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ALANIZ NEAR PERFECT
BROWNSVILLE BEAT
MARLEY FEST
TUNA REUNION
Freshman Adrian Alaniz
threw a no-hitter against
Oklahoma as Texas swept.
Oscar Casares wrote a
collection of stories about
the Texas-Mexico border.
Thousands gathered to
celebrate the life and
music of Bob Marley.
“Red, White and Tuna,”
begins at the Paramount
Theatre on April 19.
SPORTS
FOCUS
NEWS
ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 8B
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THE DAILY TEXAN
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Monday, April 18, 2005
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Kerry says Austin hosts Art Car Parade
new plan
helps kids
Decorated vehicles line
Congress Avenue for
third annual gathering
By Megan Headley
Daily Texan Staff
John Kerry
speaks at
a panel
hosted by
UDems on
Saturday.
Kerry discussed his
proposed
children’s
health care
plan.
Ben Sklar
Daily Texan Staff
Bill would expand Medicaid,
CHIP coverage for minors
By Marie Delahoussaye
Daily Texan Staff
Former Democratic presidential candidate U.S.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, promoted his healthcare program at a city-hall-style forum held on
campus Saturday.
Kerry’s bill, the Kids Come First Act, would
increase federal Medicaid funding and expand
the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Kerry said children’s health insurance is a critical first step to meeting the needs of American
families. He criticized President Bush’s tax policy
and lamented the growing economic burdens
imposed by globalization that are squeezing
American families out of health care.
“In the wealthiest country in the world, it’s
an outrage that there are children going without immunizations, asthma medicine and basic
health-care needs,” Kerry said.
Kerry said his bill would provide coverage for
11 million children who cannot afford private
insurance and currently don’t qualify for CHIP or
Medicaid. The act would fully finance Medicaid
programs, which states now spend $10 billion on
annually.
In return for free federal Medicaid coverage
of families with incomes at or below the federal
poverty line — $15,670 annual income for a family of three — states would agree to expand CHIP
coverage.
CHIP would expand coverage to families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level,
or $47,010 annual income for a family of three.
The federal government would continue to
match state money spent on CHIP at $2.65 to the
state’s dollar, and coverage would be expanded
to include 19- to 21-year-olds.
Kerry’s bill would also require states to make
their CHIP programs more accessible and continuous.
Texas currently has the highest rate of uninsured children in the nation at 22 percent, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
During the 78th Legislature, state CHIP funding
was substantially cut, benefits were cut, and eligibility requirements changed.
Parade spectators on Congress
Avenue cheered every time Houston
sculptor Mark Bradford hopped
down from the reins of “Rancha,” his
giant black and silver walking spider,
and successfully restarted the engine.
The spider is a four-cylinder street
sweeper motor that powers a hydraulic pump. Eight silver, spoon-covered
legs move back and forth, and the
pincers in front of the head open
and close. Bradford stands atop the
creature using electrical switches and
wires in the reins to operate various
controls to make the spider walk.
“It’s half machine, half animal. I
am the Scrap Daddy because I father
recycled materials into living stuff,”
Bradford said.
“Rancha” is just one example of
more than 100 transformed cars,
bicycles, boats, roller skates, buses
and lawn mowers that made their
way down a two-mile stretch of
Congress Avenue on Saturday in the
West Austin News’ third annual Art
Car Parade. After the procession, the
artists parked their vehicles at the
Congress Avenue Baptist Church for
an afternoon “Car-nival,” flaunting
their stuff for about 8,000 visitors.
Proceeds of the event go to VSA
arts of Texas and Austin Partners In
Education, two nonprofit organizations promoting fine arts education.
“It’s amazing because there’s such
a broad spectrum of people that do
it,” said Katie Jane Bothum, event
coordinator.
West Austin News publisher Bart
Stephens also pointed out the wide
variety of participants.
“There’s a guy with a T-shirt that
says, ‘Goddamn the moral majority,’
and a Vietnam veteran with his Texas
freedom-fighter truck,” Stephens
said.
Whether their creation is a political
statement, self-expression, humor or
the triumph of man over machine,
the car artists have one thing in common: They stand out.
Architect Kathy Panak drives “The
Golden Pony,” a shiny, gold, glitter- and bead-splattered sports utility
vehicle based on the art of Gustav
Klimt. The biggest challenge of her
art car is being so noticeable, she
said.
“You’ve got to be a nice driver,”
Panak said.
Donna Munson, retired special
education teacher and Houston driver of “R U Game?” said, “Every trip
to Target is a major experience.”
The car is a game-lover’s entertainment dream. Every square inch is
covered with glued games and game
pieces from 64 games. More than
Above, the Austin Art Car Parade travels
down Congress Avenue on Saturday
afternoon. The parade, which is in its
third year, consisted of vans, bicycles, gocarts, motorbikes, and buses as well as
cars. Left, Autumn Haws-Shaddock, 4, of
Austin, decorates the tire of an art car at a
festival next to Congress Avenue Baptist
Church that included music, food, and an
opportunity to ask car owners about their
themed automobiles after the parade.
Photos by Jessica Talley
Daily Texan Staff
ART continues on page 2A
KERRY continues on page 2A
State recognizes
need for diabetes
prevention plan
Karla
Gonzalez,
a graduate
student, and
Cheo Jacob, a
Spanish and
Portuguese
junior, perform
a traditional
Latin dance on
Friday as part
of the Grupo
Flor y Canto.
RIDING FOR A CAUSE
High risk for type 2 diabetes
blamed on sedentary habits
By Zachary Warmbrodt
Daily Texan Staff
Despite problems finding practice space, groups in Friday’s Flor y Canto
2005 performance at the Texas Union Theater said they consider their first
cultural arts performance a success.
Flor y Canto 2005 was a Latino cultural presentation of theater, poetry,
traditional dance and salutes by four organizations on campus: Grupo Flor y
Canto, Lambda Theta Phi, Lambda Theta Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the Texas
Latin Dance Club. Flor y Canto, which means flowers and song, is a Latino
historical practice of passing down cultural traditions through the arts.
Half of Texas children born after the year 2000 will
develop diabetes unless the state changes its prevention strategies, said Department of State Health Services
Commissioner Dr. Eduardo Sanchez in his keynote
speech at the Diabetes Summit on Friday.
“This could be the first generation of Texans whose
life expectancy is shorter than their parents,” said
Sanchez. “It’s our fault.”
In his speech at the summit sponsored by the
American Diabetes Association, Sanchez focused on the
state’s growing numbers of obese and diabetic people,
especially children, and blamed sedentary habits and
sleep deprivation. He illustrated an alarming picture
of the next generation of Texans, many of whom have
already been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes — caused
mainly by obesity and considered largely preventable
— as children.
EVENT continues on page 7A
DIABETES continues on page 2A
Craig Bland
Daily Texan Staff
Latino students present Flor y Canto
Cultural event designed to showcase dance, theatrics
By Samantha Stiles
Daily Texan Staff
Index
Volume 105, Number 128
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World & Nation ................ 3A
Opinion ............................... 4A
News ........................................7A
Focus........................................6A
Sports.......................................1-4B
Classifieds.........................5B&6B
Craig Bland | Daily Texan Staff
Cyclists in the 2005 BP MS 150 race up Congress Avenue on Sunday. The 180mile ride began in Houston and raised money for multiple sclerosis.
Comics....................................7B
Entertainment...................8B
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T HE DAILY TEXAN
enrollment ART: Cars
in CHIP feature of proposal From page 1A
KERRY: Automatic
From page 1A
Texas families are required to
renew CHIP every six months,
which has led to decreased enrollment.
Kerry’s bill would mandate
continuous and automatic enrollment.
“You go to day care, you’re
enrolled. You go to school, you’re
enrolled,” Kerry said.
Kerry also talked about rejuvenating American democracy
through continuous engagement.
“What we need to do is put
accountability back into our
democracy and back into our
political process,” Kerry said.
Kerry said he felt more energized than ever and is optimistic about the growth of the
Democratic Party.
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“I don’t buy into the notion
that the party is out of touch,” he
said. “We are building a strong
grass-roots coalition, and I am
really committed to helping our
party win back seats in the House
and Senate in the 2006 midterm
elections.”
Kerry said his health-care initiative fits into a wider focus on
preparing America’s children to
be successful citizens.
He said the Kids Come First
Act epitomizes the moral values
that have dominated the political
debate.
“Politicians of both parties all
walk and talk about the importance of children,” Kerry said.
“What they ought to be doing is
reflecting the ethics of America
and changing the law to provide health care to every single
American.”
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6,000 marbles, 1,400 dominoes
and 1,900 dice add 400 pounds
to the vehicle, said Donna’s husband Kevin, a computer analyst. Boards from games like
Chutes and Ladders, Operation,
Checkers, Sorry and Hungry
Hungry Hippos plaster the sides
and top of the car. A contraption spews out bubbles from
the back, and a giant Mr. Potato
Head ornaments the hood. Red
dice spell out “R U Game?” on
the dash.
The couple acquired the games
mostly from garage sales, Target
and gifts from friends and art
car spectators who know them,
Donna said. The pieces are glued
on with a waterproof silicon glue,
and Kevin has to use a hammer
and chisel to get them off when
he wants to make a change.
“Most people with art cars
would tell you they’re never finished,” said Tim Klein, computer
programmer in Dallas and owner
of “The Yarn Car.”
Klein’s car, completely cov-
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About 1.3 million Texans have
been diagnosed with diabetes
and a third of Texans have diabetes but don’t know it, Sanchez
said. Predictions show that 33
percent of males and 40 percent
of females born after 2000 will
develop diabetes, he said.
Sanchez also said a racial disparity exists: One-third of white
children born today will develop
diabetes, while two out of five
blacks and half of Hispanics
will.
“There are some amongst us
who believe obesity is a personal
choice,” said Sanchez. “While I
won’t disagree with you when it
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out of it.”
Ben Dover of Houston took a
humorous approach to his car
“Stu-Dent Driver.” When his
grandmother totalled her Buick
by running a four-way stop sign,
he saw art car potential after he
knew she was okay.
The vehicle now sports a few
other dents, several orange cones
and street signs proclaiming
“One Way” and “Dead End.”
A telephone pole with raccoon
road-kill on the front end is bolted across the roof of the car and
sways back and forth as Dover
drives. A pair of legs with roller
blades drag behind the car. As
Dover alternately speeds up and
screeches to a halt, he explains
through a loudspeaker, “I’m really not a very good driver.”
“The suspension of the car is
modified for the crazy, out-ofcontrol driving effect,” Dover
said. “Ironically, you have to be
a really good driver to hold that
thing on the road.”
Despite the risks, thousands of
spectators flock to art car events.
“If you’re always concerned
with what other people think, it’s
interesting to see someone who
has complete, unabashed craziness,” Bothum said.
Jessica Talley | Daily Texan Staff
This Mercedes is one of many
classic art cars that have been
creatively altered from their less
interesting original appearances
for the Art Car Parade.
programs aim for prevention
comes to adults — there’s absolutely a personal component to it
— I think you have to agree we
can only blame ourselves for the
fact that children in this country
are the fattest children in the
world.”
He called for a greater investment in public health services
to help prevent obesity, adding
that, historically, the average life
expectancy has been affected
more by public health projects
instead of direct medical treatment.
Dr. Adolfo Valadez, medical
director for the Travis County
Health and Human Services
Department and summit cochair, said diagnoses of diabetes
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in Travis County have increased
almost 40 percent since 1998.
About 7 percent of Travis county
residents have diabetes, Valadez
said.
Valadez said Travis County
Health and Human Services is
attempting to prevent diabetes
and obesity through its Steps
to Healthier Austin program,
founded in 2003, which uses
federal funding to educate
children and adults at schools,
churches and in the workplace.
The program’s health-care providers also try to provide those
at risk with the appropriate
medical services.
“We’ve created communitywide partnerships with multiple
organizations to address diabetes at multiple levels,” said
Valadez. “What we’re doing is
increasing awareness about diabetes, screening for diabetes and
improving health-care systems
so patients with diabetes get better care.”
Lisa Butterworth, a student
health services manager for
Austin Independent School
District, has been helping to
implement the Steps program at
Sanchez and Walnut Creek elementary schools. Butterworth
said of the almost 900 kindergarten, first-, third- and fifthgrade students screened for
obesity, 40 percent were considered at-risk or were overweight.
Step’s case management services connected the children’s
families with healthy eating
classes and YMCA activity. The
students’ progress will be measured in May.
Kellee Flemmons, a supervising nurse for three Round Rock
Independent School District
elementary schools, attended
the summit and agreed with
Sanchez’s diagnosis of children’s
lack of physical activity.
Earlier in the semester,
Flemmons checked 600 fifthand third-graders at three
Round Rock schools for acanthosis, a black skin pigmentation caused by Type 2 diabetes
and obesity. She said 30 students were referred to physicians.
Flemmons said children don’t
have adequate physical education in school or enough safe
places to play at home.
“I just think it’s our society
today,” Flemmons said. “The
media scares you. They put
out all the news about kids getting swiped out of their front
yards, and it makes you very
conscious.”
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ered in swirling green, blue,
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is modelled after the Huichol
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The Mexican tribe uses beeswax
to make the yarn stick, and Klein
experimented with glue, contact
paper and stapling to vinyl sheeting before he settled on Velcro.
Some art cars take more permanent changes than glue, Velcro or
paint. Johnny Rojas, a Houston
welder and metal artist, welded
his gray convertible into “Bat
Wing” with 250 hours of labor.
Two giant bat wings flank the
rear of the car, and webs decorate
the dashboard.
“I had the car for 13 years
before I destroyed it,” Rojas said.
“Modified it,” corrected passenger Cynthia Lyttle.
Art cars are about self-expression for Rojas.
“Nobody wants a straight-outof-the-box vehicle,” Rojas said.
“Behind every vehicle there’s
a story. Subconsciously I was
afraid of bats. Now that I’ve
studied them, they’re pretty neat
little creatures. It brought the fear
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T HE DAILY TEXAN
WORLD & NATION BRIEFS
Ecuadorean president calls
off state of emergency
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s
president called off a state of
emergency in the capital on
Saturday — less than 24 hours
after imposing it — as thousands
of Ecuadoreans defied his ban on
demonstrations and demanded
his resignation.
Speaking on national television,
President Lucio Gutierrez said he
was annulling the decree he had
imposed Friday night suspending
civil liberties. He said he maintained his decision to dismiss the
Supreme Court because public
unrest over the selection of the
judges in December had provoked the street marches.
In Quito, the capital, residents
took to the streets by the thousands, honking horns and banging pots and pans across the city.
The military, which under the
state of emergency was charged
with maintaining public order,
was not evident during the
peaceful demonstration.
