Budget director Mary Knight spoke with The Daily Texan to ad-dress administrative plans to deal with a reduction of state appropria-tions over the next two years. Total permanent cuts amount to $92 mil-lion or $46 million per year — about 17.5 percent of UT’s state funding.

The Daily Texan: What should students expect to be different when they return in the fall?

Mary Knight: They may see things like library hours reduced, and there could be some larger class sizes. But course availability is a pri-ority. Some of the maintenance on campus may be reduced. Things like trash pickup in the offices and over-all maintenance of the campus may look a little bit less kept over time. I think the important things are being maintained for the students.

DT: What is the process of plan-ning and implementing cuts?

MK: Each college and each vice president has a five-year plan that considers the budget reductions and state appropriations. There is also a lot of room for doing things more efficiently and doing things better. We’ll be doing more work with few-er people. There will be an impact, but we’re trying to maintain the ac-ademic and research missions as much as possible and make cuts in other areas.

DT: What funding sources is the administration seeking to make up for reductions in state appropria-tions?

MK: The Board of Regents re-cently passed an increase in allot-ment from the Available University Fund, but that increase is not a per-manent increase, and the cuts are permanent. We get an extra $22 mil-lion for this year, but for the 2012-13 year, that may not be there. And with the market reductions we’ve seen this week, the [fund] is signifi-cantly impacted by that, so that fund may fall.

DT: What impact has pre-plan-

ning made in this process?MK: It’s been huge. For 2010-11,

we already reduced $29 million be-cause we were planning for this. We’ve been planning for almost two years. The deans and vice presidents have made thoughtful reductions, they’ve assessed priorities, they’ve met with the provost multiple times. They’re really going through a sig-nificant detailed process.

DT: How can students impact budget cuts when it’s such a com-plicated process?

MK: Get involved in the process. The college councils are available if they’re particularly interested in im-proving their college. There’s Gradu-ate Student Assembly, and there are all kinds of student positions within Student Government, including leg-islative outreach. The Tuition Policy Advisory Committee is starting up soon, and there will be public forums on those. If students are interest-ed in their tuition rates, they should come and talk about it and get their voices heard.

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A student-led group continues to organize for increased Uni-versity funding even after many students, faculty and staff have resigned themselves to nearly $100 million in legislative bud-get cuts.

The Students Speak, a de-centralized student-formed group, gives a voice to students who protest against the bud-get cuts affecting their edu-

cation, said Mexican-Ameri-can studies senior Bernardino Lucian Villaseñor.

“We’ve been against all bud-get cuts on campus because we don’t have to take this,” Villase-ñor said. “The Legislature has continued to reduce our fund-ing, and students are the ones who have to pay the costs with higher tuition.”

The group first met last fall after finding out the Academic Planning and Advisory Commit-tee of the College of Liberal Arts

recommended large budget cuts to ethnic and identity studies programs without seeking stu-dent feedback, Villaseñor said.

He said the group has not met over the summer but will reor-ganize in the fall. Villaseñor said students have been watching the administration over the summer after many received financial aid packages as much $1,000 smaller than they expected.

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The Students Speak organizes, prepares agenda for next year

Liberal Arts, Natural Sciences find ways to tighten belts

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Tamara Valdez shows support for fighting budget cuts at a The Students Speak rally on the West Mall. The Students Speak plans to campaign against budget cuts in the fall.

UT’s two largest schools, the Colleges of Liberal Arts and the Natural Sciences, chose to tackle required budget cuts in very dif-ferent ways, and both stand by their tactics.

The College of Liberal Arts of-fered a second round of retirement incentives to eligible professors last month in direct response to

continuing budget cuts that start-ed in 2009, said Assistant Dean for Business Affairs Jamie South-erland.

The college offered 38 packag-es as the first step in cutting the $1.5 million dollars still needed to reach the college’s goal of cut-ting $3.5 million by 2013, South-erland said.

Southerland said by the end of this process the college will have reduced its budget by another

$500,000 and reduced its num-ber of instructors by 10 percent. He said the college has also saved $400,000 by reducing staff begin-ning in 2009.

“It is becoming more and more painful to make these cuts,” South-erland said.

Southerland said the college began cutting from its budget in 2009 by implementing recom-mendations from the faculty-led Academic Planning and Advisory

Committee. He said the cuts were made by reducing staff, teach-ing assistants, assistant instructors and lecturers by offering the first round of retirement packages and by reducing liberal arts’ academic centers’ budgets.

Southerland said the facul-ty committee’s recommenda-tions showed their priorities on teaching and research over

“More online homework instead of personally graded homework, and that makes it more difficult when you’re struggling for those extra

points to get the A.”

How do you think UT budget cuts will

affect you?

“I signed up for a chemical engineering class and two weeks ago they took me out of the class

because they said there were scheduling conflicts, and they

didn’t have as many classes any more because of budget cuts.”

“Losing scholarships would really hurt me financially.”

“It’s really hard to come to campus and find computers that are

open and have the programs we [computer science majors] need.

It’s really hurting us. We have to do a lot of work from home. Three or four years ago there was someone in the [computer] lab 24/7. Now, if

something happens, you’re kind of screwed.”

Eric LarsenBiochemistry junior

Alica BaumhoerChemical engineering junior

Andrew NunezComputer sciences junior

Nasheb IsmailyComputer sciences

UT budget directoranswers questionsabout future plans

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By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

By Victoria PaganDaily Texan Staff

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Editor’s note: This fall, the effects of a $92 million cut from the 2011 state Legislature will become apparent with larger class sizes, fewer TAs and less-than-pristine grounds. For our final paper of the summer, we reached out to administrators of offices, colleges and schools to begin to understand past and future cuts and learn how students will be involved in decisions. The stories in

this paper only brush the surface of the myriad ways budget cuts will unfold, and we’ll keep you informed with continued reporting in the fall.

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“The Staff Council is very concerned any time members of our staff are laid off. We hope that the administration will

continue to diligently seek cost-cutting measures that will avoid staff layoffs within the University in the future.”

— Then-Staff Council Vice Chair Joe Gregory after learning that 273 full-

time staff members would be laid off in preparation for budget cuts.

“There is a lot of tension, uncertainty and fatigue because

we’ve been dealing with this [economy] for a number of years.”

— Then-Human Resources Director Julien Carter regarding

budget wariness and staff layoffs.

“I started school at Brown, and I transferred here because of the Center for Mexican-American Studies. We’ve agreed that this organization

needs to be a student initiative, because we’re in these courses and these centers, and we’ll fight to

keep them in place.”— Then-Mexican-American studies senior Diana

Gomez after the formation of The Students Speak, an organization designed to respond to $1 million

in cuts to ethnic and identity studies centers.

“I think if I were in their position, it’s exactly what I would have

done. But I always thought we [adjuncts] brought a certain vitality to the [classrooms].”

— Former adjunctprofessor Michael Whitney

after learning his contract with the College of Communication would not be renewed for the

spring semester.

“This is not the final resting place for any of the cuts. We’re beginning a consultative process with all the

centers so we can hear from faculty and students.”

— College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean Richard Flores following a

protest by members of The Students Speak in response to cuts to ethnic

and identities studies centers.

“I wish I could say we have budget plans that will avoid all

layoffs, but I can’t say that.” — President William Powers Jr.

after learning the Legislative Budget Board had recommended

$93.2 million in cuts to UT.

“We cannot risk excellence. If [higher education] is tarnished

because of inadequate funding, then there will not be such a

demand for it.”— State Senator Judith Zaffirini,

D-Laredo, during a Q&A with The Daily Texan.

“What we are dealing with here is fewer grant dollars for all of our students and quite

frankly, that means we will have to offer them more forms of loan dollars to help

them fund their education.” — Tom Melecki, the director of the Office of

Student Financial Services, shortly before the office released financial aid packages that

reflected cuts to state grant programs.

“We are collaborating with other universities across the nation to

define the public research university of the future. But some things never

change, such as our commitment to education and to nurturing

the people and the research that changes the world.”

— President William Powers Jr. in an email to the campus in response to criticism of UT research. Powers said

research funding is critical in the face of state appropriations cuts.

