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1 THE DAILYServing theT University EXANof Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Thursday, September 20, 2012 Marriages that Back from injury, INSIDE begin with doubt Bailey Webster often end is making up in divorce. for lost time. LIFE&ARTS SPORTS 4 PAGE 10 PAGE 6 Opinion We sat down with UNIVERSITY President Powers and asked him about the Fisher case. UT system executives receive pay raise Powers Jr. is at the bottom of the UT academic campus presidents base salary for 2013 budget year By Alexa Ura list, but he remains the highest Bill Powers, UT-Austin $674,350 (1.6 percent) 6 paid academic president in the e University has reduced UT System. Powers’ base salary David Daniel, UT-Dallas $564,919 (5.1 percent) SPORTS academic programs and laid o increased to $674,350, accord- James Spaniolo, UTA $452,034 (8.5 percent) Rachel Fox transfer- sta during the past three years, ing to the gures obtained by Diana Natalicio, UTEP $426,755 (3.5 percent) but this month the UT System the Statesman. His take-home Ricardo Romo, UTSA $406,291 (2.3 percent) ring from UT softball Board of Regents awarded sub- pay totals almost $150,000 more team. stantial raises to various execu- than his base salary. Rodney Mabry, UT-Tyler $385,749 (1.6 percent) tives, including all UT presi- Ronald DePinho, president W. David Watts, UTPB $350,193 (10.3 percent) dents. of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Juliet García, UT-Brownsville $346,783 (5.3 percent) Seven UT System executive Center, received a large in- o cers and 15 presidents will crease, boosting his salary to Robert Nelsen UTPA $332,500 (10.8 percent) 8 receive millions of dollars in $1,845,000 and maintaining his Source: University of Texas Systems raises for the 2013 budget year, rank as the highest paid UT Sys- than $1 million. contract employee, said the sity of the rst class. according to gures obtained tem president, the Statesman re- Michael Redding, president raises are reminiscent of a cor- “ ink how many scholar- LIFE&ARTS by the Austin American-States- ported. ree presidents of UT of the Graduate Student Assem- poration’s top-down system and Rumored sightings man. UT President William health institutions earn more bly and a Texas Student Media detract from creating a univer- RAISE continues on page 2 of Ryan Gosling have sent campus into frenzy. UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY Universities TODAY respond to Tie a Turban Day bomb threats The Sikh Students Association offers free Freshmen admitted By David Maly tying lessons, pictrues, Bhangra music and food Number of freshmen under Senate Bill 175 As a spike in bomb threats from Clay Pit at the West at major universities contin- Mall from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. rate graduation Four-year ues across the country, many schools are preparing for the possibility that they will be Dance away the next target. The UT Electronic Dance Since Friday’s bomb Music Club, a community Total for fans, artists and DJs threat at UT , bomb threats of all forms of electronic students have targeted Arkansas State music, will meet from University, Louisiana State 5-6:30 p.m. in MEZ 1.212. University, UT-Brownsville, North Dakota State Univer- sity and University of Mis- Traffi cking talk sissippi football players’ cars. Jessica Richardson, As a result, major universities traffi cking survivor from Law School Graduate students Undergraduate students are taking notice, sending out non-profi t Freedom’s safety messages and review- Breath, will speak about ing their emergency pro- modern sex traffi cking and cedures in case they are the ways to make a difference. The talk will be from 7 p.m. next target, said Allan Baron, to 8:30 p.m. in MEZ B0.306. Texas A&M University Police A Numbers Game Department spokesperson. Source: Office of Information Management and Analysis | Graphic by Natasha Smith | Daily Texan Staff “It’s a really di cult situa- tion to deal with,” he said. “So, Today Large freshman class causes problems BOMB continues on page 2 in history By Bobby Blanchard students next year. with the assumption that a certain preliminary enrollment numbers grammar This year’s freshman class has number of students will decline Wednesday afternoon. matters, too put a strain on both the Universi- A er admitting the largest admission offers, had a 2.2 percent UT spokesperson Tara Doolit- Small differences In 1946 ty’s resources and Austin’s housing freshman class in UT’s history, increase in the number of students tle said the University plans to can mean a lot in an Fourteen years after availability, an issue the Univer- 8,092 students, the University’s who accepted