THE DAILY TEXAN 93 74 Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900
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1 SPORTS PAGE 7 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 A look back at Texas’ baseball season Award-winning food writer NEWS PAGE 5 gives props to locally grown crops Vince Young cited after Dallas strip-club rumble TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 93 74 Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com TODAY UT will remain with Big 12 peers With television revenues driv- bloods.com. Texas A&M and Okla- versities to have a championship Conference to go on without Colorado, ing negotiations of further confer- homa will also make roughly $20 game. In football, the sport that Calendar ence realignment, or the lack there- million each. is dominating discussions, each Nebraska; Pac-10 invitation declined of, Beebe’s proposed plan to dou- Beebe’s plan involves the con- team would play the other nine The Big how ble each team’s television revenue ference staying put with the 10 teams every year. The changes By Dan Hurwitz & Collin Eaton the end zone to secure the future through a new deal caught the eye teams left after Nebraska parts would not take effect until 2011, many? Daily Texan Staff of the conference. of Texas, which would be able to for the Big Ten and Colora- when Nebraska begins playing Texas legislators meet at the With the final seconds of the Texas and the remaining nine pursue its own television network. do joins the Pac-10. Also, there in the Big Ten. Colorado is ex- Capitol to discuss potential clock ticking and a desperate universities in the Big 12 will remain Texas will make between $20 will not be a Big 12 champion- pected to start participating in financial and academic Hail Mary as his only option, in the conference, following Beebe’s million and $25 million annual- ship football game because the the Pac-10 in 2012. implications of Texas’ Big 12 Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe plan, which was announced Sun- ly with the acceptance of the pro- NCAA’s rule that allows only commitment. found the University of Texas in day and agreed upon Monday. posed plan, according to Orange- conferences with at least 12 uni- BIG 12 continues on page 9 BAM! The Black Arts Movement Festival spotlights works from University’s nationally recognized black O artists. The festival goes through June 19 at The Off Center. fund drive Chill out lags behind Guy Forsyth leads a round of Tai Chi at Ruta Maya beginning at 1 p.m. expectations By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff A major UT fund drive is near- Today in history ly halfway through its projected time frame, but has met only 35 In 1858 percent of its donation goal of $3 “A house divided against billion to colleges within the Uni- itself cannot stand,” Abraham versity, according to a 43-univer- Lincoln declares at the Illinois sity survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Republican Convention after UT’s capital campaign, titled he is nominated for the Campaign for Texas , has been U.S. Senate. reaching out to alumni and com- panies for donations since 2006 and is projected to stop the drive Au- gust 13, 2014. The eight-year drive, Inside aimed at raising money for gen- eral scholarships, professorships, In News: construction, research and endow- Austin delays plans for the ments, has received $1.1 billion nation’s largest solar plant since it began Sept. 1, 2006. In the page 5 first quarter of this year, the drive raised $77 million across campus. David Onion, associate vice In Opinion: president of the University Devel- Google sells out to BP page 4 opment Office, said the goal of the Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan Staff fund drive is to elevate UT into the In Sports: Canadian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton leads through the first lap of the race held in Montreal. The win was Hamilton’s second at the stratosphere with top public re- Future plans for the Houston track; his first career Formula One victory came in 2007. search universities. Onion said the Astrodome? page 9 campaign is not where it should INSIDE: More photos from Montreal on page 3 FUND continues on page 2 In Life&Arts: Indie newcomers The Drums release grade-A LP page 11 Tunnel project may pose GOP aims to attract Latinos, youth threat to Red River clubs Policy positions adopted By Skyler Sanchez According to the designs on to boost party appeal Daily Texan Staff the city’s website, the project A plan to lower the flood risk would entail constructing an conflict with poll results of Waller Creek may have a di- underground tunnel nearly 60 By Nolan Hicks rect impact on local business- to 70 feet below street level. The Daily Texan Staff Quote to note es along Red River Street with a tunnel, which will extend about Part of the platform that