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The UT System Board of Regents will now require all student employ-ees at UT to go through a criminal background check, according to an email sent to the Human Resources Department last week.

The departments that hire stu-dent employees will cover the cost of background checks, University Operations spokeswoman Cynthia Posey said.

UT has between 7,000 and 10,000 student employees, and the process will cost $4 for every person who has not gone through a criminal background check, she said.

“When you’re talking about a mass number, because we hire a lot of people, it can add up,” Posey said.

The College of Liberal Arts alone has 21 departments and 20 research centers. Each department hires about five student employees, so the cost impact could be huge, but right now the amount of that im-pact is far from clear, said Gail Da-vis, director of human resources for the college.

According to the email, stu-dents who take a year off between jobs at the University will have to go through a background check again even if they have done so in the past.

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Incoming freshmen Trina Bui, Valentina Enriquez and Roshni Barghese complete registration for the fall semester at the McCombs School of Business on Wednesday. Attendance was high despite this being the first year summer orientation isn’t mandatory.

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Connor Pusey sits on a rock ledge overlooking the Barton Creek Greenbelt on Wednesday afternoon. Both farmers and outdoor enthusiasts are feeling the heat of this period of intense drought.

Strings of 100-degree days are painful in early June. So are wild-fires in May and dry farms during spring in Central Texas.

With symptoms such as these, it’s no surprise more than 96 percent of the state is feeling the effects of a drought that began in October, ac-cording to the U.S. Drought Mon-

itor and the Lower Colorado Riv-er Authority. About 57 percent of the state is suffering from an “ex-ceptional” drought, the monitor’s most severe designation. Weather forecasts leave no reason to expect relief soon, and that spells trouble for farmers.

Wes Sims harvested his first crop as a teenager in the 1950s. Now the president of the Texas Farm-ers Union, Sims has seen the agri-

cultural indus-try change over decades. Af-t e r f a r m -ing his way through many droughts in the past, he said he has little optimism for farmers this summer.

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For the first time, the University isn’t requiring incoming freshmen to at-tend summer orientation, but admin-istrators say more than 95 percent will still attend.

Wednesday afternoon, the sec-ond set of 1,200 incoming Longhorns gathered at the McCombs School of Business to register for classes after two-and-a-half days of programs.

Kristen Jones, assistant director in the Office of the Dean of Students, said registering for classes won’t be

an easy process if students do not attend orientation.

“Freshmen students have a num-ber of bars that need to be cleared be-fore they can be advised and register,” Jones said. “It’s not easy for them to be seen outside the parameters of ori-entation to clear those bars. Orienta-tion becomes a necessity.”

Orientation has also been cut from three-and-a-half days to two-and-a-

The Longhorn Network will launch Aug. 26, just in time for a new school year and football sea-son, according to an announce-ment Wednesday.

The 24-hour subscription-only cable channel will launch the first week of the fall semester and one week before the first football game, said Dave Brown, vice president of programming and acquisitions for the Longhorn Network. First an-nounced in January, the 20-year contract between ESPN and UT guarantees roughly $300 million for the University.

“We want to capture the excite-ment of a football season to coin-cide with the launch,” Brown said.

ESPN and UT also revealed sev-eral of the shows on the lineup, in-cluding “Longhorn Extra,” a night-ly UT sports news show, and “Tex-as All Access,” a weekly show that will give behind-the-scenes looks at University teams and groups, including the football team. The shows will give fans a look at UT football “like nobody’s seen be-fore,” said head football coach Mack Brown in a press release.

Local sports journalists worry that giving ESPN exclusive access to athletes and programs will limit their ability to bring sports report-ing to readers and viewers.

“It’s going to make our journal-istic lives a living nightmare,” Kirk Bohls, an Austin-American States-man sports columnist, wrote in a public, online Q&A chat session. “Who do you think will get all the scoops? Terrible news for us.

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“I think that for most of South and Central Texas, this crop sea-son is history,” Sims said. “To the north there remains a small win-dow of time to plant crops, but that also looks doubtful.”

He said he believes farmers will need some form of assistance from the federal government in order to maintain good credit with banks. Recent federal budget cuts could mean a dry financial year for farm-ers. He said farms could have to foreclose, and the economic im-pact will hurt all Texans.

“[This would be] a nightmare for lots of people, not just farm-ers,” Sims said. “The magnitude of disaster for these losses will start with farmers, then spread its harm to the community. Many houses

and farms could be lost, and no-body is crying wolf.”

In May, The Associated Press re-ported the drought could cost the state’s agriculture industry about $1.5 billion before it’s over, and that number keeps rising.

“It’s a very ugly picture,” Sims said.

Clara Tuma, spokeswoman for the Lower Colorado River Au-thority, said the energy and wa-ter supplier has asked custom-ers to cut back by 5 percent after months of low rainfall and inflow to lakes from rivers. Cities, indus-tries and farms comprise the au-thority’s customers, not individu-al homeowners.

She said that compared to the two-year drought that started in

fall 2007 and lasted until fall 2009, this drought has been worse in in-tensity but not duration. Central Texas has also seen record heat. There have been 10 days with temperatures exceeding 100 de-grees so far this year. In 2010, the first 100-degree day was June 16.

In the city, the drought’s im-pact is less direct. Austin Water Utility spokesman Jason Hill said customers in the city have been mindful of their daily water us-age, and the city has been able to maintain Stage 1 water restric-tions, which limit outdoor water-ing to twice per week.

“We feel confident customers will continue to be diligent about water usage, but there’s no pre-dicting Mother Nature,” Hill said.

Texas basica l ly just bought a network.”

The Daily Texan Sports Editor Trey Scott said the University close-ly controls the media’s access to the football program because it makes so much money for UT. He believes the Longhorn Network will create resentment among local media who have not had the level of access to UT football that ESPN will have.

“Viewers will finally be able to see more behind-the-scenes stuff, but I believe that Mack Brown is going to be very particular with what ESPN shows, the agenda it sets and how it presents the news,” Scott said.

Although the facility will be off campus near Interstate High-way-35 and Eighth Street, the net-work will still have a large presence on the 40 Acres, said women’s ath-letics director Chris Plonsky.

“[Longhorn Network] will have two facilities on campus with a direct fiber link [to the studio],” Plonsky said. “They will be on campus a lot.”

Despite the off-campus location, Dave Brown said there will still be plenty of opportunities for student internships, though the selection process won’t start until July.

The network will later announce non-athletic shows, including speakers who visit UT and faculty and student work, he said.

“[Longhorn Network will] high-light the mission of the University, and what faculty and students are doing,” Dave Brown said.

