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Two UT groups hosted the fourth annual Research Week to show stu-dents that research is an opportunity for them to broaden their education-al horizons.
Hosted by the Senate of College Councils and the Office of Under-graduate Research, the sponsored events and presentations promote
undergraduate research and creative activity.
“Research is a key part of academ-ic culture at UT,” said council spokes-man Michael Morton, a multimedia journalism junior. “We want to em-phasize how important research is to the University and how students can get involved.”
This year, the event takes on great-
Rene Mendoza, an Edinburg High School senior, spent most of his mornings and afternoons clean-ing sugar beets and working in fields.
At night, he returned home to finish a day’s worth of schoolwork in a few hours.
Mendoza was one of 40 students
from across Texas that the Univer-sity honored at a ceremony Mon-day. The ceremony celebrated the students in UT’s Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program for their outstanding grades and community service while facing the difficulties of the migrant life.
Program leaders selected Men-doza as one of the students of the year because of his extensive in-
volvement in community service. He received a $2,000 scholarship and plans to pursue biomedical or civil engineering at UT.
“Migrating back and forth was tough,” Mendoza said. “This is why [the] migrant program was helpful, because it helps us catch up [with schoolwork].”
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Environmental contaminantsPharmacy professor Andrea Gore asks, “Are environmental contaminants making us infertile, fat and less intelligent?” at 11 a.m. in Pharmacy Building 3.106.
What’s up, doc?Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, dean of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, will present a keynote on health care reform at 12:15 in Pharmacy Building 3.106.
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‘Use Somebody’Rock group Kings Of Leon will take the stage at the Frank Erwin Center tonight. Band of Horses opens.
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“The numbers would give everyone
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BaseballThe Longhorns take on Dallas Baptist University at 6 p.m. at Disch-Falk Field.
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Named the 2011 Exemplary Migrant Students, high school students from all around Texas gather in the Texas Union Ballroom on Monday to accept awards for their achievements. Children of migrant workers, the students travel with their families to work on farms while maintaining high grades in school.
City officials look at plans for bike paths, storm tunnel
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Children erupt into cheers after the Longhorns make a turn around against Missouri on April 1. Improvements at the plate and on the mound advanced the team to a No. 1 ranking in the Big 12 Conference.
INSIDE: Texas baseball gears up for the second half of the season on page 6
An underground tunnel proj-ect designed to reduce Waller Creek flooding could lead to im-proved bike paths between UT and downtown and a river walk, said city officials.
The Waller Creek Tunnel Project is a large, mile-long storm tunnel be-ing built 70 feet under the last mile of Waller Creek, stretching from Water-loo Park to Lady Bird Lake. The tun-nel project would regulate flood wa-ter in the mile stretch of Waller Creek between 12th and Red River streets. The city broke ground on the project on April 8.
When the tunnel project is fin-ished, the city will begin to work to improve pedestrian bike lanes around and between Lady Bird Lake, UT and downtown, said public works depart-ment spokeswoman Carolyn Perez.
“What has to happen first is getting the flooding under control,” she said. “After that, improving those lanes is one of the goals that the city has.”
Migrant students honored for successes
Research Week aims to engage students in creative activity
UT Medical Branch at odds with PETA CREEK continues on PAGE 2
WEEK continues on PAGE 2
HONOR continues on PAGE 2
UT Medical Branch at Galves-
ton may appeal last week’s deci-sion by the Texas Attorney Gen-eral that requires it to release a portion of the documents an ani-mal rights group requested under the Freedom of Information Act in January.
People for the Ethical Treat-ment of Animals submitted an
open records request to UTMB in January in response to reports of abuse from within the medi-cal school, said Alka Chandna, a senior researcher for PETA. The organization requested records from January 2010 through Jan-uary 2011.
PETA also filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Ag-riculture with claims including improper administration of anes-thetics during experiments, inad-
equate health care during and af-ter the administration of experi-mental drugs and inadequate care following experimental surgery.
She said in the school’s initial response to the request for six sets of documents, including medical care and acquisition records and adverse event reports for animals under UTMB’s care, the Univer-sity promised to send two sets
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RESEARCH WEEK EVENTSApril 12 - 15: The Comics Art Show, 6:30 - 7 p.m., DFA 1.101
April 12: Louis C. Littlefield Pharmacy Research Excellence Day10 a.m.- 4 p.m., PHR 3.106
April 13-14: College of Liberal Arts Oral Research Symposium10 a.m.- 4 p.m., GEB 3.312
April 14: Bridging Disciplines Programs Poster Session2:30 - 4 p.m., MAI 212
April 15: McNair Scholars Research Presentations2 - 4 p.m., SSB 4.212
Who is that girl?San Jacinto Residence HallA UT staff member reported a UT student was providing alcohol-enriched compost to the University landscape. After the student was void of any addition alcohol-enriched compost he entered the dormitory and refused to swipe his ID card. The officers located the subject inside his room after his girlfriend gave the officer a spare key. During the investigation, the officers located the student hiding in the bathroom with another student, who was not his girlfriend. The officer observed several open bottles containing alcohol.
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and submit the rest to the Attor-ney General for ruling. Chandna said the two sets included almost 1,800 pages of records and PETA has not yet received them.
Under Texas’ public informa-tion laws, the Attorney General
determines whether constitution-al or statutory law or legal prece-dent exempts public documents from FOIA requests.
In its request to Texas Attor-ney General Greg Abbott, UTMB claimed a portion of the docu-ments were exempt from disclo-sure because they were generated by a medical committee or con-sist of research information the University could commercial-ize. Texas law exempts both of these types of information from
FOIA requests.In its comments to Abbott be-
fore his ruling, PETA claimed be-cause the medical committee only functions to improve animal and not human health care systems, it was not exempt from the request.
PETA and UTMB received the decision last week. Abbott ruled UTMB must disclose all the doc-uments requested except those created by UTMB medical com-mittees. He wrote that Texas law makes no distinction between human and non-human medical committees for public informa-tion purposes. He also wrote that the remaining documents consist of routine medical research re-cords and must be given to PETA.
UTMB has 30 days to appeal to the decision.
UTMB spokesman Raul Reyes
said the school’s counsel is consid-ering whether or not to appeal.
“We received the Attorney Gen-eral’s decision last week and we are reviewing it,” Reyes said.
Reyes and a UT System spokes-man decl ined to comment further.
Education freshman and vice president of University Vegetari-ans said the vegetarian student so-cial group hasn’t pursued the is-sue. She said as information be-comes available, the group could respond if serious animal abuse occurred.
“We aren’t really an activist group, but if it were a really crit-ical issue we would address it,” Hartmann said. “It just depends on how big the situation is. If there were a bunch of animals dying, we would definitely do something.”
