Presi-dent’s response to an attack in Lib-ya that left three people, including an ambassador, dead.

“Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans are now dead in the chaos of a destabilized Mid-dle East. President Obama said he ‘re-jects’ these brutal acts, and condemns them in ‘the strongest terms’ - yet still acknowledges our attackers’ supposed justification. This kind of language broadcasts an impotent foreign poli-cy that fostered this crisis in the first place,” Perry said, adding unhelpful-ly, “Combined with President Obama’s shameful lack of leadership in Egypt that culminated in the burning of our flag in our own embassy in Cairo yes-terday, it is no wonder our enemies in the region are emboldened and our al-lies are afraid.”

Perry’s statements drew less nation-al attention than those made by Re-publican Presidential candidate Mitt

Romney, who criticized the U.S. em-bassy’s response to the attack by say-ing, “When our grounds are being at-tacked and being breached, [the] first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sov-ereignty of our nation. An apology for America’s values is never the right course.”

Romney took a slamming for polit-icizing in a time of crisis and he re-frained from the same tack the next day. But arguably his initial comments could be considered an understand-able misstep made in the throes of a presidential campaign.

Perry, on the other hand, having just returned from a trip to Italy to promote Texas, faced no such pres-sures to speak out and instead gratu-itously offered his thoughts on foreign policy. Since his days bumbling as a presidential candidate, one can hard-ly imagine anyone eager to have Per-ry lead the nation’s foreign policy. But beyond that consideration, Perry, as the first Aggie yell leader to become Texas governor in the state’s history, should think before he chants.

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Q&A: Former Ambassador Krueger’s perspective

We asked:Perry, as the first Aggie yell leader to become Texas governor in the state’s history, should think more before he

chants.

Daily Texan: When you were serving as ambas-sador to Burundi in the 1990s, you narrowly es-caped an assassination attempt by an extremist group unhappy with your advocacy for the disen-franchised. Could you describe why you chose to take such an active role in the country’s politics, as did Ambassador Stevens in Libya? Senator Bob Krueger: Well, an ambassador is a per-sonal representative of the president of the United States. That’s what being an ambassador plenipoten-tiary means: you have all the powers of the president for United States citizens in that country. It is a huge privilege, of course, to represent the United States anywhere. The genocide I was amid — if you adjust-ed for the difference in population between Burun-di and the United States — was like having ten Twin Towers attacks every week nonstop. Nothing was be-ing reported. There was not a single international reporter there. I thought, I can do two things: I can do what I can to save democracy, and I can do what I can to save lives, and nothing else mattered to me. If I was to remain silent, then who was to speak? If the representative of the world’s most powerful country was afraid to speak, who else would speak?

DT: Does the Libyan government have any respon-sibility for failing to prevent the attack?BK: What we have to understand is we are the old-est continuous democracy in the world. We are an immensely powerful nation, and we still have assas-sins and crazies who do things like killing Sikhs in a church or who take out a gun in a Colorado mov-ie and shoot fifty-odd people. And that’s where we have a strong legal government. Think about what happens where you have a f ledgling government just trying to get underway. We have to understand that their government is still under threat from rad-icals in Libya and radicals coming from outside. The government is seeking their own footing. We’ve had a couple of hundred years and we still have these challenges. We have to put this in a global and his-torical context and understand that their country is just trying to get underway in a democracy. It’s the same position we might have been in in 1777.

DT: How should the American government respond to the situation? BK: I think we’re responding appropriately. We have sent Marines to shore up the defense at the embassy itself. Fifty United States Marines are worth a lot more than that many from any other location, and they will come equipped and trained and ready to protect American in-terests. And we are sending a couple of destroyers that will have drones for observation. I think there’s no doubt that we’re responding with strength, but we don’t know just which group was responsible for this attack, and we certainly can’t go out in another country and think we’ll find the perpetrators. What we need in such instances are cool heads, historical understanding, broad vision and not a silly ‘cowboys and Indians’ approach — saying, “By gosh, I’m going to pull out my gun and get ‘em!” We wouldn’t know who to get.

DT: You were the last Democrat to serve as U.S. Sen-ator from Texas. What realistic odds do you give the Democrat on the November ballot, Paul Sadler, for that seat?BK: Well, obviously the odds are against him. On the oth-er hand, one never knows in an election what can hap-pen. Sadler is a responsible individual; he is not an ideo-logue. He has sought to work with people of both parties, and I think he is better qualified to bring some sort of coherence and comity in Washington than an extremist whose economic and other policies are antediluvian.

DT: What have been the disadvantages for Texas to not have a Democrat representing it in the U.S. Senate when one occupies the White House? BK: I think a Democrat is likely to be a better, more responsible senator and it’s always a benefit, par-ticularly for the second most populous state in the Union, to have connections with both parties rath-er than just one.

DT: What could a Democrat do to win a statewide office in Texas in November, given the polls?BK: I suppose hope, pray and do his or her best. We never know what can suddenly turn an election. The odds are against it, but when I first ran for the Sen-ate the odds were against me — I was up against an 18-year incumbent — and I lost only by three votes per thousand.

DT: What one lesson do you think UT undergraduates may take away from their years on campus that will in-spire them to work to stop, if they have the opportuni-ty in their lifetime, a genocide like the one you made the world pay attention to in Rwanda and Burundi?BK: My own experience in life is that there is no real sat-isfaction in simply seeking money or things. Looking back, the richest experience I had actually was not ei-ther during my time in the Senate or perhaps even in the House. It was when I was in Burundi, an assignment that most people would not have wanted. It gave me a chance to work to save democracy and work to save lives. That was for me an immense privilege. I wouldn’t trade a hun-dred million dollars for that privilege.

“UT should take no action. If the students knew they trespassed, and even if they have already come to an agreement, they still have to pay for what they have done.”Celeny Benitez, electrical engineering freshman from Houston.

