Structural engineer Sha-ron Wood has been ap-pointed interim dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering.

Wood will fill the vacan-cy left by Gregory Fenves, who was announced as the University’s new executive vice president and provost last month. Wood currently

serves as chairwoman of the Department of Civil, Archi-tectural and Environmental Engineering and will begin her role Oct. 1.

Wood, who is the school’s first female dean and was the first female department chair in the Cockrell School, said she is excited about the chal-lenges the position will pres-ent — particularly the work she will do to secure funding for the University’s planned

Engineering Education and Research Center. The building did not receive a tuition rev-enue bond in the most recent legislative session.

“It’s a really exciting time at the school,” Wood said. “We will need to raise the funds to move forward with our new building … but I’ve been in-volved from the beginning and I’m really looking forward to that challenge.”

Though Wood said she

is excited to begin the pro-cess, she said accepting the offered position was not an easy decision.

“It actually took me a couple of days to decide [to become the interim dean],” Wood said. “Professionally, there are many benefits, but I was going to teach a class this semester, and I’m going to have to give that up. I’ll also have to cut back on my research for the year.”

Wood said accepting the

position ultimately seemed like the best choice.

“I just had to weigh factors,” she said.

In a statement, Steven Leslie, the outgoing execu-tive vice president and pro-vost, said he is confident in Wood’s ability to lead the School of Engineering.

“The Cockrell School of Engineering will be in the

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City Council members will soon represent 10 districts in Austin, though the district lines are being discussed in public forums throughout the fall.

A 14-person commis-sion of citizens is working on a new redistricting plan called 10-ONE, which fo-cuses on giving each area of Austin representation in City Council.

In a commission meeting, psychology sophomore Ryan Rafols, the only student com-missioner, said creating a district with a large student population would be benefi-cial for Austin.

“It just makes perfect sense to have a student district,” Ra-fols said. “There are skyrock-eting rent prices, transporta-tion issues, all these problems with crime … These are all major issues that affect the student population.”

Between 15 and 20 per-cent of Austin’s popula-tion is made up of students, Rafols said.

“Since students are such a big segment of the city, it’s something that we’ll have to take into consideration,” 10-ONE Executive Director Craig Tounget said.

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Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan StaffGovernment senior Bryan Davis was targeted by a balloon outside of the University Towers on Aug. 22. He believes he was targeted because of the color of his skin and speculates similar instances are more common than publicly perceived.

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Investigative reporter, Texan alumnus dies

UT and Daily Texan alum-nus and investigative report-er Stephen Lee McGonigle died Aug. 24, after his fight with cancer.

McGonigle was a 1975 graduate from the School of Journalism. After receiving a master’s degree from North-western University, he went on to do investigative work at The Dallas Morning News.

McGonigle’s colleagues said he was a passionate Longhorn and watched UT football re-ligiously, making it to many games. They said he always bragged about UT and loved the University.

During his time at The Dal-las Morning News, McGonigle worked closely with the New Jersey-based organization Cen-turion Ministries to free Joyce Ann Brown who was wrongly accused of a murder and sen-tenced to life in prison. James McCloskey, executive director of Centurion Ministries, said the organization’s mission is to reinvestigate felony charges of execution or life in prison.

“Steve was the best investiga-tive reporter I have ever worked with,” McCloskey said.

Up until his death, Mc-Gonigle worked on trying to free Ben Spencer, whom McGonigle believed was wrongly sentenced to life in prison for a fatal robbery in Dallas. McCloskey said even as McGonigle was dying with cancer, Spencer’s incarcera-tion still worried him.

“Steve felt that he could have done more for Ben,” McClos-key said.

Ed Timms, a Dallas Morn-ing News reporter said

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RecSports made several changes to its annual fund-raising event, Party on the Plaza, to reach its $5,000 fundraising goal and bet-ter allow organizations to showcase themselves.

The event, held Wednesday at the Gregory Gym Plaza, had a philanthropic element: All participating organiza-tions were required to donate $20 to the Student Emergen-cy Fund during registration.

In the past, Party on the Plaza organizers have do-nated a cumulative $55,000 to the Student Emergency Fund. The Student Emergency Fund provides limited financial as-sistance to currently enrolled students who are unable to meet immediate expenses because of an emergency, according to the Dean of Students website.

“We’re just really excited about … how willing stu-dents are to come out and support causes as good as the Student Emergency Fund,” said Taylor Pousson, co-chair for the planning committee.

“[It] really helps students out.”Additional changes to this

year’s event include student organization performances and a rock climbing wall, Pousson said.

Party on the Plaza, the largest student organiza-tion event on campus, drew more than 200 student orga-nizations this year.

Randall Ford, associate director of the Division of Recreational Sports, said the party fulfills two roles: It helps students find their niche on campus and it replenishes the Student Emergency Fund.

“I think one of the big keys for student success is you find your niche on cam-pus, whether that’s a student

org, or a job you have on campus or friends,” Ford said. “There’s something you find that ties you to a group or groups, and that, I think, contributes to your academic success at the University.”

Ford has been the leading staff adviser to the student

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Government senior Bryan Davis said he used to be “flip-pant” toward issues of race and racism. That was before a wa-ter balloon was hurled at him outside the University Towers apartment complex — an as-sault, Davis says, that was mo-tivated by the color of his skin.