newly potential threat to a number of a mile, will bring about 28 miles elected GOP chairman Steve Mu- “People lose touch music hot spots. of the lower Waller Creek wa- nisteri ran on at the Republican The Waller Creek Tunnel Proj- tershed out of the 100-year-old with the seasons convention in Dallas was an effort ‘ ect is currently in the final de- floodplain. to increase the appeal of the Repub- when you‘ can have sign phase, with construction The estimated cost of the tun- lican Party to groups that typically set to begin in November, said nel is $127 million, which will don’t vote Republican — such as peaches from Chile Carolyn Perez, a city spokes- Latinos and younger voters. woman with the project. WALLER continues on page 2 in January.” However, the platform passed by the Republican convention con- tains a number of policy positions, Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff better known as planks, that poll — Janet Fletcher A man dressed as Uncle Sam poses for a photo with delegates at the author of poorly among the voters they are trying to reach. Texas Republican convention in Dallas on Friday. The convention “Eating Local: The serves as a forum for party activists to debate policy. Cookbook Inspired by “Angering growing voter groups America’s Farmers” generally isn’t a policy for success,” said Steven Luo, political director the electorate in the manner which form, as approved by the party’s LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 for the news organization Califor- allowed President George W. Bush convention in Dallas, contains lan- nia Beat. to be elected in 2000,” Luo said. guage similar to Arizona’s contro- California’s state Republican In Texas, exit polling data shows versial immigration bill, S.B. 1070, Party backed Proposition 187 in the Latino vote has expanded from which allows law enforcement of- 1994 — which banned the state and 11.5 percent of the electorate in 1980 ficers to pull over individuals and local governments from providing to more than 20 percent in 2008. demand they show their papers if TRY OUT FOR social services to illegal immigrants According to the Texas Data Cen- the officers suspect them of being — angering Latino voters. ter, 78 percent of Texas’ population in the country illegally. THE TEXAN! “With the Latino vote growing growth over the next 30 years will They also approved language Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff from 10 percent of the electorate in come from Latinos. Anglo-Amer- making it the official party position South Dakota visitors Sonja Merrigan, Amber Olson, Sophie 1992 to 18 percent in 2008, [the par- icans will only contribute about 4 that there should be no way for THROUGH JUNE 23 Merrigan and Jay Merrigan peer into Waller Creek next to the ty] is increasingly boxed in and un- percent to the population boom. Habana Restaurant and Bar on Red River Street. able to appeal to a growing part of The Texas Republican Party plat- GOP continues on page 2 Austin Toll Free 877-495-1559 TXbooks Local 512-499-1559 Order online @ www.AustinTXbooks.com 2 2 News Tuesday, June 15, 2010 The Daily Texan Fund: Better economy will waller: City plans to revitalize area Volume 111, Number 9 25 cents From page 1 means that one of his busi- ther’s Follies, welcomes that as- increase alumni donations nesses could be directly affect- pect of the project. CONTACT US be funded by the Waller Creek ed by increased property val- “The area is full of both tran- From page 1 University a total of $44 million. Tax Increment Financing Zone, ues. Flores said he is concerned sients and people doing drugs,” Main Telephone: Mark Blount, director of devel- or TIF. According to the TIF, the about the uncertainty of hav- Shelton said. “It is a terrible (512) 471-4591 be monetarily because of the slow opment at the University Develop- city is mandated to contribute ing to pay a higher price to blight on the downtown com- state of the economy and the stock ment Office, said the money went 100 percent of the tax revenues keep his business. munity, and it would be great to Editor: market, but it earns a victory with to areas all over campus, “from the that it generates from the proj- George Adams, assistant di- clean it up.” Lauren Winchester numbers comparable to last year law school to the LBJ School [of ects, whereas Travis County is rector of the Neighborhood However, Shelton said it (512) 232-2212 despite the economy. Public Affairs], for all kinds of dif- required to supply 50 percent. Planning and Zoning Depart- would be a shame if the rede- [email protected] “Anytime you have instabili- ferent things.” City Council will convene ment, said there are a number velopment came with the loss of Managing Editor: ty in the stock market, individuals Karen Matusic, media relations June 24 to review the Waller of measures — such as incentive a number of local favorites.