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Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff
Gov. Rick Perry addresses the Texas Republican convention in Dallas on Friday afternoon. With thousands in attendance, the convention pro-vided an opportunity for Republicans to define their image and clarify positions on key issues heading into the November election.
Mourin Nazim | Daily Texan Staff
UT research fellow Zachary Simpson talks to an audience member about the importance of the process of research over results at the “Science at the Pub” discussion at the Cactus Cafe on Friday.
16th annual ROT Rally rides through Austin
Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff
Rick and Beverly Smith, who have been riding for 30 years, watch motorcycles drive to the Travis County Exposition Center.
A GOP ‘free-for-all’
Chaos breaks out on second day of Republican convention in Dallas
Horns torn between pull to Pac-10, Big 12 push
Discussion series brings science to pubs
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By Destinee HodgeDaily Texan Staff
The streets of downtown Aus-tin were inundated with leath-er, flames, tattoos and skulls over the weekend, as the 16th annual Republic of Texas Biker Rally de-scended upon Austin.
Thousands of spectators lined Congress Avenue on Friday eve-ning to watch as motorcyclists fil-tered into the motorcycle parade, the longest in the nation.
“What started at 4,000 [bikers] is now 40,000,” event spokeswom-an Denise Garcia said. “The expec-tation [for the growth of the event] was more set by the people who came.”
Through the cracking sound
of deafening exhaust pipes, the shouts of beer-tinged revelry and the fumes of lit cigarettes, mo-torcycles of all shapes and sizes emerged. The weekend was filled with a variety of events, from he-licopter rides to talent shows and even a church service for Christian motorcyclists Sunday. Blue Oyster Cult took the stage Thursday, fol-lowed by Bret Michaels on Satur-day, and were met with screaming and clamoring fans. Other events included the Wall of Death and a tattoo expo.
Jerry and Colleen Bragg start-ed the ROT rally 16 years ago after they broke away from planning the Harley Owners Group rally.
When the Braggs helped orga-nize a Harley-Davidson rally, al-most 5,000 people showed up — the company was used to seeing
By Destinee HodgeDaily Texan Staff
Considering the tense mood surrounding the Cactus Cafe in the spring, the atmosphere in the cafe Friday was light and cheery for the launch of the “Science in the Pub” discussion series.
The series is designed to pro-vide a casual forum for scientists to discuss issues in the discipline and for locals to feel like part of the science community. Attendees of the event ranged from UT pro-fessors, researchers and students,
to family and friends of the pre-senters.
“[We thought that] by talking about science here, information would flow,” event co-creator Ja-mie Vernon said. “[We’re] free from the box.”
Vernon, who also founded the on-campus chapter of Scien-tists and Engineers for America, thought there were very few op-portunities for scientists to get to-gether and share ideas.
Event co-creator and fellow sci-entist Dan Boutz worked with Vernon to decide on an atmo-sphere that would be best for ca-sual scientific discussion.
“The key to ‘Science in the Pub’ was ‘in the pub,’” Boutz said.
“This is not ‘academic’; this is not a seminar [either].”
The first meeting featured two guest speakers: Zachary Simpson, a UT research fellow, and Joshua Russell, a doctoral candidate at the University.
Simpson asked the audience to focus on the process of science rather than just the results because doing so will highlight the values of science.
“From an outsider’s perspec-tive, the views they have about science are all result-oriented in-stead of process-oriented,” Simp-son said. “And what I think is bad about this is that our values
By Nolan HicksDaily Texan Staff
DALLAS — They were shout-ing themselves hoarse. More than a dozen delegates were lined up at each of the four microphones, and all of them were screaming at the stage, where the conven-tion chairwoman was struggling to maintain order.
It was just after 4 p.m. Saturday when a floor fight had broken out over the rules report. At the Re-publican convention in Dallas, contentious issues, such as immi-gration, wouldn’t be debated for almost another three hours.
By the time the convention was
over, Cathie Adams, the current GOP chairwoman who had been endorsed by Perry in his accep-tance speech, had been tossed out of office. Perry’s input on the im-migration planks of the platform had been ignored. A resolution to remove Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus from his lead-ership position had generated voiced support before it was ta-bled, to raucous booing from del-egates.
What began as a coronation for Perry as he runs for his third term as governor had turned into a free-for-all on the convention floor.
Chairmanship fightThere had been indications of a
potential explosion on the conven-tion floor early Saturday morning.
Convention delegates had start-ed the morning by caucusing with other delegates from their respec-tive Senate districts. In the caucus meetings, which were closed to the press, delegates debated wheth-er or not to keep current Texas Re-publican Party chairwoman Cath-ie Adams or to replace her with one of her two challengers, Steve Munisteri and Tom Mechler. Ru-mors on the convention floor Sat-urday morning seemed to indicate
the caucuses had grown heated.Adams, a longtime conserva-
tive activist, suffered a blow when Mechler dropped out of the race and the nominations committee recommended Munisteri to the delegates by a 22-9 vote. Adams challenged the committee report, and rank-and-file delegates didn’t seem happy with the job that Ad-ams had been doing.
Brazos County delegate Trey Jennings said he was support-ing Munisteri because he thought that Munisteri could attract more youths to the Republican Party.
By Dan HurwitzDaily Texan Staff
On the same day that Pac-10 officials were in Austin to ex-tend a formal invitation to the University of Texas to join the West Coast-based conference, the Big 12 announced its plan to persuade Texas to stay put.
According to the Aust in American-Statesman, Commis-sioner Larry Scott and Deputy Commissioner Kevin Weiberg traveled to Texas Tech Univer-sity, the University of Oklaho-ma and Oklahoma State Uni-versity in addition to UT last weekend to extend an invita-tion to join the Pac-10.
While a decision regard-ing the Pac-10’s offer has not been announced, the Board of Regents of both UT and Tex-as Tech are meeting separate-ly Tuesday to discuss their op-tions. OU’s Board of Regents will convene Wednesday.
With the University of Ne-braska officially leaving the Big 12 for the Big Ten on Friday and the University of Colorado joining the Pac-10, the Big 12 is left with only 10 universities.
Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe, however, believes that the conference can survive with the 10 remaining schools.