“Charges should be dropped because there’s no malicious intent or bad faith in what the protesters were doing, which would be a reason to charge them. Since it was peaceful and there was no harm done, UT should attempt to drop the charges. Even though they did break the law by staying in a build-ing past certain hours, I don’t think it’s something they should be charged for.” Rashi Agrawal, public relations senior from Houston.

“I think that even though there were laws that were broken and they shouldn’t have stayed past five, they didn’t revolt or turn to violent aggression. They went peacefully. If UT already gave in to their demands, they should probably drop the charges. This isn’t going to go anywhere. It doesn’t make any sense that UT would continue on when the fight is essentially already over because they got what they wanted and at the end of the day UT got them out of the president’s office.” Maria Ponce, Latin American studies junior from San Antonio.

Editor’s note: Bob Krueger served in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and on the Texas Railroad Commission before becoming the American ambassador to Burundi in 1994. He spoke with Daily Texan associ-ate editor Kayla Oliver about the death of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the political prospects of Texas Democrats and the lessons of public service. This fall, Krueger is teaching a Liberal Arts Honors and Plan II class called “Heroes in Life and Literature.”

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Every Friday, we’ll hit the streets to ask students what they think. This week we stopped by the Co-op to gauge opinion on today’s court date for members of the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition. Eighteen student members of the coalition were arrested in April when they refused to leave UT President William Powers Jr.’s office after the end of the business day. They had occupied the office to protest UT’s refusal to join the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor rights group that guarantees humane working conditions in facto-ries that manufacture apparel for UT. During the summer, UT ac-quiesced to the protesters’ demands and joined the Worker Rights Consortium, but the Travis County Attorney’s Office is still press-ing criminal trespass charges against the protesters. We asked stu-dents whether or not UT should remain silent on the issue, or at-tempt to convince the county attorney to drop the charges against the students.

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University of Texas re-searchers have patented the concept for a hybrid nuclear reactor that may reduce nuclear waste by combining fission and fu-sion, processes that pro-duce nuclear energy by splitting and fusing parts of the atom.

Researchers Swadesh Mahajan, Prashant Va-lanju and Mike Kotschen-reuther of the College of Natural Sciences Institute for Fusion Studies have received a patent for the tokamak device. Nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gases, but it does produce radioactive waste. This device will use magnetic fields to produce fusion reactions and burn nuclear waste from the fission process. This will generate additional en-ergy, reducing the amount of waste.

Mahajan, a physics and fusion research professor, said in order for nuclear energy to become use-ful, the waste must be de-stroyed. Currently nuclear reactors produce energy through nuclear fission, which creates short-term and long-term radioactive waste. He said short-term radioactivity has a lifespan of about 20 to 30 years, but long-term radioactivity causes the major environ-mental concerns.

“Fusion is still a research project,” Mahajan said. “Its promise is wonderful, be-cause one will be able to produce large amounts of energy for large amounts of time and will not leave

too much environmentally damaging residue.”

Mahajan said they were the first to come up with this technology because they were able to devise a system in which the fusion reaction could take place in a compact machine.

In order for it to be com-pact, the researchers had to develop several technolo-gies. Mahajan said a crucial invention was the Super X Divertor, which diverts the heat produced by the fusion reaction. This made it pos-sible to produce and sustain large numbers of neutrons in a small volume.

Valanju, who also worked on the project, said nuclear fusion generates neutrons that will destroy the nuclei of the waste.

Nuclear power does not emit greenhouse gases, but there are questions about nuclear safety, se-nior researcher Kotschen-reuther said.

“If you replace every coal fire and gas power plant with a nuclear power plant, you not only eliminate the greenhouse gases, you elim-inate the number of people, civilians. These are not coal miners, civilians, you and I, killed from the various forms of pollution produced from the other plants,” Kotschenreuther said.

The researchers all agreed the fundamental drive for their research was to find a solution to the nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants so the tech-nology could be safe.

“I do not ever object to people having high stan-dards from nuclear energy,” Mahajan said. “That is the right thing to do.”

Students celebrated the independence of nine Latin American countries Thurs-day night with music, food and an address from a Texas representative during the fifth annual Celebracion de Independencias.

The celebration was host-ed by the Student Events Center’s Mexican American Culture Committee, Lamb-da Theta Alpha Latin Soror-ity, Inc. and Lambda Theta Phi Fraternidad Latina, Inc. At the event, various organi-zations provided cultural in-formation about each coun-try and offered free tamales, rice and beans to students who went to three or more tables. State Rep. Mary Gon-zalez, D-El Paso, spoke on

the importance of education and political involvement in the Latino community.

The Latino Leadership Council also provided voter registration sheets for the event. Belize, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Gua-temala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua all won their independence during the month of September. Most became independent in the early 19th century, while Belize became independent in the late 20th century.

“We are here to celebrate and recognize our countries of origin and their indepen-dence,” Gonzalez said. “We have to remember the power of community, the power of revolution and the power of resistance. This reminds us we have a revolutionary his-tory. The legislative session

begins in January, so think about the bills y’all want to of-fer. I’ll offer y’all bills or, better yet, fight bills.”

Gonzalez said the con-tacts she made in Latin American organizations as a student at UT were some of the first donors to her political campaigns.

“This celebration brings the community together as ‘familia,’ for you to think what you are doing for the world and what your or-ganization is doing for the world,” Gonzalez said.

Mexican American Culture Committee chair Yadira Ramos Luna said the celebration was planned with performances by lo-cal Latin American musical and dance groups.

“All the organizations that said they would be here

came even though it rained and were really accommo-dating,” Luna said. “I had to cancel some of the perform-ers, but Marimba Tropical came out and played a few songs outside when it was raining before taking every-thing down.”

League of United Latin American Citizens’ UT chapter secretary Karen Grimaldo said this was her second time at the indepen-dence celebration.

