Swastikas concern off-campus dormitory residents

Thong-clad Austin joggers filled the streets of downtown Austin Saturday in efforts to raise proceeds for the homeless and in memory of the Austin icon Leslie Cochran, a home-less man who died in March.

More than 150 people reg-istered for the one mile and

5k routes to raise proceeds for Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a social outreach ministry that provides supportive items such as food and clothing to the homeless. Cochran, who arrived in Austin in 1996, usually wore a thong while advocating for peace and against police brutality against the homeless. Many consid-ered him the face of Austin’s

homeless community. Austin city officials estimate

that more than 2,300 homeless people lived in the city in 2011.

The Thong Jog was a joint ef-fort to commemorate Cochran by Dean Baldwin, owner of the personal training company Austin F.I.T., and Sara Henry, owner of the event planning company Oh, Henry Events. Baldwin said he worked with Henry to create a fun event to honor Cochran’s positive im-pact on Austin residents.

“Everybody really enjoyed

him in Austin,” Baldwin said. “Everybody sees him in a posi-tive way. He influenced corpo-rate people, college students, anybody visiting from out of town and specifically me and Sara to do this. It is important to keep his memory alive.”

Cochran ran for Austin may-or three times, most recently in 2003. In 2009, Cochran was attacked and suffered a head injury. It is believed he died because of complications from

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NEWSHuston-Tillotson and UT students discuss

society’s racial biases.

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OPINiONThe debates stink but they don’t have to. UT

professor Jeremi Suri explains.

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SPORTSTexas’ defense didn’t show up Saturday, but

made plays when they mattered.

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LIFE & ARTSUT artists portray the

violence along US-Mexican border.

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Hip hop, mass media and racial storytellingThe Senior Fellows Honors Program of The College of Communication hosts a talk by Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in BMC 5.208 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Bevonomics 302BAttend a session on how to make smart invests toward the things you want in life from 4 to 5 p.m. in BUR 224.

College of Fine Arts resume reviewIn preparation for the Arts Internship and Networking Fair, the Fine Arts Career Services will be reviewing resumes in DFA 1.101 (the Co-Op Student Lounge) from 12 to 1 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m.

TODAY

SYSTEM

The value of the Permanent University Fund, a state en-dowment that funds a portion of the University’s budget, in-creased by $194 million since last year despite receiving lower returns on investments compared to similar educa-tional endowment funds.

The Permanent University Fund is now valued at $13.5 billion as of Aug. 31, accord-ing to a report released by the

University of Texas Invest-ment Management Company earlier this month.

The Permanent University Fund underperformed com-pared to other university edu-cational endowments valued at more than $1 billion in 2011, obtaining 12.9 percent less than the average return rate, according to data compiled by the National Association of College and University Busi-ness Officers. The association reported the average return rate was 20.1 percent in 2011.

Following a request for comment, a UTIMCO spokes-person said all of the compa-ny’s employees were travelling.

The UT System created UTIMCO in 1996 as a non-profit corporation that oversees investments for the UT System and the Texas A&M System.

UTIMCO invests sale prof-its from semiannual land lease sales of 2.1 million acres that make up the Permanent University Fund. The land is

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Maria Arrellaga | Daily Texan StaffThree men gather at the starting point for the Austin Thong Jog Saturday morning. The event was in commemoration to Leslie Cochran, and proceeds went to support services for Austin’s homeless.

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WEST CAMPUS

Austin police received a report Saturday that swas-tikas had been carved into the doors of two suites in the University Towers private dorm complex lo-cated at West 24th and Rio Grande streets. Three Jew-ish students live in one of the suites.

Students from the two suites said the swastikas, which each measured about a foot in diameter, were carved into their doors around midnight Friday. No arrest has been made in regard to the carvings and police say the investigation is ongoing.

Undeclared freshman Andrew Kleiman, resident of one of the vandalized suites, said this was not the first anti-semitic incident he has seen while living at Towers.

He said roughly a month ago, a brief verbal alter-cation occurred between members of his suite and members of the suite across the hall. Kleiman said he heard them use anti-Semitic

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ELECTION 2012 UNIVERSITY

Leaders urge studentsto vote early, prepare

Distinguished alumni awardedCourtesey of Mark Rutkowski

Laura Bush, Julius Glickman, Charles Matthews, Adm. William McRaven, Melinda Perin and Hector Ruiz are recognized as distinguished alumni by the Texas Exes.

Early voting begins Mon-day, allowing registered vot-ers to cast their ballots at their convenience through-out the county at any polling location, including the Flawn Academic Center at UT.

The FAC will be open for early voting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. until Nov. 2. During the last three days of early voting, two locations at Highland Mall and Lamar Plaza Shop-ping Center will be open until 9 p.m. and will have more bal-lot boxes than other locations.

Students will need to show some form of identification, including driver’s licenses, or their voter registration card to vote. A full list of acceptable documents is available on the Travis County Clerk’s website.

Michael Winn, Travis County Elections Director,

said voters should check if and where they are registered. Winn said there can be con-fusion about where students need to cast their ballot. Those registered outside of Travis County can request a mail-in ballot as long as the applica-tion is recieved (not post-marked) by Oct. 30. Applica-tions are provided by Travis County online but must be ad-dressed to the student’s home County Clerk’s office.

“If you do vote early you can check that there are no problems, and if there are, you still have time to go vote,” Winn said. “It gives you a couple of days if you need to go to your home ju-risdiction and vote there, or apply for a ballot by mail.”

Danny Zeng, gover-ment and finance senior and College Republicans

By Christine Ayala

Six of UT’s most distin-guished alumni, includ-ing former first lady Laura Bush and Adm. William McRaven, traveled to cam-pus Friday to be honored for their accomplishments.

For more than 50 years, Texas Exes, the University’s

alumni organization, has an-nually honored as many as six UT alumni who have distin-guished themselves profes-sionally and through service to UT with a Distinguished Alumnus Award. This year, the organization recognized Laura Bush, former first lady and 1973 alumna; Julius Glickman, philanthropist, attorney and 1962 alumnus;

Charles Matthews, former vice president and general counsel of Exxon Mobil Cor-poration and 1967 alumnus; Adm. William McRaven, commander of NATO Spe-cial Operations Command, leader of the military opera-tion that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden and

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Paul FosterUT Regent

Francisco Cigarroa UT Chancellor

Downtown Thong Jog in icon’s honor supplies homeless with food, clothing

Today in historyIn 1836Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

— Mack Brown,head coach

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wanted. It’s who we want to be —very balanced. It’s who we were the first two games.”

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leased for surface use and oil and gas production.

The Available University Fund, which usually makes up about 8 percent of UT’s $2.3 billion operating bud-get, is funded through returns on investments. The University received $176 million through the Available University Fund for the 2012-2013 operating budget.

Kevin Hegarty, UT vice president and chief finan-cial officer, said he was ini-tially skeptical of UTIM-CO’s work but said the company keeps up with the work of prestigious private school investors despite a smaller endowment.

“Yale and Harvard see skyrocketing returns, and you could find similar en-tities or institutions that achieve greater returns than UTIMCO,” he said. “It also means they are taking great-er risks, but we may be more

conservative than some of the private schools.”

Harvard’s endowment is worth more than $30 billion and has historical-ly generated annualized returns of 12.5 percent in the last 20 years, ac-cording to the New York Times. The Permanent University Fund gener-ated annualized returns of 8.2 percent during the last 10 years.

The UT System receives two-thirds of returns on investment and the A&M System receives one-third. The University is then awarded 45 percent of the UT System’s portion as recurring funding that is applied to operating costs, salaries and student scholarships. The UT re-gents also award one-time payouts from the fund to all System universities for special initiatives.

Hegarty said UTIMCO benefits from a legal struc-ture the UT regents oversee. UT System regent Paul Fos-ter serves as chair of UTIM-CO’s board of directors and

chancellor Francisco Cigar-roa serves as vice chairman for policy.