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$92 million State cuts in 2011 legislative session for the 2011-13 biennium

17.5 percentCut of state funds, which make up general revenue

$22 millionOne time increase in funding from the Available University Fund

$835,000Permanent cuts to the College of education for 2011-12

$3.5 millionPermanent cuts to College of Liberal Arts for 2011-13

17 percentDecrease in operational budget for the College of Engineering

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outreach. He said they will make more recommendations in the fall.

“We will try to spread the re-maining cuts over two [years] in hopes that the economy will rise and appropriations will begin to

reappear,” Southerland said.Southerland said budget cuts

have been more difficult for the college to make because the col-lege under Dean Randy Diehl has always been efficient and didn’t have much excess.

Southerland said they were the first college to begin making cuts and the first college to consider and implement advice from the student-run College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee.

“We’ve been at the forefront of this and have been leading the way to making constructive cuts,” Southerland said.

Former College of Natural Sci-ences Associate Dean David Laude remains focused on the potential for growth despite necessary cuts.

Laude stepped in as Interim Dean on Aug. 1 after Dean Mary Rankin retired.

Laude said although budget cuts are a reality that come with the position, he does not feel it is appropriate to focus on the neg-atives when the college is expe-riencing a time of growth with three new buildings opening this year.

“In fact, we need to be looking at all of the great possibilities that ex-ist,” Laude said.

He said offering retirement packages to good professors is nev-er an option.

He said the school has only

made a handful of layoffs since the initial budget cuts in 2009, and he believes the number of faculty members will shrink nat-urally when members retire and the college chooses not to replace them.

“We make it a priority to re-cruit, hire and retain good facul-ty,” Laude said. “In the last decade

we have increased the size of our faculty by about 50 members, and we’ve seen research dollars and rankings go up.”

Laude said the college is always looking for innovative ways to de-crease their spending, such as em-bracing technology and using it to replace costly resources. He said the college cut nearly $300,000

from its budget by eliminating photocopy charges and minimiz-ing travel.

“We reduced our records office by 50 percent while getting more done by automating everything in the office,” Laude said. “It’s an ap-preciation for the way the world is changing and embracing cost sav-ing transformations.”

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Schools take different approaches to budget cuts

Geosciences Compared to other schools

on campus, the Jackson School of Geosciences has managed to keep its head above water despite harsh budget cuts.

J.B. Bird, spokesman for geosciences, said the school faced a reduction of several staff members within the dean’s office, but did not have to cut faculty or

the courses offered to students.Research will also not be

affected by the cuts, since most of the school’s research funding comes from outside sources such as the National Science Foundation, Bird said.

The school’s rankings are also not expected to change in any way, Bird said, leaving the school in good shape for the future.

Communication Roderick Hart, dean of the

College of Communication, said he will meet with the provost on Aug. 30 to discuss a five-year budget plan for the college.

Hart said he does not have a clear idea of how much the college will be losing for the next few years, but reductions are inevitable because the budget is not increasing.

H e s a i d t h e c o l l e g e ’ s administration will have to decide if it can afford to replace the position of every faculty member that leaves.

If the number of students stays constant and the college keeps losing faculty members, it has the potential to dilute the quality of education being offered, Hart said.

Another area that might be impacted is buying new technology and equipment, he said. The College of Communication is a very equipment intensive college and technology tends to be perishable. It is not clear if the college will have enough money to replace every broken camera or piece of equipment, Hart said.

“Another category of expense is facilities and maintenance,” he said. “We have a new building that we are helping to pay for.”

He said the college has been encouraging faculty to bring in more external funds in research that will create additional revenue for the budget. Hart said he has been engaged in philanthropic efforts for years even though that is only part of his job.

“I worry about it more than anything,” Hart said.

Education The College of Education will

lose $835,000 in funding for the year 2011-12. The cuts will impact the college’s departments, facul-ty and students as it prepares to reduce unnecessary services and academic programs, said Marilyn Kameen, the college’s senior asso-ciate dean.

“We are really scaling back on hiring faculty, especially tenure track,” Kameen said. “We are not doing any hiring right now.”

Tenure or tenure track faculty members will be teaching more classes each semester, Kameen said. If a professor was teach-ing two classes a semester in the past, he or she will teach at least four per semester in the future, Kameen said. The college has to

maximize teaching loads, because it is not able to replace adjunct or clinical professors that retire or leave, she said.

The kinesiology department will eliminate its aquatics course, because it is too expensive and is not a requirement for any major, Kameen said. The kinesiology de-partment will also hire fewer full-time faculty and use more doctor-al students to teach courses, she said.

The college will reduce the size of doctoral programs because some of them are too expensive to run, Kameen said.

Some academic programs are headed by one person and de-partment chairs are looking to merge those with other programs, Kameen said.

GraduateThe Graduate School is absorb-

ing its share of the University’s budget cuts by not filling vacat-ed positions, downgrading posi-tions and cutting back on print materials for new students.

Assistant Dean John Dalton said the school is an administra-tive unit and is only responsible for scheduling a small number of specialty classes that don’t fit into other college or school programs.

Four positions — an associate dean, the director of communi-cation for the school, a tech posi-tion and a human resources po-sition — have been vacated and not filled since the first cuts be-gan in 2009, Dalton said.

He said other positions’ titles and salaries have been down-graded when possible as em-ployees leave the University and their spots have to be refilled.

“The crux of what we are do-ing is staff based, and those are the most difficult cuts to make,” Dalton said. “People still here are doing more work for the same pay.”

He also said the school has re-duced the cost of printed mate-rial for incoming graduate stu-dents by moving much of the material online. The school was able to reduce the book-length material that cost $13,000 to print each year to a single front-and-back page that costs $775 each year.

Architecture After losing three prominent

professors in the past year, the School of Architecture’s answer to balancing a difficult budget has been to replace two positions with entry-level professors and leave one vacant.

Kent Butler, the school ’s associate dean of research, passed away in mid-May and administrators said his loss will affect research moving forward this upcoming year.

The architecture program, which was ranked fifth in the nation, dropped to seventh this past year after the budget cuts were made. Steiner said you cannot lose the caliber of faculty that has been lost within the past year and also have less funding for graduate students and still be ranked as highly as before.

“We are not able to offer as many competitive packages to our graduate students now because of these cuts,” Steiner said. “Graduate assistantships will be

cut back, which will also impact our research abilities.”

A d m i n i s t r a t o r s s a i d t h e teaching budget was cut to balance the budget as well, which will have an immediate effect on the students. The number of courses

will decrease and class sizes are expected to increase.

“It’s been painful to make the cuts we’ve made, but we’ve been able to make them in a systematic way with good planning and coordination,” Steiner said.

Business As one of the top business

schools in the nation, the Mc-Combs School of Business may drop ranks this April once the next biennium’s budget cuts are factored in, administrators said.

Arthur Allert, assistant dean of the undergraduate programs at the McCombs School of Busi-ness, said the administration is trying to keep cuts from affecting the academic excellence of the school, but that the budget cuts have been transformative, and not in a good way.

The main change students

will notice is an increase in class size. Undergraduate classes were capped at 65 students, with an average class size of 49, but this fall class sizes will increase to a maximum of 70 students.

To balance the budget, the of-fice eliminated an academic ad-visor and an administrator last year. The school also transferred two employees to the depart-ment of business centralization, resulting in four employee posi-tions vacant at the school.

The undergraduate school lost about $200,000 in addition to the cost of the four employees with-in the undergraduate school.

Engineering T h e C o c k r e l l S c h o o l o f

Engineering will bring in 15 tenure and tenure track faculty members through next year, said Dean Gregory Fenves.

Although there have been reductions in staff, adjuncts, teaching assistants and lecturers in the past year, the school is continuing a moderate growth path for faculty hiring, he said.

The school has lost 17 percent of its operational budget in a year and a half, Fenves said, and these reductions primarily targeted staff and administration.

“In our supplemental budget, [there is a] 10- to 15-percent reduction in funding for adjunct professors and teaching assistants,” Fenves said.

Some of these reductions took place last year and some will take effect on Sept. 1, he said. These reductions have made it possible for the School of Engineering to absorb budget cuts and hire top-talent faculty that are expected to bring in more money in external research funds, Fenves said.