Davis soon became the central figure in a racially charged controversy. Ten-sions emerged as Davis’ own account of the incident con-flicted with the police investi-gation, the University’s state-ments and news coverage, culminating in a student-led rally on campus. A second stu-dent reported a similar inci-dent this past weekend, fueling the controversy.

On Aug. 22, Davis was on his way to a friend’s house when he heard an explosion and felt a “slight sting” on the skin of his right calf.

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committee since the event began in 1999. The party be-gan as a resurrection of the Spirit of Sport All-Nighter, a back-to-school carnival hosted when the RecSports center first opened.

The event originally host-ed live concerts and screened movies. When student atten-dance tapered off, the event was refocused to showcase student organizations and the hours were adjusted to elicit the strongest student attendance.

The event’s planning starts in the spring every year, Pousson said. Registration for organizations opens be-tween the end of July and the beginning of August.

Biology junior Leah Rushin, who represented SURGe, an undergraduate research group, said Party on the Plaza allows organizations to interact with students and find prospective members.

“Because UT’s so huge, it’s pretty much impossible to walk into a room and find people you like,” Rushin said. “Intrastudent societies are the best ways to make friends around here.”

McGonigle’s work helped not only to overturn felony sen-tences, but also to influence how juries are selected today. Timms said most juries in Dal-las were all white prior to Mc-Gonigle’s work, and McGoni-gle’s articles helped diversify the selection for fairer sentencing.

“He was an incessant report-er who never let the pressures

divert him, he had a mission and he was going to complete it,” Timms said.

Timms said McGonigle used his investigative skills to get to the bottom of a case. His main goal was to help people who were truly in need, with-out giving into the pressure of the community or editors, ac-cording to Timms.

Randy Loftis, a Dallas Morning News reporter and friend of McGonigle’s, said

news in Texas will never be the same.

“We have fairer jury selec-tion and an innocent woman is no longer in prison all because Steve really believed in what he was doing,” Loftis said.

McGonigle is survived by his wife, Kristine Imherr, his parents, George and Martha Ann McGonigle, and his two children. A memorial service will be held Friday at Spark-man Funeral Home in Dallas.

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registered voters in the area. Students in West Campus are underrepresented be-cause even though it is the densest neighborhood in Austin, few residents filled out census cards in 2010, Ingle said.

“The census cap for the redistricting isn’t adequate enough for the number of people that live there,” Ingle said. “It’s not going to make a difference to the redis-tricting effort.”

This is the first time in Texas that a group of citizens, instead of a po-litical group, has been in charge of redistricting, Tounget said.

Currently, voters choose seven Austin City Coun-cil members in a city-wide election, but those mem-bers do not necessarily have to be from different areas of Austin. After redis-tricting, the City Council will consist of 10 mem-bers, one from each district in Austin.

“Some of the areas have felt that they have been un-derrepresented,” Tounget

said. “It’s going to give [un-derrepresented people] an opportunity to elect some-one from their area to rep-resent them.”

The federal Voting Rights Act, written to prevent vot-ing discrimination, is a pri-ority on the 2012 City Char-ter Amendment that started this project, commission member Rachel Farris said.

The Voting Rights Act requires that some dis-tricts must be minority-opportunity districts that allow minority groups to elect a representative, Tounget said.

In addition to aligning with the Voting Rights Act, the commission will con-sider factors such as natural boundaries, neighborhoods and school districts.

Rafols said he ex-pects the City Council to be as diverse as the commission is.

“It’s politically unfair to give someone more of a say in politics than anyone else,” Rafols said.

Each district will include about 80,000 people, Toun-get said.

Between 450 and 500 people applied for the com-mission, and a group of lo-cal auditors chose the 60 most qualified applicants. Eight of those 60 people were chosen randomly, and to ensure balanced geo-graphic and ethnic diversi-ty, those eight people chose six others.

The commission held four public input meetings regarding district boundar-ies in August, one for each precinct, and will hold four more in September.

The commission will re-lease a preliminary map in late September or early Oc-tober and then hold at least four more public hearings, Tounget said.

Most of the input has focused on keeping school districts and residential neighborhoods together. The commission intends for one of the meetings to be at the University, Tounget said.

“I really enjoy hearing what people have to say at the public input hearings,” Farris said. “It’s really in-credible to see the creativity and passion people have in their neighborhoods.”

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Helen Fernandez / Daily Texan StaffDalai Reilly rides a mechanical bull at Party on the Plaza on Wednesday afternoon.

CORRECTIONCorrection: Because of a reporting error, an article about owning a bicycle on the UT campus that ran in the Sept. 3 issue of The Daily Texan misstated the brand of bikes aquired by the Orange Bike Project shop. The actual brand of bicycles is Giant hybrid bikes.

“It felt like something small had jumped up and bit me,” Davis said. “I turned in the di-rection of the explosion. I saw the balloon and immediately went into a kind of shock. I was aware of the targeting and profiling of minorities in the area, so it all came together.”

After consulting with friends, Davis reported the incident to police, University officials and the media. Da-vis’ case garnered national attention, and Davis said he received several phone calls and emails from students say-ing they had been assaulted in similar ways.

