In a recent study of traffic patterns across the globe, Aus-tin ranked fourth in cities with the worst traffic, even surpass-ing New York City. Transit de-velopments such as the MoPac Improvement Project will aim to fix to that.

The MoPac Improvement Project is a transit development project fostered by a partner-ship between the Texas Depart-ment of Transportation and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority. The completed proj-ect will add express lanes, sound walls and bicycle and pedestrian facilities to MoPac highway from Cesar Chavez Street going north to Parmer Lane.

“There’s no one-size-fits-all to traffic solutions, but it’s go-ing to be a very important step in untangling the congestion we have in the city area,” said Chris Bishop, spokesman for the Aus-tin Branch of the Texas Depart-ment of Transportation.

Traffic problems within Aus-tin are nothing new, but have recently become more severe, with INRIX — the group that conducted the traffic survey — reporting that Austin has jumped from eighth to fourth in traffic congestion nationally since 2011.

Danielle Hamilton, biology sophomore and Austin native, has long experienced the woes of the local rush hour.

“The traffic is ridiculous,” Hamilton said. “If I were to be going to an interview and need-ed to take the highways, I would have to leave like 20 minutes earlier than usual.”

The escalating number of traffic problems may be largely attributed to the influx of new residents attracted by the local economic boom.

“I think when you look at the economic data, Austin is one of the fastest growing and eco-nomically vibrant places in the country.” said Steve Pustelnyk,

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The UT System Board of Re-gents unanimously approved new funding for the planned Engineering Education and Research Center on Thursday, allowing UT to start working on the project this semester.

Funding for the $310 million project, which was initially ap-proved by the regents in 2010, became an issue earlier this year when it did not receive a tuition revenue bond because of dis-agreement between the House

and the Senate during the final days of the legislative session. The tuition revenue bond pro-posal was not discussed in any of the three special sessions this summer because Gov. Rick Perry did not place it on the legislative agenda.

“This is obviously a very im-portant project. It’s an exciting day for UT and the whole UT family,” board Chairman Paul Foster said at the meeting. “We obviously have had some chal-lenges and appreciate what everyone has done to come up with this plan.”

Under the regents’ new plan, the University will be responsible for providing an initial $50 million in dona-tions to go toward the project. Over the course of the proj-ect, the University will have to pay a total of $105 million in bonds. The UT System will loan UT up to $55 mil-lion initially and will pay a total of $95 million over the course of the project in bond debt. The system’s loan and contribution will come from

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Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffHistory doctoral candidate Jason Morgan waits for the Cameron Road shuttle to arrive Thursday afternoon. Capital Metro is consid-ering closing the UT Wickersham Lane shuttle route and altering the Cameron Road UT shuttle route beginning in the spring.

UT System investment linked back to chancellor

Behind the fresh, glamor-ous exteriors of the newly built private off-campus dorm, The Callaway House, is American Campus Com-munities, a private student housing developer that the UT System has invested more than a million dollars in. And sitting at the top of American Campus Communities is R.D. Burck, the chairman of the board of directors for Ameri-can Campus Communities — and a former UT System chancellor.

The University of Texas In-vestment Management Com-pany, an external investment company that manages invest-ments for the UT and The Tex-as A&M University systems, invested in American Campus Communities in 2008. Cur-rently, UTIMCO owns stock in American Campus Com-munities valued at more than $1.5 million, according to the company’s latest audit reports from 2012. The investment was made with the Permanent University Fund, a state en-dowment that funds a part of the systems’ budgets.

As chancellor, Burck served on UTIMCO’s board of direc-tors beginning in 2000. While Burck stepped down as chan-cellor in 2002, he continued to serve on the board until 2005. Burck became a chair-man of the board of directors of American Campus Com-munities in 2004.

UTIMCO spokeswoman Christy Wallace said the in-vestment company does not

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Students and employees at apartment complexes along the Cameron Road and Wickersham Lane bus routes may have to adapt to the clo-sure of the shuttle routes near their apartments.

Capital Metro is considering closing the Wickersham Lane UT shuttle route and altering the Cameron Road UT shuttle route to serve only the Camino La Costa area beginning in the spring semester. This revision would only last until the end of spring 2014 when the Cam-eron Road route would be can-celed altogether.

The average number of dai-ly riders on the Cameron Road shuttle in spring 2013 was 870 and 880 on the Wickersham Lane shuttle, according to Cap-Metro. This is a decrease from the previous semester. Cam-eron Road’s route served an average of 960 people each day

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Ina Garten, New York Times best selling cookbook author and Emmy-winning host of the Food Network’s

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Food-lovers and Garten fans from all over Austin at-

tended the event to learn how “Barefoot Contessa” re-ally began. Garten shared her story of leaving her budget analyst job in Washington, D.C. In 1978 Garten began

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in fall 2012, and Wickersham Lane’s route served an aver-age of 1090, CapMetro said.

According to CapMetro, the transportation system uses information gathered from UT to determine how many students live on each particular shuttle route. Courtney Kinsey, manager of the Villas of La Costa apart-ment complex, said she thinks this information is flawed.

“They’re basing that num-ber off of what address UT students are giving UT, and a lot of them are going to use their parents’ address,” Kinsey said.

Margaret Demirs, MacKen-zie Pointe apartment complex employee, said although Cap-Metro is considering revising the Cameron Road shuttle route, the eventual closure of the route would negatively im-pact the students who live at MacKenzie Pointe.

