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The Daily Texan Is Valued at $1.25 IRAN Continues from Page 1 Imity to I-35.” Permanent Staff an Additional Location in Editor 1 THE DAILY ServingT the UniversityEXAN of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Tuesday, April 30, 2013 dailytexanonline.com INSIDE Horns, Panthers square off at UFCU Disch Falk. COMICS PAGE 11 NEWS SPORTS In-N-Out Burger An- PAGE 7 nounces new Central Austin location to be built at the intersec- WORLD TEXAN IN-DEPTH tion of I-35 and Airport Boulevard. PAGE 5 Panel on unequal McCombs food distribution Iran prisoner details arrest within Austin com- Foundation munities emphasizes By Alberto Long Kokabee, who transferred technical manager for mili- innovation techniques. from the Institute of Pho- tary and intelligence proj- profits from PAGE 5 tonic Sciences in Spain to ects,” Kokabee wrote. Omid Kokabee, a former UT as a laser physics Ph.D. Kokabee also said he was enterprises UT grad student currently candidate in 2010, wrote in a asked in 2006 to develop imprisoned in Iran, said in letter dated March 2013 that a powerful carbon dioxide Editor’s Note: This is one SPORTS a public letter he has been he has refused all petitions to laser for isotope separa- story in a series of features “persecuted for refusing collaborate with the Iranian tion, which can be used on external UT foundations The Longhorns’ class to cooperate with Iranian military before and during to enrich uranium. that will end Wednesday. of 2014 has a number of military projects,” the Na- his ongoing detention. In the public letter, NFL prospects, including ture International Weekly “Since 2005, I have been Kokabee says the Iranian By Alexa Ura Mike Davis. PAGE 7 Journal of Science reported invited several times to Omid Kokabee Texas baseball sits last week. work as a scientist and IRAN continues on page 2 Former UT grad student The McCombs School of at the bottom of the Business Foundation has es- Big 12 standings after tablished revenue-generating its most recent hiccup FOOD enterprises to benefit the against Baylor. PAGE 7 business school, while also attracting thousands of dol- D.J. Monroe joins 12 lars in private gifts each year. other undrafted free As an independent non- agents on the Tampa profit, the foundation benefits Bay Buccaneers. TACO TOWN the McCombs School of Busi- PAGE 8 ness and provides close to $5 million in contributions to the school and more than $600,000 in scholarships each year. The LIFE&ARTS foundation also supplements business school dean Thomas Black bean tacos Gilligan’s salary with an extra aren’t just for vege- $100,000 and doubles the sala- tarians. Find out where ries of some lecturers and pro- to get the best one for fessors through compensation each meal. PAGE 12 for their work with a training LL Cool J makes his program for professionals. mediocre return with Joe Holt, CEO of the Aus- his latest album. tin region of JP Morgan Chase PAGE 10 and chairman of the founda- tion’s board of trustees, said the foundation’s leadership is aware of the weight transparency has on its credibility with donors. VIEWPOINT “There is no transfer of funds unless they are approved A private film company by trustees,” Holt said. “That associated with the Uni- level of transparency created versity puts UT’s lack of credibility with donors and financial transparency alumni. In all the things that under the spotlight. are swirling around right now, PAGE 4 the most important thing we can do is make sure that the intent is right and the actions are transparent.” Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan Staff According to the most re- Waiter Martin Hernandez serves up a taco dish at El Patio on Monday afternoon. cent IRS records available, ONLINE donors contributed more than MULTIMEDIA All your taco fantasies on page 12 and online at bit.ly/dtvid MONEY continues on page 5 Five by 5 @ Moontower continues! Watch our interview with come- WEST CAMPUS CITY dian Jim Norton at bit.ly/dtvid Inmate may see retrial for local 2005 murder TODAY By Alberto Long Attorneys say recent devel- Applications available opments in a case involving a for Peers for Pride 2005 West Campus murder Peers for Pride is a peer could be the first step toward facilitation program a retrial, and previously with- offered throughout the held evidence suggests the school year for academ- possibility of an alternative ic credit. Students write perpetrator. The Fifth Circuit a monologue during the Court of Appeals granted Colton Pitonyak first semester and per- Colton Pitonyak’s attorneys Inmate form monologues and an expedited appeal process facilitate conversations and mandated oral argument Pitonyak’s attorneys have on LGBTQA identities on the basis of a Brady viola- long suspected Hall is re- Sam Ortega | Daily Texan Staff and issues during the tion on April 22. sponsible for Cave’s murder, A construction worker oversees several