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Recapping the whole ACL extravaganza that overwhelmed Zilker Park for the tenth time Texas continues string of victories,

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The woman widely known as the unofficial historian of the University shared her memories spanning 80 years of UT histo-ry, including the construction of the Tower, the acquisition of the Big Bertha drum and the Charles Whitman shooting in a public interview Friday.

Margaret C. Berry, who has written eight books on UT his-tory, conducted the videotaped interview with theater and dance sophomore Leslie Powell at the Alumni Center. Powell is a co-ordinator for Students for the Margaret C. Berry Student Ac-tivity Center.

The group has collected more

than 4,000 student and alumni signatures on a petition to name the building after Berry, said UT alumnus and Austin real estate agent Rick Potter.

Berry was a student at UT in the 1930s and became an as-sociate dean of students in the 1950s. She recalled that the tear-ing down of the Old Main build-ing and the construction of the new one, which was finished in 1937, caused controversy.

“Former students really raised Cain. They really raised heck because they didn’t want the Old Main building taken down,” she said. “But those of us who were on campus were glad to see it taken down. It was creaky and ugly. It never was built very well.”

Berry said the Charles Whit-man shooting in 1966 led to the

TODAYShiver Me TimbersThrow in a few “aaarrrs” and “avasts” when you talk to celebrate the international Talk Like a Pirate Day. Two friends from Oregon came up with the idea in 1995, and it went viral in 2002 when humor columnist Dave Barry wrote about it.

Be That OneThe Counseling and Mental Health Center will host a workshop teaching students to recognize signs that a friend may be thinking about suicide. The workshop begins at 6:30 p.m. in SSB G1.310A and is part of Suicide Prevention Week.

THE WEEK AHEAD

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAYVoteStudent Government will hold elections for first year representatives. Vote online at utsg.org all day.

THURSDAYMMMBopPop trio Hanson will play a set at Antone’s beginning at 9:30 p.m. Check out Tuesday’s Life&Arts section for an interview with one of the brothers.

FRIDAYHighlanderThe Master Pancake troupe tackles this ‘80s classic at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.

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— Mack BrownHead football coach

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“Very few peo-ple thought we

would be 3-0 with our non-

conference schedule. What we’ve got to do is to keep work-

ing because we’re not near-

ly as good as we can be.”

Quote to note

Online courses,new advisory system couldraise efficiency

Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan Staff

Senior running back Fozzy Whittaker celebrates after scoring a touchdown in the Longhorns 49-20 win over the Bruins at the Rose Bowl on Saturday.

HORNS BLOW OUT BRUINS

Long-time alumna Berry recounts memories of UT

Editor’s note: This is the second in a four-part, weekly series examining System Chancellor Francisco Cigar-roa’s plan to increase efficiency across UT institutions.

Online advising will increase across the UT System to ease degree planning and more emphasis will be placed on online classes and learn-ing tools.

UT System Chancellor Francis-co Cigarroa’s Framework for Excel-lence Action Plan focuses on cut-ting instructional costs by utilizing more online courses and increasing graduation rates by helping students better understand how to navigate through their degree plans with on-line advising.

The UT System Board of Re-gents are discussing a partnership with the website MyEdu to en-hance advising. MyEdu provides class grade histories, faculty re-views, a schedule planner and de-gree planner. Frank Lyman, My-Edu senior vice president of mar-keting and business development, said the site’s tools help students manage their course workload each semester and map out a path to degree completion.

“That’s what got the interest of the regents and the community the last few years,” Lyman said.

He said 30,000 UT undergraduate students have registered and logged into MyEdu in the past year.

The objective to improve grad-uation rates includes making the transfer process into UT institutions

Lead singer of Foster the People Mark Foster signs

a CD for a fan in front of the

Austin City Limits entrance on Friday after-noon. The band

helped raise about $26,000

for American Red Cross of

Central Texas and the Texas Wildfire Relief

Fund.

Julia BunchDaily Texan Staff

By Allison HarrisDaily Texan Staff

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Bus does good for Central Texas firefighters

Indie-pop group Foster the Peo-ple helped raise almost $26,000 for wildfire relief during Austin City Limits on Friday as part of the group’s ongoing effort to promote community service during their

current tour.Foster the People partnered with

the Do Good Bus, a Los Angeles-based non-profit, to raise funds for organizations at each city in the band’s current tour. The Do Good Bus collected nearly $13,000. C3 Presents, the company producing

ACL, matched funds collected by the volunteers, said bus co-found-er Stephen Snedden.

The tour, which covers 24 U.S. cities, is the first cross-country tour the Do Good Bus has undertaken,

By Allison HarrisDaily Texan Staff

Funny man Jack Black and Austin director Richard Linklater visited the Paramount Theater to show a benefit screening of the new film “Ber-nie.” All proceeds went to aid the Bastrop fire re-lief effort.

“Bernie,” starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey , details the life of a

beloved funeral director in Carthage, Texas who forms an unlikely friendship with the town’s rich-est widow.

Real-life funeral home owner Carlton Shamburger said he came to the premier to see his business on the big screen.

“I actually own the funeral home that the true story is based upon,” Shamburger said. “They used the outside of our funeral home for filming. Not the inside of course. We didn’t

give out names because we are everyday peo-ple and this [is] Hollywood, but our family is just happy to help out such a great cause.”

He said the film is largely dry humor from a different angle.

Linklater said he decided to open up the screen-ing, originally intended for the crew, to the public immediately after hearing the news of the fires.

Linklater said that parts of Bastrop have been destroyed, but there is still hope for recovery. He

said he hopes to help the recovery effort with this philanthropic measure and that he would love to film in Bastrop again in the future.

“The film is kind of this really weird me-morial in a way. A memorial to Bernie,” Lin-klater said. “The mysterious power of film can do anything. We only hope that we can help enough to rebuild Bastrop.”

‘Bernie’ benefit show raises wildfire relief fundsBy Sarah LawsonDaily Texan Staff

PASADENA, Calif. — The Long-horns needed another trip to the Rose Bowl to find their swagger.

And they got it back on the same field that’s produced some of the greatest mo-ments in Texas football lore. More im-portantly though, they got it back against a University of California, Los Angeles team that robbed Texas of its swagger a year ago in Austin.

The Longhorns dominated the Bru-ins both physically and on the score-board. Texas bulled its way to a sea-son-high 284 yards rushing and pushed UCLA around from the get-go en route to a 49-20 blowout.

Kenny Vaccaro set the tone early with a bone-jarring hit, the first of many by the Longhorns.

“They were calling us weak last year,” Vaccaro said. “The main thing for us was to be physical.”

The Longhorns sent the Bruins a message: this year’s team won’t be pushed around again, this year’s squad will fight.

“It’s a statement, we’re from Texas and we want to be Texas tough.” Vacca-ro said. “Last year they kept saying stuff about California football players. We want to show the world that Texas has the best football players.”

On Saturday, Texas had the best play-ers. And UCLA knows it.

Some weren’t sure the Longhorns would make it through their non-confer-ence schedule unblemished. But they did.

They did it with toughness and a mean streak that simply wasn’t there a season ago.

Marquise Goodwin laid out Bruins cornerback Andrew Abbott with a head-rattling block in the second quarter. Yes, Marquise Goodwin the track star. Last year it was the Bruins who knocked out the Longhorns. This time, Texas dished out the punishment, even if Goodwin’s block was ruled a personal foul.

“It signified our game — physical,” Vaccaro said.

By Austin LaymanceDaily Texan Staff

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go more smoothly.“I would like to see those stu-

dents have a seamless transfer and graduate in four years,” Cigar-roa said when he introduced the framework Aug. 25.

In an effort to include more online learning in classes, which began before Cigarroa’s frame-work came out, UT is partner-ing with Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Ap-plied Sciences and its Depart-ment of Physics, according to a UT press release. The technology developed through this partner-ship will be applied through the Course Transformation Program at UT Austin.

The Course Transformation Program will redesign eight to 10 lower division courses or course sequences over a five year peri-

od which began this semester, said Gretchen Ritter ,vice provost of undergraduate education and faculty governance.

“The goal is to provide students with more tools and opportuni-ties to master the core concepts and academic skills they need to be successful in these courses,” Ritter said.

She said the University’s Cen-ter for Teaching and Learning is putting $2.5 million towards the integration of online exercises, videos, animations and learning modules.

“It will allow instructors to shift to a more active learning format during the class periods,” Ritter said.

She said the first courses to be redesigned will be Introductory Biology, Principles of Chemistry

and Data Analysis for the Health Sciences.

This summer marketing se-nior Nathan Chang took the on-line course The Psychology of Advertising in Video Games and would stream the professor’s lec-tures. He said the main advantage was the ability to participate from home, but he thinks the instant messaging system made it easier for some of the 23 students in his class to not actively participate. He said the physical presence of a class is helpful in terms of talk-ing to the professor, but online tools such as discussion boards save time.

“It’s up to the professor to build in ways to make sure every stu-dent interacts,” Chang said. “I think you can take the positive from each and it would work.”

establishment of the first uni-versity-sponsored 24-hour telephone counseling service in the country in the late ‘60s, which she administered for a year.

“We saved people’s lives, I know for sure we did,” Berry said.

Berry encouraged students to work for the changes they want to see at UT.

“The shuttle bus system is one thing, the kiosks on cam-pus, opening the Tower after it had been closed for a long time — students have done a lot of good things, and you can keep on doing good things,” Berry said.