“Some said they were spit on,” Davis said. “Others said they had been assaulted with glass from broken bottles.”

Davis speculates that the number of students who have been subjected to these at-tacks is higher than what is publicly perceived, saying that many believe the incidents to be the “status quo” in the West Campus area.

Over the weekend, the Campus Climate Response Team received a report of another balloon attack in the West Campus area.

Ryan Miller, an educational administration graduate stu-dent and associate director of Campus Diversity and Stra-tegic Initiatives, was unable to provide the location of the

incident, name of the student or contents of the balloon be-cause of the ongoing nature of the case.

Though Davis said he does not know what the second bal-loon was filled with, he thinks focusing on the bleach issue is secondary to a larger issue.

“We’re beginning to see a pattern,” Davis said. “Even if the balloon was filled with butter or pudding, or what-ever, [these incidents] are certainly symbolic because people know what those bal-loons mean to us.”

On Aug. 27, UTPD told Davis that the APD detective assigned to his case was un-available. Davis said UTPD proceeded to handle the investigation “unilaterally.” The APD detective assigned to Davis’ case could not be reached for comment.

APD Cpl. David Boyd told The Daily Texan last week that APD’s investigation could not continue without a sworn statement from the victim. Boyd’s statement was inac-curate, as he was referring to pending investigations from 2012. Davis delivered his statement that same day.

In the fall of 2012, sev-eral students reported simi-lar incidents to police and University officials.

“The people involved last year never showed any evidence,” Davis said. “APD hasn’t made any official public statements about my case yet.”

UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey confirmed Davis’ story.

Posey said UTPD put con-siderable resources toward confirming the report of mi-norities being targeted with bleach-filled balloons last year, but were unable to confirm it after repeated requests for evi-dence went unanswered.

“After media reports of a possible balloon incident, [former UTPD Chief of Po-lice] Robert Dahlstrom asked students during a local media interview to come forward and report any incident where they were hit with a liquid-filled balloon or witnessed such an event,” Posey said.

Posey said UTPD received more than 20 reports. How-ever, the majority of report-ing students were “Caucasian sorority females.”

“Students came forward and confessed to throw-ing water-filled balloons, targeting no particular groups,” Posey said. “They were referred to Student Judicial Services.”

Although his perception of Austin as a culturally diverse and tolerant place has not changed, Davis said racism is ingrained in many students attending UT.

“A lot of people will say, ‘Oh, it’s just a balloon,’” Davis said. “But for others, it’s really not funny. It’s a reminder of the racial exclusion that per-vades this campus.”

House Bill 2, which passed in the Texas Legislature this summer, will result in the closure of all but six abor-tion clinics in Texas, which some say might have impli-cations for UT students.

On Wednesday, the LBJ School of Public Affairs’ Feminist Policy Alliance and The Texas Observer co-hosted a panel on the ef-fects HB 2 will have on Texas women. The panel, Stand for Women’s Health in Texas, featured Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, local activist Jes-sica Luther and Heather Bus-by, who works with National Abortion Rights Action League [NARAL].

Dave Mann, editor of The Texas Observer, moderated the event. Mann said interest in the subject was obvious fol-lowing Wendy Davis’, D-Fort Worth, 11-hour filibuster to block the bill. Though Davis’ filibuster did not last until midnight, disruptions from the crowd gathered in the Capitol delayed a vote on the bill until the legislative ses-sion was already over. The bill was passed in a special session mandated by Gov. Ricky Perry.

“We want to open dis-cussion around the issue of women’s health … Obviously there was a lot of energy around the filibuster this summer,” Mann said.

The panel centered around

the implications of these stricter guidelines on abor-tion clinics, what could be done to address their affects and what could be done to change them.

Farrar was a vocal oppo-nent of HB 2 during the sum-mer’s legislative sessions.

“You’re going to see more women having more un-wanted pregnancies,” Far-rar said. “You’ve got health care providers saying, ‘We are opposed to this.’ … It was political motivation to pass this bill, this wasn’t a response to any complaints from the clinics.”

Luther said basic preven-tative health care for women would also be adversely af-fected by the bill.

“The clinics you see shut down don’t only do abortions, so reproductive health will be affected,” Luther said. “We need to keep reminding the

state and legislatures that we are here and we’re still angry.”

Luther, Farrar and Busby also discussed ways they planned to react to the bill. Farrar stated that there is a lawsuit in the works.

“This bill is closing af-fordable clinics for women, making it harder for col-lege-aged women and low income women to get what they need,” Busby said. “I’ve got people calling and saying ‘What can I do now? What can I do to help?’”

Luther said pro-abortion supporters and organizations may begin to bus women from rural areas across the state to abortion clinics that are still open in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin.

“That’s exciting to see Tex-ans taking responsibility … It’s really concrete activism,” Luther said.

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“Because UT’s so huge, it’s pretty much impossible to walk into a room and find people you like,” Rushin said. “Intrastudent societies are the best ways to make friends around here.”

WOODcontinues from page 1hands of a distinguished and skillful leader as Sharon Wood assumes her responsibilities as interim dean,” Leslie said in the statement. “She has been an integral part of the Cockrell leadership team and has the research and administrative

acumen to continue to propel the school in developing engi-neering leaders for tomorrow.”

Wood said she hopes her visibility as a female dean will help inspire new female engineering students.

