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1 ON THE WEB THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 TUNESDAY CALL IT A COMEBACK Recent music releases get put to the test Rangers one game closer to series title LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 SPORTS PAGE 7 >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Tuesday, October 25, 2011 TODAY Website aids students in studying By Liz Farmer zlet, to create flashcard reviews before ple, Android and Windows devices. “If a professor can put it on a Pow- He said each person in the study Daily Texan Staff tests. Quizlet is one of a growing num- “For me, it helps since I make the erpoint, you can put it on a Quizlet,” group enters information onto several Calendar ber of new online learning tools of its cards,” Sabel said. “That’s part of my Sabel said. cards, which are more accessible to ev- When faced with more than 900 type, which has seen increasing popu- study habit — to turn the information However, Sabel said Quizlet has eryone than paper flashcards. terms to learn for a pharmacy class, larity because of features that allow us- into a question.” limitations that other online learning Quizlet founder and president An- ‘The Infernal one UT student turned to the use of ers to create their own flashcards, ac- The basic site allows users to apply tools contain, such as only offering drew Sutherland created the site to Comedy’ online flashcards that he can distribute cess other users’ flashcards and make text to cards and extended functions two sides for flashcards. study for a high school French class “The Infernal Comedy among his study group. tests out of the information. Sabel uses are available for a fee, which allow us- “One of the reasons that we have so in 2005. He said the site grew as his Confession of a Serial Killer“ Pharmacy student Richard Sabel the site on his iPad, but it is also avail- ers to apply images and create unlim- many cards is that there isn’t a third featuring John Malkovich is said he joined the free study site, Qui- able through applications for other Ap- ited groups. side,” Sabel said. QUIZ continues on PAGE 2 a stage play about notorious Austrian serial killer and author Jack Unterweger. The performance starts at 8 p.m. with ticket prices ranging from Entrepreneur $10 - $52. aims to brew Night Terrors haunted house coffee with Night Terrors haunted house opens tonight at 7 p.m. and shot of ethics goes until midnight. The 1900 square foot house features By Nicole Sanseverino bloody and violent scenes Daily Texan Staff for visitors to explore. Ticket prices range from $20 to $40 After her first trip to Chiapas, depending on the type of pass Mexico, entrepreneur Susan Ja- you purchase. mie decided she didn’t want to just start a coffee shop. She want- ed to transform the whole coffee House of industry, an admittedly big feat Torment considering the fact that coffee House of Torment is back once is the second-most traded com- again, featuring two main modity in the world, Jamie said. haunted house attractions Jamie said what she saw dur- “The Reckoning” and “Cursed.” ing that first trip “put a lot on Ticket prices range from $20 - [her] heart.” She met a coffee $30 depending on the type of grower forced to feed her hun- package. The attractions begin gry children newspaper soup and at 7 p.m. and end at midnight. a man begging her to buy his cof- fee beans so that he didn’t have to leave his family to get a job in the Pumpkin patch U.S. “It’s amazing how you see Grace United Methodist is once you start to look into coffee Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff hosting its annual Pumpkin [trade] that you will experience Stu Bresson recycles cans and plastic bags at Austin Ecology Action, a recycling center at the corner of Interstate Highway 35 and Ninth Street patch event, with free the same thing that we did when on Monday afternoon. Austin administrators will be drafting a law on Nov. 1 to ban plastic bags in the city within the next year. storytelling. Don’t wait too long we first traveled over there,” Ja- – the event will end once the mie, owner of Ferra Coffee, said. pumpkins have ran out or until For an industry that raked the 31st. The patch will be open in nearly $15.4 billion world- Plastic bag ban up for debate in Austin all this week from 4 - 7 p.m., wide last year, Jamie said grow- Saturday from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., ers are getting shortchanged. For By Jillian Bliss public’s final input on plastic official ordinance outlining