“These things are very com-mon,” said Daniel Sharphorn, as-sociate vice chancellor and deputy general counsel for the UT System. “Among different institutions there are some variances.”

UT-Dallas and UT-San Anto-nio have been conducting employ-ee background checks for faculty and students for years. Sharphorn said the process is not perfect, but it does help identify criminals and people who could be dangerous.

“The goal is to make stu-dents and staff as safe as possible,” Sharphorn said.

After 9/11, students and facul-ty have become prime targets for

criminal background checks, said Jeffery Graves, associate vice pres-ident for legal affairs.

“We are very conscious in how we do them,” Graves said.

The Human Resource Depart-ment looks for convictions, not ar-rests, job-relatedness and severi-ty, he said. If a person has a been convicted for drunk driving, he or she will most likely not get a job that requires driving, Graves said. He added the same per-son can most likely get a job in a different department.

“If somebody is a sex offend-er, we certainly don’t want them working in the Child Development

Center,” he said.He added that the cost of the

process spreads finely across the departments. Even if one de-partment has 200 employees, it won’t be more than about $1,000, Graves said.

“It’s not going to have a large im-pact,” he said.

English junior Kendra Loftice, who works at Services for Students with Disabilities, said she doesn’t think background checks will cre-ate problems.

“It’s just to make sure you don’t have a criminal record where it would affect those who are work-ing around you,” she said.

half days for incoming fresh-men and extended from one to two days for transfer students, Jones said.

She said an orientation task force took feedback from students last year and used other univer-sities’ orientations as examples to make these changes.

“The skeleton of this orien-tation has been very similar to past orientations,” Jones said. “We’ll get the feedback on changes at the end of the sum-mer and kind of see what chang-e s w e’ l l k e e p and what chang-es we’ll further adapt.”

Jones said the orientation staff will also know the final cost of running the ori-e n t a t i o n t h i s s u m m e r. S h e said the orienta-tion budget cov-ers facility uses, publ icat ion costs and sa l -ar ies for or ient at ion s t af f and advisers.

Incoming freshman Michelle Kao said the presentations at ori-entation introduced her to the University and gave her an idea of what to expect when she starts classes. She said she chose to at-tend one of the first orientation sessions so she could get famil-

iar with the University early in the summer.

“The barbecue and the student fair by the turtle pond were real-ly fun, and I found some organi-zations I want to join,” Kao said. “I met a lot of people, and I’m less nervous about coming here now.”

History and economics se-nior Austin Gunter was one of al-

most 90 orien-tation advisers this summer. It’s his second year as an adviser, and he said this summer’s ori-entation is a lit-tle more stress-ful because of crunched time schedules.

He said he en-courages stu-d e nt s i n h i s group to attend the central pro-grams of the ori-e nt at i on an d then branch off to other pro-grams based on their individual

interests.“This summer we are more fo-

cused on registration and advis-ing, getting classes and under-standing the course schedule,” Gunter said. “The advantage of coming to orientation is that you get to register before anyone. As freshmen, you have low priority anyway so students are going to want to come.”

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NEW YORK — Unrest in Greece rattled global finan-cial markets Wednesday. Stocks fell the most since June 1 as in-vestors piled into lower-risk as-sets like the dollar and U.S. government bonds.

A report on manufacturing in the New York area also came in far below forecasts. That reignited fears that factory production, one of the few bright spots in the U.S. economy, may be weaker than

many economists had believed.Thousands of people gathered

on the streets of Athens to protest government cutbacks required by international lenders. Demon-strators hurled rocks at riot po-lice, who responded with tear gas. Greece’s prime minister said he would name a new Cabinet after talks to form a new government with opposition parties failed.

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age fell 178.84 points, or 1.5 per-cent, to close at 11,897.27. The drop erased all of its 123-point gain from Tuesday and put the average on track for a seventh

straight week of losses. All 30 companies in the Dow dropped, led by Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. which lost 2.9 percent.

If Greece defaults on its debt it could cause investors to dump the bonds of other weak Eu-ropean nation Portugal, Spain and Ireland, raising borrow-ing costs for those countries. It could also cause the dollar to fur-ther strengthen against the euro, making U.S. products more ex-pensive abroad. That acts as a drag on corporate profits. Ear-lier in the year a declining dol-lar played a key role in boosting

corporate earnings and sending stocks higher.

June is shaping up to be the worst month for the stock market since May 2010. Stocks have ris-en only three days this month and have fallen 11. The Dow Jones in-dustrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index are now 7 per-cent below the highs they reached in late April.

Five shares fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Despite the sell-off, consolidated trading was only slightly heavier than usual at 4.2 billion shares.

NAIROBI, Kenya — A U.N. hu-manitarian report and aid workers caught in the crossfire reported on Wednesday an increase in violence in a new front near the already tense internal border between north and south Sudan, with dozens of people reported killed in attacks.

The violence in South Kordofan has killed at least 25 people, a U.N. humanitarian report said, though it said local sources indicated that up to 64 people had been killed. The north also bombed an airstrip, pre-venting the movement of food aid and humanitarian workers.

The increased violence comes less than a month before Southern Su-dan will declare independence from the north on July 9, the culmina-

tion of a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of civil war that killed some 2 million people.

But the sudden outbreak in vio-lence on multiple fronts has greatly increased fears of renewed war, with some aid workers in the south indi-cating the northern government of Khartoum may be moving toward wider conflict.

Deng Alor Kuol, the minister for regional cooperation for Southern Su-dan, said the African Union talks are focusing on empowering an Ethiopi-an peacekeeping mission for Abyei.

A cease-fire in South Kordofan seems far away. Deng said there are political issues to be addressed first with Abdul Aziz Al Hilu, the lead-ing pro-southern political figure in South Kordofan, before any agree-ment that would be “effective” and accepted on the ground.

Humanitarian efforts stymied by violence along Sudan’s border

Markets falter after unrest in Greece

Associated Press

An explosion threatens a United Nations compound in South Kordofan on Tuesday. Southern Sudan secedes from the north on July 9, and vio-lence has flared in the run-up to the independence declaration.

By Chip Cutter and Matthew CraftThe Associated Press

By Jason StraziusoThe Associated Press

Trader Todd Ingrili works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday.

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Four different U.S. congressmen will represent students living on and around the UT campus, effectively shattering the voting power of a student body numbering 50,000, under the congressional map passed by the Texas Legislature on Tuesday.