“That is a good concession, but I think it’s just going to

hit us in the future,” Demirs said. “We’ll adapt, we’ll make it, but we just don’t think it’s fair to our residents. We’re not happy about that.”

Kinsey said if the Cam-eron Road bus route is can-celed, it will affect how they advertise the Villas of La Costa apartments.

“We won’t market [to students] as much as we do now, especially because in a lot of our advertising, we do advertise that we’re right across the street from the shuttle,” Kinsey said. “I don’t know if [we] will ap-peal to students as much as we do right now.”

Biology senior April Shultz said it is likely she would move to a different apartment that is on a UT bus route.

Students who use the Wickersham Lane shuttle would still have access to the University via routes 20 and 100, said CapMetro Communications Specialist Melissa Ayala.

Physics graduate student

Matthew Guthrie said if the Wickersham Lane bus route is canceled, taking the 100 bus would double his com-mute time.

Shultz said she would be okay with CapMetro chang-ing the Cameron Road route to only go as far north as Camino La Costa, and she does not blame CapMetro for proposing to cancel the two routes. According to Cap-Metro, the University has not increased funds for the shut-tles in the past several years.

If the routes are canceled, students will have to walk farther to get to a different bus stop, and some students, including Shultz, are wor-ried that the area is not safe.

“The St. John’s area is not really well known for be-ing a nice, safe area like our neighborhood on the bus route is,” Shultz said.

A public hearing will be held on Sept. 16, and the CapMetro Board of Direc-tors will consider the pro-posed changes at a meeting on Sept. 23.

director of Community Re-lations for the MoPac Im-provement Project. “When you have that sort of situation you’re going to have more people on the road, which creates additional challenges in regards to mobility for new and long-standing residents of the area.”

Zack Buschmann, a com-puter science sophomore who frequently visits his brother in North Austin off MoPac, said he would be enthusiastic about any effort to improve the commuter experience.

“Any kind of improvement project for the roads here has my support,” Buschmann said. “I just hope the project sticks to its timetable — lots of roads around here seem to just be perpetually under construction.”

Pustelnyk said he is hope-ful Austin commuters will be-gin experiencing less severe traffic in the near future.

“We expect drivers to be taking advantage of the new facilities in late 2015,” Pustelnyk said.

purchase stock directly but instead hires investment man-agers. These managers can-not invest in companies on a restricted list, which includes companies associated with members of UTIMCO’s board of directors.

“[American Campus Com-munities] public equity securi-ties were on the restricted list when Mr. Burck was on the UTIMCO board, so none of UTIMCO’s investment manag-ers held any of their securities at that time,” Wallace said. “As Mr. Burck is no longer chancel-

lor or on the UTIMCO board, [American Campus Commu-nities] securities are no longer on the restricted list.”

Burck is not employed by American Campus Commu-nities and instead represents the company’s shareholders as an independent chairman, ac-cording to American Campus Communities spokeswoman Gina Cowart. UTIMCO is one of the shareholders Burck now represents.

“What an independent board member means is there is no affiliation with the com-pany and no employment,” Cowart said. “That’s an impor-tant distinction.”

Burck is currently a mem-ber of the Executive Commit-tee of the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council, which advises the current chancellor, Francisco Cigarroa. Cigarroa and several other regents sit on UTIMCO’s board of directors.

UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo de-clined to comment and instead

deferred questions regarding investments and a possible con-flict of interest to UTIMCO.

This year, American Cam-pus Communities opened a private off-campus dorm, The Callaway House, in West Campus and now owns six other apartment complexes in the area. The company, which owns complexes across the United States, also recently became the “Official Student Housing Sponsor of UT Athletics,” which allows the properties to use the Uni-versity’s Longhorn logo.

“Our properties have no formal relationship with the University of Texas other than our sincere desire to be a good neighbor,” Cowart said.

While UTIMCO has in-vested in American Campus Communities, Burck has been openly critical of the UT regents. The former chancel-lor wrote an editorial during the height of the recent con-flict between the regents and the University in February. In

the editorial, Burck said some of the regents have not ful-filled their duties.

“Some of the most recent re-gents selected by the governor have worked to dilute, under-mine and even attack the mis-sion that they swore to protect,” Burck said in his editorial that ran in the Austin American-Statesman. “We need regents who respect the diversity of those interests and support the institutions in their quest to achieve their missions.”

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revenue financing system bond proceeds.

About $105 million from the Permanent University Fund and $5 million in Unexpended Plant Funds will go toward the building. These contributions were part of the original fund-ing plan and did not change.

President William Powers Jr. criticized the state’s method of funding construction proj-ects in his State of the Univer-sity Address on Wednesday.

“What this does allow us to do is to get going on the building,” Powers said at the meeting Thursday. “If we wait, we are very likely to have in-creased costs.”

According to UT spokes-man Gary Susswein, the Uni-versity has already raised $35 million in gifts toward the building and has an additional $30 million lined up in verbal commitments.

“We have about $65 mil-lion already,” Susswein said. “[It] is more than we have ever raised for any building in UT-Austin history.”

The building will replace the Engineering-Science Building as well as tempo-rary facilities at the engi-neering complex. With the new facility, the Cockrell School of Engineering will be able to add 1,000 more undergraduate students as

well as increase its faculty.Gregory Fenves, the out-

going Cockrell School of En-gineering dean, said the new building will allow for more project-based learning and interdisciplinary research.