Cardinals destroy pope’s
ring, reign formally over
VATICAN CITY — Cardinals
destroyed Pope John Paul II’s ring
and lead seal Saturday to formally
end his reign, while the Vatican
expressed confidence that jamming devices and other unprecedented precautions would keep
the name of the new pope secret
until it is announced to the world
from a balcony overlooking St.
Peter’s Square.
The destruction of John Paul’s
Fisherman’s Ring and the seal
marked a symbolic end of the
pope’s 26-year reign and came
during the cardinals’ last meeting
before they sequester themselves
in the Sistine Chapel beginning
Monday to choose a successor.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin
Navarro-Valls said “specialized technicians” of the Vatican
Gendarmeria had made sure no
communications could emerge
from the chapel and he said
he was confident that no leaks
would emerge from the conclave.
Fuel problem brings end to
NASA robotic test mission
LOS ANGELES — A NASA robotic spacecraft located a Pentagon
satellite in space without any help
from human controllers, but the
mission ended early when the
computer-driven craft detected
a fuel problem, the mission manager said Saturday.
The experimental DART spacecraft — short for Demonstration
of Autonomous Rendezvous
Technology — had moved to
within 300 feet of the satellite
orbiting 472 miles above the
Earth but backed off late Friday,
about 11 hours into the mission,
manager Jim Snoddy said.
The spacecraft was supposed to
have maneuvered around the satellite, getting as close as 15 feet,
for another 12 hours. After the
problem arose, the 800-pound
craft began coasting; it will eventually disintegrate in orbit.
There were some navigation
errors but no indication of a fuel
leak, he said in a conference
call. A NASA investigation board
will search for the cause of the
problem.
Compiled from Associated Press
reports
Iraqi forces raid town, rescue Shiite hostages
By Thomas Wagner
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces raided a town in central
Iraq and freed some 15 Shiite families being held hostage on Sunday,
an official said, after Sunni militants threatened to kill dozens of
captives unless all Shiites left the
area.
The government said it was trying to resolve the standoff peacefully, while Shiite lawmakers
called for action to stop “terrorist
groups from promoting sectarian
violence.”
Security forces, who had the
town of Madain surrounded,
began raiding sites Saturday in
search of those abducted, said
Qassim Dawoud, the minister in
charge of national security.
Witnesses said road blocks were
set up and no one was allowed to
leave or enter the town of about
1,000 families some 15 miles southeast of Baghdad. But shops opened
and the streets were calm.
Iraqi forces had freed about
15 Shiite families, said Haidar
Khayon, an official at the Defense
Ministry in Baghdad. He said five
hostage-takers were captured in a
skirmish with light gunfire, but no
casualties were reported.
Iraq’s most feared terror group,
meanwhile, accused the Shiitedominated government of making
the whole thing up.
The hostage crisis began
Thursday when Sunni militants
attacked a Shiite mosque with
explosives. Haitham Husseini,
a spokesman for the Supreme
Council for Islamic Revolution in
Iraq, the country’s largest Shiite
group, said the mosque was badly
damaged. The next day, Husseini
said about 100 masked militants
drove through Madain, capturing
Shiites. Shiite leaders and government officials estimated 35 to 100
people were taken hostage.
Other retaliatory kidnappings
by Sunni and Shiite groups have
occurred in the violent, ethnically
mixed region, but the abductions
appeared to be the first attempt by
insurgents to forcibly evacuate a
town along sectarian lines.
Dawoud told Iraqi legislators in
Baghdad on Sunday that Iraqi soldiers, police and U.S. forces were
sent to Madain on Saturday afternoon. “Our plan is by the end of
this week we are going to launch
a military operation in this area.”
The U.S. military said it had no
information about a U.S. role in the
deployment.
The area around Madain is populated by a near-equal mix of Shiite
and Sunni Muslims, but it also is
home to several Sunni Arab tribes
that follow the radical Wahhabi
brand of Islam. Sunnis make up
about 20 percent of Iraq’s estimated 26 million population, but were
dominant under Saddam Hussein.
Since U.S.-led forces drove him
from power two years ago, the disempowered Sunnis are believed to
form the backbone of the ongoing
insurgency, fearing a loss of influence to majority Shiites.
On Sunday, the militant group
Al-Qaida in Iraq posted a statement on an Islamic Web site
known for its militant content, saying that the “enemies of God” had
fabricated the story of the hostage
crisis to justify a military attack
on Madain aimed at Sunnis. It
claimed Iraqi security forces have
removed some Sunnis from their
homes and taken them from the
town. The statement could not be
verified.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Iraq’s
new parliament met Sunday and
agreed that a five-member committee, including Dawoud, will
study the crisis and make recommendations. In a speech to the
assembly, Dawoud said: “We have
to acknowledge the truth that there
is an attempt to draw the country
into a sectarian war.”
Shiite legislator Shirwan AlWaili told parliament the kidnappers must be stopped.
“What is going on in Madain
is targeting the unity of the Iraqi
people. Some kidnapped families could be killed if all Shiites
don’t leave the village. We can’t
just denounce this. We must intervene,” he said.
Outgoing
interim
Prime
Khalid Mohammed | Associated Press
Iraqi security forces raided the central Iraqi town of Madain on Sunday,
where Sunni militants were holding dozens of Shiite Muslims hostage and
threatening to kill them unless all Shiites left the area, an Iraqi official said.
Minister Ayad Allawi condemned
the kidnappers for carrying out
“dirty atrocities” aimed at undermining Iraq’s democratic reforms
by whipping up sectarian hatred.
In a statement, Allawi urged
Shiites and Sunnis to ignore the
extremists.
Israelis establish homes in protest of Gaza pullout
By Ravi Nessman
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip —
Gabi Glasser and his wife, Rotem,
were so horrified by Israel’s plan
to withdraw from the Gaza Strip
this summer that they pulled their
five young children out of school,
found a cramped house in a small
settlement and moved in, even
bringing their piano as a symbol
of their intention to stay.
Glasser says he hopes his family’s move from the West Bank to
Gaza will help stop the withdrawal, and he is far from alone.
As Israel works to persuade
some of the 8,500 Gaza settlers to
leave voluntarily before the pullout begins July 20, more people
keep moving in. Sympathetic
families are coming with moving vans, hawkish politicians are
renting homes and busloads of
ultra-Orthodox students are establishing new religious schools, or
yeshivas.
It is unclear how many people have moved in so far, but
local activists expect many more
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to arrive during the weeklong
Passover holiday beginning
Saturday night. Some predict as
many as 100,000 sympathizers
could come in a show of solidarity,
with thousands of them staying.
One group has started stockpiling
donated sleeping bags, tents and
canned food for the new arrivals.
The government says it is aware
of the problem, but it does not
want to stop families from traveling to the area, especially during the week of Passover, when
schools and government offices
are closed and many families take
vacations.
“We know people are planning
and people are moving,” said
Assaf Shariv, spokesman for Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon. “It’s going
to make the evacuation a little bit
harder of course, but it will be
harder for everybody, not just the
soldiers.”
The government already has
said it will not allow anyone else
to move to Gaza, and the army
plans to greatly restrict access in
the weeks before the withdrawal.
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no moving trucks or people packing up. One family was even renovating its roof to protect the house
from homemade rockets launched
from nearby Palestinian towns.
Though polls show a majority of Israelis support the pullout,
security forces are preparing for
the possibility of fierce anti-withdrawal demonstrations this summer.
None of those moving in, nearly
all of them religious Jews, spoke
of physically resisting the pullout,
but they said they hoped their
presence would complicate the
withdrawal and boost the settlers’
moral.
Gila Shashar and her husband,
Avner, a rabbi at a Jerusalem
yeshiva moved into a tiny house
in the Netzer Hazzani settlement
less than two weeks ago.
“It is forbidden to let this happen,” she said.
Baz Ratner | Associated Press
Jewish settler Gabi Glasser holds two of his children at his home on Friday,
in the Jewish settlement of Katif, part of the Gush Katif bloc of settlements in
the southern Gaza Strip.
Avner Shashar brought 15
students with him and set up a
branch of the yeshiva in a small
home in the settlement.
The Shashars have a long history of establishing homes as a
form of political protest.
They moved to the settlement
of Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula six
months before Israel razed it and
turned the territory over to Egypt
in 1982 under a peace agreement.
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OPINION
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Editor: Ben Heath
Phone: (512) 232-2212
E-mail: [email protected]
Associate Editors:
Brian Boyko
Clint Johnson
Daniel K. Lai
T HE DAILY TEXAN
John Kerry
answers questions about
children’s
healthcare during an event
hosted by the
University
of Texas
Democrats in
the Rec Center
on campus
Saturday.
VIEWPOINT
TSP board
acted hastily
If you have something to say to the Texas Student Publications
Board of Operating Trustees on Friday, you might want to show
up a little early.
Several former Daily Texan editors are expected to speak in
favor of selecting the Texan editor through a campus-wide election. In March, the TSP board declared its intention, through
a resolution, to change the operating agreement between TSP
and the UT System. The new agreement would have the board
appointing the editor and would likely not take effect until
sometime after the 2006-07 school year.
Since that vote, at least two voting members of the board have
expressed concerns with the way the board conducted its business at the March meeting. No agenda item suggested that any
action would be taken regarding the elected editor. The agenda
was not posted online. And, perhaps most importantly, the
board did not specify any of the details of changes in the editor’s
appointment, qualifications and job description. Nor did it specify who would be in charge of sorting out those details.
Nobody voiced this concern during the March meeting.
Even the non-voting representatives from The Daily Texan and
Student Government, who should serve as advocates for open
government, did not ask that the board delay its decision.
In acting without sufficient deliberation or publicity, the board
failed its constituents. Although the majority of the board is
elected by students, it must allow student input before decisions
are made if it wishes to claim legitimacy as a representative
body.
We still support appointing rather than electing the editor.
And we are not convinced that the majority of students served
by this paper actively support the current system.
But students should be able to speak to their representatives
with confidence that decisions have not already been made and
sealed while no one was looking.
At its meeting this Friday (3 p.m. in the Campus Club), the
board should request that no changes to its operating agreement
be approved by the administration until it hears public comment, irons out the details and votes again.
TSP Board of Operating Trustees Meeting
• Friday, April 22, 3 p.m.
• Campus Club, 25th and Guadalupe streets.
• In March, the board voted to change a proposed operating
agreement between TSP and the UT System. The changes would
make the editor of The Daily Texan an appointed rather than elected position. In addition to any other changes in job requirements,
the editor candidates would be required to meet a 30 percent vote
of confidence from Texan staff before they could even be considered by the board. A similar system exists at KVRX.
Ben Sklar
Daily Texan Staff
Health care, environment top Kerry’s list
By Phil Lovegren
Daily Texan Colunist
John Kerry came to Austin
Saturday and remembered to give
props to our “beautiful temperate
weather.” But in the manner of an
experienced politician, he seemed
grateful for the weather for more
reasons than one. At a time of
year so cartoonishly pleasant that
everyone can be said to be “proenvironment,” the former presidential nominee hinted at a new
way of talking about the environment by fusing it with public
health issues.
Now that that’s over with,
Kerry promoted his “Kids First”
health-care plan to insure the
over 11 million children without
health insurance by having the
federal government take over a
larger percentage of the Medicaid
payroll. By focusing on children
first, Kerry took on an issue that
has the potential to resonate
more emotionally than healthcare proposals in the past, at one
point declaring that politicians
who would ignore those children
“shouldn’t be in public life.”
But perhaps most intriguingly,
he indicated a long-term project of tapping into Americans’
dormant sympathy of environmental issues. The project is a
needed one. At best, Americans
are naturally sympathetic to environmental issues — numerous
polls have shown widespread
support for environmental preservation. However, it has rarely
been shown that people actually
vote on these issues. At worst,
according to Kerry, “the word
‘environment’ has become a pejorative term.”
Indeed, many Americans
divorce environmental issues
from relevant issues that they do
vote on, namely public health
and recreation. As a result, “environmentalism” has often meant,
for many, the helping out of the
spotted owl or yellow-bellied sap
sucker at the expense of people,
not for their benefit.
This isn’t to say that the
Endangered Species Act or advocacy of people-less forests should
be thrown out. But by forming
THE FIRING LINE
Blood donor policy outdated
I’ve been asked to donate blood
by fresh-faced volunteers twice
so far this week, but I’m actually
banned from it, along with much
of the rest of our famously tolerant campus. You see, due to fear
of AIDS, federal guidelines disallow blood donors who “are a
man who has had sex with another man since 1977, even once,” or
“were born in, lived in or traveled
to certain African countries since
1977.” The best definition I’ve
heard for prejudice is that’s it’s a
sloppy, negative generalization,
and if this policy doesn’t qualify,
I don’t know what does. Please
ask MD Anderson and/or your
federal reps to create an exception for those of us with a recent
blood test proving we’re clean.
You could save a life.
Will Warner
Computer science senior
Powell’s logic fails
When we first read Austin
Powell’s article, “Money Ain’t a
Thang,” we thought for a second
that we were reading the opinion
page.
Powell failed to offer anything
beyond his personal opinion, rendering his article one-sided and
misguided. In the story, Powell
stated that 40 Acres Fest spent
$40,000 on Ryan Cabrera, whom
the reporter deemed an overrated, talent-less act. The same
amount of money, he said, could
have a brought a band like Ben
Folds. We would like to set the
record straight.
Powell failed to consider the
goals of the Fest: to celebrate the
school year and to unite the campus, through both the organizations fair and the live music. We
are sorry that Powell did not like
Cabrera, but more than 7,000 students would disagree with his
statements. Not only did Cabrera
attract a large crowd, but his
upbeat personality and down-toearth nature also fit well with the
mission of the fest and the spirit
of the students.
Powell illogically argued
a coalition of traditional environmentalists who appreciate
the environment for its inherent
value (“it’s important because it’s
there”) and those who appreciate it because of its ability to be
used positively (“it’s important
because it preserves public health
and promotes outside activities”),
Kerry and others might be gaining the vision needed to make
“environmentalism” a potent
wedge issue.
This idea has already produced
results. In Montana, Democrat
Brian Schweitzer called himself
a “conservationist” instead of an
“environmentalist” and cast himself on the side of small ranchers and farmers who wished
to protect their land, with the
Republicans on the side of mining and other corporate interests.
Schweitzer got himself a home
in the governor’s mansion and
Democrats returned to power in
the state’s Legislature for the first
time in over a decade.
According to Kerry, there’s
more outrage to reveal and
opportunity to tap. In 28 states,
the fish from most streams, rivers
and lakes can not be eaten safely
because of the pollutants in the
water. And even in deep sea
fish such as swordfish and tuna,
unsafe amounts of mercury have
been detected, levels that might
produce health risks in pregnant
women and children alike.