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2 Tuesday, April 12, 2011NEWS
Post-sonogram waiting period in abortion bill under discussion
Senators on the State Affairs Committee picked up the sonogram bill on Monday to figure out the amount of time women would have to wait between receiving an abor-tion sonogram and getting an abor-tion.
The bill was declared an emer-gency item by Gov. Rick Perry and would require women to receive a sonogram and hear a description of the fetus before getting an abortion.
The House version of the bill would require women to wait 24 hours between the sonogram an the abortion, while the Senate bill would require only a two-hour period be-tween procedures.
The discussion resulted out of a concern by Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, who said women in his dis-trict would have to travel more than 100 miles to reach an abortion clinic, and that the 24-hour period would be an inconvenience for them.
The committee came to an agree-ment to allow the two-hour wait-ing period option for women who live more than 100 miles away from a clinic or in counties with a popula-tion of 60,000 or fewer.
Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, who authored the bill, said the changes were “not significant” and that most abortions do not occur within the ru-ral areas they were discussing but rather in major cities that are in 55 out of 254 counties.
“In 75,000 abortions in Texas, 4,000 were in counties under 60,000 [peo-ple],” Patrick said. “That indicates most of our abortions occur in coun-ties over 60,000.”
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About 2,000 high school stu-dents in Texas enroll every year in distance learning courses through the program, said K-16 Education Center Director Gisela Greco-Lla-mas. The program helps students who travel during the school year to other states with their parents for occupational reasons.
More than 300 guests attended the 24th annu-al ceremony and the recog-nized students represented 19 school districts in Texas.
M i g r a n t program edu-cators nomi-nate students statewide ev-ery year for this ceremony based on their grades and in-volvement in c om mu n it y services and extracurricu-lar activities despite the hardships they face, Greco-Llamas said.
She said the program helps students get accredited for high school courses and enables them to graduate on time. UT offers the classes, which are approved by the Texas Education Agency, through print and online servic-es, Greco-Llamas said.
The program shows that UT is engaged in efforts to enhance education beyond the realm of higher learning, said Greco-Lla-mas. She said it also helps mi-grant students consider college as an option after they graduate from high school.
“It’s about UT being more than just about graduate and un-
d e rg r a du -ate studies,” Greco-Lla-mas said.
L i n d a Glessner, as-sociate dean of continu-ing and in-novative ed-u c a t i o n , said some of these stu-d e nt s are the first ones from their families to g r a d u a t e from high school.
“It means that we are breaking new ground at UT,” Glessner said. “What bet-ter story to tell than transform-ing lives for the benefit of our so-ciety?”
Glessner said she com-mends migrant students for fac-ing the hardships they did and still distinguishing themselves academically.
Step one of the plan is building the tunnel itself and step two, which is much far-ther down the road, is build-ing a river walk downtown, Perez said.
“I think it’s important to dif-ferentiate,” she said. “A lot of people think we’re just turning downtown into a river walk, and that’s something that will happen in the future, but we’re not building one right now. And it’s not going to be a carbon copy of the one in San Antonio, it’s going to be very uniquely Austin.”
The plan would primari-ly affect the area south of 15th Street, but the project would increase connectivity to major destinations on campus, such as the Erwin Center and Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Sta-dium, said architect Jim Rob-ertson, manager of the Urban Design division of the Plan-ning and Development Review Department.
“Our hope is that the campus and major destinations within the campus would become more closely connected and better ac-cessible to and from the Waller Creek improvements at Water-
loo Park and South Austin,” he said.
While the tunnel will most-ly affect Eastern downtown, it would still positively impact pedestrian and bike travel be-tween downtown and campus along with other areas of the city, Robertson said.
“Our hope is that the ben-efits will extend beyond just
that area,” he said. “The com-munity’s vision is of a true ‘des-tination’ type experience that would be of benefit to not only the broad Austin community but also an attraction for visi-tors.”
Many problems currently face bikers riding downtown from UT’s campus, including streetlights that favor motorists
and unfriendly drivers, said ra-dio-television-film sophomore Demi Adejuyigbe who fre-quently bikes downtown.
“I’d love better bike lanes,” he said. “The bike lanes right now aren’t terrible but they could use some renovation and im-provement. Better bike lanes would definitely be good to have.”
NEWS BRIEFLY
Concealed carry bill stalls after two senators remove support
Senators anticipated voting on the concealed carry on campus bill Mon-day, but it stalled on the floor for the second time in a week.
The controversial bill would allow concealed handgun license holders to carry guns on college campuses.
Supporters have said the bill would allow personal protection, while opponents are concerned it could lead to campus violence.
The bill was pulled on April 7 af-ter state Sens. Mario Gallegos, D-Galena Park, and Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, withdrew their sup-port, which left the bill short of the 21 votes needed for it to pass the up-per chamber.
Gallegos said he decided to pull his support after constituents, includ-ing university students in his district, called his office to speak out against the bill.
“I would vote for an amendment Sen. Wendy Davis, [D-Fort Worth], has that would allow the Board of Regents to opt out,” Gallegos said. “I don’t think it’s fair to allow some of the private colleges to opt out under this bill and not afford the same op-portunity to Board of Regents at oth-er [public] colleges.”
Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Anto-nio, the author of the bill, said he is hopeful the bill will pass out of the Senate like it did last session when the House did not have enough time to vote on the bill.
— Melissa Ayala
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A cyclist enjoys a summer stroll down a trail at Town Lake on Monday afternoon. With the addition of Waller Creek’s bicycle lanes, riders will be able to commute from Town Lake to the University area along one trail.
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“ “It’s about UT being more than just
about graduate and undergraduate
studies. — Gisela Greco-Llamas, K-16 Education
Center Director
er significance in light of recent discussions about the role research plays at UT. In February, the UT System hired former Texas Pub-lic Policy Foundation employee Rick O’Donnell for $200,000 a year to serve as a special adviser to the Board of Regents. The system re-assigned O’Donnell in March af-ter an outcry from lawmakers and UT’s alumni organization, which claimed the conservative think tank emphasized the value of teaching over research.
O’Donnell clarified his views in a March 24 letter to the Board.
“In a nutshell, I understand and support the value of research, in-cluding basic research, and the cen-tral role of research universities in the science and technology ecosys-tem that is the backbone of Amer-ica’s economic role in the world,” O’Donnell wrote in the letter.
Carisa Nietsche, Plan II Honors senior and council president, said research allows students to dem-onstrate intellectual curiosity and is essential for universities.
“Research Week shows that un-dergraduates really are involved and engaged in research and enjoy that their professors are research-ers,” Nietsche said. “It also adds val-ue to what it means to get a degree
from UT.”Started in 2008, the weeklong
event showcases the broad spec-trum of research disciplines, rang-ing from history to engineering.
“The main goal is to get the av-erage student involved in research, as opposed to those who are in-grained in research due to their majors,” said astronomy senior Alyx Stevens, one of the organizers of the week.