“This building absolutely is essential for developing our future engineering edu-cation programs,” Fenves said. “Our facilities, which are 25 to 50 years old, were never designed for this type of engineering education.”

Fenves said the Univer-sity will immediately begin scheduling the project. The first phase of the project is expected to begin this se-mester. Fenves said after the Engineering-Science Build-ing is demolished in either December 2014 or January 2015, construction on the new building would begin and last two-and-a-half to three years. Fenves, who will begin serving as executive vice president and provost of the University on Oct. 1, expects the new facility to be completed by 2018.

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Texas soccer will face off against the Air Force Acad-emy and Colorado College this weekend in Colorado for its second road trip of the season, after sweeping two home matches in its last outings.

In their last road trip, the Longhorns lost both games despite outshooting their opponents. Last weekend, the Longhorns were able to capitalize on a total 32 shots to beat Samford 2-0 and top Illinois State 2-1. Before the home stand, Texas had out-shot opponents 62-29 on the season but only had one win to show for it.

Texas will play the Air Force Falcons, who hold a 1-3-1 record this season, on Friday. The team won its first match Sept. 8, beat-ing Grand Canyon 1-0. The Falcons finished 5-9-3 in the Mountain West Confer-ence in 2012.

Freshman Ashley Greco has been consistent through her first five ca-reer games, assisting on all three of the Falcons’ goals. Senior goalkeeper Kelly Stambaugh leads the Acad-emy record in goals-against average, or goals allowed per 60 minutes of play, at 1.06. Stambaugh also ranks second in career shutouts with 14, and third in wins, minutes and saves for the program.

The Colorado College Tigers go into the week-end holding a 2-3-0 record so far this season, but will play a match against Ball State University on Friday before Sunday’s matchup against Texas.

The Tigers competed

in the Marquette Tourna-ment last weekend, split-ting their two matches with a 2-0 win over Loyola University of Chicago followed by a 3-1 loss to Marquette. Senior Lynn Froetscher has one goal and three assists, but soph-omore Sarah Schweiss and freshman Chanisse Hen-drix have two goals apiece on the season.

On offense, Texas will rely on junior midfielder Sharis Lachappelle, who totaled six shots and her first goal of 2013 against Illinois State, and junior Brooke Gilbert, who tal-lied her team-leading third goal in the same game. The Longhorns will also look to freshman defender Isabelle Kerr, who recorded an as-sist in the game and earned Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors.

Sophomore goalkeeper Abby Smith stepped up against Illinois State, block-ing a penalty kick in the 87th minute and recording three saves, securing her ninth career shutout. Those performances earned her Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week. Smith has played every minute in goal for the Longhorns in 2013 and features a .80 goals-against average.

After knocking off the top two teams in the country, the road for Texas holds more challenge this weekend.

The second-ranked Long-horns will travel to Illinois to take on Arizona State and No. 14 Illinois. Despite a climb back up the rankings, the Longhorns still have no room for relaxation.

“Our focus is making sure the team does not have big heads and think they are ‘all that,’” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “We have got to get back, ready to battle because both teams that we are competing against this weekend are more than ready for us.”

Although this year’s tem-perament is different from last

season’s national champion-ship team, it shows an ability to thrive in the clutch with a five-set win over Penn State and a four-set victory over Stanford. One-hundred and two kills combined in those matches verifies the potency of the Texas offense, but changes need to be made to sustain that level of play.

“Both of those games could have gone either way,” sopho-more Amy Neal said. “There are some areas in the game that we still need to work on because clearly we were a lit-tle rough at times, but it helps our confidence knowing we can be really good.”

The gray areas in the Longhorns’ success last weekend were plays at the net and their defense on the middle of the floor. Stanford

tallied eight blocks to seven for Texas, which snapped the team’s streak of three-consecutive matches of out blocking opponents.

Similar to the third set against Penn State, the second set against Stanford saw Texas surrender 18 kills while being outhit .273 to .146. The rowdy environment at Gregory Gym did a lot to help Texas shake off slow starts, but that luxury will be absent this weekend.

“We just have to keep up our energy and keep that focus level,” sophomore Molly Mc-Cage said. “When we’re put in stressful environments, we can still come out of it with a win.”

All negatives aside, the Longhorns should carry an abundance of confidence into this weekend’s matches.

Haley Eckerman, the 2012

Player of the Year, and Bailey Webster continue to buoy the Texas attack, already amass-ing 58 and 61 total kills re-spectively. Young players such as Neal, with her 25 kills, and freshman Chloe Collins, who holds a team-high 98 assists, have given the team a needed boost to push toward another successful season.

Three of the Longhorns’ five matches this season have come against ranked opponents, and the Fighting Illini bring the same challenge at home in Urbana-Champagne, Ill. Texas has outhit its opponents .239 to .234 thus far, which tells the tale of competition.

If Texas can continue its relentless attack this week-end, its chances at claiming another NCAA title become more convincing.

Elizabeth Begley waits in anticipation of senior day, when her family and friends will come to celebrate her time at Texas. If not for her parents who supported her, that day may have never been in her sight.

As a child, Begley partici-pated in basketball, soccer and tennis. Her parents at-tended all of her games and supported her fully. Most importantly, they never pressured her to focus solely on tennis.

