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TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 71 37 Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com TODAY Holiday travelers face fuel, speeding worries 1 THE DAILY TEXAN PRESENTS: Environment report reveals gas prices Austin police will intensify Nov. 24, 2010 Vol.5, Issue 13 could cost struggling families millions patrols over Thanksgiving LAST CHANCE Final home game could decide legacy of Texas seniors | page 10 By Allison Kroll for auto-fatality prevention Daily Texan Staff By Aziza Musa Texans could save about $16 million in gas costs traveling this Daily Texan Staff Thanksgiving holiday with more fuel-efficient cars, according to a The entire Austin police force Environment Texas report released Tuesday. will take to the streets during the Four environment experts gathered at an old gas station at the next month for a department-wide 1500 block of San Jacinto Boulevard to discuss the newly released initiative to decrease the amount of report, “Gobbling Less Gas for Thanksgiving: How Clean Cars Can traffic injuries and fatalities during Save Americans Money and Cut Oil Use.” the holiday season. “We’re here today because efficiency is the best of all worlds,” The program, Home for the Hol- said Andy Wilson, Public Citizen policy analyst for global warming idays, requires every officer, from and campaign finance reform. “Texas families need to be protected corporals to Austin Police Depart- To read about Longhorn from high fuel costs at a time when everyone is struggling to pay ment Chief Art Acevedo, to pa- football, see Double Coverage their bills. We have the technology to meet these goals — we know trol the city for aggressive and we can do this.” Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff To counteract the rise in hazardous driving behavior during the holiday FUEL continues on page 2 POLICE continues on page 2 season, APD is starting its fourth Home for the Holidays program. Calendar Thanksgiving UT professor on ice The Barton Creek Resort & Spa will open its 3,800-square-foot says pro ling ice rink at noon, and it will be open every day through Jan. 2. not e ective Eisley against terror The indie pop group will play By Allison Kroll a show at The Parish for $15. Daily Texan Staff Doors open at 8 p.m. Racial profiling is a “funda- mentally flawed” method of catching terrorists, and is no more ‘No one ever effective than random sampling leaves a star’ techniques, according to a recent The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz will study by a UT computer science present a special screening professor. of the 1950 classic “Sunset William Press addressed the Boulevard” at 7 p.m. for $12. weaknesses of racial profiling as a means to identify terrorists in his Nov. 18 article, “To Catch Hey Monday a Terrorist: Can Ethnic Profiling The pop-punk group will play Work?” published in Significance, at Emo’s with Cartel, The Ready the magazine of the Royal Statis- Set, This Century and We Are tical Society and American Statis- The In Crowd for $15 beginning tical Association. at 7 p.m. According to Press’ study, ra- cial profiling is dependent on the idea that specific ethnic or racial groups are more likely to commit Today in history criminal acts than other groups. Allen Otto | Daily Texan Staff Press took a mathematical and In 1869 Former basketball player Kris Clack has returned to UT to finish his degree in corporate communications. He left UT in 1999 for the NBA statistical view on the process and draft but never officially signed to a team. Charles Darwin publishes “The compared it to the effectivness of random sampling techniques. Origin of the Species.” No racial profiling strategy is actually any more effective at catching terrorists than random sampling, he said. In fact, Press Campus watch writes, uniform sampling works BACKtoSCHOOL surprisingly well. Because, ac- Green means go Retired basketball player focuses on coaching, finishing education cording to the article, “It is robust 2700 block of Guadalupe Street against false assumptions, it is a Two UT students reported being deterrent, it is easy to implement, approached by an unknown By Chris Hummer will call out. tent player from the day he walked into the it is about as effective as any real- subject as they were heading Kris Clack started for the Longhorns bas- door,” said former Texas head coach Tom life system can be.” back to their dormitory at 2:12 “The most basic idea behind it s he strolls into class in the Jes- ketball team from 1996 to 1999, finishing his Penders, who coached the Longhorns from a.m. on Nov. 23. While waiting being a faulty approach is that it’s for the traffic light