One of the central events is the Longhorn Research Bazaar, a car-nival-like event for more than 30 departments, colleges, programs and student organizations to pres-ent posters that highlight their un-dergraduate research activities. The event will take place on the Texas Union patio on Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A part of the Senate for College Councils, the Undergraduate Re-search Committee is responsible for making research opportuni-ties more accessible, in addition to hosting Research Week and plan-ning a reception honoring excel-lence in undergraduate research that will take place in two weeks.
The planning for this year’s Re-search Week started shortly after the conclusion of last year’s event.
“This collaboration of students and administrators is unique,” Ste-vens said. “Both groups want to rec-ognize excellence in undergraduate research to the best of our capabili-ties, as well as create more opportu-nities for students on campus.”
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A bloody, four-month political stand-off ended Monday when troops loy-al to Ivory Coast’s elected president — backed by French ground and air forces — captured the West African country’s longtime leader who had refused to give up power.
Video of former President Lau-rent Gbagbo being led into a room in a white undershirt was broadcast on television as proof of his deten-tion. He would not sign a statement formally ceding power after losing a Nov. 28 election to economist Alas-sane Ouattara.
More than 1 million civilians fled their homes and untold numbers were killed in the power struggle be-tween the two rivals that threatened to re-ignite a civil war in the world’s
largest cocoa producer. Gbagbo’s se-curity forces have been accused of using cannons, 60 mm mortars and 50-caliber machine guns to mow down opponents during the standoff.
Gbagbo’s dramatic arrest came af-ter days of heavy fighting in which French and U.N. helicopters fired rockets at arms depots around the city and targets within the presiden-tial compound. Ouattara’s final push began just after French airstrikes ceased at around 3 a.m. Monday. A simultaneous French armored ad-vance secured large parts of the city, and pro-Ouattara troops entered the presidential compound after midday.
“This is an end of a chapter that should never have been,” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “We have to help them to restore sta-bility, rule of law, and address all hu-manitarian and security issues.”
Mexican government asks US, Canada for aid with large fires
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government is asking for help from the United States and Canada to put out two large fires in an area close to the border with Texas.
Mexican Environment Secretary Juan Elvira Quesada tells The Associated Press that the fires are about 60 miles from the border and are spreading aggressively to the southeast, away from the border.
Elvira said Monday that he sent a letter to the U.S. embassy asking for heavy tanker airplanes that can unload fire retardants. Mexico also requested aid from Quebec.
Mexican Environment Department spokesman Ruben Romero said that fires had spread over nearly 245,000 acres of pastureland and desert vegetation in several townships of the northern state of Coahuila by Monday afternoon.
Iranian agency plans to build additional nuclear reactors
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will need more enriched uranium to fuel the “four or five” new research reactors it is planning on building, the country’s nuclear chief said on Monday.
Fereidoun Abbasi told the semi-official ISNA news agency that Iran is planning to build the new research reactors “in the next few years” to produce medical radioisotopes for patients.
To fuel these reactors, Iran needs to continue enriching uranium to 20 percent — something that alarms the West because the process could eventually be used to produce material for a nuclear weapon.
Tehran contends its nuclear program is intended only for a civilian power.
The United States and its allies suspect is seeking to build nuclear weapons, and the United Nations has laid down four rounds of sanction to force Iran to stop its enrichment program.
— Compiled from Associated Press reports
PARIS — The world’s first ban on Islamic face veils took effect Monday in France, meaning that women may bare their breasts in Cannes but not cover their faces on the Champs-Elysees.
Two veiled women were hauled off from a Paris protest within hours of the new ban. Their un-authorized demonstration, on the cobblestone square facing Notre Dame Cathedral, was rich with both the symbolism of France’s medieval history and its modern spirit of defiance.
While some see encroaching Is-lamophobia in the new ban, Presi-
dent Nicolas Sarkozy’s government defended it as a rampart protecting France’s identity against inequality and extremism. Police grumbled that it will be hard to enforce.
The law affects barely 2,000 women who cloak themselves in the niqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, and the burqa, which has a mesh screen over the eyes. The law enjoyed widespread public support when it was passed last year. But it has worried French al-lies, prompted protests abroad and has come to epitomize France’s struggle to integrate Muslim im-migrants in recent generations.
Though only a very small mi-nority of France’s some 5 mil-lion Muslims wear the veil, many
Muslims see the ban as a stigma against the country’s No. 2 religion. Many have also felt stigmatized by a 2004 law that banned Islamic headscarves in classrooms.
The law says veiled women risk a $215 fine or attendance at spe-cial citizenship classes, though not jail. People who force wom-en to don a veil are subject to up to a year in prison and a $43,000 fine, and possibly twice that if the veiled person is a minor. The ban affects women who wear the niqab and the burqa.
Moderate Muslim leaders in France and elsewhere agree that Islam does not require women to cover their faces, but many are un-comfortable with banning the veil.
Michel Euler | Associated Press
An unidentified veiled woman, flanked by her two friends, is taken away by police officers in Paris on Monday. France’s new ban on Islamic face veils was protested in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Ivory Coast president steps up after capture of Laurent Gbagbo
TCI via APTN | Associated Press
In this television image, Laurent Gbagbo is seen after his arrest at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
France’s ban on face veils incites concerns, protest
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research, we are ‘anti-intellectual.’
Research can be nonsense
In the April 8 issue of The Daily Texan, four UT faculty members criticized my Houston Chronicle op-ed on research. I have no quar-rel with the value of their selected citations of research, but the picture is vastly wider than the one they paint.
In my 49 years of working in higher educa-tion as a professor, vice president and director of the Fulbright Program for the U.S. govern-ment, I have witnessed endlessly that depart-mental chairs, deans, presidents and even trustees will rarely intervene to say that any topic of research has little or no value. Nearly anything goes. No administrator will say, “We do not need to conduct research on how many angels can rest on the head of a pin.” The point survives my exaggeration. I could provide a voluminous list of real examples.
Harry Lewis, a former dean at Harvard University, writes: “Academic presses now publish books selling fewer than 300 copies. ‘The demands of productivity,’ a humanities editor says, ‘are leading to the production of much more nonsense.’”
The problem here is that such futile research costs taxpayers money and takes professors out of the classroom — leaving students to be taught by teaching assistants.
A few years ago the Texas Public Policy Foundation commissioned research on this problem. For example, researchers found that
at Texas A&M in the spring semester of 2006, there were 28 sections of freshman composi-tion and rhetoric (English 104), 25 of which were taught by young, inexperienced teaching assistants. Meanwhile, professors were given release time from the classroom to conduct research.
The taxpaying public should demand trans-parency and accountability in all university research.