“League of United Latin American Citizens is a po-litical organization [that] focuses on changing poli-cy,” Grimaldo said. “We like to come to these events and meet people and other La-tino groups. We are looking forward to a similar event for Dia de los Muertos, with the music and dances.”

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With General Motors, Apple and Samsung all announcing plans to bring new operations to Austin, students looking to work in the technology indus-try will soon have more options close to the 40 Acres.

General Motors announced last week it will build an IT In-novation Center in Austin and hire as many as 500 to work at the facility, which is expected to be in the Tech Ridge area of Northeast Austin, according to the Austin American-States-man. GM, which makes the fifth highest revenues in the nation, will employ software develop-ers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other information technology professionals at the new center, it said in a statement.

Some technology profes-sionals say the GM plan is part of a trend in Austin. In March, Apple announced it would hire 3,600 employees and build a new facility in Austin. Samsung also announced an additional multi-billion-dollar investment in its existing chip manufactur-ing center in Austin. Randall Mott, GM vice president and chief information officer, said a skilled workforce is already in place in Austin.

“The next generation of IT workers, the talented visionar-ies we want contributing at the Innovation Center, are being trained at top computer science schools in Texas and surround-ing states,” Mott said in the company’s statement.

UT’s computer science grad-uate program ranked eighth in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report college rankings among computer science departments including Stanford, Massa-chusetts Institute of Technoloy, Carnegie Mellon and Princeton. UT’s Computer Science depart-ment chair Bruce Porter said the local industry growth has picked up in the past two years.

“During the economic down-turn, frequently students would

need to go to Silicon Valley or New York City or somewhere else for an internship or a job,” Porter said. “So the growth in Austin is going to make a big difference to our students.”

UT’s computer science pro-gram is not only competitive but large, with more than 1,300 undergraduates. The depart-ment routinely sends students to intern and work for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, Porter said.

Porter said the technology in-dustry operates as an ecosystem made up of universities, compa-nies and venture capitalists.

“You need all those things to-gether to make a community as vibrant as what we have in Aus-tin right now,” Porter said.

Tech companies tend to gravitate to one area, Roger Kay, founder of tech analysis company Endpoint Technolo-gies Associates, said. He said Dell was one of the first ma-jor tech companies in Central Texas. Dell currently has its headquarters in Round Rock.

“Dell is very much a trickle-down company, in that second-ary and tertiary levels of the company got rich,” Kay said.

This company’s success spawned growth in Austin, he said. The growth attracted big companies like General Motors and Apple, and it also attracted entrepreneurs looking to invest in tech startups, Kay said.

Tommy Nguyen, a UT corporate communications and computer science alum-nus, works as a software consultant for BP3, a tech-nology consulting company. Nguyen said he was happy to find a tech industry job that allowed him to stay in Austin and use his com-puter science skills. Nguyen interned at BP3, which em-ploys up to 30 people, dur-ing his last year at UT and got the job after graduation.

“We’re actively trying to look for college recruits,” Nguyen said. “We’re one of the fastest-growing compa-nies in Central Austin.”

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Hispanic and black students, who are disproportionately from low-income backgrounds, Robinson said.

“West Campus has long been expensive and recently be-came enormously more expensive,” Robinson said. “Since in-come remains, unfortunately, associated with race, it could be that there is more racial segregation.”

These new high-rises also raised the total cost of living in West Campus, possibly creating an income barrier for His-panic and black students, Robinson said.

According to The Daily Texan’s analysis of demographic data sets, more than 40 percent of all white undergraduates lived in West Campus in 2010, as well as 38 percent of Asian undergradu-ates. Twenty-two percent of Hispanic undergraduates and 15 per-cent of black undergraduates also lived in West Campus then.

These numbers are significantly higher for whites and Asians than in 2000, when only 27 percent of white undergraduates and 21 percent of Asian undergraduates lived in West Cam-pus. Fifteen percent of Hispanic undergraduates and no black undergraduates lived in West Campus in 2000.

In Riverside from 2000 to 2010, the white population declined from 44 percent to 29 percent among college-age people, while Asians declined from 9.7 percent to 6 percent. College-age Hispan-ics increased from 37 percent to 47 percent, and blacks increased from 6.3 percent to 9 percent. The 2010 American Community Survey estimates that 5,598 undergraduates live in Riverside.

“Massive construction started in 2004 and was intended to al-low more students to live closer to campus,” Robinson said. “The plan for that construction was to make the new apartments af-fordable, but the irony is that the exact opposite has occurred.”

The Daily Texan shared this data with city and UT officials, who have not yet returned requests for comment.

A GAme of UNoThe University and the neighborhoods around campus were

facing a swelling population problem in the late 1990s.At that time, West Campus was a medley of small and ag-

ing apartments that did not allow new development, and the increased size of the UT student body had outgrown available rental housing near campus.

Many students had to commute from apartments across town, which hurt the University and hindered student suc-cess, said Mike McHone, a longtime Austin real estate broker who helped design today’s West Campus.

“When you look at the graduation time line, it became ex-tended,” McHone said. “Class scheduling became less efficient and more costly. Alumni funding, it significantly dropped.”

Austin City Council brought the neighborhoods around cam-pus into the Central Austin Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee in 2002 to attract students to West Campus. CANPAC then created the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan in 2004 to manage the future development of the University area.

The University Neighborhood Overlay, or UNO, was a key component, McHone said.

“You knock down [the older, smaller buildings] and build new housing that can house over 300 people on the same piece of land,” McHone said. “What we did was create an overlay to bring the University students back by doing that.”

The University Area Partners, the neighborhood associa-tion of West Campus, and developers interested in the area created UNO. It passed unanimously in Austin City Council in 2004. The University did not take a position on the plan at the time of its creation.

AffordAble HoUsiNGFrom 2000 to 2010 West Campus developers added about

5,236 new beds in high-rises, according to UAP. The average cost for a single bedroom in these apartment buildings today is between $900 and $1200, available listings show.