“I’ve always had a racket in my hand,” Begley said. “I played different sports as a kid, but I really wanted to play tennis.”

Begley started playing competitively at age 7. Her parents put her in tourna-ments because she had the itch to compete.

Her parents’ support car-ried over into her college career at Texas. They attend almost all of her matches, and include her teammates in their frequent family din-ners and events.

“They’re so support-ive,” Begley said. “They say certain things, like inside jokes that remind me of big

struggles in the past, that help me push through when I’m down.”

This season Begley will take on responsibilities she never had to worry about as an underclassman. As a team leader, she organizes practice and is responsible for pushing her teammates, including junior Annat Rabinovich.

“I played right next to her in one of my first dual matches last year,” Rabinov-ich said. “It was one of my best life experiences because I was nervous and having Elizabeth next to me made me feel less nervous. I was pumped up because she was cheering for me and was al-ways there for me.”

Begley has a newfound appreciation for her coaches because of the work it takes to organize a team and the role they play in improving her as a player.

“They’ve found angles in my backhand that no one else has seen before,” Begley said. “If anyone knows how to develop a tennis player, it’s Patty. My coaches are one of the reasons why I want to go into college coaching.”

But Patty Fendick-Mc-Cain wants to see her on the court as long as possible.

“I’d like to see her pur-sue tennis as far as it takes her before she makes that move, but she’s already showing great leader-ship skills as a role model, her work ethic and un-derstanding of the game,” Fendick-McCain said.

Begley heads into this weekend’s Duke Invitation-al after a summer of non-stop tennis preparation. This summer, Begley com-peted in six tournaments and trained in the Texas heat, which included track exercises to improve her court mobility.

On the night before the match, Begley will prepare the same way she always has — by loading up on carbo-hydrates. On game day, she will go through the longest warm-up of anyone on the team. With plenty of orange Gatorade and blueberry Clif Bars in her bag, she will be ready.

The season presents a challenge to Begley, as she attempts to fill the shoes Ae-riel Ellis left behind after an impressive four-year career.

“She was small, but she had big feet,” Begley said. “I know I can’t replicate what she did, but there is an unknown fac-tor of what I can do.”

3CHRIS HUMMER, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsFriday, September 13, 2013

Texas hopes for continued successBy Matt Warden

@texansports

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffTexas volleyball faces Arizona State and No. 14 Illinois this weekend with the hopes of continuing its win streak after beating both Penn State and Stanford at home.

Sharis Lachappelle Midfielder

Begley set for senior season

Longhorns ready for road-trip redemption

SOCCERVOLLEYBALL

By Christopher Caraveo@ChrisCaraveo31

By Brittany Lamas@brittany_lamas

TENNIS

Debby GarciaDaily Texan

Staff

Elizabeth Begley prepared all

summer for her last season on

the Texas tennis team.

“Could you please stop pretending the Arab Spring was all about a ‘free, democratic, plu-ralistic, inclusive, secular....” blah, blah, blah? You know and I know the Arab Spring led to the downfall of hideous dictators only to be replaced by hideous theocrats. If the Arab Spring taught us anything, it taught us that Islam and ‘free, democratic, pluralistic, inclusive, secular...’ ideals cannot coexist.”

- From commenter “Arafat” on guest column “Why the U.S. should intervene in Syria.”

4A OPINION

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4LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TEXANEDITORIALFriday, September 13, 2013

HORNS UP: REGENTS COME TO THE RESCUEHORNS DOWN: CARNEY’S TOO STUPID TO TWEET

Co-op housing provides safe, affordable option for students

COLUMN

EDITORIAL

Mark BirkenstockGuest Columnist

Current freshmen not withstanding, UT students couldn’t have missed the new high-rise apartment complexes being built in West Campus last year. However, be-neath the cranes and exposed beams of 2400 Nueces and The Callaway House, it has been alleged that construction workers suf-fered repeated and systemic mistreatment by their employers.

As The Daily Texan reported on Sept. 6, construction workers have filed complaints with the City of Austin alleging that the contractors overseeing the two sites denied them breaks and water throughout their daylong shifts. Austin — although not the state of Texas — requires that workers be given 10-minute breaks for every four hours of work.

In an interview with the Texan, one work-er at 2400 Nueces anonymously attested that he and his fellow workers had not been given any health insurance or workers’ compensa-tion. “We had no safety, no water, no breaks — nothing,” he said. “They just wanted to finish the job fast.” During construction, a different worker fell six stories, injuring himself and two others. All three received treatment at a hospital.

Workers have made other charges of ill treatment at The Callaway House. Workers Defense Project, a nonprofit representing Texas construction workers, has won more than $60,000 in unpaid wages from Harvey-Cleary, the site’s contractor.

These accusations are not unusual.

According to a report by faculty from UT and the University of Illinois at Chica-go along with Workers Defense Project, 39 percent of surveyed Texas workers said they had been denied breaks. Fifty-nine percent said they had not been provided with water. Seventy-eight percent said they did not have health insurance. Sixty percent said they had received no safety training. Forty-one per-cent — as well as the 2400 Nueces worker who spoke to the Texan — claimed that they had previously been victims of a workplace fraud in which construction workers are misclassified as contractors.

This misclassification often prevents them from receiving overtime pay, safety equip-ment or health insurance, since under this designation they are legally perceived as “self-employed” and therefore responsible for their own benefits and equipment.