Retired, I teach at Lone Star community college just for the pleasure of it; I enjoy see-ing light bulbs turn on. Every year a senior faculty member sits in on my class to evalu-ate my teaching ability, providing me and the administration with a written evalua-tion. University professors are not subjected to this written evaluation process, either for their teaching or their research. Too bad for students.
A critical professor asked how I know that a professor is “good.” His logic is curious. He is implying that there can be “bad” profes-sors — in which case, why are they permit-ted to teach? Should bad teachers, including those with tenure, be fired? I suspect that this critic approves of tenure — meaning that bad teachers can’t be fired. He argues in circles.
On the matter of accountability, another curious matter arises. Football coaches, who work with bodies, are subject to intense ac-countability. Professors, who work with minds, are not. Go figure.
It is often argued that if we question re-search, we are “anti-intellectual.” This is a non sequitur because research, as Harvard Dean Harry Lewis asserts, can be valuable or it can be “nonsense.”
Trowbridge is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy
Foundation.
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Keep TEXAS Grants accessible
Last week, the Texas Senate passed a bill that would further limit the availabil-ity of TEXAS Grants for many students in need. The measure would give priority to students with strong academic records when awarding TEXAS Grants, which is currently awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.
In light of budget proposals that would cut funding for the grant program by 41 percent, lawmakers are hoping to maxi-mize the benefit of the grants. Research shows that about half of grant recipients do not graduate within six years, accord-ing to The Associated Press.
Though the measure is intended to increase graduation rates and provide money for those who will complete their college education, it will likely increase the accessibility gap to higher education for minorities.
Under the new criteria, institutions would consider academic performance, including class rank, rigor of courses and GPA. As a result, students from low-per-forming school districts will undoubtedly be at a disadvantage.
Academic performance of students from different schools cannot be mea-sured and compared by a universal system. For example, schools in low-performing districts may not have the resources to provide students with the same rigorous courses that a school in a higher-performing district offers. More-over, a student’s GPA at one school may not be comparable to a student’s GPA at another school.
The purpose of the TEXAS Grant pro-gram is to provide financially disadvan-taged Texas students with access to high-er education. If the measure — which House members will consider this week — passes, the program would ultimately deviate from its original intention, sub-stantially limiting accessibility for many in need.
Protect the privacy of students
The U.S. Department of Education released guidelines last week regarding the sharing of student records that may breach the privacy of students.
The changes to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act would allow ad-ministrators and state officials to release student records to researchers, auditors and other third-party agencies with-out violating the act, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Current-ly, administrators and officials must ob-tain consent from students before sharing their records.
While supporters of the changes argue that the new guidelines would allow for a more complete, comprehensive picture of higher education in the nation, we are not convinced such a need outweighs student privacy.
Despite the department’s mild efforts to minimize privacy concerns, such as the hiring of a chief privacy officer, the release of student records without con-sent is inappropriate and unnecessary.
Students should retain the right to know who wants access to their records and for what purpose. What constitutes the justi-fication to obtain access to records must be closely scrutinized.
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Early Sunday morning, a burglary was reported in Moore-Hill Dormito-
ry. The UT Police Department said the suspect has not been identified.
A student reported that she woke up to find a male on top of her while
she was in bed, and that he fled when she resisted, said UTPD Sgt. Chris
Bonnet, the lead investigator on the case.
“We’ve conducted interviews, but I wouldn’t call them suspects,” he said.
“We are continuing to ask the commu-nity for information on the suspect.”
The suspect was described as an Asian male with short straight black
hair wearing a white T-shirt and black shorts. Students should remain aware
that the assailant is still around and possibly on campus, Bonnet said.“It’s important to keep your door
locked and to be aware of your sur-roundings,” he said. “If you feel like
someone’s watching or following you then you should trust your instincts,
and don’t hesitate to call UTPD.”— Allie Kolechta
Dr. Stephanie Marton, who spent more than two years in Swaziland fighting pediatric AIDS, will speak about her ex-perience on campus tonight as a part of UT’s series of events for Global Health Awareness Week.
Alpha Phi Sigma, a pre-med honors society, is hosting the week to raise money and aware-ness of global health issues.
The week is an annual event the organization puts on to ben-efit the Baylor International Pe-diatric AIDS Initiative.
On Monday, the group had their kick-off event on Speed-way, where they grilled and
sold hot dogs, hamburgers and baked goods.
This year the group is host-ing a Mr. Pre-Med competition on Wednesday, a global health fair at Speedway Plaza on Thurs-day and a dinner at Plucker’s on Monday.
Through these events, soci-ety members hope to raise more than $3,000, said the group’s officer candidate coordinator Lillian Mohamed.
“Last year we had two doc-tors that worked with BIPAI who had just come back from Africa come speak to us,” Mo-hamed said. “What they do is set up clinics in different parts of the country. They run them for a year or two, and then after that
they transfer all the administra-tive duties to the locals.”
These clinics help women with AIDS avoid passing the dis-ease on to the children they are carrying, Mohamed said.
“They’ve made a lot of strides in Africa, and it’s really nice to see that the money we are do-nating goes to a good cause,” she said.
Sadaf Zendehdel, executive adviser for Alpha Phi Sigma, said the group decided to sup-port BIPAI five or six years ago.
“Dr. Mark Kline started the program about 10 years ago and our organization went and saw him speak because he comes to the University every once in a while,” Zendehdel said. “And what
he spoke about grabbed the atten-tion of a lot of our officers.”
She said that is when the of-ficers knew they wanted to help that organization.
“It’s helping children, and it’s an issue that’s very near and dear to our hearts,” Zendehel said.
Freshman Erika Martinez was on her way to Chick-fil-A when she decided to purchase food at the kick-off booth.
“I definitely would like to sup-port any organization on cam-pus that would help people who need it, especially kids suffer-ing,” Martinez said. “The food was really cheap, and it’s amaz-ing that students can come to-gether and make a difference for such a great cause.”
Group raises funds for AIDS initiative
Mexican opera composer Daniel Catán died over the weekend in Aus-tin while working on a new piece for the Butler School of Music. He was 62.
The exact time and cause of death is not confirmed, said College of Fine Arts spokeswoman Leslie Lyon. She said paramedics told Catán’s wife he died in his sleep.
Catán was the first Mexican com-poser to have an opera performed in the U.S. when the San Diego Opera produced “Rappaccini’s Daughter” in 1994. His most recent opera, “Il Pos-tino,” which is based on the Acade-my Award-winning Italian film of the same name, premiered in Los Angeles last September.
The Butler School of Music com-missioned Catán to write an opera ti-tled “Meet John Doe,” dedicated to Sarah and Ernest Butler for their long history of support to the school. It was expected to debut in Fall 2012.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague Daniel Catán, who has been artist-in-residence in the Butler School of Mu-sic this term,” Glenn Chandler, But-ler School of Music director, said in an email. “We are honored to have had the opportunity to work with him. This is a tragic loss for the entire world
of opera and the arts. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
Catán was supposed to be at the University of Houston on Saturday eve-ning for the opening of their produc-tion of “Il Postino.” He never checked into his hotel and didn’t attend the per-formance, said Lyon.