Powell said she conduct-ed the interview with Berry to help preserve the history of UT for posterity.

“She’s one of the oldest liv-ing alumni and has so many memories of the University,”

Powell said. “There’s no one better to talk about the histo-ry of the campus.”

Powel l said the bui lding should be named after Berry since only eight campus build-ings are named after women, and five of those are current or former women’s residence halls.

“No other person has had as much positive influence on the students of UT as she has,” Powell said.

Jules Villarreal, a sociolo-gy and Middle Eastern stud-ies freshman, said the inter-view helped him learn about UT history.

“I really came here to UT not knowing much about the history or traditions or know-ing much of anything, and lis-tening to this interview — it’s kind of a snapshot of all the traditions and history of UT,” Villarreal said.

Snedden said. He added the group was already familiar with the band through its other co-founder Re-becca Pontius, sister of Foster the People drummer Mark Pontius.

“We just got to talking and they wanted to do something good for the cities they go to,” Snedden said. “We pitched the idea to them of, ‘We’ve got a bus, we’re mobile and so we would go with them to good causes,’ and they loved it.”

At the festival, 16 volunteers col-lected donations for the American Red Cross of Central Texas and the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund, which helps equip volunteer firefighters, Snedden said.

He said the Do Good Bus orga-nization wanted to assist local ar-eas experiencing disasters, and the

wildfires in Central Texas provid-ed an opportunity for them to be of assistance.

“It’s just one more way we can help out, having mobile transpor-tation with volunteers,” Snedden said.

He said the Do Good Bus pro-vides a gateway towards commu-nity involvement for many peo-ple who would otherwise have not volunteered.

“Some people don’t know who to contact or where to go, and this way it’s a total surprise,” he said. “A lot of people end up giving long-term support to organizations they may not have ever gotten involved in or had an interest in.”

Seventy-seven percent of the state’s firefighting force is made

up of volunteers, and 86 per-cent of volunteer firefight-ers use personal funds to sup-ply equipment and protective gear, said Kelsey Coleman, de-velopment director of the Tex-as Wildfire Relief Fund. Cole-man said volunteer fire depart-ments need lighter gear to fight wildfires.

“They’re fighting in street clothes, unprotected,” Coleman said. “If we get these volunteer

firefighters into the right gear, they can serve us better and protect homes and lives.”

Coleman said the fundraising efforts of the Do Good Bus and Foster the People helped keep the momentum to support Bastrop.

“They’ve done a great job to raise awareness, which is going to bring in more money and more volunteers,” she said.

Austin personal trainer Kari Putnam said she recently decided to volunteer more and signed up to work with the Do Good Bus when it came to Austin because Snedden was a friend from college.

“Sometimes it takes a reason or a cause or a friend to help some-one take that first step,” Putnam said. “I’m not the kind of person that would typically stand in the midst of a group of people asking for cash.”

Radio-television-film junior Is-abella Cook was one of 100 people that came to see Foster the People when they stopped with the Do Good Bus.

“That’s great that they can find time between touring and also use their fame to promote other good causes,” Cook said. “It’s an effective way to get people involved.”

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Margaret C. Berry encouraged students to get involved and to make positive changes within the university during her interview at the Alumni Center on Friday evening. Students are petition-ing for the SAC to be renamed Margaret C. Berry Student Activity Center to honor all her efforts as an alumni.

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WORLD&NATION 3Monday, September 19, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Austin Myers, Wire Editor | dailytexanonline.com

ISLAMABAD — The United Na-tions appealed for $357 million Sun-day to help millions of Pakistanis af-fected by floods that have damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and destroyed millions of acres of crops.

Pakistan often experiences flooding from monsoon rains that lash much of South Asia from June to September. This year the rains have been heavier than normal, coming as many people were still trying to recover from last year’s floods, which were the worst in the country’s history.

The money from the appeal would be used to help more than 5.4 million people in the provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan over the next six months, said Humaira Mehboob, a spokes-woman for the U.N.’s humanitarian arm. Those provinces have been the worst hit by the floods this year.

The floods have killed 223 people in Sindh alone, damaged or destroyed around 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, accord-

ing to a rapid response plan issued by the U.N. on Sunday.

The return of the floods is testa-ment to the heaviness of the monsoon rains and the limits of Pakistan’s weak and corrupt government, showing up its ineffectiveness in the crisis.

As they did last year, the floods are undercutting the legitimacy of the shaky government, which is already widely disliked and struggling against Islamist militants, ever present polit-ical turmoil and massive economic problems.

Many of those countries, including the U.S., have mobilized again this year to help flood victims. The U.S. has said it paid for food packages for 23,000 families and its local partners will soon begin handing out tents, clean water and other supplies. Ja-pan and China have also pledged re-lief goods or money, according to the Pakistan government.

“The magnitude of disaste is much beyond the capacity of Pakistan,” Pak-istani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told flood victims on Sunday.

NEW YORK — The United States and Europe raced Sunday to avert or delay a looming Unit-ed Nations showdown over Pales-tinian statehood that could crush already dim Mideast peace pros-pects, with Secretary of State Hil-lary Rodham Clinton and the Eu-ropean Union’s top diplomat meet-ing in an attempt to come up with a winning strategy.

Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton discussed the situation in New York as part of an increasingly desperate effort to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to negotiations without an-tagonizing either side or embroil-ing the region in new turmoil.

But with each side locked in in-tractable positions over the ex-pected Palestinian bid this week for U.N. recognition, chances for a breakthrough seemed slim. Of-ficials said the effort may be more about damage control than diplo-macy.

The Palestinians are frustrated by their inability to win from Isra-el concessions such as a freeze on settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. They want to seize the moment to try to gain greater standing and attention with a high stakes wager on statehood and U.N. membership. The U.S. and Israel vehemently opposed this move.

Only 12 months ago, President Barack Obama said he wanted the U.N. to be welcoming Palestine as its newest member this year. But talks long have broken down, and the U.S. is in the unenviable posi-tion of leading the opposition to something it actually supports.

The U.S. has promised a veto of the Palestinian bid at the Security Council, leading to fears the action could spark violence in the region.

The American side was work-ing to secure additional opposi-tion to recognition, officials said. Without nine affirmative votes in the 15-member Council, the Pal-estinian resolution would fail and Washington is hoping it won’t have to act alone .

U.S. officials believe that six oth-er members may vote against or abstain, meaning the Palestinians would fall short. That tally could not be immediately confirmed.

Heading off or watering down the Palestinian resolution had been the goal of international diplomats. They hoped to parlay that success into a meeting between the Israe-li and Palestinian leaders where the two sides would re-launch negoti-ations.

Yet the Palestinians have refused to back down and give up the little

leverage they hope to win.“The aim of this is try to el-

evate the Palestinians to a more equal footing so that this disparity that existed over the last 18 years, which allowed Israel to exploit it to its advantage, can end and they can talk now to an equal member state of the United Nations,” said Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestinian’s top representative to the U.S.

Still, even with a loss in the Secu-rity Council, the Palestinians were expected to take their case for rec-ognition to the General Assembly, where they enjoy widespread sup-port and the U.S. cannot block it.

A nod from the General Assem-bly could give the Palestinians ac-cess to international judicial bodies such as the International Court of Justice and the International Crim-inal Court.

The Israelis fear such courts would target them unfairly, which is something that Israel’s ambassa-dor to the United States, Michael Oren, said had been outlined by the Palestinians themselves.

They are “going to the U.N. to get this state not to make peace but to challenge Israel’s legitimacy in international arenas and to try to undermine the peace process,” he told CNN.

His comments reflected Isra-el’s concern about further isola-tion and underscored the country’s mistrust of the United Nations .

Those international negotiators have failed to persuade the Pales-tinians to scale down their ambi-tions for full U.N. membership and recognition as a state. But they were trying to craft a statement that could restart peace talks.

By Sebastian AbbotThe Associated Press

By Bradley KlapperThe Associated Press

US in tough spot over Palestinian bid

Muhammed Muheisen | Associated Press

A displaced Pakistani boy — one of about 200,000 made homeless — walks through flood water near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Sunday.

Strong floods in Pakistan ravage homes, farms again

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Taken on Dec. 14, 2007, a Palestinian man argues with an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against Israel’s separation barrier at the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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In defense of University faculty

“To win a tight one at home against Brigham Young when we were behind and then come out here and do really well in this game that we lost last year — that’s two statements of improvement.”— Mack Brown about Saturday’s game against UCLA in Los Angeles, according to � e Daily Texan. � e Longhorns beat the Bruins 49-20, avenging the team’s loss last year at home that sent Texas into a losing spiral.

“� is will provide great exposure for our football program and our university.” — Lynn Hickey, head athletic director of UT-San Antonio, in a statement last week. UTSA’s football program and the Longhorn Network are both in their inaugural years of existence and are hoping to expand their reach across Texas.

“We are not producing widgets here. We are producing minds, shaping minds.”— Assistant history professor Anne Martinez expressing con-cerns about the University’s focus on e� ciency at the expense of education, according to � e Daily Texan.

“I know tuition increases are hard for families, but look at what’s going on around the country. Some states have 10 percent increases. We have been planning for this for three years, and we will keep the increase modest.”— Gregory Fenves, dean of the engineering school, advocat-ing for a tuition increase to o� set budget cuts, according to � e Daily Texan.