“The regents themselves set a targeted return rate, and we rely on the regents and UTIMCO to be as suc-cessful as they can,” he said. “[Foster and Cigarroa] re-ally oversee, along with the other board members, UTIMCO operations and ensure they provide a con-nection back to the full board of regents.”

UTIMCO also invests billions of dollars interna-tionally in both developed countries and countries with emerging economies.

Sandy Leeds, finance lec-turer and president of the MBA Investment Fund,

L.L.C., said UTIMCO’s in-ternational investments al-low for a diverse portfolio.

“In my opinion, it would be negligent of UTIMCO’s management if they did not invest internationally,” he said. “Many foreign countries have greater growth prospects than the U.S. In addition, they offer a way to diversify the risk of your portfolio.”

Leeds said it’s appropriate for UTIMCO to take risks and invest in good hedge funds that might otherwise appear uncertain. UTIM-CO’s hedge funds invest-ments were valued at $3.7 billion as of their last avail-able investment summary report for 2011.

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the injury last year. James Sutton, chemical en-

gineering freshman and race participant, said the race was a way to get involved in the com-munity and work with charity.

“It is just people having a good time, with no alterior motives,” Sutton said. “People are just trying to help out and have fun while doing that.”

Race coordinator Henry said Cochran represented a sense of adventure for those in Austin whose lives forced them to solely focus on work. She said she and Bald-win hope to make the race an annual event.

“He had a good heart, and his ‘screw the man,’ anti-es-tablishment mentality made him loved,” Henry said. “He went against the grain, and many of us that work in cubi-cles and hate our lives looked up to that.”

1977 UT alumnus; Melinda Perrin, former chair of the Hermann Hospital Board of Trustees and 1969 UT alumna; and Hector de Jesus

Ruiz, CEO of Bull Ventures, an education advocate who has served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Sci-ence and Technology and the Texas Higher Education Co-ordinating Board and 1970 UT alumnus.

All six members were in attendance at the ceremony, along with some of UT’s most prominent figures and former Distinguished Alum-nus Award winners.

UT President William Powers Jr. kicked off the ceremony by welcoming each award winner and talking about their impres-sive accomplishments.

“We’re just happy that we can say we knew them back when, and we are even more happy that we still know them today,” Powers said.

Each recipient gave a speech after accepting their orange blazer, a symbol of the award given to each of its recipients.

Bush talked about her time at UT in 1972, while working on her masters degree in in-formation sciences. She said Austin was an impressive and welcoming place, even back then.

“I felt right at home, even though I was not really hip-pie material,” she said. “Case in point, I was a librarian who named her cat Dewey after the Dewey Decimal System.”

Perrin and Glickman chose to use part of their speeches to comment on the current debate over funding going on at UT.

Glickman said when he came to UT in the 1950s

the state paid for 69 per-cent of the cost of his edu-cation. He said they now pay only an average 13 per-cent of a UT’s undergradu-ate’s education cost.

Both commented on UT’s need for additional funds in order to keep up its tradition of excellence.

“To prevail will require our united, passionate, engaged ad-vocacy,” Perrin said. “Together we can help the University of Texas become the best public university in America.”

The crowd roared especially loud when McRaven accepted his award. McRaven organized and executed Operation Nep-tune Spear in 2011, the mili-tary operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.

In his speech, McRaven talked about the tools that

UT gave him, and the way he was able to go on and expe-rience great success, despite his low GPA.

“The school taught me that failure was only a temporary condition,” McRaven said, cit-ing his poor performance in UT classes.

McRaven gave some ad-vice to UT professors with struggling students in their classes, students in the same situation he was in during the 1970s.

“For those professors out there who come across a strug-gling student, I would ask you to give them a break and never forget that great institutions like the University of Texas can take a common student and give them the tools they need to have uncommon success,” McRaven said.

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slurs and imitate the Nazi salute.

Kleiman said he has not seen any other anti-Semitism at UT.

“I’d never experienced or heard of anyone else experiencing this kind of thing,” Kleiman said. “I think this was just a cou-ple of messed-up kids. I don’t know.”

Kleiman said the carved swastika had an immedi-ate impact on him.

“I’m not an angry kid, and I don’t like to fight, but I was looking for a fight at that moment,” Kleiman said. “I was re-ally upset. You can make fun of me, you can say whatever, but when you bring religion into it, and particularly an image from the Holocaust, then that just isn’t acceptable.”

Suite residents carved the vandalized portions of the doors flat that night, and said by mid-Saturday, their doors had been spray-painted black by other Tower residents. However, the carved slashes are still visible.

Tracy Frydberg, head of campus relations on the student executive cabinet at Texas Hillel, a campus center for Jew-ish life, said Hillel has not yet had a chance to investigate the incident, but will reach out to the local Anti-Defamation League in order to de-termine an appropriate course of action.

“We take things like this very seriously and will do what we think is necessary to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again,” Frydberg said.

She said there are roughly 4,000 Jewish students currently en-rolled at UT.

—Additional reporting by David Maly

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Tom Lynn | Associated PressPolice and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday.

Electoral process draws Cuba to polls

By Dinesh Ramde

Associated Press

Suspected shooter found dead

By Andrea Rodriguez

Associated Press

HAVANA — There are no flashy television ads or campaign signs spiked into front yards. And candidates definitely don’t tour the island shaking hands and kissing babies.

Elections in Cuba lack the hoopla they have in other countries, but authorities here say they give people a voice in government and re-but charges that the country is undemocratic. Critics call them a sham since voters can’t throw out the Communist Party long led by Fidel and Raul Castro.

A long, complicated and truly unique electoral process is under way on this commu-nist-run island, with more than 8 million Cubans going to the polls this weekend for municipal elections. The pro-cess culminates in February, when national assembly legis-lators vote on who will occu-py the presidency, a post held by Raul Castro since 2008.

The latest electoral ex-ercise began in September when Cubans met in com-mon spaces, parks and buildings for neighbor-hood assemblies to choose the candidates in munici-pal elections. Those assem-blies nominated 32,000 candidates, and each elec-toral district must have be-tween two and eight names on the ballot.

Sheets of paper with terse biographies and photos of the candidates were then taped up to strategically placed walls and windows in each neighborhood for

residents to read. That’s just about the only campaigning that’s allowed.

On Sunday, Cubans cast ballots to choose among these candidates for municipal as-semblies that administer lo-cal governments and relay complaints on issues such as potholes and housing, social and sports programs.

After the local elections, commissions elected by workers, farmers, youth, student and women’s groups then choose candidates for the national legislature, which eventually elects Cu-ba’s next president.

In 2007-2008, voter turn-out was 96.8 percent. The government says perennial high turnouts are a clear sign of support for the revolution. Dissidents say people vote for fear that not doing so could get them in trouble.

Polling places also turn into social gatherings for neighbors. Young students escort the elderly and the disabled to vote, and Cubans are reminded by state televi-sion, unions and women’s groups that casting a ballot is a patriotic duty.

The entire process is devoid of party slogans, ads or logos, since only one party is legal in Cuba: the Communist Party, and its job is to “guide” society and its politics rather than impose can-didates, Ruben Perez said, secretary of the National Electoral Commission.

“Voting is free, not obligatory and secret,” he said. “Our system is totally transparent and we defend it like this. We think that it is very democratic.”

BROOKFIELD, Wis. — A man police suspected of kill-ing three and wounding four by opening fire at a tranquil day spa was found dead Sun-day afternoon following a six-hour manhunt that locked down a shopping center, country club and hospital in suburban Milwaukee.

Authorities said they be-lieved the shooting was related to a domestic dispute. The man they identified as the suspect, Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, had a re-straining order against him.

Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus said Haughton died of a self-inflicted gun-shot wound and was found in the spa. Authorities initially believed Haughton had fled and spent much of Sunday looking for him.

The shooting happened about 11 a.m. at the Azana Day

Spa, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall in Brook-field, a middle-to-upper class community west of Milwau-kee. Hours later, a bomb squad descended on the building, and Tushaus said an improvised ex-plosive device had been found inside. It was not clear whether it remained a threat.