On a map that looks like a Rorschach test, West Campus, Riverside, the main campus and much of North Campus and Far West are split four ways, fragmenting the Univer-sity community as completely as the city of Austin itself will be fragmented by the new plan. West Campus is already part of an il-logical district that stretches to San Anto-nio and into the rural counties northwest of that city. Riverside will be improbably included in a district that nearly reaches Fort Worth.

It’s a map that, like the many preceding it, is not based on geographical proximities, communities’ interests or any other reason-able standard. It’s a map based on the cold calculations of partisan politics. For years, state legislators have considered it natu-ral that district lines should be drawn to give an advantage to whichever political party is in power at census time. Capitol insiders have long believed that average Texans don’t care and aren’t paying atten-tion when elected officials are drawing up

voting districts.But that truism is worn out. When a map

of our state’s voting districts looks like the world’s most convoluted jigsaw puzzle, it’s clear that many Texans are going to end up with representatives who have no busi-ness representing them, people who live in distant parts of the state and have distant priorities. That’s when redistricting ceases to be a politico’s game and starts to become an issue for regular Texans who want fair representation in their government.

The residents of Travis County, as well as those living in minority-majority areas throughout the state, have been given a par-ticularly raw deal. Travis County residents are not a majority in any of the five districts that the county has been sliced into, which may make it nearly impossible to elect a congressman from the Austin area in any district. Essentially, this means those who live in our state’s capital may be without real congressional representation for the next 10 years. And although Texas’ African-Amer-ican and Latino population accounts for more than 90 percent of the state’s growth in the past 10 years, the Texas Legislature has added only one new minority-majority congressional district, leading some legisla-tors and analysts to believe that the plans will be overturned in court by the Voting Rights Act. The League of United Latin American Citizens, a Latino civil rights

group, has already filed a lawsuit to stop the redistricting legislation.

The plans go far beyond the petty power struggles in partisan politics. It raises fun-damental concerns about whether legisla-tors are denying thousands of Texans the ability to elect representatives who truly represent them. It doesn’t make sense to ask a congressman living on the Gulf Coast to represent Bastrop County or to ask a state senator from Laredo to represent South Austin (which, for reference, is roughly 230 miles away).

It’s time to create voting districts based on cities and communities, not whether the people within them vote Republican or Democrat. It’s time to return to the original idea of political representation, in which elected officials are connected to the people and places they represent and understand their unique interests and needs.

When lawmakers received criticism for heavy budget cuts throughout this legisla-tive session, a number of them described their course of action as a “mandate from the people,” a choice justified by their very election. If these lawmakers truly believe their elections are mandates from the peo-ple of Texas, then they should be unafraid to run in logical districts that accurately represent the people of Texas.

Heinrich is a government sophomore.

Prohibiting sanctuary cities Senate Bill 9, a bill that was added to the cal-

endar for the special session, is part of the anti-Hispanic agenda the Texas GOP is carrying. SB 9 will prohibit sanctuary cities, expand the federal government’s Secure Communities program to include all detention facilities (it is currently in use in every county jail) and codify stricter guide-lines for legal residents applying for state-issued driver’s licenses or IDs. The supporters of SB 9 say that Texas owes it to the law enforcement officials to give them the discretion they need to adequately do their jobs. However, it is these same law enforcement officials who say that community policing could be irreparably harmed if SB 9 is passed. Since I choose to listen to the law enforce-ment officials, the experts on the subject, there has to be a more sinister reason underlying the desire to pass this retrogressive legislation. If this anti-Hispanic agenda passes, we will make sure we mobilize our voters to elect people who really care about the security of Texas and not someone who needs to score political points by saying that they were tough on illegal immigration.

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Vote in Saturday’s city council runoffThe Daily Texan endorsement: Randi Shade

This year’s city council race for Place 3 between incumbent Randi Shade and challenger Kathie Tovo has been one of the most tightly contested local elections in years. The months-long cam-paigns have featured vicious attacks on the other candidates and may very well serve as a sort of referendum on the future of this city.

Shade, a UT alumna and entrepreneur, has campaigned on a platform advocating sustainable growth and maintaining city ser-vices. Shade has been supported by Austin’s business community and has won endorsements from the Austin Police Association and the Austin Firefighters Association.

Tovo, her opponent, has a long history of community involve-ment and has been a member of several commissions and com-mittees. Tovo has drawn support primarily from the city’s various neighborhood associations and won an endorsement from the Austin Neighborhoods Council.

In last month’s general election, Tovo nearly pulled off an upset, netting 46 percent of the vote, while Shade received 33 percent. Because neither candidate received a majority, Tovo and Shade en-tered a runoff, which will be decided Saturday.

Several key municipal issues have been the highlights of the race so far, including the proposed F-1 racing track, transporta-tion, infrastructure, the approval of a new water treatment plant, and transparency after the Austin American-Statesman obtained hundreds of email correspondences from city council members in February.

Meanwhile, issues affecting the student population of Austin haven’t received much attention but will still be significantly affect-ed depending on which candidate comes out on top next week.

Oftentimes those issues that have the most immediate impact on student quality of life are shrouded in layers of city code and other legalese. For instance, the availability of student housing in areas around campus has a major impact on student life. In recent years the Central Austin Neighborhoods Planning and Advisory

Committee has been actively working to create additional restric-tions on group residential housing, which would make it harder for new student housing to be created.

While Tovo was not directly involved in the advisory commit-tee’s decision-making process at the time, her links to Austin’s neighborhood associations and their anti-growth politics are trou-bling. We question whether, if elected, Tovo would govern in the best interest of all Austinites, not just those select few neighbor-hoods. The Shade campaign has held up a particularly contentious zoning case in Hyde Park as an example of Tovo’s support for a neighborhood association imposing its will on the rights of a ho-meowner.

Also troubling is the matter of the city’s historic zoning com-missions. Currently, properties designated “historic landmarks” by the city receive generous tax breaks. In recent years, that practice has come under scrutiny as a disproportionate number of proper-ties receiving these tax breaks were located in affluent West Austin neighborhoods, the same neighborhoods whose associations have been so adamant in their support of Tovo. Misuse of “historic” zoning has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost tax revenue for the city. Shade has called for closer scrutiny of the his-toric designations while Tovo has voiced support for the process.

In the past two years, Shade has drawn her fair share of criti-cisms, and rightfully so. Shade’s close ties to Austin business inter-ests and support of subsidies have some questioning her loyalties, and environmentalists have criticized her pro-growth policies. Additionally, her malicious campaign tactics and flippant remarks within City Hall have turned off many voters.