McHone said West Campus was always expensive, but the construction boom following UNO caused the cost of living in West Campus to stay lower than developers expected in 2004. Developers hoped to make high profits but had to offer lower rental rates because so many complexes opened at the same time, he said.

Richie Gill, a Plan II and economics senior who founded real estate agency Mr. West Campus, said the cost of monthly rent in West Campus has risen by 7 percent every year since 2004 and now runs between $700 and $900.

Gill said most of the new high-rises in West Campus are catering to a luxury market and were not built for low-income students.

“You’re going to get a lot of debt from building on expensive property in West Campus,” Gill said. “It wouldn’t make sense for developers to build these expensive buildings and target them for a low-income audience. The new buildings were more targeting a middle-class demographic from a suburb of Houston or Dallas.”

Today, the demographic makeup of West Campus is much different than that the University.

In 2010, white undergraduates made up 51.7 percent popu-lation, compared to 63.8 percent in 2000. Hispanic undergrad-uates increased from 13.5 to 19.4 percent in the same period. Asian undergraduates increased from 14.9 to 17.9 percent. Black undergrads grew from 3.4 percent to 4.7 percent.

“THe VAlUe of dirT”Brian Donovan, a member of CANPAC and administrator

of the Inter-Cooperative Council, a West Campus cooperative organization, said the cost of all West Campus apartments has

risen since UNO as a result of rising property values.According to Travis Central Appraisal District records, the aver-

age value of land occupied by high-rises in West Campus increased from $50 per square foot to $100 per square foot between 2004 and 2012. This led apartment owners to charge more for rent since they had to pay more in property taxes, Donovan said.

“The property taxes of all the land in West Campus went up when the new zoning went in, and you can’t fight the value of the dirt,” Donovan said. “A lot of the older apartments, students are living there, too, but now they are charging high rates because they can get away with it as the area becomes more expensive.”

These property taxes rose in response to demand for land in West Campus, which became more profitable after UNO, Donovan said.

Inter-Cooperative Council doesn’t pay property taxes be-cause it is a non-profit. Rent for a single room at one of the co-ops has risen from $600 to $685 since 2004 due to increased expenses, Donovan said.

Cathy Norman, president of University Area Partners, said the creators of UNO aimed bring all students to West Cam-pus, not just a middle-class or white demographic.

“What we intended was to create housing for all students, not just any exclusive group,” Norman said. “Now, how we are doing on that is a little bit more of a complex question.”

Norman said UNO has been successful in bringing students closer to campus, but there may be flaws in the plan.

“We probably didn’t focus on ethnic diversity at all when we created this plan. I don’t think it was a priority then,” Norman said. “It takes an ongoing process. It’s not like you can have a static plan for ten years.”

rAciAl TeNsioNEven if more housing becomes affordable in West Campus, many

black and Hispanic students may still choose not to live there, said physics senior Jazmin Estrada. Lower prices may not improve an environment that many students of color consider hostile.

“In certain areas of West Campus, especially where there’s a lot of white Greek houses, you feel kind of uncomfortable,” said Estrada, who is a member of the Latino Leadership Council.

Estrada said she moved out of West Campus to Riverside after hearing about balloons filled with bleach being thrown at Hispanic students and seeing Facebook photos of a West Campus theme party where participants dressed up as “Cow-boys” and “Illegal Aliens.”

Estrada, whose family moved from Mexico to the Rio Grande Valley before she was born, said she lives in Riverside because she, like many other first-generation students, cannot afford to live in West Campus.

“It’s kind of impossible to live in West Campus if you’re a first-generation college student, it’s so expensive,” said Estrada. “Most of us are on financial aid and a bunch of us could maybe afford to live there, but we would have to give up something else.”

History senior Joshua Tang, who is Asian and black, said part of the problem is low Hispanic and black representation in the area. Most white students in West Campus do not com-mit racist acts in the neighborhood but may look the other way if racist incidents occur, he said.

“When you aren’t around people of color and people of col-or are the hyper-other, then it becomes acceptable to do racist things,” said Tang, who is a student associate in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

Tang has also experienced racism in West Campus.“As I was moving into my apartment in West Campus,

someone threw [the n-word] at me from their balcony,” Tang said. “Very recently someone dropped a balloon that had bleach in it very close to me. Thankfully, it missed.”

Tang says some white students believe that students of color receive favorable treatment from University admissions and oth-er programs, which might be why they act racially intolerant.

“There are people from homogeneous areas who think people who belong at the University of Texas should look like them,” said Tang.

Premed freshman Meagan Elferink, a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, said West Campus is less diverse than

most parts of Texas. She graduated from Ball High School in Galveston, where she said different racial groups are equally represented. West Campus seems exclusive to students from a “certain type of background,” she said. She lives in the Castil-lian, a private dormitory at 24th and San Antonio streets.

At Ball, “it didn’t matter where you were from or how much money you had,” Elferink said. “I think that’s a more realistic representation of society.”

The UT Police Department and the Austin Police Depart-ment say they have received no reports of bleach-filled bal-loons being thrown at students.

UT students concerned about alleged racial discrimination in West Campus and at UT will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in UTC 2.112A. The event will feature student panelists sharing their experiences with discrimination at UT.

GoiNG forwArdAlan Robinson, administrator of West Campus cooperative

organization College Houses Cooperatives, is supporting the Affordable Housing Initiative that will go before Austin City Council on Sept. 27.

High-rises built in West Campus since UNO was estab-lished must offer between 10 and 20 percent of their units at “affordable” rates, but the definition of what was affordable was very high, Alan Robinson said.

“Someone who qualified for an affordable room was expect-ed to pay a little over $1,000 per month for rent,” Alan Robinson said. “Those were [U.S. Department of] Housing and Urban Development definitions, and weren’t based at all on students.”

The AHI will change the definition of an affordable room from city-wide averages based on families to a different algo-rithm, lowering it to about $700, he said.

“That’s still pretty high, but I think it’s going to help a lot of people out,” he said.