Beebe has formulated a plan to increase television revenue to $17 million per team — the same amount that the South-eastern Conference generates. His plan also includes a clause that would allow individu-al universities to have their own television networks. Be-cause the Pac-10 doesn’t allow its universities to have their own television networks, Bee-be hopes to keep UT, which has shown interest in having a Longhorn sports network, in the Big 12.
DALLAS continues on page 3 BIG 12 continues on page 2
ROT continues on page 2
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Motorcyclists congregate to enjoy variety of events including parade, concerts
Meeting helps scientists break ‘free from the box’ with informal forum
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about 1,300 motorcyclists in the past. The Braggs continued to help to organize the event as the company supplied them with more funds to create even more elaborate events.
However, when Harley-Da-vidson decided that it wanted to keep the rallies exclusively for Harley owners, the Braggs decided to branch off to do their own event.
Their first separate event, named the “Republic of Tex-as” rally — the suggestion of a close friend with an interest in Texas history — attracted al-most 4,000 people.
Year after year, the number
of attendees continued to grow and shatter the Braggs’ expecta-tions.
“They only hoped that they could continue to bring bik-ers in and create camaraderie,” Garcia said.
It was only a few years ago that the founders decided to re-name the event for the sake of convenience.
“As the years passed, it be-came difficult to always say ‘Republic of Texas’ rally,” Jer-ry Bragg said. “It was a tongue twister, so we have changed the name to ‘ROT’ rally.”
This weekend, the event lived up to its reputation, attracting visitors from across the nation.
“I drove 1,300 miles from Las
Vegas,” said Jerry Bowser, who has been riding his Harley-Da-vidson for 15 years. “[There’s a] good atmosphere — I like it.”
The number of women both in the parade and on the side-lines was also a testament to the diversity of the event.
“I’m the eye candy,” Houston resident Barbara Kippley said. “[The ROT rally] is quirky and fun. I guess anything can hap-pen in Austin.”
Also on the sidelines were spectators who came for the sole purpose of observing a unique culture.
“This is my first time,” said Richard Crow, a spectator from the Austin area. “I’m glad I came; it’s not what I expected.”
Beebe has learned that in los-ing Colorado and Nebraska, the Big 12 would only lose 8.2 per-cent of the league’s revenue in-stead of the projected 16 per-cent because of Colorado’s poor athletic performance in recent years.
Also interested in keeping the Big 12 intact are the teams that would be left out of the conference expansion. The Kansas City Star reported Satur-day that officials from Baylor Uni-versity, the Uni-versity of Kan-sas, Kansas State University, Iowa State University and the Univer-sity of Missouri had a confer-ence call to dis-cuss their desire to remain with the Big 12. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram report-ed that the Mountain West Con-ference, which added Boise State University on Friday, is showing interest in adding Kansas, Kan-sas State and Missouri.
Also stirring interest is what could be the end of a century-long rivalry between UT and Texas A&M University. Accord-ing to Orangebloods.com, the SEC
has an invitation waiting for Tex-as A&M. But the school has not ruled out the Pac-10 or staying in the Big 12.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, a former Aggie, doesn’t want to see an end to the Longhorn-Aggie ri-valry.
“It would be funny not to have a [football] game [between UT and Texas A&M] that doesn’t have conference championship
i m p l i c a t i o n s for the school around Thanks-giving,” Barton said.
Barton sees the school as a better fit with the SEC than with the Pac-10.
“It would be a lot easier with the fans, and it’s certainly more compatible than it is with the West Coast ,”
Barton said. “I would love to have Texas A&M and Texas go east, but if Texas is bound and determined to go to the Pac-10, I would recommend Texas A&M to go ahead and go to the [SEC].”
Although there has been men-tion of the SEC expressing in-terest in UT and OU, the Long-horns are likely to either go west or stay put in the Big 12.
are process-oriented values. They’re not based on results.”
Vernon, Boutz and Simpson all agreed that society, by and large, appreciates the scientif-ic method.
“The good news is that the values we stand for as scientists are in fact the prevailing val-ues within the culture,” Simp-son said. “[But] the bad news is that we do a terrible job of
communicating those values.”Russell focused on using me-
dia that are intuitive to most people, such as art and music, to convey scientific principles.
“I tend to be inspired by the science generally around me,” Russell said. “[So] I want to present science to a broader au-dience.”
Although the dates for the next discussions are not yet confirmed, Vernon said they hope to meet in the cafe at least
once a month.The founders and speakers
were adamant about the need for the general population to have an appreciation for scien-tific processes.
“The way things are going now, science is our future. If the general public doesn’t un-derstand [science], we’re going to be way behind the rest of the world,” UT researcher Michelle Gadush said. “Science affects every aspect of our lives.”
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—Joe Barton U.S. representative
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ROT: Rally gets bike lovers all revved up
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Above, Jonathan Kaplan and Josh McDowell of the San Antonio Tea Party rush through the Dallas Convention Center with a petition for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The petition is part of a national effort to unveil the proposed amendment on the National Mall in the Sept. 12 taxpayer march on Washington. Right, representatives of the Bay Area Republican Women, dressed as 1920s suffragists, participate in the breakfast hosted by the Texas Federation of Republican Women, where Kay Bailey Hutchison endorsed Rick Perry for governor Friday morning.
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Tillie Pope, a delegate from Williamson County, said she was backing Munisteri because he had more energy than Adams and be-cause she thought he’d do a bet-ter job showcasing the party’s key values.
Adams’ challenge to the com-mittee report lost by more than 20 percentage points. An attempt to nominate her as vice-chairwom-an was loudly booed and quickly withdrawn.
Immigration BattleWhile the convention leader-
ship had been able to largely side-step a minority report that rec-ommended the GOP take a more moderate position on providing a pathway to citizenship for ille-gal immigrants, the issue explod-ed when the platform committee attempted to insert one sentence that read, “We oppose illegal im-migration amnesty in any form, leading to citizenship or legal sta-tus for illegal immigration.”
More moderate delegates at-tempted to offer an amendment to that proviso, which would allow illegal aliens to become citizens if they successfully completed mil-itary service and were honorably discharged, as is current policy.
The proposal sparked a firestorm on the floor. Dozens of delegates stood to speak against the amend-ment. One, who couldn’t be iden-tified, took to the microphone and said, “As a former platoon leader, I would not allow an illegal alien to serve in my unit. They can’t be trusted.”
