Fighting Cancer with Every Mile Texas Country Singer Kevin Fowler Will Be Performing a Free Show As Part of KVET’S Free Texas Music Series at Nutty Brown Cafe
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P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Garrett Gilbert is out for the season after SPUTNIK LANDS IN AUNSTIN ON THE WEB Young entrepreneur funds his surgery on his right shoulder; should he stay Gastropub converts to comfort food focused burger joint invention through Kickstarter SPORTS PAGE 16 at Texas? LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 bit.ly/dt_video >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Freshman SG candidates compete in election TODAY By Allie Kolechta 5 p.m. and the winner will be an- in financial disclosure forms on I guess.” not know what they were getting Daily Texan Staff nounced at 6 p.m. tonight. time, along with at least one other The process of getting involved involved in, Irvin said. Four candidates dropped out of candidate, he said. and campaigning was made more “Nobody really knows what the An official list of the more than the race and several others left af- “It was extremely hectic getting complicated by changes such as position is going to do because this Calendar a dozen first-year student govern- ter breaking rules last week, said involved,” Irvin said. “Nobody re- one made to the name of the po- is the first year that it’s been avail- ment representative candidates public relations freshman Jacob ally knows what the first-year rep- sition from freshman representa- able to anyone,” he said. “No one was released last night. Elections Irvin. He was in the race until resentative is. Even with all of SG’s tive to first-year representative, Wellfest 2011 will be held today from 8 a.m. to he dropped out after not turning efforts it became kind of a hassle, and prospective candidates did ELECTION continues on PAGE 2 Join University Health Services and more than 30 campus and community organizations for Wellfest 2011 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the FAC porch. ‘#?*!’ Fighting cancer with every mile Texas country singer Kevin Fowler will be performing a free show as part of KVET’s Free Texas Music Series at Nutty Brown Cafe. Investing for Life Learn how to use investments to satisfy your financial goals in the latest installment of Bevonomics from 2-3 p.m. in BUR 112. ‘Camino Real’ Meet the artist and tour the photography exhibit “El Camino Real de los Tejas” by photographer Christopher Talbot at the opening’s reception from 5-7 p.m. in Sid Richardson Hall. ‘Rappahannock County’ Texas Performing Arts presents “Rappahannock County,” a new music theater piece about life during the Civil War. 8-10 p.m. in McCullough Theatre. Tickets start at $10. Today in history In 1780 During the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British. Danielle Villasana | The Daily Texan Staff Members of the 2011 LIVESTRONG Texas 4000 Team for Cancer cycle through the Coast Mountains in Canada as part of their 70-day, cross-country journey from Austin to Inside Anchorage, Alaska. A nonprofit organization, Texas 4000 is comprised of UT students who bike every summer as a way to raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer. In News: U.S. relationship with India Fisher v. Texas affects China’s growth page 7 Nonprofit jobs interest business majors In Opinion: appeal reaches Perry dances around illegal By Lydia Herrera business leaders from around the immigration issue page 4 Daily Texan Staff world every year to give students the chance to learn what oppor- Supreme Court In Sports: Students crowded into the Tex- tunities and career paths are out Garrett Gilbert suffers a season as Union Theatre Tuesday to listen there and give them the ambition changing injury page 16 as Brian Gallagher, CEO of United to make it up the corporate ladder UT won federal affirmative Way, spoke about the importance one day. action suit, plantiff appealed In Life&Arts: of mobilizing people and strength- “There’s a lot of [business stu- to Supreme Court for review Check out Toro y Moi, St. Vincent ening communities. dents] that do want to go into non- music reviews page 11 United Way is a nonprofit orga- profit,” Schulze said. “Having Bri- By Liz Farmer nization that seeks to improve lives an Gallagher here to talk about the Daily Texan Staff by mobilizing the caring power of nonprofit industry as a whole and communities and focusing on big your corporate and social respon- A court case about UT’s use of issues such as health, education sibility as a businessperson, even if race in the admissions process is and income, said Chris Schulze, you do go into the corporate world, being appealed for review by the co-chair for the VIP Distinguished helps you to have