The environmental movement
has led many a noble fight in the
past, but it has often been led
by people who think that voters
also will vote on preserving the
environment, just because it’s
there and should stay. By synthesizing traditional environmentalists with groups of ordinary voters who merely want a
good place to fish and camp and
healthy food to eat, a powerful
issue that could move the electorate might have been found.
Even for all the criticism during
the 2004 presidential campaign
over Kerry’s supposed lack of
ideas, this idea might make up
for any previous inadequacy.
Lovegren is a government and history
junior
THE GALLERY
that if one person thought the
Spazmatics was the highlight of
the event, the headliner was a bad
choice. Different parts of the fest
appeal to different people. The
point is that people came, they
were united and they enjoyed
themselves.
Powell assumed that choosing
a musical act is as easy as waving
money. Among other things, a
band must be on tour and have
available performance dates. The
music committee went through
a tough process, and they did a
great job.
Powell accused the University
Co-op of overcharging students in
order to fund events like the fest.
However, according to research
by Michael Granof, an accounting professor at McCombs, the
cost of textbooks is not the result
of price gouging by bookstores.
His research can be found on the
McCombs Web site.
Powell failed to consider
the benefits of allowing student groups to plan events.
Involvement in huge events like
the fest offers students a chance
to discover leadership. The
University gives us one of the
best educations in the nation, and
the Co-op’s generosity gives us a
chance to put what we learn in
class to practice, a valuable part
of the learning process.
The members of the 40 Acres
Fest committee began planning for the event in September,
and we are incredibly proud of
them. They have demonstrated
true leadership and character.
Congratulations on a wonderful
fest.
Niti Dalal & Kassi Nopratvarakorn
40 Acres Fest 2005 head co-chairs
Public relations & communication studies
Smoking ban benefits Austin
Austin, “The Live Music
Capital of the World.” I live in
Austin, but have never seen a live
musician on stage here.
Why? Having grown up in a
smoking household, I now have
chronic bronchitis and get sick
every time I go to a club. My
hope is to see Austin 100 percent
smoke-free in all its public places
this year. We all know that secondhand smoke causes cancer,
heart disease and respiratory illness. Yet knowing this, I don’t
believe that most people could
truly know what smoking has
taken away from us all.
I wish I could regularly see
Austin’s live musicians and go
dancing along sixth Street. I am
merely one person who cannot
go to these places, but I’m in the
company of masses of non-smokers who will not go. Until Austin
has a strong ordinance, I will
continue to take my patronage to
smoke-free places.
Jomana Malone
Austin resident
Protestors’ actions childish
As a law student, I am an ardent
supporter of the Constitution and
the First Amendment and would
never even think about violating someone’s free speech. With
that being said, I am also educated enough to respect a speaker
and have enough dignity to not
make a fool of myself in public.
During Mr. Horowitz’s speech
on Wednesday evening, members of the International Socialist
Organization behaved like uneducated fools. Instead of listening
to Mr. Horowitz and educating
yourself through another person’s constitutionally protected
speech, you chose to disrupt the
speech and violate his own right!
You made comments under your
breath, giggled, used noisemakers, and yelled “shame, shame,
shame.” The only people who
should be ashamed of anything
are yourselves. You should really
look in the mirror before you
point any fingers, possibly after
taking a shower.
As far as Ms. Cloud’s comments go, I’m appalled that a
University of such caliber as UT
has even hired you. In my opinion, you don’t even deserve for
me to call you a professor, a title
of respect, not because of your
opinions, but because of your
childish actions. An evening that
could have been extremely educational to all present turned into
a circus for at least 20 minutes
due to the actions of just a few.
In the future, if you don’t want
to hear what someone else has to
say, DON’T SHOW UP!
Gerardo Interiano
Second-year law student
Cloud’s conduct unprofessional
Dana Cloud needs to learn that
there is nothing progressively
intellectual about using noisemakers, air horns, custard pies
and shouting to silence a speaker
offering a point of view different
from her own.
Maybe if her followers had
chosen to use intelligent and civil
debate during the question and
answer session that followed Mr.
Horowitz’ speech instead of acting like a bunch of 6-year-olds,
her points about “silencing the
left” would be considered with
more merit.
I understand it’s difficult when
the majority of the country thinks
your point of view is debilitated
by its non-sensical yammering.
But yelling and screaming isn’t
going to make participants in an
institution of higher learning take
you seriously when you threaten
“a new McCarthyism” is brewing
on the horizon. Squelching disruptive behavior isn’t the same
thing as silencing a point of view,
no matter how many fliers you
splatter on campus to argue the
contrary.
It’s difficult to believe you
respect your students as “adults
capable of speaking for themselves and making their own
judgments” when you don’t
offer the same courtesy to Mr.
Horowitz, the former editor of
Ramparts Magazine (a ’60s leftwing journal) who became disillusioned with radical politics
after he became a biographer. I
think what Ms. Cloud really fears
is that she may one day do the
same.
Barry Levitch
UT Staff
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T HE DAILY TEXAN
Author brings border experience to his stories
UT assistant professor
Oscar Cesares’ writing
reflects what he knows
By Rachel Pearson
Daily Texan Staff
There are some things you
should know about Oscar
Casares. He is from Brownsville.
He is young. He is the author of
one of the most widely acclaimed
new books from a Texas writer.
Much is made of these things
in interviews with UT’s newest
creative-writing professor. Much
is also made of what Casares
calls “the ethnicity thing,” but
in truth, the Mexican-American
identity of Casares’ characters
serves mostly as a backdrop for
their universal, human tales.
The Prentiss Riddle Books’
Web site refers to him as “the
Dobie Paisano winner with the
movie-star looks.” Texas Monthly
called him, simply, “handsome.”
Casares is indeed tall and dark
and all that, with shiny hair and
shiny cowboy boots. In class,
while he mentions character
development, a dark curl falls
over his forehead. He brushes it
back. Later, as he and a student
air their differences over metonymy (the literary device wherein
physical objects are endowed
with active properites — eyes
that “dart around the room,” for
example), the curl falls again.
Casares lets it lie.
He was in advertising before
he was a writer, and part of the
success of his story collection,
“Brownsville,” is due to his advertising skills. When his book came
out, Casares told his publicist that
he wanted it to be sold in HEB
grocery stores. “She said, ‘What’s
that?’” Casares says. The publicist
was from the North, where there
are no HEBs. Then the author
met Charles Butt at a party in San
Antonio, and through that connection, “Brownsville” ended up
being sold at HEB -- not just on
the bookshelf, but right up by the
register.
This resulted in “Brownsville”
immediately going into a second
printing to fill HEB’s order, but it
was more than just a marketing
ploy.
“It was wonderful in this other
way, in that the book suddenly
had this accessibility beyond the
libraries, because everyone goes
to HEB,” Casares says. The book
became a sort of working person’s
icon. Casares says people don’t
just want a copy of “Brownsville;”
they want a copy from HEB.
For people who want to be
authors, Oscar Casares’s success
story could be infuriating. He
makes it sound easy.
Casares didn’t spend his childhood curled up with a book. He
told Texas Monthly that he probably read two books in his youth,
but he doesn’t remember which
ones. Casares didn’t even get into
stories until he realized that he
was good at telling them- a talent
he picked up from his uncles. He
studied advertising at UT-Austin,
and got prestigious copy-writing job with GSD&M, an Austinbased firm after graduating. He
did well as an ad-man, until one
November day when he just up
and quit his job to write stories.
He had never had a story published; he had only been seriously
attempting to write since July of
that year, and not many people
had seen his work.
“I would never advise anybody to do that,” Casares says of
quitting his job. “By the time it
dawned on me how utterly insane
it was, it was too late.”
Well, it turns out he had a
talent. Casares got two stories
published in respectable journals
(The Threepenny Review and The
Northwest Review) within two
years, and then he was accepted
into the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
The workshop is a big deal: It
was the first creative-writing program established in this country,
and it has been home to such
prestigious writers as Flannery
O’Connor, Michael Cunningham
and Mark Strand.
While in Iowa, Casares tested
out his “Brownsville” stories on
an audience of writers who don’t
know Texas. He wanted to make
sure that his characters and places ring true to non-initiates; and
they do. “Brownsville” is solidly
placed in the real city of Casares’
childhood — its front yards and
fireworks stands and three international bridges. Many of the
characters are immigrants from
Mexico or children of immigrants. Their stories deal with
conflicts natural to people whose
lives run on both sides of the
Texas-Mexican border.
“Domingo,” for example, tells
the story of an undocumented
Mexican yard worker who yearns
for his wife in Mexico and his
young daughter, who died. One
night Domingo decides to reconcile his life with God, and after
finding that the church is locked
he climbs into the Madonna tree,
where locals have seen the Virgin
Mary appear.
Domingo stares toward his
home country, across the border:
“He looked across the river, past
the nightclub lights on Obregon,
past the shoeshine stands in Plaza
Hidalgo, past the bus station
where he caught his long ride
home, past all the little towns and
ranchitos on the way to Ciudad
Victoria, past the Sierra Madre and
the endless shrines for people who
had died along the road, and even
farther, past the loneliness of his
little room next to the tire shop,
past the reality that he would
work the rest of his life and still
die poor, and finally, past the years
of sorrow he had spent remembering his little girl, past all this, until
he clearly saw his wife and then
his daughter, Sara, who was now
a grown woman.”
Although Casares’ stories are
firmly set in Brownsville, their
emotional impact relies on the
universal: grief, loss, marital
bonds and childhood awakenings. To Casares, that’s part of the
point. The Mexican-American
experience is the human experience, and the border tales,
bilingual parents and ethnic
details in Casares’ stories serve
as a backdrop rather than an
emotional focus. “Coming from
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Oscar Cesares, author of the story collection “Brownsville,” is an assistant professor at UT-Austin and winner of
the Dobie Paisano fellowship. He is currently working on his first novel, “Americo.”
Brownsville, I was given the
opportunity to write about a
place where we’re the majority
— we don’t have this sense of
‘otherness,’” Casares says. “My
characters are in their own world,
so I can write about them beyond
the ethnicity thing.”
Casares wrote about “the ethnicity thing” for the New York
Times, but says he has not been
pigeon-holed as an “ethnic”
writer.
After the Iowa workshop,
Casares moved back to Brownsville
for a while, then taught freshman
composition at UT-San Antonio.
He tapped away at his short
stories and taught and lived in
an apartment complex behind a
CarMax.
“I think this complex had a
couple of ZIP codes, it was so
massive,” he says.
Then one day, a letter liberated
Casares from his place behind
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the CarMax. Casares had won
the Dobie Paisano fellowship,
a prestigious award that grants
writers a six-month stay at the
Paisano Ranch, west of Austin.
“I thought, ‘My God, I’ve been
sprung,’” Casares says.
Out among the mesquite trees
and river rocks, Casares finished
“Brownsville” and began work on
his upcoming novel, “Americo.”
Then he went on a book tour for
“Brownsville.” Since then, he’s
been leading the sweet writer’s
life: giving readings, digging the
Austin arts scene and teaching
upper-division creative writing to UT students. Casares was
hired as an assistant professor
this year, and he hopes to become
a tenured professor.
Casares likes being a professor.
In his class, students workshop
each others’ stories. There is clapping at the end.
”They’re clapping for the writer,
not for me,” Casares says. He does
not allow students to say “I liked
it,” of a story, because he wants
them to focus on objective, helpful
comment and criticism rather than
subjective judgment.
Casares first column for Texas
Monthly came out in March, and
subsequent columns will likely be
personal essays, he says.
“I prefer to write about things
I’ve lived, that I have some sort
of intimate emotional connection
to,” Casares says.
The same, of course, holds true
for his fiction. “Americo” will be
“a sort of tapestry” of Casares’
family history, covering at least
the 150 years since his family
arrived in Texas. He expects to
finish the novel this summer. For
now, he writes every morning
for a few hours and tries not
to think about his success with
“Brownsville.”
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Nature Day promotes area parks, wildflowers
Organizers hope event
will become annual
educational opportunity
By Erin Gage
Daily Texan Staff
Move over museums, nature
now has a spot on Austin’s calendar.
“Everybody was so excited about this day,” said Nelie
Plourde, a committee member for
Austin Nature Day. “We all saw
the success of Austin Museum
Day.”
Organizers said Saturday’s
Austin Nature Day, inspired by
the day the city celebrates its
museums each year, will become
an annual event.
Austin Nature Day is a partner of National Environmental
Education Week, which ran April
10 to 16 this year. The week is a
prelude to Earth Day on April
22.
Programs included art projects,
gardening lectures and demonstrations, guided hikes, star gazing and caving activities.
Stephanie Stanford, a 1996 UT
civil engineering graduate, was
featured in the Women in Science
Panel at the Lady Bird Johnson
Wildflower Center. Stanford, a
professional engineer at an Austin
land planning firm, spoke about
how nature and engineering are
connected.
“You impact nature every
time you engineer something,”
Stanford said. “They really go
together, hand in hand, and the
[more] people realize that going
into the field, the better.”
Also visiting the center,
Barbara Yunker of Bedford said
that she had not realized that it
was Austin Nature Day when
she and her family made plans
for Saturday.
“We wanted to do something
outdoors, and it’s the height of
wildflower season, so that’s why
we came,” said Yunker, a real
estate closing specialist, as she
inspected bluebonnets in the
Seasonal Interest Garden.
The concept of celebrating
the city’s natural resources was
readily embraced from the start,
Plourde said, and the committee
spent about a year and a half
planning this collaborative program.
“We’ve been trying to get the
word out,” said Bill Stout, a fellow
committee member. “It’s principally to get Austinites re-interested in going back out to their
parks in and around Austin.”
More than 20 organizations,
including Wild Basin Wilderness
Preserve and the Austin Museum
of Art-Laguna Gloria, offered
activities as part of the program.
“We just brainstormed and
listed as many organizations and
contacted as many organizations
as possible,” Stout said. “We’re
definitely trying to be as inclusive
as possible. Next year we will be
even bigger.”
Plourde said that Austin Nature
Day does not cost the city anything, except for the usual costs
for operating city parks.
Funding for the Web site and
brochures came from the National
Wildlife Federation’s Gulf States
Natural Resource Center, said
Stout, who is an educator at the
federation.
Because so many events were
planned for just one day, Stout
said the brochures were carefully
designed to be inclusive. Austin
Museum Day might be just one
day, but the city will have an outdoors guide for an entire year.
“We were thinking Austin has
so many parks and gardens so
we’re doing something very similar where you can come celebrate
Austin’s open spaces and natural
places,” Plourde said. “When you
think ‘Austin,’ you think parks.”