The mall, a country club adjacent to the spa, a nearby hospital and other buildings were locked down as police searched for Haughton.

Shortly before authorities said Haughton’s body had been found, his father, Rad-cliffe Haughton, Sr., told The Associated Press and a tele-vision station in telephone interviews from Florida that he had last spoken to his son a few days ago, but didn’t have any indication anything was wrong.

He said then that he had a message for his son: “Please just turn yourself in or contact me.”

Tushaus said officers ini-tially focused on reaching and helping the victims. The vic-tims’ names were not released by authorities, and the hospital treating them was temporarily locked down. Staff members were being escorted into the building, and critically injured patients were accepted with a police escort. Officers were stationed at all main entrances to the facility.

It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and in-jured three others before fatally shooting himself Aug. 5 at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.

The shooting at the mall took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gun-man opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.

George McGovern dies at age 90

It was a campaign in 1972 dis-honored by Watergate in which the South Dakota senator George McGovern dropped Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton as the vice presidential nominee from the ticket after Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression.

It was called “possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential can-didate” by the late political writer Theodore H. White.

George McGovern, died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice, family spokesman Steve Hildebrand told The Associated Press. McGovern was 90.

Negligence lawsuitfiled against hospital

CHICAGO — The parents of an 8-year-old boy who has had severe brain damage for years have sued a Chicago hospital, al-leging that doctors pronounced their son dead, keeping him off his ventilator for hours, even though relatives continued to in-sist that the boy’s eyes and body were still moving.

The lawsuit filed this week by Sheena Lane and Pink Dorsey on behalf of their son, Jaylen Dorsey, accuses Mercy Hospital and Medical Center of negligence and alleges that nearly five hours passed before staff agreed to perform a cardiac ultrasound, which showed Jaylen Dorsey’s heart was beating.

The hospital denies the allega-tions, and said in a written state-ment that Jaylen arrived at the hospital after suffering full cardi-ac arrest and doctors treated him for “an extended period of time” before declaring him dead.

—Compiled from Associated Press Reports

I love rigorous toe-to-toe debates, but I hate what I have seen from our presidential candidates in their recent per-formances. Debates are supposed to force a detailed and focused interrogation of issues, but the past two encoun-ters have only encouraged attacks and personal viciousness accompanied by saccharine smiles. Debates are designed to show candidates’ clarity on positions and contrast their styles. The past two debates have included so many slip-pery shifts in position that it is less clear today what the candidates believe than it was before the debates. Most of all, debates are intended to showcase leadership demeanor and command capabilities. Tuesday’s “town hall” brawl undermined any opportunity to assess these qualities. The two candidates spent their time interrupting one another, arguing with the moderator and flaunting their postures as aggressive warriors. At moments, it looked like they were keen to clobber one another. These displays of belligerence are harmful on the high school playground, and they are deadly in the White House. Shame on President Obama and Gov. Romney. They are much better than what they have become in this campaign.

I am not nostalgic for the mythical time of “clean” and “substantive” politics in America. I know very well that such a moment never occurred. Despite their powdered wigs and dignified public demeanor, even our nation’s found-ers engaged in vicious attacks against opponents. Two of the greatest early American politicians, Alexander Hamil-ton and Aaron Burr, literally came to blows, with Hamilton dying from a bullet fired by Burr’s dueling gun. American politics have always involved brawling. Negative advertis-ing is only a modern form of the traditional campaign.

What is new, however, is the use of information over-load to obscure positions. Both President Obama and Gov.

Romney are throwing more “facts” at listeners than ever before, but they are refusing to offer coherently argued po-sitions. They each claim to support lower taxes, increased government revenue, lower deficits and more spending. They each pledge to assert more American strength abroad while bringing the troops home. Most confusingly, Presi-dent Obama and Gov. Romney agree that job creation is a priority, while they simultaneously oppose jobs plans or even targeted investments in job creation and training at home. Watching them throw around the data from all di-rections, one gets more information but less clarity about how purpose and policy will fit together. It is like listening to kids argue about who started a fight. As they debate the facts, it becomes easier to continue the fight than create a useful path forward.

We need debates in our campaigns, but not these de-bates. The problem is more than format. It is about what we as citizens have come to expect in an age of talk radio and blogs in which those who shout loudest and longest, not those who make the most persuasive arguments, are rewarded with fame and money. We are a public culture of argument without real debate, and that needs to change if we ever want a true marketplace of ideas. At present, we have an overload of facts and positions without the inter-rogation and testing necessary for finding the truth.

So here is what I propose: Let’s scrap the open “foreign policy” brawl that is planned for the next debate. Instead, the public should demand that the two candidates sit down together at a table (please no more shoulder-to-shoulder jousting!) with an agreed focus on one discrete topic — for example, tax policy or job creation or the Iranian nuclear project. A real debate would require each candidate to ex-plain what he will do in the next four years to address that specific challenge. After that, each candidate should be al-lowed to cross-examine the other with short questions, not statements.

Under this scheme, President Obama can describe the budget he hopes to pass. Gov. Romney can then ask for details regarding deficits and pork in Obama’s proposed budget. Gov. Romney can outline his own proposed budget, and then President Obama can question him about income inequality and cuts to essential services under his plan. This is the form of dignified interrogation that works in corpo-rate boardrooms, in academic seminars and in policymak-ing bodies like the National Security Council. It is also how generals assess competing war plans. Why should we expect less of our presidential candidates?

Proposing a detailed plan and defending it against sub-stantive questions about its content and consequences is the most effective test of leadership. That is also what presidential debates should be about. We have had enlightening debates of this kind in the past with diverse candidates, including George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot in 1996, as well as Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980. The time has come for a return to policy focus without flamboyant personal attacks. The future of the United States will not be determined by who is best at tearing down his opponent. The progress of our society will hinge on implementing poli-cies that prove, under scrutiny, most helpful to the public.

Dr. Jeremi Suri is a professor in the UT Department of His-tory and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. This essay originally appeared on his blog on Global Brief, an inter-national affairs magazine.

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Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

Opinion4Monday, October 22, 2012

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Medical school counts on community

Why the debates stinkBy Jeremi Suri

Guest Columnist

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UT-Austin would like a medical school. Texas A&M has one, Baylor has one, the University of North Texas has one and Texas Tech has two — one in Lubbock and one in El Paso. The UT System already has several, one each in Houston, Dallas, Galveston and San Antonio. But not Austin.

UT is looking to change that. Plans are in the works for a new medical school in Austin, with associated clinics, medical research facilities and a teaching hospital serving Travis County. But to make all that happen, the University needs a steady, reliable source of funding, which has yet to materialize.

By UT’s estimates, construction and operation of the medical school for 12 years would cost about $4.1 billion. The Board of Regents has committed at least $25 million per year from the Available University Fund and an ad-ditional $5 million per year for the first eight years to help with equipment and other startup expenses. But that cov-ers less than 10 percent of the expected total cost. To make up the difference, UT has cobbled together funding from a number of sources, including a possible $250 million for the proposed teaching hospital from the Seton Healthcare Family, which has partnered with UT in the past. But UT still needs about $35 million per year, and for that the Uni-versity is turning to Travis County taxpayers.

On Nov. 6, Austinites will vote on Proposition 1, which, if approved, would institute a 63 percent increase on their property taxes for health care. This would raise the aver-age Travis County resident’s property taxes by $107.40 in 2014. According to the University and Central Health, Travis County’s hospital district, this extra tax revenue will cover the remaining cost of the medical school.

The proposal also aims to secure additional funding

from the federal government through a Medicaid waiver program created last year that provides $1.46 for every $1 invested in health care improvements for a community’s poor. According to Central Health, the $54 million from the tax increase would draw another $76 million from the feds.

The University justifies the tax increase by arguing that the Travis County voters footing the bill would see a significant return on their investment. “It’s important to remember that the tax revenue would be used to pay for health care — not research and not buildings,” said UT spokeswoman Tara Doolittle.