More than half of workers also reported earning poverty-level wages, and 22 percent claimed to have been denied pay entirely.

State government protections for workers are sorely lacking. However, the UT System itself employs a remarkably exhaustive vet-ting process when picking firms to build campus buildings.

Dave Dixon, the executive director of UT’s Office of Facilities Planning and Con-struction, told the Texan that the UT System requires prospective contractors for its proj-ects to undergo a multi-step safety verifica-tion process. In consequence, the UT Sys-tem typically scores higher than its peers in

Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-tration safety metrics by 40-60 percent.

We would like to have that same standard of scrutiny applied to off-campus projects that are set up to serve students.

UT could have some leverage to bear on some of those projects. The land for 2400 Nueces is owned by UT and leased to EdR, the student housing company that owns and manages the complex. It’s not a great leap to imagine that lease and others like it be-

ing contingent on safe and fair building practices. Indeed, one wonders why they aren’t already.

Moreover, when choosing housing, students should be aware that their comfortable apart-ment may be made affordable by the hard work and unrecorded abuses of construction workers. By choosing to live in a complex that has a history of mistreating workers, students may be making it harder for more responsible builders to survive in the market.

Worker mistreatment in West Campus must stop

Zachary Strain / Daily Texan Staff

As freshmen are settling into their dorms or off-campus apartments this semester, many will discover that some inconvenienc-es become apparent once the novel shine wears off their new homes away from home. Maybe your upstairs neighbors insist on par-tying until 3 a.m. on a Wednesday night. Or perhaps your quaint North Austin condo has equally quaint plumbing, and your landlord has adopted a decidedly relaxed attitude to-ward fixing it. But there’s nothing you can do about that, right? Especially if you want to live close to campus, it’s just accepted that you have to pay a high price for a mediocre living space.

Faced with this bleak landscape, I found an appealing alternative to typical student housing: co-ops. This year I am living at the Taos Student Housing Cooperative — one of seven co-ops that make up the College Houses cooperative organization — and I’m happy to confirm that cooperative living is definitely worthy of consideration for any student living in Austin.

Austin is home to many jointly-owned, student-run housing cooperatives that offer students affordable living space close to cam-pus and allow residents to assume direct re-sponsibility for keeping their housing look-ing nice and running smoothly. In addition to the seven College Houses, there are nine co-ops operating as part of the Inter-Coop-erative Council, as well as some other inde-pendent co-ops. While rules vary between each house, co-op residents are generally ex-pected to contribute a handful of hours each week to clean communal spaces, cook meals and help out with anything else their house needs to stay functioning.

It may not seem appealing to have to cook and clean in between doing homework and studying, but cooperative living does bestow some great benefits. Co-opers are never be-holden to the whims of a lazy super when something needs fixing. And if your neigh-bor is too loud, you can bring them to task during regular house meetings. The Taos

Co-op also has designated “quiet hours” dur-ing which it is agreed that everyone needs to turn down the music and let others sleep, a courtesy sorely lacking in dorm life.

Austin’s co-ops also work hard to keep rent low for students. The cost of living at a College Houses co-op is, on average, about half the price of living at the UT dorms. That price includes utilities, meals and a well-stocked pantry and fridge.

“I like the fact that many resources which I could not afford became available to me by living in a co-op,” said Nathan Prisco, chemi-cal engineering senior and director of Taos Student Housing Cooperative. “[We] always have a fully stocked kitchen with crates of avocados. We have almost every cable chan-nel imaginable.”

Living in a co-op is also a great way to take part in the larger cooperative move-ment, which encompasses much more than just housing. Any business in any industry can be organized as a cooperative, valuing its members and its community as much as its bottom line. The International Co-operative Alliance defines the core values of a co-op as self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. Another way to think of the cooperative movement is that it encourages people to be thoughtfully engaged with both the production and con-sumption of the goods and services used in their community.

Austin has many businesses that operate according to these principles. The Wheat-sville Co-op is a member-owned grocery store that provides fresh, high-quality foods. Then there’s the Red Rabbit Bakery, a vegan bakery owned entirely by its workers.

So even if you’re stuck in a dorm and can’t move into a co-op house, there are a ton of ways to participate in Austin’s co-op culture. Joining local cooperatives is a great way to directly support the people of your community and promote the not-so-radical principles of self-reliance and responsibility toward your neighbors.

Birkenstock is a linguistics junior from Long Island, N.Y.

Friday Firing Lines: Football frustrations, traffic and trains

FRIDAY FIRING LINES

“Could you please stop pretending the Arab Spring was all about a ‘free, demo-cratic, pluralistic, inclusive, secular....” blah, blah, blah? You know and I know the Arab Spring led to the downfall of hideous dic-tators only to be replaced by hideous theo-crats. If the Arab Spring taught us anything, it taught us that Islam and ‘free, democrat-ic, pluralistic, inclusive, secular...’ ideals cannot coexist.”

- From commenter “Arafat” on guest column “Why the U.S. should intervene in Syria.”

“This is just the most inappropriate and classless article I have ever read by The Dai-ly Texan!”

- From commenter “Tyler” on our website in response to Sexy Sally, the first of four new Daily Texan sex columns.

“Why did we reassign Diaz instead of fir-ing him? We hand out participation awards at UT?”

- Commenter “Uh Oh” on the response to the Longhorns’ performance on defense against the BYU Cougars last Saturday.