The AHI will also change the definition of an affordable unit to an affordable bedroom, which Alan Robinson says will double the number of affordable rooms in West Campus.

“They currently have to provide about 20 percent of their units at affordable rates,” he said. “By changing the definition to bedrooms, we think we can double the number of people living in affordable housing.”

West Campus faces both economic and racial challenges. For students choosing whether to live in the neighborhood, the two often go hand in hand.

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— Joshua Tang,History senior

When you aren’t around people of color and people of color are the

hyper-other, then it becomes

acceptable to do racist things.

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‘‘It’s kind of impossible to live in West Campus if you’re a first-generation college student. It’s so expensive. Most of us are on financial aid and a bunch of us could maybe afford to live there, but we would have to give up something else.

— Jazmin Estrada, physics senior

assessing asian affluence (2010)

AsiansTotal6,858

West Campus2619

East Riverside491

Asians have the second highest median income in Texas, and their affluence may explain their unique growth in West Campus.

where minorities live (2010)

Hispanics

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Total

7,462

1800

West Campus

1624

262

East Riverside

4161

1121

A large number of college age blacks and Hispanics continue to live in East Riverside, where the number of college age whites dropped by more than half between 2000 and 2010.

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A� er only three months of club volleyball, freshman Sara Hattis walked onto the 40 Acres as Prep Volleyball’s No. 9 recruit in the nation in 2012. � e New Mexico na-tive was originally recruited by colleges across the coun-

try to play basketball. As a senior, Hattis was in the top 100 nationally for women’s basketball before deciding that volleyball was where she wanted to be.

“I played basketball my whole life, and I still love the game,” Hattis said of her decision to play vol-leyball in college. “It was a

matter of the team and the school for me ... it ended up being volleyball because of Texas.”

In high school, Hattis was named the New Mexico Play-er of the Year for volleyball in her senior season. As a ju-nior and a senior, she earned a spot on the all-state team in New Mexico. In her � nal sea-

son at Cleveland High School, she posted a .485 hitting av-erage with 289 kills, num-bers that would make any coach salivate.

In fact, although it is not widely known, Hattis is a triple threat. In high school she also competed with the track and � eld team during her junior and senior sea-

sons. Her team won the state title in New Mexico during her senior season, with Hat-tis � nishing second in the high jump.

Head coach Jerritt Elliott said Hattis has a quick arm swing, and he expects her to be one of the best blockers on

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Sara Hattis (15) prepares to receive a set from Nicole Dalton (7). A former basketball standout, Hattis is adjusting to her new role playing vol-leyball for Texas. The Longhorns will take on Illinios Friday as part of Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational.

By Sara Beth Purdy

Saturday’s matchup be-tween Ole Miss and Texas pits the SEC against the Big 12 in ESPN’s College Football Finale. However, for the thousands of Long-horn fans making their way to Oxford, Miss. this week-end, there may be more buzz around the tailgating scene than the game itself.

The Grove at Ole Miss is known nationwide for the tailgating atmosphere that makes Oxford truly one of the greatest experiences in all of college football.

Longhorn fans can ex-pect to see tents sitting one beside the other and a large array of spreads as far as the eye can see. Chande-liers will hang from tents with tables covered with tablecloths, while thou-sands of fans dressed in red hold the drink of their choice. The late kickoff on Saturday will give Texas fans in Oxford plenty of time to spend in the Grove and walk around a cam-pus that was voted the most beautiful campus in the country by Newsweek in 2011.

As kickoff gets closer, fans can turn their atten-tion toward the Walk of Champions — a tradition-al walk the football team makes through the Grove on their way to the stadi-um roughly two hours be-fore game time. It’s a sight that must be seen on game day in Oxford.

When game time ar-rives, Longhorn fans should make their way to-ward Vaught-Hemingway Stadium for the matchup Texas and Ole Miss fans everywhere have been waiting for.

A disastrous non-confer-ence season comes to an end for Texas soccer this weekend. � e Longhorns have limped out to a 2-6 start this season. Now they’re looking down the barrel of Big 12 play start-ing next week. First on tap for this weekend, the Longhorns host Fresno State Friday.

� e Bulldogs may be the team that � nally gets the Longhorns out of their funk. Fresno State is 0-4-3 and have given up 10 goals in their last three games while only scor-ing three. In their three games against ranked opponents, the Bulldogs have been shut

out while allowing nine goals. Meanwhile, Texas has given up 11 goals in its last four games while only being able to score one.

While it is likely that these two teams could play to a draw — something Fresno State is certainly used to — one of these teams is bound to get a break tonight and pick up a much-needed win this season.

� e game will kick o� at 8 p.m. and will be shown on the Longhorn Network.

Texas’ � nal non-confer-ence game will come Sunday against Denver. � e Pioneers

are riding a six-game un-beaten streak, in which they have won � ve games and tied once. Denver is coming o� of a strong two-game showing at the Denver University Invi-tational, where it beat Colo-rado 4-1 and later beat UC Irvine 4-0.

Denver will be one of the stronger teams to face Texas in non-conference play, but it will be coming into Austin two days a� er a showdown in Lawrence against a solid Kan-sas team that hasn’t lost since mid-August.

Texas may be able to take advantage of the Pioneers’

fatigue a� er Friday’s game against the Jayhawks. Texas and Denver will kick o� at 7 p.m., and the match will be shown on the Longhorn Net-work before the Texas begins conference play against Iowa State next week.

� ey say actions speak louder than words. With that said, the Longhorns intend to let their rackets do all the talk-ing this season.

� e women’s tennis squad comes into the 2012-2013 sea-son returning six athletes from a team that � nished No. 10 in the � nal Intercollegiate Ten-nis Association team poll. De-spite a strong year that saw the Longhorns claim a Big 12 title, a loss in the round of 16 at the NCAA Championships leaves some un� nished business for this year.