Another delegate said illegal immigrants should all be deport-ed. A third claimed gangs like MS13 had infiltrated the Ameri-can military because illegal aliens were allowed to serve.
Dianne Costa, chairwoman of the Latino National Republi-can Coalition of Texas and for-mer Highland Village mayor, said she wasn’t angry when the mea-sure passed, but was instead dis-appointed.
“It’s always going to get worse before it gets better,” she said. She pointed out that many Latinos
identified more with the Republi-can Party on social issues, but said the party’s rhetoric on immigra-tion made it harder to reach out to the Latino community.
“It will make it even more of a challenge,” Costa said.
Perry acceptsPolitical conventions are gener-
ally where parties that have been divided by bitter primary battles reunite around a common pur-pose — defeating their opposi-tion. The well-orchestrated events of Friday created an impression of a united party, which was upend-ed by Saturday’s tumult.
Friday morning, Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison stood side by side at Texas Federation of Repub-lican Women’s convention break-fast and made peace as Hutchison endorsed Perry, her opponent in a bitter primary fight in March.
Friday afternoon, Perry strode onto the stage, took his place at the podium beneath a big golden star and accepted his party’s nomina-tion to run for a third term in office.
“I believe in Texas,” he said. “And we have a noble calling to continue guiding our state.”
Perry framed his policy argu-ments in part by attacking Wash-ington, D.C., and what he called the failed policies of the Obama administration.
“We take offense at the unelect-ed bureaucrats who conspire to derail our energy industry,” he said, critiquing the EPA’s threat to federalize Texas’ permitting pro-cess for polluters that has been at-tacked by environmental groups for being too lax. “They tighten the red tape with which they bind us, choking the life out of impor-tant industries and laying waste the once-productive fields of our economy.”
His critique of the Obama ad-ministration spanned from at-tacking the health care reform legislation passed earlier this year to insisting that the expansion of the federal government meant a loss of personal liberties.
“As Washington steadily en-croaches on our freedoms, we must not be silenced by their criticism or intimidated by their
threats of litigation,” Perry said. “Instead, we must continue to speak with the freedoms guar-anteed us by the Constitution of this great country.”
Perry also didn’t waste any time attacking Democratic candi-date Bill White, saying that a vote for White would speed the Wash-ington takeover of Texas.
“Electing my opponent will accelerate Washington’s takeover of our state. Are you willing to accept that?” he asked the crowd,
which responded with a round of loud booing.
For its part, the White cam-paign responded with a state-ment an hour after the speech, attacking Perry’s handling of the state budget deficit.
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Monday, June 14, 2010 OPINION4THE DAILY TEXAN
GALLERY
Is Texas ready for a bald governor?
LEGALESEOpinions expressed in The Daily Texan are not necessarily
those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.
By Egu RamanathanDaily Texan Guest Columnist
Thank you for the music
THE FIRING LINE
By Benjamin MillerDaily Texan Guest Columnist
HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN
Unrestricted researchThe UT Oversight Committee made a wise de-
cision in allowing UT students the opportunity to conduct research and study abroad in nations marked with a U.S. State Department travel warn-ing.
Christian Clarke Casarez, director of interna-tional public affairs, told The Daily Texan of the decision, “With strong academic preparation and faculty support, our graduate students all have demonstrated a compelling reason [for] why they must travel to a restricted region. They also have demonstrated an understanding of the risks and a plan to mitigate those risks.”
While countries such as Israel, Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan contain elements of danger for any visitor, firsthand experience in these countries is vital for students at UT in fields such as Lat-in American studies and Middle Eastern studies, both of which are among the top programs of their kind in the nation. By not imposing travel restric-tions, UT may be taking a risk, but the students who choose to travel to these countries are fully aware of the dangers they face and should be ap-plauded for their willingness to face them for the sake of their academic advancement.
GALLERY
Editor-in-Chief: Lauren WinchesterPhone: (512) 232-2212E-mail: [email protected] Editors: Heath Cleveland Doug LuippoldDave Player Dan Treadway
The Texas gubernatorial election is less than five months away. Many of you won’t bother to vote; others will intend to but forget; and a slim minority will trek to the nearest polling place to dutifully select the candidate who will lead Texas for the next four years.
As the race heats up, the state and country are abuzz about this highly an-ticipated election. Because Gov. Rick Per-ry is so divisive, many believe Texas will elect its first Democratic governor since Ann Richards in 1991, which leads many to ask: “Is Texas ready for a Democratic governor?”
However, the real question regarding Democratic candidate Bill White’s chances of winning the election has less to do with his politics and more to do with what is — or is not — on his head.
Try as he might to hide it, White is a bald man — and that could be the key to his loss.
While the last Democratic governor was in office 20 years ago, the most recent bald governor was Preston Smith in 1969, more than 40 years ago. Time and time again, Texas voters have shown their unwilling-
ness to vote a bald candidate into the gov-ernorship, and for good reason — bald people are notoriously untrustworthy.
Lex Luthor, Superman’s greatest foe, is bald. Dr. Evil, Austin Powers’ archenemy, and Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the James Bond villain upon whom Dr. Evil is based, are both bald. Fiction has repeatedly shown us that men who lack hair on their heads also lack humanity in their hearts.
Even more troublesome for White is his opponent’s magnificent hair. Perry is well-known for the fashionably coiffed mop sprouting atop his thick head. In fact, much of Perry’s electoral appeal is based on his luscious locks. Exit polling from Perry’s 2002 Texas re-election victory in-dicate that the most important issue on voters’ minds, far above the economy and education, was the quality of each candi-date’s hair. Perry’s superior tresses helped him clinch the governorship over his less-er-haired opponent, Tony Sanchez.
Additionally, many believe Perry only received 38 percent of the vote in his 2006 re-reelection because he was forced to compete with Kinky Friedman’s thick mustache.
To overcome the political liability of his baldness, White must take imme-
diate action and cover his head. Fortu-nately, male pattern baldness is a subject well-traversed by medical science. A tou-pee, for example, is the perfect way to tell the world, “I’m self-conscious about my baldness but not sufficiently self-aware to realize how ridiculous I look.” Alterna-tively, White may be able to grow out his hair using Rogaine or the HairMax Laser-Comb. The former is a well-known topi-cal foam while the latter is a comb with lasers attached to it, making it useful for both hair growth and Powerpoint presen-tations.