“Physics is a true canary in the mine, so to speak, of judging America’s capabilities in terms of science. ... If you let physics go, it’s symptomatic of the fact that something has eroded in the intellectual capacity of academic institutions.”— Carlos Handy, physicist and chair of Texas Southern Uni-versity’s physics department, on a recent proposal by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to cut programs at state colleges and universities that graduate fewer than 25 students over a � ve year period, according to � e Texas Tribune.

“� e value of a degree is worth a good bit more than a million dollars. � e value of a college degree is truth and beauty and depth and purpose and hope and mean-ing and connection and sustenance and possibility.”— Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, in a lecture at Texas A&M on � ursday, according to � e Battalion. Gee spoke at A&M’s Commitment to Excellence Dialogues, which explored issues relating to a university’s responsibility to the community.

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Name the SAC after alumna Margaret C. Berry

Thanks to the new Student Activity Cen-ter, students can finally take refuge from Wendy’s during lunchtime. Affectionately called the NUTSAC, this one-year-old UT building offers study areas, simulated fireplaces, meeting rooms and, most im-portantly, Zen and Taco Cabana. The new building has found its niche on our campus and, now students feel the time has come to appropriately name the building.

You might have noticed the life-size card-board cutout of a tiny, older lady on the West Mall recently. This tiny, older lady is Margaret C. Berry, one of UT’s highly dis-tinguished alumni. A group of students are campaigning to rename the SAC after Berry in an effort to honor her tireless dedication and loyalty to the University. The group manages a website and other forms of social media in efforts to inform students about her. According to the leaders of the group, the main focus is spreading the word about Berry and the reasons why she deserves to be revered in this manner.

Reasons for honoring Berry are abundant

and apparent. From the start of her educa-tion in Austin, she has had a unique interest in preserving and highlighting UT’s history. Berry received her bachelor’s degree in his-tory from UT in 1937. Her doctoral disser-tation on student life and customs at UT during its first 50 years, combined with four books about UT’s history, traditions, build-ings and leaders, has earned her the title of UT’s unofficial historian.

Well after her education was completed, she continued to serve the University in var-ious ways, ranging from working as a facul-ty adviser, an undergraduate professor and the associate dean of students. Berry further left her mark the University by encouraging the creation of a religious studies depart-ment, claiming that cultural understanding is crucial to the American public. Even to-day, Berry continues to speak with student groups across campus and impressively re-mains as involved in UT affairs as possible at the age of 96. Berry has devoted her life to not just improving UT but improving the UT student body. Her passion for the last few decades has been the students, and re-naming the SAC gives us a chance to thank her for her devotion to us.

The campaign to rename the SAC after Berry began in Student Government last year. After SG instead decided to discuss other naming options, these students rede-ployed to the West Mall and are currently attempting to garner campus-wide support to rename the building after Berry through a petition. They launched their campaign last Monday and since then, the students have obtained about 3,000 signatures.

The battle for the name change appears, to an unknowing UT student such as myself, a superfluous struggle for a simple house-keeping issue. Noticeably, many students support renaming the SAC after Berry, and she is anything but a controversial figure, unlike the former namesake (former KKK leader William Simkins) of what is now Creekside Dormitory. So, what’s the hold up? Why are students initiating a petition when the normal route for such a matter would be to create an official endorsement via a legislative entity, such as SG, to present to President William Powers Jr.? Inner-circle politics within our campus legislative body is seemingly creating obstacles to renaming the building and triggering a greater issue over an innocuous subject.

Furthermore, our modern campus of 161 buildings has a mere eight buildings named after women — five of which are women’s and co-ed residence halls and one of the remaining three, Anna Hiss Gym, is sched-uled for demolition. The addition of the Barbara Jordan statue to our campus was a tremendous effort toward the greater repre-sentation of notable female figures on cam-pus. Yet, we still hardly acknowledge our impressive women alumnae, and Berry is as impressive as they come. Not only will this equal the playing field for women alumnae, but it may also serve as an impetus to in-spire future Longhorn women to serve UT similarly.

Evidently, Berry is an outstanding alumna who is unmistakably deserving of this hon-or. She has devoted her life to improving the student body, and the SAC was designed specifically for the student body. To name the SAC after Berry would not only honor a dedicated UT alumna but also a prominent female figure. By signing this petition, stu-dents may be able to pay tribute Berry and put this non-issue to rest.

Waliany is a Plan II and government senior.

In his State of the University Address last week, President William Powers Jr. made a variety of re-marks concerning how to not only preserve but also improve our position as a top public research univer-sity. Proposals to increase efficiency included the use of technology to restructure curriculum and an in-vestment of $50 million over five years to significant-ly raise four-year graduation rates, from 51 percent to 70 percent. But the foundation of his speech, his core message, was clear: the importance of supporting UT professors cannot be overstated.

Our success as a university stems from our profes-sors; essentially, they are the fountains of our educa-tion. And Powers is correct in his emphasis on hiring the best of the best.

UT’s first priority is to preserve the quality of teaching to create an intellectual dialogue between professors and students. We must ensure that pro-fessors share the results of their research with their students. Their purpose is to spread new knowledge, not to become distracted by their personal research and carelessly present an unsubstantial PowerPoint in class. However, we cannot expect to simultaneously reduce research budgets and retain the most educated and influential faculty.

We are not a factory line. We don’t attend class to be faced with mediocre lessons from unexceptional instructors. Despite the University’s large undergrad-uate population of almost 40,000, one shouldn’t feel like a number here. This type of individualized atten-tion begins in the classroom. It’s not a matter of the student-to-professor ratio in classes; it’s a matter of office-hour availability, passionate lectures and evi-dent preparation for classes. As Powers mentioned, this type of faculty is maintained by selective hiring and also by offering professors the means and re-sources for their own projects of research, whatever

their subjects. Critics of Powers’ address believe that Powers is

resistant to change. They argue that he’s stuck on defending the faculty from previous attacks, such as Rick O’Donnell’s report on the low productivity of UT professors, and is less enthusiastic about more pro-gressive measures. But what better measure is there to focus on than investing in the faculty? O’Donnell’s report illustrated a picture of a wasteful faculty, one filled with inefficient “dodgers” and “coasters” who bring in less money than the University spends to maintain them. Furthermore, O’Donnell sug-gested that the University should focus on teaching over research.

However, teaching and research are not mutually exclusive; they travel together. Professors use their personal research to frame their teachings, in turn improving the quality of our education. If research projects, enjoyed and employed by a heavy majority of professors at UT, were cut down, teaching would also be affected.

The debate over higher education, which drove the message of Powers’ address, comes down to a trade-off between quality and efficiency. Powers made ad-mirable statements about the University’s purpose as a powerful research university, including that cheaper labor, mass-produced degrees and huge classes have not historically been and should not become the school’s future.

Obviously, everyone wants to receive the best education available at the lowest possible cost. But we must recognize that our University needs to up-hold its prestige. Ultimately, quality is more impor-tant than productivity. Not every single issue can be tackled at the same time. And when determining what’s important for the University’s improvement, focusing on our faculty cannot be cast to the side. In Powers’ words, “very little gets done by spreading ourselves too thin”.

Manescu is an international relations and journalism freshman.

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Kirsten Slade, far left, works with students on Saturday morning as part of a citizen gardener course at the UT Concho Community Garden, teaching composting, planting and harvesting.

Gardeners learn key sustainable planting tips to use during times of drought

Fires have scorched the plains of Texas and sub-stantial rain has yet to come to Austin this sum-mer, but wildfires and a se-vere drought aren’t slowing down local gardeners.

On Saturday the Sustain-able Food Center hosted the first in a series of three gardening classes at the UT community garden located at 2108 Concho Street.

The Sustainable Food Center uses these classes as the first step for someone to become a “citizen gar-dener.” To become a citizen gardener participants have to attend all three classes and log 10 hours of garden-ing time.

“My gardening experi-

ence is minimal. I am just trying to figure out how to make things grow when there is no rain,” said gar-dening class participant Tom Mitchell.

The class focus ranged from composting, com-panion planting, bio-inten-sive gardening and rain bar-rel harvesting to special gar-dening tips during times of drought. Volunteer instructor Khaled Jafar taught the class in a question-and-answer for-mat, honing in on useful tips he learned from experience.

“Growth in drought is all about light,” Jafar said. “If you are getting a lot of sun with little rain, pro-vide a lot of shade cover-ing. Also, I would mulch. You need to cover the west-ern side of the garden be-

cause that is where the sun beams in from and can be most harmful.”

Jafar introduced a water-conscious gardening meth-od known as rain barrel harvesting.

“Rainwater harvesting is where you take a rain barrel and use it to capture rain-water for garden watering purposes,” Jafar said. “It re-cycles.”

Other types of gardening Jafar covered were com-posting, the process of dis-posing and reusing organic material; bio-intensive gar-dening, the systematic plan-ning of plants-per-square-foot in a garden in order to maximize the number of plants in an area and com-panion planting, the prac-tice of planting compatible

plants with each other.“Some advantages of

bio-intensive gardening or systematic planting are that it maximizes the light and at the same time al-lows the plants room to grow,” Jafar said. “Also, companion planting is im-portant because it is help-ful to know what goes with what. Garlic is good because a lot of bugs don’t like the smell, and lem-ongrass is also ideal for warding off bugs.”

Jafar also suggested the use of a cayenne pepper mix to ward off bugs.

“This is a community gar-den. We wanted one, but couldn’t have it at our apart-ment and now we can,” said class participant Phillip Mar-tin. “It’s great.”

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The recent wildfires in Bastrop County have destroyed homes and disrupted daily life for local residents and their pets.