However, while we recognize Shade’s shortcomings over the past two years, we still believe Shade is the more qualified candi-date to serve on Austin’s City Council and that she will do the most to serve the interests of all Austinites, including students, not just politically-connected neighborhood associations. We encourage you to vote to re-elect Councilwoman Randi Shade this Saturday.

ryan edwards | Daily Texan Staff

City council candidate Randi Shade speaks at the Austin Neighborhoods Council candidate forum in March. A UT alumna and former student body president, Shade faces Kathie Tovo in the runoff for Place 3 on the council.

Republican lawmakers have rub-ber-stamped most of the legisla-tion Gov. Rick Perry added for the special session, leaving Democrats voiceless. Four major bills are hur-tling past the final roadblocks to be-coming law after passing at least one chamber this week.

RedistrictingOn Wednesday, the House passed

its final procedural vote on its ver-sion of the congressional redistrict-ing map that divides Travis coun-ty into five different districts, all Re-publican leaning.

“The members provided much input and direction on maps that re-flect the population changes in our state,” said House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, in a press release.

Democrats argue the maps silence the voices of growing communities; particularly Hispanics.

Austin legislators stood up against the map, stating it discriminates against minorities in Travis Coun-ty because more than 50 percent of the county’s growth has been His-panic. The map divides the minori-ty population into separate Republi-can-leaning districts.

“You couldn’t have done a better job of carving out minority neigh-borhoods unless you were a sur-geon with a sharp scalpel,” said Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin.

The Senate will vote on the leg-islation next week, but Democrats expect the courts to rule on wheth-er the maps violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Texas Windstorm Insurance Association

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association bill received a legislative OK on Wednesday from the House of Representatives with a 99-41 vote.

Under the new bill, the quasi-gov-ernmental agency will be able to lim-it the amount of damages recovered

for homeowners to actual costs plus court fees and also limits the num-ber of lawsuits brought against the association.

Rep. Jon Smithee, R-Amarillo, said it was a necessary reform that will properly equip insurers for the next hurricane season.

The association has struggled to recover from 2008’s Hurricane Ike,

which hit Galveston and Houston. The association distributed approx-imately $1.9 billion in claims and court fees, a total they will not be able to match if another serious hur-ricane hits Texas this season.

BudgetLate last week, the House

made progress toward passing

the 2012-13 budget, which Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, fil-ibustered during the regular ses-sion, forcing the special session.

The House approved a budget June 9 which cuts $4 billion from public schools with a 83-62 vote.

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Mechanical engineering school welcomes first woman chair

The Cockrell School of Engineer-ing appointed a woman to chair the mechanical engineering department for the first time.

Jayathi Murthy will come to UT in January, leaving her post as direc-tor of Purdue University’s Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems.

“I hope to bring expertise in inter-disciplinary research,” Murthy said. “I also have a background in small business, so I hope to bring exper-tise in the commercialization of ad-vanced research.”

Murthy said she has been looking for an opportunity to test her ideas with interdisciplinary research and cyber learning.

“I think it makes students far more competitive in the workplace because the kinds of work that peo-ple are required to do is interdisci-plinary and so we have to learn the languages of all these other disci-plines,” Murthy said.

Gregory Fenves, dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering, said the committee appointed Mur-thy because she was “by far the best candidate for the position.”

“She had a vision for the future of mechanical engineering and we think where we need to be going very much aligned with what her vision was,” Fenves said.

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Students are still waiting for news of financial aid awards. The Office of Student Financial Ser-vices decided to delay sending notifications after federal and state budget delays left adminis-

trators debating how much aid they could give.

The office usually sends fi-nancial aid award notifications through email in late March or early April, said Tom Melecki, di-rector of Student Financial Ser-vices. This is the first time the of-fice has had to delay the process.

“We are hoping to send [stu-dents] their financial aid notic-es for the fall and spring terms by July 1,” Melecki said.

Possible Pell grant reductions

from the U.S. Congress contrib-uted to the delay.

“Students should receive the same amount of Pell grants for this year as they did for last year, unless their financial situa-tion has improved dramatically,” Melecki said.

English junior Arleen Lopez said she periodically checks for updated information on financial aid, and not having that informa-tion has made it difficult for her to plan this year’s finances.

“It’s definitely increased the pressure for me to get a job this summer because usually I have enough money left over from financial aid, enough to sur-vive through the semester,” Lopez said.

She said she is grateful the Of-fice of Student Financial Services did not send notices without ad-equate information, but she said she hopes to know how much aid she will receive by July 1.

“I don’t think it would be right for them to make us wait any longer because we need to plan our finances accordingly,” Lo-pez said. “The sooner I know, the better, because I can plan for the summer.”

However, state financial aid is still not finalized because the state’s budget has taken longer than expected to pass. The budget bill is among the legislation being revisited in the special legislative session called by Gov. Rick Perry that began at the end of May. Leg-islative budget cuts to UT could reach $92 million, according to a University-wide email from Pres-ident William Powers Jr., and the TEXAS Grant program also faces serious cuts that could drastically reduce the number of incoming freshmen who receive aid.

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, chair of the Senate Higher Educa-tion Committee and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, voted against the budget June 3.

The senator earned three de-grees from UT and said her par-ents “did not pay one nickel.” She said nothing is impossible and students who receive less finan-cial aid should look into getting part-time jobs in their given field, especially on campus.

“I’m very disappointed with the higher education budget. [Ed-ucation] should be considered an investment, not an expense,” Zaf-firini said.

By Liz FarmerDaily Texan Staff

State budget delay postpones notifications of financial aid

Texas Coalition for Excellence formed to uphold standards

Texans dedicated to high stan-dards in research and teaching at Texas public universities formed the Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education Wednesday.

The group’s more than 200 founding members include busi-nesspeople, former university presidents and system chancel-lors, philanthropists and other education experts, according to a press release. They aim to ad-vance job growth and innovation by maintaining and improving higher education standards.

“Texans want to lead, not fol-low; we want the world’s next

great discovery to come from Tex-as, and we are committed to sup-porting the high quality research and teaching that will allow that to happen,” said the coalition in a statement. “High quality uni-versities are engines of econom-ic growth and incubators of cre-ativity.”

The coalition comes at a time of tension between higher educa-tion administrators and the state’s boards of regents. Gov. Rick Per-ry and some Perry-appointed re-gents advocate a separation of research and teaching as well as other moves such as larger class sizes to increase efficiency that UT President William Powers Jr. said will undermine the quality

of the University and inhibit its mission. The coalition’s statement echoed Powers’ sentiments.

“We are alarmed that some rec-ommendations being floated by others ... are a prescription for mediocrity that would have se-vere and negative long-term con-sequences for our state,” the state-ment said.