“We are just excited for play to begin this fall,” head coach Patty Fendick-McCain said. “� is team has been training hard, and the ladies are ready

to start their � rst competi-tion.”

Leading the team will be senior Aeriel Ellis, who en-ters this season as the No. 20 ranked singles player in the country. Ellis earned her sec-ond consecutive ITA singles All-America selection last sea-son and has also advanced to the round of 16, improving on their 2011 � nish, where they made it to the round of 32 at the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship.

Sophomore Lina Padegi-maite is coming o� of a spec-tacular freshman campaign that saw her post a 22-5 singles record en route to being named Big 12 Freshman of the Year. Junior Elizabeth Begley posted

an impressive 34-7 overall sin-gles record, including a perfect 9-0 mark in conference play last season. Padegimaite and Begley will likely move to the top of the lineup with the de-parture of Krista Damico.

Sophomore Noel Scott will also look to carry some of the load for the ladies as she is coming o� of an impressive freshman season much like her doubles partner Padegi-maite. � e pair enters this sea-son as the No. 18 ranked duo in the country.

� e Longhorns will be one of 16 teams to begin their sea-sons this weekend at the Duke Fab-Four Invitational.

“� ere will be several highly ranked players at this Duke

tournament,” Fendick-McCain said. “It will be a great oppor-tunity to challenge ourselves as we start o� the fall season.”

� e tournament has a strong � eld that features play-ers from Illinois, North Caro-lina, Alabama, Yale and tour-nament host Duke, with play beginning Friday a� ernoon.

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By David Collier

Daily Mississippian Sports Editor

� e Texas Longhorns’ high-ly touted men’s tennis team is looking to get its fall season o� to a good start this week-end, playing in two separate tournaments in two di� erent parts of the country. Head

coach Michael Center and a group of underclassmen will head to Midland to compete in the Racquet Club Collegiate Invi-

tational, while assis-tant head coach

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where they will compete in the Olympia Fields Club Invitational.

Heading to Midland are freshmen Andrew Korinek and Nick Naumann, along with sophomores Jacoby Lewis and Joey Swaysland. � e tournament hosts athletes from 14 di� erent schools, including Texas A&M and a number of other Big 12 schools. � e Longhorns are no strangers to success out in Midland as senior Daniel Whitehead won the tourna-ment last year.

On the other side of the country, the Longhorns will bring junior David Holiner

and a trio of seniors made up of Chris Camillone, Alex Hill-iard and Ben Chen. Holiner and Camillone, open the fall season as the eighth-ranked doubles team.

Texas has four players ranked nationally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, but only Holiner, ranked 99th, will be competing this weekend. Ho-liner � nished his sophomore campaign with a 25-8 record and All-Big 12 honors, and will be looking to parlay that into a stellar junior season.

Both tournaments will be-gin today and carry over into the weekend, with the � nals being played Sunday.

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Be sure to be locked in and focused about 15 min-utes before the game begins to ensure you don’t miss the Rebels’ traditional “Hotty Toddy” chant. By this point, Texas fans will probably be tired of hearing the chant, but when a celebrity asks the question, “Are you ready?” the sea of red packed closely inside the stadium will join

in unison to yell the chant.At that point, it’ll be game

time and the atmosphere should be electric, and ev-eryone will finally get to see what they’ve been waiting for: football.

The game has the poten-tial to be a thriller if Rebel head coach Hugh Freeze can design some plays to cut into the Texas defense. On

the other side of the ball, the Ole Miss defensive line will see where it really stands go-ing against a huge Longhorn offensive line and big run-ning backs Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown.

It should be an epic show-down Saturday in Oxford, and one that Texas fans making the trip will remem-ber for a lifetime.

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the team.“She is going to be special,”

Elliott said. “Things are going to accelerate for her pretty fast. She is a big-time player. It just depends how quickly she adapts to the speed and physicality of our gym.”

Hattis is a 6-foot-4-inch middle blocker who has big hands and plays long. How-ever, the quirky freshman, who has the ability to make the big plays on the court, barely talked when she first stepped onto the 40 Acres.

“She was really quiet,” said sophomore outside hitter Haley Eckerman. “We just kind of wanted to bring her actual self out.”

Not long after summer workouts began, Eckerman and fellow sophomore mid-dle blocker Khat Bell took Hattis under their wing in an attempt to bring the person-ality out of the shy freshman.

“When she first got here, it was kind of like me, her and Eckerman,” Bell said of the trio.

Bell claims they are not like the Three Musketeers. Through their friendship, they have forced Hattis out of her shell and it has really shown.

“Sara, she’s just quirky,” Bell said. “She is not like Haley; she is not like me. She kind of fits in the middle; she balances us out.”

The No. 6 Longhorns will face No. 23 Illinois Friday in the first round of the Time Warner Cable Texas Invita-tional, hosted by the Long-horns at Gregory Gym. Over

the weekend, Texas will play three games, one each against Illinois, the University of Cincinnati and the Univer-sity of Central Florida.

Friday’s game against the Fighting Illini marks the sixth game against a ranked opponent so far this season. Against ranked opponents, the Longhorns are 3-2, the losses coming to No. 4 Penn State on the road and No. 14 Minnesota at home. As of last weekend’s match against Min-nesota, Texas leads the nation in blocks per set at 3.46. This ranks fourth in the Texas record books.

The series record between the Illini and the Longhorns is tied at five games apiece. The two teams last met in Decem-ber of 2010 when the Long-horns beat the Illini in five sets during the NCAA Wom-en’s Volleyball Champion-ship semi-final match played in Austin.

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— Jerritt Eliott Head coach

Things are going to accelerate for her pretty fast...it just

depends how quickly she adapts to the speed and

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Ole Miss fans celebrate game day in Oxford. The Grove provides an atmosphere like no other in college football with the Walk of Champions and the “Hotty Toddy” chant.

buck him off my back. The UT judo club doesn’t

have many female members despite its recruiting efforts. I don’t know why. As Mikae-la Estep, the club’s treasurer, points out, in judo “even

if someone much heavier comes at you, you should still be able to throw them.” Although the intensity of martial arts may scare off some women, their fears are unfounded — if I can throw a man after a single class, any woman can.

