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THE DAILY TEXAN 89 73 Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900 P1 LIFE&ARTS PAGE12 SPORTS PAGE 7 Upcoming music shows are sure to entertain Longhorn track star’s start came from pressure OPINION PAGE 4 from her peers In victory and struggle, gay activism takes on many shades TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 89 73 Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com TODAY Budget woes permeate campus Calendar UT o cials Where you lead The Hispanic Faculty/Staff plan to cut Association discusses “Sustaining Leadership Through Troubled Times” at the 2010 Leadership $14 million Symposium. Texas Union Ballroom, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. from budget Making memories By Lena Price & Shabab Siddiqui UT Center for Learning and Memory Daily Texan Staff hosts an interactive public program Administrators announced plans looking at how your brain makes Monday to cut more than $14 mil- memories. Frank Erwin Center Lone lion in recurring funds from the Star Room, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. University budget, primarily tar- geting administrative offices. The reductions are in prepa- Get in line ration for a likely shortfall in the The longest-running American state’s budget over the next two musical in Broadway history, “A years. All cuts must be implement- Chorus Line”, comes to Bass Concert ed by August 2011. The announce- Hall today and runs through ment marks the culmination of dis- Sunday. 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. cussions about the University bud- get that started in June 2009, and Make like a tree there are no plans for further cuts, Sea Wolf opens for The Album Leaf said President William Powers Jr. at The Parish, 8 p.m. “We are looking at economic re- alities,” Powers said. “This is not On the back nine Second day of the UIL Golf State BUDGET continues on page 5 Championship. Visit www.uil. utexas.edu for schedules and course Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff Budget Reduction Plan information. Classics professor Tom Palaima and English professor Alan Friedman speak after a Faculty Council meeting Monday that addressed the University’s plan to cut $14.6 million from its recurring budget. 10% What a racket INSIDE: More on Faculty Council meeting on page 5 6.8% Last day of the UIL Tennis State Championship. 2A and 3A schools play at UT’s Penick-Allison Courts, all day. Suit up Cafe proposal seeks to involve students Graduates, don’t forget to order 83% By Shabab Siddiqui Friends of the Cactus Cafe and nonprofit or- gramming would remain with the current your graduation regalia by Friday. Daily Texan Staff ganization Friends of the Cactus Cafe. It out- cafe management. In order to increase stu- Stop by the Co-op Outlet or go to Supporters of maintaining the Cactus Cafe lines ways to increase student involvement dent involvement, the Student Events Cen- www.universitycoop.com under its current management submitted a in booking and performances, to explore al- ter would be guaranteed a minimum of 40 business proposal Friday to Juan González, ternative profit-boosting mechanisms, to evenings of programming and would meet Administration vice president for student affairs. build partnerships with other music-related with the management to sort out dates and Est. fringe benefit reductions The plan is authored by various represen- entities and to develop a fundraising base. Colleges/schools Today in history tatives from the UT organization Student According to the plan, the duty of pro- CACTUS continues on page 5 In 1893 Program aims to increase University hosts energy symposium Anna Hiss, director of women’s physical education at the University Corporation provides of Texas, is born in Baltimore. faculty startup companies By Alex Geiser ization office. educational sessions Daily Texan Staff The process of academic tech- to shed light on issues A new program within UT’s nology commercialization be- Office of Technology Commer- gins in the labs of universities By Hannah Jones cialization will increase the like UT. When researchers in Daily Texan Staff Inside number of startup companies the lab make a discovery of any A national energy manage- the University produces, despite kind, many choose to license the ment company chose to educate In News: the fact that UT-Austin already idea to existing companies, who those involved in the evolving Staff attrition will reduce number generates more ventures than then mass-produce and market energy industry on the UT cam- of required layoffs. page 5 any other institution in the UT the invention. pus Monday. System. If a researcher chooses not to The Eaton Corporation held In Opinion: The New Ventures program license the invention to an exist- one of its two nationwide sym- will focus solely on creating new ing