Running of the Horns 5K returns after one-year hiatus
Run organizers hope
event, sponsorship
will expand next year
By Ashley Eldridge
Daily Texan Staff
The early morning sun glinted off the ribbons of pavement
as Dane Hurtubise rounded the
corner, pushing hard toward the
finish. His competition, Thomas
Christiansen, crossed the line 18
seconds behind him.
Several hundred runners turned
out for the 2005 Running of the
Horns 5K race held Saturday on
the UT campus. The event is sponsored annually by the UT Volunteer
and Service Learning Center, and
all proceeds go to fund programs
for the Student Volunteer Board.
The race has been held for eight
years, but went on hiatus last year
when scheduling conflicts with
other area races and East Mall
events made holding it more or
less impossible. Organizers said
the break hurt the race considerably, as previous turnout had
been around 1,000 runners.
“Being off a year really hurts
— the race loses credibility,” said
Ashley Lewis, co-chair of the
event and psychology junior. “If
it doesn’t happen for a year, it’s
like starting all over again.”
Despite a lack of sponsorship —
the University Co-op was the only
major supporter — the event went
off without any major hitches.
“It’s a smaller race, but it’s a wellrun race,” said Colleen Forshee,
who won the women’s division
with a time of 19:07. Forshee
should know; she has been running in races for 32 years.
Runner Daniel Honker’s friend
was stationed at the finish line,
snapping picture after picture to
document his accomplishment.
“I’ve been running for years,
but I’ve never run in an actual
race,” said Honker, a government
junior, looking pleased at beating
his goal of 24 minutes.
Post-race, the runners clustered
together in small groups, munching on bagels and fruit supplied
by area merchants. Many proudly donned their Running of the
Horns shirts, having earned the
right to wear them.
As they waited for the awards
presentation, Hurtubise, an elec-
trical engineering sophomore,
and Christiansen, a chemical engineering freshman, joked around.
“I like to prepare for races by
eating a nice, big steak [and] getting two hours of sleep,” said
Hurtubise.
The two men plan to try out
for the UT cross-country team in
the fall. They log an average of
75 miles a week, and recently ran
in the Texas Relays. For them, the
race was “just a jog.”
“It was just a fun run,” said
Hurtubise, who actually caught
the cop car that served as a “rabbit” for runners to chase.
Hurtubise led the overall men’s
division with an official time of
15:50, followed by Christiansen
and third place finisher Matthew
Forshee. The women’s competition
was led by Colleen Forshee, Katie
Schmidt and Betsy Clemens.
Race organizers cited this year’s
event as a success and hope it will
make next year’s race an easier
sell to sponsors.
“Once you show donors you
have a successful product, it’s
much easier to sell,” said Glen
Baumgart, director of the Volunteer
and Service Learning Center.
Weekend’s Marley Fest draws
crowd to Auditorium Shores
will bring some pot. As
Canned-food donations people
long as it’s discrete, and they
collected at door of
don’t flaunt it, we don’t have a
problem with it.”
musical celebration
There were only two visible,
By Marjon Rostami
Daily Texan Staff
Live reggae music, drum
circles, rock climbing, clothing
vendors and no set regulation on
paraphernalia attracted an estimated 13,000 people to Austin’s
Marley Fest on Saturday.
Bob Marley’s life was
remembered and celebrated at
Auditorium Shores in a two-day
event benefitting Capital Area
Food Bank. Admission included
two donations of nonperishable
food items.
The date of the event is not
significant to the life of Marley,
who was born in February 1945
and died in May 1981, but centered on the spring weather and
the availability of Auditorium
Shores. Festival co-organizer
Hugh Forrest said the timing of
the event was not intended to be
tied to April 20, known to some
as “national smoke-out day.”
“The worst drug here is pollen,” Forrest said. “This is a reggae festival in Austin, and some
hired security guards at the
event, and no police officers to
keep outside food or drinks from
entering festival grounds.
“I see it more
as a people
event than
a music event. “
Hugh Forrest
festival co-organizer
“I just do what I’m told, and
nobody told me to stop people
from bringing paraphernalia,”
John Deason, a security officer,
said. “I’m not the police.”
Advocates from the National
Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws attended
the event hoping to “spread
the word of legalizing marijuana use,” according to Aphyr
St. James, a member of the San
Marcos chapter of NORML.
“With the two bills in the
house, we are not having a big
demonstration that might look
violent in Austin because it can
negatively effect our progress,”
St. James said.
In Forrest’s 11-year involvement with the festival, he said
he does not recall any violent
instances, outside of one or two
dog fights per year.
“This is Austin, and it is a
family event that promotes tolerance and unity and brings out all
types of people, and generally
everyone gets along,” Forrest
said. “I see it as more of a people
event than a music event.”
Angela Grant, a journalism
and government senior, attended
the event for her sixth year. A Bob
Marley fan since her early high
school years, she said she comes
for the music and the people.
“Bob Marley Festival is a pretty
mainstream thing to do,” Grant
said. “It is not like every single
person here is a Rastafarian or a
die-hard reggae fan. The attendees don’t fit any kind of mold; it
is just all sorts of people coming
together, from hippie to punk
rock, just coming out to chill and
enjoy the day.”
Freshman
chemical
engineering
student Thomas
Christiansen
approaches the
finish line at
the 8th Annual
Running of
the Horns 5K
on Saturday.
Proceeds from
the race went to
the University
Volunteer
Center, which
coordinates volunteer
programs for
the entire UT
community.
Matt Norris
Daily Texan Staff
EVENT: Flor
y Canto exceeds organizers’ expectations
From page 1A
“We felt that Flor y Canto
exceeded all our expectations,
and we are looking forward to
creating an even bigger Flor y
Canto 2006,” said Marina del Sol,
the artistic director of Grupo Flor
y Canto and an anthropology
graduate student.
Del Sol danced a Pecas, a polka
from the Texas and Mexico frontier region with partner Cheo
Jacob, a Spanish and Portuguese
junior.
The groups that performed in
Flor y Canto 2005 were all formed
within the last two years. They
were encouraged to put together
Flor y Canto 2005 for the Latino
student population after seeing
the program Infusion, which
was presented by the UT Asian
American community.
“We were inspired by their
event and also moved by their
efforts to involve so many students in their community,” said
del Sol. “We hope that students,
both Latino and not, were moved
by our performance.”
Elvira Prieto, an academic
advisor in the Center of Mexican
American Studies, read two
poems — one about growing up
and one about what it means to
be an activist.
Prieto said events like Flor y
Canto 2005 are important to students so they have the opportunity to celebrate their culture. With
events like these, she said students feel like they have a space
for expression at the University.
Members of Lambda Theta Phi,
a Latino fraternity, and Lambda
Theta Alpha Sorority, Inc. presented their Greek salutes to the
audience.
“What does it take to be a
conquistador?” said members of
Lambda Theta Phi. “Heart, mind,
body and soul,” they shouted
back in response.
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T HE DAILY TEXAN
Alaniz almost perfect as Texas sweeps
Freshman’s no-hitter
third in Big 12 history,
allowed one baserunner
By Jake Veyhl
Daily Texan Staff
Adrian Alaniz threw his
way into the history books
Saturday.
Alaniz tossed a no-hitter in
the second of Texas’ three-game
sweep against Oklahoma, using
only 91 pitches to face 28 batters, one over the minimum.
The Longhorn freshman controlled Oklahoma hitters the
entire evening, locating all
three of his pitches — fastball,
curveball and slider — on both
sides of the plate. Aside from
two hard-hit balls, both to left
field, the Sooners struggled
to get the barrel through the
zone.
“I can’t recall throwing a nohitter. I’ve gotten to the seventh
inning in a couple of games in
high school but always gave
up that one hit,” Alaniz said.
“I was going to bear down and
not let that happen again.”
The no-hitter was the third
in Big 12 history and the first
by a Texas pitcher since the
2000 season when Beau Hale
accomplished the feat against
Sam Houston State.
Alaniz retired Oklahoma
hitters with relative ease all
evening. The redshirt freshman
threw quickly and efficiently
in each of his nine innings and
had only two moments, both
courtesy of Ryan Rohlinger,
where the no-hitter was in real
danger.
The first came on a bunt
attempt in the fourth inning.
Rohlinger laid, what appeared
to be, a perfect drag bunt down
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the third base line, but with
no play at first, Texas players let the bunt roll until the
Disch-Falk Field crowned turf
dragged the ball foul.
Rohlinger tried to end the
no-hitter again in the seventh
with a deep fly ball to left field.
Texas’ Nick Peoples preserved
the bid when he drifted back
and made a leaping catch into
the wall. Peoples fell to the
ground but held onto the ball.
“I didn’t know what was
going on until about the sixth
or seventh inning,” Peoples
said. “I think me and [centerfielder Drew] Stubbs looked at
each other and were like, ‘We
need to help this guy out. We
can’t let any balls drop out
there.’”
Alaniz completed the no-hitter with six strikeouts and a
single walk away from a perfect game, while the offense
provided four runs for the
Meg Loucks
Daily Texan Staff
win.
Sunday’s offensive explosion
featured a change of pace after
two pitching battles Friday and
Saturday. The teams combined
for 28 hits and 18 runs Sunday,
while only combining for 22
hits and six runs the two previous nights.
Oklahoma jumped ahead in
the top of the first when starter
Randy Boone surrendered a
single to leadoff hitter Chuckie
Caufield then a double to Eric
Thornton. The run marked
the first the Longhorns had
given up in 23 innings, dating
back to the third game against
Nebraska.
Texas lost the advantage
in the third when Boone was
shelled for three runs on three
hits. Reliever Clayton Stewart
came in and quieted the rally,
allowing Texas to reclaim the
lead in the fourth. Stubbs and
Seth Johnston reached on a hit
and walk, respectively. Chance
Wheeless drove a ground-rule
double over the left-center field
wall scoring Stubbs, before
Clay Van Hook followed with
Robby Hudson
tries to beat
out the throw
at first base
during Texas’
game against
Oklahoma.
SOONERS continues on page 4B
Meg Loucks
Daily Texan Staff
Dizdar’s comeback downs William and Mary
Texas’ lead not safe
until sophomore wins
second singles set
Freshman
Courtney
Zauft returns
a serve in
a doubles
match
Saturday
at PenickAllison
Tennis
Center.
The No. 11
women’s
tennis team
defeated No.
18 William
and Mary,
7-0.
By Ricky Treon
Daily Texan Staff
The enthusiastic crowd at
the Penick-Allison Tennis
Center received a dose of
drama Saturday as it watched
the Longhorns get themselves in and out of trouble
all afternoon.
The suspense hit its highest point when sophomore
Petra Dizdar — who seemed
to be in firm control of her
match after winning the first
set 6-1 — found herself in a
4-0 hole during her second
set against Megan MoultonLevy.
Matt Norris
Daily Texan Staff
“[Moulton-Levy] was really hard to play, because she
plays different than anybody
else, and she’s not the kind of
player I run into all the time,”
Dizdar said. “I was kind of
getting mad at myself, but I
kept trying to get my rhythm
back and finally felt more
comfortable. I kept my poise
even though things weren’t
really working for me.”
Dizdar was able to find
her rhythm halfway through
her match, mounting a comeback and winning the second
set 6-4. Her point clinched
the victory for Texas, which
went on to sweep No. 18
William and Mary 7-0.
Dizdar’s match was not the
one the Longhorns struggled
DIZDAR continues on page 3B
Freshman goes the distance in singles to defeat Rice
Ibanez’s tough game
goes to three sets
and decides the match
By Ryan Parr
Daily Texan Staff
With Texas leading 3-2
after Rice won the thirdset tiebreaker at the No. 1
singles position, freshman
Luis Diaz Barriga Ibanez
knew he had to play a flawless third set to give the
Longhorns the victory.
“All of a sudden, Travis
[Helgeson] loses a match
and Callum [Beale] was
down 5-1, so I thought it
was going to come down
to my match again,” Ibanez
said. “I just played a great
third set. I missed, like, two
unforced errors and hit a lot
of winners. It’s one of the
best sets I’ve played.”
In an early March home
match against secondranked Virginia, Ibanez
faced a similar situation as
the Longhorns trailed 3-2.
Ibanez lost a third-set tiebreaker 7-6 (5), and Virginia
won the close match 4-3.
That situation helped Ibanez
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The New York Yankees
dropped two games to
the Baltimore Orioles over
the weekend, dropping to
4-8 to start the season.
stay focused and in control
during Friday’s match.
“Of course [it helped],”
Ibanez said. “I wanted to
beat him 6-0, because I
didn’t want to take the risk
of losing any other matches.”
Following Ibanez’s decisive 7-6, 4-6, 6-0 victory,
Beale won his match in a
third-set tiebreaker 6-7, 6-1,
7-6 to give Texas a 5-2 victory that included a sweep of
all three doubles positions.
“I knew that [doubles]
Freshman Luis
Diaz Barriga
attempts to
the pound the
ball with his
backhand during his singles
match against
Nebraska on
Sunday. Luis
won his singles
match 6-3, 6-2,
helping Texas
defeat the
Huskers 7-0.
IBANEZ continues on page 3B
Craig Bland
Daily Texan Staff
SCOREBOARD
MLB
Nationals 7, D-Backs 3
Indians 2, Twins 1
Marlins 5, Mets 2
Cubs 4, Pirates 2
Red Sox 3, D-Rays 1
Rangers 6, Blue Jays 5
Tigers 6, Royals 1
Giants 8, Rockies 6
A’s 7, Angels 6
Dodgers 6, Padres 0
NBA
New Jersey 104, Philly 83
Boston 103, Toronto 98
Seattle 109, Minne. 94
Wash. 106, Charlotte 104
WNBA DRAFT
Schreiber,
Carey taken
third round
By Eric Ransom
Daily Texan Staff
With the 31st pick of the WNBA
draft, the Phoenix Mercury took
Longhorn senior Jamie Carey.
And with the 35th and final pick
of the third round, the L.A. Sparks
selected Heather Schreiber.
The former Texas players
became the seventh and eighth
players selected to the professional
league. Fellow graduating senior
Annissa Hastings is expected to
receive a free-agent tryout.
Minnesota’s Janel McCarville
went to the Charlotte Sting with
the first pick of the draft. Six
other Big 12 players went in the
three rounds, with Kansas State’s
Kendra Wecker going with the
fourth pick and Oklahoma’s
Dionnah Jackson taken at the 18th
pick.
Iowa State’s Anne O’Neil and
Kansas State’s Megan Mahoney
were taken in the third round,
as well as Texas Tech’s Cisti
Greenwalt and Baylor’s Steffanie
Blackmon.