“Austin’s traffic isn’t even comparable to the terrifying hellhole that is New York traffic.”

- From Hailey Brecosky on Twitter on the news that Austin traffic has been ranked as worse than New York gridlock.

Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers.

Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column first started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share their opinions “concerning any matter of general inter-est they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or disapproval of opinions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot.

Submissions can be sent to firingline@dailytexanonline.com.

After funding from the Legislature failed to come through last session to build UT-Austin’s new engi-neering building, it looked like the project would in-definitely be put on hold. However, the UT regents unanimously approved a plan to build the $310 mil-lion building on Thursday when they voted to pro-ceed with the project and provide UT-Austin with

$150 million in bonds. We’re grateful to the regents for recognizing the importance of this new building, which is scheduled to be completed in 2017, and glad that they saw fit to swoop in and fix the situation when the state wouldn’t.

Dave Carney, an adviser to Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott, got into hot water Thursday by retweeting a link titled “Total Recall in CO (and why Wendy Davis is too stupid to be gov-ernor).” The post the tweet linked to referred to Davis as “retard barbie” — this after Abbott was slammed last month for responding positively to a tweet from a sup-

porter that referred to Davis by the same disparaging name. While we have no problem with political candidates or their personnel disparaging each

other’s intelligence, we don’t think “retard barbie” is an acceptable term to use in any context.

“Because Mack can’t actually ‘fire’ some-one...because he has no spine.”

- John Ramsey on Twitter in response to the news of Manny Diaz’s reassignment.

FOOTBALL FOLLIES

TRAFFIC’S NOT THAT BAD

TEXAN’S GOT NO CLASS

ARAB SPRING

“Racking weights? Scoreboard operator? North End concessions assistant manager?”

- John Adolph on Twitter with suggestions for Manny Diaz’s new position in the athletics department. “The LSTAR service plan for the last

three years has featured local service, stopping at all 16 (or more) stations, and a downtown Austin to downtown San An-tonio express service in the peak periods (stopping at San Marcos and New Braun-fels en route). Not sure where the speed references came from. Maximum speed for the LSTAR at deployment will be 79 mph for all trains; the District will incre-mentally increase speeds as demand justi-fies and in cooperation with Union Pacific. The maximum theoretical speed, given the alignment’s curvature and grades, is 110 mph.”

- Commenter “Jay_Bee67” on a “report-ing error” in a story on a plan to build a commuter rail line connecting Austin and San Antonio.

TRAIN TROUBLES

Life & Arts 5

Somewhere between as-signed readings and the cre-ation of the Facebook feed, the passion for stories we had as children got lost. Returning to reading isn’t easy. Lack of famil-iarity with literary authors can be intimidating, and unless you are an English major, tackling “classics” draws up traumatiz-ing memories of rote memori-zation and plot analysis.

But fear no more. If you haven’t read for enjoyment since childhood, this is a list for you. You had a favorite book as a child, and we’ve found an adult counterpart. The first titles should be fa-miliar, nostalgic of lemonade stands, first kisses and back-to-school clothes shopping. Their counterparts are older. Some of them pack a punch, leave a scar or heal a previous wound. They are all a great foray back into reading for fun and reading for you.

For the prairie girlIf you grew up pretending

to live in a mud hut out on the open range, you were prob-ably reading “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura In-galls Wilder. The same golden grass waves through “My An-tonia” by Willa Cather. Cre-ated out of immigration woes, childhood crushes, family deaths and heartbreak, “My Antonia” is a perfectly crafted American masterpiece that might just make you want to leave the city. Maybe.

For the adventurerSure, Shia LaBeouf ’s then-

Disney Channel stardom changed the way we think of Louis Sachar’s “Holes,” but the novel itself gave childhood a sense of fear and adven-ture. The unlikely hero, direct prose and visions of home that make “Holes” so beloved are also found in “The Brief and

Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz. Oscar de Leon is no less overweight, nerdy or heroic than Stanley Yelnats IV, but Leon’s nights of drink-ing and smoking are more frustrating because they’re so much more relatable.

For the poetShel Silverstein’s “The Giving

Tree” is precise in word choice

and flow. Silverstein’s social, familial and environmental commentaries leap through the beautiful story of a boy who grows up with a tree. Hoa Nguyen’s earthy writing in her recently released collection of poetry, “As Long as Trees Last,” uses the same simple, careful language of Silverstein with harder commentary such as “We doom in nation rooms.”

For those who like to cryYou probably remember

Katherine Paterson’s “Bridge to Terabithia” as one of the first books to rip your heart out and stomp on it in the creek where the two main charac-ters built a fantasyland. The grown-up version feels the same. Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye” pow-erfully tackles death, abuse,

race, childhood and incest in a little volume full of heartbreak. The tears will come, but this time for society as much as poor Pecola.

For an escapeWhat child didn’t dream

about pushing open the wall of a hedge in a giant Brit-ish garden to reveal not only a magical world, but also

a bounty of family secrets? Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” created that dream-like experience, and Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping” can keep it alive. Though there are no gi-ant shrubs, the little town of Fingerbone, Idaho, is quite the mystery in itself. It doesn’t

SARAH GRACE SWEENEY, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DTlifeandarts 5Friday, September 13, 2013

Childhood stories all grown-upBy Kelsey McKinney

@mckinneykelsey

Illustration by Hannah Hadidi / Daily Texan Staff

Joe Swanberg’s “Drinking Buddies” had its world pre-miere at South By Southwest earlier this year, and at first glance, it easily fits among the improvised, thinly plot-ted indie films that fill out the lineup of most film fes-tivals — many of them from Swanberg himself. “Drink-ing Buddies” is a much more prickly, insightful work than it appears, squeezing mag-nificent performances from its leads and genuine tension out of seemingly harmless moments between friends on the verge of romance and couples on the verge of collapse.