If White’s hair follicles are beyond re-invigoration, then, as a last resort, I rec-ommend spreading Chia Pet seeds on his scalp and watering them vigorously, in the hopes he will grow a bed of sprouts resembling hair.
Growing a ‘fro must become White’s top campaign priority. No matter how much partisan showboating and pander-ing Perry indulges in, regardless of how many scandals surface in which he is com-plicit and no matter how incompetent or corrupt Perry may be, Texans still won’t elect a bald governor.
Miller is an applied learning and development junior.
Dormitories for petsStephens College, an all-women’s college in
Columbia, Mo., is renovating a dormitory to ac-commodate students whom own pets. The dorm, nicknamed “Pet Central,” will house students who bring small animals, mostly dogs or cats. The dorm will also include a kennel staffed by work-study students, according to The New York Times.
Stephens is among of a growing group of uni-versities, including elite schools such as MIT and Caltech, that allow dormitory residents to have small animals.
Last year, researchers at Ohio State Universi-ty conducted a study on pets and students that found that students who live with animals were less likely to experience loneliness, depression and stress. Additionally, the pet owners said their animals helped them to remain active and disci-plined. This study is part of a growing body of re-search about how pets help mitigate the emotion-al and psychological issues college students tra-ditionally face.
Every semester, UT offers “pet therapy dogs” as part of the “Stressfest” program aimed at re-ducing stress before finals. Seeing as the Counsel-ing and Mental Health Center is currently expe-riencing a record number of students seeking as-sistance in the coming semesters, a dormitory for students with pets is an idea worth examining.
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Perry’s scare tacticsGov. Rick Perry’s continued refusal to comply
with EPA regulations may result in Texas losing its ability to regulate its own environmental stan-dards.
Perry told the Austin American-Statesman, “The EPA is determined to ‘federalize’ our 16-year-old system. It’s a move that will kill tens of thou-sands of Texas jobs and effectively kick the legs out from under one of the strongest economies in the country during a time when our national economy remains on shaky ground.”
Since 1995, Texas policy has allowed corpora-tions to operate under pollution limits that do not comply with the Clean Air Act. Under the act, states are to set limits on individual production units within a plant, whereas Texas only sets a production limit for entire facilities and not their subunits.
Of course, what Perry neglects to mention is that job losses would only occur if certain corpo-rations were in fact violating pollution standards. Unsurprisingly, Perry is more interested in scar-ing voters with threats of job loss than with urg-ing CEOs to find an economically viable, envi-ronmentally sound solution to the problem.
While driving back from Houston the other day, I listened to “Number One Spot” by Ludacris — a song I had not heard in years. Naturally, I pumped up the volume and enthusiastically sang along.
Despite my subpar rapping skills, I was able to sing every last lyric of the song. Up until that moment, I assumed the lyrics had slipped out of my memory into obliv-ion. After all, I have no special connection with the song. There is no reason I should have an instant recall of every word — but I did.
Our ability to retain music lyrics is noth-ing short of phenomenal. Psychological studies suggest we do not actually lose memories; rather, the memories we consid-er forgotten are simply irretrievable, and there are a multitude of cues that allow us to recall memories.
In a recent blog post for Cognitive Dai-ly, psychologist Dave Muncher suggest-ed melodies can act as one of these pow-
erful memory cues. Song lyrics also pro-duce a certain rhythmic quality that helps in memory retrieval, and creates patterns that help us instill information into long-term memories.
In other words, remembering patterns in songs is often easier than recalling straight facts.
This made me wonder how much infor-mation I retained by learning with a song or melody in comparison with just memo-rizing facts.
In my eighth-grade algebra class , I learned the quadratic formula to the tune of “Frere a Jacques.” I am proud to say that if asked, I can undoubtedly repeat this for-mula without a problem.
Last week, I listened to a couple of friends sing “Fifty Nifty United States” — a musi-cal listing of our country’s states taught to elementary school students. While listen-ing to my friends sing, I discovered a dis-crepancy in our public education system — my friends learned different versions of the last stanza.
The song ends with “North, South, East,
West in our common, objective opinion ...” — and this is where the discrepancy aris-es. Someone had taught one of my friends to sing “Maryland is the best.” My oth-er friend, luckily, did not make that same flagrant error — she sang “Texas is the best.”
State pride aside, both of my friends were still able to recite each of the 50, nifty United States in alphabetical order. This is a skill I must admit I do not have, for I nev-er learned this enlightening masterpiece.
For some, a memorized song is the most powerful information-retention tool. If Weird Al Yankovic had a political agenda, disseminating his opinions through song would be pure genius.
The next time you’re racking your brain trying to figure out how to remember a mathematical formula or a series of histor-ical events for an exam, try writing the in-formation into a song. No matter how lame you may feel, you’re bound to remember it.
Ramanathan is an urban studies junior.
Closed meetings can be beneficialAfter spending the whole of the spring semester em-
broiled in the fight to keep the Cactus Cafe alive, I can confidently say that increasing transparency is one of the biggest challenges facing UT’s administration and decision-making entities. As our University communi-ty ventures further into the land of budget cuts, we stu-dents must continue to make it our priority to call for a certain degree of openness in all major decision-making processes. However, I disagree with Thursday’s editori-al, “Open the Doors.”
Often, a closed-door meeting simply facilitates more candid — and productive — conversation. Participants can share their honest thoughts and feelings without worrying about how they’ll be perceived (or misinter-preted) by the public, and they don’t have to worry about overly passionate individuals in attendance try-ing to hijack the discussion. During March and April, I had the opportunity to participate in some closed-door meetings myself, regarding (you guessed it) the Cac-tus Cafe, and I’m actually glad that the meeting was restricted to just the seven of us. Although there were thousands of other individuals in the UT and Austin communities who agreed with me and my position, the “Cactus conversation” meetings would not have been the best time or place for them to posit their thoughts and listen to ours.
That said, what is clearly missing from the current meeting in question is an open forum before the series of closed-door meetings to provide the public with an opportunity to express their unfettered opinions and perspectives directly to Dr. Vincent and the panel. I re-alize that there is an e-mail address to which the public has been invited to send its thoughts, but open forums — although heated — tend to shed the most light on what the public really thinks. President William Pow-ers Jr. earned a great amount of respect from me when he had the guts to do this at the beginning of the Cac-tus Cafe fiasco in February, and I think a similar gesture on the part of Dr. Vincent would be well-received by the community at large.