Carey heads to a Mercury team
sharing a backcourt with WNBA
2004 Rookie of the Year Diana
Taurasi. The two guards last met
in the 2003 Final Four. Phoenix
also selected TCU’s Sandora Irvin,
Michael Irvin’s niece, with the
third pick and Illinois’ Angelina
Williams with the 18th pick.
The L.A. Sparks start the season
with new coach Henry Bibby, a
former men’s coach at USC. The
team also includes Lisa Leslie and
Chamique Holdsclaw.
INSIDE
NBA
SOFTBALL SPLITS
WITH MISSOURI
CAVALIERS’ PLAYOFF
HOPES TAKE HIT
Pitcher Cat Osterman
played in both weekend
games as Texas won and
lost.
Tayshaun Prince
hounded Lebron James to
4-of-19 shooting and the
Detroit Pistons beat the
Cleveland Cavaliers 90-87.
the Cavs have lost six of the
last eight and lead New
Jersey by a half-game for
the eighth playoff spot.
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SOFTBALL
Turner’s homer tames Tigers in win
Infielder one home run
away from tying record,
Osterman wins 19th
By Ryan Killian
Daily Texan Staff
One swing of the bat from
Wynter Turner was all the
Longhorns needed Sunday
against Missouri as they shut
out the Tigers 1-0. Turner’s
home run in the third inning
proved to be the game-winner, as both offenses were shut
down the rest of the day.
The solo shot was the 20th
round-tripper of her career, one
short of tying the school record
set by Jodi Reeves in 2000.
Junior Cat Osterman allowed
only two hits in a dominating performance, one day after
pitching 7.1 innings of relief in a
losing effort.
“I know she definitely felt
like a workhorse today,” head
coach Connie Clark said.
Osterman was able to work
through her fatigue and record
her 19th complete game of the
season.
Clark flipped her starting
pitchers’ usual days, as Meagan
Denny got the start in Saturday’s
3-2 loss, while Osterman started Sunday. Denny got through
the first four innings without
allowing a hit but was pulled
with two outs in the fifth after
allowing the tying runs across.
The Tigers were able to hold
off several Longhorn threats
when Texas had runners in
scoring positions in the seventh
and ninth innings. In the top
of the 12th, Alexis Garcia was
thrown out at home as she tried
to score from second on a Chez
Sievers single.
Ultimately though, after
stranding 14 runners in 13
innings of play, Texas lost the
first game in which they’ve
scored this season. Despite only
getting four hits, the Tigers
were able to claw their way
back into the game and win it in
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the sixth extra frame when the
Tigers’ Jen Bruck hit her second
double of the day to bring in the
winning run.
Clark wasn’t bothered by
the stranded runners as much
as she was bothered with the
manner in which they were
stranded. Several attempted
bunts during the international
tie-breaker play ended in pop-
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outs, failing to advance the
runner.
Sunday’s victory was only
the second recorded by Texas
at Missouri. Despite the different outcome, Clark saw several
similarities between the two
games. Over the course of the
weekend, she said, her players
put together more patient atbats than they had been.
GOLF
Bell gets his groove back at A&M Invitational
Longhorns place sixth
as Aggies host first
tourney since the 70s
By Cody Hale
Daily Texan Staff
Not long ago, Jeff Bell was as
low as any golfer could be. He
was battling recurring injuries
and an ever-changing golf swing
that hindered his game and his
spirit.
Bell began trying multiple
motivation tactics. He endeavored in any activity that could get
his mind off of his slump and his
constant worries of never being
able to return to his old self.
But that was weeks, even
months, ago. During the past
three tournaments, Bell has been
able to recover his old self and
the strong spirit he holds for golf
— his true passion.
“He is one of the most devoted
golfers I have ever been around,”
head coach John Fields said.
“He has strong passion for the
sport of golf, and there is no
joking around when he is on the
course. Every moment on the
golf course is a serious moment
for Jeff Bell.”
After weeks of examination,
Bell has been able to sustain his
health and slowly work his way
back to the top of his game —
something Texas has been waiting for all season — as he aided
the Longhorns in a sixth-place
finish at the A&M Invitational
over the weekend.
“It’s one of those things, that
it’s better to be happening now
than not at all,” Fields said.
“Obviously, he’s been struggling
all season, but we have all noticed
that in these last few events, he is
getting closer to where he wants
to be. His body is getting healthi-
er, and he has been able to restore
some confidence in our team.”
Texas has had the luxury of
its bottom three golfers — Kevin
Schultz, Shawn Goodwin and
Jhonatton Vegas — finishing
strong, but it is going to be an
uphill climb, as many teams in
the Big 12 conference have been
able to vastly improve their team
play.
Don’t look for Field to change
his thoughts and preparations
because of other teams’ play.
“I’m not going to back off
the statement that Bell and
[Matthew] Rosenfeld have to
perform for us to do good in
these tournaments,” Fields said.
“Like I’ve said all season, we
have to eliminate our mistakes
due to inexperience and evaluate what we have done thus far.
There is a cause for us to believe
we have a chance to get the job
done.”
After this weekend’s tournament in College Station, the
Longhorns have some more mistakes to correct.
Finishing sixth overall, Texas
shot a 28-over-par during the
course of the two-day tournament, 22 strokes behind champion Oklahoma State. Taking second was New Mexico at 8-overpar, while Texas Tech was able
to claim third, 10 strokes behind
New Mexico.
Bell came alive carding a 3under-par throughout the threeround tournament, finishing in
a tie for third. Rosenfeld, after
being selected to take part in this
year’s Palmer Cup, finished in a
tie for 12 at 4-over-par.
The issue of inexperience has
become a perpetual concern for
the 19th-ranked Longhorns, and
the layoff between this tournament and the Big 12 championships gives Texas time to evalu-
ate what needs to be done.
“We just need to make a lot
better decisions and have much
better ball-striking during the
championships,” Fields said. “We
had really big numbers in this
tournament because we didn’t
have quality decisions. What we
really have to do is look at where
we’re making our mistakes and
evaluate them.”
The break also gives the
coaches much-needed evaluation time to decide who will
represent Texas in this year’s Big
12 Championship tournament
in Trinity, Texas, from April 29
– May 1.
“We’re getting closer, and I
need to sit down and evaluate
each player’s scores and performances and just go from there,”
Fields said. “The golf course is a
big issue, because the golf course
in Trinity is a long and demanding golf course.”
Reds end losing streak to Astros behind Pena homer
Wily Mo hits it deep
as Cincinnati wins 6-5
to stop Houston streak
By Joe Kay
CINCINNATI — Wily Mo
Pena dropped his head and
rounded the bases respectfully,
letting everyone else squint
to try to see where the white
speck of ball would land.
Back in the dugout, teammates pointed to a spot way up
in the upper deck in left-center.
Pena couldn’t believe it.
“It was far away,” marveled
Pena, who had the most impressive and most meaningful hits
Sunday in the Cincinnati Reds’
6-5 victory over the Houston
Astros.
His three-run homer into the
far reaches drew an extra standing ovation and went down in
great American ballpark lore.
His two-out, tiebreaking double in the eighth provided the
final touch on a signature performance.
“It looked like it was Wily
Mo’s day,” Astros manager
Phil Garner said.
After losing 12 straight
games to Houston since last
July 31, the Reds won the last
two with solid starting pitching, an awesome swing and a
late comeback.
Afterward, they were still
talking about the swing.
Pena’s fourth-inning homer
off Brandon Duckworth traveled an estimated 498 feet.
Fans in right field bowed and
gave Pena a standing ovation
for the second-longest homer
in the ballpark’s three seasons.
“That ball — has it landed
yet? I don’t know,” Reds starter Aaron Harang said. “That
ball was something to see.”
Joe Randa had a more modest
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Cincinnati Reds’ Joe Randa slides beats the tag by Houston Astros catcher
Raul Chavez to score the go-ahead run.
two-run shot off Duckworth,
who lasted five innings in his
first start this season and left
trailing 5-3. After the Astros
tied it in the seventh, Randa
singled off Chad Qualls (1-1)
with one out in the eighth and
came around on Pena’s double
to the wall in right.
Ryan Wagner (1-1) struck out
the side in the eighth. Danny
Graves got his fourth save in
four chances, stranding runners at first and third.
It was another near-miss for
the Astros, who went 1-5 on
their first road trip and have
shown a propensity for close
games. Six of their first 11 have
been decided by one run, and
they’ve lost four of them.
Good pitching and a sputtering offense will do that.
“We’re going to have to
come through with the winning runs,” Garner said. “Our
pitching is going to keep us
close. It’s going to test our
mettle. We’re going to see a lot
of those.”
Harang had only one bad
moment in six innings, Jason
Lane’s three-run homer in the
fourth. The Astros pulled even
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against Cincinnati’s bullpen in
the seventh, when Chris Burke
singled home the tying run for
his first career RBI.
Lane has four homers this
season, all against the Reds.
Lane tied his career high with
four home runs last year in 107
at-bats. This time, he got No. 4
in only his 44th at-bat.
Pena had his breakout season last year after Ken Griffey
Jr. tore his hamstring, requiring surgery in August. The
burly outfielder with the big
swing finally started hitting
the breaking ball and laying off
bad pitches, allowing him to
showcase his incredible power
— he hits balls to the deepest
reaches of the park in batting
practice.
“Sometimes
I
surprise
myself, like I don’t believe I
hit it that far,” said Pena, who
has three homers in only 23
at-bats.
“It looked like it
was Wily Mo’s day.”
Phil Garner,
Astros manager
His latest drive left the bat
with such an authoritative
“crack!” that everyone on the
field stood and watched it soar.
Only one ball has gone farther in the park — last August,
Adam Dunn hit one that cleared
the batter’s eye in center and
came to rest on driftwood in
the Ohio River, some 535 feet
from home plate.
“It was just a bad pitch,”
Duckworth said. “It came out
of my hand as I was releasing
it. It was a breaking ball that
didn’t do what it was supposed to do. I left it in his nitro
zone.”
While Pena takes his bows,
Griffey is struggling to regain
his stroke. He went 0-for-3
with a walk Sunday, leaving
him without a homer all year.
Griffey didn’t hit a homer
during 48 spring training atbats, and has gone 35 at-bats
without one during the season.
In 1991, he didn’t homer until
his 45th at-bat, his longest season-opening drought.
Griffey’s last homer — the
501st of his career — came last
July 8 off Milwaukee’s Wes
Obermueller.
SPORTS NOTES
Armstrong may announce
retirement at conference today
ATLANTA — Lance Armstrong is set
to make an announcement Monday
that is expected to settle questions on
whether he will retire from cycling after
this summer’s Tour de France, where he
will try for a seventh straight title.
Earlier this month, Armstrong called
retirement “a possibility” and said “I
am still thinking about that.” His representatives would not discuss his plans
Sunday.
“Lance is going to make an
announcement tomorrow,” said Mark
Higgins, a spokesman for Capital Sports
Entertainment, which represents
Armstrong. “Everybody is anxious to
hear it. He’s kind of keeping it under
wraps.”
Dan Osipow, a spokesman for
Armstrong’s Tailwind Sports racing
team, said. “We’ll let the man speak for
himself.”
Armstrong’s announcement will
come as a prelude to the Tour de
Georgia, a race he won last year. The sixday, 648-mile event begins Tuesday in
Augusta, and this could be the 33-yearold Texan’s last race in the U.S.
The Tour de Georgia said Armstrong
will make a “don’t-miss statement”
Monday. Armstrong recently told Italian
media he missed his children and the
pressure was taking a toll on him.
“Four more months and it’s over,” he
told Gazzetta dello Sport.
His new two-year contract to race for
the Discovery Channel team requires
he race just one more Tour de France.
Armstrong was attracted to the Tour
de Georgia’s support for the Georgia
Cancer Coalition, the official beneficiary
of the race. While in New York this
month, he said he would amplify his
role as a cancer survivor if he had the
time.
“I’d have a lot to do with the fight
against cancer,” said Armstrong, who
overcame testicular cancer to become
one of cycling’s greats. “That is enough
to keep me busy for the next 50 years. I
have three young kids that I want to be
a full-time father to.”
Tour de Georgia officials have used
the speculation about Armstrong’s possible retirement as a selling point for
the race.
“This just might be the last time fans
can see Lance race here in the U.S.,”
said Stan Holm, executive director of
the race.
Shaq leaves first half versus
Indy with bruised right thigh
MIAMI — Miami Heat center
Shaquille O’Neal bruised his right thigh
shortly before halftime of Sunday’s
game against Indiana and was out for
the rest of the game.
O’Neal appeared to limp slightly as
he walked to the locker room with 43.7
seconds remaining in the first half. He
had 11 points and three rebounds in 17
minutes.
O’Neal got hurt while defending
Pacers forward Jermaine O’Neal, who
was driving to the basket. As the
Indiana player attempted a layup, his
knee directly hit the quad of the 7-foot1, 327-pound Miami center.
The quad injury is the latest malady
for O’Neal, who missed three games
earlier this month with a stomach
virus. He returned for Miami’s games in
Philadelphia and Boston late last week.
O’Neal is averaging 22.9 points and
10.4 rebounds this season for Miami.
Sheffield incident still under
investigation by Boston police
BOSTON — Police are still investigating the confrontation between New
York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield
and a Boston fan, and the Red Sox are
considering revoking the fan’s season
tickets.
“As with all investigations in the city of
Boston, we are prohibited from giving
the status … until it comes to something,” police spokesman John Boyle
said Sunday.
Major League Baseball is also investigating.
The confrontation between Sheffield
and fan Christopher House occurred
during the eighth inning of Boston’s
8-5 win over New York on Thursday at
Fenway Park.
Sheffield was chasing down Jason
Varitek’s two-run triple in the right-field
corner when House reached over the
wall and appeared to make contact
with the player.
Sheffield, who said he was hit in the
face, shoved House before he threw the
ball back to the infield. Sheffield turned
and moved toward House, but a security guard intervened before the confrontation could escalate. House was
ejected from Fenway but not arrested.
Another fan, who apparently tossed
beer in Sheffield’s direction, was questioned by team officials and ejected
from the ballpark, said Red Sox spokesman Glenn Geffner.
Revoking House’s season tickets is
one of the options the team is considering, according to Geffner.
“We hope to have a resolution in
the next 24-to-48 hours,” Geffner said
Sunday. “We haven’t determined anything fully yet. We want to make sure
our bases are covered.”
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Rolen one hit shy of the cycle
Cards beat Brewers
as St. Louis sweeps
series behind Marquis
By The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Scott Rolen
could see it coming.