its admission offer. change the formula it uses to emergency Venice began the sity took action on and addressed administration is saying they ex- UT has a total enrollment this decide how many students to LIFE&ARTS p. 10 fi rst international multiple times during the sum- pect to enroll almost 1,000 fewer year of 52,213, the second largest fi lm festival, France mer. UT, which accepts students in UT’s history. UT released its ENROLL continues on page 2 responded with one of its own, delayed by seven ENTERTAINMENT CAMPUS years due to WWII. RTF sophomore The festival was Jon Cozart, originally conceived the creator of Border con icts spur as a way to lure “Harry Potter in tourists back to 99 Seconds” is a postwar France. YouTube celeb- talks on drugs, violence rity with more than 227,000 subscrib- was the rst in a series hosted ers on his channel, By Mary Ellen Knewtson by Rethinking Diplomacy, an Paint. Cozart said organization new to UT this he while he is not An Iraq war veteran and semester that aims to bring as crazy as his UT student said he decided character on his diplomacy considerations to YouTube channel, to research political violence the forefront of many areas of he does bear some along the U.S.-Mexico border study, member Andrew Straw resemblance. a er visiting his grandparents said. Straw, history graduate in a border town and seeing a student, organized the panel. grenade launcher in place to Quote to note Pu Ying Huang “ is is the rst event we’ve fortify their local pharmacy. Daily Texan Staff ever had,” Straw said, “So we “You don’t need to go over- wanted to start with some- “I learned a lot seas to understand certain thing very close to home in about myself in types of violence,” said John Texas.” ‘ Painting a YouTube masterpiece Meyer, comparative politics Harmon said border vio- that year.‘ It made and political theory graduate lence increased when current student. “I think it’s important By Bobby Blanchard went viral online instantly and more rewarding.” Mexican President Felipe Cal- me such a stron- that we understand it here.” launched him into the world of Cozart said he has already deron took power and started Meyer, a Texan who served breaking up cartels. Before ger person on the While his name is not online fame. been recognized three times in Iraq and Afghanistan, Calderon took power, the nearly as well-known as his Cozart, an RTF sophomore, since transferring to UT. inside. It was very spoke Wednesday at a panel previous political party was most famous video with 10 transferred to UT-Austin this “It always shocks me that on drug tra cking, immigra- widely accused of accepting benefi cial and I million views, Jon Cozart has year from UTSA through the people recognize me from the tion and violence along the bribes from drug cartels. He made a splash into the world CAP program. He said since Internet,” Cozart said. “ ey think it happened Rio Grande. Alongside Meyer said Mexican o cials believe of fandom with his YouTube transferring to UT-Austin, he just approach me and say, ‘Are were Federal Judge Harry the United States is also to for a reason.” channel, Paint. has already made more friends you Jon Cozart?’ and I say, Hudspeth from El Paso and blame. In July 2011, Cozart released than in the two semesters he ‘Yeah,’ and we have a conversa- journalist Dave Harmon, who “[Americans] are the the video “Harry Potter in 99 was in San Antonio. tion. It’s really cool.” has written about immigra- market,” Harmon said. Seconds.” It is what it sounds “San Antonio was not kind But o en, fans may be sur- tion policies for the Austin “Drug trade wouldn’t exist — Bailey Webster like: a musical video that sums to me, you could say,” Co- prised to nd Cozart’s person- American-Statesman. e if we didn’t like drugs so up the seven-book and eight- zart said. “I prefer it here. e ality in real life is not as wacky Junior outside hitter panel, held at the Harry Ran- movie plot of Harry Potter in classes are just a higher level. som Center on Wednesday, PANEL continues on page 2 SPORTS PAGE 6 a mere 99 seconds. e video It’s more challenging, but it’s YOUTUBE continues on page 8 2 Thursday, September 20, 2012 News 2 THE DAILY TEXAN PANEL continues from page 1 Volume 113, Issue 27 FRAMED much and if we didn’t make admit it.’” them illegal.” Meyer said the U.S. crack- CONTACT US Harmon said many South down on methamphetamine and Central American gov- labs pushed production to the ernments are considering south, and a strengthening Main Telephone: decriminalization as an op- against air and sea tra cking (512) 471-4591 tion for decreasing violence, concentrated the con ict at something America is not the border.

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