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Perry Castañeda Library TourLearn about the main service points in the Perry-Castañeda Library, including the study areas, library stacks and the microform collection. Meet in the PCL lobby at 10 a.m.

Big Screen Classics: ‘Vertigo’ The Alamo Drafthouse Village will be featuring Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Vertigo” tonight at 7 p.m. Students can take the #5 bus to the theater.

Luncheon forum features PowersThe Gulen Institute welcomes UT President William Powers Jr. for a luncheon forum featuring his speech “Nurturing the Soul of a Public Research University.” The noon luncheon costs $30 to attend.

In 1993 Martin Luther King Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.

In Life&Arts:Check out these anticipated events for 2012 page 14

— Scott DrewBaylor head coach

In News:UT’s chief commercialization officer resigns page 5

In Sports:Will the Longhorns beat the Cyclones? page 9

Peace Corps coffee talkAttend an informational coffee talk on the Peace Corps. Meet at the 24th St. Starbucks at 5:30 p.m.

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“You’re going to face good teams,

and if you don’t play well and they play well, you’ve got no

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Occupy Austin loses momentum

While some UT students may be confused to find Wikipedia and oth-er social media sites offline today, oth-ers stand with the sites in their oppo-sition to recent anti-piracy bills facing the House of Representatives.

Wikipedia, Reddit and the Cheez-burger Network of social media web-sites began a 24-hour blackout today at midnight to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Both acts would crack down on the sale of illegally down-loaded material by forcing Internet service providers to block access to

sites that violate U.S. copyright laws. Members of the Wikipedia com-

munity and other sites believe these acts would “seriously damage the free and open Internet” by opening the way to further censorship, according to a statement published on the Eng-lish Wikipedia’s homepage. While SOPA is currently suspended from re-

ceiving a house vote, PIPA is still slat-ed to go before the House of Repre-sentative for vote Tuesday, Jan. 24.

White House representatives came out against SOPA and PIPA in a writ-ten statement Saturday because the acts threatened a “dynamic, innova-tive global Internet.”

University Democrats communi-

cations director André Treiber said the acts risk inhibiting creativity and the freedom of speech, agreeing with the White House’s position.

“[SOPA] is stifling, too broad and has a sho ot- f i rs t -ask-

By Andrew MessamoreDaily Texan Staff

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Websites show opposition to anti-piracy bills

As temperatures decrease, so do

the number of Occupy Austin pro-testors willing to demonstrate out-side City Hall, said Caitlin Pigford, 16 year-old protester on the verge of homelessness.

In its fourth month at City Hall, the Occupy Austin movement is los-ing stamina, and members blame the weather, Pigford said. On a given af-ternoon, about 20 protesters might mill around the Capitol steps. Pro-test signs now serve as cushions and blockades against the wind on City Hall steps instead of being held high, Pigford said.

“Right now everyone is just sit-ting around when before we would have been holding signs by the street, playing drums and talking to people,” Pigford said. “The spirit has definitely gone down since we first got here.”

Nearly all of the Occupy Austin protesters at City Hall are homeless, and the demonstration gives them a warm place to huddle up, said un-employed and homeless protester Dallas Aycock.

“A lot of people say the home-less are just taking advantage of the movement because food and blan-kets are offered, but I wasn’t home-less when I first got into Occupy,” Aycock said. “As I became homeless I just supported the movement even more because I felt firsthand how bad the economy is.”

Drug use has also infiltrated City Hall steps and people approach the group daily looking for drugs, pro-

tester Joshua Dixon said. He said he tells people asking if “anyone knows where they can get some bud,” to leave the steps immediate-ly because they are making the en-

tire group look bad.“It pisses us off when peo-

ple come over drunk and asking about drugs because then we all get labeled as drunks and druggies

when we’re actually here to prove a point,” Dixon said.

The Austin Police Depart-ment has worked 11,699 over-time hours since the protest began,

costing an extra $502,607 in an at-tempt to prevent drug use and other

Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff

Puneet Kumar smokes a cigarette while surrounded by sleeping members of the Occupy Austin movement Tuesday evening at Austin City Hall. Over the past four months, members of APD have accumulated 11,699 overtime hours to prevent drug use and crime at the protest sites.

By Kayla JonssonDaily Texan Staff

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Report says UT ranks high in affordability

UT received high marks for af-fordability in an annual finance re-port. Despite fears of tuition hikes, UT may be a better value than the report suggests, officials said.

For in-state student value, UT-Austin ranked 24th out of 500 universities studied by the Kip-linger Personal Finance Magazine in its annual “Best Values in Pub-lic Colleges” report. The publi-cation broke down its method of ranking as one that cross-analyz-es cost data such as tuition, fees, room and board and financial aid for in-state and out-of-state stu-dents with academic data such as admission rate, test scores of in-coming freshmen, and four- and six-year graduation rates.

Tom Melecki, director of UT’s student financial services, said UT ranked well because it managed to

keep tuition increases lower than the national average.

“We are looking for efficien-cies anywhere we can find them,” he said. “That has also allowed us to keep tuition increases at a min-imum. Our last increase was 3.99 percent. That’s less than half the national average of 8.02 percent.”

Melecki said UT students might fair better than Kiplinger indicates because the report lists average debt upon graduation for students at $24,667, slightly higher than the $24,582 the office of student finan-cial services calculated for May 2011 graduates.

Associate dean of student affairs Marc Musick also noted a slight disadvantage UT students had in the ranking.

“Many students leave with zero debt, and that is not taken into

A UT alumnus who made it big on the Oprah Winfrey Net-work paid tribute to Texas Stu-dent Television with a donation that will allow the station to im-prove its programming.

Zach Anner donated $33,000 to UT’s student-run television station at the beginning of this semester. Anner said he decided to contribute a part of the prize he received as one of the win-ners of Oprah’s “Search for the Next TV Star” competition to

TSTV due to the organization’s impact on his life.

“I wanted to trace back im-p o r t a n t i n f l u e n c e s i n m y life to give back to,” he said.

Zach Anner contributes $33,000 to TSTV

By Megan StricklandDaily Texan Staff

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UT alumnus Zach Anner made a $33,000 donation to Texas Student Television. Anner, who won Oprah’s “Search for the Next TV Star,” was a member of the student-run television station during his time at UT.

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account in that figure,” Musick said.

Melecki agreed.“Only 50 percent of students bor-

row when attending the university compared to the national average that ranges from 60 to 70 percent,” he said.

Melecki said that while Kilplinger factors in Austin’s high cost of liv-ing, it doesn’t factor in his office’s attempts to get students to lower costs through Bevonomics courses, publication of the UT 4 Less news-letter and other saving tips.

Melecki said one of the most im-portant things for students to re-member when managing their fi-nances is to file the Free Applica-tion for Federal Student Aid (FAF-SA) by March 15, to ensure they are considered for need-based aid. He said although students may have un-met costs covered by finan-cial aid, they should weigh bene-fits of attending UT when evaluat-ing their finances.

In comparison to Texas A&M,

which ranked 21st in the report, Melecki said UT’s four-year gradu-ation rate of 52 percent was higher than Texas A&M’s rate of 46 per-cent. Texas A&M students’ in-state costs average $8,941 per semes-ter after need based financial aid, compared to the $11,857 cost for UT students.

The only other Texas institu-tion in the top 100 universities was UT-Dallas, ranked 46. Cost of attendance at UTD after need-based aid is $14,068 per semes-ter for in-state students, and the school has a 42 percent four-year graduation rate.

Mario Villa, director of UT’s East Texas Admissions Center, said cost is often a factor for prospec-tive students.

Villa said most students com-ing through the admissions cen-ter look more closely at rank-ings of individual programs, not overall rankings of UT.

“I never really hear families of prospective students mention these general university rank-ings like ‘I hear UT Austin was ranked 24th Best Public Univer-sity by Kiplinger’s Personal Fi-nance Magazine,’” he said.

“TSTV was one of them, and it’s the reason I do what I do now.”

After winning the reality com-petition, Anner got the opportu-nity to host his own show “Rol-lin’ with Zach” and $100,000 to go towards charity, which he de-cided to split three ways. TSTV will use his donation to upgrade their equipment and make all their programming high-defini-tion quality, said TSTV station manager Steven Zurita.

Zurita said the donation is very significant for the station, which produces 14 shows a se-mester with more than 180 stu-dent volunteers who take on the roles, including producers, di-rectors and actors.

“We’ve had alumni who wrote Kung Fu Panda and have creat-ed production companies many years after graduation,” Zuri-ta said. “It’s exciting because he is an [alumnus] that just grad-uated in 2009. Two years later, he has already made a nation-al name for himself and has his own show.”

The donation is one of TSTV’s largest donations in the station’s history, said Dan Knight, TSTV adviser and radio-television-film lecturer. Knight said the gift validates the work of hun-dreds of past students that es-tablished the station as a vital component to students’ experi-ence at UT, and it will influence many careers.

“The money will be essential to upgrading the student expe-rience at the TV station which provides a pre-professional ex-

perience for students planning a media career,” he said. “As the media landscape changes, we

try to keep pace with technolo-gy and programs that will help our students stand out, but it’s

increasingly difficult as money supplies shrink. This is a mighty leap in that direction.”

Anner joined TSTV when he first moved to Austin to major in radio-television-film in the spring of 2005. He said the sta-tion, which airs on campus ca-ble and across Austin, prepared him to have his own television show so it made sense to give back to it.

Anner worked with TSTV for four years during college and continued to work with them on a mockumentary after gradua-tion.

“ TST V is where I learned how to be on camera,” Anner said. “I wanted to pay it for-ward because of what I’ve re-ceived from my time at the sta-tion and as a result of that ex-perience. My relationship with TSTV will be lifelong.”

questions-later approach, as far as due process is concerned,” Treiber said. “As a whole, it is overreaching and is the equivalent of using dyna-mite when a scalpel is more appro-priate.”