Rolen had three hits and three
RBIs, including a tie-breaking home run in the top of the
ninth inning, to lead the St. Louis
Cardinals to a 3-2 victory over the
Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Rolen, a triple shy of hitting for
the cycle, hit his second homer of
the season on the second pitch he
saw from reliever Mike Adams
(0-1).
“I always pay attention to a
guy who’s a serious player,” St.
Louis manager Tony La Russa
said. “[Saturday] he said he started seeing the ball better.”
St. Louis starter Jason Marquis
(2-0) retired the final 18 batters he
faced. He allowed three hits and
one earned run to go with five
strikeouts in eight innings, and
the Cardinals swept the Brewers
in Milwaukee for the first time
since Sept. 9-11, 2002.
“Once I started getting confidence in my mechanics in the
Darren Hauk | Associated Press
St. Louis Cardinals’ Jason Marquis pitches to the Milwaukee Brewers in the
first inning. The Cardinals won 3-2 to sweep their series.
third inning is when it turned,”
Marquis said.
Jason Isringhausen got the last
three outs for his fifth save in as
many chances and gave La Russa
his 800th win with the Cardinals.
“We’re really not swinging the
bats right now,” Milwaukee manager Ned Yost said. “We couldn’t
muster any offense. We’re not
finding any holes and not picking
up any hits. We’re not producing
runs right now.”
Trailing 2-0, St. Louis scored
its first run in the fourth. Albert
Pujols got the Cardinals’ first hit
of the game with a sharp grounder
that bounced off the glove of third
baseman Russell Branyan. Pujols
took second on a wild pitch and
scored on Rolen’s single to left.
St. Louis tied the score in the
sixth on a strange play. After
Pujols hit an infield single with
two outs, Rolen hit a bloop double
to center field.
Clark charged and dove for the
ball, but it trickled away from him.
He fumbled the ball as he was trying to pick it up, but Pujols was
held at third base by coach Jose
Oquendo. Pujols came on to score,
however, when first baseman Lyle
Overbay misplayed Clark’s throw
to the plate.
“I think Lyle glanced and saw
[Oquendo] holding him up,”
Yost said. “That’s a big run we
gave them in that situation. When
you’re not scoring runs, you can’t
give them runs.”
Milwaukee starter Victor Santos
pitched a career-high eight innings
and allowed two runs, one earned,
on four hits. He struck out three
and walked one.
Milwaukee took a 1-0 lead
when Brady Clark led off the first
with his second home run of the
season. The ball hit the top of
the wall in left field and bounced
over.
The Brewers added another run
in the second as Damian Miller
led off with a double and scored
when J.J. Hardy’s grounder was
misplayed by Pujols at first base.
Overbay, who drew two walks
off of Marquis, said the pitcher
had his slider going.
“You locate that slider well, and
it’s a tough pitch to hit consistently,” Overbay said. “Then you’ve
got that 93 mph sinker that he can
run in on right-handers and away
from lefties.”
Biffle shines at Texas World Speedway
By Mike Harris
FORT WORTH — Greg Biffle
made the best of a difficult situation
Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway,
charging from the rear of the field
for a convincing victory.
The Roush Racing driver was
overpowering in the Samsung/
Radio Shack 500, leading 219
of 334 laps on the one-and-onehalf-mile oval to grab his second
Nextel Cup victory of the season
and the fifth of his career.
“The car was really loose out
there with that short [rear] spoiler
that NASCAR has us using, but
I like having a loose race,” Biffle
said. “It works in my favor.”
Things didn’t start out very
well at the Texas track for the former NASCAR Busch Series and
truck champion, who crashed
IBANEZ: Team
From page 1B
point was going to be critical,” Longhorn head coach
Michael Center said. “Our
energy level and our team
cohesiveness were great.”
Texas looked to continue
its winning ways when it
played its final home match
against Nebraska on Sunday
afternoon. After secondseeded junior Roger Gubser
and sophomore Hubert
Chodkiewicz won their doubles set 8-3, the top seed of
junior Beale and freshman
Helgeson won its set in a tiebreaker to give the Longhorns
the early 1-0 lead.
Texas did not let up in
singles, capturing first-set
Friday in practice and was forced
to switch to a backup car. That
meant he had to start Sunday’s
race from the rear of the field.
But his backup No. 16 Ford was
the same car in which he won
earlier this season in California
and finished third last month in
Atlanta, so Biffle wasn’t too concerned.
He picked off cars two and
three at a time early in the race,
moving all the way to 15th by
lap 26, slipping into the top a few
laps later. He took the lead for the
first time on lap 87.
Biffle kept pulling away from
the rest of the pack, but the race
was slowed by 11 caution flags,
keeping him from turning it into
a rout.
The leaders made their final
pit stops on lap 298 after Tony
Stewart’s engine blew, setting his
Chevrolet on fire and bringing
out the yellow flag. Casey Mears,
who had been running a distant
second to Biffle, took only two
tires and beat him out of the pits
to grab the lead.
There was an aborted restart
on lap 304 when Dave Blaney
spun between the first and second turns, but the green flag was
displayed for the final time on lap
309. It took Biffle just three laps
to work to the inside of Mears’
Dodge and regain the lead.
After that, it was no contest,
with Biffle pulling away to win
by 3.244-seconds — about 20 car
lengths ahead of runner-up Jamie
McMurray, Mear’s teammate.
Biffle is the ninth winner in as
many Cup races at Texas. He had
not finished better than 28th in
two previous Cup races here.
Series points leader Jimmie
Johnson was third, with Mears
fading to fourth — matching his
career best — after losing the lead.
He was followed by Sterling
Marlin, another Ganassi entry,
and Michael Waltrip.
Kurt Busch, the defending
series champion, ended a string
of crashes in three straight Cup
races by finishing seventh, while
former Texas winner and fan
favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr. was
ninth.
Jeff Gordon, who was coming
off a victory the previous week
at Martinsville and was trying to
win for the first time at Texas, was
never a factor, finishing 15th.
DIZDAR: Split doubles sets
decided by final duo
From page 1B
the only Longhorn who had
to mount a comeback. After
in. Junior Mia Marovic found
losing a close first set, Ruckert
herself in almost the exact took the second set 6-4. With
situation halfway through her the match already in Texas’
match. She won her first set hands, the match went into a
6-2, but unlike her teammate, super tiebreaker that Ruckert
Marovic lost her second set 6- won 10-5.
0. She clawed her way to a 6-6
The other three Longhorns
tie in the last set though and — junior Kendra Strohm,
won the tiebreaker 7-2.
sophomore Ristine Olson and
“[Marovic and Dizdar] freshman Courtney Zauft
had stalled somewhat at the — all won their matches in
beginning of the second set, straight sets, losing a combut they fought hard to win
bined 10 games
the
match,”
between them.
head coach Jeff
Their victories
Moore
said.
rounded
out
“[Marovic and
“They needed to
Texas’
sixth
put themselves
Dizdar] had stalled
shutout of the
in a position to
season and its
somewhat at the
make things a
first sweep of a
little easier on
top 20 team.
beginning of the
themselves.”
“This was an
second set, but
Dizdar and
excellent perforMarovic
had
mance against a
they fought hard to
also made douvery talented
bles play more
win the match,”
team and was a
dramatic than
result of several
Jeff Moore,
necessary. Texas
focused pracand
William
tennis coach
tices in a row,”
and Mary had
Moore said. “I
split two douwould like the
bles sets, and it
players to be a
was up to the
little stronger in
two Croatians
terms of body language and
to capture the point for Texas. attitude when they are in a
The duo had built up an early position to close out matches,
lead and was two points away but overall, it was a terrific
from closing the match out performance.”
when they let their oppoThis was Texas’ first match
nents back in, tying the set since its 5-2 loss to Baylor
at 6-6. However, Dizdar and on April 6 and its last nonMarovic regrouped and did conference match of the seanot lose another game, as they son. The team returns to the
won the set 8-6.
Penick-Allison Tennis Center
Junior Katie Ruckert also on Wednesday to face Texas
provided fans with excite- A&M in the State Farm Lone
ment Saturday, as she was Star Showdown.
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Greg Biffle
celebrartes
after winning the
NASCAR
Samsung/
Radio Shack
500 at
Texas Motor
Speedway in
Fort Worth.
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relentless in singles
victories at all six positions.
Following straight-set victories by Chodkiewicz and
freshman Milan Mihailovic,
Beale slammed the door shut
on the Huskers with a decisive 6-2, 6-3 victory, giving
the Longhorns a 4-0 lead.
Ibanez and Gubser then completed their own straight-set
victories before Helgeson,
playing at the top of the lineup, defeated his opponent
6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to complete the
singles sweep and give Texas
the 7-0 victory.
“We’re going in the right
direction,” Center said.
“We’re getting better; I can
see it out there. We’re beginning to understand what it
takes to compete in these
matches.”
No. 39 Texas (11-7, 2-4 Big
12) finishes its regular season Saturday when it faces
No. 13 Texas A&M in College
Station.
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SOONERS: Stubbs’ homer over center field wraps up ‘memorable weekend’
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a single up the middle, scoring
Johnston and Wheeless.
“We were much more productive with runners in scoring position today,” Garrido
said.
Oklahoma’s Kody Kaiser
brought the Sooners to within
one in the seventh inning when
he lined a Buck Cody offering
over the left field wall. Kaiser’s
team-leading sixth homerun
scored Kevin Smith, who led off
the inning with a double to left.
Stubbs responded in the bottom of the seventh with a solo
homerun of his own, giving
closer J. Brent Cox a little extra
room to work with. Cox entered
in the eighth and finished out
the game for his second twoinning appearance of the series,
facing only seven batters.
“I didn’t know what was going on until
about the sixth or seventh inning.”
Nick Peoples,
About Alaniz’s no-hitter
Friday’s game featured a toptier pitching battle. Texas righthander Kyle McCulloch and
Oklahoma’s Daniel McCutchen
didn’t allow a run during their
eight and nine-inning outings, respectively. Cox worked
the ninth and 10th innings
and earned the win thanks to
Stubbs’ mammoth blast over
the left-centerfield wall.
With the game tied at zero
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going into the bottom of the
tenth, Van Hook reached on a
throwing error and advanced to
second on a sacrifice bunt. With
two outs, Stubbs approached
the plate and wasted no time
in hitting a first pitch hanging
slider over the outfield scoreboard giving the Longhorns
the 2-0 victory.
“It was a very memorable
weekend for Longhorn baseball,” Garrido said.
Ben Sklar
Daily Texan Staff
Dallas barely escapes Kobe, Los Angeles
Lame fourth quarter
does not hinder Mavs’
playoff expectations
By John Nadel
LOS ANGELES — The Dallas
Mavericks have been focusing
on defense, and playing at their
best since Avery Johnson succeeded Don Nelson as coach
last month.
Johnson had been satisfied
until the fourth quarter of
Sunday’s 114-112 victory over
the Los Angeles Lakers.
“I don’t like where we are
after this fourth quarter. We
can’t have this kind of fourth
quarter in the playoffs,” Johnson
said after the Mavericks won
despite being outscored 42-29
in the final period including 2512 in the last five minutes.
“If you talk to me before the
fourth quarter, I would have
said we’re doing OK,” Johnson
said. “But after this fourth quarter, our press offense wasn’t
very good, we missed free
throws, we didn’t execute. So
we’ve got some stuff to work
on.”
Dirk Nowitzki had 24 points
and eight rebounds and five
teammates scored in double figures as the Mavericks extended
their winning streak to seven
and raised their record to 14-2
since Johnson was promoted
to head coach when Nelson
retired.
Michael Finley scored 20
points and Jason Terry added
17 points and 10 assists for
Dallas (56-24), which has two
games remaining before entering the playoffs with the thirdbest record in the Western
Conference.
“I won’t make any predictions, but I think we’re better
prepared (entering the playoffs)
than we’ve been since I’ve been
here,” said owner Mark Cuban,
who purchased the Mavericks
in January 2000.
Jerry Stackhouse scored 15
points and Josh Howard and
Erick Dampier added 13 each
for the Mavericks, who shot
49.4 percent.
“No one person feels like
they have to carry the load,”
Stackhouse said. “We see all the
talent here, and when we share
the ball and help each other
defensively, we are really good.
We have just as good a chance
as anyone to win it all.”
The Lakers (34-46) have two
games left in one of their most
dismal seasons. They have lost
four straight, 17 of 19 and will
miss the playoffs for the first
time since 1994 and just the
fifth time in franchise history.
“I thought the crowd was
great. I wish we could have
won the final here at home for
them,” Lakers coach Frank
Hamblen said of the 18,237 fans
at Staples Center.
The Lakers finished with a
22-19 record at home _ their
worst in 11 years.
Kobe Bryant scored 12 of
his 33 points in the last four
minutes, and also had seven
rebounds and nine assists to
lead the Lakers. He returned
to action after missing
Friday night’s 115-106 loss to
Sacramento to be with his wife,
who was diagnosed with an
ectopic pregnancy.
“She’s doing much better.
Her spirits are good,” Bryant
said, adding his wife, Vanessa,
was recuperating at the family
home.
Jumaine Jones added 14
points and nine rebounds,
Chris Mihm had 13 points, and
Luke Walton scored 12 for the
Lakers, who have a 7-40 record
when allowing the opposition
to score 100 or more points.
Stackhouse made two free
throws with 19.3 seconds left to
give the Mavericks a nine-point
lead, but 3-pointers by Sasha
Vujacic and Devean George
made it 113-110 with 3.6 seconds remaining.
Stackhouse made another free
throw before Bryant was fouled
while attempting a 3-pointer
with one second to play. He
made the first two free throws
and intentionally missed the
third, but the ball was knocked
out of bounds by the Lakers,
and Dallas ran out the clock.
Stackhouse scored seven
points and Nowitzki, back in
action after missing a game with
a sore shoulder, added six during a 17-4 run to finish the third
quarter, giving the Mavericks
an 85-70 lead. It was 102-87
with five minutes to play.
Bryant scored four quick
points to cut Dallas’ lead to
108-102 with 1:07 remaining,
and missed a 3-pointer with
about 40 seconds left that could
have drawn the Lakers within
three.
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828-4470
AVAILABLE NOW 1-5
bedrooms,
$500-1500.
For 24hr info. 477-LIVE or
online at www.477LIVE.com
TARRYTOWN
GUEST HOUSE for Rent!
Efficiency apartment in a lovely
landscaped backyard with a
pond, full kitchen big closets,
redwood sauna.
Close to ER shuttle and
shopping center at Windsor &
Exposition. $650/m, includes:
utilities, cable, & use of family
W/D. Friendly family with 2
children, prefer a tenant who
wants to babysit 2-3x a month.
Rent can be prorated.