Opponents of the tax increase believe that if UT wants to build a medical school, it should cover the cost itself. But the University’s problem is that its two main sources of revenue — endowments and appropriations from the Legislature — are not reliable enough to fund such a large-scale initiative. Endowments are inherently unpredictable, as they are largely based on economic climate. The Legis-lature could provide steady funding if it wanted to, but it doesn’t always want to. “It is impossible to predict the will of the Legislature or the economic factors that influence both it and donors,” Doolittle said. “In order for this ven-ture to be successful, the predictability of recurring fund-ing is needed for this last piece, and we will not be able to move forward unless such funding is secured.” That’s why the University is looking to the tax increase to provide a steady revenue stream.

A new UT-Austin medical school would be highly ben-eficial to the city, the state and Texas’ flagship university. It’s unfortunate that the Legislature can no longer be relied on to fund such an advantageous initiative, and in light of that, a tax increase like Proposition 1 is probably the only

viable option if UT-Austin is to come up with the money it needs.

Feeling hard-pressed to make sure that money materi-alizes, UT’s Executive Vice President and Provost Steven Leslie put in his rather lengthy two cents, calling for the passage of Proposition 1 in an Oct. 10 email to faculty and staff. The email was then published in the Austin Amer-ican-Statesman. “For us, this is a yes or no proposition,” Leslie wrote. “Without a complete and reliable source of new funding, we will not be able to start a medical school … A medical school would immediately complement our engineering, natural sciences, nursing, pharmacy, social work, and other programs, strengthening them individu-ally as well as the University’s overall reputation.”

Leslie could not be reached for comment, as he was in China at the time of this writing. It remains to be seen whether Travis County voters will agree to raise their taxes and give UT the medical school it is asking for and if UT faculty and staff will respond positively or object to the University’s Executive VP telling them how to vote.

When they go to the polls, voters should take into ac-count the lack of viable options for funding that UT-Austin faces. We can’t count on our endowment or on our Legisla-ture, but we should be able to count on our community.

We are a public culture of argument without real debate, and that needs to change if we ever want a true marketplace of ideas.

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will face off tonight at 8 p.m. in the final presidential debate of the election season. The debate will focus on foreign policy and will be aired on all major news networks, on PBS and online.

Members of College Republicans and University Demo-crats will argue in a mock debate on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in GEA 105. The debate is sponsored by Hook the Vote and UT Votes.

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich will give a lecture this Thursday, Oct. 25, about leadership challenges after the election. He will be speaking at the LBJ Library Atrium at 6 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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‘‘In order for this venture to be successful, the predictability of recurring funding is needed for this last piece, and we will not be able to move forward unless such funding is secured.

— Tara Doolittle, UT Director of Media Outreach

anik Bhattacharya | Daily Texan Cartoonist

I love rigorous toe-to-toe debates, but I hate what I have seen from our presidential candidates in their recent per-formances. Debates are supposed to force a detailed and focused interrogation of issues, but the past two encoun-ters have only encouraged attacks and personal viciousness accompanied by saccharine smiles. Debates are designed to show candidates’ clarity on positions and contrast their styles. The past two debates have included so many slip-pery shifts in position that it is less clear today what the candidates believe than it was before the debates. Most of all, debates are intended to showcase leadership demeanor and command capabilities. Tuesday’s “town hall” brawl undermined any opportunity to assess these qualities. The two candidates spent their time interrupting one another, arguing with the moderator and flaunting their postures as aggressive warriors. At moments, it looked like they were keen to clobber one another. These displays of belligerence are harmful on the high school playground, and they are deadly in the White House. Shame on President Obama and Gov. Romney. They are much better than what they have become in this campaign.

I am not nostalgic for the mythical time of “clean” and “substantive” politics in America. I know very well that such a moment never occurred. Despite their powdered wigs and dignified public demeanor, even our nation’s found-ers engaged in vicious attacks against opponents. Two of the greatest early American politicians, Alexander Hamil-ton and Aaron Burr, literally came to blows, with Hamilton dying from a bullet fired by Burr’s dueling gun. American politics have always involved brawling. Negative advertis-ing is only a modern form of the traditional campaign.

What is new, however, is the use of information over-load to obscure positions. Both President Obama and Gov.

Romney are throwing more “facts” at listeners than ever before, but they are refusing to offer coherently argued po-sitions. They each claim to support lower taxes, increased government revenue, lower deficits and more spending. They each pledge to assert more American strength abroad while bringing the troops home. Most confusingly, Presi-dent Obama and Gov. Romney agree that job creation is a priority, while they simultaneously oppose jobs plans or even targeted investments in job creation and training at home. Watching them throw around the data from all di-rections, one gets more information but less clarity about how purpose and policy will fit together. It is like listening to kids argue about who started a fight. As they debate the facts, it becomes easier to continue the fight than create a useful path forward.

We need debates in our campaigns, but not these de-bates. The problem is more than format. It is about what we as citizens have come to expect in an age of talk radio and blogs in which those who shout loudest and longest, not those who make the most persuasive arguments, are rewarded with fame and money. We are a public culture of argument without real debate, and that needs to change if we ever want a true marketplace of ideas. At present, we have an overload of facts and positions without the inter-rogation and testing necessary for finding the truth.

So here is what I propose: Let’s scrap the open “foreign policy” brawl that is planned for the next debate. Instead, the public should demand that the two candidates sit down together at a table (please no more shoulder-to-shoulder jousting!) with an agreed focus on one discrete topic — for example, tax policy or job creation or the Iranian nuclear project. A real debate would require each candidate to ex-plain what he will do in the next four years to address that specific challenge. After that, each candidate should be al-lowed to cross-examine the other with short questions, not statements.

Under this scheme, President Obama can describe the budget he hopes to pass. Gov. Romney can then ask for details regarding deficits and pork in Obama’s proposed budget. Gov. Romney can outline his own proposed budget, and then President Obama can question him about income inequality and cuts to essential services under his plan. This is the form of dignified interrogation that works in corpo-rate boardrooms, in academic seminars and in policymak-ing bodies like the National Security Council. It is also how generals assess competing war plans. Why should we expect less of our presidential candidates?

Proposing a detailed plan and defending it against sub-stantive questions about its content and consequences is the most effective test of leadership. That is also what presidential debates should be about. We have had enlightening debates of this kind in the past with diverse candidates, including George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot in 1996, as well as Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980. The time has come for a return to policy focus without flamboyant personal attacks. The future of the United States will not be determined by who is best at tearing down his opponent. The progress of our society will hinge on implementing poli-cies that prove, under scrutiny, most helpful to the public.

Dr. Jeremi Suri is a professor in the UT Department of His-tory and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. This essay originally appeared on his blog on Global Brief, an inter-national affairs magazine.

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Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

Opinion4Monday, October 22, 2012

LEGALESEOpinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.

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Medical school counts on community

Why the debates stinkBy Jeremi Suri

Guest Columnist

1

2

3

What to Watch

October 22-26

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

viewpoint

UT-Austin would like a medical school. Texas A&M has one, Baylor has one, the University of North Texas has one and Texas Tech has two — one in Lubbock and one in El Paso. The UT System already has several, one each in Houston, Dallas, Galveston and San Antonio. But not Austin.

UT is looking to change that. Plans are in the works for a new medical school in Austin, with associated clinics, medical research facilities and a teaching hospital serving Travis County. But to make all that happen, the University needs a steady, reliable source of funding, which has yet to materialize.

By UT’s estimates, construction and operation of the medical school for 12 years would cost about $4.1 billion. The Board of Regents has committed at least $25 million per year from the Available University Fund and an ad-ditional $5 million per year for the first eight years to help with equipment and other startup expenses. But that cov-ers less than 10 percent of the expected total cost. To make up the difference, UT has cobbled together funding from a number of sources, including a possible $250 million for the proposed teaching hospital from the Seton Healthcare Family, which has partnered with UT in the past. But UT still needs about $35 million per year, and for that the Uni-versity is turning to Travis County taxpayers.