“The world has lost a special art-ist and, more important, his fami-ly has lost a gentle spirit, a humanitari-an, somebody who had no enemies,” said Michael Alex-ander, a friend of Catán for more than 10 years. “He was remarkable in the sense he was not only a remarkable talent but one of those kinds of people who was friendly to deal with and was not a remote individual.”
Catán is survived by his wife An-drea Puente. Puente said Catán was 18 when his passion for opera began while he was a supernumerary, or ex-tra, for different productions in Eng-land. “Opera talks about emotions and feelings and that’s why [he loved op-era],” she said.
By Lauren GiudiceDaily Texan Staff
By Yvonne MarquezDaily Texan Staff
Daniel Catán Opera Composer
Jono Foley | Daily Texan staff
Graduate student Ryan Haecker enjoys a hamburger courtesy of Alpha Phi Sigma to promote global health and AIDS awareness Monday afternoon.
UT artist-in-residencedies before finishing opera
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SPORTS6Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Will Anderson, Sports Editor | (512) 232-2210 | [email protected]
It should have been just about impossible for Taylor Jungmann to set the bar any higher for himself.
After all, Jungmann was already in the conversation as one of the best Tex-as pitchers ever, had garnered 19 wins in his first two seasons and had pitched himself into Longhorn history with a 120-pitch effort against LSU in the College World Series his freshman year.
But there he was, in the first game of his junior seasons, pitching the first com-plete-game shutout of his career against Maryland. The feat impressed even the one man, who after watching Jungmann firsthand for two years already, should be used to such dominance.
“I was not expecting him to pitch a complete game shutout,” said his head coach Augie Garrido. “I have almost no expectations, and still they are exceed-ed. I’m surprised.”
It set the tone for the first half of the season. In his next outing, in Hawaii, Jungmann again registered a complete-game shutout. Against Stanford, he threw 120 pitches and was one out away from another complete game before incredi-ble fatigue got the best of him. Jungmann then blanked Brown and a week lat-er did the same to Kansas State. He didn’t allow a run in Stillwater against Okla-homa State, either.
The right-hander is 7-0 on the year, his ERA a salty 1.10, and Texas is 8-0 when he starts. He grabs most of the attention, but there are other pitch-
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Sophomore pitcher Hoby Milner warms up between innings in a game against Missouri. Milner has been made the regular starter on Saturdays. The Longhorns look to improve on their strong first half as they move into the race for a Big 12 and national championship.
If offense wins games and defense wins champion-ships, where does this Texas team fit in?
Texas doesn’t rank in the top five of any major hitting statistic in the Big 12, yet the Longhorns are tied for first in the conference with a 9-3 record. Head coach Augie Garrido said his team is built on pitching, and he has one of the best pitching staffs in the country.
So how concerned should he be with a team that only hits .266?
“The numbers would give everyone a reason to doubt this team, but the numbers don’t always speak to how people can perform, and people can perform differently on any given day,” Garrido said. “I have confidence in this team’s ability to score enough runs when it’s matched up against the kind of pitching we have and the defense we have, and give us the abil-ity to win games.”
That’s just what they’ve been doing. Texas came within two stranded runners of sweeping Baylor last weekend, after clobber-ing Missouri in three games the weekend before. The Longhorns have hit .321 the past two weekends, raising their team batting average in conference from .210 to .261.
“I think we’re all taking more quality at-bats,” said catcher Jacob Felts. “We’re looking for our pitches and not taking their pitches and being patient.”
The Longhorns will tell you this is all in response to their first series loss of the season against Oklahoma State. Texas hit .201 that weekend and only managed five runs in three games.
Texas has been on a tear offensively since that series in Stillwater, putting up 6.5 runs per game during an 8-0 stretch.
Garrido attributes his team’s recent success at the plate to the play-ers feeling more comfortable and fielding a lineup that has fewer bad at bats.
“The players are trusting each other to make productive outs,” he said. “They’re sustaining rallies better, hitting with runners in scoring position, getting two out hits — the pressure is coming off and that makes it easier for everybody.”
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BATTINGBehind Jungmann, Horns’ staff leads way in first half of season
Outstanding offensive performerBreakout player Most valuable player
Taylor Jungmann, RHP• (7-0, 1.10 ERA, 55 strikeouts)
Given his talent and past success, nobody should be too surprised that Jungmann is un-defeated, sports a 1.10 ERA or has opposing batters hitting .158 against him. What’s most impressive is the way he’s gotten those num-bers, as he’s pitched deep into the game, aver-aging eight innings on the mound per start.
“Going into the season I worked on the strength of my lower body, which goes in to stamina and longevity, it’s worked well for me so far,” Jungmann said.
His extraordinary combination of efficiency and his endurance gives Texas a definite advantage over Friday opponents, and makes Jung-mann its MVP halfway through the year.
Erich Weiss, 3B/LF• (.385 batting average, .577 slugging per-centage, .529 on-base percentage)
His numbers aren’t nearly as high as they were at the start of the year — the kid from Brenham hit .818 in the Maryland series — but his team-leading .385 batting average is among the best in the Big 12. The freshman is second on the team in hits, tied for first in RBIs with 21, four of which came on a grand slam against Brown, and has drawn far and away the most walks with 30.
“My eye at the plate has gotten a lot better since I was in high school,” Weiss said. “I’ve been seeing many pitchers in practice and in games and that’s helped me a lot.”
Corey Knebel, RHP• (.87 ERA, 2-1 record, 8 saves)
The strong-armed freshman was set to begin his collegiate career at tiny Angelina College before Texas called last April and offered him a scholarship. The Longhorns sure are glad they did, as Knebel has beat-en out a handful of juniors and seniors to establish himself as the team’s closer. When Texas has a late-inning lead, it can feel pretty confident knowing that Knebel, who throws a fastball in the 93-95 mph range and aver-ages a strikeout per inning, can be called out of the bullpen to shut down the opposition.
“I just go in there and throw strikes, and that’s what every clos-er has to have,” Knebel said. “That’s just the mindset that I have and it helps me a lot.”
In their first year of use, the new power-sapping NCAA-mandated bats have made their mark on Texas. Through 32 games, the Longhorns
have only hit six combined home runs. Last season, Texas hit 81 homers in 63 games.
Sophomore center fielder Cohl Walla is expected to make his re-turn to the lineup within the week. Walla hasn’t played since fouling a hit off his right leg March 29 against Oral Roberts and suffering a deep bone contusion above his left knee.
Only three Longhorns have start-ed all 32 games this year: Tant Shepherd, Brandon Loy and Erich Weiss. With the addition of third baseman Alex Silver, who made his career debut last week after beat-ing non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Weiss has been moved to left field.