to change, se H. Jones Communication career seventh overall in scoring and fourth 1988 to 1998. based on stereotypes and over- a man approached them and Center, he looks like any other overall in rebounding in Texas history. He The Boston Celtics took him with the 55th generalizations about specific groups of people,” said Germine tried to start up a conversation. student looking to get in a lit- was named to the All-Big 12 second team overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft. But after He began asking personal Awad, an assistant educational tle last-minute studying before his junior and senior years. After pursuing a failing to land a roster spot, he decided to questions and wanted to know psychology professor. “We as hu- where they were going. As Athe day’s exam. But a few fellow students professional career overseas and in the U.S., take his game to Italy. man beings are not always accu- soon as the light changed, both still recognize the 6-foot-5-inch man. Clack is back at UT to finish his degree. rate at predicting racial categories for certain individuals.” students took off running to the “Hey Kris, I watched you play,” someone “Kris was a starter and our most consis- CLACK continues on page 7 dormitory where they notified RACE continues on page 2 the police. Officers searched the area with negative results. DeLay awaits final jury decision Jurors expected to deliberate come to a decision. We are heartened by hard because they’re writing intelligent the fact they say they are making prog- questions,” he said. “It means they’re Wednesday on ‘complex’ case ress.” looking very hard at the evidence. I think of political money laundering DeLay’s defense attorney, Dick De- they’re zeroing in right on the weakness- Guerin, promised to appeal any convic- es of the prosecution’s case.” Quote to note By Nolan Hicks The indictment was based on ques- Daily Texan Staff tions about the propriety of money used “I love doing The Travis County jurors deciding to help finance Republican candidates the fate of former U.S. House Majority for the Texas House in the 2002 election. comics‘ in the so- Leader Tom DeLay told the trial judge DeLay’s Texas political action com- ‘ on Tuesday that they were making prog- It’s going to be a long mittee, Texans for a Republican Majori- called traditional ress but would need more time to arrive deliberation because of the ty, sent $190,000 in corporate campaign format because it at a verdict. contributions to an arm of the Republi- complexity of the case.” makes them easy. I Jurors will return Wednesday to con- ‘‘ can National Committee in October 2002, tinue deliberating on DeLay’s fate. He — Gary Cobb along with a list of seven candidates to think they’re more faces charges of money laundering and donate money to and how much money conspiracy to launder money, which Lead prosecutor to send to each campaign. readable, affordable stem from his role in helping to orches- Just a few days later, the RNC sent a and accessible.” trate the controversial 2003 redistricting total of $190,000 from a separate bank of Texas’ congressional districts. account — money that could be contrib- “It’s going to be a long deliberation tion on grounds that Texas’ ban on cor- uted to campaigns in Texas — to the sev- — Mike Bertino because of the complexity of the case,” porate campaign contributions is an un- en listed candidates. Comic artist Jack Plunkett | Associated Press said Gary Cobb, Travis County’s lead constitutional violation of a corpora- The Travis County District Attorney Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay waits for prosecutor on the case. “We’re not con- tion’s right to free speech. LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 his attorneys in Travis County courthouse on Oct. 26. cerned about the time it’s taking them to “We know [the jurors] are working DELAY continues on page 2 P2 2 NEWS Wednesday, November 24, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN DELAY: Volume 111, Number 118 Electoral 25 cents boost attributed CONTACT US Main Telephone: to redistricting (512) 471-4591 From page 1 Editor: Lauren Winchester charged that the money swap was (512) 232-2212 money laundering and indicted [email protected] DeLay. His defense claimed it was standard practice in politics. Managing Editor: “I don’t think there’s enough Sean Beherec money in politics,” DeLay said (512) 232-2217 during an earlier pre-trial hearing. managingeditor@ “Money is corruptible to the cor- dailytexanonline.com ruptible; it is up to the individual. There is nothing wrong with par- News Office: ticipating in the process and [rais- (512) 232-2207 ing money to help] candidates get [email protected] elected.