On Nov. 6, Austinites will vote on Proposition 1, which, if approved, would institute a 63 percent increase on their property taxes for health care. This would raise the aver-age Travis County resident’s property taxes by $107.40 in 2014. According to the University and Central Health, Travis County’s hospital district, this extra tax revenue will cover the remaining cost of the medical school.

The proposal also aims to secure additional funding

from the federal government through a Medicaid waiver program created last year that provides $1.46 for every $1 invested in health care improvements for a community’s poor. According to Central Health, the $54 million from the tax increase would draw another $76 million from the feds.

The University justifies the tax increase by arguing that the Travis County voters footing the bill would see a significant return on their investment. “It’s important to remember that the tax revenue would be used to pay for health care — not research and not buildings,” said UT spokeswoman Tara Doolittle.

Opponents of the tax increase believe that if UT wants to build a medical school, it should cover the cost itself. But the University’s problem is that its two main sources of revenue — endowments and appropriations from the Legislature — are not reliable enough to fund such a large-scale initiative. Endowments are inherently unpredictable, as they are largely based on economic climate. The Legis-lature could provide steady funding if it wanted to, but it doesn’t always want to. “It is impossible to predict the will of the Legislature or the economic factors that influence both it and donors,” Doolittle said. “In order for this ven-ture to be successful, the predictability of recurring fund-ing is needed for this last piece, and we will not be able to move forward unless such funding is secured.” That’s why the University is looking to the tax increase to provide a steady revenue stream.

A new UT-Austin medical school would be highly ben-eficial to the city, the state and Texas’ flagship university. It’s unfortunate that the Legislature can no longer be relied on to fund such an advantageous initiative, and in light of that, a tax increase like Proposition 1 is probably the only

viable option if UT-Austin is to come up with the money it needs.

Feeling hard-pressed to make sure that money materi-alizes, UT’s Executive Vice President and Provost Steven Leslie put in his rather lengthy two cents, calling for the passage of Proposition 1 in an Oct. 10 email to faculty and staff. The email was then published in the Austin Amer-ican-Statesman. “For us, this is a yes or no proposition,” Leslie wrote. “Without a complete and reliable source of new funding, we will not be able to start a medical school … A medical school would immediately complement our engineering, natural sciences, nursing, pharmacy, social work, and other programs, strengthening them individu-ally as well as the University’s overall reputation.”

Leslie could not be reached for comment, as he was in China at the time of this writing. It remains to be seen whether Travis County voters will agree to raise their taxes and give UT the medical school it is asking for and if UT faculty and staff will respond positively or object to the University’s Executive VP telling them how to vote.

When they go to the polls, voters should take into ac-count the lack of viable options for funding that UT-Austin faces. We can’t count on our endowment or on our Legisla-ture, but we should be able to count on our community.

We are a public culture of argument without real debate, and that needs to change if we ever want a true marketplace of ideas.

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will face off tonight at 8 p.m. in the final presidential debate of the election season. The debate will focus on foreign policy and will be aired on all major news networks, on PBS and online.

Members of College Republicans and University Demo-crats will argue in a mock debate on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in GEA 105. The debate is sponsored by Hook the Vote and UT Votes.

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich will give a lecture this Thursday, Oct. 25, about leadership challenges after the election. He will be speaking at the LBJ Library Atrium at 6 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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UT students came together Saturday with students from Huston-Tillotson University and members of the general public to discuss the issue of racial bias in present- day society.

The event titled “End Racism and the New Jim Crow: Families of Police Violence Victims Speak Out” was held at Huston-Tillotson University in East Austin. The event was co-organized by several or-ganizations, including the UT chapter of the national organization Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

The discussion focused on national and local in-stances of police miscon-duct driven by racial bias. In many of the instances, an African-American man was killed by police at the crime scene or while in custody. The family members and victims shared their stories to explain why there needs to be additional and stron-ger legislation to prevent such misconduct from hap-pening in the future.

Speakers included Eva Haywood, mother of James Haywood, an African-American man that died in 2011 at the age of 33 in the custody of the Elgin Police Department in Central Tex-as. Airicka Taylor also spoke at the event from Chicago via Skype. She is the cousin of Emmett Till, an African-American boy killed in 1955 at the age of 14 by Missis-sippi police, spurring on the then emerging national civil rights movement. Roughly a

dozen event attendees stood up and shared their experi-ence with racially-motivat-ed misconduct.

Several of the event’s co-organizers, including gov-ernment senior Michelle Uche, also spoke at the event. She broke down in tears as she spoke about the lack of public awareness of such misconduct in Aus-tin and nationwide. Uche called the issue “systemat-ic,” because of its frequency and the lack of oversight regarding it.

“This idea that black life can be extinguished by any-one at any time is system-wide and it needs to stop, but it will not stop until we get together and we fight it,” she said. “There will be no justice for us until we get together and we demand it.” Speaker Eva Haywood said racially motivated po-lice misconduct often oc-curs because police tend to treat people unfairly once they have been convicted of a crime.

“Because our children break the law, it doesn’t mean they are not worth anything,” she said. “They are worth something.”

Felisa Yzaguirre, event moderator and 2012 UT alumna, encouraged event at-tendees to join organizations that advocate for civil rights in order to fight racially mo-tivated misconduct.

Outside the event, the UT chapters of Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the International Socialist Orga-nization set up tables to allow event attendees to join their organizations and find out about related events.

DALLAS — The man who provides the voice for Big Tex, the giant cowboy at the State Fair of Texas, was greeting people with his usual “Howdy, folks!” in a slow drawl Friday when someone rushed into his trailer to tell him the tow-ering fair icon was on fire.

“It moved quickly,” Bill Bragg said of the fire that en-gulfed the 52-foot-tall struc-ture, leaving not much more than its charred metal frame behind. “It was a quick end.”

This year’s fair was sup-posed to be a celebration for Big Tex, marking his 60th birthday. Instead, the beloved cowboy was hauled from the grounds on a flat-bed truck two days before the end of the fair in a pro-cession resembling a funeral.

“It’s sad to see this happen, but it’s lucky no one was in-jured or killed,” Mike Blucher of Dallas, who was at the fair with his wife, Linda, said.

The fire brought a tem-porary end to a piece of Texas culture.

The cowboy with the 75-gallon hat and 50-pound belt buckle always was easy to spot and served as a popular meeting place for people coming to the fair

or attending the annual Texas-Oklahoma football game at the nearby Cotton Bowl. But all that remained by noon Friday were hands and shirt sleeves on a burned skeleton.

Dallas Fire-Rescue spokes-man Joel Lavender said Friday afternoon that the cause of the blaze had not been determined.

Some dispatchers took a playful approach to reporting the blaze. “Got a rather tall cowboy with all his clothes burned off,” one said. “Howdy, folks, it’s hot,” another said.

Fair officials and city lead-ers quickly called for the re-turn of Big Tex, vowing to rebuild the structure. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tweet-ed that the cowboy would become “bigger and better for the 21st century.”

Big Tex’s hands, boots and face were made of Fiberglas, Gooding said. The cloth-ing that burned had been provided last year by a Fort Worth company, she said.

Gooding speculated that the fire could have started in mechanical workings at

the base of the structure and that the metal skeleton “served as a chimney.” The skeleton will be evaluated, and a new one will be built if necessary, she said.

Big Tex was actually built in 1949 as a giant Santa Claus for a Christmas celebration in Kerens, 60 miles south of Dallas. Intrigued by the idea of a towering cowboy, the State Fair paid $750 for the structure, which debuted as Big Tex in 1952.

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gineering freshman and race participant, said the race was a way to get involved in the com-munity and work with charity.

“It is just people having a good time, with no alterior motives,” Sutton said. “People are just trying to help out and have fun while doing that.”

Race coordinator Henry said Cochran represented a sense of adventure for those in Austin whose lives forced them to solely focus on work. She said she and Bald-win hope to make the race an annual event.

