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P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 KEEP IT ROLLING NOFLY ZONE DARK DELIGHT Horns head to Stillwater, aim to keep NATO agrees to enforce parts of intervention A suicide, a cover-up, frivolous dancing – all part of up momentum versus Cowboys while U.S. warplanes continue flying “Rumours,” a play opened this week at the SAC SPORTS PAGE 6 WORLD&NATION PAGE 3 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 >> Breaking news, blogs and more: dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Friday, March 25, 2011 Staff council WEEKEND JUST DANCE set to discuss campus-wide FRIDAY Enlightenment smoking ban The Tower will be lit orange By Matthew Stottlemyre with “75” in the windows to Daily Texan Staff celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Plan II Honors Program University President William Pow- established in 1935. ers Jr., said he opposes a campus- wide ban on smoking in his annual Brazilian Night address to UT staff on Thursday. Cactus Cafe presents the Powers told Staff Council a com- acoustic Brazilian music of plete ban on smoking would overstep Susanna Sharpe, Anne Simoni the appropriate limits the University and Antonio Dionisio at 8:30 currently places on where individuals p.m. Tickets are $8 and $5 with can smoke. UT student ID. “What we’re doing is saying we are going to limit the freedom of the per- Ying Yang Twins son who wants to smoke for the ben- Phi Delt Theta’s Phiesta 2011 efit of the people who don’t want to will be featuring the Ying Yang be in a smoke-filled office or room,” Twins at San Pedro House at 6 Powers said. “I think that is perfectly p.m. Tickets are $15. appropriate, and I agree with that.” This month, Student Government Three-6 Mafia passed a resolution calling for a sev- Republic will be hosting Three-6 en-year process to ban smoking cam- Mafia at 9 p.m. with a variety of pus-wide. The resolution would also other rappers. Tickets are $15. make the University Health Servic- es’ Quitters smoking-cessation classes available to faculty and staff without a fee. The four-class program is already SATURDAY available to students free of charge Allen Otto | Daily Texan Staff and to staff and faculty for a fee. Texas Softball SG’s version of the rule would al- Longhorns play Kansas at Emily Lloyd, a member of the Austin Ballet Academy, stretches before learning choreography from the Broadway version of Mary Poppins. Lloyd is a part of the trainee program, which represents the most senior level of the academy. McCombs Field at 1 p.m. Tickets BAN continues on PAGE 2 range from $3-$9. Jeffrey Pilcher, Carmen in 3-D a professor The Alamo Drafthouse Village in the history will host the Royal Opera and department at Auto companies visit Austin Christine Rice, Bryan Hymel the University and Aris Argiris perform Bizet’s of Minnesota, opera which will be presented gave a talk on in operatic 3-D at 11:20 a.m. the global his- to showcase fuel alternatives tory of Mexican food at the the new technology will reduce car- pletion time of 10 hours, Gener- Long Center on AltCar Expo offers public, Thursday night. bon dioxide emissions in the envi- al Motors spokesman Craig Ep- SUNDAY professionals opportunity ronment at a time when cars, trucks pling said. He said charging the to view innovative vehicles and power plants contribute to the battery fully would cost $1.40 — ‘Make-Up’s depletion of the ozone layer. steep savings over gas prices top- Deadly Cover By Donovan Sanders For example, the Chevy Volt ping $3.50 per gallon national- Daily Texan Staff ly. A fully charged battery on the Up: Not Just a Volt will last you 25-50 miles de- Pretty Face’ Instead of spending of $3.50 per pending on terrain, weather and Pi Beta Phi and the Center for gallon on gas, people may be able the driver’s style, he said. Women’s and Gender Studies to run their cars with a recharge- The Volt’s engine powers a gen- will host this free talk and panel able battery. erator that produces electricity. The Austin AltCar Expo show- It’s kind of like The process makes the car more discussion about the ugly side “ of the beauty and cosmetics cased nine vehicles Thursday, in- bringing your efficient, Eppling said. industry at Jester A121A at 2 cluding cars, buses, ambulances “It’s kind of like bringing your p.m. and motorcycles. All vehicles came back up charger back-up charger with you wherev- equipped with modern technolo- er you go,” he said. gy to save gas and lead to a cleaner Photo Illustration with you wherever A new Ford bus called the Mi- by Lizzie Chen environment. The event also offered cro Bird has the option of running Daily Texan Staff visitors the option to test drive a few “you go. on propane, diesel or gasoline. Today in history of the cars it had on display. — Craig Eppling,Ge neral Mot ors “It’s better for the environment In 1965 “I think it is important for com- spoke sman because it burns cleaner than the panies to keep striving for better buses on the road right now,” said A civil rights march led by the Professor reviews spread ways to power cars because right Ford spokeswoman Linda Stone. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. now cars play a major role in the Since the Micro Bird emits less makes it to the Alabama state damage of the ozone layer, and if carbon dioxide, it requires fewer Capitol, where King gives a of Mexican food in world we have the power to change that, oil changes, she said. speech. we should,” said Michael Walker, a can run completely on bat- “It does cost more money than a By WIlliam James American Studies, introduced Pilcher professional driver who attended tery power. The battery can be normal bus, but because of grants Daily Texan Staff to his audience and said his talk today the expo. charged straight from a regular available and its lifetime, the funds was a part of a larger series that will According to event documents, outlet with an estimated com- should even out,” Stone said. Most people understand the ta- officially begin in fall 2011. cos they eat are no more represen- “Through studying cuisine, we are tative of Mexico than pizza is of Ita- able to enter into the history of a cul- ly. Jeffrey Pilcher, a history professor ture,” Hale said. Quote to note at the University of Minnesota, ex- Pilcher discussed the taco revo- plained the globalization and glob- lution that spread so rampantly be- “The heroes I admire al history of Mexican food in a talk cause of U.S. companies such as Taco called “Planet Taco” on Thursday. Bell, rather than because of the Mex- are the‘ everyday folk, Charles Hale, director of UT’s Te- who, every‘ once in a resa Lozano Long Institute of Latin TACO continues on PAGE 2 while, we especially 82ND LEGISLATURE notice. They pretty much do what they Bill seeks to change standard do because that is what they were called for treatment of wastewater to do. They are heroic and beautiful and By Allie Kolechta Developers and contractors dump Daily Texan Staff wastewater into creeks and streams most often invisible.” that open up into the Edwards The Austin City Council cham- Aquifer and Barton Springs, and — Kevin Foster pioned a state senate bill that could Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, wants Assistant professor in improve the quality of water in Bar- to improve the water quality. African and African ton Springs at a meeting Thursday. Watson, who authored the bill, Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff diaspora studies. The bill would change standards worked with officials from the Bar- Paul Flood sits on a police motorcycle explaining to Louis Rogers that the 100-percent electric bike for the treatment of wastewater — releases zero carbon emissions at the Austin Clean Cities AltCar Conference. The event, held at the NEWS PAGE 5 water left over from industrial uses. WATER continues on PAGE 2 Palmer Events Center, displayed alternative technology cars, trucks, buses and mopeds. P2 2 NEWS Friday, March 25, 2011 and faculty and staff who smoke. the wrong time to focus energy and continues from PAGE 1 Do we want to say to them, ‘You resources on something as insignifi- THE DAILY TEXAN WATER BAN can’t work here?’” cant as smoking while you’re walk- Volume 111, Number 170 continues from PAGE 1 Staff Council chairman Ben Bond ing outside.” ton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Belterra, a planned community said members of the council have During his address, Powers said Conservation District to create near downtown Austin, received low certain exceptions to the ban, expressed support for each side of more small-scale layoffs could be on the bill. Watson has pushed for an a permit to discharge wastewa- similar to the way tailgating and the issue. He said the council will the way for staff, in addition to hun- CONTACT US outright ban of discharging waste- ter into creeks and streams that the bar at the Cactus Cafe have discuss a resolution during its next dreds of layoffs during the last bud- Main Telephone: water directly into the contribut- make up the contributing zone of become exceptions to the dry- monthly meeting. get cycle. He said whether more staff (512) 471-4591 ing zone for the past two legisla- the aquifer and springs, said city campus policy, said SG admin- “I honestly don’t have a sense of are laid off and how many are laid off tive sessions, and although that engineer Chris Herrington.