Officials at area animal shel-ters say they are doing what they can to reunite pets and their own-ers that were separated during the evacuation, but the process is far from complete.

“Many people weren’t home when their neighborhoods were evacu-ated and weren’t allowed back in to get their pets,” said Austin Pets Alive! spokeswoman Gretchen Mey-er. “Some people had just a couple of minutes to get out and could see the fires coming and their pets, spooked, wouldn’t let them catch them or ran away in fear.”

Austin Pets Alive!, a non-profit that promotes no-kill animal shelters, is working with the Bastrop County Sheriff ’s Office and Animal Control to go door-to-door looking for pets that were left behind, Meyer said.

“There were a lot of people con-centrated in a few areas — most likely where the fires first broke out in Bastrop — who were wor-ried about their pets dying of star-vation or dehydration, trapped in their homes because they weren’t allowed in their neighborhoods for so long,” she said.

Meyer said the organization is holding an adoption event on Sat-urday and Sunday for animals from area shelters to free up space for the evacuee pets so their owners can find them.

Austin Pets Alive! has had a sta-tion set up in Bastrop for almost two weeks, offering veterinarian care, pet supplies including food and leashes and temporary foster homes where people can drop off their pets while they get back on their feet, she said.

Austin Animal Control assisted the Bastrop County Animal Control by going to areas affected by the fires to pick up stray animals and take them to the Bastrop Animal Shelter.

When the Bastrop County An-imal Shelter reached full capaci-

ty, Animal Control started taking pets to the Austin Humane Society, which also took in animals in need of medical care.

The Austin Humane Society is housing more than 100 dogs and cats that have been displaced by the wildfire, said Austin Humane Soci-ety spokeswoman Lisa Starr. While there have been close to 60 reunions, there are still pets that have not found their owners, Starr said.

“We’re working everyday to find the pets’ owners,” she said. “We don’t have a determined time as to when they’ll all be reunited but we’re going to get every opportuni-ty to do so.”

In an effort to reconnect more an-imals with their owners, the Austin Humane Society created a lost and found photo album on its Facebook page and is keeping it as up-to-date as possible.

“We are working really hard to find owners of pets,” Starr said. “We are just seeing a lot of hap-py endings but there are still some looking for their families.”

By Sylvia ButandaDaily Texan Staff

Here’s the still-beating heart of the rift between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his predecessor, George W. Bush: When Bush was gover-nor he refused to appoint Perry’s brother-in-law to the Texas appeals court bench.

With Perry now running for president, the spotlight is shin-ing on the tense relationship be-tween the two Texans and their al-lied camps.

In public, both Perry and Bush shrug off any friction.

“Between the Bushes and Rick Perry there is absolutely no rift at all,” Perry recently told conserva-tive radio show host Sean Hannity.

When Bush was asked in a sep-arate interview about it, he men-tioned Karl Rove, one of his most trusted advisers, and said: “May-be with Karl. Not with my broth-er, with my dad, not with me at all. I admire him.”

Despite all the niceties, Per-ry didn’t hold back when asked during a recent Republican de-bate about Rove’s comments that Perry’s 2010 book “Fed Up!” con-tained such explosive language that it could be “toxic” in the general presidential election.

“Karl has been over the top for a long time in some of his remarks,” Perry said.

Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, also has chastised Per-ry for branding Social Security “a Ponzi scheme.”

These were just the latest tiffs

in a spat that goes back to 1995. Perry was the state’s agricultural commissioner and Bush was the newly sworn-in governor. Perry lobbied for the appointment of his wife’s brother, Joseph E. Thig-pen, to a vacancy on the 11th Court of Appeals in Eastland. Bush turned him down.

Bill Ratliff, who was Perry’s first lieutenant governor, said Perry blames Rove for denying the request. “It created some fric-tion between the two and Karl got blamed.”

Since the appointment flap, the Perry and Bush camps have drifted farther apart. This year, the establishment embodied by former President George H.W. Bush, father of George W. Bush, is pitted against the enraged tea partyers Perry wants to help him win the nomination.

Many who know both former governors say it’s little wonder they never saw eye to eye.

The Bush family was patri-cian. The Perrys were tenant cotton farmers.

George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard, famously quit drink-ing and rarely curses. Perry gradu-ated from Texas A&M, enjoys fine wine and frequently peppers his speeches with “damns” and “hells.”

The two men share the experi-ence of being college cheerleaders.

It’s unclear whether bad blood between the two could make it harder for Perry to attract large do-nors in Texas and around the coun-try who previously backed Bush.

Contacted by phone, sever-

al people who raised more than $200,000 for Bush campaigns indi-cated that the Perry-Bush relation-ship wouldn’t likely sway which candidate they ultimately support.

Rove and Perry reconciled brief-ly in 1998, when Perry was in a dead-heat race for lieutenant gov-ernor. Rove believed an attack ad Perry was running was too nega-tive, so he asked Perry to ditch it. In return Rove delivered the all-important endorsement of George H.W. Bush, which helped propel Perry to victory.

George W. Bush was already in full national campaign mode while also keeping close tabs on Texas government to ensure it didn’t de-rail his plans to run for the White House. When Bush took Rove and the rest of his inner circle to Wash-ington, Perry built his own Texas campaign team that twice helped him win the governor’s post.

The feud further escalated when Rove and many other top Bush ad-visers went to work for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in her fierce battle against Perry for the 2010 gubernatorial nomination. Bush’s father even endorsed her.

Despite the political firepow-er behind Hutchison, Perry trounced her and cruised to his second re-election.

Some say Perry will want the support of the Bush family and its national political muscle over a long campaign.

For now, though, Team Bush, which left the White House with record-low approval ratings, is an easy target.

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Pets displaced during fire evacuations

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Linklater answered the major-ity of questions during the ques-tion and answer session follow-ing the screening. Black said he was sympathetic for the victims and their families.

“It really is no problem for us to do this to help Bastrop out. It was just the right thing to do,” Black said.

“I feel so bad for the victims and the families and hope that this helped enough to make a difference.”

Many people at the event ex-pressed sincere appreciation for the efforts of Linklater and Black. One hundred percent of proceeds from the event went to Bastrop Emergen-cy Food Pantry, Heart of Pines Vol-

unteer Fire Department and Friends of the Lost Pines State Parks.

“It’s great to have them do this for Bastrop. Being from there, it really is a sentimental thing for me,” said Bastrop resident Roger Basquette. “I mean it makes sense. It is [Linklat-er’s] hometown, and I guess we all support our own.”

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Lisa Starr, spokeswoman for the Austin Humane Society, spends some time with a dog in the Recovery room. The dog, rescued from the Bastrop wildfires, is recovering from burns on her paws and has not been claimed by an owner yet.

The year 2012 is approach-ing fast, and the author of a new book says apocalyp-tic predictions are powerful enough to cause mental and physical harm to those that believe them.

Christopher Keating, au-thor of “Dialogues on 2012: Why the World Will Not End,” claims that even if dooms-day prophecies are blatantly false, some people take them very seriously.

“S ome of these prophe-cies are even laughable, but the truth is that people are just fearful of the future,” Keating said.

Keating also said when Har-old Camping predicted that the rapture would occur on May 21, 2011, some people drained their finances and, in rare cir-cumstances, physically harmed themselves out of fear.

“When p eople are fear-ful, they become prey for the ‘Camping’ types,” Keating said. “Some people quit their jobs, spent their whole life savings and gave things away just be-cause a persuasive, endear-ing, albeit crazy man on tele-vision told them the world was ending.”

While there are uncommon instances when people take drastic measures, most people do not take prophecies serious-ly, said anthropology professor Brian Stross. He also said the media tends to harshly over-play the phenomena.

“I suspect that most people view the 2012 prophesies as unimportant and do not take

them seriously,” Stross said. “I’m reasonably sure, howev-er, that thanks largely to the media concentration on this theme, there are at least a few people who do.”

Although there are no hard statistics recounting the num-ber of people who have actu-ally thrown their lives away due to apocalyptic prophecies, there is real harm that could come to all of society if tangi-ble, current problems are not dealt with, Stross said.

“I would say that rapture pre-dictions and prophesies about the world ending are a drop in the bucket in terms of harm-ing society when compared to wars, famine, disease, torture, renditions, murder, wiretap-ping, secrecy in government, joblessness, etc.,” Stross said.

Political communications freshman Emily Linn agrees there are more pressing issues to focus on.

“The media definitely gets excited when someone comes along to predict Armageddon, but it is important to remem-ber and deal with problems that are happening right now,” Linn said.

Stross said that since these predictions will only truly af-fect a small number of people, it would be more beneficial to spend a greater amount of time looking at issues that affect so-ciety as a whole.

“I really don’t think these predictions are anything to worry about or even to waste time thinking about, where-as these other things pose ma-jor problems for society and are worth taking some time to ponder,” Stross said.

YMCA East Communit ies Branch reached out to the com-munity on Saturday to encourage physical activity in children and fa-cilitate family fun.

Mayor Lee Leffingwell partnered with the YMCA to sponsor the “Let’s Move Austin Play Day.”

Leffingwell gave a brief speech at the event and expounded on the importance of physical activity. He said he liked the fact the YMCA

keeps it simple by using family in-teraction, games and fun activities instead of video games.

“In lieu of having a regular work-out regimen it is nice to come out and play,” Leffingwell said.

East Communities YMCA di-rector Darrell Barnett said ap-proximately 650 people attend-ed, and volunteers made the event manageable.