possi- area wildlife and increases flooding and Sunday from noon - 7 p.m. a pound of coffee worth $1.39 on Daily Texan Staff bag prohibition. ble provisions for ending the use of by clogging water passages, accord- the New York Stock Exchange, City officials began discussing the plastic retail bags. Officials support- ing to the unofficial ordinance. growers are likely to get 5 to 9 possible bag ban in April and held ing the plastic bag ban believe it will The city of Austin en- cents, with middlemen pocketing Months of meetings with Aus- several meetings during the past six improve the environment by reduc- gaged in a pilot study in 2007 the difference, she said. tin residents, business owners and months seeking public insight on the ing waste and help cut city spend- encouraging residents to recycle city officials led to an open fo- issue. At an Aug. 4 city council meet- ing used on cleanup programs. Lit- Today in history COFFEE continues on PAGE 2 rum Monday night seeking the ing, members voted to draft an un- ter from the bags is also harmful to BAG continues on PAGE 2 In 2002 Today in 2002 Irish-born actor and two time Oscar nominee Richard Harris died of cancer at the age of 72. The actor whose More housing added career spanned six decades was better known for his roles as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and King Arthur in the by campus for 2013 movie “Camelot.” Harris made By Brianna Pelayo ing within two blocks of the more than 70 films in his time Daily Texan Staff University.” and starred with such actors UT has ground-leased the as Gregory Peck and Marlon A new addition to West Cam- property that was once old Brando. pus is scheduled to open in Wooldridge Hall to Education the fall semester of 2013. 2400 Realty Trust, one of the largest Nueces, the new student and companies in the U.S. involved faculty housing, will consist of in developing and running col- 304 units that will provide 622 legiate housing. Architectural beds ranging from studios to firm PageSoutherlandPage de- four-bedroom apartments. signed 2400 Nueces to go along “It’s not a [typical] UT hous- with the modern look of the ing development,” said Amy University. Wanamaker, campus director of “PageSoutherlandPage are lo- Quote to note real estate. “UT owns the prop- cal, well respected architects erty, and we saw the opportu- that came up with a beautiful People will not nity to generate return on the design,” Wanamaker said. Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff property and the need for stu- give Kansas cred- ‘ James Mulva, UT alumnus and CEO of ConocoPhillips, speaks at the School of Social Work on Monday dent, faculty and graduate hous- HOUSING continues on PAGE 2 it this week.‘ Every- evening. body thought since Iowa State had lost Alumnus credits UT, ROTC for success to Utah [68-27] and By Brianna Pelayo interview Monday, allowing cur- “I wouldn’t trade it for any- Oklahoma [52-0], Daily Texan Staff rent students to hear about the life thing, I’m totally engaged in what and achievements of a prestigious I do,” Mulva said. “I think I work they couldn’t possi- UT alumnus and ConocoPhil- UT graduate. for a noble industry.” bly beat us. lips CEO James Mulva said at- He said the education he re- Mulva graduated with a bache- tending the University and the ceived at UT and in the ROTC lor’s degree in business adminis- small habit of never wanting to program was essential to his suc- tration in the class of ’68 and con- lose is what got him to the top of cess in his career. tinued on as a class of ’69 graduate — Mack Brown his business. Mulva spoke about his success with his master’s degree in busi- Head football coach To start off the year’s first Lib- after graduating from the Univer- ness administration. He served Courtesy of 2400 Nueces eral Arts Council Speaker Series, sity and what it took for him to 2400 Nueces, a new housing complex that will feature more than SPORTS PAGE 7 Mulva participated in an informal get where he is today. CEO continues on PAGE 2 300 units, should open by the fall of 2013. 2 2 NEWS Tuesday, October 25, 2011 THE DAILY TEXAN BAG Volume 112, Number 66 continues from PAGE 1 plastic bags, but Mayor Lee Lef- fingwell said during the forum CONTACT US that implementing a permanent ban would be more efficient than Main Telephone: encouraging recycling. (512) 471-4591 “We have gone to an auto- sorting recycling system, but the Editor: one thing that doesn’t fit is plas- Viviana Aldous tic bags,” Leffingwell said.

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