“It’s important for women to have role models,” Wood said. “It’s important to see women as faculty members,

department chairs and in the administration.”

Wood, a fourth-gener-ation civil engineer, said her role models were her family members.

“I decided I wanted to be a civil engineer when I was about eight years old,” Wood said. “My dad took me out to a construction site.”

Helen Fernandez / Daily Texan StaffDalai Reilly rides a mechanical bull at Party on the Plaza on Wednesday afternoon.

By Brigit Benestante@BBenestante

Panel discusses women’s rightsCAMPUS

Of the 54 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students currently attending UT, only a few have ever had the chance to interact with each other — but DHH students and Services for Students with Disabilities are work-ing to change that.

Dozens of DHH students met for the first time at an informal meet-and-greet dinner Tuesday.

Lauren Kinast, associ-ate director for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, said she noticed the lack of unification among DHH students shortly after her arrival on campus.

“I often have students asking, ‘How many DHH students are there here at UT?’ and ‘Where do I find them? How do I meet them?’ [and] this is one way we hope to bring them to-gether,” Kinast said.

Plan II senior Duggan Baker planned the event in conjunction with David Simmons, a linguistics lec-turer who teaches sign lan-guage. Baker said he wanted to connect with a larger community.

“I became deaf right when I was born,” Baker said. “I grew up going to school with hearing students, but when I came to college I had a little trouble adjusting. I was quiet, and I didn’t want to have to explain my deaf-ness to everyone.”

DHH students like Baker have formed small groups like SignHorns, a Facebook page designed to connect students to the deaf com-munity on campus and in Austin. Students can also participate in College Bowl — an academic competition hosted by the National As-sociation of the Deaf.

History senior Lisa Guer-ra, a College Bowl contes-tant, said her experience

with the competition opened up more opportuni-ties for her to socialize and make friends on campus.

“It was like a culture shock for me,” Guerra said. “I had never seen so many deaf peo-ple all in one place, signing and communicating.”

Still, Simmons said many students have yet to get involved or find a sense of community.

“DHH students still feel very isolated and invisible on campus,” Simmons said. “We are looking to improve the quality of life for them.”

At the meet-and-greet din-ner, linguistics department Chair Richard Meier said the department is working on several new initiatives related to DHH students, including adding an American Sign Language minor.

Baker said he hopes to hold more informal events in the future and to eventu-ally unite all DHH students on campus.

By Julia Brouillette@juliakbrou

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan StaffLisa Guerra and Rogelio Fernandez converse using sign language at the Deaf and Hard of Hearing meet-and-greet event.

Deaf students seek community, work to create support network

UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey confirmed Davis’ story.

Posey said UTPD put con-siderable resources toward confirming the report of mi-norities being targeted with bleach-filled balloons last year, but were unable to confirm it after repeated requests for evi-dence went unanswered.

“After media reports of a possible balloon incident, [former UTPD Chief of Po-lice] Robert Dahlstrom asked students during a local media interview to come forward and report any incident where they were hit with a liquid-filled balloon or witnessed such an event,” Posey said.

Posey said UTPD received more than 20 reports. How-ever, the majority of report-ing students were “Caucasian sorority females.”

“Students came forward and confessed to throw-ing water-filled balloons, targeting no particular groups,” Posey said. “They were referred to Student Judicial Services.”

Although his perception of Austin as a culturally diverse and tolerant place has not changed, Davis said racism is ingrained in many students attending UT.

“A lot of people will say, ‘Oh, it’s just a balloon,’” Davis said. “But for others, it’s really not funny. It’s a reminder of the racial exclusion that per-vades this campus.”

Aaron Berecka / Daily Texan StaffLocal women’s rights activist Nancy Ward addresses the crowd at Wednesday’s Stand for Women’s Health in Texas panel.

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If you’re a student at the University of Texas, it’s safe to assume that you’re inter-ested in learning valuable skills, preparing for a career and making a name for your-self. If you fit that description and don’t have a million-dollar NFL contract await-ing you, there’s no better place at UT to ac-complish all three of those goals than The Daily Texan.

Everyone who has ever worked for the Texan will attest that however competent a writer they were before they started, their skills grew more than they ever expected as a result of the job. At the Texan, you’ll learn through practice and example to write intel-ligently, professionally, compellingly and on a quick deadline. You’ll also learn to repre-sent something much bigger than yourself, alongside some of the most talented and driven members of the UT community.

Whether you’re interested in a career in journalism or not, the skills you learn at the Texan will serve you well for the rest of your life.

As an opinion columnist in particular, you’ll have your views read, considered and critiqued by an audience of thousands on one of the nation’s biggest university cam-puses. You’ll choose your topic so you can find what’s important to you as a UT student and have a space to show the rest of the 40 Acres why your issue-of-choice should be important to all of us, too. As wide-ranging as your column’s impact can be, the words will be yours to show off, now and for years to come.

This is a hiring pitch, obviously, but let it also serve as a word to the wise. You’re for-tunate enough to attend a university with one of the largest and most award-winning student newspapers in America. Texan staff-ers go on to great things, and they can attri-bute much of their success to their time here. It’d be a shame to let that opportunity go to waste.