After I learn the throws, Che Valdez, volunteer judo coach, teaches the class a

choking technique. In need of a partner, I walk up to a fellow newbie. “Hello,” I say. “May I choke you?”

An hour and 40 minutes into the two-hour class, we begin to actually spar. Across the mats, pairs of students bow to each other and commence grappling. I look on, terrified. But like I told Peter at the door, I

am here for judo. I take a deep breath and walk up to Brittany, the timid biology major. “Hey, you want to spar?” I ask. “Sure,” she says quietly, looking down at the ground.

We kneel on the mat and each give a little awkward laugh about not knowing the proper way to bow. “So ... ” I say, unsure how to

begin fighting to the death (or, more accurately, to the tap out). I take a cautious move toward her. She pins me down so quickly it barely registers, except that it does — as confusion. Did the painfully shy girl I met at the beginning of class just pin my head under her armpit?

Texas Judo holds meet-ings in the Recreational

Sports Center every Mon-day, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The first few meet-ings are free, but semester dues for longer-term mem-berships are $35 and include the price of a Texas Judo T-shirt. Either to man up or just to have fun, there’s no reason not to try it — af-ter all, there’s no kicking or punching involved.

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“Haywire,” 2012 “The Grey,” 2012

Between last fall’s squirmy “Contagion” and this summer’s abs-centric “Magic Mike,” Steven Soderbergh cranked out this fun little number. “Haywire” came and went from theaters this January, lost amid higher-profile Oscar bait. It’s a shame, too, because “Haywire” is a massively-entertaining spy movie, with Soderbergh’s stylish touch and featuring an uneven but com-pelling turn by mixed martial arts star Gina Carano. The film deserves to find an audience on home video, and its slick, ret-ro pleasures and star-studded cast make it an easy, fun watch.

Way on the other end of the spectrum, “The Grey” is a film that was completely bungled by its marketing campaign, which promised Liam Neeson fighting wolves. Instead, audi-ences got a somber, heavy story of men struggling to survive in a hostile climate, bolstered by intimate directing from Joe Carnahan and a devastating performance from Liam Neeson. “The Grey” is easily one of the best films of 2012 to date, and one that absolutely warrants a second look.

Did you wish “The Hunger Games” was a little more ... splat-ter-y? Then you’ll love “Battle Royale,” a Japanese take on a similar premise. A few dozen schoolchildren are tossed on an island, given weapons and told they have three days to kill each other. Predictably, chaos ensues. The film is a notorious cult classic that didn’t receive a U.S. release until this year, and it’s full of distinct characters, shocking gallows humor and memorable moments of adolescent angst and bloodshed.

“Battle Royale,” 2000

Anyone with a weak spot for underdog films will find plenty to like in “Goon,” a bloody, hilarious look at hockey players whose sole purpose is to beat the stuffing out of each other. Seann William Scott stars as a dim-witted but sweet bouncer who’s recruited to the local hockey team after a mid-game brawl with a player in the stands. Scott gives an unexpect-edly touching, human performance here, and even better is Liev Schreiber’s grizzled, quiet role as an older goon who sees Scott as a threat to his legacy.

“Goon,” 2012 “Bronson,” 2009

With “Lawless” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” Tom Hardy has been having a hell of a year, but the role that alerted audi-ences to Hardy’s talents was “Bronson.” “Drive” director Ni-colas Winding Refn helms this biopic of notorious criminal Charles Bronson. Hardy tears into the role, displaying great range with a performance that is equally charismatic and ter-rifying. The film is also an excellent showcase for Refn, who gets a chance to try out the delicate pacing punctuated with bursts of brutality that makes “Drive” so entertaining.

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Director: Michael DowseGenre: ComedyRuntime: 92 minutes

Director: Nicolas Winding RefnGenre: BiopicRuntime: 92 minutes

Director: Steven SoderberghGenre: ActionRuntime: 93 minutes

Director: Kinji FukasakuGenre: ActionRuntime: 114 minutes

Director: Joe CarnahanGenre: DramaRuntime: 117 minutes

The beginning of the semester is always brutal for the college student’s wallet. The combination of stupidly expensive textbooks, typically abrasive Texas weather and slim pickings at the multiplex are more than enough reasons to take shelter and turn your sights to Netflix. The Daily Texan has sifted through the thousands of films available and came up with a few recent releases that are worth adding to your queue.

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“You here for Judo?” Peter Hoang asks chipperly. I am, in fact, here for judo — part-ly because I am interested in the sport and partly because my editors liked the idea of forcing me into strenuous physical activity. Looking around the room, I see that I have arrived early. Only about seven other people are hanging around on the mat-covered floor.

Sensing that I might have to do some sort of physical warm-up activity if I don’t busy myself, I begin to ques-tion Peter. He tells me he has been practicing judo for eight years, ever since his dad unilaterally decided that judo was the best sport for him. Peter’s dad made a good call: Peter is now the president of Texas Judo, UT’s judo club. So, I ask Peter, what makes judo different from other martial arts?

“Judo is Japanese martial art that does not include striking, so no kicking or punching like in karate. It’s full-on grappling. You win a judo match either by throw-ing, pinning or submitting your opponent for an ippon, which in Japanese means per-fect score,” Peter explained.

When he says this, I pri-vately panic. I had imagined this class would in some ways resemble the karate montag-es in the cartoon “Sponge-Bob SquarePants,” but I recall SpongeBob mainly waving his arms in slicing motions. I had suspected, coming into this class, that I could wave my arms in slicing motions and would, therefore, be okay. But grapple? The only person I have ever “grappled” with is my little sister, and I only did that to gain back control of the remote. (I lost.)