other workers at a construction site in West Campus second. Pick applica- Pitonyak’s lawyers say they citing evidence suggesting on Monday afternoon. tions up at SAC 2.112. are “cautiously optimistic” Hall confessed to the murder about the “biggest” devel- on multiple occasions. opments since the original The Fifth Circuit Court of Brady appeal was granted on Appeals agreed to review Pi- Group defends workers’ pay March 12. tonyak’s case based on claims Pitonyak, a former UT stu- that the state withheld evi- By Miles Hutson protest, a subcontractor of he said UT should use its role dent, is currently serving a 55- dence containing Hall’s con- Pillar Construction has paid as a community leader to en- What is today’s year prison sentence for the fessions during the initial trial these wages to its workers. courage change in Texas. 2005 murder and mutilation in 2007. Pitonyak’s attorneys Dave Dixon, executive “[Problems with construc- Casar pointed to a re- reason to party? of then-21-year-old Jennifer were granted a hearing based director of program man- tion workers] is a plague that port published by Workers Cave, who was found shot and on a subsequent Brady viola- agement for UT’s Office of has basically crept over all the Defense Project in partner- dismembered in a bathtub at tion, which the judge called Facilities Planning & Con- Texas construction industry,” ship with UT’s Community Pitonyak’s West Campus apart- “perplexing and [deserving] struction, said he saw no said Workers Defense Proj- Engagement Center, which ment. Former UT student of further review,” according pressing demand for out- ect business liaison Gregorio found one in five workers will Laura Ashley Hall, a friend of to an official court document. side monitoring of Univer- Casar. “Specifically with uni- be hospitalized in their career. Pitonyak’s who is described as The U.S. Attorney General’s sity construction sites, but versities, we see that student Patricia Zavala, work- his jealous lover according to office must file their own brief was open to the possibility. housing has been built with place justice coordinator of court documents, is currently by the end of May and oral ar- Workers Defense Project, unjust working conditions.” Workers Defense Project, serving a 10-year sentence for guments over the materiality an advocacy group for low- Casar mainly addressed said the key to preventing tampering with evidence. Both of the Brady violation will be- wage workers, extended the off-campus development such abuse is monitoring. fled to Mexico following the gin at the end of August. Chris offer in a protest on April 19. as 2400 Nueces, where a fall “We want to see them murder and were apprehended Perri, one of Pitonyak’s defense The protest addressed roughly injured three workers after work with their builders and SEE COMICS by authorities during their at- attorneys, said mandated oral $9,000 in then-unpaid wages Workers Defense Project had contractors,” Zavala said. tempt to cross the border back from a UT-San Antonio con- received multiple safety com- PAGE 11 into the U.S. RETRIAL continues on page 2 struction project. Since the plaints from the site. However, WORK continues on page 2 2 2 News Tuesday, April 30, 2013 FRAMES | FEATURED PHOTO Volume 113, Issue 152 CONTACT US Main Telephone: (512) 471-4591 Editor: Susannah Jacob (512) 232-2212 [email protected] Managing Editor: Trey Scott (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com News Office: (512) 232-2207 [email protected] Multimedia Office: (512) 471-7835 dailytexanmultimedia@ gmail.com Sports Office: (512) 232-2210 [email protected] Life & Arts Office: (512) 232-2209 [email protected] Retail Advertising: (512) 471-1865 [email protected] Classified Advertising: (512) 471-5244 Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff classifieds@ A student is transported from a rainy Riverside to a sunny campus by a UT Shuttle on Monday afternoon. dailytexanonline.com side can’t get extensions. It’s to appeal the case to the U.S. pertaining to the trial dur- a good sign when oral ar- Supreme Court. ing oral argument, the judges NEWS The Texan strives to present all information fairly, RETRIAL gument is granted. It’s rare, Perri said the Supreme will still be looking at the en- BRIEFLY accurately and completely. continues from page 1 only 10 percent of cases do.” Court only hears one per- tire trial,” Perri said. “We’re If we have made an error, Pitonyak’s lawyers will have cent of appeal cases. Pi- not having to prove Colton’s In-N-Out plans for let us know about it. Call argument is a positive and rare to prove that the withheld tonyak will be granted a new innocence in August. We just (512) 232-2217 or e-mail Central Austin address managingeditor@ occurrence within the federal evidence could have had an trial at the 147th State Dis- have to prove the withheld dailytexanonline.com.
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