Fenves said the school has had a slight reduction in student advisers in the career services area but most of the reductions do not impact students.

Emilia Harris | Daily Texan Staff

Interim Natural Sciences Dean David Laude hopes to promote growth despite a climate of cuts.

Ryan Edwards | Daily Texan Staff

The School of Architecture is dropping in rank after budget cuts forced them to fill vacant positions with entry-level faculty.

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organized a rally and protest on campus last December as well as a march to Capitol in March, said member and computer sciences senior Ruben Fitch.

“I do sincerely believe that the budget cuts can be reversed. It will just take sustained creative organizing on a scale much larg-er than we’ve currently been able to accomplish,” Fitch said.

Women’s and gender studies se-nior Teri Adams began attending group meetings shortly after they

started to speak out against cuts to the Women’s and Gender Studies Center.

The group chose to remain in-dependent from the University in order to freely oppose the legiti-macy of budget cuts without be-ing subject to guidelines and reg-ulations normally followed by stu-dent groups, Adams said. After the Academic Planning and Adviso-ry Committee’s initial recommen-dations, liberal arts administrators and President William Powers Jr.

adjusted the plan and reduced cuts to several centers, including the centers for Mexican-American and African-American Studies.

“Students have traditional-ly been on the vanguard of social change movements, so we have a really important role to play in arming ourselves with the ideas necessary to interpret the infor-mation of what’s going on out there,” she said.

As a mother of two with a part-time job and six years at UT, Ad-

ams said the current model was not financially viable for many students who have other responsi-bilities outside of their studies.

She said the UT System Board of Regents caused many of the problems but were unaccount-able to students because Gov. Rick Perry appoints the board.

“I don’t feel like they’re at all in touch with the reality of people’s and students’ lives, and yet they have ultimate power over us,” Ad-ams said.

Editor’s note: Some colleges and schools did not return requests for comment by press time. We will continue to reach out to them for information.

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LONDON — Young rioters clogged Britain’s courthouses Wednesday, each one painting a bleak picture of a lost generation: a 15-year-old Ukraini-an whose mother died, a 17-year-old who followed his cousin into the may-hem, an 11-year-old gangster arrested for stealing a garbage can.

Britain is bitterly divided on the rea-sons behind the riots — some blame the unrest on opportunistic criminal-ity, others say conflicting econom-ic policies and punishing govern-ment spending cuts have deepened inequalities in the country’s most de-prived areas.

Many of the youths themselves struggle to find any one plausible an-swer, but a widespread sense of alien-ation emerges from their tales.

“Nobody is doing nothing for us — not the politicians, not the cops, no one,” said a 19-year-old who lives near Tottenham, the London neigh-borhood where the riots started.

Britain also has one of the high-est violent crime rates in the EU and alarmingly high youth unemploy-ment — roughly 18 percent of youths between 16 and 24 are jobless and nearly half of all young black youths are out of work.

As the government battles colos-sal government debt with harsh wel-fare cuts that promise to make the futures of these youths even bleaker, some experts say it’s blinkered to be-lieve the riots have only been a ran-dom outburst of violence unrelated to the current economic crisis.

Nearly 1,200 people have been ar-rested since the riots erupted Sat-urday, mostly poor youths from a broad section of Britain’s many rac-es and ethnicities.

In Tottenham, most residents are white but blacks from Africa or the Caribbean account for around a quarter of the ethnic mix. It’s also home to Indian, Pakistani, Bangla-deshi and Asian immigrants. The rage has appeared to cut across eth-nic lines, with poverty as the main

common denominator.There’s a history of racial tension

in many of these neighborhoods, and the riots themselves were trig-gered by the fatal police shooting of a black man in Tottenham.

Economists at the Centre for Eco-nomic Policy Research say such cuts

promise more unrest. “There’s usually something that

sparks these things off,” said Hans-Joachim Voth, a research fellow at the center. “The question is why is it that in 90 percent of these cases that nothing happens? Why is it that some places just end up like a tinder box?”

UKIAH, Calif. — A wom-an who turned her rural North-ern California home into a spa for wild bears won’t go to jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of feeding big game.

After Lynne Gravier entered her plea in Mendocino County Superi-or Court on Monday, Judge Rich-ard Henderson set her sentencing date for three years from now, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. If Gravier stays out of trouble and stops feeding bears, prosecutors agreed to drop the charge then.

Gravier, 77, known as the “Bear Woman,” set up a plush hangout for her furry friends at her 40-acre Laytonville property, complete with a kiddie pool and a buffet of cornmeal and peanut butter sand-wiches, sometimes laced with glu-cosamine to ease the arthritis pain in older bears.

Authorities who raided the property in response to neighbor

complaints last August found a to-tal of 15 black bears who regularly relaxed inside Gravier’s house and on her deck. She also fed 18 cats, three dogs, 40 peacocks and oth-er wildlife out of her home, which was covered in filth.

California Department of Fish and Game wardens called it the worst example of bear feeding they had ever encountered.

Gravier’s supporters protest-ed her prosecution, defending her as an animal lover. But neighbors complained that she drew in bears that terrorized the community by breaking into homes, ransacking feed sheds and chasing livestock.

“This lady may have thought she was doing a good thing,” Men-docino County District Attorney David Eyster told the Chronicle. “We don’t want to bash her, but we have to get her attention and get her to recognize that her feed-ing the bears was causing a prob-lem for the neighbors and, frank-ly, is dangerous.”

Karel Prinsloo | Associated Press

Youths throw bricks at police in north London. Nearly 1,200 people have been since arrested riots began Saturday.

Woman avoids jail time after feeding wild bears

Lynne Gravier visits her former

home last year in Laytonville, Calif.,

as a wild bear wanders onto

the property. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that

Gravier pled guilty Monday in Mendocino

County to a misdemeanor

charge of feeding big game.

Brant WardAssociated Press

Young rioters end up in courtroomsAfter clampdown by police, debate erupts over origins of unrest in London youths

By Meera Selva & Paisley DoddsThe Associated Press

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OPINION

LEGALESE: Opinions expressed in � e Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. � ey are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.

Editor’s note: The Austin City Council and various neighborhood groups are currently exploring options for creating single-member districts to elect members of Austin’s city coun-cil. Currently the council’s six members are elected at-large via citywide elections. Under the four current proposed versions of changes, the city would be divided into six geographi-cal districts. We have asked campus and community leaders to weigh in on the proposed changes. For more opinions on the proposed changes, visit bit.ly/dt_editorial.

The question: What effects would implementing geographical representation, or single-member districts, have on Austin’s city government, and do you support such a move?

You can’t pick up a magazine or newspaper these days without coming across an article that sings Austin’s praises. It’s true that we’ve got a lot of bragging rights as a city, but it’s also true that we’re not without our blemishes. One of those is evident every time we have a local election: Almost no one shows up. In a city that o� en seems about to burst with civic pride, voter turnout in city elections has recently been as low as 7 percent. To me, that’s a proverbial canary in the coal mine; when citizens stop participating in elec-tions, it’s a clear signal that the vital connection between the people and their elected representatives is in jeopardy. To reinvigorate local elections and reboot Austin’s representa-tive democracy, it’s time for bold action.

Earlier this year, I laid out a range of proposed changes to Austin’s charter, the city’s version of a constitution, to go be-fore voters next year. Perhaps the most signi� cant proposal was to begin electing City Council members from geo-graphic districts. More speci� cally, I’ve proposed changing to a mixed system that would add geographic (district) rep-resentation but also preserve at-large (citywide) representa-tion. A mixed system has several important merits. District elections, conducted at the neighborhood level, would put a renewed emphasis on grassroots campaigning and acti-vate a whole new group of voters. At the same time, a mixed system would improve city government overall by ensuring that all citizens have representatives with an intimate un-derstanding of the issues and concerns in their area of town while also preserving a broader, citywide perspective at City Hall. I know that some people believe we are served per-fectly well by our all at-large system and that others believe my proposal doesn’t go far enough. What I know is that the current level of disinterest in local government is dangerous. If we do nothing, or fail to agree on reform, we put our city’s future at risk.

