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P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 SURE ARM PASTAFARIAN FARE Freshman rebounds to lead Rasta restaurant on Guadalupe brings A LONG RHODE team in saves Jamaican jerk to pasta plates Track & field star shares his story SPORTS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 SPORTSXXXX PAGE PAGE XX 6 >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Tuesday, March 29, 2011 UT recipients TODAY of Pell Grants Calendar rising as cuts ‘Sexuality and threaten funds Hate Crimes’ By Amy Thornton The Brazilian Film Series Daily Texan Staff presents this documentary on human rights themes in SRH Although many of the nation’s 1.115 at 2 p.m. elite colleges are unsuccessfully re- cruiting low-income students, the Adhesions of University of Texas has experienced growth in the population of un- Neurosurgery dergraduates receiving Federal Pell The Institute for Neuroscience Grants, which are designated for hosts a panel talk on the low-income students. adhesions of neurosurgery in An analysis by The Chronicle of SEA 4.244 at 4:30 p.m. Higher Education of data from the Department of Education showed Texas Baseball less than 15 percent of the under- Longhorns play Oral Roberts at graduates at the country’s 50 wealth- UFCU Disch-Falk Field at 6 p.m. iest colleges received Pell Grants The theme is superheroes and in 2008-09, a percentage that has tickets range from $5-$12. not changed since the 2004-05 school year. Want to be a However, UT has experienced a growth of 1.7 percent, or 541 more Caleb Bryant Miller | Daily Texan Staff Rock Star students, on the Pell Grant. Cur- The Communication Council Two partygoers embrace at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in West Campus on Saturday during Roundup, an annual festival among the rently, 8,542 UT students — about Greek culture attended by high school and college students from across the state and country. hosts Patrick Terry, the owner 21.4 percent — attend the Univer- of the restaurant P. Terry’s, to sity with the help of a Pell Grant. discuss how flipping burgers ROUNDUP CRIME STATS UT gained more Pell Grant students can turn you into a rock star. By March March March than its peer institutions, which in- The lecture will be held in BUR Roundup Marty McAndrews 25-26, 2011 18-19, 2011 26-27, 2010 clude Michigan State University, 208 at 6 p.m. University of Washington and The Public Intoxication 7 Ohio State University. ‘Internet Privacy CrimeRates Assault w/ Injury 1 Student Financial Services di- Burglary of Residence 1 rector Tom Melecki said there are is Here’ Last weekend’s annual Roundup spective UT students to Austin’s West strong concerns about the effects Burglary of Vehicle 2 2 5 A panel of experts will discuss event for prospective members of UT Campus area to interest them in the of Congress reducing or eliminat- cyber safety at 6 p.m. in GEA fraternities and sororities may have University and the Greek system. Criminal Mischief 1 1 7 ing the program and the burden it 105. The Student Organization seemed like a wild time for some West This year, crimes in the West Cam- Disturbance/Other 3 will place on the University’s needi- Safety Board will host the event. Campus residents, but it resulted in pus area between Martin Luther King, est students. Lost Property 3 fewer arrests than last year, according Jr. Boulevard and 28th Street and “One of the University’s missions to the Austin Police Department. Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boule- Minor in Possesion 1 is that no qualified student should be Roundup, a weekend synonymous vard totaled eight exclusively nonvio- Theft of Bicycle 2 1 prevented from attending the Uni- Today in history with neon colors, tank tops, fanny lent crimes and zero public intoxica- versity for financial reasons,” Me- packs and free alcohol, is an annual tion charges. The number was a de- Theft 1 1 lecki said. “I think that it has done In 2004 celebration put on by the Interfrater- crease from Roundup 2010’s total of 31 Total 8 4 27 a terrific job to make sure that’s not The Republic of Ireland nity Council and the University Pan- crimes within the same area. In 2010, t h e c a s e .” Note: This data from APD represents crimes that occurred in the becomes the first country in hellenic Council, said Paul Kleiman, a APD reported seven counts of public The federal government gives Pell West Campus area between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the world to ban smoking in all member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi frater- 28th Street and Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard. work places, including bars and nity. The event draws hundreds of pro- ROUNDUP continues on PAGE 2 GRANTS continues on PAGE 2 restaurants. Campus Watch Speaker discusses drug war in Mexico Porcelain gods By Yvonne Marquez