The “volunteer advocates” who comprise the committee will “encourage continued transpar-ency, progress and reform” and demand the continuance and growth of diverse educational opportunities across the state, ac-cording to the release.

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A protester rallies against the approval of Senate Bill 9, a sanctuary cities legislation, on the front steps of the Texas Capital Wednesday. The bill, which passed after a 19-12 vote, cuts resources to local govern-ments that prevent law enforcement to investigate immigration statuses.

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When Texas head coach Augie Garrido an-nounced he would be unveiling a new, unortho-dox batting lineup before regional play began, a few Longhorns weren’t so sure what their coach was thinking.

A few players voiced their confusion at the change, wondering what the thinking was behind it.

The change? Garrido decided to swap Tant Shepherd and Brandon Loy in the line-up, putting Shepherd at leadoff and Loy in the three-hole.

At the time, it seemed like trying to jam a square peg into a round hole. Shepherd, the se-nior first baseman, did not seem like the ide-al leadoff hitter the team needed. It wasn’t be-cause Shepherd doesn’t have the ideal table-set-ter speed. He attests to having some of the best wheels on the team. It was just that you usually want your power hitters to have opportunities

to hit with guys on base.“There’s a huge difference in your mindset for

your first at-bat of the game,” Shepherd said. And Loy, the junior shortstop who possess-

es an ideal skill set for a leadoff hitter — quick, smart and a contact hitter with excellent bat control — would now be asked to hit with run-ners in scoring position.

After a sample of two weeks of play, the move seems to be paying off.

In the Austin Regional, Shepherd and Loy combined to go 12-for-32 from the plate (for an average of .375) and teamed up to draw in six runs and walk 10 times. Shepherd was named the Most Outstanding Player of the regional and even got to flash some of his power, hitting a two-run home run in the fifth inning in Tex-as’ 5-3 win over Princeton.

Results were just as good this past weekend in the Super Regionals, a three-game series against Arizona State. The duo hit .360 in three games

Three welterweight competi-tors will enter the ring at the Er-win Center Friday night to fight in front of a national audience live from their hometowns.

Gilbert Vera, Cory Yett and Zachary Briones will compete in ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. Yett and Briones will face off against each other in a four-round match while Vera will take on Calvin Pitts in a six-round bout.

Vera, nicknamed “Boogie,” grad-uated from Westwood High School in Northwest Austin. The 25-year-old started boxing at the age of 16 and was constantly surrounded by

boxing culture. Both Vera’s broth-er and father have seen the inside of the ring.

“It is in us to fight,” Vera said. “Everywhere I go I am surrounded by boxing, and it is like a family re-union at the fights.”

Vera’s 11-3-1 record includes five knock-outs. On the way to his goal of being named a world champion, Vera was crowned the 2007 Tex-as Junior Welterweight Champion along with other accomplishments.

Yett, 30, started boxing at the age of 10 and continued training with his father. To the “South Texas Storm,” his dad’s presence in the ring is the

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Freshman closer Corey Knebel delivers a pitch against Texas State earlier this season. Knebel is only one save away from holding the record for saves in a single season at Texas. He currently shares the record of 19 saves with assistant coach J. Brent Cox, who pitched for UT in 2005.

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FLORIDARecord: 50-17Conference: SECTeam Avg: .311Team ERA: 3.01HRs: 67Hitter to Watch: Mike Zunino - .376 BA, 18 HR, 66 RBIPitcher to Watch: Hudson Randall - 10-3, 2.29 ERAHead Coach: Kevin O’SullivanTitles Won: 0

TEXASRecord: 49-17Conference: Big 12Team Avg: .272Team ERA: 2.27HRs: 17Hitter to Watch: Erich Weiss - .358 BA, 4 HR, 44 RBIPitcher to Watch: Taylor Jungmann - 13-2, 1.38 ERAHead Coach: Augie GarridoTitles Won: 6

Local boxers set to appear on ESPN’s national stage

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Gilbert Vera, right, will face off against Calvin PItts in a six round bout as part of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights on Friday at the Frank Erwin Center.

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Tant Shepherd crosses home plate against Arizona State

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VANCOUVER, British Colum-bia — The Boston Bruins had waited 39 long years for another drink from the Stanley Cup, and Tim Thomas was awfully thirsty.

Thomas made 37 saves in the second shutout of his landmark finals performance, and the Bru-ins beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 Wednesday night for their first championship since 1972.

Thomas limited the Canucks to eight goals in seven spectac-ular games in the finals, blank-ing Vancouver in two of the last four.

T h e B ru i n s a re t h e f i r s t team in NHL history to win a Game 7 three times in the same postseason.

During a two-week Stanley Cup finals that ranks among the NHL’s weirdest in recent years, the only predictable aspect had been the home teams’ domi-nance. Vancouver eked out three one-goal victories at home, while the Bruins won three blowouts in Boston.

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Wide receiver set to transfer after two years in Austin

Sophomore WR Greg Timmons has received an unconditional re-lease from his scholarship and has elected to transfer after two seasons with the football program. A native of Aldine, Texas, Timmons was a highly touted four-star recruit com-ing out of high school, but failed to make an impact on the field. Due to the depth of the Texas receiving corps, Timmons was facing a tough battle for playing time this year.

Timmons appeared in six games as a redshirt freshman last year, but only one as a wide receiver. He has yet to decide where he will transfer.

“We appreciate everything Greg has done for the program,” head coach Mack Brown said. “We wish him nothing but the best of luck as he moves forward and hope he has great success in the future.”

— Nick Cremona

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Last Sunday, fans at UFCU Disch-Falk Field roared as Corey Knebel ripped the final pitch that popped up safely to center field and secured the Longhorns a 4-2 win and a trip to the Col-lege World Series. As ESPN cam-eras showed Knebel thrust a tri-umphant fist pump toward home plate, the Georgetown native’s friends at home saw someone they didn’t recognize.

“I’ve gotten more intense,” Knebel said. “My friends told me, ‘We’ve been watching you pitch, and that’s not you out there. You’re not that serious. When you get up to Omaha, give a smile or something.’ ”

Knebel is admittedly one of the more easygoing players on the team, but he said his personality has changed since becoming the Longhorns’ closer. He still mess-es around a little in the bullpen — just kicking up dirt and bouncing off walls to stay energized — but gets focused and more serious once it’s time to pitch.

“He has gotten more intense, especially once the game starts,” said third baseman Erich Weiss, Kneb el’s ro ommate . “Once he goes in, you can tell he’s zoned in.”