“This is one of the events that would not have been possible with-out the number of volunteers we have had. Both Target and H-E-B helped us out through donations,” Barnett said.

Every year the YMCA rais-es funds for their own Partners of Youth program.

“Last year, for 2011, our goal was $975,000. We raised all of that through individual dona-tions,” Barnett said. “Say a kid wants to learn how to swim — most kids in this neighborhood can’t afford the $55 cost of swim lessons. So, we use that mon-ey from the [Partners of Youth] campaign, make them pay $5 and the rest comes from the money we raise.”

Kids and families attending the event had a range of activities to choose from, including aquat-ic games, hula-hooping and recre-ational games.

“Hula-hooping was my favor-ite part. I just learned how to hu-la-hoop and I really think it is a

new talent I have,” said elemenatry school student Mikaila Ulmer.

Barnett said elementary school student Terra Fritsche has been at-tending the YMCA for many years now and has been interviewed by other organizations in reference to the YMCA activities.

“She is a very big part of what we do,” Barnett said. “She is a fixture around here. She has been com-ing here since she was a little girl, and now we couldn’t imagine this YMCA without her.”

In the summer heat, Fritsche said the water games were her favorite.

“When you had to throw the ball at the cones to make them go in the water, and I even knocked down five,” Fritsche said. “It was fun.”

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Diego Woodall, middle, watches Jeffrey Selden, right, play on the playground at East Communities YMCA on Saturday morning as part of the “Let’s Move Austin Play Day.” The City of Austin and Mayor Lee Leffingwell organized this day to encourage families to exercise in fun and affordable ways.

With more dominoes falling this weekend, it appears ever more likely that college football is about to change drastically as schools look to form “su-per conferences.”

Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State are in negotiations with the Pac-12 conference, accord-ing to a Sunday report by the Aus-tin American-Statesman. According to the Statesman, Texas would be al-lowed to keep its Longhorn Network if it joined the conference, with a few provisions. First, the revenue earned from the network would have to be one-sixteenth of what the Pac-12 re-ceives for its third-tier rights. Also, the network would need to include Texas Tech and thus be renamed to some-thing befitting of both schools.

If those four schools joined the con-ference, it’d give it 16 teams.

According to the Statesman, it is ex-pected that the UT Board of Regents will meet today to vote and authorize president Bill Powers to make an ex-ecutive decision regarding conference realignment. Powers graduated from California, a Pac-12 school, in 1967.

Meanwhile on the East Coast, Pitts-burgh and Syracuse have agreed to leave the Big East Conference and join the Atlantic Coast Conference. Be-sides giving the ACC perhaps the best quality basketball teams, the move also could mean the end for the Big East, a conference that has been struggling to keep up with other football powers for the past few years. The addition of those schools would make the confer-ence a 14-team league. Connecticut is lobbying to join the ACC as well, ac-cording to ESPN.com.

With the Southeastern Conference standing firm — with or without Tex-as A&M — the last of the four eventu-al super conferences would be the Big 10, which just added Nebraska this season.

Of course, if all these moves play out, the Big 12 and the Big East would probably face either extinction or tre-mendous loss of prestige. The loss of the Longhorns, Sooners and Aggies — coupled with the loss of Nebraska this year — would be too much for the conference, which began play in 1996.

Four prominent Texans took out a full-page ad in the Statesman on Sun-

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PASADENA, Calif. — D.J. Grant’s performance on Saturday was something straight out of a Hollywood movie script.

The junior tight end caught sev-en passes for 77 yards and three touchdowns to lead Texas past UCLA 49-20 at the Rose Bowl, ending any doubts about his sur-gically repaired right leg.

Two years of intense rehab fi-nally paid off for Grant, who missed the entire 2009 and 2010 seasons after tearing his ACL, PCL and hamstring.

Grant put the Longhorns on the board first with a 45-yard touch-down catch from freshman quar-terback Case McCoy . Grant lined up on the right side of the forma-tion, dragged across the middle of

the field and found himself wide open as McCoy stepped up in the pocket to deliver the pass.

“I didn’t expect to be that open,” Grant said. “I seen nothing but grass in front of me so I was excit-ed, hoping I wouldn’t trip and fall before I got [to the end zone].”

Grant’s day, though, was far from over.

His three-touchdown perfor-mance was the first for a Long-horns tight end since Pat Fitzger-ald scored three times against Notre Dame in 1995.

“D.J. showed up well tonight,” McCoy said. “He had a huge game and he found a way to get open. If a tight end can block and find a way to get open, he’s going to be a big player in our offense.”

He connected again with Mc-Coy for a two-yard score to put Texas ahead, 28-7, with 21 sec-onds remaining in the first half. As was the case the first time, Mc-Coy eluded several Bruins in the

PASADENA, Calif. — Someone please tell Malcolm Brown to tie his shoes tighter.

The freshman had a number of firsts in Saturday’s game against UCLA. He started for the first time, he rushed for 100 yards for the first time and he scored his first career touchdown, crossing the goal line as one of his shoes went flying.

That, along with breakout per-formances from Case McCoy and D.J. Grant , was more than enough to give No. 24 Texas an impressive 49-20 victory over the Bruins.

Making his first start at quarter-back, McCoy went 12-for-15 with 168 yards and two touchdowns, both to junior tight end Grant. Grant caught a third touchdown from Jaxon Shipley as well.

“Very few people thought we would be 3-0 with our non-con-ference schedule,” said head coach Mack Brown. “What we’ve got to do is to keep working because we’re

The No. 8 Longhorns returned to Gregory Gym over the weekend and had dominating performances over Santa Clara, SMU and UTSA.

They began the weekend by sweeping Santa Clara in three sets. Texas dominated the first set 25-13. But the second was much closer and the Broncos took a 20-18 lead at one point. After a time-out, the Longhorns focused and won the set

25-23. Texas boasted a 68 percent side-out rate and 11.5 team blocks in the game.

“The blocking has really stead-ied out, and I thought our block-

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not nearly as good as we can be.”Brown had only two carries be-

fore halftime in the Longhorns’ first two wins over Rice and BYU but handled the larger workload well, rushing the ball 22 times and aver-aging five yards per carry, for a fi-nal total of 110 yards. Even more impressive was his 16-yard touch-down run in the second quarter. Brown broke through the mid-dle of the Texas offensive line and dragged multiple UCLA defenders into the end zone while leaving his right shoe behind.

“I knew he’d probably break 100 yards,” McCoy said. “Malcolm’s a great player for us. I think we all knew that coming in and we’re just glad that he’s stepping up and mak-ing plays like he is.”

The true freshman wasn’t a part of UCLA’s 34-12 victory over Texas last season, but many of his team-mates were, although they insisted “revenge” was not in their vocabu-lary as they prepared for their re-match with the Bruins. Nonethe-less, the memory of the 22-point defeat provided the motivation nec-essary to return the favor as a trio of first-quarter interceptions led to three Texas touchdowns and a 21-0 lead the team did not give up.

“This is a team that came out and dominated us last year so we want-ed to make sure we gave this team a little bit of payback,” said senior linebacker Keenan Robinson, who tied two others with a game-high nine tackles.

McCoy didn’t take any snaps in the Longhorns’ loss to the Bruins a year ago but still had some trou-blesome memories lingering in the

back of his head. His older brother and current Cleveland Browns sig-nal-caller, Colt McCoy, played the final game of his illustrious Texas career at the Rose Bowl in the na-tional title game two seasons ago. The two-time All-American suf-fered a stinger in the first quarter that knocked him out of the con-test and the Longhorns fell to Ala-bama, 37-21. The younger McCoy, however, ensured that at least one member of his family would tri-umph in Pasadena.

“That was one of my goals, to come in here and get a win for [Colt],” McCoy said. “That was not a fun memory of mine the last time he was here.”

One of the best aspects of Mc-Coy’s performance was his abili-ty to avoid pressure in the pocket, keep his eyes downfield and make crisp throws in critical situations. He did it first on his 45-yard touch-down toss to Grant and again on a 25-yard strike to Mike Davis.

Texas needed all 25 of those yards to move the chains thanks to 5-foot-9, 175-pound Marquise Goodwin, the smallest player on the field, be-ing flagged for a personal foul after leaving a hapless Andrew Abbott. The hit was the catalyst for a phys-ical effort by a Texas team that out-muscled UCLA, something it failed to do last year.

“Marquise could play defense,” said junior safety Kenny Vaccaro. “It was a great hit.”

Texas got both hard hits and big-time catches from unlikely sourc-es as Grant had the game of his life, scoring on half of his six catch-es. The Longhorns’ tight ends com-

bined for two catches this season before coming to the Rose Bowl and no Texas pass catcher had more than two touchdown receptions last season, making Grant’s perfor-mance as remarkable as it was un-expected.

“If any team plays as hard as they did today, anyone can score three touchdowns,” Grant said. “Who’s it going to be this week? Who’s it go-ing to be next week? Everybody’s going to have their moment.”

Shipley, who hooked up with Grant for his third touchdown, dis-played his versatility again as he completed a pass for the second straight game, caught five pass-es and ran for 15 yards. The true freshman was one of many Long-horn rookies to play big roles this weekend and this season. Shipley, Brown, quarterback David Ash and running back Joe Bergeron are just a handful of first-year players mak-ing their mark.

“This is probably the biggest role any freshman class has played since we’ve been at Texas,” Brown, who’s in his fourteenth year as the Long-horns’ head coach, said. “I think one of the keys is that the older guys are helping the young guys. They’ve welcomed them and they know we need them to win the games.”

