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1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Horns fall to Baylor, struggle with turnovers UT alumni get experimental in last regular season game of the year as band Cactus Peach SPORTS PAGE 7 bit.ly/bt_cactus_peach >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Monday, December 5, 2011 THE WEEK Texas will play AHEAD California in Holiday Bowl TODAY ‘Conspirare at San Diego Christmas’ By Christian Corona Craig Hella Johnson directs Daily Texan Staff a unique Christmas concert combining popular songs and Texas is headed to San Diego to classic carols to create a collage face California in the Bridgepoint Ed- of holiday music. Beginning ucation Holiday Bowl on Dec. 28. at 5 p.m. at the Long Center, After wrapping up the regular sea- the concert will feature Mela son with a 48-24 loss to Baylor Sat- Sarajane Dailey, Matt Alber, and urday, the Longhorns are set to make Tom Burritt. Tickets are now on their fifth Holiday Bowl appearance. sale for between $25 to $75, $10 Texas was 2-2 in their first four trips for students. to San Diego. Between its two Rose Bowl victo- ries and a 49-20 win at UCLA earlier this season, Texas will play its eighth TUESDAY game in the state of California since 2000. This year’s Holiday Bowl will ‘The Ice Storm’ mark the Longhorns’ fourth meeting From 6 to 9 p.m. the Blanton with the Golden Bears and their first Museum will be showcasing since 1970. “Ice Storm,” a film directed “It’s always an exciting game and by Ang Lee (“Brokeback Photo courtesy of Sam Gabrieliants playing Cal will be a fun challenge Mountain”) depicting the story for us,” said head coach Mack Brown. The University of Texas graduated about 3,100 students during fall commencement on Saturday and Sunday, including 2,124 undergradu- “The city of San Diego is not only an of a 1970s suburban family that ates, 740 master’s degrees students, 221 doctoral students and 15 law students. opens up to casual sex and ideal location, but is a great host as alcohol before a terrible ice well. storm hits. Admission is $35 for The city really embraces the teams students, faculty and seniors, and the game.” $50 for the general public, with Like Texas, Cal will bring a 7-5 a talk on author adaptations record into the contest. The Gold- following the film. New year, new grads en Bears are coming off a 47-38 win over Arizona State and nearly Commencement ceremony semester, including 2,124 undergrad- In addition, Texas Exes hosted a com- cult for some in the current economy. Ac- knocked off No. 4 Stanford the week uates, 740 students who received mas- mencement weekend open house for cording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta- before when they fell to the Cardi- WEDNESDAY occurs despite rainy weather ter’s degrees, 221 doctoral students and the recent graduates to come and toast tistics, the unemployment rate of Texas nal, 31-28. Cal, who averages nearly Thousands of Longhorns donned 15 law students, according to the Office to their degrees on Saturday, called The is 8.4 percent, below the current nation- 30 points per game, has won three of Until next time their caps and gowns this weekend to of the Registrar. Great Texas Exit. al rate of 9 percent. The University offers its last four contests. Last paper of the Fall 2011 celebrate graduation, marking the end of Fall commencement ceremonies took For many graduates, this marks the career services to graduates to assist in de- “Coach [Jeff] Tedford is semester hits stands. The Daily their time at the University. place on Saturday and Sunday with each time where they will try to find work and ciding what to do after graduation. Texan will resume printing next About 3,100 students graduated this college holding separate convocations. begin their career, which may prove diffi- — Colton Pence year. Good luck on your finals, BOWL continues on PAGE 9 happy holidays and have a happy new year. Occupy Austin marches in opposition to big banks Today in history Dave Cortez By Nick Hadjigeorge been withdrawn from major banks in holds a modi- Daily Texan Staff Austin since the movement began their In 1933 fied American After 13 years, the 18th bank action efforts. flag at the capi- Occupy Austin protesters marched Amendment of the U.S. Protester Ihor Gowda said the group tol on Saturday Constitution is repealed, ending from the Capitol to the corner of 24th was happy to march regardless of the afternoon. the national alcohol prohibition. Street and Guadalupe Street on Saturday rain because of the new state policy that Cortez was at to express their opposition of banks that allows protesters to have 24-hour access the “December received bailout funds and to celebrate to the Capitol grounds. 