— Matt PortilloSG University-wide representative
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BP increases response before Obama’s visit to Gulf of Mexico
NEW ORLEANS — British Pe-troleum mounted a more aggres-sive response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as it de-ployed undersea sensors to bet-ter measure the ferocious flow of crude oil, while drawing up new plans to meet a government de-mand to speed up the containment effort ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the coast.
The financial ramifications of the disaster are growing by the day as the White House and states put pressure on BP to set aside bil-lions of dollars to pay spill-related claims in a move that could quick-ly drain the company’s cash re-serves and hasten its path toward possible bankruptcy.
BP was also trying to meet a Sunday deadline to respond to a letter from the Coast Guard de-manding that it intensify the ef-forts to stop the spill. One of the actions BP took Sunday was to use robotic submarines to position sen-sors inside the well to gauge how much oil is spilling.
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Nineteen dead in flash flood; one person still missing Friday
LANGLEY, Ark. — State po-lice say the death toll from a flash flood that tore through an Arkan-
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Holloway suspect claims innocence in Chilean killing
LIMA, Peru — Joran van der Sloot told police in Chile that it was an unidentified robber who beat a young woman to death in his hotel room, a killing for which the Dutchman has been charged with murder in Peru.
Peruvian police say Van der Sloot, long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Nata-lee Holloway, has confessed to kill-ing 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores on May 30 after they met playing poker.
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As the 2010 FIFA World Cup commenced Friday, soccer fans flocked to a number of local sports bars to watch the action. Among the patrons who visit-ed Pluckers Wing Bar in West Campus was the Texas Men’s Soccer club.
The club holds the distinc-tion of being the sole men’s or-ganization on campus to offer competitive soccer playing.
While there is an estab-lished Division 1 soccer program f o r w o m e n a t UT, men do not have the chance to participate at the NCAA level. The day before the World Cup kicked off , the Col lege Sports Council, a nation-al organization of coaches, parents, athletes and col-lege alumni, re-leased a study that detailed significant op-portunity gaps between male and female soccer players in recent years.
Information in the study came directly from the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate report card for the 2008-09 academ-ic year. The findings show that although there are 310 wom-en’s soccer teams, there are just 197 male teams. Likewise, fe-male athletes account for 8,117 of Division 1 players, while only 5,607 male players are re-corded throughout the nation in Division 1.
In 1996, when men’s and women’s soccer teams were n e a r l y e q u a l i n n u m b e r
throughout the nation, the U.S. Office for Civil Rights created a “safe harbor,” a term referenc-ing a mandated proportionality between both men and wom-en’s teams, under Title IX. In the years since then, the num-ber of female soccer teams and players has skyrocketed while the numbers among male play-ers have remained nearly stag-nant.
Southern Methodist Uni-versity in Dallas is the only school in Texas to offer a Di-
vision 1 soc-c e r p ro g r a m for men. Many i n c o m i n g c o l l e g e s t u -dents looking t o p l a y s o c -cer may have to reconsider which school to attend be-c a u s e o n l y a handful of u n i v e r s i t i e s across the na-tion offer soc-cer programs
with scholarship incentives for men, said Russell Gell-man, vice president of Texas Men’s Soccer.
Gellman said he had to con-sider the fact that he “didn’t want to sacrifice an education to go play somewhere else.”
The UT athletic department did not return phone calls by press time Sunday.
Many athletes desire to pur-sue a competitive sports ca-reer in college, and while UT doesn’t offer an NCAA soccer program for men, Texas Men’s Soccer does provide an outlet for students wishing to play soccer at a competitive level.
“Even though we’re not an
NCAA team, many people think we’re just an intramural team and everybody can try out. But there really is a high level of talent present,” Texas Men’s Soccer President Johnny Gordon said. “Being associated with the club is something we can really take pride in because the dedication is there from all members.”
Roughly 45 players constitute multiple men’s soccer teams in the soccer club. Texas Men’s Soccer has a long history of suc-cess and competes both in the state arena, with the Texas Col-legiate Soccer League, and on the national level, with the Na-tional Intramural-Recreation-al Sports Association national tournament.
Drew Bitter sings the national anthem with mem-bers of the Texas Men’s Soccer club before the U.S.’s match against England at the Pluckers Wing Bar in West Campus on Friday.
Mourin Nazim Daily Texan Staff
campus watchCan you hear me now?University Police Building, 2201 Rob-ert Dedman Dr.
Harassment: A UT student re-ported receiving four harassing text messages from his friend’s boyfriend. Reported June 10, at 11:26 p.m.
Call the locksmith!Parking Lot 108, 1500 Red River St.
Burglary of Motor Vehicle / Criminal Mischief (Criminal Epi-sode): Four UT students reported their vehicles had been burglar-ized or damaged while parked in
Parking Lot 108. During the inves-tigation, the officers learned three of the victims were not missing any property. The unknown sus-pect had broken either the pas-senger side or driver’s window of their vehicles. The fourth victim stated the following property had been removed from her vehicle: a Felt bicycle, Oakley sunglasses, 75 CDs, a Social Security card, sever-al credit cards and personal iden-tification. Loss value: $625.00. Oc-curred June 9, between 8:40 a.m. and 11:50 a.m.
Compiled by UTPD Officer Darrell Halstead
‘‘Being associated with the club is something
we can really take pride in ...”
— Johnny Gordon Texas Men’s Soccer
president
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Nestled in the Quarters apart-ment complex at 2700 Nueces St., Italian cafe Dolce Finale is a gem waiting to be discovered. The posh eggshell chairs and daybeds create a chic, upscale atmosphere that seems out of place in casual West Campus.
Which is exactly what the owner, Aliah Warmund, is counting on.
With fast-food restaurants an-choring West Campus, Warmund opened Dolce Finale as a fresh al-ternative for students. From gelato, espresso, sandwiches and salads to a variety of pastries, the cafe offers an upscale atmosphere at a decent price. And with free Wi-Fi, Dolce Finale is an ideal spot to spend an afternoon writing a term paper or just hanging out.