Call Sarah 469-0532
LOVE AT first sight! Nice clean
units. Starting $385. Paid water
and extended cable. Large
pool, ball courts, and access
gates. 451-4514
WALK TO class. Across from
law school on Dean Keaton.
Cozy efficiency. Use of W/D.
ABP. $395. 801-0436.
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390 - Unfurnished
Duplexes
420 - Unfurnished
Houses
440 - Roommates
UT INTRAMURAL field, available June, 3BR-2BA, all appliances including W/D, fireplace,
large closets, dining room, large
patio and fenced backyard, no
pets. $1350. 467-1841
West campus! 901 Shoal Cliff
Ct. Remodeled 4-2 $2550/mo.
or 5-3 $3100/mo.
Hardwoods & tile. Walk to UT
Great campus & downtown
view from second story balcony!
See pics @
PRE-LEASE AUG.1, 3BR/1BA
vaulted ceilings, airy, lots of
parking, washer/dryer connection, CACH. 3502-B Duval.
$1395/mo. Call New Management 476-6616, 497-8282
HYDE PARK- large 2/2, CACH,
appliances, hardwoods, $950,
4503 Ave. B., avail. May, June
or August, no smokers/pets,
479-6153, 658-4257
WEST CAMPUS 4-2/2-1.
Walk to UT, new kitchens,
wood/tile, W/D/CACH, big
yard, pets neg. 680-1884
LARGE TREEHOUSE 1/1, space
for 2, $850/mo. 901 Shoal
Cliff Ct. 4blocks to campus!
497-5475
CENTRAL EAST 52nd. Upstairs
half of duplex, huge 2/1,
1000+sqft. All appliances included. $775/m. 560-2582
HYDE PARK efficiency. Fresh
paint, new appliances $450.
112 West 38th. 477-1163
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400 - CondosTownhomes
PRELEASING
CONDOS
Buena
Vista
1/1 - $900
Orangetree
2/2 - $1695
Piazza
Centennial Navona
3/2 - $1995 2/2 - $1895
Croix
Westplace
2/2 - $1600 2/2 - $1195
Old Main Winchester
2/1 - $1295 2/2 - $1150
2401 Rio Grande
512-479-1300
www.utmetro.com
BRAND NEW, Furnished
Luxury
Trace
Condos,
4BR/4BA/big closets, gated,
pool, on Crossing Place shuttle,
W/D included, pre-leasing or
immediate. 294-5732
3/3, CACH, new paint, new
carpet, extra large living room
and bookcase, fireplace, private
patio, covered parking,
extra storage area,
updated kitchen, no pets.
$950/mo. + $500 deposit.
Old Town Condominiums
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Highway 183 & 290
751-6593, 267-4410
HYDE PARK SPECIALS
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1-1 starting $495
2BR’s $695
Gas & trash paid,
pool, laundry. APT HQ
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LARGE 2X2’S. WD, shuttle, nice
heritage, Hyde Park Oaks,
Wedgewood, Gables. Start at
$1150-1300.
June/August.
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contemporary
3BR/2BA CACH, W/D, pool,
garage. $1650 480-9576
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condos close to campus.
PERSONALIZED
ATTENTION
ONLY! KHP 476-2154
SHUTTLE STEAL
Eff $295 1-1 $425
2BR’s only $525 3BR’s $775
access gates, pool,
fitness, P/B. Apt HQ
512-442-9333
1-888-583-9893
apartmentheadquarters.com
EFFICIENCY $395/MO, on Red
River shuttle - Dalphin Apts, pets
okay and laundry onsite. Email
[email protected]
1BLOCK FROM Campus! Summer-Sublease. Spacious 2/2.
Rent negotiable. W/D in unit.
Pool/hot-tub,
Security-gate.
576-4525,
[email protected]
WALK UT. Vintage 1-1, Beautiful hardwoods. 2514-B Pearl.
Also large 1-1. 104 E. 32nd
#205. 480-9998.
WEST CAMPUS. Lg. BR/Living
Room Combo, Kitchen, Bath.
Porch with Swing. Hardwoods.
Beautiful Yard. Very nice. Avail.
Now $595 ABP, 2608 Salado.
845-5639
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Sparking fresh water fishing
pond, sand volleyball,
tanning bed, weight room,
pools and spa. Plush greenbelt
community with one bedroom
starting at $459 & 2 bedrooms
at $609. Call for specials.
389-1080
LARGE WEST Campus Apt. 3
blocks from UT. Gated parking.
650sqft. 5/13-8/10. Rent FREE
until June.472-8779
390 - Unfurnished
Duplexes
300 YARDS North of UT Law
School. 2ba/1br, CACH, WD,
small
backyard.
$1050.
480-9576
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UT 3 bedroom condo, close to
everything, on bus route,
MoPac at Far West Blvd. W/D,
basic cable and roadrunner
included. $410/bedroom plus
1/3 electricty, $200 deposit.
No pets/no smoking.
Contact Barbara Patterson
512-608-0988 or
713-816-7946
www.silentmarket.com
497-5475.
Prices negotiable!
PRELEASING
HOUSES &
DUPLEXES
3/1, West Campus - $1595
310 Franklin
4/2, Intermural Fields
- $1995
3115 Benelva
3/3, North Campus - $1895
5004 Westfield
3/3, Pool Table - $3000
4504 Elwood
4/2, Huge yd. Hdwds - $2300
706 West 32nd
3/2 - $1750
207 W. 39th
MANY OTHERS!
2401 Rio Grande
512-479-1300
www.utmetro.com
PRELEASING
CLOSE
TO UT.
Great
selections
of
houses. Photos and maps at
EyesofTexasProperties.com
477-1163
HYDE PARK Farm house style!
Sleeps 6, 3 baths, huge kitchen,
hardwoods!
$2900
F.P.P.
480-8518
WEST CAMPUS SUMMER SUBLEASE 6 bedroom house for up
to 8 people. 4300/month.
Courtney 817-966-2269
**BEST 3, 5 & 6 bedroom
houses close to campus.
PERSONALIZED
ATTENTION
ONLY! KHP 476-2154
NEAR
FIESTA
supermarket.
1303 Norwood Rd. Charming
4/1. Large shaded backyard.
W/D. D/W. CACH. Available
Aug. 1. $1490/mo. 576-0353
LARGE HOUSES. 4,5,6,bedrooms. Recently renovated, Big
yards, pets ok, 10min. to UT.
$1300-$1900. 928-4944
8-BLOCKS EAST of UT. Cute,
updated 3/2 bungalow. Woodfloors, beautiful landscaping.
Water
paid.
$1200/m.
215-9306
WEST CAMPUS, enormous
5BR/2BA, wood floors, CACH,
walking distance, full appliances. Available August 17th
for 1-year lease. 657-8754.
47TH/RED
RIVER.
2/1,
936sqft. Huge yard, lots of
trees, garage, W/D. $995/m.
Pets okay! 423-4021
CLARKSVILLE
COTTAGE
Charming small cottage on
owner’s property. Red brick
two-story 1/1. Share pool and
yard; walk to Whole Foods,
Sixth Street shops, etc.
Hardwoods and tile floors;
tile shower. Perfect for faculty
$1095.
473-8862
CHARMING 2/1, pretty hardwoods, appliances, garage,
$795, avail. June 1st or Aug.
16th, 1511 Kirkwood, no smokers/pets. 479-6153, 658-4257
2-1, HYDE Park. 1011 E.43rd
St. 1-block from Red River bus
route.
$550/month.
Doug,
(361)774-8653.
METRO REALTY
512-479-1300
www.utmetro.com
410 - Furnished
Houses
8-BLOCKS EAST of UT. Beautifully furnished, loaded w/appliances, available for summer.
Water
paid!
$800/m.
215-9306
420 - Unfurnished
Houses
LARGE 4BR/2BA, CACH,
ceiling fans, fenced yard, fully
equipped kitchen. Near CRshuttle. $1080/mo. Available now.
Call for appointment. 933-0826
HALF-MILE TO Campus. Nice
4/2.
Woodfloors,
tile/carpet/ceiling fans/CACH,
W/D. $1600/mo. Pre-lease
fall/summer.
3009
Cherrywood. 809-1336
ON MESA Drive. 5 mins to FW
shuttle.
Contemporary.
4BR/2.5BA. 2 living rooms, 1
study,
2
decks,
view.
$2400/month. 480-9576
Call for details.
512-326-1027
Roommate
Needed!
10–15 minutes
from campus
on UT shuttle.
Most bills paid.
4/2., IF Shuttle - $2500
SUMMER LEASE, now available
till 7/31. 4/3 with study. Walk
to UT. $1800/m, 698-4168
1bdrms 57K+
2 bdrms 105K+
Roommate
Needed!
Fully Furnished,
Paid Cable
& Internet
2825 San Gabriel
8-BLOCKS EAST of UT. Cool
1/1, 2-story loft! Great view,
W/D,storage.
Water
paid.
$1100/m. 215-9306
Condos For Sale
CHEAP
RENT!
HYDE PARK - Lg. 4/2 Very
nice house, hardwoods, garage, W/D, CACH, UT shuttle,
pre-lease June, NO PETS,
$1900. 507-5873
LARGE 5/4. Sleeps 6. UTShuttle. Free Cable. Lake Austin
Blvd. CA/CH, W/D, Available
August. $2000. 901 Newman.
585-4305/327-8038
HYDE PARK 2bd/1ba, CACH,
remodeled,
$1090/mo.
480-9576 or 346-7494.
425 - Rooms
15 MINUTES north of campus.
2000+ sq.ft. house. Bedrooms
available:
$250/month
&
$300/month. Adam 825-7725
440 - Roommates
Walk to UT! Large furn.
upstairs room, 4 blocks
from UT - Prelease
summer, fall on. Private bath, XL
walk-in closet. Full equipped
shared kitchen & on-site laundry.
CA/CH, DSL, ABP. $275/mo.,
summer; fall from $445/mo.
Quiet, nonsmoking. For pictures,
info, apps. click
Abbey-House.com 474-2408
BEAUTIFUL 2/1.5 condo, West
Campus. $550mo+Dep, Aug.1.
Sublet
June/July.
No
smoking/pets. 832-244-2702
Call for details.
512-386-6816
ANNOUNCEMENTS
520 - Personals
TEXT SINGLES on your cell!
Text the word “TALK” to 69000
18+ .99/message
received.
txtlife.com
560 - Public
Notice
$3500 PAID. Egg Donors.
SAT>1100/ACT>24.
Ages
19-29. N/smokers. Inquire at:
[email protected]
$450
GROUP
FUNDRAISER
SCHEDULING
BONUS
4 hours of your group’s time
PLUS our free (yes, free)
fundraising solutions EQUALS
$1000-$2000 in earnings for
your group. Call TODAY for a
$450 bonus when you schedule
your non-sales fundraiser with
Campus Fundraiser.
Contact Campus Fundraiser
(888)923-3238
or visit
www.campusfundraiser.com
SERVICES
660 - Storage
ACCESS SELF Storage. Student
discount. 10x10-10x20. 4341
S.Congress, between Ben White
and St. Elmo. 444-2411
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EMPLOYMENT
785 - Summer
Camps
CAMP COUNSELORSgain valuable experience
while having the
summer of a lifetime!
Counselors needed for Outdoor
Adventure, Arts, Aquatics, and
more in the Pocono Mountains
of Pennsylvania.
Apply online at
www.pineforestcamp.com
CAMP CANADENSIS,
A PREMIER RESIDENTIAL
SUMMER CAMP,
located in the Pocono
Mountains of PA. We are
looking for qualified staff for
our TRAIL BIKE PROGRAM.
DIRT BIKE RIDERS/
COUNSELORS/INSTRUCTORS
are needed to teach trail riding
to children, using Honda trail
50s, 70s, and XR80s.
Call 800-832-8228
or apply online,
www.canadensis.com
ALL-NEW CLASSIFIEDS! New Options • New Features • New Look
CLASSIFIEDS
6B
EMPLOYMENT
785 - Summer
Camps
LOCAL DAYCAMP JOBS
In UT neighborhood.
INTERVIEWING NOW
TO HIRE COUNSELORS
for PT & FT POSITIONS
COME PLAY @ WORK!
*Especially needed:
BUS DRIVERS!
WILL TRAIN CALL SOON!
472-3488
790 - Part time
Pizza
Classics
NOW HIRING
Drivers & Couponers $10-$15/
hr. pd. daily. Also Cooks
Call 320-8080 after 4pm.
OTOKO PUBLISHING photographer seeks athletic males, ages
18-28.
$50/hour-$500/day.
[email protected]
(512) 927-2226
WORK WITH CHILDREN!
Secure your summer job now!
• Full and part-time positions
available
• Flexible schedule
• Fun, enthusiastic individuals
needed
• Fun-filled trips, creative
curriculum
Stepping Stone Schools Junior
Genius Adventure Camp
459-0258 or
apply in person at
1910 Justin Ln.
www.steppingstoneschool.com
SEEKING
ENTHUSIASTIC
positive sales-people to sell
radio advertising on the phone.
Flexible
hours,
Good-$$
266-7903
START YOUR SUMMER NOW!
Austin’s only infant care center
has immediate opportunities for
teacher’s assitants working with
children, 2 mos-2 yrs.
M-F, 8-12:30. Must be 18+
years of age with high school
diploma or equivalent. Prefer
some academic background or
experience working with groups
of young children. Call Helen at
478-3113 for more
information. EOE
YMCA OF AUSTIN
*Now hiring summer
counselors & leadership
positions. Looking for caring,
hard-working students interested
in making differences in the lives
of kids. Different Schedules
Avail! Camps run from 7-6pm,
M-F. Experienced applicants
preferred. *Also hiring PT
reading specialists to implement
reading programs at summer
camp sites. 236-9622x26
ATHLETIC
MEN $50 to
$150/hr. Modeling for calendars, greeting cards etc. No experience needed. 684-8296.
SWIM INSTRUCTORS NEEDED.
Certified WSI’s, experience a
plus, to teach at fun outdoor
pool M-Th mornings or evenings, $10/hr. Contact Jen @
944-5075
or
[email protected]
17
STUDENTS
needed who will be paid to lose
weight! 100% natural! Vivian
329-5413, www.ezthin.com
FOR ANIMAL lovers, great parttime job, mornings and weekends, pet sitter,North-Central
Austin. Need car, pay cash!
453-0399
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT
790 - Part time
790 - Part time
PT TECH SUPPORT
Apply today. We offer a flexible
and fun atmosphere. Immediate
opening for a Part-Time Tech
Support member. Starting pay
$9/hour. Responsibilities:
Provide 1st level tech support
and trouble shoot problems.
Provide outstanding customer
service to store associates.