Texas plays Dallas Baptist (20-11) tonight at UFCU-Disch Falk Field. Sam Stafford (5-0, 1.43 ERA) will get the start for the Longhorns.
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PROJECTED FINISH The Longhorns started their 2011 campaign with the usual “Omaha or Bust” expectations. A little more than
halfway through, they have a 24-8 record — through 32 games, identical to the record of the 2009 Texas team that made it to the College World Series Finals — and sit tied with Texas A&M for first place in the Big 12 conference. With the same superb pitching that Augie Garrido has had throughout his career and a young
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Sometimes, “Augie ball” is infuri-ating for Texas fans.
The proliferation of small ball, the endless sacrifice bunts — Texas head coach Augie Garrido is a master of getting base runners on, even when it isn’t the most exciting way to play.
After hitting a school-record 81 homers in 2010, it’s back to Garri-do’s preferred style of deliberate, for-mulaic offense for the Longhorns. However, fans aren’t complain-ing this time: Augie ball is the only chance this team has of making it back to the College World Series.
The biggest reason why Texas can’t rely solely on the long shot is college baseball’s new metal bats are supposed to reduce ball speed and increase player safety.
There are some other factors at work. Kevin Keyes and Cam-eron Rupp, who combined for 35 blasts in 2010, are gone; so is Rus-sell Moldenhauer, who knocked nine out of the park. Tant Shepherd is still here, but he’s only managed two home runs so far, half of his to-tal at this point last season.
Disch-Falk Field is also known as a pitcher’s park, with a left-field line of 340 feet, bigger than all except Kansas State’s Tointon Family Sta-dium and Missouri’s Simmons Field in the Big 12 and larger than a num-ber of professional stadiums such as the Royals’ Kauffman Stadium and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
And with ace Taylor Jungmann, Texas has an immediate advantage in almost any pitcher’s duel.
All of that means Garrido is per-fectly content to reign his hitters
in. Anyone rooting for the Long-horns should be thankful to have the 62-year-old coach on their side, as there’s no better mind in college baseball to lead such an attack when home run numbers across the coun-try are down.
“It’s easier to do than hitting,” Garrido recently said about bun-ting, although he could have just as easily been talking about his entire offensive philosophy. “It’s about sit-uations and staying out of the dou-ble play and advancing runners to scoring situations so that if the op-position makes a mistake or you get a hit, you score a run.”
In fact, offensive figures across
the board are down for Texas, with the team hitting at a .266 clip this year. The team is even bunting less and fewer leadoff batters are mak-ing it to base.
That’s no problem for the master of small ball, though. Garrido still has the Longhorns scoring six runs a game through a mix of pinch-hit-ting switches and smart two-out play plus a little sheer luck.
At 24-8, Texas has one of the best records in the Big 12 and a No. 7 na-tional ranking in the coaches’ poll. It’s also the same exact mark that the Longhorns had through 32 games in 2009, the year the Longhorns made it all the way to the College World
Series Finals only to lose to Louisi-ana State in three games. That year was also a down one for the Texas offense, with only 53 homers and a team slugging average of .425. The team had a dominant starter on the mound in Chance Ruffin and was able to win close games (so far this year Texas has won games 2-0, 3-1, 3-0, 3-1 and 2-1).
It’s easy to make comparisons but hard to live up to them. We’ll see if the Longhorns make it back to Omaha this year, but if they do it’s because of Garrido’s dedicated — sometimes stubborn — adherence to a simple principle: Don’t make it flashy, make it work.
Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan file photo
Texas head coach Augie Garrido has had to use his small ball strategy more often this year due to new bats and a new lineup. Garrido is the college baseball’s winningest head coach.
New bats bring resurgence of ‘Augie ball’ ing story lines that have emerged in the first half of the season for the Longhorns.
Cole Green, who turned down the Detroit Tigers’ $300,000 sign-ing bonus for the opportunity to earn his degree and win a nation-al championship, has been incon-sistent. He didn’t start his year off as he hoped, giving up six runs in four innings for a 10-1 loss to Maryland. Garrido has explained, more than once, that the pressures and distractions of being a fourth-round draft pick have hampered Green. But the senior has picked it up recently, striking out 16 and al-lowing just two earned runs in his past two outings.
Sandwiched between Friday and Sunday starters Jungmann and Green, both right-handers, is southpaw Hoby Milner. The sophomore is growing in his role as the usual Saturday starter, giv-ing Texas a righty-lefty-righty weekend combo.
“Any person who watches base-ball would know that if you have a left-hander in your starting ro-tation, it’s a good idea to put him in between two right-handers,” Green said.
Rounding out the starting ro-tation is junior lefty Sam Stafford. Though he doesn’t usually pitch in weekend games, Stafford has earned a role as the Tuesday start-er. He’s compiled a 5-0 record and has gotten better as the sea-son has gone on, even flirting with a no-hitter on April 5 at Tex-as A&M-Corpus Christi before
a rising pitch count led the Tex-as coaches to pull him out after seven innings.
Going into the season, Tex-as’ starting rotation was a known commodity. However, many were worried about the bullpen, as the Longhorns would be without the services of departed closer Chance Ruffin. A day before the opener, some asked Garrido how he would fill the void left by Ruffin, and he admitted that his team was with-out a surefire replacement.
“The bullpen is one of our big-gest concerns,” he said at the time. “We are going to do it by commit-tee, rotating guys in and out based on match-ups.”
The by-committee approach worked for about a week or so, un-til freshman Corey Knebel emerged from the pack out of nowhere and made it hard for Garrido or pitch-ing coach Skip Johnson to go with anybody else out of the bullpen. Knebel has taken complete control of the closer role, stepping to the mound at the end of games in tight situations and throwing 95-mph heat. With eight saves already, he is more than halfway to Ruffin’s mark of 14 last year.
As usual, Texas’ pitching looks to be in good hands. The domi-nant Jungmann, the experienced Green, the improving Milner and Stafford, and the flamethrowing Knebel give the Longhorns one of the best staffs in the nation — a staff that, barring injury, repre-sents Texas’ best chance to make it back to Omaha.
Tant Shepherd certainly isn’t feeling any pressure at the plate. The senior, who was drafted last summer but decided to play one more year at Texas, hit .478 the last two weekends and increased his average to .308 for the season.
“We’re hitting the ball a lot bet-ter and he’s a big reason for that. Hitting is a little bit contagious, and he’s one of the leaders on this team, and there is a little bit of fol-low the leader in this game,” Gar-rido said. “He’s been a very posi-tive influence on everyone in the batting order — every one per-son who does something like that takes one or two others with him and makes them better.”
Shepherd is tied for the team lead in RBIs with 21 and leads the team with two home runs, one-third of the Longhorns’ total.