For $7, the cafe’s sandwiches are just large enough not to be consid-ered overpriced. Though the ingre-dients are light and simple, each sandwich is hearty and filling. The fresh, on-site-baked basil focaccia bread took the Finale panino — a sandwich akin to a turkey club — to another level.
Although Dolce Finale success-fully crafts sandwiches and salads,
pastries are more its forte, with two pastry chefs on staff.
The caramel tart is a light choco-late-flake brownie with a delicious layer of caramel on the bottom. This treat pairs perfectly with one of Dolce Finale’s caramel macchia-tos or cafe lattes.
Dolce Finale also serves hand-made gelato, a dessert as rich as ice cream without seeming thick and heavy. Since it’s pre-pared on-site, the gelato flavor combinations are endless. The chocolate banana has a distinct-ly fruity flavor that transitions into a chocolaty aftertaste. The flavors are potent, as the dream-sicle actually tastes like the ice-cream-truck classic.
The coffee selection is impres-
sive as well; it offers an espresso called “the victory blend,” which consists of a mixture of various coffee beans from near the equa-tor. This little shot offers sweet and zesty flavors that are rarely found in traditional coffee.
The only issue the restaurant may have to face is its lack of park-ing — a problem that Warmund plans to address by putting timers on the parking spots near her store.
Until then, the location is only con-venient for pedestrians and cyclists, as parking in West Campus can be a nightmare. As the summer heat sets in, having to hoof it for sever-al blocks may be more hassle than it’s worth. There is almost noth-ing less appealing than walking through 100-degree weather with a full stomach.
Once the fall semester begins, Dolce Finale will showcase enter-
tainment on the weekends. War-mund wants the cafe to become a hang-out alternative to bars.
By Madeleine CrumDaily Texan Staff
Fidgeting with the straw in his drink and quietly observ-ing the opening act before tak-ing the stage at the Capitol City Comedy Club, Dan French is a far cry from Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and other satirical, vi-vacious comedians who seem to epitomize American humor.
“I was always the quiet kid in school,” French said.
With bachelor ’s degrees in both English and journalism, and a Ph.D. in rhetoric, French’s aca-demic background has propelled him into a successful career per-forming stand-up, writing Em-my-nominated comedy sketch-es for such notable performers as David Letterman and George Lo-pez, producing “webisodes” and teaching improv classes.
“My degree is essentially an English degree, and, you know, jokes are delivered by words,” French said.
French began his comedic writing career with a job at “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” for Fox Sports in Los Angeles before moving on to “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” and “The Dennis Miller Show.”
“I’m more of a Dennis Miller writer, naturally,” French said. “He loves words and intricate metaphors.”
At “The Best Damn Sports Show Period,” French was a monologue writer, and had the opportunity to write humorous sketches for William Shatner and Jerry Springer. French cites Jack Black as his favorite per-former to work for, as Black’s
acting abilities complement his writing well.
“He’s a performer for sure, and he can be funny in person, too. But he can turn it on and off,” French said.
Despite writing for and min-gling with celebrities, French denies that a career in comedy writing is all glamour.
“It’s still a job,” French said. “Like anything else, you have to show up and produce quali-ty work.”
With his comedy-writing ca-reer in full swing, French de-cided to expand his repertoire by trying his hand at stand-up. While teaching at the Uni-versity of Louisville, he be-gan working as a bartender at a club called Funny Farm and eventually worked up the nerve to perform.
“Stand-up is a lot different than TV, where a lot of the hu-mor is topical,” French said. “[In stand-up] you have your ever-greens, your jokes that are al-ways funny, and you use them again and again.”
This theory is evident through-out his routine, as the bulk of his jokes center around a sub-ject that everyone can relate to: sleep. As he makes jabs at the unhealthily alarming nature of alarms and mocks insomniacs and cuddlers, French’s mono-logue is met with roars of laugh-ter and applause.
“There’s no such thing as a trite topic. For a while, they were saying that jokes about air-ports were hackneyed, but ev-ery comic has a new and differ-ent take on things,” French said.
In addition to writing and per-forming stand-up, French enjoys teaching the ins and outs of his profession. He taught a televi-
sion-writing course at UT and offers small improv courses in his home. Former students have gone on to work for “Saturday Night Live” and win “Last Com-ic Standing.”
“One thing you have to learn to do is crowd work,” French said. “If an audience isn’t re-sponding, you ask them ques-tions and joke about things, like
what they do for a living.”French’s more current work
inc ludes wri t ing and pro -ducing short sketches for the Web, which parody every-thing from “SportsCenter” to late-night infomercials.
“The Internet is a tricky place for comedy because a lot of peo-ple want to make parodies, but they don’t have the rights to
things like songs and TV clips,” French said. “For our ‘SportsCen-ter’ parody we had to use old, old black-and-white footage.”
His next big project will ven-ture into a new realm of come-dy, as he will be collaborating with the producer of “Two and a Half Men” to write a new show, “Mike and Molly.”
Though he enjoys the more pro-
fessional comedy scenes in New York and L.A., French plans to stay in Austin, where his family lives. His children, ages 7 and 10, both enjoy his work, and he of-ten performs puppet routines for their elementary school classes.
“I’ve never felt like more of a rock star,” French said, “than I did while putting on a show for my kids and their friends.”
By Mark LopezDaily Texan Staff
“History repeats itself,” Amer-icana singer-songwriter Josh Rit-ter said. “I love that [saying] and think it’s true. When you’re inter-ested in history, it’s being interest-ed in story. These are things that happen to people. It helps us live our own lives.”
With relying on his own thoughts about historical events and biblical allusions in his lyr-ics, it’s hard to deny that Josh Rit-ter has a way with contextualizing his lyrics and creating an effortless window through which listeners feel like a part of a bigger picture.
Ritter is currently on tour with his group, The Royal City Band, in support of his sixth studio al-bum, So Runs the World Away. When asked how his latest album compares to his previous work, Ritter demonstrates ambivalence and modesty concerning his sty-listic changes.
“I never compare them,” Rit-
ter said. “They’re pretty large and complex, and I worked re-ally hard on it. But, as records go, I find it really impossible to compare. But I’m really proud of it. I feel like it’s my first re-cord as an adult.”