Texas goes into their bye week with a 3-0 record and will face Iowa State, who is also 3-0, on Oct. 1.

Maybe with the extra time be-tween games, someone can get around to finding Brown some shoes that won’t fall off so easily.

pocket before finding Grant.Saturday wasn’t the only time

Grant had seen a Texas quarter-back named McCoy escape pres-sure like that.

“Case reminds me so much of his brother [Colt] when he’s back there moving around like that,” Grant said.

As if hauling in two touch-downs from McCoy wasn’t enough, Grant caught anoth-er score from Jaxon Shipley, Mc-Coy’s best friend and roommate.

Shipley, a freshman wide re-ceiver, lined up in the shotgun and took a direct snap before roll-ing right and finding Grant in the corner of the end zone for a five-

yard score in the third quarter.“Those two are like the clos-

est friends I’ve seen in a while and for me to catch one from both of them is pretty good,” Grant said. “That has to be pretty crazy.”

Grant had struggled with the trick play in practice, but made up for it with seamless execution against the Bruins.

“All week I had been having trouble with the play,” Grant said. “I was leaving too early or leaving too late, not faking it enough. Ob-viously today I got it right.”

But Grant wasn’t the only tight end to make an impact for Tex-as against UCLA. In all, six tight ends played. They blocked well

and helped the Longhorns rush for a season-high 284 yards.

“Those guys have done such a nice job in the run game, we haven’t gotten the ball to them a ton yet and today was their op-portunity,” said co-offensive coor-dinator Bryan Harsin. “They got their opportunity and they took advantage of it.”

Under the bright lights of the Rose Bowl and before a nation-al television audience, Grant had a break-out performance in Cal-ifornia on Saturday.

Who knows, maybe his inspir-ing return to the game that nearly ended his career will wind up in Hollywood one day.

ing in the first set was awesome. I think that’s why we went on such a big run,” senior libero Sydney Yogi said. “Passing is more finesse than anything, so I think the key is just staying calm.”

On Saturday, the Longhorns took on SMU and won the game in three sets, with scores of 25-20, 25-21, 26-24.

Freshman outside hitter Khat Bell, who was the tournament MVP, had 17 kills and .452 hitting. She also had ten digs.

In the first set, the Longhorns struggled for a bit and SMU led 20-15. But, the Longhorns won the set

after going on a 10-0 run. In the sec-ond set, the Mustangs led 19-18, but a 5-0 run gave the Longhorns a 25-21 win.

In their final game of the tourna-ment, UTSA forced a fourth set with Texas. The Longhorns had a 27-25, 19-25, 25-22, 25-18 victory.

Senior Rachael Adams had thir-teen kills and Bell had 12 kills and nine digs. Bailey Webster had a career best eleven kills.

In the final set of the game, the Longhorns found their rhythm and hit .433. Freshman middle blocker Madelyn Hutson and senior out-side hitter Amber Roberson both

had two aces.“I think there’s a lot of positives,”

head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “I thought this morning we did a great job of getting our back row attack involved for the first time in system. And Khat Bell put up numbers that she hasn’t been able to put up all season long.”

He said the team is continuing to grow and get better, but more mid-dle blocker production is needed.

“We’ve just got to become a little more steady,” Elliott said. “We’ve got to buckle down on our serve, and see patterns, and be able to get a lit-tle more kill production.”

SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Romo felt sick to his stomach. It hurt to breathe, let alone bark out the cadence in a hostile road stadi-um.

Playing with the throbbing pain from a fractured rib, Romo rallied America’s Team just as he promised he would.

In a week when Romo vowed to play his best game, he delivered a gutsy comeback that looked so unlikely when he briefly came out from halftime and then returned to the locker room.

Moments after the Cowboys (1-1) announced the quarterback was done for the day, there came No. 9 ready to take charge of the huddle

once again.Romo hit Jesse Holley on a 77-

yard completion on the Cowboys’ first play of overtime that set up Dan Bailey’s winning 19-yard field goal 2:53 into the overtime, and Dallas pulled off an improbable 27-24 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

In one frantic span, Romo em-phatically left his mark on the sto-ried Cowboys-49ers rivalry that dates back decades to all those epic matchups in the NFC title game that regularly set up Super Bowl victories by the winner.

“It’s got to be one of those things that will follow him through his ca-reer. I know what it was here in the locker room at halftime. I know what he had to do to get back on the field,” Cowboys owner Jerry

Jones said.“I know what he had to do be-

fore (painkillers) took hold to re-lieve him from his pain. But, boy, did he come back. That was inspi-rational.”

Romo emerged from the locker room after the second-half kickoff and walked briefly into the huddle as Jon Kitna returned to the side-line, then Romo immediately came off under doctor’s orders and head-ed back to the locker room.

Back on the sideline late in the third quarter, Romo tapped Jason Garrett on the shoulder and told the coach to put him back in the game.

“Eventually, what was convinc-ing was, ‘At some point I’m going to play with this thing, so why not now?’” Garrett said, quoting Romo.

But with a 3-0 record comes a new set of challenges, and it doesn’t guarantee any continued success.

“We’ll have to handle some peo-ple bragging on us for the first time,” head coach Mack Brown said. “We’ve got to keep working because we’re not near as good as we can be.”

Still, the Longhorns haven’t played a top-flight opponent. I’m not on the bandwagon just yet.

UCLA was torched by Houston in its season opener and barely es-caped San Jose State at home.

Brigham Young’s win over Mis-sissippi lost its luster when the Reb-els fell handily to Vanderbilt this week while the Cougars were busy losing 54-10 to Utah.

And Rice is, well, Rice.

Come talk to me after the Long-horns go on the road and face an undefeated Iowa State team that has shown just as much fight as Texas this year.

As Brown pointed out, this is far from a finished product.

Texas had UCLA bruised and bloodied in the first half, but couldn’t score the knockout punch.

“We had them on the ropes a couple times and we didn’t finish them,” defensive coordinator Man-ny Diaz said. “And that was disap-pointing.”

Yes, the Longhorns answered questions about their toughness and ability to win on the road, but they still have strides to take.

The encouraging thing is this team has responded to a new chal-

lenge with each week.“We’re taking the right steps and

we’re taking them fast,” said soph-omore cornerback Adrian Phillips, who had an interception and forced a fumble against UCLA.

But if Texas continues to build on its success from game to game, the sky is the limit for this young group.

“As long as everybody plays hard we’ll pull out wins like this all year,” Vaccaro said.

The Longhorns rediscovered their swagger amongst the palm trees and mountain ranges that en-close the Rose Bowl.

Now it’s up to them to bring it back from the West Coast.

day, calling for the unification of the Big 12.

Drayton McLane, Red McCombs, Mark White and Phil Hardberger, the former mayor of San Antonio, wrote that “what we have as a conference is not only worth fighting for, it’s worth waging peace for.”

“Sending our teams to conferenc-es elsewhere would reflect total disre-gard for more than a hundred years of sporting history. Stop and think about how future generations will ex-perience football games — not with a reasonable drive by car on a Sat-urday afternoon, but with a faraway

game, played time zones away from our own, that kicks off at 10 o’clock at night.”

Despite its common sense ethos, the letter is most likely not enough to save the Big 12 as the college land-scape shifts to an era of super confer-ences.

Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff / Associated Press

Texas and Oklahoma could both be headed to the Pac 12. . If they join the same conference, the Longhorns and Sooners would still be able to play the Red River Rivalry every October in Dallas.

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Tony Romo plays hurt, leads Cowboys to winBy Janie McCauleyThe Associated Press

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9 10 Monday, September 19, 2011SPORTS

Through Rose-colored glasses

Sophomore defensive tackle Calvin Howell (No. 90) takes the field before the opening kickoff. It was the Longhorns’ first game at the Rose Bowl since they lost the 2009 National Championship to Alabama.

Senior linebacker Emmanuel Acho (No. 18) sacks UCLA quarterback Richard Brehaut. Acho finished the game with five total tackles.

Texas head coach Mack Brown and

his wife, Sally, are congratu-

lated by former Longhorn

pitcher Roger Clemens after

Texas’ win.

Freshman wideout Jaxon Shipley (No. 8) and kicker William Russ (No. 14) stretch before the start of the game. Shipley had five catches and also threw a touchdown.

Roger Clemens smiled, Bill Powers beamed, and on the field Case McCoy skipped around would-be tacklers to lead Texas to a comprehensive 49-20 victory over UCLA in their third game of the season. Had the weather not been so nice the sight of thousands of empty seats at the infa-mous Rose Bowl stadium might have ruined the scenery, but the domination was eye candy for Texas fans; and the mountains are still there, too. With talk of Texas possibly joining UCLA in the Pac-12, the win may have a been a preview of future inter-conference play in the coming seasons. Considering the blowout, Texas would probably look forward to it; the Bruins not so much.

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1. Ball-hawks roam the secondary

The young Longhorns corner-backs were tested early and often against the Bruins and they rose to the occasion. Sophomore cor-nerbacks Carrington Byndom and Adrian Phillips each intercepted UCLA’s quarterback Kevin Prince in the first quarter. The safeties got in on the action, too. Junior safety Kenny Vaccaro made a diving in-terception along the sidelines and senior safety Blake Gideon tipped Prince’s pass to set up Phillips’ in-terception. It was the type of per-formance assistant head coach

Duane Akina has been looking for this year and each takeaway led to a touchdown.