“The home run isn’t going to be
there like it was last year,” Shep-herd said. “Overall, size-wise, we’re a lot smaller than we were last year. The approach to hit the ball the opposite way has to come into effect, and that’s what we’ve been working on.”
To compare, Oklahoma leads the Big 12 with 28 home runs, while Texas is dead last with six. Texas’ .266 batting average is sev-enth best in the conference, but its 2.49 ERA is third.
“A lot of people doubt our hit-ting, but our pitchers are the one [group of ] people that don’t,” Shepherd said. “They know that we’re going to come through when we need to for them. Our time-ly hitting has been there and, the way this conference works, right in the middle of the season is where everyone wants to be on a high note.”
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Hipsters across the country have been losing their Urban Outfitters-cool, apathetic facade to get their hands on Panda Bear’s (Noah Lennox’s solo ef-fort) Tomboy, the follow-up to 2007’s Person Pitch.
It’s also Lennox’s first solo album since his other band, Animal Collective, re-leased its critically acclaimed Merri-weather Post Pavilion in 2009. On first listen, the hype seems to be over noise. Another couple of spins reveals that Tomboy is just that — beautiful, clatter-ing, chaotic and triumphant noise.
There are subtle but significant dif-ferences between his breakthrough al-bum Person Pitch and Tomboy. Len-nox is less focused on capturing Person Pitch’s lengthy, sampled patchwork com-positions and instead works with origi-nal music that relies on hooks, leaning on the relatively poppier side of things. Moreover, the album is calmer and more centered compared to his more blatantly adventurous work with Animal Collec-tive on Merriweather. While those par-ticular aspects contributed to the adora-tion of critics and fans alike for those al-
bums, Lennox has comfortably evolved his sound into something familiar yet re-markably fresh.
On Tomboy, Lennox breaks down his rhythms, melodies and lyrics to their barest bones to capture the basic, visceral thrill of listening to music. What matters is not a particular synth or lyric so much as how all the aspects come together to make the listener react and understand that this is what differentiates cacoph-onic noise from music.
With his childlike vocals, he creates a tribal theme for the new century on “Slow Motion.” The song has thumping, looped electronics over an atmospher-ic haze that whirl around his wailing, echoing vocals. Throughout the album, most of his lyrics are indecipherable. In-
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Call it sentimentality, but there’s something to be said for a well-craft-ed love song, and TV on the Radio has 10 of them on their latest album, Nine Types of Light.
The release marks an interesting re-turn after the political funk of 2008’s Dear Science and the aggressiveness of their breakthrough album Return to Cookie Mountain. It’s as though the band chose to forget about the chaos in the Middle East, the stalemate on Capitol Hill and the corruption on Wall Street in exchange for the sunny pastures of rela-tionships. While these are not torch-love ballads like “The Lady in Red,” TV on the Radio reworked their funky, clattering signature sound for songs that are, like a lady in red, seductive. On “New Can-nonball Blues,” they even reach Prince-like heights against smooth horns, play-ful synths and lead singer Tunde Ad-ebimpe’s vocals that switch from silky,
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Opener “Second Song” thumps with some of the best direct lyrics in the band’s career, describing the slow thaw under the lights of a club before commanding, “Every lover on a mission shift your lone position to the light.” TV on the Radio creates the wedding song for hipsters ev-erywhere on “Will Do,” with Adebim-pe singing “any time will do, my love, any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove.” Elsewhere,
the layers of instruments are peeled back for gentle, plucky guitars and whispering vocals on “Killer Crane.”
By moving away from the political, which can become a crutch, TV on the Radio have done what so few musicians can do: create sexy love songs based on monogamous relationships. Fans may decry the band’s change in direction as a sell-out move to be featured on a “Gos-sip Girl” montage. What those people need is a little bit of love in their lives, something they can learn about on Nine Types of Light.
Nine Types of Light TV on the RadioGenre: RockTracks: 10For those who like: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bruce Springsteen, PhoenixGrade: A-
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The show with the widest variety of fascinating female characters is undoubtedly Matthew Wein-er’s acclaimed series “Mad Men.” For a show that presents a world in which men reign — a Madi-son Avenue advertising agency in the tempestu-ous 1960s — women are a radically integral part of the show’s character landscape. The women of “Mad Men” are incredibly complex, transcending tired feminine character stereotypes, and have slowly but surely developed in unforeseen and exciting ways.
One of the true female role models on the show is Peggy Olson, the timid secretary-turned-assertive career woman played by criminally un-derrated actress Elisabeth Moss.
Audiences have watched for four seasons as Peggy has transformed from a mousy, terrified secretary into a powerful and talented copywrit-er at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce adver-tising agency. Peggy’s confidence in the board-room, her command over her condescending male coworkers and her touching friendship with her mentor Don Draper make Peggy a revolutionary of her era and a fantastic fictional role model for women in any time period.
However, the best female character on Amer-ican TV screens today is the indomitable public servant Leslie Knope of NBC’s half-hour comedy “Parks and Recreation.”
Knope (Amy Poehler) is the head of the parks
department in the fictional town of Pawnee, In-diana (motto: “First In Friendship, Fourth In Obesity”). Unlike Steve Carell’s Michael Scott of “The Office,” Knope is thoroughly competent and a largely well-respected authority figure de-spite her enthusiastic positivity that often borders on farce.
It’s easy to laugh at Leslie, but it’s just as easy to root for her. Unlike Liz Lemon, finding her per-fect man isn’t high on Leslie’s agenda. She’s got parks to run and red tape to tear down, and she does so with a chipper energy that’s infectious and charming.
“Parks and Recreation” flaunts the most real-istic, heartfelt female friendship on TV. Too of-ten in film and television are women’s relation-ships with one another are played with an under-current of tension or competition. Leslie and the kind-hearted nurse Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) firmly defy this trope. The two women support, admire and fight for one another while providing some fantastic banter between the blindly idealis-tic Leslie and the sensible, down-to-earth Ann.
If the current trend continues, there is no doubt that this kind of thoughtful, honest por-trayal of women will flood TV screens and even-tually become the standard for quality television. The inclusion of dynamic, multifaceted female characters can only make TV a more compelling storytelling device.
ed me to pay for dinner, I was like give me a break.” Collins writes, “I was not the exact equivalent of give me a break./I was just similar to give me a break.”
Though it explores comical territory, the book begins and ends on a serious note. While his past books have opened with playful poems address-ing the reader, Collins begins this one by de-scribing an imagined conversation with his par-ents at their gravesite in “Grave.” Then in the fi-
nal poem of the collection, “Returning the Pencil to its Tray,” he praises the simple joy of observing, but not writing. Similarly, in “Bread and Butter” he merely describes an evening at the beach, de-ciding not to interpret the lovely scene.
