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1 OPINION PAGE 4 Find a recreational oasis Road show inspires stereotypical Texas vacations at the Greenbelt SPORTS PAGE 8 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 14 Cole Pittman remembered with golf tournament TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 96 76 Monday, July 12, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com THE WEEK AHEAD Powers to seek approval TODAY to rename Simkins Hall By Destinee Hodge ter weeks of discussion, includ- “It is certainly on the master Second session Daily Texan Staff ing two public forums and sever- plan to be replaced,” said Gregory The Board of Regents will meet al committee meetings. Vincent, vice president of the Di- classes begin Thursday to consider President The 21-person committee vision of Diversity and Commu- Classes begin for the second William Powers Jr.’s recommen- tasked with making a recommen- nity Engagement. “And, although term of the summer session. dation to rename Simkins Hall dation to Powers suggested that there are no immediate plans, the Dormitory. the residence hall be renamed sense is we want to be careful The University confirmed Fri- “Creekside Dormitory,” agree- about honoring someone with a day that Powers will advise that ing that a generic name should be Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff Simkins Hall be renamed af- given to the dorm. HALL continues on page 11 The renaming of Simkins Hall Dormitory will be recommended by TUESDAY President William Powers Jr. in the Board of Regents meeting Thursday. ‘Too close for ON THE WEB: Comment on the story and suggest a name for Simkins Hall @dailytexanonline.com The hall is named after a former UT professor and Klansman. comfort’ Jamie Cullum plays Stubb’s Bar- B-Que at 7 p.m. Tickets start McCombs at $22. Flooding overtakes Texas cities ‘I was born when places first she kissed me’ Humphrey Bogart and Gloria in US News Grahame star in the 1950 classic “In a Lonely Place.” Show starts at 9:20 p.m. at the Paramount rankings Theatre and tickets are $9. By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff The McCombs School of Busi- ness was ranked first among U.S. WEDNESDAY accounting MBA programs in 2010, according to a July 9 U.S. If you like ‘80s News & World Report study . new wave ... UT’s business school was first The Spazmatics take the stage in accounting, third in informa- with Josh and Jason at the tion systems, tied for seventh in Cedar Street Courtyard at 6 p.m. part-time MBAs, ninth in entre- preneurship and tied for 16th overall, out of 426 colleges across the country. McCombs also has the lowest THURSDAY in-state tuition among the top 20 schools at $26,450 per year. ‘Good. Better. With the exception of the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley’s Best. Bested.’ and UCLA’s business schools, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” tuitions for other every school shows at the Harry Ransom in the study’s top 20 each have Center as part of the Making a yearly tuition of more than Movies Film Series. Show starts $40,000, according to the study . at 7 p.m. and tickets are free. Eun Hae Ko, a business senior and president of the Business International Students Associa- tion, said the ranking makes her FRIDAY Peyton McGee | Daily Texan Staff proud to be a McCombs student Ranch worker Jorge Saenz asks for a knife to cut loose a gate in a flooded Rio Grande City field Saturday afternoon. Saenz was trying to and happy that her degree will ‘Cuz here we go, open the gate to help herd cattle out of flooded fields. be worth something when she graduates. and there we go’ River enters ‘massive flood stage’ as dam gates open in Rio Grande City “[The lower tuition price] is one The Sour Notes play Hole in the of the biggest reasons I decided Wall with the Great Nostalgic, By Nolan Hicks al Boundary Water Commission, per second, Starr County spokes- runs through Rio Grande City. At to attend McCombs as well,” Ko Zorch and Row Zero. Show starts Daily Texan Staff which manages the river and the man Gene Falcon said. He said 5 p.m. Saturday, county officials said. “It’s definitely a big factor at 9 p.m. and tickets are $5. RIO GRANDE CITY — As dams that restrict its flow, ordered the release of the water swelled said it was 56 1/2 feet deep. and good to know that you’re not the floodwaters began to recede Falcon Dam to open its flood- the Rio Grande — a river already It was just after 11 a.m. Satur- going to graduate with thousands in Laredo, the deluge of water gates. The move was designed to swollen by rains from Hurricane day when a group of seven people of dollars in loans. That’s