Members of the political ac-tivist group, Fight for the Fu-ture, are standing with Wikipe-dia and other websites against the bills. Tiffiniy Cheng, co-founder of Fight for the Future, said if the bill was allowed to pass the Unit-ed States could eventually become more like China.

“This strike is about a struggle be-tween a people with a means to com-municate freely and the government’s ability to threaten it,” said Cheng. “It’s a fundamental fight for free speech.”

Something, however, must be done to protect the industries that are hurt by illegal activity on the web, said radio-television-film ju-nior Eric Antonowicz.

“Both sides of the issue have sa-lient points,” Antonowicz said. “You can’t just keep breaking copy-right law but at the same time I don’t think that censorship is right in any way. I’m glad that they are taking a stand against it but I also think that something has to be done. Copyright gets broken way too much and the industry loses a lot of money.”

This type of Internet protest is historically significant given the size, credibility and usage of Wiki-pedia and Google, said government lecturer James Henson.

“SOPA is activating a libertarian streak in Internet users that was the stance 10 to 15 years ago that fell on the wayside as the Internet had be-come a corporate enterprise,” Hen-son said. “I don’t think that the world is going to stop turning because you can’t use Wikipedia, but I do think it’s going to raise visibility. It’s still to be seen whether or not this is going to catch on.”

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crimes at protest sites, according to APD documents.

Occupy Austin protester and 2003 UT alumna Virginia Lu said the movement is dying at City Hall because it is time to expand to other communities. Lu said she will soon start going door to door in neigh-borhoods outside of central Aus-tin to educate community members about the movement.

“Everyone who is around this area and interested in Occupy has already come by,” Lu said. “Now it is time to let all those people in oth-er areas who have never heard of us know who we are.”

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himself and has his own show.

— Steven Zurita, TSTV station manager

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ROME — “You go on board! Is that clear? Do you hear me?” the Coast Guard officer shout-ed as the captain of the ground-ed Costa Concordia sat safe in a life raft and frantic passengers struggled to escape after the ship rammed into a reef off the Tus-can coast.

“It is an order. Don’t make any more excuses. You have de-clared ‘Abandon ship.’ Now I am in charge.”

The dramatic recording made public Tuesday shows Capt. Francesco Schettino resisted or-ders to return to his ship to di-rect the evacuation, saying it was too dark and the ship was tip-ping perilously.

The exchange came to light as the death toll nearly doubled to 11 after divers pulled the bod-ies of four men and a woman, all wearing life vests, from the wreckage. Some two dozen peo-ple remain missing.

The Costa Concordia had more than 4,200 passengers and crew on board when it slammed into

the reef Friday off the tiny island of Giglio after Schettino made an unauthorized maneuver from the ship’s programmed course — ap-parently to show off the luxury liner to the island’s residents.

Schettino has insisted that he stayed aboard until the ship was evacuated. However, the record-ing of his conversation with Ital-ian Coast Guard Capt. Grego-rio De Falco makes clear he fled before all passengers were off — and then defied De Falco’s repeat-ed orders to go back.

The exchange also indicates that Schettino did not know any-one had died, with De Falco tell-ing him at one point: “There are already bodies now, Schettino.”

The audio, first made avail-able on the website of the Corri-ere della Sera newspaper and au-thenticated by the Coast Guard, was broadcast throughout the day on Italian television to a stunned nation.

Jai led since the accident, Schettino appeared Tuesday be-fore a judge in Grosseto, where he was questioned for three hours. The judge ordered him held under house arrest, his law-

yer, Bruno Leporatti, told re-porters, and later Italian media said he had returned to his home near Naples.

Criminal charges including manslaughter and abandoning ship are expected to be filed by prosecutors in coming days. He faces 12 years in prison for the abandoning ship charge alone.

The five bodies discovered Tuesday were adults in their 50s or 60s, each wearing the orange vests that passengers use, indi-cating they were not crew mem-bers, said a Coast Guard spokes-man, Cmdr. Filippo Marini. Their nationalities were not im-mediately released.

They were discovered after Italian naval divers exploded holes in the hull of the ground-ed cruise ship, trying to speed up the search for the missing. Navy spokesman Alessandro Busonero told Sky TV 24 the holes would help divers enter the wreck more easily. “We are rushing against time,” he said.

Before the grim finding, au-thorities had said 25 passen-gers and four crew members were missing.

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Frances D’EmilioThe Associated Press

Gregorio Borgia | Associated Press

The cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its side after running aground Friday evening on the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy on Tuesday. 11 passengers are confirmed dead as of Tuesday evening.

Disarray doomed cruise ship passengers

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Shiite-domi-nated Cabinet suspended boycotting Sunni-backed ministers Tuesday, an official said, deepening a sectarian conflict of politics and violence that has raised fears of civil war in Iraq now that U.S. troops are gone.

The Sunni-based Iraqiya bloc started its boycott last month to pro-test an arrest warrant against the Sunni vice president on terrorism charges. The official, Tareq al-Hash-emi, denied the alle-gations and fled to the autonomous Kurd-ish area of Iraq, out of reach of authorities in Baghdad — a move that itself underlines the sectarian divisions in Iraq and the chal-lenge of keeping the country together after the exit of U.S. forces a month ago.

G o v e r n m e n t spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the Cabinet decided that the ministers who have failed to attend sessions are no longer “allowed to manage minis-tries, and all decisions that will be signed by them are invalid.” The Iraqi ministers would be allowed back into the Cabinet if they end their boycott, al-Dabbagh said.

Iraqiya spokeswoman Maysoun Damluji charged that the suspen-sion is part of the Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s efforts to sideline the Sunni-backed al-liance and cement his own grip on power. Only one of nine Iraqi-ya ministers broke with the bloc’s boycott and attended Tuesday’s Cabinet session, Damluji said.

“It’s an escalation by al-Maliki to push Iraqiya away,” Damluji said.

The government crisis could in-tensify sectarian resentments that

have remained raw in Iraq, despite years of efforts to overcome them. Minority Sunnis fear the Shiite ma-jority is squeezing them out of any political input, and Shiites suspect Sunnis of links to insurgency.

Alongside the government crisis, violence has surged across Iraq since American troops left Dec. 18, raising fears of re-igniting the fighting be-tween Sunni and Shiite militias that raged a few years ago and brought

the country to the brink of civil war.

Since the begin-ning of the year, a string of bombings has left at least 155 people dead. Most of the attacks appeared aimed at Iraq’s Shi-ite majority, suggest-ing Sunni insurgents are seeking to under-mine the Shiite-dom-inated government and its efforts to pro-tect people from vio-lence without Ameri-can backup.

On Tuesday, insurgents killed five police officers at a checkpoint in the town of Rutba in the western Anbar province, police and hospi-tal officials said. The police were guarding the highway that links Iraq with neighboring Jordan.

On Saturday, more than 50 Shiite pilgrims were killed in a bombing in southern Iraq, the deadliest attack against the coun-try’s Shiite majority in a year.

The government disarray ap-pears to be affecting foreign con-tractors still in Iraq after the Amer-ican withdrawal, including thou-sands who work for the U.S. Em-bassy in Baghdad and its develop-ment projects around the country.

— The Associated Press

Iraqi religious suspensions propagate fear of instabilityRomney releases some tax info

after pressure from GOP rivalsFLORENCE, S.C. — His wealth

and taxes suddenly a campaign fo-cus, Mitt Romney said Tuesday he pays an effective federal tax rate of about 15 percent. That’s far less than if his earnings were wages rather than gains from investments and dividends.

Romney told reporters he also re-ceived money from speechmaking before he announced his presiden-tial candidacy early last year “but not very much.” In his financial disclo-sure statement, released last August, he reported being paid $374,327.62 for such appearances for the 12 months ending last February.

That amount alone would place his income among the top 1 percent of all Americans, and Romney’s de-scription of it as a relatively small amount suggested his overall in-come was far higher.

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Border patrol tries zero tolerance for detained immigrants again

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Bor-der Patrol is moving to halt a re-volving-door policy of sending mi-grants back to Mexico without any punishment.

The agency this month is over-hauling its approach on migrants caught illegally crossing the 1,954-mile border that the United States shares with Mexico.

Punishments vary by region but there is a common thread: simply turning people around after taking their fingerprints is the choice of last resort. Some, including children and the medically ill, will still get a free pass by being turned around at the nearest border crossing, but they will be few and far between.

“What we want to be able to do is make that the exception and not necessarily the norm,” Fisher told The Associated Press.

Compiled from Associated Press reports

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“�ere’s no doubt that [President Barack Obama] has a signi�cant interest in higher education. He’s very concerned about the increase in student loan debt.”— UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, according to �e Texas Tribune. Cigarroa and several other higher education leaders across the nation were in-vited meet with the president in early December to discuss challenges universi-ties are facing, including graduation rates, student debt and facility usage.

“It’s very hard to talk about, and especially for me, without saying things that are really pretty damag-ing and sharp. �e least one can say is that there has been a very intense personality con�ict between [President William Powers Jr. and me], and that undermined our relationship entirely and that is a circumstance that I deeply regret.”— Larry Sager, former dean of the School of Law, about his relationship with Powers, according to �e Texas Tribune. Sager was asked to step down from the school’s deanship in early December because of “deep divisions among the fac-ulty,” according to Powers. Most of the controversy surrounded faculty pay.

“Texas did the best that it could.”— Texas Deputy Attorney General David Schenk, arguing that the Texas Leg-islature did not intentionally discriminate against minorities when it drew new district maps last year. �e case is currently under review by a three judge panel in Washington, D.C., which began hearing testimony Tuesday.