� e function of any elected representative is to gauge the political will of the people, to mediate di� erences among constituencies to form fair and e� ective public policy and to ensure that the bureaucracy carries out that policy. In city government, e� ective representation ranges from determining why a pothole hasn’t been repaired to setting long-range priorities for citywide infrastructure improvements. Over the past 10 years, as members of the Austin Neighborhoods Council (ANC) have participated in the city’s neighborhood and comprehensive planning e� orts, it has become clear that the roles of our city council and city administration have been reversed. � e task of gauging the political will of the people has fallen increasingly to city sta� , and citizens � nd that they must negotiate the terms of public policy directly with sta� . At the end of the process, city sta� presents recommendations to City Council, and there is little opportunity for citizens to communicate directly with an elected representative.

Several years ago, ANC identi� ed Austin’s at-large election system as a signi� cant factor in this disconnect. Because our at-large city council members each represent the entire population (almost 800,000 people), none of them can provide e� ective constituent services. Austin is the larg-est city in the United States without district representation. If truly rep-resentative and participatory, such election systems ensure that district voters’ interests are represented and that each district has equal weight on the council. � e cost savings of running district election campaigns (versus citywide campaigns) would foster more grassroots candidates and participants, which in turn makes the electoral process more competitive and increases voter turnout. Geographic districts are not a panacea for all that ails our city; however, they do promise a substantial improvement.

To that end, ANC supports geographic representation on Austin’s City Council, and we are currently asking our members to review plans for election systems with six, eight and 10 districts.

� e only fair form of representation on the Austin City Council was geographic representation. Long before I was taught in urban history and sociology classes that people in cities cluster by their socioeconomic, ethnic and racial groups, I knew this had occurred in my hometown. With the end of legal segregation, Austin is less racially and ethni-cally divided, but it remains socially and economically seg-regated. � erefore, if all segments of the tapestry that makes up our city are to be heard at City Hall, council members must be elected from all parts of Austin.

We have a de facto single district system now. Four zip codes (03, 31, 04, 01) have provided 62 of the 117 council members and mayors elected since 1971 when voters started electing mayors. � at is, 53 percent of all elected city o� -cials have hailed from an area about the size of one single-member district. If you don’t live in “� e District” — most of Austin doesn’t — your chances of electing a member of the council are very poor. Since 1971, South Austin, which constitutes 40 to 45 percent of Austin, has had 17 percent of all the city’s elected o� cials.

Finally, two federal judges have said we are the only city in Texas that lets at least one African-American and Hispanic get elected at-large. � e truth is no Hispanics were elected in the mid-1980s. Further, we have never let more than one African-American be elected. Finally, the candidates minor-ity communities vote for routinely lose. � e minority coun-cil member is anyone the whites like. � erefore, in fact the minorities are represented in appearance, not fact.

All these problems in a city of approximately 800,000 would be solved by a system of geographic representation that allowed people from all over town and all socioeconom-ic, ethnic and racial neighborhoods to elect whomever they wished. � en we would have more than one single-member district. We would have what radical James Madison thought up: fair geographic, one man one vote, representation.

Aside from the broader positive e� ects, such as racial equality and greater personalization between candidates and their electorate, the move to implement single-member districts will most de� nitely have a profound impact on student participation. � e primary bene� t of single-member districts is the positive impact it has on minority representation. As a uni-versity student, a minority population in the Austin area, having a council member speci� c to my geographic region will bridge the ever-widening gap between students and their municipality.

� e movement for single-member districts provides a rare opportunity for Student Government to take a bold stance on a municipal issue. Sim-ply having a district drawn out for a UT student will not guarantee a UT student will win the seat. If we are serious about gaining representation on City Council and throughout all levels of Austin city government, we will have to focus our voter registration e� orts on a more local level.

We as UT students o� en forget how large of a stakeholder we are in the Austin community. Some estimates put the general student population, including St. Edward’s, Austin Community College and Huston-Tillotson University, at about 100,000 individuals — I’ll remind you the Austin population is about 800,000. Yet our record of voting in local elections is abysmal at best. If we’re serious about this, we’re going to have to get out the vote and make our voices heard where they speak loudest.

City and neighborhood issues such as this are the ones we as student leaders should be focusing more on. As the city of Austin and UT become more and more entwined, we’re going to have to face the fact that the deci-sions made at City Hall can impact us more than those at the Capitol.

I oppose single-member districts because I believe they will create a pa-rochial city council. City Council is already overly tuned to the concerns of a handful of central Austin neighborhoods. Voter turnout in city elections is appallingly low, and elections are dominated by central Austin voters. � e councils they elect, not surprisingly, cater to their prejudices. Cen-tral Austin neighborhoods, for example, are notorious for opposing in� ll development and urbanization, the only viable strategies for maintaining an ample supply of housing in the central city and curbing sprawl on the city’s periphery. � ey o� en elect councils willing to do their bidding.

� is is a real problem, but single-member districts are not the solution. Geographic representation encourages the practice of “ward courtesy,” an informal agreement among council members to defer to the council member whose district would be a� ected by the vote. It makes a lot of sense, from the council members’ point of view, to let each member call the shots in his or her district. But it turns wards into little � efdoms, and it gives council members a de facto veto of zoning changes in their districts. Because so much o� en depends on a single council member’s vote, the system invites backroom dealing, at best, and outright bribery and cor-ruption at worst.

In Austin, “ward courtesy” would sti� e badly needed in� ll develop-ment in central Austin. Central city residents would elect council mem-bers who don’t like change, urbanization or outsiders parking on “their” streets. � ese council members naturally would exercise their veto to block developments that rile their constituents, even when the develop-ments are good for the city as a whole. Austin needs a less, not more, parochial city council.

Austin voters have turned down single-member districts (SMDs) at least � ve times — and with good reason.

(1) SMDs narrow the focus of council members to their own district to the detriment of the interests and vision of the city as a whole. In SMD cities, it is more di� cult to get majority council support for citywide projects. Cities are more than the sum of their individual neighborhoods.

(2) SMDs raise false hopes for individual citizens who feel that such a system guarantees not only a hearing but solu-tions for their neighborhood problems. � ey guarantee only that a citizen will have one council member to hear his or her case. With seven or nine members on the council, one can readily see that this hardly guarantees any action on an individual’s requests.

(3) SMDs reward citizen inaction. I agree, central Aus-tin should not control the council as it does now. � ere is nothing in the present system that prevents any area of the city having a council member who lives in their area — all it takes is to run a quali� ed person and then get out and vote for him or her.

(4) Finally, some decry developers and the public safety association heavily in� uencing elections now. SMDs will not cure that; any special interest will be able to put less money into a district race and still have undue in� uence on that race.

SMDs are not the answer; they are the problem in many cities. One variation that eliminates some of the objections: Require council members to live in di� erent geographical areas but be subject to citywide vote.

Voices around Austin: Geographical representation

MAYOR LEE LEFFINGWELL

AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOODS COUNCIL

TERRELL BLODGETT, UT PROFESSOR EMERITUS IN URBAN MANAGEMENT

CHRIS BRADFORD, AUTHOR OFTHE AUSTIN CONTRARIAN

PECK YOUNG, DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND POLITICAL STUDIES

JOHN LAWLER, SG REPRESENTATIVE AND CENTRAL AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING ADVISORY COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBER

Courtesy of the city of Austin

Under draft plan A, West Campus, Hyde Park and most of UT’s cam-pus would fall in District 4, while Riverside would fall in District 2.

Courtesy of the city of Austin

Under draft plan C, West Campus, Hyde Park and most of UT’s campus would fall in District 6. Riverside would fall in District 2.

Courtesy of the city of Austin

Under plan D, the district in which the UT campus would fall, District 4, would include a larger number of residents than that of plans A or B.

Courtesy of the city of Austin

Under plan B, the district in which the UT campus would fall, District 4, would include a larger number of residents than that of plan A.

