Whittaker's Career Ends with Injury

1 ON THE WEB Texas Book Festival authors share motives, THE DAILY TEXAN inspiration behind work Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 bit.ly/dt_video Soccer struggles offensively in 1-0 loss to Beep, boop: Robots play South Carolina in NCAA Tournament soccer, drive cars SPORTS PAGE 7 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Monday, November 14, 2011 THE WEEK AHEAD Whittaker’s career ends with injury year running back was healthy. He colm look? What’s his personality like? season, The Daily Texan crafted a long- and total yards and had gotten stronger, faster. He was the Is he ready to put Texas on his back?” winded feature, “The Texan’s 10 Most many “Wild TEXAS TODAY By Trey Scott consummate teammate. Never mind that he had been dis- Important Longhorns.” Whittaker Fozzy” forma- Daily Texan Columnist That’s what makes the grue- counted for somebody four years his didn’t make the cut. Didn’t even sniff it. tions. Whit- FOOTBALL: Bike around some knee injury he suffered Satur- junior, Whittaker swallowed his pride To many, it was a matter of time before taker had in- Recap of saturday’s the Blanton Sports writers don’t root for teams, day against Missouri — one that ends and answered everything. Forget that Fozzy would take a backseat. When he deed conced- game. Parking and Transportation they root for storylines. Something new his collegiate career — even harder he himself had worked incredibly hard was listed for the Rice game as the start- ed the starting On page 7 Services is hosting a town hall to write about, some story to tell, some- to stomach. to get in game shape for his final season er at tailback, many saw it as simply a job to Brown. to discuss bike pathways and thing that makes this week different When we first saw Whittaker this of football. Those who awaited the ar- courtesy — a few last go-rounds before Never complained options around the Blanton than last week. year, in July at Big 12 Media Days, we rivals of Brown and Joe Bergeron as the the talented Brown gives the coaches about it. Instead, he be- Museum. The forum will be For most of this season, that storyline swarmed upon him with questions re- saviors of the Texas offense had ruled no choice but to start him. came the mentor to the two fresh- at Student Activity Center was the comeback of Fozzy Whittaker. garding the much-hyped Malcolm out Whittaker. Fast forward a few games, a few 100- 2.302 from 8 - 9:30 a.m. Injured for most of his career, the fifth- Brown. “Hey, Fozzy, how does Mal- In the weeks leading up to this new yard kickoff returns, lots of touchdowns FOZZY continues on PAGE 2 Unable to attend? Tweet your thoughts to PTS using the #BikeAroundBlanton hashtag. ALL IN A DAY’S RACE UT professor TUESDAY authors study Journalist examining on campus The Tom Johnson Lectureship presents its inaugural lecture staff efficiency with veteran journalist and By Liz Farmer UT alumnus Bill Moyers. The Daily Texan Staff lecture will be held at the LBJ auditorium from 6-7 p.m. On average, University faculty members generate more mon- ey than they make with their re- WEDNESDAY search and teaching, according to a UT professor who authored a Mackin’ ain’t study on faculty instructional and grant-based productivity. easy The study analyzes UT System Mac Miller is performing at data by breaking faculty down into Stubb’s BBQ at 7 p.m. The show tenured and tenure-track professors, is sold out, but you can still find graduate students and other facul- tickets on StubHub. ty. The study’s author, sociology professor and associate liberal arts dean Marc Musick, said the results are lim- ited because productivity measure- THURSDAY ments can’t provide an accurate pic- ture of all the work professors do, es- See for free pecially with the data provided by the Visit the Blanton Museum for UT System. Third Thursday, a free evening “The report shows that the facul- of art and activities. The evening ty are productive, but we can be more starts at 5 p.m. productive,” Musick said. Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff Musick said the UT System data Crowds gathered to support participants of 21st street Street Co-op’s sixth annual MF 100, a bike race that challenges teams to circle the co-op provided faculty salary, benefits, the 100 times while dodging water balloons, a gang of costumed police women and carousing team members while also stopping for obstacles. INSIDE: Read more about the MF 100 on page 12 See a slideshow of the race at bit.ly/mf_100 continues on PAGE 2 FRIDAY ONLINE: FACULTY Codename: Awesome Ghostland Observatory is Students collaborate, performing at the Moody Theater. Doors open at 8 p.m. explore ways to solve Today in history drug cartel violence In 1992 By Sylvia Butanda eral countries, and Univision to host The British Broadcasting Daily Texan Staff the first annual Jornadas Fronterizas Company (BBC) began its first conference on campus Friday and radio broadcast in the United Border violence and security in Saturday. The conference brought Kingdom. relation to drug consumption in 80 students from the United States the United States drove one group and Mexico together in order to ex- of American and Mexican students amine the several issues facing the to propose an awareness campaign border and come up with accessible that highlights the connection be- solutions for those problems. tween drug use in the United States Six teams focused on specific bor- and cartel violence in Mexico. der issues in two-day workshops in Zachary Strain | Daily Texan Staff The Innovation and Creativity which they discussed and agreed on Professor of architecture Lawrence Speck speaks about the architectural significance of Battle Hall at Institute, a cross-discipline UT re- the problems and presented their fi- Jessen Auditorium on Friday night. Following the lecture, faculty and students were invited to view original blue prints of Battle Hall and tour the building. search unit, partnered with Espacio nal solutions. de Vinculación A.C., a nonprofit or- All the teams came up with ganization that holds events to con- Quote to note Battle Hall reaches 100th anniversary nect different areas of society in sev- VIOLENCE continues on PAGE 2 “I was so excited I couldn’t sleep. I By Andrew Messamore sary of its creation, which was building that has shaped us, ‘ Daily Texan Staff sponsored by the Texas Exes, UT and our community.” probably‘ didn’t go the School of Architecture and After the lecture, interest- During the celebration of University of Texas Libraries, ed guests took part in a guided to bed until 3 a.m. Battle Hall’s centennial anni- Battle Hall opened its doors tour of Battle Hall to see orig- On behalf of the six versary, architecture professor to students and faculty Friday inal blueprints of the building Lawrence Speck said architec- evening. Speck kicked the cele- recently retrieved from New freshmen I’ll say that ture has become too reliant on bration off with a lecture where York City by the Texas Heri- we’re very excited to imagery, forgetting its roots in he weaved comments on the tage Society, said Jim Nicar, di- the visceral and corporal expe- state of architecture together rector of campus relations for get that first win out rience of a building. with stories of his own family’s Texas Exes. of the way.” Battle Hall, which was de- experiences of Battle Hall. “We’ve been working on this signed by Cass Gilbert for UT “Good buildings make an for around two years now,” and finished in 1911, is one of incredible difference in the Nicar said. “Almost all 45 of the 150 favorite buildings in world, and I’m tired of look- these works had been in the American architecture, according at buildings as just a style,” New-York Historical Society, Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff — Myck Kabongo Victor Garay listens to a lecture Saturday afternoon about start-up Basketball player ing to the American Institute Speck said. “Architecture is an and this is the first time the companies during the first annual ‘Jornadas Fronterizas’ in the Student of Architects. As part of a cel- experience that changes peo- Activity Center. The two-day conference brought students from Mexico SPORTS PAGE 7 ebration of the 100th anniver- ples lives, and Battle Hall is a BUILDING continues on PAGE 2 and the U.S. together to discuss border issues and solutions. 2 2 NEWS Monday, November 14, 2011 pen to the player who was finally THE DAILY TEXAN healthy, who had battled injuries his entire career. Whittaker’s well-chron- AN ARTISTIC FLOURISH Volume 112, Number 80 FOZZY continues from PAGE 1 icled battle with sprains, tweaks, scrapes and hyperextensions had be- man tailbacks. In the meantime, come a punch line of sorts. He would CONTACT US Whittaker carved out a niche for never be effective, we thought. And himself: kick-returning extraordi- he gladly proved us wrong, doing all Main Telephone: naire, master of the red zone, leader the things we never thought he’d be (512) 471-4591 of the team. After years of idolizing able to do and even some things we Captain America — Fozzy has a Editor: didn’t expect — Whittaker? Return- shield, shirts, backpacks, posters — Viviana Aldous ing kickoffs? For all his hard work, (512) 232-2212 he finally had become a hero of sorts he’ll come through the tunnel next [email protected] of the football field.

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