“Choices have consequences. [Abigail] Fisher chose to litigate this case as an individual rather than as a class representative, a decision that gave her many advantages below ... �e burden is on Fisher, as the petitioner, to establish a clear path-way for this court to address her constitutional claims, and she has not even attempted to make this showing in her certiorari petition.”— Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in a brief urging the Supreme Court to not hear an appeal of Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas. Fisher, a white female, was denied admission to UT in 2008. If her appeal is successful, Fisher’s case could overturn the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger case at the University of Michi-gan, which prohibited the use of racial quotas in admissions decisions at univer-sities but allowed race to be a factor.

“Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, everywhere, for everyone.”— Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation executive director, on the site’s deci-sion to black out its English-language web pages today in protest of the contro-versial Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, two pieces of federal legislation that have come under increasing �re in recent months.

“He sure didn’t tell me I was going to win.”— Gov. Rick Perry, re�ecting on the criticism he received when he claimed that God called him to run for president and on the state of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

“I still don’t quite understand what the risk is, but then again, grabbing a .xxx is pretty cheap.”— Gregory Jackson, vice president for policy and analysis at Educause, accord-ing to Inside Higher Ed. Late in December, individuals and companies could begin buying domain names that ended with an .xxx for websites that featured pornographic material. �e UT athletic department, which handles the Univer-sity’s licensing, preemptively bought several .xxx domains such as TexasSports.xxx and HookEmHorns.xxx, likely to prevent any future porn peddler from us-ing the UT brand name in their endeavor.

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Lately, women’s rights that were secured decades ago are being challenged, some-thing the New York Times has labeled “�e War on Women.” For women in Texas, that war is coming closer to home.

Last week, a federal appeals court issued immediate approval of a Texas bill that op-ponents say will signi�cantly restrict the right of women to obtain abortion services. �e “sonogram bill,” passed during last year’s legislative session, would require health care providers to perform a sonogram on women seeking an abortion. �e sonogram must be performed even if the woman does not want it and even if her doctor does not �nd it medically necessary.

�e controversial piece of legislation elic-ited widely diverging reactions. While one sponsor, state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, praised the bill as “empowering” women, state Rep. Carol Alvorado, D-Houston, as-serted that it essentially “[tells] women that they are not smart enough to make the big decisions about their lives and their bod-ies.” �e Texas Medical Association also op-posed the measure, citing its interference in doctor-patient relationships.

In August, Federal District Judge Sam Sparks blocked the bill, writing in his strongly worded opinion that the bill forces “physicians to deliver politically motivated communications to women, regardless of their wishes.” Sparks appropriately noted the “ironic” hypocrisy of legislators who simultaneously decry government involve-

ment in health care while defending the duty of the state to intervene in reproduc-tive health.

Edith Jones, chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fi�h Circuit, overruled Sparks’ decision. Jones, formerly the general counsel for the Republican Party of Texas, speci�cally approved the mandate to allow for women who change their mind regard-ing abortion procedures. �is stance plays into the idea that a woman doesn’t really know what she wants in relation to her own health, an idea espoused by Patrick.

Women under 25 — mainly college-aged women — comprise a majority of those who obtain abortions. �ese young women are old enough to vote, drive a car and sign legal documents. Moreover, they are old enough to request a sonogram if they choose under current law. Removing free choice in favor of a state-imposed mandate on women’s health cannot possibly leave women feel-ing “empowered.” Implying that women of this age are too ignorant to know the conse-quences without state intervention projects upon them an impressive and unlikely lack of intelligence.

�e imposition of a mandated sonogram isn’t the only looming threat to women’s rights. Republican presidential front-run-ner Mitt Romney has explicitly called to “eliminate” Title X, a federal social pro-gram that provides, among many services, contraception, breast and cervical cancer screenings and testing for HIV and STDs to low-income women. To be clear, none of these services are a danger to the life of an unborn child. In contrast, these services are

crucial to college-aged women who o�en do not have the resources to obtain them otherwise. Women’s health is being com-promised solely because of a perceived, yet unsubstantiated, threat to “family values.”

�is “war on women” is more than just legislation. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., one of the most powerful women in Congress, famously said that she studied tax law because her husband suggested it, quoting the Bible verse that women “are to be submissive to their husbands.” Do we, as female students, want to choose our careers this way? �is dangerous rhetoric, com-bined with misogynistic legislation, only serves to reintroduce to college women their formerly discarded status as powerless subordinates who are incapable of making their own decisions.

�is idea of the fragile young woman — one easily manipulated, one unquali�ed to make decisions about her own body and future — is distinctly anti-feminist and downright dangerous. If women’s rights are regressing instead of progressing, it will be-come increasingly rare for young women to feel they are able to make progressive deci-sions about their own futures.

Contrary to what Patrick and Jones be-lieve, the restriction of health rights directly contributes to a decline in a woman’s sense of empowerment. A patronizing, intimidating political agenda is the last way to encourage young women to strive for success. Not only do these policies endanger women’s rights, they endanger women’s lives.

Katsounas is a government and finance sophomore.

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A psychological connection ex-ists between the use of Facebook profiles and the physical behavior of Facebook users, according to a study by a University psychology professor.

Psychology professor Samuel Gosling and partner Sam Gaddis were both involved in a collabora-tive study between the UT Depart-ment of Psychology and the De-partment of Psychology at Wash-ington University in St. Louis. The study found that users who are more heavily involved in their so-cial circles offline are more likely to have an active virtual social life.

The study, published in Septem-ber 2011, has reappeared in online discussion this month. In “Mani-festations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information,” researchers recorded data submit-ted by the subjects themselves. The data shows how often users post content to social media websites as well as information they keep publicly available on their pro-files. This information was refer-

enced with individual scores based on the five-factor model of person-ality which measures the traits of openness, extraversion, agreeable-ness, neuroticism and conscien-tiousness.

“People are increasingly do-ing studies on these forms of so-cial media,” Gosling said. “Some people have speculated that these portals serve as compen-sation for people’s personalities and are not how they express themselves in real life. It’s hard to know, about half the people think you don’t get a good im-pression and about half think you do. I wouldn’t say I was sur-prised, necessarily, given the re-sults of other studies I’ve done.”

The five traits measured in each subject proved to indicate specific types of behavior on Fa-cebook, according to the study. Study participants who placed higher in extraversion were more likely to constantly update content and comment on their friends’ posts. Although this was the strongest pattern exhibited in the study, social work junior Al-exander McArthur said he feels he is an exception to the rule.

“I’m kind of an opposite, be-cause I’m more introverted in real life than I am online,” McArthur said. “It’s hard to start a conver-sation with someone face-to-face, but when you’re online it’s much easier.”

While the neuroticism trait did not have a significant effect on on-line behavior, characteristics such as agreeableness and openness in-dicated higher levels of friends and information available on pro-files, while low agreeableness levels demonstrated less page views and

information available.“I keep my education and work-

place listed and all that,” McArthur said. “I usually fill out everything except the phone number, and I have an infinite number of ‘likes.’”

Patterns of Facebook usage and activity also gave researchers in-sight to real life habits that stu-dents often face, according to the study. Participants expressing low levels of conscientiousness were likely to spend more time viewing pages on Facebook, a practice re-searchers said was consistent with those who have a tendency to pro-crastinate.

“I usually have Facebook open while I’m doing other things like homework,” said biology freshman Taylor Bruner. “I check Facebook probably every hour.”

Users’ observations of their peers’ pages was equally as infor-mative of online personality accu-racy, according to the study.

“I definitely think people post stuff that goes with their real per-sonality,” Bruner said. “I’ll post something about Broadway which fits me perfectly, while my friends who are sports fans are always posting about the game.”

The University’s chief com-mercialization officer resigned after he followed University ad-vice to avoid conflict of interest when licensing UT technology. His resignation left an empty role in the Office of Technolo-gy Commercialization during a time of attempted growth.

Problems arose for the for-mer chief commercialization officer, Richard Miller, when he planned to license UT tech-nology to companies in which he held stock, associate vice president for research Robert Peterson said.

Miller divested his shares in the three companies to avoid conflict of interest issues, but he ultimately resigned. Mill-er did not return requests for comment.

Peterson said he became aware of Miller’s resignation at the end of November after Miller approached University officials about the issue. Mill-er’s resignation became effec-tive Dec. 31.

“He resigned because he was told that he could not negotiate with himself,” Peterson said. “He would have had a tremen-dous conflict of interest.”

As chie f commercia l iza-t ion off icer, Mil ler worked with University faculty to turn their research into commer-cial products and startup com-panies. Miller received a sala-ry of $310,000 per year at the University.

Miller hailed from Silicon Valley, and once hired at the University, it seemed as though Miller never turned his attention away from the tech industry in California, Peterson said. Mill-er remains an adjunct professor at Stanford University, a private college known for its success in technology commercialization.

Based on revenue generated and the number of companies created through each univer-sity, Stanford University ranks ninth in technology commer-cialization across the nation and UT ranks 17th, according to a report from the Associa-tion of University Technology Managers.

Peterson said Miller’s experi-ence at Stanford may not have prepared him to work under the conditions of a public uni-versity, which Peterson said has very different rules about start-ups than private universities.

Miller considered licensing UT technology to the Ultimor, Graphea and Wibole companies, Peterson said, all of which Miller previously owned shares in.

Miller spoke to The Daily Texan in September and said he patented faculty ideas more selectively than UT previous-ly did.

“We used to file almost ev-erything that walked in the door,” Miller said.

Miller said technologies are now judged on potential for profit and market demand.

In a letter to University fac-ulty, Vice President for Re-search Juan Sanchez said Mill-er advanced efforts to commer-cialize faculty ideas over the past 18 months.

“In his heart, though, Dr. Miller is still an entrepreneur and wants to work directly with startup companies in Austin and elsewhere,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez said Dan Sharp, di-rector of the office of technology commercialization, will lead the University through this transi-tion and continue to help facul-ty members turn their research into products and startups.