3rd: Be Heard” the restrictions lifted from protesters on “We don’t know what made them march, in Capitol grounds. change their policy,” Gowada said. “It’s which nearly 75 Inside The group of about 75 people, escort- kind of mysterious, but I think they are Occupy mem- ed by police, protested in the “Decem- trying to avoid the legal implications of a bers marched from the capi- In World&Nation: ber 3rd: Be Heard” march in front of the lawsuit challenging their old three hour All aboard the ‘Panda Express’ tol to the Chase Chase and Wells Fargo banks on Guada- p o l i c y.” page 3 and Wells Fargo lupe Street and gave their support for the English graduate student and protest- bank branches University Federal Credit Union on the er Trevor Hoag said Saturday’s march on the Drag. In News: wet Saturday afternoon. adjacent to the University increases the Students demonstrate with a Protester Dave Cortez said two peo- visibility of the movement, but he is die-in page 5 ple closed their bank accounts on Sat- Jorge Corona urday and approximately $500,200 has OCCUPY continues on PAGE 2 Daily Texan Staff In Sports: Swimming and diving teams on top page 8 In Life&Arts: Archive features Guatemalan documents Agency reviews creationist This Year in Culture: From Gosling to Goblin page 12 By Sylvia Butanda Daily Texan Staff group’s place on charity list A digital archive featuring mil- By Allison Harris sion, a legislative panel that ex- lions of images and documents Daily Texan Staff amines state agencies to deter- from the National Police of Gua- mine whether they should be re- temala could help people search- A state agency has delayed a vised or closed, will also be re- ing for family and friends who determination about a creation- viewing the policy committee, have disappeared, said Karen Engle, ism research institute being in- she said. law professor and co-director and cluded on a list of charities state “The general consensus of the Quote to note founder of the Rapoport Center for employees can donate to through policy committee was that there Human Rights and Justice. paycheck withdrawals. are probably several organiza- The State Policy Commit- It was really a tale of The Rapoport Center, the Teresa tions and charities that are part Lozano Long Institute of Latin Amer- tee heard a complaint during a of our master list of charities that two halves. I threw ican Studies and UT Libraries host- meeting Friday, lodged by inte- potentially need to be reviewed,” ‘ ed a conference where panelists dis- grative biology professor Da- said McCoy, who is also chief of some great‘ balls in vid Hillis, against the Institute cussed a wide-range of topics, such as Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff staff for Texas Sen. Troy Fraser, some certain situa- how the use of the archive has helped for Creation Research being in- R-Horseshoe Bay. with the progress of human rights Steve Stern from the University of Wisconsin at Madison speaks at the cluded on the State Employee unveiling of Guatemalan police archives at the UT law school Friday. The Institute for Creation Re- tions and then there cases and research in Guatemala. Charitable Campaign list. The search conducts “scientific re- Engle said the information in the list includes almost 500 char- search within the context of bib- were certain balls The archive’s coordinator, Gusta- Now, Meoño and his team have archive became public in 2009 when ities and registration for the lical creation,” according to its vo Meoño, created the archive from transformed these documents into that I shouldn’t have Guatemala passed a campaign runs from Sept. 1 website. The ICR did not re- a warehouse of decomposing doc- a world-class archive that chronicles freedom of in- through Oct. 31. spond to a request for comment thrown. There’s no uments at the national police head- the history of the national police for formation law, The committee decided to de- on Friday. ON THE WEB: quarters that was found more than the past 100 years. excuse for that. and on Friday lay a decision on the case until The Dallas-based institute has Take a look at the six years ago in Guatemala City. The He said this archive has helped and the UT Li- all charities are reviewed for next been included on the campaign’s online archives at warehouse’s existence had been de- will continue to help uncover the his- — Case McCoy braries made year, beginning with a meeting list for two years, McCoy said. By Quarterback http://ahpn.