Ritter’s modesty can be linked to his slow rise as a name in American music. Despite releas-ing his first album in 1999, Ritter didn’t gain widespread critical ac-claim until the 2006 release of his fourth album, The Animal Years. But once the album was released, Ritter garnered praise and appre-ciation for his creative brand of rock ‘n’ roll, folk and Americana. From being named one of Paste magazine’s “100 Greatest Living Songwriters” of 2006 to receiving public support from fan Stephen King, 2006 launched Ritter into the spotlight.
But even in the limelight, Rit-ter is about as unpretentious as a person can be. When asked whom he would most like to work with in the future, his response was as quirky as it was nonchalant.
“Ben Franklin,” Ritter said. “I like him. He invented electricity, which is pretty rock ‘n’ roll.”
Ritter’s zany obsession with history also has led him to appre-ciate Texas as a historical hub for the genre of music that he creates. Knowing that folk legends such as Nanci Griffith and Robert Earl Keen Jr. hail from Texas, Ritter seems to feel right at home play-ing for an Austin audience.
“I grew up listening to some great Texas writers, like Butch Hancock and Townes Van Zandt,” Ritter said. “I’m just hap-py to be playing. And to play at a venue like Antone’s in the sum-mertime, well, that’s just a dream come true.”
Comedy writer shines onstage with stand-up act
Madeleine Crum | Daily Texan Staff
Comedian Dan French performs onstage at the Capitol City Comedy Club, located on Research Boulevard. French was a writer for “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” before he started performing his own stand-up comedy.
Cafe ‘sweetens the pot’ with decadent desserts Folk songwriter combines history with rock in lyrics
Ryan Smith | Daily Texan Staff
Dolce Finale, a cafe located in West Campus, offers an array of des-serts, sandwiches, beverages and gelato.
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By Chris TavarezDaily Texan Staff
The sound of the ball hit-ting Matt Curry’s outstretched glove on first base — for the final out of the game — was all TCU needed to hear.
Then it was a mad dash for shal-low center field, where the Horned Frogs all dog-piled on the burnt-orange Longhorn logo as they cel-ebrated their 4-1 win over Tex-as to clinch their first appearance in the College World Series in the school’s history.
But the celebration for TCU had begun earlier in the game, when Aaron Schultz sent a 2-2 slider from Chance Ruffin over the left-field fence for a two-run home run that put TCU up 3-0 in the bottom of the seventh.
“I was looking for a good pitch to hit, and he started me off with two fastballs that I probably should have swung at,” Schultz said. “I was just looking for him to make a mistake with his slid-er, which is a really good pitch, and he did. I just put a good swing on it.”
Brandon Workman started for Texas, and despite only giving up one earned run on four hits and throwing 65 pitches, he was pulled for Ruffin, who had six wins and 14 saves.
“I think we had a good recipe for success, one that’s been good to us,” head coach Augie Garrido said when asked if he pulled his starter too early. “TCU was able to do something with Chance that no one else has been able to do. I real-ly don’t second-guess that thought just because of what happened. No one wishes it didn’t happen
more than he does.”Ruffin gave up three runs on
two homers after having giv-en up only five earned runs and two homers in 36 appearances this season.
“You really wish you could have it back and do it all over again,” Ruffin said. “It’s just an [indescrib-ably] bad feeling.”
TCU first scored in the top of the fifth. Leadoff batter Taylor Feath-erston hit a double to right cen-
ter, but advanced to third when right fielder Kevin Keyes’ throw bounced through the infield and all the way to the backstop.
Jason Coats immediately brought Featherston home when he sent Workman’s 1-2 delivery down the first baseline to put the Frogs up 1-0.
Texas found itself with plen-ty of chances to take an early lead against TCU starter Kyle Winkler when it had men on second and
third base in the first inning, Kev-in Lusson on third in the second inning and Keyes on third in the fourth inning. But all three times, the Horns were unable to bring any of them home. Texas left 10 runners stranded on base.
“It was kind of frustrating when you leave runners on base, espe-cially in a big game like this when it’s win or go home,” Kevin Lus-son said. “But, we gotta look at it as another challenge, and you
try to build off it and try to im-prove the next inning, but it just didn’t happen.”
Texas scored its only run of the game in the bottom of the ninth — with one out left in its season — when pinch hitter Paul Montalba-no scored on a throwing error by Jerome Pena.
Texas advanced to Sunday’s championship game after blowing out TCU 14-1 to even the series, af-ter losing the opener Friday 3-1.
By Austin Ries Daily Texan Staff
Texas’ desperate ninth-inning attempt for one more base runner, one more run and one more look at TCU closer Tyler Lockwood was a perfect picture of its offen-sive performance all day Sunday — missed opportunities. It ended with another runner left stranded in scoring position as Jordan Wey-mouth rolled over a final cutting fastball toward second baseman Jerome Pena.
And as first baseman Matt Cur-ry squeezed that final out, send-ing a sea of white and purple over the dugout railing, the squad of Horned Frogs that couldn’t take down the Longhorns a year ago
sprinted toward center field before piling on top of one another on the steer head behind second base.
At least, that’s the way it looked.“I was just looking for the first
person to grab, and that’s where it happened to be,” winning pitcher Kyle Winkler said, noting that the location of the dogpile didn’t have anything to do with the Longhorn logo’s location.
All the Longhorns could do was watch. Some still with their hats on backwards, some sitting down, kneeling or standing with their hands on their heads — all were crushed.
A little more than 24 hours after pummeling the Frogs for 14 runs, the Longhorn bats fell silent — stranding 10 runners on base with six in scoring position and three on third — in Sunday’s 4-1 loss.
It was a series of “could’ve beens” and “what ifs” for Texas.
What if Cole Green didn’t catch
his cleat Friday afternoon, trans-forming an intentional walk into a wild pitch and a two-run inning?
If only Russell Moldenhauer’s two-out grounder down the first baseline somehow maneuvered its way past a diving Curry to bring home Tant Shepherd and Cohl Walla in the first inning Sunday.
How does Aaron Schultz, who was 0-for-8 for the weekend, turn on a fastball from Chance Ruffin, the best closer in college baseball, and blast it over the left-field wall and into the trees to give TCU a 3-0 lead?
“It’s always difficult to deal with the unexpected,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “This is what I’m talking about when I say this is a cruel game. This is one of those moments where it is absolutely heartbreaking and gut-wrenching.”