Peterson said the University will conduct a national search for a chief commercialization officer with a skill-set similar to Miller’s.

Conflict of interest leads to resignation

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A joint study between the UT and Washington University psychology departments found that traits in real life tend to match digital personali-ties on social media.

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By Liz FarmerDaily Texan Staff

Study finds online, offline traits match

“ “I definitely think people post stuff

that goes with their personality.

— Taylor Bruner, biology freshman

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the latest appeal of a former UT student convicted of tampering with evidence in the 2005 murder and mutilation of Aus-tin resident Jennifer Cave.

The Court refused to accept Lau-ra Ashley Hall’s latest appeal to her 10-year sentence for the crime. The court issued the rejection of the ap-peal without comment on Jan. 11. The Texas Court of Criminal Ap-peals has the discretion to grant or refuse a review based on certain cri-teria laid out in the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, said deputy clerk Mark Adams.

“Hall has 15 days [until Jan. 26] to file a motion for rehearing,” Ad-ams said.

As of Tuesday, Hall’s attorney,

Tim Copeland, had not filed such a motion Adams said. Copeland was not available to comment on Hall’s future plans.

Copeland filed Hall’s first ap-peal to her conviction and punish-ment in the Third Court of Appeals in Texas On Nov. 1, 2007. Hall was originally convicted in 2007 of the misdemeanor offense of hindering apprehension of a suspect by help-ing Colton Pitonyak flee to Mexi-co. Pitonyak was later convicted of murder and sentenced to a 55-year prison term. Hall was also con-victed at the time of the felony of-fense of tampering with physical evidence, by dismembering Cave’s body, and was sentenced a five-year prison term.

In 2009, at the second trial for Hall’s punishment, the jury raised Hall’s sentence from a five-year term to a 10-year term, Justice Bob Pemberton said in an Aug. 24, 2011

court opinion. Pemberton issued an opinion on May 1, 2009, which stated that the Third Court of Ap-

peals had overruled Hall’s challenge to her conviction. However, Pem-berton also wrote that Hall’s points

were sustained “to the extent they challenge[d] her punishment.”

“During the punishment trial on remand, the jury considered volumi-nous testimony and numerous exhib-its from 26 witnesses for the state and four witnesses for Hall,” Pemberton wrote. “Following its deliberations, the jury returned a verdict of 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of $10,000 for the tampering offense.”

In August of 2011, the Third Court of Appeal overruled Hall’s motion for a new trial. Pemberton said Hall’s motion was based on an allegation that the Austin Police De-partment Forensics lab had done substandard or shoddy work while analyzing evidence. She based this claim off of a complaint by Cecily Hamilton, a former APD employ-ee, that the forensics lab had done incomplete DNA analysis in nu-merous cases since 2005, Pember-ton said.

Bill Gibbins, spokesman for APD and the forensics lab said Hamilton’s claims have since been overturned.

“The chief of police requested that the Texas Rangers look into Ms. Hamilton’s allegations,” said Gibbins, “An investigation was con-ducted by the Texas Rangers that resulted in the lab being cleared of the allegations.”

By Sarah WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Jennifer Cave Murder victim

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Rick Perry prays for Obama at SC Christian gathering

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Tex-as Gov. Rick Perry is taking a pause from partisan cam-paigning in South Carolina to pray for President Barack Obama’s safety and wisdom.

Perry spoke Tuesday night at a large prayer gathering cal led “The Response” in Greenville, S.C. He made no direct mention of the GOP presidential contest or of Sat-urday’s primary during his 10 minutes on stage.

P e r r y l e d a p r a y e r i n which he asked God to grant safety to “our pres ident” and his family. He also said that “we pray that you light his way” in dealing with na-tional issues.

Perry walked on s tage without being introduced. Some in the audience seemed surprised to see him although his campaign had announced his plans earlier.

Perry led a huge rally last year in Houston to pray for America. That rally was also called The Response.

Appeals court refuses to add Rick Perry to Virginia ballot

RICHMOND, Va. — A fed-eral appeals court rejected Rick Perry’s last-ditch bid to be placed on Virginia’s Re-publican presidential prima-ry ballot Tuesday, agreeing with a lower court that the Texas governor and three oth-er candidates waited too late to challenge the state’s ballot qualifying law.

Perry sued last month after failing to submit enough sig-natures to get on the March 6 ballot. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Penn-sylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman also failed to qual-ify and joined the lawsuit.

Virginia requires candi-dates to submit 10,000 voter signatures, including at least 400 from each of the state’s 11 congressional districts, to demonstrate that they have enough support to be consid-ered serious contenders. The law also allows only Virgin-ia residents to circulate candi-date petitions.

U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney said Friday that while the residency requirement for petition circulators is proba-bly unconstitutional, the can-didates waited too long to complain, threatening to dis-rupt Virginia’s electoral pro-cess. Perry appealed, but a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Gibney.

“Movant had every oppor-tunity to challenge the var-ious Virginia ballot require-ments at a time when the chal-lenge would not have created the disruption that this last-minute lawsuit has,” the pan-el wrote in a 22-page order.

Man faces deadly conduct charges for Texas wildfire

AMARILLO — Addition-al charges have been filed against a man in connection with a Texas Panhandle wild-fire that destroyed more than 25,000 acres.

Austin Lynn Stephens was charged with two counts of deadly conduct and one count of criminal mischief. The Amaril lo Globe-News reports the 53-year-old was arrested Monday.

State law defines dead-ly conduct as someone who recklessly places another per-son in imminent danger of se-rious bodily injury.

If convicted of the misde-meanors, Stephens faces up to a year in jail. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.

Potter County authorities say he was cutting pipe in a field before the fire broke out last February in the Am-ari l lo area. That day Ste-p h e n s w a s c h a rg e d w i t h criminal trespassing.

The fire destroyed about three dozen homes and a ken-nel, killing some animals.

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I was 10 years old when I first saw “Extreme Makeover: Home Edi-tion” and asked my mother if they would come and build us a house. At the time, we lived in a tiny one-bed-room apartment and barely made ends meet with government pro-grams such as food stamps, called Texas Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

This December — nine years later — the ABC show led its herd of white studio trailers to Smithsville, Texas, to transform the ashes of volunteer firefighter Mizzy Zdroj’s house into a home. Zdroj’s home was one of more than 1,400 destroyed in the Central Texas wildfires last September.

About 3,000 volunteers joined local Bastrop builder EFC Custom Homes to build Zdroj a home in one week, beginning Dec. 7. The Zdroj fami-ly home is one of the final Extreme Makeover projects, as ABC has can-celled the show after nine seasons. Launched in 2003, the show will air several special edition episodes this year to complete the series. The show will feature the Zdroj family home in a December special.

Although I had no previous con-struction skills, I joined the build for two days. I knew my mother, who watches the show religiously every week, would be proud.

During my experience, I noticed a

slow transformation in people every time I got off the volunteer bus and set foot on the ash-covered ground. Each time, they stopped talking about the show’s host, Ty Pennington, and all of the past episodes of Extreme Makeover and got this look of deter-mination in their eyes. All around me people carried wood, picked up trash and always asked the same question: “Do you need any help?”

History senior Eric Ramos, a member in my volunteer group, helped me consider the sense of fam-ily among volunteers.

“The most prominent memory I have of the build is the people I met while I was there,” Ramos said. “Every volunteer I talked to was so friendly and excited to be helping out that it made the whole experience better.”

Eric Christophe‚ president of EFC Custom Homes, said the first time he received a call from the producers of Extreme Makeover, he didn’t believe the request was real. When the pro-ducers called again and asked him if he would accept the job, Christophe said yes.

Christophe said his company con-tributed their time and skills and that everything on the site and in the house was donated. The project in-cluded a house, animal cages, an art studio and a new volunteer fire sta-tion. A project this size would usually cost about $250,000 to $300,000 with landscaping and could take anywhere from 90 to 120 days, he said.

As time went on, the project seemed to transform into a home. I realized I did not like Extreme Makeover for the old reasons I thought I did. It was not because I wished we would get a house one day — it was because it made me feel like we were not alone.

Meeting Zdorj’s mother Tri-

cia Sanders topped off my expe-rience. Sanders said when Zdorj and her husband first moved to Smithsville, they lived in a tent on seven acres with twin boys and no water or electricity.

Sanders said the neighbors of-fered Zdorj an old farmhouse to live in if she could move it herself.

The whole house burned down in the fire, and the family almost went to live in a shed before Ex-treme Makeover came knocking.

L istening to Sanders ta lk about Zdorj’s life in the tent re-minded me of my little cramped apartment and how my circum-stances had changed through

the years. Today I have my own apartment, go to UT and am able to work to put food on my table. It was no easy journey, and my mother and I never did get our own house, but we each real-ized what it meant to say, “home sweet home.”

Welcome home, Zjord family.

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TV show helps donate not only house, but home after firesBy Jody SerranoDaily Texan Staff

Christian foundation organizes mission to help Bastrop community

In the aftermath of the Tex-as wildfires, thousands of families found their homes destroyed and their belongings in ashes. Some UT students helped restore residents’ property — and their hope — over the holidays.

Students spent a week of their winter break in Bastrop and Cedar Creek, Texas, as part of a mission trip organized by the Texas Wes-ley Foundation, a Christian cam-pus ministry and part of the Unit-ed Methodist Church. The mis-sion trip took place Dec. 14-20, and students teamed up with co-ordinators to reach the areas that needed the most assistance, said

radio-television-film junior Juli-anne Robinson, a Texas Wesley Foundation member.

Robinson said the first two days of the trip were spent organizing donated clothing, food, household items and school supplies at a dis-tribution center in Bastrop. After donations were organized, students were assigned to work sites in Ce-dar Creek and teamed up with families coordinating relief efforts, Robinson said.