Assess problem and determine
hard or software problem.
Requirements:
Ability to work weekends
and nights.
Demonstrated customer
service skills.
For immediate consideration
please forward resume and
salary requirements to
[email protected]
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
EARN
$8.00-$12.00/HR!
A+ Student Staffing is an
agency that helps dependable
college students find work.
We have part-time &
temporary office jobs ranging
from 10-40 hrs/wk. We have
evening & weekend temporary
jobs working special events &
parties. For consideration
please
submit an online application by
visiting our website at
www.studentstaff.com
EX-DOT COMERS going old
school...with tech oriented
insurance agency. Business
growing quickly and looking
for help. Be computer savvy
and smart working. Earn at
least $10/hr, very flexible
hours, no sales.
Email: melindajones@
gettexasinsurance.com
800 - General
Help Wanted
BARTENDING! $300 a day potential. No exp nec, training
provided. 800-965-6520 ext
113
FULL-TIME RETAIL
CLOTHING
Flexible hours. Spanish a plus.
Great opportunity to be a
part of a new and unique
clothing experience.
Please forward resume or
inquiries to [email protected]
or [email protected]
or call 560-1229.
TOP BOYS sports camp
in Maine! Play & coach
sports-Have Fun- Make $$
Exciting, fun summer working
w/kids, on magnificent lake
in central Maine! Counselor
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
positions still available:
LANDSCAPE RESOURCES, INC.
Clean up of leaves and trash on
downtown property Tues, Wed,
Thurs, Sat, and Sun mornings.
Call 512-394-1120
baseball, basketball, soccer,
lacrosse, hockey, water-ski,
wakeboard, swim-WSI, sailing,
hiking, overnight camping, rock
climbing, woodworking, arts &
crafts. Top salaries, free
room/board, travel allowance.
CAPITOL LIBRARY seeks
detail-oriented individual for
general library duties: Assist
patrons, research, data entry,
answer phones, organize files.
Position requires some college
and public service experience.
P/T position thru 5/30:
5:00-9:00pm M-Th,
1:00-5:00pm, F addt’l
evening/weekend hours may
Apply online ASAP:
www.campcobbossee.com
or call 1-800-473-6104
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May continue with different
duties through summer.
Job posting #105-015.
Addt’l info, 463-5911.
State app required
(www.twc.state.tx.us/jobs/gvjb
/stateapp.pdf), send app to
PO Box 12488, Austin, 78711;
fax to 475-4626; or email to
[email protected].
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Tuition Assistance
Contact Sean @ 232-6085
or email:
[email protected]
summer jobs available
GET PAID TO PLAY!
If you think and act like
a kid, come work at
Call 302-5299;
TEACHING EXPERIENCE available. Needed cheerleading instructor for after school program
(05-06). Call 414-2095 or
826-2692.
TEXADELPHIA NOW
800 - General
Help Wanted
CARE ABOUT WATER?
WE DO!
CLEAN WATER ACTION IS
SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING A
DIFFERENCE! ARE YOU?
Get paid to organize
communitites, protect
waterways, uphold democracy.
Motivated activists with excel
comm skills. Apply now. FT/PT,
benefits, West Campus, PD
training, $345+/wk, rapid adv.
thin, feminine who
enjoy smoking socially
needed for confidential
phone interview.
Selected callers earn $40.
Leave name and number,
your call will be returned.
661-255-3940
TEACH ESL in China. For information call Dr. Gary Lane at
800-549-2111
LIFEGUARDS, SWIM
Instructors and water
aerobic
instructors
wanted
for
Austin
area. Great pay and working
conditions.
Apply
online.
http://familyswimgym.com
EXCELLENT INCOME
National Capitol
Funding Group,
Now Hiring
courthouse researchers,
will train to work from
home on your computer.
No experience necessary.
Call 1-800-440-7234
AUSTIN AQUARIUMS is
now hiring. Need good customer service and animal husbandry skills. Pay plus commission. Call (512)206-0646. Michael or Luci.
www.austinaquariums.com
EARN UP to $800-1200 a
week! PT/FT, no experience
necessary!
For
info
call
888-395-8128 ext. 6797
LIFEGUARDS NEEDED! Fun and
professional staff. Competitive
wages. meals and uniform provided. close to campus.
brians@westwoodcountryclub.
com or 453-7246, ext.146
TRAINEES!
875 - Medical
Study
MOVIE EXTRAS/MODELS
NEEDED!!
Young faces needed to fill a
variety of jobs! Candidates
needed for crowd and
background scenes for local
productions. No experience
required!! All looks needed!!
Up to $22 hourly!!
Call 1(800) 280-0177
now for more info.
FIT KID PROGRAM
Fit Kids Summer Position
8am-12pm M-F Looking for an
active person with experience
in-group children activities.
Must be able to maintain
authority while having fun
playing sport related games.
Childcare Attendant
RUNNER/OFFICE ASSISTANT
for downtown property management
office.
Reliable
trans./proof of insurance and
good driving record required.
Various
duties,
flex-hours.
474-5043
875 - Medical
Study
NOW HIRING
CAMPUS MANAGERS
Ready for the UReps
challenge? UReps is looking
for the most outgoing,
enthusiastic leaders for our
Campus Manager position for
the Fall, 2005 semester!
Work 10 hours per week,
gain valuable business
experience, and earn while
you build your resume, $100
weekly salary plus bonuses.
To learn more, and apply,
visit www.UReps.com
FULL-TIME SUMMER
Clerks - Job No. 069
Assists with filing,
copying, faxing and other
general clerical duties as
needed. Must be very familiar
with personal computers,
general office equipment and
ten key. Reliability and
punctuality required. Works 40
hours per week. Position is
temporary, for the summer only.
Salary $7.00 per hour. All
applications must be
received by 1:00p.m. CST
April 29, 2005. To receive an
application and complete job
description call 512/475-1562,
visit our website at
www.texasbar.com/jobs
or come by 1414 Colorado.
The following positions are
available:
Occupational Tax/Legal
Services Fee Clerks Job No. 069 A
Responsible for trouble shooting
tax unprocessables returned
from the lockbox, scanning tax
exemption forms, and entering
e-mail addresses into the
database.
Dues Statement Clerks Job No. 069 B
Responsible for data entry of
credit card payments, trouble
shooting dues unprocessables
returned from the lockbox,
scanning change forms and
locating better address for
statements returned as
undeliverable and address
changes.
840 - Sales
880 - Professional
512 MAGAZINE is seeking an
advertising sales representative.
Commission base only. Apply at
421 East 6th Street, Suite B.
“Above Pete’s Piano Bar” Between 10am-7pm
CHILD CARE CENTER
in S.Austin seeking FT/PT
afternoon teachers. Must
have exp. w/children ages
6wks-3yrs in a child care center
or nursery. We offer excl. comp
& benfts. pkg that include tuition
reimbersement. EOE/AA
1-800-454-9383 x1551
[email protected]
http://brighthorizons.com
890 - ClubsRestaurants
900 - DomesticHousehold
CUBA LIBRE is now hiring for
Hostess & Servers. Apply from
3-6pm, Monday-Friday at 409
Colorado.
AFTERNOON NANNY IN
DAVENPORT RANCH
Pick up kids (4&8) from summer
camp, then school, 4-8 M-F.
Duties include child minding,
overseeing homework, cooking
dinner, driving to classes/
sports, and children’s laundry.
Must have car.
Competitive rates +gas.
Call 512/306-9968
Hot New Item-EZ Sales
New concept - ground
floor opportunity.
Prepaid adult entertainment
internet access.
Be the first in your area to
market this new concept.
Small investment required.
850 - Retail
UPS STORE is Hiring (2)Responsible, dependable, 25-39 hours
week. 1914 Guadalupe. Stop
by for Application
860 - EngineeringTechnical
BRIGHT STUDENT/QUICK
learner needed for half time
position. Must be able to work
independently. Sophmore
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T HE DAILY TEXAN
‘Tuna’ back for high school reunion
‘Red, White and Tuna’ sets
stage with Fourth of July in
final installment of trilogy
By Lauren Perdue
Daily Texan Staff
Anyone who has lived in a small town
knows that the excitement of rural life
isn’t as bright as city lights. Instead,
it combines interpersonal relationships
and observations because, let’s face it,
you know everyone.
“The very best thing about a small
town is knowing you’ll never die unnoticed,” said Aunt Pearl, one of the few
residents of the fictional town of Tuna.
“Somebody will know.”
By this logic, there’s always something
going on in Tuna, Texas.
When we first visited the third-smallest town in Texas in “Greater Tuna,” it
was more than 20 years ago.
Then came “A Tuna Christmas” and
the most recent installment, “Red, White
and Tuna.”
RED, WHITE AND TUNA
Location: Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Ave.
Dates: April 19 – May 1
Times: Tuesday – Friday at 8 p.m.
Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: Purchase tickets online at startickets.com or call (512) 469-SHOW
More Info:
http://greatertuna.com/rwt/rwtindex.htm
Creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears
will bring “Red, White and Tuna” and
all of the town’s men, women and children to life at the Paramount Theatre on
April 19.
So what possessed Williams and Sears,
along with co-creator Ed Howard, to turn
a party sketch and a political cartoon
into the original long-running sensation,
“Greater Tuna”?
The play “Greater Tuna” was created
in the summer of 1981 in Austin.
It was originally written in a threeweek period to be performed on Austin’s
Sixth Street. The play opened at Trans/
Act Theatre, which was located where
the Hard Rock Cafe is today, said Tony
Award nominee Joe Sears in an e-mail
interview with the Texan.
The play became so popular that they
decided to take it on the road.
“It was an immediate hit, so we honed
the writing while living in Austin and
prepared for the road,” Sears said. The
first city tested outside of Austin was San
Antonio, where it became a hit as well
and received great reviews.
Then came Atlanta. “We continued to
make changes as we went,” Sears said.
But why write another play when the
original flourishes? If the first show is
still going after 20 years and many successful community performances, why
bother?
Williams and Sears could have been
content to rest on their laurels and simply produce their wildly successful show
to veritable exhaustion, but instead chose
to follow it with two sequels.
“The ‘Tuna’ plays were so popular
and outrageous, they went from cult
status to off-Broadway and Broadway
success,” Sears said. “The fans wanted
more ‘Tuna’, and we supplied it, having
as much fun writing the plays as the fans
did seeing them.”
Photo courtesy of David M. Allen
Joe Sears, left, as Aunt Pearl Burras, and Jaston Williams as Vera Carp star in “Red, White and Tuna.” This third installment in the “Tuna”
trilogy runs April 19 - May 1 at the Paramount Theatre and follows “Greater Tuna” and “A Tuna Christmas.”
One would think that elements of
what make the “Tuna” trilogy funny
and insightful would be lost on people
who are not familiar with either Texas
or small-town life, but the “Tuna” plays
have been produced all over America,
including a seven-year run by a community theater in San Francisco and the
Edinburgh International Theatre Festival
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in Scotland.
And the plays’ relevance does not
suffer over time. The politics of today
and the culture war between all things
liberal and conservative keep the shows
as fresh and timely as when they were
first performed.
While the show’s Web site states that
“Red, White and Tuna” is the final chap-
‘Amityville’ defeats ‘Sahara’
By David Germain
LOS ANGELES — “The
Amityville Horror” returned
from the dead with a vengeance,
with the gory update of the
1970s fright flick taking in $23.3
million to top the weekend box
office.
The previous weekend’s No. 1
movie, the African desert adventure “Sahara,” slipped to second
place with $13.1 million, lifting
its 10-day total to $36.4 million,
according to studio estimates
Sunday.
“The Amityville Horror” stars
Ryan Reynolds and Melissa
George as a couple tormented
by visions and voices in their
new home, the scene of a grisly
mass murder a year earlier.
The movie is the latest in
a parade of successful horror
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remakes. With a built-in audience looking for scares and
a string of hits such as “The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre,”
“The Grudge” and “Dawn of
the Dead,” horror movies have
become almost a sure thing in
Hollywood.
Horror movies also typically
cost far less than other big studio
films, whose average budgets
top $60 million. “The Amityville
Horror” grossed more than its
$19 million budget in just the
first weekend.
“The Amityville Horror”
received mostly bad reviews, yet
the under-25 crowd that makes
up the genre’s core audience
rarely heeds the critics.
“The only reviews that count
are the public’s reviews,” said
Erik Lomis, head of distribution
for MGM, which released “The
Amityville Horror.”
In limited release, David
Duchovny’s directing debut,
“House of D,” opened strongly
with $30,000 in two theaters.
The coming-of-age tale features
Duchovny, wife Tea Leoni, Robin
Williams and Erykah Badu.
Todd Solondz’s “Palindromes,”
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh and
seven others playing the same
character in a series of vignettes,
debuted well with $61,434 in
seven theaters.
With overall revenues down
for the eighth straight weekend,
Hollywood is limping into its
busy summer season. The top 12
movies took in $73.9 million, off
13 percent from the same weekend last year.
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“This is a major slump,” said
Paul Dergarabedian, president
of box-office tracker Exhibitor
Relations. “I think the industry is
holding its collective breath for
the turnaround. What is going
to be the movie that reverses this
down trend? Thankfully, summer looks really good.”
Sydney Pollack’s United
Nations thriller “The Interpreter,”
starring Nicole Kidman and Sean
Penn, and the Ashton KutcherAmanda Peet romantic comedy
“A Lot Like Love,” open Friday
as summer lead-ins.
Next week brings the action
follow-up “XXX: State of the
Union,” starring Ice Cube,
and the science-fiction romp
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy.”
May could get Hollywood
back on track, with “Star Wars:
Episode III — Revenge of the
Sith” as the industry’s centerpiece for early summer.
Other big May releases
include Adam Sandler’s football
tale “The Longest Yard,” Will
Ferrell’s soccer comedy “Kicking
& Screaming,” Ridley Scott’s
Crusades epic “Kingdom of
Heaven,” the animated adventure “Madagascar,” the horror
remake “House of Wax” and
Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda’s
comedy “Monster-in-Law.”
BOX OFFICE
1. “The Amityville Horror,” $23.3
million.
2. “Sahara,” $13.1 million.
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3. “Fever Pitch,” $8.8 million.
4. “Sin City,” $6.7 million.
5. “Guess Who,” $4.9 million.
6. “Beauty Shop,” $3.8 million.
7. “Robots,” $3.55 million.
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ter of the “Tuna” trilogy, Sears has another idea up his sleeve.
“I want to begin work on a ‘Trick ’em
and Treat ’em Tuna’ and have a horror
show with our town gone mad,” Sears
said.
A Halloween play bringing further
success for the “Tuna” crew? So smart,
it’s scary.
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