“He had a good heart, and his ‘screw the man,’ anti-es-tablishment mentality made him loved,” Henry said. “He went against the grain, and many of us that work in cubi-cles and hate our lives looked up to that.”

communications director, said the convenience of on-campus voting works better with students’ busy schedules. If students wait until Election Day, they will only be able to vote at

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John McKibben | Associated PressFire engulfs the Big Tex cowboy statue displayed at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas on Friday. Big Tex made his debut at the Texas State fair in 1952.

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The Longhorn defense wasn’t elite, good or even average, but the highly criticized group played well enough down the stretch to propel Texas to a victory.

Texas’ defense was pound-ed, again, for 607 yards, and, at times, looked as inept as the numbers show. However, a pair of huge turnovers plus a few timely stops allowed the Longhorns to edge out Baylor and their No. 1 ranked offense.

“We knew going into the game that they were going to make plays, so we looked at it as a game of stops,” defen-sive coordinator Manny Diaz said. “The two turnovers and holding them to three field goals were just crucial.”

The biggest momentum swing of the contest for the de-fense came with a few seconds remaining in the third quarter. The Longhorns were up by six after a three-and-out — a tough scenario in a game that was based on score-for-score jabs — and the Bears were driving into Texas territory.

But it was at that moment that a pair of sophomore’s made an upperclassmen level play. Baylor called a dive up the middle for Glasco Mar-tin, and when he hit the hole, Steve Edmond was there to meet him. The pair clashed in the gap and Edmond knocked the ball away.

“I put my head on the ball and it popped out,” Edmond said. “I didn’t even know I made him fumble. Every-body just started screaming, I was like ‘What is going on?’ until I saw the replay.”

Newly-minted starter Mykkele Thompson pounced on it and Texas took over in Baylor territory. Texas later scored what turned out to be

the game-winning score on a 15-yard touchdown catch by Mike Davis.

The defense wasn’t done. The group held Baylor’s ex-plosive group to seven points in the fourth quarter.

The Longhorns gave up more than 600 yards but it was a bend-but-not-break performance at its finest.

“We have faced some of the top offenses in the nation, so these guys are going to put up stats,” cornerback Carrington Byndom said. “The main thing for us is to limit as much as we can, but then again, at the end of the day, all it comes down to is if we win.”

After Texas’ performance the previous week, the offense was brilliant. David Ash played

turnover-free and was sup-ported by a punishing running game — most of which came from 6-foot-1, 230-pound bruiser Joe Bergeron. He could not be slowed down near the goal line, bowling people over en route to running for five touchdowns during his 117-yard outburst.

“I see the crease, I see the touchdown, I see the goal line and that is really it,” Bergeron said. “It’s just a blur. If anybody else comes within that vision, you just punish them. That’s what you do on goal lines.”

Bergeron provided most of the fireworks for the Texas of-fense, but the first play from scrimmage created the spark for Texas’ 56-point outburst.

The Longhorns, for the

first time all season, choose to receive the opening kick-off instead of sending their defense out first, and it paid dividends. Co-offensive co-ordinator Bryan Harsin called a play for electric freshman Daje Johnson, and he made the most of it.

Johnson burst through the hole on the right side and from there his sprinter-like speed took over. Johnson ran

untouched up the sideline for the 84-yard touchdown, and even had time to turn around and take in the scenery — the pursuit was that far behind.

“Once he [Johnson] gets in the open field, he is capable of doing great things for us and the play was huge,” Har-sin said. “We wanted to start fast. We took the ball and wanted to get out there, and to get a score was huge.”

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Horns triumph in shootout

Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan StaffSophomore running back Joe Bergeron scores a touchdown against Baylor on Saturday night. Bergeron had 117 yards and five touchdowns, a career-high and one short of Ricky Williams’ record, against the Bears. He averaged 6.2 yards per carry.

By Chris Hummer

Forget what you heard about Texas being a de-fense-minded, run-first, SEC-style team.

All the preseason hoopla pegged the Longhorns as a team that would lean on their defense, wait patiently for their passing game to progress as the running at-tack carried the offense. But they need to embrace their identity as just another Big 12 team where defense is an afterthought and 50 points occasionally won’t be enough to win.

It took 56 points for Texas to improve to 5-2 this week-end as the Longhorns beat the Bears, 56-50, no thanks to a defense that gave up 607 yards and is in the midst of its worst five-game stretch in school history. Missed tackles and the lack of a decent run de-fense are still problems. At this

point, there’s no reason to ex-pect they’ll be fixed this year. But the Longhorns offense made sure it didn’t matter. The only thing that may have looked better was Natalie Portman. And she looked as shocked to be on the Godzil-latron as Texas’ defense did when a ballcarrier approached.

“We’ve leaned on the de-fense for the last two years when the offense has strug-gled,” head coach Mack Brown said. “I thought we grew up some tonight. We did better. We didn’t pan-ic. We didn’t get down. I thought the young lineback-ers did stop the run better tonight than we’d done. Still didn’t stop it great, obviously. But it was better.”

But Mack Brown and his team have now realized the benefits of a fast start. Af-ter years of deferring to the second half when they win the coin toss, the Longhorns elected to receive to start the

By Christian CoronaSports Editor

It was not a pretty win for the Longhorns. But thanks to the well-rounded offense, Texas defeated Baylor for the first time in three years.

With 10 different players catching passes and the 251 rushing yards the Longhorns ac-cumulated, the offense made it very difficult

for the Baylor defense to keep track of players and keep up.

“This is the offense we want,” head coach Mack Brown said. “It’s who we want to be — very balanced. It’s who we were the first two games.”

David Ash picked apart the struggling Baylor defense and went 19-for-31 for 274 yards while Joe Bergeron had five rushing touchdowns.

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan StaffFreshman Daje Johnson rushes against Baylor on Saturday. Johnson logged 102 yards and one touchdown against the Bears.

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First quarter — It was clear it was going to be a shootout very early on. Daje Johnson ran for an 84-yard touchdown on the first play of the game. A botched snap by Kyle Ashby on fourth down gave Bay-lor the ball on the Texas 8-yard line and Nick Florence ran the ball in for an easy touchdown. Bergeron had his first touchdown of the game to give Texas back the lead. Baylor scored on 2-yard rush from Glasco Mar-tin and then went up 21-14 when Terrance Williams scored on an 80-yard pass from Florence.

Second quarter — Bergeron scored three touch-downs in the quarter. Baylor’s Lanear Sampson had a seven-yard touchdown reception and freshman Johnathan Gray finally scored his first touchdown as a Longhorn. The Bears hit a field goal at the end of the half to make the score 42-31, in favor of Texas.

Third quarter — The second half was much quieter than the first. The Texas defense forced a fumble, but Baylor tight end Jordan Najvar fell on the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. Bergeron finished his high-scoring night with his fifth touchdown and the score was 49-43 heading into the fourth quarter.

Fourth quarter — Mike Davis scored on a 15-yard pass from Ash. Florence kept things interesting by scoring a touchdown with 1:57 left in the game.

255 — Number of rushing yards given up to the Bears, a team known for its passing game.

100 — Baylor’s scor-ing percentage in the red zone as they went 7-for-7.

7 — the number of rushing touchdowns Texas scored, five of them came from Bergeron.

607 — Number of total offensive yards the Bears accumulated. This is the second consecu-tive week the Longhorns have given up more than 600-yards.

Stock up — David Ash. He is continuing to improve and managed to spread the ball around. He went 19-for-31 for 274 yards and threw the ball downfield 67-yards to Da-vis. His left wrist injury did not seem to affect him at all and he took advantage of Baylor’s struggling defense.

Stock down — Rush defense. It seems repeti-tive to declare the rush defense as the weakest aspect of the Longhorns. But giving up 255 rush-ing yards to pass happy Baylor shows how much the defense is struggling. Tackling is still a prob-lem, but is improving.

The Longhorns will have easier competi-tion Saturday. They will be facing Kansas, the only team with a worse Big 12 record than Bay-lor. Though the game is in Lawrence, Kan., the Longhorns should not have a problem handling Charlie Weis’ struggling squad. Kansas is 1-6 on the season and 0-4 in Big 12 play. Kansas’ last game ended in a loss to Oklahoma State, 52-7.

