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P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Local video shops like Vulcan Video, TEXAS BEATS RICE 34-9 RISHI PANCHAMI Bhutanese and Nepali refugees I Luv Video fight off competitors Four touchdowns, two field goals lead Longhorns to a running start keep traditions alive in Austin LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 SPORTS PAGE 16 bit.ly/dt_video >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Tuesday, September 6, 2011 City expansion TODAY Fires spark tragedy spurs roadway Calendar congestion on Art Intersection Austin’s IH-35 Artist Mika Tajima will speak By Jennifer Berke about her work, which explores Daily Texan Staff a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting and video. Interstate Highway 35 from State Begins at 7 p.m. in the Blanton Highway 71 to U.S. Highway 183 is Auditorium. the fourth-most congested roadway in the state, according to a Texas Department of Transportation list Amnesty released last week. International Because of Austin’s econom- The humanitarian organization ic growth and population increase, will host an information session roadways are growing increasing- for interested students. The ly congested during peak commuter event begins at 7:30 p.m. in PAR hours despite attempts to fund in- 201. frastructure improvements, accord- ing to the city of Austin’s website. Mike & the TRAFFIC continues on PAGE 2 Moonpies The country/folk singer Mike Harmeier will play a set at Mo- hawk beginning at 5 p.m. According to Legislative Aid Allstate report Learn more about Student Government’s Longhorn Legislative Aid program at 1:30 Austin drivers p.m. in SAC 1.106. Tamir Kalfia | Daily Texan Staff are improving Firefighters from the Coppell Fire Department, who traveled from the Dallas-Fort Worth area early Monday afternoon, help contain a brush fire around the property of Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Cedar Creek. By Brianna Pelayo Daily Texan Staff Central Texas wildfires claim two casualties, burn hundreds of homes Contrary to what many Aus- Today in history tinites may believe about the peo- ple they share the roads with, a re- In 1901 By Jillian Bliss “[The fire] is not in the city of Austin,” Lef- around Lake Travis contained at 25 percent, and cent report by Allstate Insurance Daily Texan Staff President William McKinley is fingwell said. “But we don’t work that way. We no fatalities have been recorded as of Monday. Co. showed large improvement in shot. The former president died think of this area as a region, and we’re all in Officials were still working to contain an addi- quality of Austin drivers. Fires raged across Central Texas this week- several days later as a result of this together.” tional fire nearby in the Pedernales Bend area According to the seventh an- end, affecting the Pflugerville, Bastrop County, the gunshot wound. Approximately 50 homes in Steiner Ranch as of press time. nual Allstate America’s Best Driv- Travis County and Hays County areas. have been damaged or destroyed, and Travis According to Reuters, 60 separate wildfires ers Report, which ranks the na- Austin mayor Lee Leffingwell said despite County Fire Chief Jim Linardos said residents spread across the state Monday, killing two in tion’s largest cities in terms of car success in controlling fires in the greater Aus- are not allowed to return to the subdivision un- northeast Texas. collision frequency, Austin ranked tin area, Bastrop County officials are still fight- til at least Tuesday morning. Travis County po- Danny Hobby, executive manager of Travis 150 out of 200. This is an improve- ing to stop fires from spreading. The San An- lice are asking residents to cooperate with pos- County Emergency Operations, said agencies ment from last year’s ranking of tonio Express-News reported 25,000 acres con- sible road closures and detours and to stay away and fire crews from across Texas are working 170, making Austin the third most sumed by the Bastrop fires, with approximately Campus watch from restricted areas until they are notified of to help victims in addition to stopping the fires. improved of all cities reported this 476 homes destroyed. Gov. Rick Perry returned updates. Hobby said he is glad Texans can come togeth- from out-of-state campaigning for the presi- Linardos said at a press conference Monday Gone Missing DRIVERS continues on PAGE 2 ITRAMURAL FIELDS, 4901 dency to address Bastrop citizens. that fire and rescue crews were able to keep fires FIRES continues on PAGE 2 Guadalupe Street A UT student had his vehicle broken into while he played football. Stolen from his vehicle were: his backpack containing LGBT organization hosts his laptop and its charger, calculator, headphones, iPod Nano, physics textbook, his Queer Welcome Carnival course notes from 4 classes, his brown leather wallet By