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INDEX OF FINAL EXAMINATION TIMES

Class Meeting Time Final Examination Date TimeMTWTHF 7:00 – 8:30 AM Saturday, August 13 7 – 10 PMMTWTHF 8:30 – 10:00 AM Monday, August 15 9 – 12 noonMTWTHF 10:00 – 11:30 AM Saturday, August 13 9 – 12 noonMTWTHF 11:30 – 1:00 PM Monday, August 15 2 – 5 PMMTWTHF 1:00 – 2:30 PM Saturday, August 13 2 – 5 PMMTWTHF 2:30 – 4:00 PM Monday, August 15 7 – 10 PMAfter 4:00 PM Saturday, August 13 7 – 10 PM

The final examination date and time for a class is determined by the class meeting time as listed in the above index. Final examinations for classes that meet at times not listed in the above index are normally scheduled with classes meet-ing at the indexed time that most closely corresponds to the beginning day and time of the class. For example, the exam for a class that meets TWTH 1:00 - 3:30 PM will be at the same time as exams for classes that meet MTWTHF 1:00 - 2:30 PM. If the beginning time of the class is halfway between two standard class beginning times, the class will be grouped with those meeting at the later time. For example, the exam for a class the meets WTHF 9:15 - 11:30 AM will be at the same time as exams for classes that meet MTWTHF 10:00 - 11:30 AM.

Questions about the final examination schedule should be directed to the Office of the Registrar at 475-7600.

FINAL EXAMINATION POLICIES

Note: Classes for nine-week and whole-session courses do not meet on final exam days for first term courses. However, classes for second term and whole-session courses do meet on final exam days for nine-week courses. When a conflict between a scheduled final exam and a class occurs, the student should consult the course instructor(s), department chair(s), and/or college dean(s).

In accordance with Policy Memorandum 3.201, class-related activities, with the exception of office hours, are prohibited on designated no-class days and during the final examination period. These dates are set aside for students to prepare for and take scheduled final examinations. During this period, papers and projects are not to be due, review sessions are not to be scheduled, quizzes are not to be given, and there are not to be any other class-related activities, with the exception of office hours.

The final examination days for second-term and whole-session classes are Saturday, August 13, and Monday, August 15. There are no designated no-class days in the summer session.

There is no University policy that provides relief to students who have three examinations scheduled the same day; in that situation, students may seek the assistance of the course instructor(s), department chair, and/or dean of the college.

The following final examination policies are taken from General Information, chapter 4:

Examinations should begin promptly at the scheduled hour and should not continue beyond the three hours allocated in the official schedule.

No final examinations may be given before the examination period begins, and no change in time from that printed in the official schedule is permitted. An instructor with a compelling reason to change the time of an examination must obtain the approval of the department chair and dean of the college or school in which the course is taught before announcing an alternative examination procedure to the students.

No substantial examinations may be given during the last week of class or during the no-class days preceding the final examination period. An examination counting for more than thirty percent of the final course grade is considered to be substantial.

A change in the room assignment for a final examination may be made only with the approval of the registrar.

With the approval of the department chair, an instructor may choose not to give a final examination. However, if an examination is given, all students must take it and no exceptions may be allowed except pursuant to a uniform exemption policy announced to the class.

For good cause, an instructor may give a student permission to take an examination with a different class section than the one in which the student is registered.

For good cause, a student may petition his or her academic dean for permission to change the time or place of an exami-nation from that specified in the official schedule. If permission is given by the dean and the instructor, no penalty (such as a reduction in grade) may be assessed.

In a course extending over two semesters, when the subject matter is continuous, the second-semester final examination may include the subject matter of the first semester.

A student may address complaints related to the final examination procedures in a course to the chair of the department or the dean of the college or school in which the course is offered, or to the Office of the Ombudsperson.

GRADE REPORTING

Submission of Grades to Registrar. Faculty are required to submit grades according to the following schedule and policies:

For classes having a Grades are duefinal examination on: by 10:00 am on:Saturday, August 13 Thursday, August 18Monday, August 15 Friday, August 19

- Final grades for classes that have regularly scheduled meeting times but no final examinations are due at the same time they would have been if examinations had been scheduled.

- Final grades for classes with no officially scheduled meeting times are due on Thursday, August 18.

Final grades should be submitted online by the instructor of record by going to “Grade Reporting” on the Web at http://registrar.utexas.edu/staff/grades/. Online grade submission is available at all times during grade reporting except for short periods of routine maintenance.

Grade Reports to Students. Grade reports are available to all students, except in the School of Law, at the end of each semester and summer session on the Web at http://registrar.utexas.edu/student/grades/. Printed grade reports are mailed to students who have had a change in scholastic status, earned University Honors, or requested a mailed copy prior to the end of the semester or summer session through the Web site listed above. Grade reports are mailed to the student’s permanent address on file in the Office of the Registrar; however, at the student’s request or if the permanent address is outside the United States or its territories, reports are mailed to the local address.

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ACE Applied Computational Engineering & Sciences BuildingAHG Anna Hiss GymnasiumART Art Building and MuseumATT AT&T Executive Education and Conference CenterBAT Batts HallBEL L. Theo Bellmont HallBEN Benedict HallBIO Biological LaboratoriesBRB Bernard and Audre Rapoport BuildingBTL Battle HallBUR Burdine HallCAL Calhoun HallCBA College of Business Administration BuildingCDL Collections Deposit LibraryCMA Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (Building A)CMB Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (Building B)CPE Chemical and Petroleum Engineering BuildingCRD Carothers DormitoryDFA E. William Doty Fine Arts BuildingECJ Ernest Cockrell Jr. HallENS Engineering-Science BuildingEPS E. P. Schoch BuildingETC Engineering Teaching Center IIFAC Peter T. Flawn Academic CenterGAR Garrison HallGEA Mary E. Gearing HallGOL Goldsmith HallGRG Geography BuildingGSB Graduate School of Business BuildingHMA Hogg Memorial AuditoriumHRH Rainey HallJES Beauford H. Jester Center

FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE, SUMMER SESSION 2011SECOND-TERM AND WHOLE-SESSION CLASSESSATURDAY, AUGUST 13 - MONDAY, AUGUST 15

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULES ONLINE

Students can access their final exam schedules for current classes online. Go to http://registrar.utexas.edu/services/ and select “Finals for a Student.” A public display of final exam information by unique number is also available via the Web site listed above.

Final exam information online supersedes the printed exam schedule below.

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SPORTS6Thursday, August 11, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Trey Scott, Sports Editor | (512) 232-2210 | sports@dailytexanonline.com

SIDELINETEXAS’ 10 MOST IMPORTANT LONGHORNS

Is it a bird, or is it a plane? Neither — it’s Cay-leb Jones.

The 6-foot-3 Longhorn commit certainly stood out at Wednesday morning’s Austin High School football practice, showing off the raw ability that made him Rivals.com’s No. 3 wide receiver in 2012.

The Austin High senior recently returned from a 7-on-7 tournament in Florida, where he suffered two bone chips in his left ring finger. So what does the top receiver in the state do? Simple, he just catches balls one-handed now.

“I’m not even trying to catch with my [left] hand, because I don’t want to mess it up,” he said.

Jones will lead his Maroons through a final season, and then come to the Forty Acres ready to contribute immediately as a freshman, as the overall newness of the program has opened up new opportunities.

“I just want to be that guy they can go to to get a first down,” Jones said. “I want to be accountable, and do what needs to be done.”

Texas has been known for its reli-able point guards in the last decade, and now the Longhorns are hoping their newest commitment can contin-ue that trend.

St. Augustine High School senior and point guard, Javan Felix, commit-ted to the Longhorns on Tuesday, ful-filling his lifelong dream of playing ball on the Forty Acres.

“Texas is my dream school,” Felix told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “It has always been my dream school. For me to get a chance to go there, I just felt like I had to do it.”

Felix is the reigning Class 5A Play-er of the Year in Louisiana and a two-time All-State selection. He led his high school to a 31-6 record and a Class 5A state championship this season.

The shooting guard-turned-point is ranked 71 on the ESPN Top 100 re-cruits, and he is listed as the ninth best at his position. Scouts say he is a natural point guard with an impeccable ability to direct floor traffic but lacks the burst-ing speed fans are accustomed to seeing in top collegiate point guards.

