P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 OCCUPY SESAME STREET CHECK IT OUT THE STAT GUY CowParade auctions off colorful Muschamp is now Florida’s coach ceramic cows for charity but Texas D hasn’t suffered LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 NEWS PAGE 5 SPORTS PAGE 6 >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Wednesday, October 19, 2011 McCombs school claims best energy finance class TODAY By Megan Strickland won this year’s title and $10,000 in top schools in the nation includ- Ben Beyer, had one weekend to had submitted a good plan for the Daily Texan Staff prize money. ing Yale, Purdue and Columbia. research a case written by Chev- challenge, but understood win- The seventh-annual challenge “We were really thrilled to win ron. The team had to come up ning would be difficult. Calendar Winning the second consec- concluded last month and required against a lineup of really tough with a hypothetical finance plan “We knew we had a good prod- utive National Energy Finance five graduate students in the MBA competition,” said team member that would not only develop an uct and had worked really hard, Challenge for the McCombs program to present a finance plan Chris Wolf. “It shows McCombs is oil field in an impoverished Afri- but we also knew the talent of School of Business proves that the for energy development to some one of the best in the nation.” can nation, but also finance social the other schools,” Wolf said. “We school has one of the best ener- of the energy industry’s most in- Wolf said the team, comprised programs that would benefit citi- were pleasantly surprised to win at Architecture gy finance courses in the coun- fluential leaders. The McCombs of himself, John Shaddix, Jake zens of the nation. and Music try, said members of the team that students went up against 15 other Stroud, Sudamsh Bai Reddy and Wolf said the team knew they ENERGY continues on PAGE 2 Expressing the relationship between music, space and design, the Architecture in Music Symposium will hold performances across campus Gorbachev visits UT, urges US to pull out of Middle East in locations such as the Grand Hall, PCL Loading Dock and By Jody Serrano Waller Creek Bridge. The event Daily Texan Staff will be free and open to the public from 3 to 10 p.m. Editor’s Note: A translator was used during the lecture. Former Soviet Union presi- dent Mikhail Gorbachev urged the United States to pull out of Career Expo Afghanistan and work with Rus- Liberal Arts Career Services and sia and other countries to create the Liberal Arts Council will be a new world order in a lecture at holding the 2011 Career Expo. the Lyndon Baines Johnson Li- There will be opportunities to brary Tuesday night. seek out careers and internships Gorbachev spoke as a part of from companies such as Apple, the Harry Middleton Lecture- J.P. Morgan, Chase and South ship series, an initiative by the by Southwest from 11 a.m. LBJ Foundation to expose stu- to 3 p.m. in the Texas Union dents to high profile speakers. Ballroom. He gave his thoughts on Iran, Afghanistan and Barack Obama. When asked about Russia’s cur- Weird Wednesday rent political state, Gorbachev Weird Wednesday at the Alamo said he thinks current Russian Drafthouse is featuring “Kill and prime minister Vladimir Pu- Kill Again,” the follow up sequel tin should not run for a third to “Kill Or Be Killed.” K&KA is term as president. Putin served best known for its stylistic as president of Russia from 2000 martial arts action sequences to 2008 and has remained as and overly obsessed Karate prime minister. supervillian. Show starts at Gorbachev said Putin inherit- 9:45 p.m. ed a very difficult situation from former president Boris Yeltsin and implemented an extreme Glamour With authoritarian style of govern- Burlesque ment as his way of addressing Andrew Torrey | Daily Texan Staff Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and his translator Pavel Palazchenko speak with Mark Updegrove, Director of the It’s that time of the year to put Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, at the LBJ Library Tuesday evening as part of the Harry Middleton Lecture Series. on your top hats and attend the GORBACHEV continues on PAGE 2 Halloween Burlesque show. An- tone’s will be showcasing their Jordan Etier annual Halloween Burlesque was arrested show featuring Delia Dread this over the week- Fans cheer Acappellooza coming Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. end on charges Ticket prices range between of evading $10 to $100. arrest and possession of for reviving choral music marijuana. Etier was released By Andrew Messamore one concert to provide a nice free Tie a Turban from the team Daily Texan