I turn to my judo class-mates and ask them why they chose to spend their Wednes-day night grappling. Brittany Rood, a shy fellow judo class-mate in only her third class, shrugs and explains, “I really wanted to try martial arts.” Ian Smith, a computer sci-ence junior, tells me that he just “finally decided to man up and do it.” When I ask him why he chose judo instead of any other martial art, he ex-plains that he “didn’t want to be punched or kicked.”

Soon the class begins to practice falling correctly. Again and again, we fall as instructed, with one hand striking the mat at a 45-de-gree angle. Just like Peter insists, a fall taken correctly doesn’t hurt. But this con-stant falling down and strug-gling up makes me feel like a

novelty punching bag. After hitting the mat no

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Life & Arts12Friday, September 14, 2012

Wolfe’s realism sets her apart

Ben Chesnut | Daily Texan StaffAustin singer and songwriter Emily Wolfe graduated from St. Edwards University last May and has since been pursuing her music career. Wolfe will be performing her debut album “Director’s Notes” at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q this Sunday.

Ju-don’t kick or punch, judo grapples attention

Pearce Murphy | Daily Texan Staff Jonathan Cheuk, Kinesiology and health promotions student practices a “take-down” on finance student Anthony Dang during their Texas Judo Club class in the UT Recreational Sports Center Wednesday evening. The club meets four times a week and offer the first few classes free of charge for new members.

Emily Wolfe transcends the ranks of ordinary musicians. Already the charming inno-cence and genuineness that are all her own are apparent as she confesses that this is her very first time inside Caffe Medici. Wolfe graduated from St. Ed-ward’s University last May and has lived in Austin for more than 10 years. It seems there are many places she has yet to explore and conquer, but her profound maturity and grace make up for any lack of expe-rience the 22-year-old singer-songwriter possesses at this point in her budding career.

Wolfe has graduated from strumming out Eagles’ hit “Tequila Sunrise” on a bat-tered, pawn shop guitar for her parents in her self-described “super suburbia” home, to filling venues across Austin with self-written songs about everything from heartache to family to strange and inspiring dreams. Austin Community College profes-sor Tim Dittmar agrees.

“Emily’s music definitely stood out. I immediately knew there was something special about her,” Dittmar said. “She doesn’t have an ego, she’s not pretentious and, above all, she has a natural talent.”

During a summer audio en-gineering course at ACC, Wolfe approached Dittmar with a homemade CD of songs and asked if he could help her record what turned out to be her debut album, “Director’s Notes.”

“Emily knew what she was doing throughout the entire recording process. She’s very mature for her age, and she has

a very natural voice that makes you believe a lot,” Dittmar said. “She is very real and honest.”

‘Real’ seems to be a theme that radiates through Wolfe’s personality and music, which is a rarity in an industry that breeds more celebrities than actual musicians. She partially attributes this to the cornuco-pia of classic rock and Motown hits she grew up listening to with her parents.

“I think older music just seemed really real back then,” Wolfe said. “The songs move people in a way that’s kind of transcendent, and that’s the kind of music I want to make.”

When it comes to her al-bum, however, real is some-what of an understatement. With a track list of songs all drawn from Wolfe’s personal experiences, “Director’s Notes” is about as close to her person-al diary as listeners can get.

“There were times when I felt like I couldn’t direct my own life, or like someone else was doing it for me, so all of the songs are notes of things that were going on in my life at the time,” Wolfe said.

Wolfe’s goal is for listeners to be able to relate to her songs in their own ways. This makes for a very personal concert ex-perience, a fact to which friend and bandmate, Hannah Hagar, can attest.

“As a performer, I think Emily is relatable on-stage, and that allows the audience to really connect not only with the music but with her as well,” Hagar said.

This intimate connection is established by the way Wolfe gives everything she has to each show, providing the audi-ence with a raw glimpse into a

life that isn’t very much unlike their own. For Wolfe, relatabil-ity is key.

“I feel like that’s the goal of a live performance: to feel like you’re in your room and no-body’s watching you. You’re just putting out an emotion and it’s like, ‘Here’s what I feel, connect with it or not, but I feel that,’” Wolfe said.

Wolfe’s chilling honesty and her natural ease of character, both sparkling rarities in such a cutthroat business, have suc-cessfully charmed those around her and are now being used to charm audiences in Austin and several cities around the state. Wolfe isn’t wasting any time, and she’s already hint-ing at having plans for her sophomore album.

As her tour circuit grows bigger, so will the venues, fan base and already-high ex-pectations for an artist that is quickly claiming her place in the promised land that is the Austin music scene.

Wolfe will be playing at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q Sunday as the opening act for Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk.

By Hannah Smothers Next showWho: Emily Wolfe, Elaine Greer, and Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk

Genre: Folk-pop

Where: Stubb’s Bar-B-Q

When: Sunday, September 16 at 7:00 PM

Price: $8-$10emilywolfemusic.com

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What: Texas Judo Club

When: Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

Where: Recreational Sports Center

Price: Free for your first few classes, $35 for semester-long members

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Daniel Day-Lewis in the trailer for “Lincoln.”

The movie looks sappy as hell, but the man does know

how to look presidential.

Grizzly Bear’s new album, “Shields.” A soaring sonic departure for the ascendant indie pop group.

Archivists in the UK found the � rst color

movie ever � lmed.

Google’s (admittedly problematic) “Bacon Number” search. Find just how many degrees other famous folks are from Kevin Bacon.

Radical idea: What if everyone walked on the right side of the sidewalk?

Sorghum syrup, the new hip foodie

ingredient. Eh.

NBC’s mediocre new lineup of shows. Nothing must-see about “Go On,” “The New Normal” or “Guys with Kids.”

A&M retroactively claiming national

championship titles. Lame.

The iPhone 5’s infuriating new dock connector. A fl eet of accessories rendered useless.

Eating Drag-atarian.Or eating an unhealthy

amount of your meals on the Drag.

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