The New Orleans native is not only a top basketball player. Felix is a full aca-demic qualifier as well.

“They’re getting a smart kid and one that’s a true point guard,” St. Augustine head coach Clifford Barthé said. “He’s a leader. He understands how to play the game. Rick Barnes will probably do the same thing I did with him and that’s give him the keys to the car and let him drive it because he knows how to run a team.”

Felix joins 6-foot-10 Cameron Ridley of Richmond, Texas, as the Longhorns’ second committed recruit, and he was Texas’ first choice at point guard.

Editor’s Note: The Daily Texan will introduce one impor-tant Longhorn football player each issue. Here is No. 8 of the Texan’s 10 Most Important Longhorns.

Being tabbed a five-star recruit and regarded as the best at your position coming out of high school can sometimes be more of a burden than cause for excitement, but Jack-son Jeffcoat is making sure he realizes his potential.

After racking up 259 tackles and 25.5 sacks in high school, Jeffcoat earned a spot on the Parade High School All-American squad and was considered the nation’s top defensive end prospect. With his father coaching defensive linemen at Houston and twin sister having already com-mitted to play basketball at Oklahoma, it was never a sure thing that Jeffcoat would play for Texas. But he eventually decided to suit up in burnt orange, announcing his inten-tions less than a week before Signing Day.

Jeffcoat had 15 tackles, six for loss, and 2.5 sacks last year and would have had more if he hadn’t missed four games with a high ankle sprain. Now that Jeffcoat begins his first season as a full-time starter, Texas will need him to stay healthy.

“[Jeffcoat] was playing great,” said head coach Mack Brown. “He was so good in the [Texas] Tech game until he sprained his ankle, and he just wasn’t effective the rest of the year.”

The Longhorns will need Jeffcoat to be effective this year, especially because he plays the position most responsible for making a quarterback’s life difficult. Five of the other nine Big 12 squads brought back their starting quarterbacks, with those five gunslingers having combined for more than 20,000 career passing yards.

“It’s a glamour position in this defense and for sure in this league,” said defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. “The first thing that they can do is rush the passer. It’s a hard duty. It’s a special skill. Everybody can’t do it. The sec-ond thing ... is that they have got to be able to drop into coverage. Our defensive ends can stand up. They can play in space.”

Even though Jeffcoat started only two games in 2010, he managed to display his ability when it mattered. When Justin Tucker hit a 22-yard field goal against Oklahoma, he made it a 21-10 ballgame. On the ensuing possession, Jef-fcoat stripped Sooners signal-caller Landry Jones. Eddie Jones fell on the loose ball to set Texas up in the red zone but was called for offsides, negating the play.

“I think [Jeffcoat] has improved,” Diaz said. “His strength and condition level has gotten better, which is what you’d expect.”

With the beginning of football season a mere 24 days away, head coach Mack Brown and his coach-ing staff are taking a hard look at their team. Fall camp started last Friday and every unit is making noise; from the quartet of quarter-backs to the shorthanded receiv-ing corps to the remarkable group of linebackers. Here’s the latest on the Longhorns as they prepare for their season opener.

The coaching staff hopes the quarterbacks begin to separate themselves soon: “We’ll start put-ting guys in more 1s and 2s and position groups and see how they

operate,” said co-offensive coor-dinator Bryan Harsin. “We’ll see what they can do from there.”

Despite the recent loss of Mal-• colm Williams, Harsin isn’t too worried about the receivers: “We’ve got depth at that position,” he said. “Right now where we are, we’re just getting some of those young guys up to speed, and we’ll start to see how they fit in and who’s going to be our top two or three guys.”

Harsin is especially impressed • by sophomore wideout Mike Da-vis: “He’s been great,” Harsin said. “He practices hard, he’s out there to compete and he’s prepared when he comes out there. Mike has a lot of physical tools.”

Offensive line coach Stacy •

Searels is fostering competition: “Coach Searels is moving them around, and he’s done a really nice job of that. He’s putting them in different positions and differ-ent scenarios,” Harsin said. “We’re mixing and matching and seeing how guys compete.”

Defensive tackle Desmond • Jackson has received two Roy Miller comparisons in the span of a week, and defensive coordinator Manny Diaz says he has no fear in starting a true freshman at the po-sition: “We’re an equal opportuni-ty employer.”

Alex Okafor looks like the • star of the summer: “I’m not sure if he knows how good he can be,” Diaz said.

Texas’ linebacking corps has the • confidence of Diaz: “There’s an old adage that your seniors have to be your best players,” he said. “It just so happens that two of our three linebackers are seniors. Between Emmanuel Acho and Keenan Robinson, our leadership has been outstanding. They have a chance to be a really good tandem, but we’re coaching them to be domi-nating players. They want that.”

It looks like a tango between • Carrington Byndom, Adrian Phil-lips and freshman Quandre Diggs for the starting corner spot: “We like the way our corners have been progressing throughout the sum-mer,” Diaz said. “We feel like we have a three-man race right now.”

First-year starter poised for breakout season

JACKSON JEFFCOAT

Defensive End

Longhorns add state champion, top-100 recruit to Class of 2011

BASKETBALL FOOTBALL

Finger injury not slowing Jones down

Andrew Edmonson | Daily Texan file photo

Austin High senior wide receiver Cayleb Jones, who is nursing a finger injury, catches a pass in practice. Jones will play for Texas next fall.

Holes need to be filled as season opener draws nearRECRUIT continues on PAGE 7

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For the third time in four years, Texas was picked to win their conference. And if the last two times the Longhorns were the Big 12 favorite are any indication, it bodes well for them.

In 2008 and 2009, Texas found themselves atop the Big 12 pre-season coaches’ poll. Between those two seasons, they went a combined 37-3 in conference play, winning a share of the Big 12 title in ‘08 and winning it out-right in ‘09. The Longhorns ad-vanced to the Final Four each of those two years as well, coming within a set of taking home a na-tional championship in ‘09 before Penn State won their third con-secutive NCAA title and 102nd straight match.

Last season, Texas went 27-6, including an 18-2 mark in Big 12 play, won 20 matches in a row at one point, and advanced to their third straight Final Four. The Longhorns welcome back five starters from that team, includ-ing preseason Big 12 Player of the Year Rachel Adams, and bring in the nation’s best recruiting class, a group that includes Khat Bell, the preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.

With Nebraska, who won 11 of 14 conference championships during their time in the Big 12, competing in the Big 12 now, Tex-as’ chances of finishing atop the Big 12 standings the way they find themselves atop the pre-season poll, are even better.

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HOUSTON — Retired Houston Rockets center Yao Ming could en-ter the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as early as next year — not as a player but as a contributor to the game.

John Doleva, the president and CEO of the Hall, said Tuesday that Yao has been nominated by a member of the Chinese media, and his credentials will be consid-ered by an international panel. As a contributor, Yao would bypass the usual five-year waiting period for retired players.

The 7-foot-6 Yao retired in July after leg and foot injuries ended his eight-year NBA career. The eight-time All-Star averaged 19 points and 9.2 rebounds in the NBA.

He’ll also be remembered for his global impact on the league, al-most single-handedly expanded its reach throughout Asia.

Doleva said a panel of seven “ex-perts on the international game” will consider Yao’s credentials, and six of the seven will have to ap-prove Yao’s election. The panel is only allowed to select one indi-vidual, and Doleva said Yao will

be facing about 12-15 other candi-dates for induction next year.

The deadline for nominations is Nov. 1. Doleva says a member of the Chinese media contacted him to ask about the categories avail-able for individuals and submitted a formal application this week on Yao’s behalf.

“It has to go through the pro-cess,” Doleva said. “There is no guarantee when someone is nom-inated that they will be elected in their first year. That’s kind of what makes the process work. The committee takes a look at the pros and cons.”

Yao can certainly make a com-pelling argument.

His charisma and popularity helped spike merchandise sales and prompted record TV rat-ings for games after the Rockets made him the top overall pick in the 2002 draft. NBA commis-sioner David Stern called Yao “a transformational player and a testament to the globalization of our game.”