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‘‘I see the crease, I see the touchdown, I see the goal line and that is really it. It’s just a blur. If anybody else comes within that vision, you just punish them.

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The Texas Rangers acquired a new hitting coach this weekend, re-assigning Scott Cool-baugh, hitting coach since July 2011.

Dave Magadan comes to the Rangers after six seasons in Boston as the hitting coach for the Red Sox. During his tenure, the Red Sox ranked first in doubles and extra base hits and second in runs, hits and total bases. Magadan’s offense had the highest OPS in 2010 and 2011. He began coaching in San Diego in 2010 and played professional ball for 16 seasons. In college at the University of Ala-bama, he led the NCAA in 1983 with a hitting average of .525.

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game — and it paid off.“We decided to take the

ball tonight if we won the toss, which is not something we’ve been doing,” Mack Brown said. “But West Vir-ginia scored on the first drive. Oklahoma scored on the first drive. So we wanted to score on the first drive and, not only did we do that, we also scored on the first play.”

Even the way they took a 7-0 lead was uncharacteris-tic. With Malcolm Brown out with an ankle injury and Joe Bergeron listed at the top of the depth chart, it was true freshman Daje Johnson that got the game’s first carry. He made the most of it, taking it 84 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage.

“That first play was awe-some,” sophomore quarter-back David Ash said. “Any doubt that was in our minds was gone at that moment when we showed that we could get in the end zone again. We can play football. We can win.”

And win Texas did. Limited by both a broken left wrist and agonizingly conservative play-calling, Ash made the most of the situation and managed to throw for 274 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown to Mike Davis. Most impor-tantly, and unlike last week, he didn’t commit a turnover.

This year’s Longhorn de-fense could go down as, statis-tically, the worst in the storied program’s history. It will need to improve if Texas wants to beat the Texas Tech’s and Kansas State’s of the world.

But it’s Texas’ offense that will clearly do the heavy lifting this year.

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SOCCER recap |WES MAULSBY

After getting off to a fast start in Big 12 play, Texas dropped two straight de-cisions this weekend with only one game remaining in the regular season.

On Friday, Texas trav-eled to take on Baylor. The Bears have the best offense in the Big 12, and they came through in a 2-1 overtime win. Texas held them score-less for most of the game, but a 30-yard shot in the 80th minute broke the scoreless draw for Baylor.

Texas answered in the 89th minute as Sharis Lachappelle drove in a 27-yard free kick to send the match into extra time.

Baylor had been putting pressure on the Texas de-fense all night, out-shooting

Texas 22-5. The pressure paid off in the 105th minute as sophomore midfielder Al-exa Wilde put a header in the back of the net to give Baylor the game winning goal.

With West Virginia win-ning the night before, the loss knocked Texas out of contention for the confer-ence championship.

The loss was compounded as Texas stayed on the road with a match against former-ly conference winless TCU. TCU scored in the 18th min-ute to secure the 1-0 win.

Texas outshot TCU 17-10, but only four shots were on target.

A late rally by Texas was not enough, as the Horned Frogs held on for their first conference win of the season.

The Longhorns won their first three conference games, but have lost three of their last four with the final game of the season Friday. West Vir-ginia has locked up the Big 12

regular season championship.Texas has won four con-

ference games for the first time since 2008, and has a chance at five later this week against West Virginia.

Zachary Strain | Daily Texan StaffMidfielder Gabby Zarnegar protects the ball against Kansas. After starting 4-1 in Big 12 play, Texas dropped two road games.

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screened at AFF as well, said that as an increasing num-ber of people get their hands on today’s easily accessible film equipment, shorts are an important way for wannabe cineastes to hone their skills into something presentable.

“I think it’s, like, 12,000 shorts that are made each year now,” Bourke said. “And that number’s getting big-ger and bigger because more and more people want to do film, but at the same time they don’t want to spend the money that it would take to make a feature, so [shorts] are a good way for them to [prac-tice their skills].”

The rise of the Internet as a publishing tool has been a blessing to filmmakers trying to get some viewer-ship, however little, of their work. However, the market still favors longer films and TV seasons over short films. People are barely willing to spend $15 on a feature movie, and thus shorts often remain stuck either in festivals or in the deep crevices of YouTube and Vimeo.

“I really really wish there was a market for shorts,” Sheeran said. “I think there should be and I don’t know why there isn’t because short form is much more proper on things like Net-flix. ... people go on Netflix and watch TV episodes that are 22 minutes, so why not shorts that people can just watch and then go back to work, go do something, watch another one?”

shootings and narco messag-es delivered close to the areas they live,” Delgadillo said. “It used to be a really peaceful city, so to see that years later is very shocking.”

The Mexican media is dominated by graphic scenes of mutilated bodies, drug crimes and narco mensajes. Attempting to bridge the di-vide between the U.S. and Mexico, the artists beauti-fully recreate and incorporate scenes of death and destruc-tion into their pieces. The works themselves are very quiet, but they represent a much more powerful and emotional subject.

The opening of the exhibit on Friday featured a panel of experts that contextualized the violence portrayed in Chicano culture and art.

“All the works in the exhi-bition have so many layers for interpretation, so the panel-ists gave really good insight into how the social issues — cartels, drugs, immigration — are involved,” Luis Vargas-Santiago, Ph.D. candidate in art history at UT and the panel’s moderator, said. “But they also gave insight about the materials. I think it served to put those in context.”

The panel explained how the exhibit features a new genre of art referred to as bor-der art. This genre combines elements of both U.S. and Mexican culture to portray the attitude of those caught in the crossfire.

“The aesthetic of this bor-der art is very violent,” Var-gas-Santiago explained. “The pieces in the exhibition de-scribe this violence through subtle and sometimes mini-mal strategies. The way they treat it is very conceptual.”

The exhibit uses the con-ventional beauty of the art to explore the atrocities of the drug war. The work itself is simple, and often the explana-tion of the piece can only be found in the label.

“It’s quiet. The work is in-teresting because it’s address-ing violence, horrendous acts of violence. It’s dealing with the media portrayal of this violence in Mexico,” Maia Schall, president of the Center Space Project, explained. “So all these issues are very tough issues, but the work is ex-tremely delicate and detailed. Its an interesting contrast — to be talking about violent is-sues with a quiet voice, a som-ber and poignant voice.”

Hoping to inform fellow students and Austin commu-nity members, “A Nation of Fear” uses the powerful im-ages of those affected by the drug war to portray the reality of the border.

“I want it to be evoca-tive instead of provocative,” Delgadillo said. “I want people to think about it, not to be shocked.”

launched Esperos.”So, for Shuttlesworth,

the next logical step was clear: backpacks.

“At that point, it made the most sense to me to tie it into backpacks,” Shut-tlesworth said. “Back-packs and education go hand in hand.”

The backpacks are made to appeal to a wide audi-ence, Shuttlesworth said.

“I wanted it to be some-thing that kids in middle school would feel comfort-able carrying, kids in high school and college would be comfortable carrying and even something adults would want to carry,” Shuttlesworth said.

Since launching in July, Shuttlesworth said the com-pany has been successful.

They got a boost in sales ear-lier when the “Today” show featured Esperos as one of the best backpacks to buy go-ing back to school this year.

One of Esperos’ means of distribution is reaching out to college campuses and get-ting clubs on campus to help sell the bags. Cassie Recker, vice president of business operations, said Esperos is working to launch a campus club on UT’s campus.

“Our campus clubs have

two angles,” Recker said. “We want them to spread the word about our company and other socially conscious businesses. We also want them to be able to educate others on the importance of access to education.”

She said examples of businesses such as Esperos and Toms, a shoe compa-ny, show that this genera-tion likes to give back.

“This generation right now really wants to buy a

product that is not just fash-ionable, but also provides a social good,” Recker said.

Shuttlesworth said Es-peros are launching a new line of tote bags Monday. As the company continues to grow and expand, Shut-tlesworth said he hopes to get Esperos bags into retail stores. The canvas back-pack prices are currently $70, but Shuttlesworth said he is working to lower the price.