“Our main goal in doing this was not only to help with recovery, but also to show the people of Bastrop that we care about them.,” Rob-inson said. “We had really amaz-ing opportunities to hear their sto-ries and to pray with them. It was a huge bonding opportunity to be

able to share that pain and also the hope of opportunity with the peo-ple of Bastrop.”

UT alumna Sara Sibley, who graduated in May 2011, organized the trip as part of her internship at the Wesley Foundation. Sibley’s hometown of Alpine, Texas was af-fected by the fires and she said she felt inspired to aid others whose communities had been destroyed.

“I think it’s the common hu-man experience that brings us to-gether to help each other,” Sibley said. “I think all of us feel compas-sion towards [the people who lost their homes] because we’ve all ex-perienced some sort of loss in our lives.”

History junior Todd Jones said the trip gave him a whole new per-

spective on the physical devasta-tion caused by the fires.

“I heard about the fires and sort of had an idea of what the dam-age was, but once we got out there, just seeing the extent of the damage was incredible,” he said. “You can’t fully understand what the fire did until you actually see it for your-self. It was heartbreaking to see the homes just gone.”

Jones said he got the opportuni-ty to work with one of the home-owners who was impacted by the fire. He said the man had a posi-

tive outlook on the situation and helped shovel ashes and put debris into a wheelbarrow.

The collaborative efforts of the volunteers and the com-munity were inspiring to see, Robinson said.

“There was one family with six children whose house was fortu-nately not touched by the fire, so they had been coordinating relief efforts and pairing volunteers up with families who needed help,” she said. “It was really amazing to see all of their kids, some young-

er than 10, helping the volunteers. They sent all of us lunch and invit-ed us into their home, even though we were covered in ashes.”

Though the volunteers accom-plished much in their week in Bas-trop, Sibley said the recovery period is ongoing and volunteers will still be needed in upcoming months.

“They’re going to be needing volunteers for a really long time — there’s still a lot to be done there,” Sibley said. “Students this semes-ter can definitely go out there and help.”

After having their house destroyed by the Central Texas wildfires last September, the Zjord fam-ily was helped by about 3,000 volunteers and EFC Custom Homes to com-plete a new house.

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The learning curve for this Texas basketball team (12-5, 2-2 Big 12) is steep considering the light-years ahead the elite Big 12 teams are in terms of ex-perience and size, and assistant coach Chris Ogden knows it.

“Offensively we haven’t been very good and it has cost us some games, we think,” Ogden said. “And its a lot of different factors. It’s no one player or no one person. When you’re young like this it takes a little longer.”

The Longhorns rank sixth in conference-play scoring and field goal percentage compared to a decent fourth ranked de-fense in Big 12 games. Aside from boasting the conference’s top overall scorer — J’Covan Brown and his 19 points a night — the team lacks a consistent secondary scoring threat.

Sheldon McClel lan ranks 20th overall, but doesn’t crack the top 20 when only consider-ing Big 12 play, which is impor-tant moving forward.

Doesn’t get any easierTonight Texas faces previous-

ly ranked Kansas State (12-4, 1-3 Big 12), a team that strug-gled to navigate through a bru-tal opening Big 12 schedule. But make no mistake, the Wildcats, especially at home, are a force

to be reckoned with.“You’re playing in a barn. And

barns are loud,” Ogden said of Kansas State’s notoriously noisy

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SPORTS8Wednesday, January 18, 2012 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Sameer Bhuchar, Sports Editor | (512) 232-2210 | sports@dailytexanonline.com

Te x a s re tu r n e d f rom t h e break early to hit the courts in a successful weekend tourna-ment in Florida, and were able to come away with a victory in their f i rst team match against SMU.

The Longhorns, ranked No. 19 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s p r e s e a s o n p o l l , opened the season with a 5-2 win over SMU on Sunday. Te x a s s w e pt t h e doubles point with wins from the pair-ings of junior Alex Hilliard and fresh-man Soren Hess-Olesen; junior Da-vid Holiner and junior Dan-iel Whitehead; and freshman Jacoby Lewis and sophomore Sudanwa Sitaram.

Also posting singles victories for the team were Hess-Oles-en, Whitehead, Sitaram and Lloyd Glasspool.

The Longhorns got in some warm-up matches prior to the season at the Key Biscayne Invi-tational the first weekend in Jan-

uary. On the opening day of the tournament, Texas claimed seven of nine singles matches, lead by Whitehead, ranked No. 112, and swept all four doubles match-es for the day. The highlight of the day was newcomer to the

team, Glasspool, recording a victory in his first match for the Longhorns. Glasspool, a fresh-man from England, j oine d t he te am this semester.

On the second day of the tourna-ment , the Long-h o r n s r e c o r d -ed six more sin-gles wins and five double wins. Tex-a s a d d e d t h r e e more singles vic-tories on the final day of competition

to finish the tournament with an impressive 24-6 combined record against players f rom Michigan, Virg inia , Denver and LSU. Sitaram went unde-feated on the weekend, posting three wins while only dropping eight games.

The early success is good for the team because the rest of the

Texas starts year off with promiseSucessful early season showing bodes well for young Horns squad

After strong start, doubles team Scott and Padegimaite fall in final

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Top heavy Big 12 difficult to navigate from night to night

The current Big 12 format will be in place for this season only, a shame considering the conference is among the most competitive nationally from top to bottom.

The Big 12 is the only league with three teams in the Top 10: No. 3 Baylor, No. 5 Mis-souri and No. 7 Kansas. BU and Mizzou are each 17-1, and the Bears’ first defeat came against the Jayhawks Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse.

“I think we made a big state-ment,” said KU senior Tyshawn Taylor after his team dominat-ed Baylor, 92-74. “I don’t know if people are sleeping on us — they know we’re good — but I don’t know if people knew what we could do.”

Kansas has already exceeded expectations in the opening weeks of conference play and the Jay-hawks (15-3) sit atop the league standings at 5-0, followed by Bay-lor and Mizzou at 4-1. The Jay-hawks had a wake-up call against Davidson, a six-point loss in mid-December, but Bill Self ’s squad is on an eight-game win streak

as they prepare for a visit to the Frank Erwin Center on Saturday.

Kansas State is ranked No. 25 despite losses to KU, BU and Okla-homa on Saturday. The Wildcats, though, proved they were a legit-imate threat with a decisive, 75-59 drubbing against Mizzou on Jan. 7.

“That’s what’s great about this league,” Baylor head coach Scott Drew said. “Night in and night out, you’re going to face good teams, and if you don’t play well and they play well, you’ve got no chance.”

K-State hosts Texas tonight.The Longhorns, along with

Iowa State and Oklahoma State, are 2-2 in the Big 12 and fall among the conference’s second-tier. Still, any of these teams can challenge the elite squads like Kansas, Baylor and Mizzou.

The biggest surprise, though, has been preseason favorite Texas A&M — and not for good reason. The Aggies limped out to a 1-4 mark in conference and haven’t gotten much offensively aside from star forward Khris Middle-ton, who missed eight games with

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Freshman Sheldon McClellan is second on the team in scoring at 11.4 points a game. But in order for Texas to improve offensively others besides McClellan and J’Covan Brown need to up their offensive productivity.

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Yu Darvish contract decision will come today before 5 p.m.

The Texas Rangers and Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish have until 5p.m. today to reach a deal on a contract. If no deal is reached the talent-ed starter will return to Japan next season, and the Rangers would re-ceive a refund on their $51.7 million posting bid.

“My expectation is that we’ll get something done,” said Rangers owner Nolan Ryan. “It’s a process, so during the period that we nego-tiate with someone, we really don’t talk about it. I’m optimistic we’ll get something done.”

The main sticking point in the deal is the length of the contract. The Rangers want Darvish to sign a six-year deal and Darvish is look-ing for a five-year contract so he could reach free agency sooner.

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Caldwell out after 2-14 seasonThe Colts fired head coach Jim

Cladwell on Tuesday after a 2-14 season, just days after the franchise let long time general manager Bill Polian go.

Owner Jim Irsay and new gen-eral manager Ryan Grigson had spent the last few days discussing the franchise’s future, and what would be the best course of action for the team going forward. In the end they decided to move on with-out Caldwell as head coach.

Caldwell had a successful start to his coaching career, reaching a Su-per Bowl in his first season and the playoffs the next year. But he was unable to weather the loss of Pey-ton Manning in his third season, and lost his job in the process.

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The No. 21 ranked Longhorns started their season with some impressive showings at the Na-tional Collegiate Tennis Classic in California this past weekend.

The doubles tandem of fresh-men Noel Scott and Lina Pade-gimaite battled their way through the doubles draw of the tour-nament, posting three straight wins before falling in the finals to Virginia’s Emily Fraser and Li Xi, 5-8.

Players posting wins the round of 32 in the singles draw includ-ed freshman Alex Martin, soph-omores Juliana Gajic and Eliza-

beth Begley, as well as Scott and Padegimaite. Scott and Martin went on to post victories in the round of 16.

Other Longhorns that saw sin-gles action on the first day includ-ed senior Carlene Leyden, soph-omore Cierra Gaytan-Leach and freshman Annat Rabinovich.

In the singles quarterfinals ju-nior Aeriel Ellis defeated team-mate Martin, while Scott was de-feated in her match. Ellis went on to lose in the semifinals, 4-6,2-6, to Fraser of Virginia.

In the singles consolation draw, Rabinovich posted a victory be-

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Junior Daniel Whitehead and the No. 19 Longhorns opened their season with a 5-2 win against SMU last weekend. The squad is young with no seniors on the roster but will still look to improve on last season’s finish where they lost in the second round of the NCAA championships.