Yao also donated $2 million to set up a foundation to rebuild schools destroyed by the earth-quake in Sichuan province in May

2008. He carried the Olympic torch through Tiananmen Square and his country’s flag during the open-ing ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy, now a television analyst, said Yao deserves Hall of Fame consideration, not just for his sta-tistics but for his unprecedented impact on the game. Van Gundy coached Yao from 2003-07.

“He’s been one of the greatest ambassadors to ever set foot on an NBA floor,” Van Gundy said. “This guy touched so many people and really opened doors in China, not only for himself but for so many others.”

Doleva said Yao could make more history if he’s inducted as both a contributor and as a play-er. He’ll first be eligible as a player with the class of 2017.

“There are examples of peo-ple who have been elected as play-ers and then elected as coaches,” Doleva said. “But there has never been anyone elected as a contribu-tor and then elected as a player or a coach. That’s not to say it can’t be done; there are no rules against it. But it would be the first time.”

Jeffcoat will have plenty of chances to make plays this sea-son. His athleticism and play-making ability wil l come in handy after the Longhorns re-corded only 31 sacks last year, 17 coming from players who aren’t re tur ning (wit h l as t year’s starting defensive ends Sam Acho and Eddie Jones re-sponsible for 15 of those 17). Like Jeffcoat, Alex Okafor was a highly touted high school p ro s p e c t a n d e m b a r k s o n his first year as a starter. To-gether, they make one of the

best pair of defensive ends in the nation.

If not for Jeffcoat’s pedigree, Texas might not have the luxu-ry of such a dynamic duo. Jef-fcoat’s father, Jim, was a first-round pick out of Ar izona State before enjoying a dozen seasons with the Dallas Cow-boys, recording over 100 sacks while helping Dallas win Su-per Bowl XXVII, a contest that saw the elder Jeffcoat notch 1.5 sacks. It’s no wonder his son was athletic enough to be a three-sport star at Plano West

and an immediate and reliable contributor on the Longhorn defensive line.

Tons of blue-chippers fall by the wayside as they fail to live up to expectations brought on by stellar, accolade-filled high school careers. Many were re-sponsible for Texas’ lackluster 2010 season. Jeffcoat might not end up with 25 sacks over 250 tackles before his Longhorn ca-reer is over like he did in high school, but Texas can count on him to be a spectacular pass rusher and not be disappointed.

The Texas football program is in a time of transition, with a lot of coaching changes to go with some recent attrition, most notably at the wide receiver po-sit ion where the Longhorns have lost four players since the spring.

“You would never be able to tell there were any problems at UT with how fast things are moving,” said Jones, who re-cently stopped by to check out a Texas practice. “Guys are just carefree and they want to play.”

Austin High has a history of accomplished receivers who

Jones keeps in contact with, most notably his cousin Emory Blake, who was last seen catch-ing a touchdown pass from Cam Newton in the BCS title game. Jones calls them his “best friends” and says he keeps in contact with all of the standouts that have come before him. In two years of varsity play, Jones has caught 17 touchdowns to go with 1,910 receiving yards. And he has a shot at the state’s all-time receiving record — with 154 career receptions, he’s less than 100 away from Jordan Shipley’s mark of 252.

Such gaudy stat ist ics and hype surrounding the four-star recruit means there may be high expectations for him ear-ly on. So, it’s a good thing Jones is already getting good prac-tice, as he has to deal with the pressures of playing high school football in the same city he will play college ball, and the in-creased spotlight that comes with it.

“I guess there’s pressure now, but it’s nothing like it will be,” he said. “I just have to work hard, and hopeful ly it wi l l all show.”

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In fact, even while “Bellflower” has its narrative issues, the film is an undeniable achievement for Glodell, who took do-it-yourself to another level by building not only a flamethrower and heavi-ly reinforced car for the film, but by constructing many of the cam-eras used in filming. The film is drenched in a bleak, sweaty, high contrast atmosphere, made all the more intense by Glodell’s odd, precise use of light and compo-

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actors and as characters. We shot it toward the end of the schedule, and we were anticipating it so much, it was a release to be able to do it.

DT: Can you tell me about your role in the next Woody Allen film, “The Bop Decameron?”

Einsenberg: I’m not sure if I

can say anything, but I know he’s in it. But I have no idea who he’s playing, because they only send me my scenes. I’m very curious to see, because I think he’s the great-est actor. I love watching him in movies, and I think people un-derestimate his acting skill be-

cause they think he’s playing him-self, but if you’re on a set and real-ize what it’s like to do it realistical-ly, it takes a lot more than just be-ing himself. I love his acting, and I hope we’re in a scene together.

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The music, provided by Mighty Five itself, is a mixture of songs from VORTEXX and brand new songs created specifically for the musical.

Webb, who was living in New York City in 2010, had been plan-ning on moving back to Austin to start a new kind of theater compa-ny that put an emphasis on audi-ence interaction. Christiana Little, Webb’s roommate who he met in Austin, was dating one of the mem-bers of Mighty Five and introduced him to the group’s music. Webb said that when he heard their sound, he knew he could use it to facilitate the kind of audience-involved musical he wanted to create.

“I wanted to make shows more like a concert experience so the au-dience wasn’t sitting in the dark in their chairs — they were actually a part of it,” Webb said. “I realized how perfectly in line this band’s mu-sic was with what I wanted to do.”

Webb moved back to Austin last August, and upon reuniting with Aulie, they began writing the script over the course of a year.

“It was fun, at the end of our ses-sion we’d decompress and think about what we had written and come up with new ideas for next time,” Webb said. “We didn’t want to gloat, but we were kind of pat-ting ourselves on the back. It wasn’t as hard as we had thought it would be.”

Although Webb has a degree in theater management from the College of Santa Fe and Aulie is a founding member of local impro-vised comedy troupes You Me & Greg and Parallelogramophono-graph, they didn’t have any formal playwriting experience. But collab-orating on Google Documents with the help of Little Greg Spencer (an-other Westwood High School grad-uate and improvisational comedian)

and the Mighty Five, the project be-gan to come together. Little added a crucial female perspective, which was important because the musical involves two women, or alien wom-en as Little specified, competing for the love of a robot. Spencer was lat-er cast as Zonn Atomic, one of the lead characters.

“I think Austinites are going to have amazing amounts of fun at this new kind of show,” Webb said. “It’s going to be a crazy time.”

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After Kanye West and Jay-Z an-nounced a collaborative album last year, one titled Watch the Throne no less, it seemed there would be a reemergence of the decadent ‘90s rap culture when Puff Dad-dy and Ma$e would stroll on stage in gaudy, neon jackets like it was nobody’s business. Surprising-ly, however, the two rappers have made an album that is relative-ly low on the empty boasting and high on introspection and their idiosyncratic psyche.

On “Murder to Excellence,” they tackle the divide between vi-olence and poverty and the rich lifestyle in the black community, while the Nina Simone-sampling “New Day” has them wondering about their future families. Rath-er than sounding saccharine, the song reveals a vulnerability of be-ing a father with the baggage of fame. With his self-deprecation in check, West wryly raps, “I mean I might even make ‘em [my son] be Republican / So everybody know he love white people” as Jay-Z re-motely thinks, “And if the day comes I only see him on the week-end / I just pray we was in love on the night that we conceived him.”

This contrast between the two plays throughout the album: West, the precocious, smart-ass kid and Jay-Z, the wise, arrogant father. In these roles, West ends up outshin-ing Jay-Z. He has a knack for witti-cisms that burst against Jay-Z’s less showy lyrics.

And for better or worse, it’s what makes the album feel, from the mu-sic to the themes, like a West album featuring Jay-Z.

Even sonically, West, who shares production credit on the large ma-jority of songs, continues to refine the layered sounds from his last al-bum, My Beautiful Dark Twist-ed Fantasy. Children chant omi-nously against a clambering, clat-tering beat on “Murder.” The kick-drum and synths jitter and bang re-lentlessly on “Why I Love You.” Yet, West and Jay-Z never forget an ear

for hooks; Beyonce owns the cho-rus of “Lift Off ” while R&B sing-er Frank Ocean’s smooth, emotive vocals add a dynamism to a couple of songs. The producers are fear-less and audacious, mixing togeth-er a variety of sounds into a capti-vating result so much so that they lift even the most flaccid songs on the album.