2. Tight ends hold the key to the offense

He ad co ach Mack Brown stressed the importance of get-ting production from the Long-horns’ tight ends before the sea-son. Brown f inally got what he wanted in Saturday’s game against UCLA. Junior tight end D.J. Grant hauled in six passes for 77 yards and three touchdowns in only his third career game. It was the first time a Longhorn tight end scored since the Kan-sas State game last season. Tex-as played six tight ends in the game and all of them blocked well. They sealed the edge, giving wide receivers Jaxon Shipley and Marquise Goodwin and running back D.J. Monroe room to run on sweeps to the outside.

3. Marquise Goodwin is in foot-ball shape

Goodwin again made some big plays for the Longhorns in his sec-ond game since returning to the team Sept. 6. The speedy wide re-ceiver did not participate in spring drills or fall camp because he was training for the long jump in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The coaching staff had been cautious about using Goodwin too much or too fast, but he hasn’t played like a track star yet. He lit up UCLA cornerback Andrew Ab-bott with a head-crunching block in the second quarter, the hardest hit by anyone in a Longhorns uniform. Goodwin rushed three times for 33 yards, including a 20-yard gain. He also made plays in the kicking game, returning three kickoffs for 65 yards.

4. Case McCoy has mojoFreshman quarterback Case Mc-

Coy breathed life into the Long-horns offense in his first career start, jump-starting a unit that had started slowly in each of the first two games. McCoy found tight end D.J. Grant for a 45-yard touchdown pass on Texas’ second drive of the game, escaping several Bruins in the backfield before throwing his first career touchdown pass. Mc-Coy danced out of trouble again in the second quarter, this time find-ing wide receiver Mike Davis for a 25-yard gain. He completed 12 of 15 passes for 168 yards and two scores. His elusiveness in the pocket reminded many veteran Longhorns of his older brother Colt.

5. Texas has a pass rushThe Longhorns finally pres-

sured the quarterback, and the defensive line outplayed the Bru-ins’ front five. Defensive tackle Kheeston Randall rocked UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince and nearly forced a fumble on a play

that was ruled an incomplete pass. Linebacker Jordan Hicks routinely caused havoc in the Bruins back-field, and the Longhorns were in Prince’s face from the get-go. Line-backer Emmanuel Acho had a sack

and two tackles for loss. The Long-horns front seven got off the ball quickly and forced Prince to throw off his back foot, which led to er-rant throws and an interception for Texas.


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Texas finally gets off to fast start

In their first two games, the Longhorns combined for three first-quarter points, were col-lectively outscored 19-16, and failed to score first in either contest. Coming out of the gate quicker was a topic Texas coaches emphasized in prac-tice this week and it showed Saturday. Against UCLA, Texas was never trailing and scored the game’s first 21 points. The Longhorns did not allow the Bruins to trim its lead to few-

er than 14 after a first quarter that saw the Longhorns inter-cept quarterback Kevin Prince three times.

“I thought it was a great first quarter,” said defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. “On the road, being a team that might have some confidence issues, we just jumped them. All three phases I think we just jumped on top of them. We set [the offense] up and boom! They punched it in.”

Brown shines in first career start

Freshman running back Malcolm Brown has prov-en to have a knack for fall-ing forward when he gets tackled. And on his 16-yard touchdown run in the sec-ond quarter, he made sure he fell past the goal line be-fore he was taken down. B row n b ro u g ht s e ve ra l UCLA defenders into the end zone with him but only brought one of his shoes, as

his right cleat slipped off. It was the freshman’s first ca-reer touchdown and, with 110 yards, his first 100-yard game.

“I wasn’t surprised at all [that Malcolm ran for 100 yards],” said freshman quar-terback David Ash. “He’s a hard worker. He’s tough and physical. And he’s got great vision. He’s got all the tools.”

Harsin’s trickery pays off yet againOffensive coordinator Bry-

an Harsin proved to be a first-class play caller once more as Texas senior run-ning back Fozzy Whittak-er scored twice out of the Longhorns’ wild formation. Whittaker took the snap on a 36-yard sprint and blew by the defense untouched for a touchdown. In the first quar-ter, freshman wide receiver Jaxon Shipley faked a han-doff to what seemed like 15 other players before giving

the ball to Whittaker, who scored from eight yards out.

Not to be left out, Shipley hit junior tight end D.J. Grant for his third touchdown catch of the game, a 5-yard-er. For the third straight game, a Texas receiver has now completed a pass.

“Jaxon threw me a pret-ty good ball,” Grant said. “The ones in practice didn’t go too well but he got it to-gether for the game.”

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What we learned from UT’s win: McCoy has mojo, Goodwin can hit


Sophomore quarterback Case McCoy executes an option play against UCLA. McCoy led the Longhorns to seven touchdowns.


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Editor’s note: This column is the first in a weekly series exploring dif-ferent religions and spirituality in Austin.

The head teacher at the Austin Zen Center referenced Kurt Von-negut and the Christian creation story in the Saturday morning Dharma Talk — a signal that the center embraces the mixed cul-tural and spiritual identities that shape most Austinites.

Members of the sangha — community — include individu-als who have studied Zen for de-cades and those who have come to it in recent weeks. Some people who cross their legs on the black cushions have left other religions, while others want to supplement their faith practices or are seek-ing spiritual community for the first time.

East Asian countries have prac-ticed Zen Buddhism since the sev-enth century, and it became pop-ular in the United States in the 1950s and ‘60s. Zen focuses on the attainment of self-realization and enlightenment through med-itation and study of the dharma, the natural order of things.

Colin Gipson is the teach-er’s assistant at the center, where he started practicing in 2000. He

said Buddhism attracts people from many corners because Zen “doesn’t pick and choose.” College towns like Austin frequently have centers because the populations tend to be open-minded, he said.

“Buddhism is the only thing that ever made sense to me,” Gipson said. “It’s about sitting down and not running from my suffering.”

The center offers three medi-tations, called zazens, on week-days as well as Saturday morn-ing and Wednesday evening pro-grams, weekend retreats, volun-teer opportunities and individu-al training.

The sangha at the center is sup-portive of each other and welcom-ing to new practitioners, Gipson said. The center holds a beginner’s meditation every Saturday morn-ing to teach the physical and men-tal aspects of zazen.

The silent form of meditation most common in Zen can be in-timidating, as it requires a focus on breath and self that doesn’t en-ter into most people’s daily life. Pat Yingst, one of the practice leaders, said it can be hard at first to avoid thinking about daily tasks in the midst of meditation.

However, the Saturday morning program of a shorter meditation, a dharma talk and tea and cook-ies, provides a comfortable atmo-sphere for exploring meditation and Buddhism for the first time.

The main facility is warm and open, with wooden fixtures and large windows in the zendo, where most meditation takes place. The kitchen is a common space for

members and guests. A large tree in the front yard almost begs to be sat under.

Leah Collier travelled to Austin from San Angelo to visit the zen center after studying Buddhism on her own for a few years. She at-tended the beginner’s meditation and dharma talk — the Buddhist equivalent of a sermon — Satur-day morning with her spouse, Ar-lene Harbison.

“It was emotional but very en-lightening,” Collier said. “I have a better understanding from just one talk about how to deal with emotions in a grounded way, how to react instead of overreact.”

Member Collin Whites started visiting the center regularly in June after receiving a medical discharge from the United States Navy.

“Something had changed, and I wanted to move forward in a new way,” Whites said. “I wanted a place of community, healing and growth. I find practicing medita-tion in the morning helps me be more present and be at attention, or to change my attention when I need to.”

As the zendo cleared out after the morning program, that sense of peace and clarity remained.

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the talented Conor Oberst, this was not the last Batman sighting.

Of course, despite the day’s line-up, the crowd wasn’t pumped until main acts Coldplay and Kanye West took their stages, both drawing in their respective fan bases. Fortu-nately on time, rapper Kanye West pulled the big guns with drama — ascending on a platform in the mid-dle of the crowd and slowly strut-

ting down the runway to the stage.Coldplay stuck to their clas-

sic roots. The British rock band played all of their hits, including “Yellow,” “The Scientist,” “Clocks” and their most recent, “Viva La Vida,” and a touching tribute to the late Amy Winehouse during the encore, with a rendition of “Rehab” that transitioned perfectly into “Fix You.” While there were giant boun-

cy balloons and dream catcher flashing lights at Coldplay’s show, West put on an expectably big pro-duction. Composed of three acts, the show was complete with “Black Swan”-esque ballerinas.

Although the crowds didn’t really liven up until the closing acts, Kanye and Coldplay kicked off what proved to be a enthrall-ing weekend.

Zen Buddhists aspire towards realization through meditation

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otherwise could have been some legendary performances — both Cee Lo Green and headliner Ste-vie Wonder were forced to wade through sound quality problems. Fans during Wonder’s set could be heard yelling “Crank it up!” And probably not just because of Bud Light’s acoustical troubles: My Morning Jacket, the Kentucky psy-chedelic rock band with a country twist that was privileged with play-ing opposite Wonder, was rocking

so hard and loud at the AMD stage that the sound was bleeding from across the park.

Not that the crowd at the AMD stage minded. They jammed and rollicked their way through the nearly two-hour show that spanned the length of the band’s eclectic discography — topped off with a guest appearance by the New Or-leans Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a brain-melting rendition of “Holding Onto Black Metal” that

sent the audience into a frenzy. After My Morning Jacket, as the

AMD crowd wandered dizzily away from the stage and toward the exit, several marveled at the timing of the day’s weather, for better or for worse, while Stevie Wonder played “Superstition” from over at the Bud Light stage. They had a point: The first rainy day all summer on the day that more than 70,000 people were guaranteed to be outside? Su-perstitious is one way to put it.