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Junior Aeriel Ellis and the rest of the No. 21 Longhorns opened their season with a strong showing in Califorina.

Texas claimed seven of

nine singles matches, lead by Whitehead,

ranked No. 112, and swept all four doubles matches

for the day.

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Following a tough loss to the na-tion’s top-ranked team this past week-end, Texas has a chance to rebound with a win against Iowa State. The Longhorns own a 1-3 conference re-cord, but can do a lot to improve their standing with a solid showing against the Cyclones.

The Cyclones (9-6, 0-4 Big 12) have lost their first four conference games this season and are tied with Mis-souri for last place in the Big 12. Each of their last four losses has been by an average of 18 points, so they’re not exactly hanging around late in games, either. It’s a pretty different scenario compared to the Longhorns’ last time out against No. 1 Baylor. Texas does have to keep in mind that all it takes is an off night of shooting and things can go haywire, so a game is never ex-actly a “gimme.”

“Some people see obstacles, and we are seeing opportunities,” said head coach Gail Goestenkors. “This is an-other great opportunity to show peo-ple what we are made of.”

The good news is that this game will take place in the friendly confines of the Frank Erwin Center, where the Longhorns are 7-3 this year and have handled teams not ranked in the top-five in the nation.

Texas would be wise to keep an eye

on the Cyclones’ Chelsea Poppens. The 6-foot-2 junior forward averag-es 14 points and 11 rebounds a game and could pose some issues give the Longhorns’ recent rebounding woes. No other player averages over nine points a game, so Texas should be able to double Poppens if need be.

After seeing Cokie Reed in a pro-tective boot on the sidelines against Baylor, the Longhorns may be short-handed at the post position once more. This means Ashley Gay-le and Anne Marie Hartung will be asked to play more and provide a post presence.

Despite a letdown against Baylor, the Longhorns are still a very good defensive squad with the ability score with ease as well. It’s important that this game is treated just like the Bay-lor game was in terms of magnitude and importance. At this stage in the season, every conference victory mat-ters and no opportunity to improve in the standings should be squandered.

“We have had the motto from day one of respect all, fear none,” said Goestenkors.

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Senior guard Yvonne Anderson drives to the basket during a 77-59 loss to No. 1 Baylor on Saturday. Anderson and the rest of the guards will have to take on a chunk of the scoring load with forward Cokie Reed in a walking boot, and will look to do so starting with Iowa State tonight.

WILDCATS continues from PAGE 8Fred Bramlage Coliseum. “It is probably the loudest place to play in the Big 12.”

Kansas State is a much big-ger team than the Longhorns, with highly skilled rebounders. The Wildcats pull down almost 40 boards a game, good for 18th best in the nation. If Texas can somehow manage to out-muscle Kansas State in this statistic, it could pull off the road upset. The Longhorns narrowly one-up the

Wildcats in almost every other offensive statistic except assists.

Problems can be solvedTalk to any member of the team,

and they’ll tell you the source of the problem is movement. Texas runs an offense that rotates the ball around the floor deliberate-ly, which works to create spacing for the Longhorns and thus easy looks at the basket.

“We can control our effort, we

can control our execution, but we can’t control making shots,” Ogden said. “We can control tak-ing better shots.”

Keeping cool in hostile Man-hattan tonight will be key for the Longhorns who employ six freshmen as pivotal role players. Freshman guard McLellan said the team can do this if it trans-lates its successes from practic-es to games, a common problem with young squads.

“There is a lot of panic [on of-fense], not enough movement,” McClellan said. “We sometimes get away from what we do in practice. If we just do what coach [Rick Barnes] says to do, we’d be fine.”

Of course, if the matchup is tight, Ogden wants the ball in the team leader’s hands. When Texas cut into Missouri’s lead Saturday, he and the other coaches were frustrated when Brown wasn’t

getting the ball towards the end. “What we preached two days

ago . . . was that not all these shots are bad shots, but it is about having the mentality of an ex-tra pass to get a wide open shot,” Ogden said.

“And then it is about knowing, when we cut it to five [points], who is our guy,” Ogden added, referring to Brown, who had 34 points that night.

It is a process propping up a

young team as it develops, but Brown will have to continue to provide the point output until the rest of the team fully realiz-es its potential.

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The holidays are a time for fun, gifts and happiness. Winter break brought all of these for the Longhorns.

The No. 2 ranked men’s swim-mers and divers were dominant over the break, defeating No. 9 Geor-gia and No. 7 Auburn by 35 and 30 points, respectively.

The seniors made the most of senior day in their meet with Georgia as Jim-my Feigen lead the charge by winning the 50 and 100 freestyles. Eric Fried-land and Neil Caskey also won two events apiece. All three swam on the winning 200 medley relay team.

Senior diver Matt Cooper continued his impressive year with a win in the 3-meter dive and a second place finish in the 1-meter dive. Drew Livingston was the opposite in both diving events, winning the 1-meter dive and placing second in the 3-meter dive.

Other winners for the Longhorns were Michael McBroom in the 1000 freestyle, Dax Hill in the 200 free-style, Patrick Murphy in the 200 backstroke and Cole Cragin in the 100 backstroke.

The men followed this win up the next week with their most impressive performance of the year in a dual meet with the Auburn Tigers.

“This was one of the best overall dual meet efforts by our team in a long time, maybe in the last three or four years,” said head coach Eddie Reese. “This was a great step for us. We are being led by a great group of seniors and everybody is

doing a great job competing.”Friedland and Feigen swam very

well, each placing first in two events. Jackson Wilcox looked great as well, notching the fastest time in the country so far this year in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 9:01.22.

Cooper won the 1-meter diving event while Livingston emerged victo-rious in the 3-meter diving event. Oth-er individual winners were Hill and Caskey, who won the 200 freestyle and the 200 butterfly events, respectively.

The women tasted both victo-ry and defeat this holiday break, beat-ing top ranked Georgia while losing to Auburn.

In an impressive effort on senior day, the Longhorns became the first team to beat Georgia in the last two years with a 155-145 victory.

“It was a great way to send off the seniors,” said head coach Kim Brack-in. “They are five really great kids who have made an impact on the program, not just scoring points but the people they are so it was fun to see them enjoy that last home meet experience.”

Senior Karlee Bispo proved why she’s a captain as she swept all three freestyle events of the meet. Lau-ra Sogar looked dominant as well, winning both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events.

Other individual winners were Leah Gingrich in the 200 butter-fly and Shelby Cullinan in the 3-me-ter diving event. The Longhorns also earned points with a victory in the 200 medley relay.

In the meet with Auburn, the ladies

lost in a tough fashion that saw incon-sistency doom the No. 4 ranked team in the nation.

Bispo who placed first in both the 200 freestyle and 200 IM events was a bright spot for the Longhorns. Other

winners were Sogar, Lily Moldenhauer and Kaitlin Pawlowicz who each won an event.

Both the men and women will con-tinue their seasons Jan. 28 in a meet with the Arizona Wildcats.

Winter break was successful in the pool for the Longhorns

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Freshman Kait Pawlowicz swims the 200 fly during a meet against Georgia over winter break. The break proved fruitful for both the men’s and women’s squads as both teams came away with numerous individual event honors, the men went 2-0 as a team and the women went 1-1.

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season is anything but a walk in the park as they will face nine opponents ranked in the top 30 of the ITA rankings. The Long-horns will go up against No. 2 Virginia and No. 20 North Car-olina on their courts in the same weekend. Also looming for Tex-

as is a home-court matchup with the No. 1 ranked team in the country, USC.

The Longhorns will also face some tough conference competi-tion. Baylor has a No. 5 ranking, Texas A&M is ranked No. 11, Oklahoma is ranked No. 18 and boasts the fourth ranked player in the country, while Texas Tech holds the ranking of No. 22.

This year, Texas is a fair-ly young team without a single

senior on its roster. The Long-horns have the same number of juniors as freshmen (four), and only boast one ranked player (Whitehead at no. 112).

Texas looks to improve upon last year’s results, in which they fell to A&M in the Big 12 tour-nament semifinals, and lost to Tulsa in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Longhorns finished last season ranked No. 16.

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a torn meniscus. But the Aggies have a terrific

head coach in first-year man Billy Kennedy. He went 54-14 at Mur-ray State over the last two seasons, and the Racers (18-0) are one of two undefeated teams left this year — top-ranked Syracuse is 20-0. But Kennedy’s been battling early-onset Parkinson’s disease since September. It’s been a chal-lenging season for A&M so far, but they were picked to win the

league for a reason. Don’t count them out just yet.

Kennedy isn’t the only coach new to the Big 12. Mizzou’s Frank Haith inherited a team that went .500 in conference last season and has turned them into a viable con-tender to win the league.

“He came in and figured out the best way for these guys to play — and it is the perfect way for them to play,” said UT head coach Rick Barnes, who hired Haith as an as-

sistant in 2001. “They’ve got a good team, they really do.”

While the Aggies were picked to win the Big 12 in their final season in the league, it could very well be the Tigers who take home the hardware before both schools exit for the Southeastern Conference later this year. But no matter what unfolds in 2012, enjoy it while it lasts because a new era in the Big 12 is soon to begin.

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Kansas defeated Baylor on Monday evening in a top 10 matchup in the Big 12. The two squads are a big part of the overall strength of the conference that has nine teams with winning records and three teams in the top five.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

DOUBLES continues from PAGE 8fore being defeated by a player from USC, while Gaytan-Leach was defeated by a player from Vir-ginia.

Texas ended the tournament on a high-note by posting four more singles victories from Gaytan-Leach, Begley, Gajic and senior Krista Damico.

Next up for the Longhorns is a tough stretch of matches with No. 9 Virginia due up this Saturday fol-lowed by No. 4 North Carolina on Sunday in New York.