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By Kalyan VenkatrajGuest Columnist

The reported “bleach bomb” attack on student Bryan Davis that occurred on Aug. 22 is one chapter in our campus’ long nar-rative of violence against people of color. Last Wednesday, thousands of new students attended their first day of undergraduate classes. Some, like me, grew up in a predomi-nantly homogeneous, alienating city (In my case, College Station) and made the exodus to Austin hoping that its mythic status as a “blue dot in a sea of red” would provide a more accepting, engaging space. Much of this is folly. Here are three things you should know about your University:

1) UT is not a color-blind, post-racial, or anti-racist oasis.

The university as an institution has always been America’s laboratory of the multicul-tural project. Our University is no different in its attempts to foster a more “inclusive” environment. There are constant forums, events and presentations dedicated to craft-ing solidarities, educating students and cre-ating a plural environment. However, these initiatives are lacking as an ameliorative policy. Although The Daily Texan’s coverage of the incident has explained the confusion surrounding whether the attack on Davis was racially motivated, most people of color with experiential knowledge of our Univer-sity will attest to experiencing either implicit or explicit racism. As a member of a South Asian-Interest fraternity and a student in the African Diaspora studies department, I am

able to interact with a multitude of commu-nities on the subject of race and racism. You shouldn’t be surprised if you feel ostracized by the pervasive culture of privilege. The Bryan Davis incident is not isolated; he just chose to report it.

2) West Campus is kind of scary sometimes.

During the day, the neighborhood is a pic-turesque cloistered college town. At night, as the drinks get poured, the area becomes raucous. This is when and where assaults of all sorts are made. Student Government President Horacio Villarreal released a tactful statement concerning the attack, in which he made the claim that “our campus has become increasingly inclusive since I first stepped onto the 40 Acres.” I appreci-ate Villarreal’s comments, but I disagree that our school has become holistically more in-clusive in the past four years. As The Daily Texan pointed out last month, West Campus is becoming increasingly insulated. Sky-rocketing property prices don’t just “strain” students; they filter the students who can af-ford West Campus’ convenient location and amenities from those who cannot. As a re-sult, the student body is becoming compart-mentalized. West Campus, which is home to a saturnalia of Greek houses, is also arguably home to the majority of attacks on students of color. Some strides have been made but Greek institutions of all types need to con-tinue to stamp out racism.

3)There’s reason to be optimistic.

Despite our University’s chronic problems dealing with race, I am optimistic that the hate and bigotry will be reconciled. There are great organizations all over campus and I am sure you will find your niche — per-haps many. If you ever encounter an attack, racially motivated, verbal, physical, whatever it may be, do what Davis did and have the courage to talk about it. You have allies here.

Venkatraj is a government senior from College Station.

Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan StaffUniversity Towers, the West Campus apartment complex at which the alleged attack on Bryan Davis took place.

On Tuesday, state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxa-hachie, confirmed to the Texas Tribune that he wrote a letter of recommendation to the University of Texas Law School on behalf of his son, who was later admitted to the school. The possibilities for an abuse of power in this scenario are obvious, but the answers as to why controversies such as this have dominated conversations about high-er education in Texas for the past several months are not.

Pitts issued his statement on Tuesday in response to allegations made by Regent Wal-lace Hall about state officials influencing the admissions process at both UT-Austin and the School of Law. Hall claims he discovered these abuses of power through documents unearthed in an open records request.

Hall, of course, is the UT System regent now infamous for being investigated by a House committee on transparency for pos-sible impeachment.

It’s not quite clear what Hall has done to deserve the threat of impeachment — only two state officials, both of whom were elect-ed, have been impeached in Texas history,

and both were impeached for clear criminal activity. There’s no indication yet that Hall has committed a crime.

It is, however, well known that Hall is a real pest when it comes to plaguing the University with burdensome open records requests. Pre-vious records requests by Hall to UT-Austin have been so expansive in scope that they’ve necessitated the hiring of additional staffers in the president’s office just to process them.

But back to the recommendation letter: Pitts denies having exerted any undue influ-ence on the admissions process at the Law School, and at present (Pitts hasn’t released the letter itself), there’s no proof that his hav-ing provided a recommendation letter to his son is anything worse than misguided and tacky, despite Hall’s allegations.

“This is nothing more than a pathetic, cowardly attempt by Mr. Hall’s allies — and possibly Mr. Hall himself — to distract from important questions about whether our flag-ship university system is being run appro-priately,” Pitts said to the National Review of the situation.

Pitts, incidentally, recently announced

he is retiring, which he says has nothing to do with Hall’s allegations. He did, however, tell the Texas Tribune that he was tempted to run for re-election because he would “really like to stay and fight this Wallace Hall thing.”

It’s hard to even begin unraveling the com-plicated politics that lead us to spend precious time making fights out of people instead of policy issues. But we are sure of one thing: at the height of the regents controversy in 2011, the conversation at least had something to do with important changes to higher education policy. Now, what’s left of the battle seems just as ridiculous as the e-mail Gov. Rick Perry sent to several regents earlier this year that encouraged them to stand strong against “peacocks and charlatans.”

In other words, Pitts’ influence over his son’s admission to the Law School — or lack thereof — isn’t worth discussing on a state-wide stage, especially in a state with such large higher education challenges.