company, many times, the posiums at the AT&T Execu- Suspension of travel programs startups and innovative startup researcher forms his or her own tive Education and Conference prohibits research. page 4 programs based exclusively on startup business used to market Center to promote collabora- research and inventions coming and disperse his or her inven- tion among the energy industry, Stephanie Meza | Daily Texan Staff In Sports: out of UT-Austin faculty. tion. Startups, too, are an impor- the public sector and academia, Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas, was a panelist during Distance runner Mia Behm loves Betsy Merrick, associate mar- tant facet of technology trans- said Paul Cody, general manag- the Energy Evolution Symposium on Monday. er and vice president of Eaton’s being a Longhorn. page 7 keting and public relations di- fer. Merrick said the Universi- rector for the commercialization ty and the state economies ben- Electrical Service and Systems military. Educational and pan- nized as one of the leading cities office, said the New Ventures efit from startups because of the Division. el sessions throughout the day for environmental energy sus- In Life&Arts: specialist will hopefully begin jobs they produce and the inter- Eaton is an energy power covered topics such as renew- tainability and that there is a lot Texan columnist reviews television’s working with the program with- est they gain. management company and in- able energy, high-performance of awareness about the subject. best and worst. page 11 in the next six months. UT cre- “Exposing these technolo- dustrial manufacturer in mul- buildings, energy efficiency and “The main thrust of the pro- ated 46 new startup companies gies to the marketplace is what tiple fields, including agricul- hybrid and advanced vehicle gram is to bring together between 2002 and 2009, accord- ture, community infrastructure, technology. ing to data from the commercial- STARTUP continues on page 2 health care, government and Cody said Austin is recog- ENERGY continues on page 2 Co-op graduation apparel Quote to note “There were just cool uses recycled materials people‘ here, and I ‘ By Audrey White ders and graduation manager at the Co-op. wanted to be around Daily Texan Staff As soon as she heard about the program, cool people. When UT students can add environmental sus- called GreenWeaver, she knew the Universi- tainability to their list of accomplishments on ty should be part of it. I visited some other graduation day. Each cap and gown sold at the “There is a trend of ‘buy organic and go University Co-op this year was made from the eco-friendly,’” Hilbert said. “We’re charged places, there were repurposed materials of 23 plastic bottles that to find trends and apply them to our depart- some lame people.” would otherwise have gone into landfills. ment. As soon as I saw [Oak Hall] putting UT is the first school in Texas, and the larg- out teasing messages that they were intro- est school in the nation, to adopt the gown ducing [the recycled gowns], we knew we — Mia Behm program from manufacturer Oak Hall Cap & had to offer them.” Longhorn athlete Gown. Other schools that have adopted the The Co-op’s undergraduate cap, gown on her decision to attend UT Catalina Padilla | Daily Texan Staff program include Kansas State University, and stoll package costs $49.98, about $5 more Clark Ford, a communication studies senior, tries on his cap and gown made Yale University and the University of Penn- SPORTS PAGE 7 from recycled plastic bottles at the Co-op on Monday. sylvania, said Kristen Hilbert, the online or- GRAD continues on page 2 P2 2 NEWS Tuesday, May 11, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN GRAD: Volume 110, Number 205 Group to 25 cents ‘S ’ receive donation A UT student CONTACT US climbs the staircase in the Main Telephone: from Oak Hall Main Building (512) 471-4591 on Monday From page 1 afternoon. Editor: Jillian Sheridan than last year’s set. The stoll is (512) 232-2212 not made out of recycled mate- [email protected] rials. Given the average number Managing Editor: of about 6,300 graduates each Ana McKenzie spring semester, UT’s caps and (512) 232-2217 gowns will repurpose an esti- mated 150,000 water bottles. managingeditor@ In addition, Oak Hall will dailytexanonline.com take the caps and gowns back News Office: at the end of the year and re- (512) 232-2207 use the materials to make new [email protected] gowns. The Co-op will accept the gowns back from May 21- Sports Office: 26, and students who return (512) 232-2210 their gowns by May 23 will re- [email protected] ceive a coupon for 20 percent off a purchase at the Co-op. The gowns are also less easily Life & Arts Office: wrinkled and less shiny, so some (512) 232-2209 students may consider them [email protected] more appealing, Hilbert said.
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