Conference competition won’t be much easier, as Texas will face No. 6 ranked Baylor in Austin, while traveling to No. 25 Oklaho-

ma and No. 29 Texas A&M. Last year the Longhorns beat Kansas State and Oklahoma before falling to the Texas A&M in the confer-ence tournament, then went on to lose to No. 7 Miami in the second round of the NCAA Champion-ships. The Longhorns finished the season ranked No. 23.

MIAMI — LeBron James scored 33 points, Chris Bosh added 30 and the Miami Heat used a historic third-quarter turnaround to erase a big def-icit and beat the San Antonio Spurs 120-98 on Tuesday night, snapping a three-game slide.

Miami outscored San Antonio 39-12 in the third quarter — the second-largest differential for any quarter in Heat history, and the second-worst differential for a period in Spurs his-tory. The Heat trailed by as many as

17 points in the first half, 52-35 late in the second quarter.

Mike Miller made his season de-but and shot 6 for 6 on 3-pointers, finishing with 18 points and tying his career-high for makes from beyond the arc. And the Heat did it all with-out Dwyane Wade, sitting out on his 30th birthday because of a sprained right ankle.

“I couldn’t let my boy down on his birthday,” James said.

Danny Green scored 20 points for the Spurs, who got 18 from Tony Parker, 13 from DeJuan Blair and 12 from Kawhi Leonard and Gary Neal.

The Heat are now 4-0 without Wade this season, 8-1 since early last season without the 2006 NBA finals MVP. And unquestionably, this was the most improbable of those victo-ries.

James was 7 for 9 in the third quar-ter. The Spurs — combined — were 4 for 19. James hit 3-pointers on con-secutive possessions to put Miami up 72-68, and the Heat simply never stopped rolling from there.

The comeback from down 17 matched the NBA’s fifth-largest this season. Miami outscored San Anto-nio 71-35 after halftime.

Heat dominate Spurs without WadeNBA BASKETBALLHEAT 120, SPURS 98

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Albert Knighten sits in his darkened radio studio at his home in Fort Myers, Fla. The Federal Communications Commission shut down the pirate radio station and arrested Knighten.

Airwaves soon to clear slightly for community radio

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mild-man-nered community activist Albert Knighten found himself in handcuffs last month when police and feder-al agents raided his home and shut down a pirate radio station he op-erated out of a spare bedroom. Sup-porters say his bare-bones operation filled an important niche in a pre-dominantly black section of Fort My-ers, a community whose residents of-ten feel overlooked and underserved by commercial radio.

The retired Navy air traffic control-ler, now facing a felony charge of op-erating the station without a license, is front and center in the efforts of a national community radio advoca-cy group to highlight a law that clears more space on crowded radio dials and gives low-power operators the first opportunity in more than a de-cade to get licensed.

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to start tak-ing applications for the new stations sometime this fall. Philadelphia-based Prometheus Radio Project, which advocates for community sta-tions, is raising awareness of the op-

portunity and what it believes is the need for more low-power stations that serve narrow audiences, often just neighborhoods.

Operating out of his small house in the hard-scrabble Dunbar neigh-borhood with a 40-foot antenna af-fixed to the roof, Knighten, 44, pro-grammed his station with a mix of public-affairs shows, neighborhood announcements, old-school R&B tunes and church services, geared to-ward the elderly and others who can’t afford or don’t use the Internet.

“The station made people feel like they had a chance to express their opinion and have a voice in their to-morrow,” said Willie Green, who heads a three-county southwest Flor-ida chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

No one disputes the station was on the air illegally, but Knighten said it was worth the risk. He started in 2009 with the hope he could even-tually apply for a license. He wanted to get it up and running legally. Now, because of the arrest, he won’t be al-lowed to apply for the license or oper-ate the station, although he still hopes to be involved.

If someone does resurrect Dun-bar Radio 107.5 as a licensed station,

it will likely be because of the Lo-cal Community Radio Act — a law passed in 2010 that repealed certain restrictions on the FM spectrum put in place at the urging of commercial channels worried about interference with their broadcasts. Simply put, the government opened up more slots on the crowded dial in urban areas for low-powered stations.

Prometheus Radio Project fought for the law for a decade. The group’s policy director, Brandy Doyle, said it could more than double the current number of around 800 low-powered stations in the country and help di-versify radio markets in an era when corporate-owned stations dominate the airwaves. New stations are ex-pected to debut in 2013 and 2014.

“This is the first and probably the last opportunity for communi-ty groups to get on the air in a gen-eration,” Doyle said. “People are no longer going to have to be arrested to have the opportunity to serve people in their communities.”

An FM signal from a 100-watt transmitter can reach 3 to 10 miles, depending on the terrain and there are success stories. About 30 miles southeast of Fort Myers, the national-ly recognized Coalition of Immoka-

lee Workers runs a legally licensed low-power station that helps migrant farmworkers organize for better wag-es and report human rights abuses. In Opelousas, La., low-power KOCZ plays the region’s heritage zydeco mu-sic on the first station licensed to a civil rights organization.

Among the nonprofit groups ap-plying for a license this year is a co-alition of Somali immigrants, Na-tive-Americans and other groups in underserved neighborhoods in the Minneapolis area.

“I’ve been organizing for over 10 years, and I have never had such an easy time filling up a room on a Sat-urday morning for an issue,” said Danielle Mkali, who works for the social justice group Main Street Proj-ect in Minneapolis, which is helping with applications for two new low-power stations. “People are really ex-cited about making radio happen.”

In 2000 and 2001, the last time the window was open for low-power li-cense applications, around 3,600 were submitted, but less than a quarter of that number are on the air today, ac-cording to an FCC official who dis-cussed the issue with the AP but de-clined to be identified because that’s agency policy.

By Mitch StacyThe Associated Press

LUCKNOW, India — Organiz-ers of an Indian literary festival said Tuesday they hope Salman Rushdie will attend, despite calls by Muslim clerics to ban the British-Indian au-thor from the event.

Rushdie’s planned appearance at the Jaipur Literary Festival has sparked an outcry among some Muslims who consider his 1988 book “The Satanic Verses” blasphe-mous.

Last week, Darul Uloom semi-nary leader Maulana Abdul Qasim Nomani urged the government to bar Rushdie from the five-day event that starts Friday. The 150-year-old seminary preaches an austere form of Islam that has inspired millions of Muslims, including the Taliban.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan, where Jaipur is based, said protesters’ feelings should not be ignored and that Rushdie should stay away due to security concerns.

The 64-year-old author has at-tended the annual festival previ-ously without incident. He has said he does not need permission or a visa to enter or travel within India.

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Organizers called the contro-versy an “irritation,” and said they were discussing security measures with authorities to en-sure the safety of all who attend.

“Every liberal person in this country needs to stand up and be heard,” organizer Sanjoy Roy told Indian broadcaster CNN-IBN. “We are becoming a very shrill nation” that calls for ban-ning and burning “stuff we don’t like.”

Rushdie, who won the 1981 Booker Prize for his novel “Mid-night’s Children,” spent years in hiding after Iranian leader Aya-tollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged that he be killed for blasphemy because of “The Satanic Vers-es.” The book also was banned in India.

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Lana Kane as voiced by Aisha Tyler, Adam Reed, Sterling Archer as voiced by H. Jon Benjamin and Cyril Figgis as voiced by Chris Parnell in “Archer,” airing Thursday, January 26 on FX.

‘Archer’ returns with dark, brilliant humorThe third season of “Archer” re-

sumes tomorrow on FX, and the animated spy comedy remains as ridiculous and irreverent as ever. Although the third season tech-nically began back in September with a three-part episode dealing with the fallout from the death of Archer’s fiance Katya, the newest batch of episodes continue to dis-play the show’s penchant for gut-busting jokes handed to characters that continue to get better and bet-ter well into the current season.

H. Jon Benjamin stars as the tit-ular character Archer, a dashing se-cret agent who also happens to be a remarkably obnoxious blowhard. His colleagues at the ISIS spy agen-cy (short for the International Se-cret Intelligence Service) include the alluring, sarcastic Lana (Aisha Tyler), the oblivious secretary Car-ol (Judy Greer) and the handi-capped former field agent Ray (cre-ator Adam Reed), not to mention Archer’s boss and mother Mal-lory, played by “Arrested Develop-ment’s” Jessica Walters.

Although “Archer” is certain-ly about espionage, the show’s spy plots tend to be mostly perfunctory, often just an excuse for the show’s brilliant ensemble to interact in a new and entertaining way. “Archer” is often much more interested in examining workplace politics in a new context, or simply content to let its characters rip with the most inappropriate, ridiculously foul comments imaginable.

In fact, tomorrow’s season pre-miere mostly underplays the show’s spy elements, instead letting the focus shift to guest star Burt Reynolds (who happens to be Ar-cher’s personal hero). The episode is a showcase of everything that makes the show work, including

Benjamin’s consistently entertain-ing vocal performance as Archer, Tyler’s hilarious way of wringing a joke out of how she can enun-ciate a single line of dialogue, the detailed animation and the vari-ous ways the show’s chemistry be-tween characters works in every exchange, even though the actors often record their dialogue sepa-rately (as is common practice on animated shows).

While there’s no underplaying Benjamin’s Emmy-nominated work as Archer, other cast members often manage to steal entire episodes out from under him. Greer and Amber Nash, playing two of the clerical workers in the ISIS office, are easi-ly the show’s most underrated play-

ers, as their bizarre dialogue and character traits make their pres-ence equally delightful and revolt-ing. Meanwhile, Chris Parnell is of-ten asked to play the straight man, but hits every punchline out of the park, and Walters more or less re-prises her icy, reprehensible char-acter Lucille Bluth from “Arrest-ed Development,” tearing into her acidic lines with aplomb.