always that sent the Rio Grande over its protect the integrity of the mas- Alex and Tropical Depression Two stood around a cattle pen shout- good to hear.” banks flowed south toward Fal- sive structure. — to what he called a massive ing advice to Victor Salinas and Kareem Aridi, an accounting con Dam. Opening the floodgates un- flood stage. Jorge Saenz, who were inside the senior and the vice president of The volume of water was such leashed a torrent downstream of Locals said the Rio Grande is that officials at the Internation- almost 1,200 cubic feet of water usually less than 8 feet deep as it FLOODING continues on page 6 RANKS continues on page 2 Quote to note “People went crazy Tesla’s scienti c legacy inspires art UT withholds cafe files when Brad Paisley ‘ By Michelle Truong was singing.‘ It Daily Texan Staff in open records request Several hundred Austinites was packed, and gathered at a converted ware- By Collin Eaton versity announced the partner- everybody was just house for The Tesla Project on Daily Texan Staff ship with KUT on May 19. Saturday, where science-inspired A UT graduate student shared Pending a ruling from the at- hopping around on art glowed and glittered under documents related to the part- torney general’s office, the UT boats, meeting new the bright lights of the exhibit nership between KUT Radio administration is withholding space. In the front studio of the and the Texas Union to manage some documents from the re- people. There was warehouse, T-shirts designed by the Cactus Cafe — as obtained quests, though the University has local artists were screen-printed from several open records re- released several e-mails and oth- this one stripper — for sale, and local bands enter- quests — with The Daily Texan er documents. she hopped on our tained in the backyard. on Saturday. Among the documents con- The house party honoring Hayley Gillespie, a graduate tested and currently being with- tube. She was Nikola Tesla took place on his student and co-founder of Stu- held by the University are drafts 154th birthday. The inventor and dent Friends of the Cactus Cafe, of the May 19 press release an- a mess.” engineer is remembered for his requested any e-mails or other nouncing the KUT partnership contributions to science, most documents circulated between with the Texas Union and doc- Ryan Smith | Daily Texan Staff — Leslie Sylvester notably in the field of electro- University employees concern- uments related to the planning UT nursing student magnetism. “Tesla Takes Flight,” a papier-mache and acrylic piece by the artist ing the Cactus Cafe or KUT Ra- of the May 19 press conference Theresa Bond, sits among the many works of art commemorating the dio from Dec. 1 to when the re- LIFE&ARTS PAGE 14 TESLA continues on page 11 Austrian inventor Nikola Tesla for The Tesla Project. quest was filed May 14. The Uni- CAFE continues on page 11 Austin Toll Free 877-495-1559 TXbooks Local 512-499-1559 Order online @ www.AustinTXbooks.com 2 2 NEWS Monday, July 12, 2010 6 THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 111, Number 28 RANKS: Student says F 25 cents CONTACT US school services, staff Main Telephone: (512) 471-4591 Editor: put McCombs at top Lauren Winchester (512) 232-2212 [email protected] From page 1 There are only a few other pub- lic schools that enter the ranks Managing Editor: corporate relations for the Uni- among the top-ranked schools, Ben Wermund versity Accounting Association, most of which are private. It’s re- (512) 232-2217 said he believes the school de- ally something special to be able managingeditor@ serves to be ranked first in ac- to be at a place like [UT] and have dailytexanonline.com counting and has been ranked a school like McCombs that deliv- first since 1994. ers such a top-notch education.” News Offi ce: “That’s one of the main rea- Luke Jones, a business gradu- (512) 232-2207 sons I joined [the school] in the ate student and president of the [email protected] first place,” Aridi said. “I think Entrepreneur Society, said he be- it deserves to be continual- lieves the school will continue to Web Offi ce: ly ranked No. 1. I’m definitely rise in the rankings. (512) 471-8616 happy, especially about being in “I’m not shocked at all, to be [email protected] [the accounting program] now honest. It’s one of the top pro- [while the school is] maintaining grams in the nation,” Jones said. Sports Offi ce: that honor.” “Everyone from the students up to Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff (512) 232-2210 Aridi said as long as he’s pay- the faculty to the leadership of the Korbin Cooper, 8, plays on the bleachers at East Side Field at the Yellow Jacket Stadium on Sunday.