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P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 RING THOSE BELLS HOUSE MUSIC Student musicians meet to practice Visit the link below for a video of playing carillon, carry on tradition Chateau Marmont this afternoon LIFE&ARTS PAGE 16 bit.ly/DT_video >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Monday, October 10, 2011 THE WEEK Storm brings rain, damage after year of drought AHEAD By Matthew Stottlemyre and sorority member Jamie-Ann De- freshman Cameron Hooper, said one Daily Texan Staff woody. “It sounded as if the tree was of the state’s worst droughts on record falling on the house because of how has changed things. Storms on Saturday night brought loud it was. I’m just glad nobody was When they stepped outside and saw TODAY much needed rain to the city, and here and that only one car got dented the cloud cover Saturday afternoon, the unexpected weather also caused because it could have been really bad.” they said they were joking about chanc- Overseas Punk some minor damage to power lines With such sparse rainfall this year, es of rain on their way to eat lunch. Learn about the history of the and tree limbs. the showers left some reminiscing “Once we got back to the room Chinese punk rock movement Afternoon showers on Saturday and about the regular rainfall Central Tex- and looked out the window, it was al- from 6 to 8 p.m. in WCH 4.118. overnight storms into Sunday morn- as saw before the current drought ready pouring,” Hooper said. For more on the event, turn to ing brought Austin a little more than started almost a year ago. He said after months without any Life&Arts page 14. an inch and a half of rain. The week- Engineering freshman Peter Hart- serious rain, a wet walk outside could end treat quenched dry ground and ley said that except for a few sprinkles have been refreshing. temporarily filled dry creeks. earlier in the semester, he still hasn’t “I almost wished I had somewhere A tree fell outside the Alpha Xi Delta had the experience of walking to class- to be just so I could have walked sorority house located on Rio Grande es in the rain at UT. through it,” Hooper said. TUESDAY Street, knocking down a power line and Though those who have had the Hartley and Hooper said they hope blocking residents into the parking lot. experience might think of walking to they have their first real opportunity Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff Soul Meets Body “I was sitting in the house when the and from classes as a nuisance, Hart- Death Cab for Cutie will play Murphy, a Labradoodle, drinks from a puddle in Zilker Park on Sunday tree fell,” said undeclared freshman ley and his friend, computer science a set with Telekinesis at the STORM continues on PAGE 2 after 1.7 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service. Austin Music Hall. Tickets start at $37.50 and doors open at 7 p.m. City of Dallas WEDNESDAY depends on Be an OA funds from Remember your freshman orientation? Want to be an orientation advisor? Stop by football game NOA 1.124 from 5:30 to 6:30 By Jillian Bliss p.m for information about the Daily Texan Staff job, One weekend a year, Longhorn football becomes just as important to the city of Dallas as it is to Austin. THURSDAY The Dallas Convention and Visi- tors Bureau estimated about 92,000 American UT and Oklahoma fans flock to the Woman DFW metroplex annually for the Red New York Times columnist River Rivalry. Phillip Jones, DCVB Gail Collins discusses her book president, said an estimated $34 mil- about the progress women lion was spent over the course of the have made in the past 50 years. 2011 Texas-OU weekend by both The event starts at 7 p.m. at Longhorn and Sooner fans. 5604 Manor. “It’s the single biggest tourism weekend for the city of Dallas,” Jones said. “The football game is an event we’re honored to have, and it’s an event we bank on for a number of FRIDAY reasons. It’s too important to even have a discussion on losing it.” Here’s Johnny! Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff Jones said past reports have shown Get ready for Halloween at the Freshman quarterback David Ash gets hit by Oklahoma’s Frank Alexander while attempting a pass Saturday in the Cotton Bowl. Ash tossed a area hotels running at least 90 percent Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz touchdown but also threw two interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown in Texas’ 55-17 loss to the Sooners. occupancy from the Friday before the with a late night screening of game until the Sunday after. He said Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” downtown bars and nightclubs have Show starts at 11:30 p.m. reported record-high alcohol sales during the course of the weekend, and restaurants and shopping venues COTTON BOWL COLLAPSE are typically packed with visitors. Inside UT fans in need of game-day gear vision audience, with ESPN College GameDay ing two fumbles and an interception for touch- packed the Dallas University Co-op In Opinion: on hand and 94,000 fans packed into the Cotton downs. Heck, the Sooners’ defense scored more location on Northwest Highway on By Austin Laymance Friday evening, searching clothing Where have all the good Bowl, UT wilted in a 55-17 blowout. points than Texas. Daily Texan Columnist racks already sifted thin from shop- women gone ? page 4 And it wasn’t pretty. Everything that could go “It just wasn’t our day,” said sophomore corner- wrong did. back Adrian Phillips. pers earlier in the week. Store man- DALLAS — The Longhorns had more than The Longhorns turned the ball over five times, That pretty much sums it up. ager Roy James said sales were up In Life&Arts: just the eyes of Texas watching them. including three fumbles and two interceptions. 400 percent on Oct. 3 from a regular For whom the bell tolls But against Oklahoma before a national tele- OU made the most of Texas’ mistakes, return- DEFEAT continues on PAGE 11 Monday. page 16 INSIDE: More about the crippling defeat on page 9 DALLAS continues on PAGE 2 In Comics: I didn’t like apple anyway! page 13 Museum hosts nontraditional opera Bicyclists tour UT campus, By Allison Harris The opera performance was the opera costumes or scenery and fea- Daily Texan Staff first of five concerts organized this tured piano for accompaniment in- learn about public artwork year by the Blanton and the UT stead of an orchestra. The Blanton Museum of Art Faculty Ensemble, which is part of Graduate opera and voice stu- echoed with voices Sunday as the School of Music. Faculty En- dents performed scenes from “The By Allison Harris much stay in one area, so I don’t go to Daily Texan Staff about 200 people attended a sec- semble has collaborated with the Consul” by Gian Carlo Menotti, that many places on campus.” ond annual performance by the Blanton for the past five years. The The tour included Mark di Suvero’s Bicyclists ventured all over cam- “Clock Knot,” an abstract red-orange Quote to note Butler Opera Center. show did not include traditional OPERA continues on PAGE 2 pus in a one-of-a-kind tour Saturday steel sculpture in front of the Chemi- Amber Alarcon to learn about the public works of art cal and Petroleum Engineering Build- I want to make and Emily that often go overlooked. ing. Lisa Pulsifer, associate curator for movies,‘ I want Ward perform The University’s Landmarks pro- education and public engagement at ‘ a scene dur- gram, in conjunction with Mellow the Harry Ransom Center, said di Su- ing “Opera at Johnny’s Bike Shop, hosted a bike tour vero wanted viewers to engage with to make babies, the Blanton,” that educated 16 bicyclists about five the sculpture for a long time. Sunday. of the works. The Landmarks pro- “By walking around it and under I want to make Faculty and gram, a public art initiative started in it, it takes more time than just glanc- students from 2008, displays works of art on loan ing at a painting or photograph,” love, and I the UT Butler from the Metropolitan Museum of Pulsifer said. Opera Center Art and pieces created especially for Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “Fig- want to make a presented the UT campus. ure on a Trunk,” located in front of several opera Christina Liu, a graduate account- the Bass Concert Hall, was the only difference. scenes at ing student, said the tour made her sculpture depicting the human fig- the Blanton more aware of the art on campus, ure on the tour. The work reflects the Museum. which she said she had never really artist’s interest in the de-individual- thought about in her years at UT. ity she experienced growing up un- — Murs “You’re on your way to class, so you der Nazi occupation and Communist Rapper don’t really have time, so you don’t re- Zachary Strain ally pay attention to it,” Liu said. “Since LIFE&ARTS PAGE 16 Daily Texan Staff I’m in the business school, I pretty ART continues on PAGE 2 P2 2 NEWS Monday, October 10, 2011 continues from PAGE 1 THE DAILY TEXAN OPERA ART AND SOUL Volume 112, Number 55 an opera the Center will perform Chang said.