“Something tells me I could make/more out of all that, moving down/and inward where a poem is meant to go,” Collins writes, “But this time I want to leave it be,/the sea, the stars, the dogs, and the clouds.”
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It’s unfair to hold mainstream pop and indie acts to the same qualitative standard because in most cases they have completely different goals. The work put into making the new Arcade Fire and Britney Spears albums offers a stark contrast: both albums have memorable tracks, existing in vastly different sonic spectrums; both were given four-star reviews by Rolling Stone.
If you’re willing to take a few steps back, you’ll marvel: “TiK ToK” is kind of brilliant. Yes, plen-ty have argued that Ke$ha’s dance style is lifted straight from electronic artist Uffie, but the great-ness of “TiK ToK” is a separate success that owes nothing to her. It represents the success of taking that inspiration nearly to its saturation point for maximum effect; his technical skill accomplished the difficult task of creating a hit song. Your al-most subconscious mouthing of the lyrics, wher-ever you hear it, is the result of a careful creation of beats, hooks and words. It’s a piece of art.
But since when was music not informed by oth-er music? The animus flung at pop music seems
to stem from frustration: “‘Since U Been Gone’ stole the guitar riff from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Maps’ and Kelly Clarkson is just a pimped-out, bourgeoise poser.”
Sure, Kelly Clarkson may have a nice steady stream of royalty checks for the rest of her life, but if you’re going to measure pop and indie music at different levels of quality, then measur-ing their respective success should be appropri-ately adjusted. Success for a Kelly Clarkson song and success for a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song are two different things. “Since U Been Gone” was a ma-jor Billboard, and thus commercial, hit; critics consider “Maps” of the greatest love songs of the last decade.
There’s no reason the appreciation of the crafts-manship of pop and indie music have to be mu-tually exclusive. When Pitchfork makes its annual best of the year song list, a nice handful of catchy pop songs make the cut alongside the indie ones. Musical taste may be subjective, but the apparent skill at work in some modern pop songs isn’t.
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Katy Perry’s second album, Teenage Dream, is a force to be reckoned with: Each of its successive sin-gles has climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the definitive measure of a song’s commercial suc-cess. Some might think it a surprising accomplish-ment given that one of the songs, “Firework,” pos-es the simple philosophical quandary: “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?”
So Katy Perry songs aren’t necessarily known for their lyrical heft. Likewise, it’s unlikely you’ll find a defense of any of her songs much weightier than a tossed off, “It’s a guilty pleasure,” or “It’s really catchy.” But those excuses, particularly the latter, are telling of just what her main producer, Dr. Luke, wants you to feel. That ability to hook you despite inane lyrics is the result of masterful music production. There’s a technical mastery at work creating these pop hits, a skill great enough that we should reconsider how we measure the quality of song craft.
Creating a modern pop hit is an inexact science, but if you take some of the best pop songs of the last decade — Britney Spears’ “Toxic,” Kelly Clark-son’s “Since U Been Gone” or Miley Cyrus’ “Par-ty in the U.S.A.” — there seems to be a recurring set of elements: a strutting, danceable beat, a hook-laden chorus and an anthemic rush of energy right around the bridge,.
All three songs are from three different, suc-cessful super producers: Swedish production duo Bloodshy & Avant (“Toxic”), Dr. Luke (“Party in the U.S.A.”) and his mentor, Max Martin (“Since U Been Gone”). Collectively, their music has a singu-lar goal: make music so impossibly catchy as to con-sume you entirely, the ridiculous pop starlet singing be damned. These songs are not the result of fol-lowing a formula but of skillful producers working their technical magic.
Case in point: Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK.” The accolades awarded this megahit, where pop’s poster child for personal hygiene brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels, are numerous and its cultural domi-nance is undeniable. Certified five-times platinum in the U.S., it spent nine weeks at No. 1 and is cur-rently the sixth-best-selling song in digital history. No, the world isn’t doomed to vapidity and cheap thrills — there will always be the kind of cerebral music heralded by sites like Pitchfork. In fact, those songs and albums routinely find themselves on crit-ics’ year-end top 10 lists.
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The indomitable Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” is among the most empowered and entertaining fictional women on TV.
Scripted serialized television, in its current state, features an unprec-edented array of compelling female figures. It would be nearly impos-sible to succinctly list every great woman on TV. These women defy shows such as HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” which has difficulty mak-ing its female characters much more than peripheral playthings for its leading men. Instead, the women of “30 Rock,” “Mad Men” and “Parks and Recreation” make their female characters just as dynamic and im-portant as their male counterparts.
Perhaps the most well-known and most highly relatable character for women presently on TV is Tina Fey’s goofy, harried, cheese-loving Liz Lemon of “30 Rock.” Liz rep-resents every woman who would
rather stay in and watch a “Design-ing Women” marathon in her Snug-gie than go clubbing; every wom-an who can quote Star Wars with ease and aplomb; and every woman who believes that “all anyone real-ly wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.”
Aside from her personal quirks, which other shows might shied away from, Liz is also a dedicated and re-spected professional. As the heavi-ly put-upon head writer of an NBC sketch comedy program, Liz is an obvious and acknowledged takeoff of Fey’s experience as the first female head writer at “Saturday Night Live.” “30 Rock” often uses Liz’s position as a career woman to mock the idea that a woman in power is destined to rule with her impetuous emotions and make a self-effacing commen-tary on women’s positions in enter-tainment and business.
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Poet Billy Collins said during an NPR interview with Neal Conan this past week that poets themselves deserve much of the blame for their craft’s waning importance to the av-
erage reader. Too often poets show off with obscure verses that lose the reader’s interest.
In his book “Horoscopes for the Dead,” Collins displays an uncanny ability to set his reader down on the firm and mundane ground of every-day existence before transporting
them somewhere profound and of-ten mysterious using his elegant and simple writing style.
Collins, a former American Poet Laureate whose 10th book of poet-ry was released last week, strives to make his poetry accessible for the average reader, though he wants to avoid being pigeonholed by this characteristic of his work.
Collins’ knack for finding mean-ing in the ordinary is as much the product of his talent as a viewer as of his formidable poetic skill. Whether the subject is time, death or his dog, Collins’ poems rely on observation and his eye for the poetic.
In the poem “Vocation,” he re-flects on his true vocation of “keep-ing an eye on things/whether they existed or not,” as he lies on a dock
contemplating the traffic of the night sky.
Though he considers seri-ous topics in “Horoscopes for the Dead,” Collins keeps things hu-morous in poems such as “Feed-back” and “What She Said,” where he gives his take on improper use of the word “like.”
“When he told me he expect-Horoscopes for the Dead
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The incredible success of recent mainstream pop acts such as Katy Perry and Ke$ha can be attributed to lesser-known “super producers” such as Dr. Luke, who have won numer-ous accolades for their catchy and danceable technical magic.
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