Olivia Wilde is a long way from her role in “Cowboys & Aliens” with her com-plex performance as Kate, a brewery employee who spends most of her days goofing off, drinking and flirting with Jake Johnson’s character Luke. They would be perfect for each other if they weren’t both in com-mitted relationships. When Kate’s boyfriend, Chris (Ron Livingston) invites Jake and his girlfriend Jill (Anna Kendrick) to his cabin for the weekend, the film’s quiet conflicts are set into motion.

This is easily the most es-tablished cast Swanberg has ever worked with, and the career-best performances he coaxes out of his leads elevate his game as well. While Swanberg sticks to his style of having his actors improvise dialogue off a de-tailed outline, he’s got a sharp sense of which moments are worth capturing. “Drinking

Buddies” hits some nerves that anyone who has been in a committed relationship may not be thrilled to rec-ognize, but the film’s expert navigation of the emotion-ally muddled concerns of friendship, jealousy and in-timacy is refreshingly honest and quick-witted.

Swanberg’s dialogue-heavy approach puts a lot of pres-sure on his actors, but his cast is more than up to the challenge. While Kendrick’s expressive, squirrelly charm and Livingston’s refined cha-risma are both well-deployed here, Johnson and Wilde give performances that reveal sur-prising depth and emotional range. Wilde is easily the film’s standout, equal parts playful, tender and vivid, and her chemistry with Johnson is effortless. The full-bearded Johnson has a goofy hobo charm, and he absolutely nails the dramatic moments in the second half of the film.

The dynamic between Luke and Kate is pre-cisely measured, carefully walking the line between friendship and sex. There is

James Wan and Leigh Whannell have made some memorable, terrifying films together, from their debut with 2004’s “Saw” to the first “Insidious” back in 2011. As good as they are at kicking off horror franchises, “In-sidious” wasn’t the sort of film that demanded a sequel. Their attempt to continue the story is somewhat lethar-gic, with a scatterbrained screenplay that makes many of the same mistakes as the “Saw” sequels.

As one might guess from

the title, “Insidious: Chap-ter 2” picks up right where the first one ended, with the Lambert family reunited after Josh (Patrick Wilson) plucked his son Dalton’s (Ty Simpkins) conscious-ness out of a foggy ghost di-mension called The Further. Unfortunately, something has followed Josh back into the mortal realm, and with the family in danger, Re-nai (Rose Byrne) and Josh’s mother Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) struggle to save Josh before it’s too late.

“Insidious: Chapter 2” is commendable for refus-ing to backpedal on the

cliffhanger from the first film. While it’s competently told and staged, there is never a sense of urgency to the film, never a sense that this story needs to be told. Whannell also wrote the first three “Saw” films, and it has become clear that his sequels look back as much as they look forward, which, in the case of “Insidious: Chap-ter 2,” resulted in a film that is filling in holes in the con-tinuity that barely existed in the first place.

Much of “Insidious: Chapter 2” is spent detail-ing the backstory of the ghost who is trying to take

over Josh’s body. While it’s all horrific, the killer is ul-timately lifted right out of “Psycho.” Wan does a great job instilling each big scare

Newest installment of ‘Insidious’ series falls short of frightening expectations

Olivia Wilde stands out in insightful indie flick

By Alex Williams@alexwilliamsdt

By Alex Williams@alexwilliamsdt

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2Director: James WanGenre: HorrorRuntime: 105 minutes

This is easily the most established cast Swan-berg has ever worked with, and the career-best performances he coaxes out of his leads elevate his game as well.

Photo courtesy of Matt KennedyDanielle Bisutti in a scene from “Insidious: Chapter 2.”

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ACROSS 1 Where Union

Pacific is headquartered

6 Chinese ___ (popular bonsai trees)

10 Medieval drudge

14 Sister of Castor and Pollux

15 Fighter getting a leg up?

17 Site of Tiberius’ Villa Jovis

18 Page on the stage

19 Comfortable

21 Taking place (in)

22 One-point throws

24 Appliance sound

25 Checkers, for instance

26 Play critic?

28 Hype

32 Onetime Arapaho foe

33 Grooming tool36 Vietnamese

holiday37 O-shaped38 Priest in I

Samuel39 Dread Zeppelin

or the Fab Faux41 Sports div. that

awards the George Halas Trophy

42 Gold Cup venue43 Quote

qualification44 Coin of many

countries45 Pretension48 Get more

inventory50 Country whose

flag is known as the Saltire

54 Bubble handler?

55 Foundation devoted to good works?

57 Uniform58 Bag lady?59 Less often seen60 Deep black61 Twist62 America’s Cup

trophies, e.g.

DOWN 1 Broadway

musical with two exclamation points in its name

2 They might have bones to pick

3 Like characters in a script

4 Some wetlands wildlife

5 Miyazaki film genre

6 Hosp. record 7 Creates an

account? 8 Fast-food debut

of 1981 9 Go along

effortlessly10 Vending

machine drink11 What to do

when you have nothing left to say?