Assistant coach J. Brent Cox, who closed for Texas during its 2005 national championship season, said Knebel’s intensity level is an even mixture between his goofiness and his under-

standing of his role on the team, and that the freshman uses it to his advantage.

“He’s a goofy guy by nature, and some people see it as taking pitches off and being lackadaisi-cal, but he doesn’t care what any

of the people in the stands think. He doesn’t care what the coaches think, and that’s right,” Cox said. “When you’re out there, you have to worry about you and that base-ball and that hitter, and if you’re worried about everybody else, it

takes away from your effort and what you’re trying to do.”

Knebel’s attitude isn’t the only thing that’s changed throughout season. The hurler is more pre-cise with his pitches, especial-ly with the breaking ball that he

learned earlier this season, and can locate his fastball on either side of the plate. Cox said the freshman has developed the con-fidence and command that helps

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Watching my Facebook news-feed Sunday night after the Mav-ericks capped off the champion-ship run was equally as fun as watching the roller-coaster se-ries itself. Though I decided to troll all the “Congrats Maver-icks” statuses with Youtube highlights of Hakeem Olajuwon and the Houston Rockets dur-ing their mid-90s championship years, one status from my friend initially rang true.

“And now we enter a dark pe-riod of sports watching,” post-ed my friend and sports nut Ra-hul Lanka.

Whether that is true or not, the 33 comments the status spawned had a number of comical, albeit sarcastic, responses.

“You mean an era of non-sports watching,” read the first response from a friend.

Lanka quipped, “I suppose I can just watch baseball and ... NASCAR or something ... There’s just nothing to watch! And with the NFL and NBA having to de-cide whether they will be on next year, it could get real ugly.”

The conversation unfolded like a back-and-forth ping-pong match, the page refreshing with a new, hilarious comment every few minutes.

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Cup. US op en. Op en your eyes!” another friend chimed in over the span of four sepa-rate comments.

Lanka, as a Texas sports fan, said he will of course watch the College World Series, but he wouldn’t budge beyond that. At first glance, the profession-al American sports environment has little to offer for the rest of the summer aside from MLB baseball, the viewership of which has increased since last season but is still not as popular as it once was. The summer months are always a drag in this 162-game format.

“Just think about it then,” Lan-ka commented. “Baseball, then nothing, then baseball again.” He said he won’t watch until the playoffs begin. Redundancy breeds apathy in his case, and I would have to agree.

There is Major League Soccer this summer, but finding and then actually sitting through an MLS game is as rare as finding me in the library. Though die-hard fans come out in droves in each MLS city, the skill level of this league pales in comparison to its European counterparts, and therefore is not as market-able. I’ll watch the occasional game of the week on ESPN 2 out of pity, but if I had the choice between waking up early to see an English Premiere League game with players whose names I can’t pronounce and a prime-

time Seattle Sounders vs. Port-land Timbers game, I’m picking the former.

So what is there to watch if the MLS and MLB aren’t your cups of tea? Was Lanka’s cynicism ultimately true? Maybe a little bit, but as a fan of all competi-tion, he will have to find a way to get through this summer and so will you. It will just take more digging to find a sport you’ve never watched or cared about and learn to love it. Here are a few suggestions.

The U.S. Open is a great start. The four-day-long golf tourna-ment starts today, and it features the likes of U.S. Open legend Phil Mickelson, rising star Rory McIlroy and newcomer Michael Whitehead. Whitehead, a Dal-las native, was called to replace Tiger Woods this weekend who dropped out due to injury. Golf is much more exciting to watch than most people think. It is a sports of extreme mental tough-ness and if anything, it is invigo-rating to watch a player so in the zone climb the leaderboard.

At the Frank Erwin Center on Friday, undefeated junior mid-dleweight boxer Fernando Guer-rero is set to return to the ring against veteran Grady Brewer. For the die-hard boxing fan, this match means the crowning of a new light middleweight cham-pion. For people who just like to watch other people get hit in the face, it’s a night to grab a beer

and watch people get hit in the face. If you’re going to stay home to watch the bout and have a 3D television, you’re in luck. The 8:00 p.m. fight will be broadcast on ESPN in such a way that it feels like you too are getting hit in the face.

As a final suggestion, I be-lieve it is every American’s patri-otic duty to follow the U.S. team in the Women’s World Cup this summer. For whatever misog-ynist who says women’s sports aren’t as competitive as men’s, I ask you to perhaps play a sport against a female athlete who has devoted her life to being the best .1 percent of all athletes in her re-spective sport. I speak from per-sonal experience when I say that you will be taken to school nu-merous times, and you will like-ly cry like a pre-schooler for his mommy. Team America kicks off play June 28 against North Korea in a bracket they are expected to emerge from unscathed.

As for other options, it is re-ally up to you. There will be lots of baseball to fall back on, as well as another summer of poker on ESPN and perhaps some Scripps National Spelling Bee reruns. Whatever the case may be for you, Lanka has other summer plans.

“Is it possible to get tired of watching Arrested Develop-ment,” his status read the next day. Guess he found something to watch.

Summer brings new sports to forefrontand Loy stood out with a fantas-tic 3-for-4, 2 RBI outing in the de-cisive game three and a 4-2 Tex-as win.

The move has worked out be-cause it allows Shepherd, who ex-perimented at leadoff last year, and Loy to play to their strengths.

“I’m definitely faster than Bran-don,” Shepherd said. “I’m the fast-est infielder on the team.”

In terms of pitches seen, the move makes sense. Leadoff hit-ters traditionally see mostly fast-balls — Shepherd’s specialty. Guys in the three-hole get fed more off-speed pitches — not Shepherd’s specialty.

“I didn’t really change my ap-proach, the pitching is different,” Loy said. “Tant’s a fastball guy, and he gets those at leadoff. I see more breaking balls at the three-hole so I just have to be a little bit more patient and have to expect something off-speed.”

Loy’s scouting report during his freshman and sophomore years might have read something like this: intelligent, an excellent field-er, great bunter, no power.

None of that has changed. In his career, Loy has hit two homers. A fifth-round pick by the Detroit Ti-gers, he was drafted mostly for his glove and his intangibles, as well

as a batting average that contin-ues to rise. It is a bit odd that one of the more power-deprived play-ers on the team bats third, but this Texas team does not have a typi-cal offense.

“We’re not a team to hit a lot of home runs,” said third base-man Erich Weiss. “We play real-ly smart baseball though, we like to get on base.”

The ability for Shepherd and Loy to move around in the line-up has made the top of the or-der strong heading into Omaha. Mark Payton, a freshman, has so-lidified himself as the two-hole hitter and resident bunter in Au-gie-ball. Weiss, also a freshman and carrying the team’s best aver-age, bats fourth.