Coming together, Jay-Z and West may not have created the perfect al-bum. Their flaws that have always exited — Jay-Z’s lazy writing and West’s lack of musical and lyrical restrain — still appear on Watch the Throne. But there’s still some-thing awe-inspiring about listen-ing to two superstars at the height of power, willing to revel in their weakness and strengths. You can’t help but watch the throne, waiting for the next beat.

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Life&Arts10Thursday, August 11, 2011 | The Daily Texan | Julie Rene Tran, Life&Arts Editor | (512) 232-2209 | dailytexan@gmail.com

In “30 Minutes or Less,” Jes-se Eisenberg stars as Nick, a with-drawn pizza delivery boy who has a bomb strapped to his chest by small-time criminals played by Danny McBride and Nick Sward-son. With only a few hours to rob a bank before the bomb goes off, Nick enlists his friend Chet (Aziz Ansari) to help him stay alive.

“30 Minutes or Less” reunites Eisenberg with director Ruben Fleischer. The two worked togeth-er on 2009’s “Zombieland,” which

Eisenberg followed up with an Os-

car-nominat-ed per for-m a n c e i n “The Social Network.”

The D ai -ly Texan partic-

ipated in a round-table interview with Eisenberg just before he handed out slices of pizza at Austin’s Home Slice on July 11 to promote “30 Minutes or Less.”

The Daily Texan: What is it like playing someone who is constant-ly panicked?

Jesse Einsenberg: It’s a strange balance between the dramatic sit-

uation that my character is in ver-sus the movie as a whole, which plays comedically and lighthearted. Ruben, the director of this movie, asked me to just play the scenes as realistically as possible and keep in mind I’m in a comedy, so if some-thing funny occurs to me, I can say it. I was lucky to be surrounded by the funniest people in the world, who kind of took the burden of making the movie funny off me a little bit so I’m able to maintain the dramatic situation with my charac-ter.

DT: Tell me about the develop-ment of the dynamic between you and Aziz Ansari.

Eisenberg: Aziz was cast before me. When I auditioned, it was with him, so I had to kind of adjust my-self to his pace. He’s very quick and uses a lot of random cultural ref-erences. I like improvisation, but I’m not as up-to-date. He called me Wayne Brady in my audition, and I didn’t know who that was. I had to do a lot of crossword puzzles to get up to speed before we shot the movie. But it took the burden off my shoulders. I was worried about having to be funny in what would be a very dramatic situation, so I felt unburdened by him be-cause he’s so naturally funny, even

when he’s not trying to be fun-ny. He’s just got a funny way about him and naturally funny speech patterns, so it felt more comfort-able than it would have if I was with somebody who was playing it more dramatically.

DT: What drew you to this project?

Eisenberg: I loved the script when I read it. It’s rare to find a script that’s genuinely funny and has a character that is credible. In most movies, especially most com-edies, the characters change based on the whims of the plot. This character was really driving the plot. In the first part of the movie, he’s kind of living a mundane life and he’s kind of a depressive and he doesn’t engage, but when he gets this bomb strapped to him it forc-es him to re-evaluate his life and to grow up a little bit. It’s very charac-ter-driven even though the framing of the movie is funny.

DT: Did you do any of the driv-ing yourself?

Eisenberg: I ended up doing a lot of the driving because the di-rector wanted to shoot this mov-ie without a lot of computer-gen-erated driving effects. Most chase scenes now, with the technology available, would be done without

the actors really there, but he want-ed to do this kind of classic style that would mirror the movies that these guys liked — “Point Break,” “Lethal Weapon,” even “Heat.” To shoot it in the way that they would have shot it, which means putting the actors in the car and putting stunt drivers in 20 cars surround-ing the actors and having a single camera just drive next to that scene and shoot it practically.

DT: What was your favorite scene to shoot?

Einenberg: The bank robbery scene in the movie was really chal-lenging but also our favorite. It was logistically challenging because so many things go wrong. The idea is that these regular guys, this el-ementary school teacher and this pizza guy, have to rob a bank and in their heads, they think they’re Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, but in their bodies, they’re me and Aziz. There’s this great disconnect be-tween what they think they’re do-ing and what’s actually happening, so they end up kind of looking ri-diculous. It was a challenge to shoot because there were so many things to account for, but it was so fun be-cause we were gearing up for it, as

Ryan Edwards | Daily Texan Staff

Jesse Eisenberg sits down to talk about his new movie, “30 Minutes or Less,” in which he plays a pizza delivery driver who gets a bomb strapped to his chest and told to rob a bank.

The characters of “Bellflow-er” only have one thing on their minds: the end of the world. With their grimy apartments and im-pulse-driven existences, they prac-tically exist on the fringes of soci-ety, and it’s telling that the scene which introduces main charac-ter Woodrow (writer-director Evan Glodell) to love inter-est Milly (Jes-sie Wiseman) is a bug-eat-ing contest in a grungy bar.

Wo o d r o w lives with best f r i e n d A i d -en (Tyler Daw-son), and the two drink, hang out and build weapons they can put to use in a post-apoc-alyptic landscape. Inspired by the “Mad Max” films, the duo builds flamethrowers and hell-mobiles, and their friendship is one of the true bright spots in “Bellflower.” It’s a lived-in, well-written pairing that has all the authenticity of the pair’s real-life, years-long friend-ship. Aiden is a vibrant, funny character, and Dawson brings a charm to each of his scenes.

Glodell, on the other hand, lacks chemistry with most of the cast. His scenes with Dawson are all too brief, and while he has his moments in the rest of the film (mostly in its first half), Glodell’s scenes with the rest of the cast tend to find him struggling to

make his character compelling or sympathetic.

Woodrow’s relationship with Milly starts off equally charming as the two go on an extended first date that becomes a cross-country road trip compelled by their own impulses; some good, some bad. Unfortunately, these scenes also showcase some of Glodell’s weak-nesses as an actor, as his charac-

ter alternates be-ing charming and irritatingly whiny.

The film’s sec-ond half, which p u t s Wo o d -row t hroug h an e m ot i on -al apocalypse that proves to be just as danger-ous to the peo-ple around him as the literal one he’s been prepar-ing for. This sec-tion is nowhere near as engag-

ing as what comes before, throw-ing the delicate characters the film has been building out the window for long scenes of supposed friends be-ing terri-ble to each other and wallowing in their own angst.

Frustrating as it can be, the second half is hyp-notizing, setting the audience adrift in the narrative to bounce

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Woodrow (Evan Glodell) and Milly (Jessie Wiseman) share an intense moment in “Bellflower.”

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Clint Gilfillan and Greg Spencer rehearse their roles as the Funk Warriorz from Dimension F as part of “Mighty Five’s Infinite Funk Odyssey” on Tuesday night.

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A high school reunion is, for some, a bunch of people who don’t have much in common anymore rehashing the good old days. But for two graduates of Westwood High School in Round Rock getting to-gether again led to writing and pro-ducing a cosmic-themed theatrical dance party about love, revenge and booty-shaking.

“Mighty Five’s Infinite Funk Od-yssey,” an interactive space musi-cal that opens at The Blue Theatre on Aug. 18, is the collaborative cre-

ation by Phil Aulie and Xaq Webb. The musical tells the story of the electro-funk band Mighty Five and their adventures in Dimension F, a funky reality whose entire existence is dependent upon a non-stop dance party and the Funkatronic Energy it creates. Webb wrote the script with Aulie after listening to and being in-spired by VORTEXX, a concept al-bum by Mighty Five.

“The music is just so dance-able and the heavy electro-synth has a tinge of comedy to it,” Webb said. “And the lyrics had that same self-aware, hyper-aggressive awe-someness attitude. I couldn’t

stop laughing.”For “Infinite Funk Odyssey,”

Webb uses the electro-funk sound and cosmic themes of Mighty Five’s music while adding an interactive element of his own design. The in-teractivity, which begins with audi-ence members wearing lights and costumes that the cast distributes before the show, peaks at the end of the performance when the musical morphs into a dance party that not only saves Dimension F from de-struction, but also blurs the bound-aries between actor and audience.

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