Sarah Lawson containing his TX DL, his debit tions that support the LGBT commu- Daily Texan Staff card, $80 cash, multiple IDs, nity in Austin came together at the event to facilitate pride. approximately $30 worth of The Queer Student Alliance offered assorted gift cards, an old Trey Edmond, biology sophomore a welcome-home to UT’s queer com- and one of the dancers, said these or- Blackberry cell phone with munity with a bounce house, cotton a cracked screen and a plain ganizations and events offer a sup- candy machine and ball pit. portive atmosphere that isn’t always white T-shirt. Total loss value: The student organization hosted its $1,110.00. easy to come by. annual Queer Welcome Carnival Fri- “The community presents a pos- day in celebration of gay, lesbian and itive outlook on being gay which is transgender pride. harder to find outside of here,” Ed- Despite the attractions and a dance mond said. performance to Lady Gaga’s “Judas,” Zach Frye, co-vice president of electrical engineering sophomore QSA, said the organization serves Cameron Mousighi said last year’s as an umbrella over all gay organi- Carnival was his favorite. zations on campus. He said it pro- Trent Lesikar | Daily Texan Staff “It was the first time I had been in- vides cohesion to a plethora of spe- Freshman Mariah Owen helps a UT football fan recycle a plastic water bottle outside the gates to troduced to the queer community at cialty groups. Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium Saturday evening. UT,” Moushighi said. “It was nice to Frye said the event was largely a feel at home.” Quote to note Other campus and city organiza- QSA continues on PAGE 2 Recycling reaches tailgate tradition I noticed that there By Sylvia Butanda Office of Sustainability director dent volunteers meeting at the was this kind of style Daily Texan Staff Jim Walker. tent that served as their head- ‘ While UT’s tailgate recycling quarters on the west side of the gap. I would‘ see girls While the Longhorns kicked operation is relatively new com- LBJ fountain. Nikki Miles, Tail- shop at either For- the Rice Owls’ cans on the pared to other universities, the gate Recycling Crew‘s student football field, student volun- 2010 football season recycling coordinator, filled the group of ever 21 or Neimen teers collected the cans tail- crew collected about 17 tons of students in on their duties. gaters left around campus Sat- aluminum and plastic in tail- Miles provided tag teams with Marcus. We want- urday afternoon. gate lots. plastic bags and instructions on ed to find a medium The second year of Longhorn This year’s goal is to meet what could be recycled, which Recycling Roundup began when or do much better than last included plastic bottles and alu- between the two members of the Tailgate Recy- year’s results by collecting 20 minum cans. and give girls more cling Crew handed out plastic tons or more of plastic and “We just want to make sure bags to sort recyclable and non- aluminum cans. people are having a good time options to shop. recyclable items to tailgaters. “Tailgating culture has al- and that they know about the “Considering how big the ways been come early, be loud, recycling program,” Miles said. — Morgan De Mola campus is and how many peo- stay late,” Walker said, “Now, The recycling crew gave tail- Cotone employee Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff ple show up for football games, recycling is becoming a part of gaters recycling bags and con- Sophomores Scott Esonye and Heather Wong and junior Lizzie Gray play this effort is basically making all that.” L&A PAGE 10 Twister at the Queer Welcome Carnival Friday afternoon. sure people are recycling,” said The event kicked off with stu- RECYCLE continues on PAGE 2 P2 2 NEWS Tuesday, September 6, 2011 THE DAILY TEXAN TRAFFIC continues from PAGE 1 DRIVERS continues from PAGE 1 Volume 112, Number 31 “With a combination of the year. This score also ranks Aus- gress [Avenue], First Street or business district, downtown tin above both Dallas and Hous- along the frontage roads and I area, double deck split, hospitals ton in collision frequency. see this recklessness almost ev- CONTACT US and UT, there is a lot of entering “You’ll see from year to year ery time.” and exiting traffic in that area,” typically a city will either go Sam Sinclair, Lead Worker for Main Telephone: said John Hurt, Austin spokes- forward or slide backward a Traffic Safety in the Texas De- (512) 471-4591 man for the Texas Department couple of spots, so to go down partment of Transportation, said Editor: of Transportation. 20 [ranks] is definitely impres- he realizes there are still reckless Viviana Aldous In the late 1960s and ear- sive,” said Allstate spokeswom- drivers in Austin, but he doesn’t (512) 232-2212 ly 1970s the upper deck on the an Kristen Beaman.

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