“It’s a little different. We’ve talk-ed about doing more hit-and-runs with Brandon at the three-hole,” Weiss said. “I think it’s great.”

Both Payton and Weiss would agree that, in hindsight, the 1-3 swap looks brilliant, with Weiss calling it “clutch” and Payton go-ing a step farther.

“It’s one of the smartest moves I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” he said. “Who knows what would have happened if coach Garrido didn’t make that change.”

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key factor to his success.“He challenges me to go fur-

ther,” Yett said. “As a kid you don’t always want to listen to your fa-ther, but as the fight gets closer, you want good people in your cor-ner — especially ones who have been around and know what you can do and can pull things out of you that no one else can.”

Yett, who has a record of 2-1, is the Golden Glove South Texas Champ. He graduated from Rea-gan High School in Austin.

Briones, 22, has been boxing since he was 15 and was obese. What started off as a way to pass time with friends turned into a

way of life.“We thought it would be fun,”

Briones said. “After my first beat-ing, I realized that I wasn’t in con-trol and I couldn’t do anything that I wanted to do. I have seen what my life turns into when I am not boxing. It helps me stay thin.”

Briones attended Akins High School in South Austin but grad-uated from the Eagle Academy of Austin. He has a 1-0 record.

“There is no offseason so you don’t stop training,” Briones said. “Opportunities are there for a sec-ond and then they are gone — you got to be ready. There is no offsea-son, you just keep training.”

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him come back and throw a break-ing ball for a strike when he’s be-hind in a count.

“Now my thing is I’m more con-fident,” Knebel said. “I go in there and I think, ‘I’m going to beat this guy.’ I can throw it right down the middle, and something’s going to happen. I have faith in my pitches, and I know it’s going to work out.”

It’s interesting to see how Kneb-el’s freshman year has worked out at Texas because he’s accomplished so much without having any expec-tations at the start of the season. He is a finalist for several awards and was named the National Freshman Pitcher of the Year this week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writ-ers of America.

“It’s really rewarding for us as coaches for him to come out and have this success, especially since he wasn’t our designated closer at the beginning of the year,” Cox said. “We knew he was good, but honestly no one expected this out of him.”

Knebel picked up his 19th save of the season in the final win over

Arizona State in the Super Region-al, which tied the Texas record for saves in a season. Cox also tied the record in 2005.

“Everybody’s giving me a hard time about him catching my re-cord, but I’m very proud of him, and I hope he shatters it,” Cox said. “I hope he gets five more and we win the national championship.

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‘Wow, that was it?’ [We’re] checking the bid-dings, cutting the keys, making sure every-thing’s straight, making sure nothing’s going to cross. You don’t want your neighbor-down-the-hall’s key to be able to work on your door, so we have to check to make sure. A lot goes into it; what the public sees isn’t quite the way it is. It’s a lot of fun.”

A loud buzzer announces that a key is ready to be cut, so Garza throws on a pair of safety glasses and grabs the container that carries the key from the pneumatic tube. He pulls out his newest job and clamps it into one of the four key-cutting machines. A muffled shriek — the sound of metal grinding metal — drowns out all conversation for a few seconds as the lock-smith cuts a duplicate key. Thirty seconds lat-er, he flips on a mechanized wire brush to wipe the new key clean of metallic dust, sticks it in its container and launches it back up the pipes.

“We have four machines, and during the fall, which is our August and September rush, we’ll have four machines cutting keys all day long,” said Gary Killinger, the supervisor of Locks and Keys. “The students return to campus, the staff returns to work and boy, those key ma-chines sure take off. Everybody needs keys. It’s pretty hectic; it’s like Santa’s workshop. Every-body’s running around crazy.”

Killinger said that Locks and Keys cuts more than 20,000 keys each year — an average of 120 keys per day, except during the fall rush, when the number of keys cut every day can shoot up to about 400. Unlike most facility-mainte-nance services, which are generally assigned to one of the four zones that the Forty Acres is divided into, Locks and Keys serves the entire campus (including the Lake Austin Center, the Pickle Research Campus and other off-campus properties). It keeps the four guys who work in “The Dungeon” on their toes.

“They take care of the entire campus,” Kill-inger said. “There are 260 on- and off-cam-pus buildings that Locks and Keys main-tains, so it’s a lot bigger scope than people think. It’s a lot more on us, and we’re actual-ly one of the smallest shops with three lock-smiths and a crew leader. But we do pretty darn-gone good.”

Besides cutting keys, the four locksmiths routinely work on projects that require them to ascend “The Dungeon” stairs and install new locks on doors around campus that need them — a tall order because of all the new construction. And depending on what’s on the other side of the door, being a UT lock-smith outside of the workshop can be an interesting experience.

“We get to see everything,” Garza said. “I’ve been to the stadium re-keying places. I mean, you know, it’s the stadium — wow! I went to the Harry Ransom Center one time to change a lock — and it was just a closet door, that’s all it was — but when I got there like the first movies ever were inside. They had copies of the first movies ever! It was just amazing to be around such historical stuff. It’s the stuff I see in my day-to-day. I just enjoy working here be-cause of where I’m at. Everything that comes with it makes it so much better.”

It’s not just the unique settings that make the job worth it for Garza. The sense of ca-

maraderie he shares not only with his lock-smith brethren, but all of his Facility Servic-es co-workers, is something unique to being a UT locksmith.

“[The locksmiths] are close ‘cause we work with each other all day,” Garza said. “But UT itself kind of has that band-of-brothers kind of feel. All the people in the brown shirts — the facilities and maintenance guys — everywhere I go everybody’s waving at each other. You see somebody that you’ve worked with for 10 years, and even though it’s not directly next to each other, when you go to the same buildings and see the same guys doing the same stuff like we do, you get to know each other. It’s great-er than just us four, it’s really the whole facili-ties services. I’ll be in my car driving down the street and have 20 people waving at me.”

The buzzer sounds and Garza dons his safe-ty glasses once again.

“Customers are waiting for keys, so cutting takes priority,” Garza said as he prepared to fire up the machine. “Even if one of us is out doing a service call because somebody’s locked out, someone needs to be here. I mean we still got to watch the tube. In about another hour or two, that tube is going to start getting flood-ed with keys.”

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Brittany Hollander accessorizes her gray J. Crew sundress with a single feather earring and a vintage necklace. Transitioning a wardrobe from spring to summer requires just a few bold accessories.

buyer’s remorse in the long run.