public safety strategy to an audience Plataforma Mexico, a project to Jester West Dormitory, 201 E. Daily Texan Staff of about 60 people at the LBJ School coordinate and integrate informa- 21st St. of Public Affairs. He said Mexico’s tion about crime and public securi- A UT police officer observed a Local Mexican law enforcement federal government needs the state ty, is one way the Mexican govern- UT student being carried into agencies must combat drug traf- and local authorities to move more ment is combating violence. Poiré the dormitory by three other fickers by avoiding corruption and quickly to confront drug cartels. said the database can hold up to 400 students. While talking to the receiving proper training to pro- “These originally traditional car- million public safety records to co- officers the student began vide a network of safety to citizens, tels became very, very, very power- ordinate between the federal, state exhibiting signs of the onset of said Mexico’s security spokesman ful organizations and structures that and city levels. an extreme physical reaction Monday. had a lot of money and lot of guns Poiré said Mexico is also focusing to the overconsumption of Alejandro Poiré, secretary of the and great organizational capacity on social development by providing alcohol. The student was rushed Mexico’s National Security Coun- that really challenged the state insti- into the closest restroom and cil, discussed the country’s national tutions at the local level,” Poiré said. MEXICO continues on PAGE 2 she began paying homage to Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff the porcelain gods. Austin EMS Ted Patzek, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering chair, has been was notified and treated the appointed to a federal advisory committee on offshore drilling safety. student at the scene for alcohol poisoning and transported the Event focuses on immigrant family life student to a local area hospital. By Katrina Tollin Professor appointed Daily Texan Staff As a child of Cambodian refu- to ocean safety team gees, Kappa Phi Lambda sorori- ty member Cindy Tan experienced a childhood different from many of her peers at UT. Quote to note after oil spill in Gulf With parents unaccustomed to American life, she was kept at home “I learned to treasure By Amy Thornton igation of the spill’s effects to his instead of being allowed to social- Daily Texan Staff committee appointment. ize with her friends when she was family, man. Live “This committee was formed af- young and admits now she can be ‘ A UT professor will serve on the less social as a result of her strict up- every day‘ to the ter the realization that the industry newly-formed Ocean Energy Safety was not prepared to deal with spills,” bringing. fullest and anything Advisory Committee, a federal ad- Patzek said. “We will be advising the Tan shared her story at “I am visory body created to improve off- Department of the Interior about how an Immigrant,” an event hosted by Jono Foley | Daily Texan Staff that you do, give it shore drilling safety, well contain- to safely drill in an offshore environ- Asian sorority Kappa Phi Lambda. Allan Concepcion discusses the difficulty of being a second gen- your all because you ment and spill response. ment, how to contain spills should The event invited other first-gener- eration immigrant. Concepcion, a second generation Filipino, was After last year’s Deepwater Ho- they ever happen and, even bet- ation American students to discuss wrongly put into Spanish ESL classes. never know when it rizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mex- ter, how to prevent spills from even the cultural barriers they face with al and communication barriers be- is a culture gap because we grew up ico, Ted Patzek, chair of the De- h app e n i n g .” their parents. can be taken away tween me and my parents.” in American culture, whereas our partment of Petroleum and Geo- The committee consists of 15 ex- “They had their ways of growing Participants discussed how they parents grew up in a different one,” from you.” systems Engineering, was called perts representing academia, federal up when they were in Cambodia, try to bridge the cultural gap be- said dance and radio-television-film to appear as an expert in front of agencies, the offshore oil and gas in- and it was very different then, espe- — Trevante Rhodes tween themselves and their families. senior Shirley Luong, the cultural the Congressional committee in dustry and environmental groups. cially what they went through — es- Sprinter charge of investigating the incident. caping genocide,” said Tan, a junior “For minorities, most of our par- chair of Kappa Phi Lambda and or- He said he partly attributes his tes- in the College of Natural Scienc- ents are from a different country, and SPORTS PAGE 6 timony about the causes and mit- OCEAN continues on PAGE 2 es.