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Charley Tucker cleans the altar as part of the soji ritual at the Austin Zen Center Saturday morning. During soji all members of the community clean the inside and outside of the temple.


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Spirit ofAustinBy Audrey White

ABILENE — For Albert Haley, it took about 11 months for the with-drawal symptoms to finally sub-side.

Every day — the mornings, in particular — he felt that temptation to relapse. Just one headline. One segment of cable news. One brief chat on the current direction of do-mestic economic policy.

But he had to stay strong.Haley, an English professor at

Abilene Christian University and self-diagnosed news junkie, had gone cold turkey.

For one year, he would avoid all news and culture from the world at large.

Starting Sept. 11, 2010, he start-ed piling his copies of The New York Times and Reporter-News in the garage.

The Haley home became a bunker of sorts, with TV and In-ternet use curtailed to keep Haley in his bubble.

His wife Joyce and son Cole had to watch their words around him — every casual dinner table dis-cussion could contain catastroph-ic spoilers.

All this in the name of a thought experiment. Haley called it “The Van Winkle Project.”

By pulling himself out of the loop for a year, he hoped to gain a new perspective of the world and

his own consumption of news.Day by day he documented the

ebb and flow of his sanity on a blog, thevanwinkleproject.blogspot.com.

Ideally, Haley thought going news-free could allow him to ob-tain a sort of “pristine ignorance.”

As an avid news consumer, he found himself getting put through an emotional wringer every time a crisis, real or exaggerated, came up.

What good was it doing him, for example, to know how many gallons of crude pumped into the ocean during last year’s Gulf oil spill? It only made him feel power-less and drained.

Not surprisingly, though, a year spent “asleep” often had the same effect. The not knowing was of-ten the worst part. When a major world event happened, he could al-most perceive the temperature of the room change.

“I try to judge how people around me are acting,” Haley said in an in-terview before his great awakening Sunday. “In general, they seem to be acting normal. Like the world’s not ending.”

But there were still things going on, he knew it. He’d pester his fam-ily with bizarre, roundabout inter-rogations at home, fishing for lit-tle hints.

And the spoilers he encountered were often even more frustrat-ing because they never painted the complete picture.

Unrest in the Arab world. A mas-sacre in Europe. Something devas-

tating involving an earthquake and a nuclear reactor in Japan.

These snippets were all Haley knows about three of the past year’s major events, and they only pro-voked more questions. His wife was actually a bit worried about how Haley would react when the dam burst and he got all the answers he’s been seeking.

“If you catch up too fast, it will be like you’re going on a bender,” she warned him. “News is your liquor.”

At the same time, he also allowed exceptions for news on local events, so he could stay dialed in to what was happening in the community.

But even that had its drawbacks: He accidentally learned of the suc-cessful rescue of a certain group of Chilean miners while he was read-ing a school newsletter.

The grand irony of the whole experiment is that Haley actually started to accept his new lifestyle just as it was coming to an end. He rediscovered the simple pleasures of vinyl records after years spent listening to CDs. He caught up on old books and movies, and got some more writing done.

And for all the torture he put himself and his family through, Haley believes the experience will change him for the better.

“Today’s news is kind of like an all-you-can-eat buffet,” Haley said. “But you can overeat, and some of it is just junk food. From now on I’m going to focus more on news fruits and veggies.”

By Jeremy GoldmeierThe Associated Press via Abilene Reporter-News

ing mainly on acoustic instruments. During their set, it briefly rained af-ter a looming overcast, cooling the day off enough to bring the easily perturbed out of the tech lounges. On the opposite end of Zilker Park at the AMD stage, Manu Chao La Ventura gave a performance indica-tive of their veteran ACL status.

As many camped out for 2011 Grammy Winners Arcade Fire, Em-pire of The Sun played their trippy

Australian indie-rock. Despite lack-ing a deep catalog of worthwhile tracks, the group’s spectacular lights show was rivaled only by Friday’s performance by the aptly named Pretty Lights. Their encore came off as slightly contrived but was wel-comed nonetheless.

The evening’s greatest moments came from Arcade Fire. The band put on an amazing performance after having been seasoned by a

sold-out outdoor tour and several ACL performances. From the mo-ment the vintage ‘80s film trailers played, the crowd watched mes-merized. They opened with the fittingly titled, “Ready To Start.” Supplemented by an enthralling encore, the indie super giant’s per-formance against the backdrop of the Austin skyline was an all too perfect way to end the festival’s tenth anniversary.

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The sky teased festival-goers between splits of clouds, hot sun streams and faint breezes Friday afternoon when Zilker Park welcomed thousands for the Austin City Limits Music Festival’s ten-year anniversary.

The day slowly crescendoed in mass and ener-gy as early acts, including Hudson Moore, Cults, Futurebirds, An Horse and Theophilus Lon-don played. But minutes after 1 p.m., by sheer — perfect — coincidence, much-needed rain show-ered on cue when Wild Beasts lead vocalist Ben Little sang his first note. Brightening the green of the grass and cooling off the heat of the day, the crowd began to move.

Despite the quick, bountiful shower, the rain did not turn the park into a muddy party like previous years. C3’s park maintenance crew made sure there were no returns of dust bowls or pig pens. With the grass intact and the Texas heat dissipated, the day became perfect for lounging on the west field to the accompaniment of James Blake, Ray LaMonatage, Kurt Vile and the Violators and Cold War Kids. Just as well, it was a jumpy playground on the opposite end with the beats and lyrics of Big Boi, Foster the People, Nas and Damian Marley.

The Dark Knight, aka actor Christian Bale, was first spotted backstage at Bright Eyes. Hovering be-fore the crowd behind the prompter screen, he oc-casionally broke his stoic demeanor with a wave. Though the minor distraction quickly resumed to

By Julie Rene TranDaily Texan Staff

Saturday’s festival provided the soundtrack for an even more notable Austin event: It rained. Not a lot, of course, but enough to count as actual weath-er and not some kind of sad joke.

Some festival-goers took to it better than oth-ers. Around 2 p.m. the Waterloo Records tent was packed with about 100 rain-sensitive folks avoid-ing the brief downpour, but others — presumably a mix of Austinites who knew better than to com-plain, drunk people who didn’t care and smokers who had been waiting for the perfect moment to light up — braved the moisture and danced, chat-ted, trudged, inhaled and waited (sometimes mis-erably) in the open.

However, it was the time spent sitting on damp blankets, waiting for the next act, that truly test-ed the mettle of concert attendees. People who hadn’t planned ahead hunched together beneath the umbrellas of those who had and waited for Iron & Wine to take the stage, more than a few of them complaining that this wasn’t the time or place for a rainstorm. Samuel Beam of Iron & Wine rejected that notion, however, and delivered a show arguably better-adapted for a cloudy day, while Cut Copy capitalized on the sun that came out about halfway through their 6 p.m. set and got the crowd grooving with their funky-sharp electronic dance tunes.

It didn’t get quite as sunny at the Bud Light stage, though, where sound issues got in the way of what

By Aaron WestDaily Texan Staff

Fanny Trang| Daily Texan Staff / Associated Press

Austin City Limits Festival celebrated its 10th edition on Friday. The concerts were interrupted by the rain in the afternoon. Festival patriots braved the weather and held their flags high in the name of music.

This weekend was the 10th annual Austin City Limits Musical Festival in Zilker Park. Thousands of music fans from across the country and around the world descended on the park for three days of grand performances. This year’s head-lining acts included Coldplay, Kanye West, Arcade Fire and Stevie Wonder. Three Daily Texan reporters attended the festival and following are the best (and worst) of each day’s events.

Austin Drizzly Limits

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Dan Whitford of an Australian electronic band Cut Copy performs at the Festival on Saturday evening.

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Kanye West closed the festival Friday night with a high budget show.

FRIDAY SATURDAY

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Régine Chassagne, left, with husband Win Butler of the indie rock band Arcade Fire headline the festival Sunday.

By Ali BrelandDaily Texan Staff

SUNDAY

Sunday ended up being the hottest day of ACL 10th anniversary festival. Crowds waited at the Google+ and Dell lounges in higher numbers than previous days to escape the heat. But seasoned fes-tival-goers bore on despite the heat, with droves showing up for mid-afternoon and late afternoon acts Chiddy Bang and Broken Social Scene.

Before them, early afternoon breakout acts Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and The Airborne Toxic Event put on remarkable sets that rivaled performances of the big-name acts. Burgeoning hip-hop stars Chid-dy Bang played a mediocre set; Chiddy flubbed his freestyle, usually a highlight of his live shows. Chid-dy usually thrives off of a few devoted fans, but was not able to adapt to the festival atmosphere. How-ever, they saved their show with hits like “Truth” and “The Opposite Adults,” their breakout song that samples MGMT’s “Kids.”

Toronto’s Broken Social Scene ended up standing out among the other midday acts, delivering a bril-liant set of indie rock that may be their last for a while — the group told The Daily Texan that this will be their last North American tour for the near future.

Also from Toronto, dance-punk behemoths Death from Above 1979, played an incredible set of destructive, beat heavy rock. The crowd responded favorably, keeping up a swirling, sweaty mosh pit for almost the entirety of the set.

Out on the Bud Light stage, Fleet Foxes played an incredibly energetic and uplifting set, despite rely-

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