Dog and PonyName: Star LeeAge: 27Occupation: Dog and Pony ownerStar Lee, owner of the nine-month-

old boutique Dog and Pony, keeps her closet much like her store: carefully cu-rated. With a summer wardrobe of ver-satile dresses and comfortable basics, she focuses on quality over quantity.

Lee suggests avoiding purchases on

anything too trendy as these will not translate well for fall. Instead, she said, it would be wiser to invest in something that will be worn every day. Even with accessories, she said, “Find something you love that looks great on you and proceed to wear it to death!”

Lee notes that casual dresses are a good investment to survive the temper-atures because not only are they easy to throw on and less restrictive, but they effortlessly transition from day to night. Being comfortable, Lee said, “is the best way to look more put together when

you’re wilting in the heat.”Another economically savvy way

Lee suggests acquiring new out-fits is through a clothing swap. Trade with a friend, or host a clothes-swap-ping party like Lee did at her boutique last February.

In the end, it’s all about the way an outfit feels.

“I only keep things in my closet that I feel amazing wearing,” Lee said. “If you don’t like the way something looks on you, maybe it’s better to scrap it and move on.”

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Maybe the whole apocalypse thing was really the music gods’ way of sparing us from Owl City’s sec-ond (and hopefully last) album, All Things Bright and Beautiful.

His hit single, “Fireflies,” copied the electro playfulness and falsetto vocals of The Postal Service — pret-ty successfully I will admit. But his new album takes all the awfulness of Top-40 music and adds real “emo-tions” and synths because those, of course, make some guy jotting shitty lyrics in his notebook an artist.

The problem with Owl City isn’t that he aspires to write pure, sugar-filled pop, but he takes pop as a seri-ous endeavor to send a message. In-

stead of reaching for the unconven-tional, he settles for banality.

Essentially, All Things Bright and Beautiful repeats the message of Katy Perry’s “Firework” 12 times, ex-cept without that hilarious reference to feeling like a plastic bag. Don’t forget to breathe! Don’t let go! Re-member to dream! Those are just

glimpses of his advice in “Alliga-tor Sky.” Musically, the album is in-ert. He even snatches a melody from Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” on “Deer in the Headlights.”

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Over seven years into their career, Junior Boys continue to produce albums that sound like a well-worn disco-soul record with the help of the supposed-ly cold sounds of electronic syn-thesizers. Those who think that may be a paradox need only lis-ten to the first track, “Itchy Fin-gers,” off of their latest album, It’s All True.

Beginning with slow, throb-bing beats, the song quickens the pace with groovy melodies as the vocals tease between low notes and high falsetto. It’s the type of song that would make the Bee Gees proud. Elsewhere, shuffling synths sound ready-

made for a remake of “Satur-day Night Fever.” The lyrics fol-low the soul influence with their pleas for some attention from a fickle lover.

Amazingly, the duo forces your body to groove by adding the perfect flourish of a mando-

lin or extra blip to the barebones melody. Although a number of the slower songs plod to an un-eventful end, It’s All True still has enough highlights to show that just because it uses high-tech equipment doesn’t mean it can’t have soul.

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Posted outside of Service Build-ing 101, which houses UT’s Locks and Keys office on the corner of 24th Street and San Jacinto Boulevard, there is a short brass sign that simply reads “keys” — a short and sweet description of what’s actually hap-pening inside.

A walk past the sign and into the nondescript maintenance building reveals staff and students waiting for new keys to shoot out of a pneumat-ic tube that’s built into the coun-ter, similar to what’s used at a bank drive-through. A small, printed warning advises anyone who can’t handle the loud noise it makes to

stand back, and sure enough, al-most everyone in the room jumps a little bit when it erupts. The flurries of movement and occasional blasts of the tube are just the beginning,

however. A trip downstairs to “The Dungeon,” where

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“All the work is happen-ing here,” said Garza, who has been a UT locksmith for about 10 months. “People see us when we’re putting a lock in, and they’re like,

In the heat of yet another brutal Texas summer, three local cloth-ing store managers on Guadalupe Street weigh in on smart wardrobe investments, purchases to avoid and how to maximize the use of ev-erything in your closet.

Regardless of your personal style, these managers all agree that a great set of basics is the best foundation for a summer wardrobe. The following are their suggestions on how to keep your look fresh with-out breaking the bank.

Buffalo ExchangeName: Katy GardeaAge: 29Occupation: Buffalo Exchange store managerKaty Gardea is no stranger to vintage. With a wardrobe full of

bold thrift shop finds and a selection of updated basics, she exemplifies how personal style can exist at any price.

According to Gardea, a blend of ‘70s and ‘90s throwbacks are popular right now. That means high-waised, denim cut-offs, cropped tops, bell-bottom relaxed-fit jeans and maxi skirts. As for showing some skin in the summer, lace and other sheer fabrics are essential and can be incor-porated into practically any article of clothing. And if that doesn’t pro-vide enough options, loose shark bite T-shirts are making a comeback.

All of these loose-fitting clothes are much more relaxed and flowing, which is perfect for summer. These pieces, Gardea said, take the place of the super-skinny jeans and deep v-neck T-shirts that look stale.

Naturally, the one key component of summer style that Austinites have to consider above all else is the Texas heat. Loose, sheer maxi skirts with spandex shorts or skirts underneath, Gardea said, are a great way to provide ventilation when it’s 102 degrees outside.

Because there isn’t the same bustle of the school year, Gardea ex-plained that it is a good season to branch out and be more adventur-ous with style.

“Buy and wear one retro trend that you are afraid your friends may make fun of you for wearing,” Gardea said. “It will set you apart from the crowd and they will be wearing it by the end of the summer.”

American ApparelName: Rachel MyhillAge: 21Occupation: American Apparel store managerRachel Myhill sticks to the basics and bold, bright colors to complete

her effortless summer look. Centered around airy chiffon skirts and cropped tops, she keeps it simple and interchangeable — giving herself an infinite number of ensembles to choose from.

Instead of buying clothing that is limited to one or two outfits, Myhill suggests focusing on pieces that can integrate well into an entire ward-robe. “Stick to pieces that you can incorporate into many different out-

fits,” Myhill said.Myhill suggests stocking up on pieces with lightweight fabrics: they

work well in hotter weather but can also be layered in the fall.Adding accessories can be a great way to update an outfit without

spending a lot of cash. Myhill suggests buying a few key pieces that are “uniquely you,” such as a straw summer hat or vintage sunglasses.

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David Garza of UT Lock and Key Services works in the basement of a maintenance building. The department makes an average of 120 keys per day.

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