Is using your political position to exert undue influence on the admissions pro-cess wrong? Absolutely. But is a case of

unconfirmed preferential treatment for a sin-gle applicant to the Law School worth debat-ing for two months at the highest level of uni-versity system governance? Not for a second.

The UT System had several victories this legislative session (the establishment of the new Rio Grande university and medical school, for one) as well as painful defeats (the failure of tuition revenue bonds, used to fund campus construction projects.) And yet, the conversation seems stuck in the gear of petty political skirmishes. It’s far past time for us to all grow up and move on.

At odds with the Texas National Guard’s announce-ment Tuesday that it won’t grant benefits to same-sex couples, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told leaders in Congress on Wednesday that the Obama administra-tion would no longer enforce a law preventing same-sex spouses of veterans from receiving benefits. The move piggybacks on the Supreme Court’s rationale in the June

decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. Although it’s not clear what effect the Jus-tice Department’s ruling will have on the National Guard’s policy, Holder’s announcement is a step in the right direction for LGBTQ rights.

A knife fight at a suburban Houston high school has put the spotlight on a measure that proponents argue will make Texas schools safer. Under the program, which took effect Sunday, school officials could qualify to carry weapons on school property. While the Pro-tection of Texas Children Act, as it is known, may reas-sure parents of Texas schoolchildren, we worry about

the law’s certification requirements. Proponents of the bill likened the training course to the rigorous training federal air marshals undergo, but the differences between the two are stark: Those packing heat in our school’s halls will clock roughly half the hours of an air marshal trainee.

Oh, this weather! As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, storm clouds were rumbling over the Daily Texan’s basement office. The ominous sounds emanating from the sky belied an unusual sense of agreement on Twitter over the beauty of the rain. Even Empower Texans’ Michael Quinn Sullivan, whose tweets usually lean... aggressive, showed his softer side by tweeting, “Amazing lightning

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In an interview with TheBlaze on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz took the time to give a choice sound bite when he stated that the U.S. should not get involved in Syria be-cause we shouldn’t be serving as “Al Qaeda’s air force.”

The problem with his comments isn’t that he expressed a position on invading Syria but rather the way in which he did it: callously and without the thoughtfulness other

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You shouldn’t be surprised if you feel ostracized by the pervasive culture of privilege. The Bryan Davis incident is not isolated; he just chose to report it.

Pitts’ influence over his son’s ad-mission to the Law School — or lack thereof — isn’t worth discussing on a statewide stage, especially in a state with such large higher education challenges.

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against the Houston Texans and mark it on its schedule as an easy win. That’s not the case anymore.

Only two years off their

first franchise playoff appear-ance, the Texans have made winning a habit. The team has back-to-back 10-plus win seasons along with a pair

of division titles.Now the Texans are an

offensive threat. The power of Arian Foster with DeAn-dre Hopkins, the team’s new weapon at receiver, should mean the team will be hard to stop both in the air and on the ground.

Foster, even with a de-creasing yards-per-carry av-erage every year since 2011, ran for 15 touchdowns last season, which led the league. You can expect more of the same from one of the most consistent runners in the NFL and his backfield part-ner Ben Tate.

The passing game should also see a boost since An-dre Johnson isn’t the only threat for Houston any-more. The Texans drafted Hopkins in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft, and the big-play threat from Clemson University should alleviate some of the dou-ble teams Johnson would usually see.

On the other side of the ball, the Texans have built themselves to become a de-fensive powerhouse.

Houston has arguably the best defensive player in the league in J.J. Watt. His pass-rushing ability often attracts a double team, which opens up holes for his fellow linemen.

The Texans have gath-ered more leadership on defense as well. Linebacker Brian Cushing, who missed the majority of the 2012 season with a knee injury, recently signed a six-year contract extension, locking up the five-year veteran and securing a key piece for the defense.

In the secondary, the Texans signed Ed Reed from the Super Bowl cham-pion Ravens to lead a young group that has struggled in the past. Last season the Texans finished 16th in the NFL against the pass, and in the pass-happy American Football Conference, Reed will make a difference. He also brings a much-needed championship presence to the team. Reed knows what it’s like to win, and he’ll bring that mentality into the locker room.

The Texans are doing ev-erything right to make a Su-per Bowl run. Now they just have to produce.

Houston starts the first season with what should be easy wins against San Diego and Tennessee. After that, the Texans will face a three-week stretch against the top two teams from last season — Baltimore and San Fran-cisco — and the top team in ESPN’s Week 1 Power Rank-ings — Seattle.

Texan fans keep asking when it will be their year to host a Super Bowl Parade. Maybe this will be the year, but if not, it won’t be too far in the future.

Four years ago, the Long-horns thrashed Wyoming 41-10 in their first road game of 2009. Despite the impres-sive score, head coach Mack Brown believes his team struggled to adjust to the higher altitude in Laramie.

“We didn’t handle it well at Wyoming a couple years ago,” Brown said. “It got to us.”

Texas will face a similar issue this week when it trav-els to Provo, Utah to take on Brigham Young University. Although Provo’s elevation is considerably lower than Laramie’s, junior quarter-back David Ash expects the thinner air to have a slight impact.