12 Peace Nobelist Cassin

13 Dance-pop trio Right Said ___

16 Symbol of happiness

20 Off the mark23 English Channel

feeder27 Bad line

readings

29 Launched the first round

30 Narcissistic one31 Hand-held “Star

Trek” devices33 Sea creature

whose name means “sailor”

34 Huxtable family mom

35 Surgical cutter

40 Gondoliers, e.g.

44 Like a poli sci major, maybe

46 Woodworking tools

47 Underhanded schemer

49 American Airlines hub

50 Drink served in a masu

51 Zodiac symbol

52 Palindromic man

53 “My man!”

56 Plaintive pet sound

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hurt that Robinson’s thin volume is packed with beauti-ful language that lingers.

For those enchanted by fantasy

“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster is a fairy-tale story of a little boy who is transported to a magical world for the afternoon. Juster’s classic is a notorious favorite among English teachers for its exemplification of English idioms. “Midnight’s Children” by Salman Rushdie is known for much darker themes. Rushdie’s magical realism and sweeping prose will evoke Juster’s, and his themes of co-lonialism, revolution and sick-ness will remind you that there is still plenty to learn.

For the international explorer

The multi-cultural darling of the young-adult fiction world is Pam Munoz Ryan’s “Esperanza Rising.” Immi-gration and poverty issues are exemplified in the story

of a young Mexican girl’s re-demption and adjustment during the Great Depression. “Small Island” by Andrea Levy, set in the British throes of World War II, follows four characters as they learn to survive and understand the war-torn society they live in. Levy’s grip on language and grasp of the time period cre-ate a whirlwind of emotion that is a pleasure to read.

For those who want to be special

The protagonist in Jerry Spinelli’s “Stargirl” was in-teresting, different and un-tied to social norms. Plus she was beloved by a total cutie. The women of Nell Freud-enberger’s short story collec-tion “Lucky Girls” are equally intriguing. The stories set in America, India, Thailand and Vietnam are led by characters who possess eccentricities per-fect for the phase in between high school and settling down.

For those in sticky situations

“Anne of Green Gables” by Lucy Maud Montgomery is a

novel about the sweeping Ca-nadian countryside and what it’s like to have adopted parents who were hoping you’d be a boy. The book is imaginative, funny and has a happy end-ing that ties everything to-gether better than a fairy tale. As adults, we’re less optimistic. Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award winning “Salvage the Bones” treats hardship as it re-ally is. The main character is just as creative and smart, but not granted the fairy-tale end-ing of her youthful counterpart.

For the feministsJudy Blume taught many

of us about first bras, sanitary pads and religious confusion when no else would. “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is a coming-of-age story pep-pered with all the controversy that makes growing up hard. Margaret Atwood, in her novel “Surfacing,” tackles feminism. The novel is a good next step for discussions about women’s rights, women’s bodies and the path through adulthood. And it’s wildly entertaining, which is ultimately why we loved reading in the first place.

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a long stretch in the back half of the film that finds the two in an escalating se-ries of situations that grow less and less innocuous, each stepping onto a new level of intimacy played with the perfect amount of nervous casualness by the actors. It is a testament to Wilde’s performance that even something as simple as watching another char-acter sleep becomes riveting and dramatic. Once the film forces its characters to

confront their unresolved tensions, both of them re-act as if it is something of a betrayal, and Johnson and Wilde tear into the film’s finale with alternating fero-cious and regretful turns, carrying “Drinking Buddies” to its lackluster conclusion with grace.

Though “Drinking Bud-dies” concludes without ty-ing much together, it remains a wise, insightful film about love and friendship. While the performances from the quartet are all beyond reproach, the most surpris-ing talent here is Swanberg,

whose observant direc-tion and layered characters make “Drinking Buddies” a low-stakes but highly memorable charmer.

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sequence with plenty of atmosphere and dread, and there are one or two mo-ments that are legitimately terrifying, but the film is way too enamored with the jump scare, a strategy that gets tired a lot quicker than Wan anticipated. After craft-ing the year’s best horror film, “The Conjuring,” earlier this summer, Wan seems to have used all of his best material on that film, and the only truly inspired moment here is the clever inversion of one of the first film’s most iconic images.

However, the biggest problem in “Insidious: Chapter 2” is its deeply unfocused approach to

character. It is hard to say who the film’s protagonist is, since none of the char-acters have any discernable development or arcs. The actors have more or less per-fected the science of look-ing terrified in the build-up to a jump scare, but no one gets to play anything we have not seen before. Only Wilson gets to step outside of the box, play-ing a menacing note with a giddiness that the charis-matic actor rarely brings to his work, and even his dia-logue is laced with the same unconvincing plasticity as the rest of the script.

If “Insidious: Chapter

2” could measure up to its predecessor, it would be easy to recommend. If it was particularly scary, or interesting or had any characters worth mention-ing, then it would prob-ably be worth going to see in theatres. Unfortunately, the film is a fairly shame-less cash-in, expanding on a story that did not need it. Its unfocused, unin-spired riff on the first film is not worth seeking out. Horror aficianados will find something to like here, but they are better off wait-ing for the inevitable Netf-lix release than seeing this one on the big screen.

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Photo courtesy of Magnolia PicturesOlivia Wilde and Jake Johnson in “Drinking Buddies,” a Magnolia Pictures release.

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