Once customers make their way through the haunt-ed house they can purchase locally-based food and drinks at “Foodtopia.” That is if they have not lost their appetite by the end of the journey.

“I screamed so much,” Austin resident Courtney Kimble said. “The actors were uber, uber creepy, and I got lost multiple times.”

However, not everyone was impressed by Ecopoca-lypse’s tactics. Austin resi-dent John Landers thought the experience was too short, and redundant.

Regardless of the praise or criticism, Kirby hopes to

bring Ecopocalypse back another year.

“We’re not trying to be preachy or tell people they need to be environmental-ists,” Kirby said. “If they take something away from this experience and want to change their ways, then cool. But if not at least they experienced what Ecopocalypse has to offer.”

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Capturing the violence and destruction of the drug war on the US-Mexico bor-der, “A Nation of Fear” seeks to inspire thought. Coor-dinated by UT student art group Center Space Project, the exhibit features the work of three Mexican-American artists Miguel Aragón, Adri-ana Corral and Raymundo Delgadillo. Rather than fo-cusing on the shock value of the violence, the artists subtly convey the gravity of the vio-lence in Mexico.

With nearly 50,000 vic-tims, the drug war along the border continues to escalate. Using the idea of human re-mains to represent the vic-tims lost, the artists subtly

draw attention to the impact the drug war has on the peo-ple of both nations.

Corral transferred the printed names of murdered victims from papers to the wall and burned the remain-ing paper. The ashes are ar-ranged in a rectangle that represents the standard buri-al plot of a victim. Delgadillo created serigraphs of different drugs using animal blood to represent the blood lost in the drug war.

“I started working with blood because it was very raw, but I wasn’t interested in using it for shock factor,” Delgadillo, the coordinator of the exhibit

and featured artist, said. “I wanted people to think about what blood really meant. It’s when someone is damaged, when someone is wounded.”

Born in areas now plagued by crime and drug traffic, the artists explored the way the crimes of the cartels have changed their homeland. Delgadillo has seen his once peaceful childhood neigh-borhood in San Louis Potosi torn apart by the violence.

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Toothless, grimy faces peer through dark corners. They mumble under their breath and shortly after release a maniacal, Joker-like laugh that echoes throughout long and silent hallways. These people are not chainsaw-wielding serial killers. They are survivors of a post-apoc-alyptic world where only the fittest and most cutthroat will survive.

Ecopocalypse haunted

house creates a dark and futur-istic dystopia for its customers. In its imagined future, resourc-es are finite and in order to survive people must dispose of their ethics, and give into their primal instincts.

“What happens when civilization collapses? When healthy food runs out and we lose access to clean water?” Ecopocalypse co-creator Pe-ter Kirby asked. “This is what Ecopocalypse is all about.”

Inspired by their experi-ences at HAuNTcon — a haunted house trade show

in Pittsburgh — earlier this year, Kirby and Ecopocalypse co-creator Matt Sparks were determined to create some-thing that was refreshing and thought-provoking. Ecopoca-lypse maintains the aesthetic of a conventional haunted house, using bloodied props and goth-like cult leaders, but loosely uses the issue of sus-tainability to separate itself from its contemporaries.

Although not entirely based on scientific research, Kirby and Sparks hope the haunted house will make

visitors more conscious of the state of the earth.

“Each haunted house we visited during HAuNTcon showed us what to do, and what not to do with Eco-pocalypse,” Kirby said. “No 13-year-olds in masks or ma-chete serial killers waiting in a corner. Just a realistic expe-rience that hopefully gets at-tendees thinking.”

First-time actor James Goolsby, who has helped direct films in the past, plays “The Berserker,” a man who tears people apart

and eats them.But The Berserker is only

one of many scary surprises featured in Ecopocalypse. From an unkempt survi-vor offering visitors kitty cobbler, to The Labyrinth — a

room littered with pictures of those dead and gone — the haunted house does an impres-sive job of grabbing attendees’ attention and never letting go.

Ricky Llamas | Daily Texan Staff Ecopocalypse is a horror attraction that envisions a future where healthy food and clean water are depleted, driving people to their primal instincts.

The Austin Film Festival’s marquee screenings feature highly anticipated movies such as “Silver Linings Play-book” and “Hyde Park on Hudson,” but the festival is also the proud home to an underrated facet of cinema: short films. Not often cited in the day-to-day, short films should not be put in the back burner as something less than their feature-length brothers. Shorts are just as valid a form as longer-length pieces, and often pack a great story with great production value in less than 20 minutes.

Short films have been around since the dawn of film-making. When film technol-ogy was in the process of be-ing wrangled and tamed at the start of the 20th century, peo-ple’s projects would typically be a lot shorter, like Georges Mélies’ “A Trip to the Moon” (1902). People were interested in seeing the wonders of cin-ematic technology, and thus were excited to see screenings no matter their length.

That changed later, as film-makers gained a better under-standing of technology and story structure. The industry was opposed to making lon-ger films, afraid that people would not pay attention for a whole hour or two. But di-rectors came onto the scene with longer works, like D.W.

Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” (1915) and these garnered the most merit and attendance from audiences.

Shorts stayed alive through the rise of the feature film, screened alongside some fea-tures, newsreels and even be-coming propaganda during wars. Today, we know short films best as music videos, film festival material, and artsy works, perpetually on Vimeo.

But why watch a 20-min-ute story instead of a two-hour epic? Is the story better developed in longer films? Not exactly.

Matt Lefebvre, producer of the short film “Asad,” the win-ner of the Best Narrative Short award at AFF, said “[the short

film form] ... can capture and create an essence and feeling that could only be done in a short film.”

A.J. Sheeran, the writer/co-director/co-producer of the AFF-selected short “The Tree-house” also defended short-form films.

“To be honest, at any given time I would rather watch a feature ... [But] I think that there are things that short films can do that a film can’t. You can drive a point home clearer and more coherently with a short,” Sheeran said.

UT filmmakers Kevin Harg-er and Chris Bourke, who had their short film “Love, Emily”

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Photo courtesy of the Raymundo Delgadillo “A Nation of Fear” is on view at the Visual Arts Center through Nov. 10.

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Bags provide aid to Haiti

Esperar means “to hope” in Spanish, an emotion Es-peros is built on.

Esperos, which launched officially this past July, is an organization that sells canvas backpacks to raise money to send children in Haiti to school. The orga-nization’s name is derived from the Spanish verb “esperar.” Every bag pur-chased sends one child to school for a year, and hope is the organization’s motto.

Oliver Shuttlesworth, the company’s CEO and found-er, said he got the inspira-tion to build the company after returning from a trip to Central America in the fall

of 2011, where he witnessed the effects of poverty.

“I heard from parents; they had this desire for their children to be edu-cated so they could make better lives for themselves and then for their chil-dren,” Shuttlesworth said.

At that point, Shuttles-worth said he began to look into how much it takes to send a child to school for a year. His find-

ings surprised him.“It was really shock-

ing that in some instanc-es it costs as little as $20 to send a child to school for a year,” Shuttlesworth said. “From that point on, I started thinking of ways to reach a lot of people and do some good, and because I’ve always been thinking about education I

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It’s the end of the world as we know itHaunted house aims to make visitors think about environment

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Shorts showing this week at the Hideout617 Congress Ave.

Monday The World Comes of Age— 5:30 p.m. Dirty Laundry— 9:45 p.m.

Tuesday Documentary Shorts Competition — 3:00 p.m. The Space Between Us— 5:30 p.m. Postcards From the Battlefield— 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday Crime Stories— 5:15 p.m. A Glimpse Into Another World— 7:30p.m.

Thursday The View From Outside— 4 p.m. The Search for Ourselves— 6:30 p.m.

General admission: $10(free with an AFF Badge or a Film Pass)

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EcopocalypseWhen: Oct. 19-31 (Opening times vary. Check website for additional details.)

Where: 504 Trinity Street

How much: $20

Website: ecopocalypseaustin.com

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