FX’s comedy lineup is current-ly made up of the long-running “It’s Always Sunny in Philadel-phia” and the fantasy football com-edy “The League,” and “Archer” is the clear standout, unafraid to go for the darkest, dirtiest punchlines no matter what the joke and lucky enough to have a cast that’s game enough to say some of the terrible, off-color things creator Adam Reed comes up with. Archer is a show that’s only getting funnier with age, and it’s a fresh, consistently entertaining way to start 2012 for the network.

Popular UT professors share their New Year’s resolutions

Each new year brings new resolu-tions. Whether it be a change to one’s external appearance or internal atti-tude, some of the student body’s favor-ite professors divulged what they hope to accomplish with this new year.

John Daly, College of Communi-cation professor

“My first resolution was not to make any resolution, but after a while I came up with one related to my job: try to answer all my emails each day.”

Homero Gil De Zuniga, College of Communication professor

“My resolutions for 2012 are pret-ty simple: be a better person, a better professor and a better researcher. But above all things, be a good father to the baby Karolina that my wife and I are expecting for May. This is defi-nitely challenging as it is completely new for me.

Karen Kelton, Department of French and Italian senior lecturer

“I’m not much of a resolution maker, but I did resolve to go to the pool more this semester, at least three times a week. We’ll see how long that lasts.”

Regina Lawrence, School of Jour-nalism professor

“I gave up on resolutions long ago because I never seemed to follow through on them, the expectation to make a resolution started to seem oppressive. Sure, we all realize in the back of our minds every day that we are failing, sometimes abjectly, to live up to our goals and ideals. So why punish ourselves with the yearly rou-tine of making promises we will fail to keep?”

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, De-partment of English professor

“My 2012 New Year’s resolution is to give equal time to relishing what is good and to working on what is not

... I tend to devote my time to edit-ing myself and my world, trying to change things for the better. While I want to continue to improve and to champion changes in which I believe, I am resolving to take time more ful-ly to appreciate what is positive and good already. Oscar Wilde remarked that ‘To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.’ I resolve to live in the world for 2012, and hopefully beyond.”

Beatriz Schleppe, Department of French and Italian lecturer

“My resolution is to go to both South By Southwest and ACL be-cause I’ve lived in Austin for almost 23 years and never have been. Over-all, to go out more and have more fun.”

Lawrence Speck, School of Archi-tecture professor

“I was in Guangzhou, China on New Year’s Day and it struck me how different it is to experience another culture firsthand than it is to just read or hear about it. We think we know enough to form an opinion when the information we receive is so full of in-accuracy and other people’s agendas that it is not a good basis for judg-ment. My New Year’s resolution is to get out and see more myself and to reserve judgment when I cannot.”

J. Craig Wheeler, Department of Astronomy professor

“Most astronomers are workahol-ics, and I’m badly infected with that. My resolution involves trying to carve out time on weekends for my other in-terests, mostly writing. I want to post my novel ‘The Krone Experiment’ as an e-book and then do the same with the written but unsold sequel, ‘Krone Ascending.’ I’d like to write a memoir of my father who worked on guid-ed missiles, the first hydrogen bomb, the atomic airplane, weather satellites and finally, the Apollo program.”

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“Community” fans were given a belated Christmas gift this year. The comedic television series that fol-lows the lives of a community col-lege study group was taken off the air midseason, but the NBC entertain-ment chief recently announced that the show will return in the spring to finish up its third season. “Commu-nity’s” small but dedicated fan base appreciates the show for its heavy emphasis on pop culture referenc-es, including numerous television and film related parodies. These ref-erences can be both obvious and painstakingly subtle, which can make it difficult for some viewers to follow and may contribute to its low ratings. Before the temporary

hiatus, this season of “Communi-ty” kept fans laughing with episodes that included a Christmas special, a spot-on Glee parody, a karaoke ses-sion featuring Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” and an entire episode entitled “Remedial Chaos Theory” devot-ed to exploring the different space-time continuum possibilities of a single evening get-together, “Sliding Doors” style. Whether or not NBC will renew the show is still up in the air, but “Community” fans still have time to enjoy what has become one of the best sitcoms on air.

TV: “Community”TBA, Spring 2012NBC

Beloved NBC sitcom returns to finish its third seasonAnticipation for Quen-

tin Tarantino’s Southern film, “Django Unchained,” has been high ever since the notorious-ly controversial director re-vealed he would be making a film about a freed slave, Djan-go (Jamie Foxx), taking revenge on plantation owners with help from the bounty hunter who freed him (Christoph Waltz). As if the thought of Tarantino and Waltz working together again af-ter “Inglorious Basterds” wasn’t enough, the rest of the cast in-

cludes Leonardo DiCaprio as the film’s villain, Samuel L. Jackson as a slave and the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen, Kurt Russell, Jo-seph Gordon-Levitt and Gerald McRaney. “Django Unchained” doesn’t release until Christmas Day, but it’s already promising to be one of the highlights of 2012’s cinematic landscape.

Movie: “Django Unchained”Directed and written by Quentin TarantinoDec. 25

Star-studded Tarantino film to premiere in winterFrom the creators that

brought some of our genera-tion’s first tastes of stop-motion claymation, “Wallace and Gro-mit” and “Chicken Run,” comes “The Pirates! Band Of Misfits,” a tale about a less-than-lucra-tive pirate and his motley crew. Based on the “Pirates!” book se-ries by British author Gideon Defoe, the movie follows The Pirate Captain, voiced by Hugh Grant, as he attempts to beat out his rivals for the pirate of the year award. The adorably clue-less captain’s rivals include the reigning champion pirate Black Bellamy, (Jeremy Piven), and the

feisty wildcard contestant Cut-lass Liz (Salma Hayek). In addi-tion to beating out his fellow pi-rates, The Pirate Captain strug-gles with an enraged Queen Victoria out to get him, and the constantly looming notion that most of his high sea endeavors tend to backfire on him. “The Pirates!” will hopefully find that rare marriage of slapstick come-dy and dry humor that will de-lightfully resonate with an all-ages audience.

Movie: “The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”March 30

Claymation starring Hugh Grant out this fall

When guitarist and composer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez first an-nounced that his psychedelic, prog-rock collective The Mars Volta had completed its follow-up to 2009’s Octahedron last year, fans impa-tiently scavenged website forums and anything Mars Volta-relat-ed to hear some of the new tracks. Some fans even led a petition, hop-ing to force the band’s label War-ner Bros., into releasing the album, titled Nocturniquet, before this year. Although the petition failed, those fortunate enough to catch the group during last year’s South

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Music: NocturniquetThe Mars VoltaMarch 27

The Mars Volta set to release new album in March

“I think I might be the voice of my generation,” says Hannah (Lena Dun-ham), a recent college graduate strug-gling to make ends meet with her fe-male friends in New York. Then she hedges, “Or at least a voice of a gen-eration.” This new comedy creat-ed, written and directed by Dun-ham (who broke out in 2010 with her South By Southwest hit “Tiny Furni-ture”), and produced by Judd Apatow, is all about those moments of com-promise and the self-navigating and excitement that flood post-grad adult-

hood. Hannah seems like a worthy heroine — she’s like Liz Lemon’s kid sister, raised on cable television and dry wit: “I calculated, and I can last in New York for three and a half more days. Maybe seven if I don’t eat lunch.” And with these two sharp comedic minds working together, it might very well prove itself a distinctive voice of our generation.

TV: “Girls”Premieres April 15 HBO

Lena Dunham provides female voice to post-grad adulthood

Michael Chabon is cer-tainly among America’s most celebrated authors in con-temporary literature, thread-ing aspects of his Jewish her-itage into tales tackling issues of cultural identity and the dissolving structure of the American family. His 2000 novel “The Amazing Adven-tures of Kavalier & Clay” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and was a gorgeous piece of historical fiction following the lives of two Jewish cous-ins, who together help foster the genre of American com-ics in the early 20th centu-ry. “Kavalier and Clay” won Chabon the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001. Later this

year, Chabon will release a new novel, titled “Telegraph Avenue.” Early reports about the book have indicated that it will largely be about the cities of Chabon’s childhood, namely Berkeley and Oak-land, California. If the wist-ful, meandering blog post Chabon wrote about the book for The Atlantic’s web-site last week is any indica-tion, “Telegraph Avenue” will continue in the vein of his usual themes of nostalgia and the power of the physical en-vironments of our pasts.

Book: “Telegraph Avenue” Michael ChabonFall 2012

Six years since his last novel, “A Spot of Bother,” and nine years since his breakthrough, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” author Mark Haddon returns with “The Red House.” After proving his ingenious ability to get inside the head of even a child with Asperger’s syndrome in “The Curious Incident,” Haddon will be stretching that skill by telling the sto-ry from the eight different characters. Despite such a daunting project, Had-don chose to stick with a simple story: A wealthy man seeks to reconnect with his estranged sister and her family in the English countryside for the week after he remarried and gained a stepdaugh-ter. There are none of the elements that popped up in his first two books. No ad-

ventures through London. No myster-ies to be solved. No weird, obvious per-sonality quirks. However, the success of Haddon’s previous novels has never re-lied on the gimmicks that made them playful on first read. Instead, it has al-ways been the characters who strug-gle to be better to those around them that made Haddon’s stories exceptional. And with early readers calling “The Red House” a family tragicomedy, Haddon does not seem to be deviating too far from his strength: putting the resent-ments that build up in families under a literary microscope.

Book: “The Red House”Mark HaddonJune 12

Haddon puts family dynamics under microscope in third novel

‘Telegraph Avenue’ to explore theme of nostalgia

Editor’s Note: This is the second part in a two-day series about the Life&Arts senior staff’s most anticipated events and entertainment of 2012. Today’s entries are about events taking place across the country.

Illustrations below by Lin ZagorskiPhoto illustration by Chris Benavides