Staff concert that anyone can attend, The Sikh Students’ Association on Monday. and we found it appropriate for presents “Tie a Turban,” To the cheers and screams of an this year’s performance to make it a featuring free food from the audience of more than a hundred, benefit for victims of the fires.” Clay Pit and turban tying 10 “Acappellooza” kicked off Tues- The music of a cappella is a style a.m. to 2 p.m. in the West Mall. day night with performances from of choral music including solo- One Note Stand, Hum A Cappella ists and singers mimicking instru- and The Ransom Notes as part of a ments, which has not always been benefit for Bastrop fire victims. popular in Texas, said senior mu- Radio-television-film senior Ali sic and Jewish studies senior Sam Today in history Haji said last year’s director of Ran- Rosen, musical director of The Amanda Martin som Notes created “Acappelloo- Ransom Notes. Daily Texan Staff za.” Acappellooza is the group’s at- “A cappella is basically choral to In 2005 tempt to bring large scale a cap- the tune, contemporary songs with Saddam Hussein is put on trial pella performances to the Univer- a soloist and accompanying sing- in Baghdad for crimes against Athlete punishment depends on team, sity, Haji said. Haji is the current ers who mimic the sounds of in- humanity. director of Ransom Notes, which struments from drums to gui- has held performances since 1996 tar,” Rosen said. “You could say stardom more than their actual crime when it was founded by two Plan that we sing unpopular songs by II students, who began by holding popular artists.” two days after he was arrested? for criminal trespass in 2003 — but rehearsals and auditions in their While The Ransom Notes and Is what Etier did any worse than a missed just one game in his career. dorm room. One Note Stand led with takes on By Trey Scott DWI? Or driving a car into a build- Then in 2006, starting cornerback “This is the second annual Aca- well known pop songs like Cee Lo Daily Texan Columnist ing? Unlawfully carrying a weapon? Tarell Brown was arrested for un- ppellooza,” Haji said. “All the a cap- All of those were acts commit- lawful possession of a loaded 9mm pella groups come together here in A CAPPELLA continues on PAGE 2 If UT’s new standard of discipline ted in the Mack Brown era by foot- handgun and less than two ounc- for an action such as peeing-and- ball players on the Longhorns’ reve- es of marijuana. He was suspend- fleeing is dismissal from the pro- nue-reaping football team. And not ed for one game, albeit one against gram, it’s a good thing the school one of those infractions got a player Ohio State. Quote to note doesn’t dish out retroactive punish- kicked off the squad. In 2007, defensive stars Sergio ments. So, it looks like a supporting mem- Kindle and Henry Melton were ar- “For African What former Texas baseball play- ber of a non-revenue sport got a bad rested on drunken driving charges people in the village, er Jordan Etier did over the week- deal on this one. Evading arrest is an and subsequently suspended three ‘ end — he was arrested on charges of unintelligent thing to do, of course. games. Those arrests came during everything‘ is about evading arrest and a misdemeanor But the administration cutting short the “Book ‘em” period, when six rhythm. When the possession of marijuana after a DPS the final year of his collegiate athlet- football players were arrested in the officer saw him urinating in public ic career sends a message, one both span of four months. That prompt- rooster crows in the — was senseless enough, and a dis- hypocritical and unfair: If a player is ed the Texas head coach to issue a “ morning, the rhythm appointing action from one of the not a star or if they aren’t on the Tex- zero-tolerance” policy. team’s best leaders. Head baseball as football team, their leash is a lot The policy was broken for defen- starts. Rhythm is life.” coach Augie Garrido warned the en- shorter. Call it a double standard if sive tackle Lamarr Houston, who tire team this fall that he would be you wish. was arrested and charged for driving A notable case is Cedric Ben- while intoxicated and was involved — Ibrahim Aminou coming down a lot harder with pun- African drum instructor ishments. son, who was arrested twice while in a two-car accident at 3:15 a.m. the Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff But is this too hard, releasing a in college here — once for posses- Singers from a cappella ensemble One Note Stand rehearse in a LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 player without the option of appeal sion of marijuana in 2002 and once ARREST continues on PAGE 7 stairwell of the Art Building prior to Acappellooza.