“I’m sure there will be an adjustment,” Ash said. “We played in Wyoming a few years ago at 7,000 feet. It was tough on some guys. This is half that, 4,000 feet. There will be an adjustment, but I think we’ve got plenty of depth and I think we’ll be okay.”

A number of Longhorns seconded Ash, stressing that the team’s depth allows it to filter productive reserves in throughout the game to keep the starters fresh. Because of this, junior linebacker Jor-dan Hicks doesn’t expect the

change in elevation to affect the game.

“We don’t expect it to,” Hicks said. “We’re playing two deep everywhere, so we hope that gives an advantage. We’re not worried about the altitude; we’re just ready to go.”

Sophomore running back Johnathan Gray said the coaching staff has empha-sized the importance of be-ing in prime physical condi-tion for the matchup against the Cougars. Thinner air makes it harder for oxygen

to reach a person’s muscles, making strong conditioning a must in preparing for the increased elevation.

“Coaches are just [stress-ing] hydrating and getting extra conditioning in,” Gray said. “We’re just doing things that help us prepare.”

Senior defensive end Jack-son Jeffcoat is particularly unlikely to be affected by the altitude increase after spend-ing the offseason training in Colorado. Jeffcoat was one of many Longhorns to wear a mask that reduced oxygen as

a conditioning exercise over the summer, but he believes it’s hard to emulate the differ-ence in air pressure without playing in it.

“[The masks] were really just to get in shape,” Jeffcoat said. “They were the kind of thing to just teach us how to breath with limited oxygen. It’s different when you are actually in [higher altitude]. They understand there’s go-ing to be a difference in the air. The air is thinner.”

Brown is used to preparing for games in high elevation,

as his Texas teams made reg-ular trips to Colorado when the Buffaloes were in the Big 12. Although none of his cur-rent players ever made the trip to Boulder, Brown con-siders his team’s depth and preparation to be enough for the Longhorns to be ready for Saturday.

“We usually handled it well at Boulder,” Brown said. “We’ve been talking about this for a year. Provo isn’t as high as Boulder. I think we’re ready for it and depth should help us.”

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SIDELINE

RANGERS

ATHLETICS

ASTROS

TWINS

MLB

Spieth selected for Presidents Cup spot

Jordan Spieth start-ed the season without status on any tour. He ends it by going to the Presidents Cup.

Fred Couples used his captain’s picks Wednes-day on the 20-year-old Spieth and Webb Simp-son to fill out his 12-man team, making Spieth the youngest American to play in the Presidents Cup since it began in 1994.

“I’m just super stoked,” Spieth said.

Spieth was just start-ing his sophomore year at Texas a year ago when he decided to turn pro at the end of 2012, even though he failed to get out of the second stage of PGA Tour qualifying and was not a member of any tour. He played well enough to earn special temporary status on the PGA Tour, won the John Deere Classic in July and lost in a playoff last month at the Wyndham Championship.

He is assured of be-ing the first player since Tiger Woods in 1996 to start a season without status and reach the Tour Championship.

Couples left out young players his last two times as captain — Dustin Johnson in 2009, Keegan Bradley in 2011, even though Bradley had won the PGA Championship for his second win as a rookie. The captain said he had help from his team “and probably all of the United States” in taking Spieth.

Couples said not taking Bradley in 2011 “wore on me a little bit,” especially after watching Bradley play well at the Ryder Cup a year later.

“I’m going with the young guy and our whole team is excited,” Couples said. “We have a great team, but to pick Jordan I think was the right move.”

SPORTS BRIEFLY

Texas to elevate game at BYU

Shelby TauberDaily Texan Staff

David Ash and the rest of the Longhorns trained in the offseason for the higher altitude in Provo, Utah. There, the air is thinner making it more difficult to breath. The players ran drills in silicone masks that restricted their airflow, simulating the effects at higher altitude.

Texans’ weapons make winning a habitBy Garrett Callahan

@callahangarrett

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Patric Schneider / Associated PressHouston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub and the rest of the roster look to better their playoff results this season after the additon of safety Ed Reed and the return of Brian Cushing.

By Peter Sblendorio@petersblendorio

FOOTBALL

Texan fans keep asking when it will be their year to host a Super Bowl Parade. Maybe this will be the year, but if not, it won’t be too far in the future.

Brian Waters signs with Dallas Cowboys

IRVING, Texas — Brian Waters is back in the locker room of the Dallas Cowboys for the first time since he was an undrafted rookie try-ing to make the team as a fullback or tight end 14 years ago.

Now he’s a six-time Pro Bowler who played guard for Kansas City and New England. Inju-ries have created such a need at his position that the Cowboys brought him back days before the start of the season after a year away from football.

Waters scoffs at the idea of being a “savior.” He says he is simply try-ing to help a “supremely talented” team.

The 36-year-old doesn’t know if he will play in the opener Sun-day night against the New York Giants.

—Associated Press

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Let’s go back a few years to 1968, when Stanley Kubrick released his revolutionary sci-fi flick “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which gave viewers one of the most iconic cinematic renditions of artificial intelligence to date. H.A.L. 9000 spoke in complete sentences, us-ing complex vocabulary and grammar and even had the illusion of consciousness, if not the real deal.