it at the back of U.S. Supreme Court. Speaker Series. Currently, United your mind about always trying to Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff The lawsuit, Fisher v. Texas, was Way has 1,800 local affiliates and give back.” filed against UT when two white is represented in 44 countries and When asked if he would recom- United Way CEO Brian Gallagher speaks at the Texas Union Theatre Tuesday afternoon. students were denied admission territories. mend nonprofit as a career path for Quote to note to the University in 2008. It claims Schulze said the Undergradu- business students, Gallagher said In my opinion, that the University’s admissions ate Business Council puts together the current generation is lucky be- munity value, whereas business one wants to do is change the hu- policies, which take race into con- burgers aren’t sup- the VIP Distinguished Speaker Se- cause modern day businesses create in the past lacked community in- sideration, violated the plaintiff’s ries to host about seven influential social entrepreneurship and com- volvement. He said if what some- UNITED continues on PAGE 2 posed‘ to‘ be gour- right to equal protection of the met. They’re not laws under the 14th Amendment. UT won the lawsuit in an Austin supposed to be spe- federal district court and the 5th cialty. They’re sup- Study shows older adults make better decisions Circuit Court of Appeals. The 5th Circuit judges denied an appeal for posed to be comfort By Megan Strickland sistant professor of psychology at all suggest that older people have et Mars that offered better immedi- rehearing of the case in a 9-7 vote. Daily Texan Staff Texas A&M University, found that poor memory compared to young ate results and poor long-term re- In Circuit Judge Emilio Gar- and that’s what we people over 60 years old learn from adults.” sults or poor immediate results za’s opinion, the court must up- focused on. There’s Older people make better deci- situations and make better long- During the study groups of par- and better long-term results, older hold the 2003 Supreme Court de- sions than younger people over- term decisions than young adults ticipants were asked to make deci- adults outperformed their younger cision in Grutter v. Bollinger that no pretentiousness all, according to a study released in their late teens and early twen- sions in which the only decision- counterparts. race can be used as a determinant going on here. by psychologists at UT and Texas ties. making factor was the short-term Theatre and dance junior Gra- in college admissions decisions. A&M University. “When past behavior influenc- results of good decision making. ciela Reyna said to her, it appears to “The Supreme Court has chosen — Brandon Stratton Researchers led by Todd Mad- es choice of decision, older adults Young adults excelled at this por- be common sense that older people this erroneous path and only the Sputnik Owner dox and David Schnyer, professor make choices that yield better long tion of the study. However, when would be better problem solvers. Court can rectify the error,” Judge and associate professor of psychol- term results than young adults,” participants were asked to decide LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 ogy at UT, and Darrell Worthy, as- Worthy said. “Our study doesn’t at between an oxygen system on plan- AGING continues on PAGE 2 ADMISSIONS continues on PAGE 2 P2 2 NEWS Wednesday, September 21, 2011 people mobilized and involved in social change. continues from PAGE 1 THE DAILY TEXAN UNITED “If we really are a global com- ELECTION Volume 112, Number 42 continues from PAGE 1 munity, which obviously I believe knows what they’re getting in- increasing communication with campaigns, said SG communica- we are, then like any strong com- volved in.” first-year students who have the tions director Sydney Farenze. man condition in whatever scale, munity you can’t leave the rela- The assembly passed legis- opportunity to run and vote in “These kids are just running CONTACT US they need only choose the vehicle, tionship management just to busi- lation last semester to create the election, Baker said. off of nothing,” she said. “When whether it be business, government ness and just to government. You a freshman representative po- “Every year it’s just reach- I ran my first campaign, I had Main Telephone: or nonprofit. have to have civil society in it, sition, and the title was later ing out to new students,” she people around me who’d done (512) 471-4591 “I do what I do because I’ve and you need organizations like amended to read as first-year said. ”We’re communicating to it before to tell me what not to been doing it my whole life,” said ours and others to talk about the representative so that any first 10,000 students so publicity is do.