Schultz wasn’t done with the
Horns. Half an inning later, the sophomore drove a dagger deep-er into Texas’ heart when he ran down Shepherd’s leadoff line drive to center field to make an over-the-shoulder catch before slamming into the wall.
“I just knew that a ball was go-ing to be hit to me,” Schultz said. “I felt like I was flying out there.”
Maybe he did know. Maybe for that moment Schultz had just enough adrenaline to squash Tex-as’ hopes at a comeback five outs before dog-piling a few feet in front of him.
It was that kind of day for the Horned Frogs, who proved to be the better team in possibly the most evenly matched super re-gional series in the nation.
“I thought I was going to be sick if this team doesn’t play in Omaha simply because we’re playing an-other team that belongs in Omaha,”
TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle said. Schlossnagle felt just fine. Texas
just never took advantage of its op-portunities. Even in innings when the leadoff runner got on base — which happened only once Sun-day and five times all weekend — the Horns didn’t make TCU pay.
And unlike last season, when Texas seemed to have as much magic as Rodgers and Hammer-stein, the late-inning heroics never came into play and the TCU team that had been building up to this mo-ment for seven years finally has its chance at the championship.
“I can’t even find the words to describe it,” Ruffin said after the loss. “It’s like a bad dream.”
Garrido said Sunday’s game would be a war with nine battles. The Horns just let one too many chances to build momentum slip away, giving TCU a dream of its own in Omaha.
SIDELINE
NBALakers 86Celtics 92
WORLD CUPAlgeria 0Slovenia 1
Serbia 0Ghana 1
Germany 4Australia 0
MLBCardinals 5Diamondbacks 7
Phillies 5Red Sox 3
White Sox 0Cubs 1
Nationals 9Indians 4
Royals 7Reds 3
Pirates 3Tigers 4
Rangers 7Brewers 2
Astros 5NY Yankees 9
Blue Jays 3Rockies 10
NY Mets 11Orioles 4
Mariners 4Padres 2
Marlins 6Rays 1
Athletics 2Giants 6
Braves 7Twins 3
LA Angels 6LA Dodgers 5
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By Ryan BetoriDaily Texan Staff
Texas freshman Marquise Good-win took the gold in the long jump as the Longhorns tied for 17th place at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Sat-urday. Goodwin’s winning jump was one inch away from his life-time-best of 26-10.
“First off, I just want to thank God,” Goodwin said. “I feel real-ly blessed with all the things that happened this year. I had to battle through an injury, so to be able to come out and be at my best dur-ing the end of the year was great.The crowd was really into it, and I was so amped up for the finals, I just didn’t get on the board. But, I thought I put the pressure on with my first jump, and I’m glad it held up.”
Freshmen Hayden Baillio and Keiron Stewart also stood out, as Baillio finished sixth in the shot put with a personal best of 61-
7.5, and Stewart claimed seventh in the 110-meter hurdles, becom-ing the first Longhorn to earn All-America honors in the event since Jermaine Cooper in 2002.
“We finished in the top 20 again, so we’re happy about that,” head coach Bubba Thornton said. “Ev-ery one of our individual perform-ers was making their first trip to the national meet, so we think we can build on this.”
For the women’s track and field team, last week’s championship brought a crushing culmination to what was otherwise a promising season. Recording a lowly three points, the team placed 51st at the meet. Having placed in the top 10 in 15 of the past 16 years, the finish comes as one of the most disap-pointing in recent memory. Mak-ing matters worse, Texas A&M, a perennial conference rival and a team the Longhorns challenged all year, took the title with 72 points.
The team ended day one in a
solid position — the Longhorns’ mile relay team secured a spot in the finals, and Chantel Ma-lone garnered a respectable ninth-place finish in the triple jump. But on day two, the tremors of an im-pending storm began to surface.
Although Angele Cooper, Jor-dyn Brown and Mia Behm all made a good effort in their respec-tive events, it just wasn’t enough to propel the team to champi-onship position. Cooper placed eighth in the 400 hurdles, Brown finished 14th in the shot put, and Behm collected a 15th-place fin-ish in the 5,000. All of these fin-ishes were solid — Cooper even earned an All-American bid — but they didn’t give the Longhorns the push the team needed.
With this, the sixth-ranked Long-horns entered the final day of com-petition with little hope of collect-ing the national title that had once seemed so attainable. Malone, the reigning Big 12 long jump champi-
on, finished 13th in the event and failed to record a personal best. The song was very much the same for the defending national cham-pion 4x400 relay team, and the group placed seventh.
Both the men and women will be returning the nucleus of their team. With so many freshmen al-ready stepping up, next year’s season seems to be brimming with promise.
Horns’ dream of Omaha crushed
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DALLAS — Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young received an assault citation after getting into a fight at a Dallas strip club and leaving before authorities ar-rived early Sunday, police said.
Surveillance video footage re-leased by police showed the for-mer University of Texas star and several people talking in a small room before Young attacked some-one in the room. Others tried to break up the fight.
Young wasn’t at Club Onyx when police responded to a call about the fight, Dallas police Lt. Andy Harvey said.
Harvey said an investigation led to Young receiving a Class C as-sault citation, punishable by a fine up to $500.
Titans spokesman Robbie Bohren said the team was aware of the incident and had contacted Young. He said the team was still gathering information.
Titans coach Jeff Fisher was holding his annual charity softball game Sunday night in Nashville. Young was not on the early list of players committed to appear in the game.
The Titans resume on-field ses-sions Monday.
Young, the No. 3 pick overall in 2006, got his starting job back last fall when Tennessee started 0-6 and owner Bud Adams put him back in the lineup. He helped the Titans win eight of their final 10 and heads into his fifth NFL season with a 26-13 record as a starter.
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Texas’ loss is ‘like a bad dream’ as TCU makes first trip to nationals
Vince Young receives assault citation after at a strip club fight
Schultz’s two-run home run sends TCU over the top and all the way
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Texas’ 4x400-meter relay team finished seventh in this weekend’s NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Texas pitcher Chance Ruffin covers his face after letting TCU’s Aaron Schultz send a 2-2 slider over the left-field fence for a two-run home run, putting the Horned Frogs in a lead they kept. The team will head to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.