It would seem that Kubrick and screenplay co-author Arthur C. Clarke severely over-estimated how fast technology would move forward, because in the year of the title Mi-crosoft released the original Xbox game con-sole. Compare “Halo” to the chess game that a character plays on board the spaceship in Kubrick and Clarke’s movie, and it’s obvious that the team also severely underestimated some aspects of the progress of technology.

In the same way, computers can accom-plish things both too difficult and too labori-ous for the human brain, but they’re are also stupid and need to be hand-fed instructions in a careful and specific manner. Siri is among the best of her kind, but her performance at interpreting language isn’t even as reliable as a child’s.

This isn’t to say that computers aren’t mak-ing progress, or that they don’t have a few tricks up their sleeves.

In 1950, Alan Turing developed a simple test for determining whether or not comput-ers had reached human levels of intelligence: If a human could have a text-based conversa-tion with a computer and believe that it was another human, then the machine passed the Turing test.

Unfortunately, it’s very easy for a non-in-telligent machine to pass the test using some cheap tricks.

One of the first examples is ELIZA, a

computerized therapist developed in 1966, which cheated the test by leading the conver-sation. People like talking about themselves and by asking vague questions such as “How do you feel about that?” or repeating the per-son’s previous statement with a question mark at the end, ELIZA could convince people that they were actually talking to a real person. The illusion broke down quickly but, at least in small and specific cases, ELIZA passed the Turing test.

A recent paper proposed a better test than Turing’s: Ask direct, multiple-choice ques-tions that would be easy for humans to an-swer but difficult for a machine.

Try one: “The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was so small. What was so small, the trophy or the brown suitcase?”

Assuming you’re human and you’ve had your morning cup of coffee, you can pretty confidently say that the answer is the suitcase. However, grammatically, the answer could go either way.

There are computers that are essentially unbeatable at chess, and in 2011, a machine called Watson beat “Jeopardy!” champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on national television. But at the same time, there are crowd-sourced projects such as Folding@home, which use humans to solve scientific problems that computers can’t. Addition-ally, although computers can play certain games well, such as chess or tic-tac-toe, other games pose problems for computers. The clever webcomic xkcd ironically offers seven

minutes in heaven as an example of one of these games, but humans can still beat com-puters at more mechanical games, such as Go, because of the huge number of possible moves available at any given time.

Of course, it goes without saying that a victory for computers is still a victory for hu-mans (since humans programmed the com-puters) and the competition between the two is still friendly. Far from overlords, computers are our friends and though it may seem like humans are slaves to their smartphones, these devices help them make meetings on time and stay awake during class. Though Siri oc-casionally spits out attitude, people ultimately have the option of shutting her up in the set-tings menu of their iPhones.

But we would never do that to her, would we? And hopefully she feels the same toward us.

Computers still lag behind humansSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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By Robert Starr

LOS ANGELES — At Three Crosses Church, Pas-tor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic 58-year-old extends his arms skyward and belts out melodies praising God.

While the small Assem-blies of God congregation goes through all the tradi-tional trappings of a Pente-costal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the faith.

The 40-member church is among many nationwide that are reducing or cutting out speaking in tongues as they become more popu-lar and move to the main-stream. It’s a shift that has unsettled some more tradi-tional Pentecostals who say the practice is at the heart of a movement that evolved out of an interracial revival and remains a spontaneous way for the poor and dis-possessed to have a direct line to God.

As the religion becomes

more widely accepted, Wal-ters said, there has been a tendency for large Pente-costal churches to down-play the differences be-tween Pentecostalism and other well-known Christian denominations.

The Assemblies of God, one of the nation’s largest Pentecostal denominations, has 66 million members worldwide. Assemblies of-ficials worried about the de-cline in messages in tongues at a general council meeting this month. The practice de-creased by about 3 percent to fewer than 82,000, the lowest total since 1995, ac-cording to statistics released by the Assemblies of God.

Meanwhile, newer strands of Pentecostalism — often with roots in other countries like Nigeria and El Salvador — continue to emphasize the practice in church as well as in personal prayer, said Harvey Cox, an expert in Pentecostalism and pro-fessor of religion at the Har-vard Divinity School.

While all Pentecostals

accept speaking in tongues as a “gift of the Holy Spirit,” these smaller, niche congre-gations aren’t afraid to em-brace the practice and don’t care whether it scares some away, Cox said.

Pentecostalism represents one of the fastest-growing segments of global Christi-anity. For the first decade, the movement was mainly composed of poor white and African-American worship-pers. Influenced by the spiri-tual renewal of the Azusa Street Revival — a Pentecos-tal revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles in 1906 — the Assemblies grew with interracial services that in-cluded speaking in tongues.

Pentecostals believe speaking in tongues may be an unlearned human lan-guage — as the Bible claims happened on Pentecost — or it may be the language of angels. Studies show that words spoken when deliver-ing messages in tongues lack the components and pat-terns of a true language.

—Associated Press

Speaking in tongues declines in some Pentecostal churches

Sarah Parvini / Associated PressPentecostal members attend a service at Three Crosses Church in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles. The 40-member church is among others nationwide that are reducing or cutting out speaking in tongues in an attempt to be more mainstream, a shift that unsettled some parishioners who say the practice is at the heart of the movement.

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Of course, it goes without saying that a victory for computers is still a victory for humans (since humans programmed the computers) and the competition between the two is still friendly.