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1A1 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 SPORTS PAGE 8 Texas designers ‘work it’ on ‘Project Runway’ Women’s tennis tries to knock it out of the court NEWS PAGE 9 Students stop traffic for donations TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 49 33 Monday, February 8, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com TODAY UT Tower shootings come to life Texas hopes to trump No.1 team Screening of documentary at Bob Bullock Museum dent. Whitman killed 16 people, uled tours, according to a story mass murder. including his wife and mother, in the June 30, 2005 issue of The John Lewis, director of the- showcases tragic events, never-before-seen footage and wounded many more Aug. Daily Texan. aters at the Bullock Museum, Men’s basketball vs. By Collin Eaton History Museum presented 1, 1966, with an arsenal of high- The screening was followed said “Sniper ’66” was a submis- No. 1 Kansas, Frank Daily Texan Staff “Sniper ’66: The Charles Whit- powered rifles and shotguns by a panel of witnesses of the sion from filmmaker Whitney Erwin Center, 8 p.m. Witnesses and survivors of the man Murders at the Texas Tow- from the top of the Tower. shooting spree, including for- Milam to the Texas Spirit Docu- 1966 UT Tower shooting were er” on Friday. After the incident, the Uni- mer Texas Ranger Ramiro Marti- mentary Series, a group of his- shown a special screening of a The film, which opened with versity closed the Tower to visi- nez, one of two Austin Police De- torical documentaries shown documentary that features never- quiet, colorless 1960s footage of tors until 1999, when former UT partment officers who shot and daily at the museum. before-seen footage of the now-in- the University campus, covered President Larry Faulkner asked killed Whitman, and Gary Pick- “This is probably one of the famous day in UT history. the life and death of Charles the University to reopen it. The le, a young KTBC cameraman The Bob Bullock Texas State Whitman, a 25-year-old UT stu- University allowed small, sched- who shot graphic footage of the FILM continues on page 2 Regents vote to demolish engineering buildings Board also authorizes COMINGthis week SOON $11 million venture to renovate Texas Union By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff TODAY For the first time in nearly two Democrats face off decades, the Board of Regents The Democratic primary debate approved a plan Friday to have the between former Houston May- Texas Union undergo renovations. or Bill White and businessman The regents approved an $11 Farouk Shami will be broadcast million Union renovation project live at 7:00 p.m. from Fort Worth and a $290 million proposal from by KERA. the Cockrell School of Engineer- ing to demolish the 47-year-old En- gineering Sciences Building and its annexes to create a state-of-the- art Engineering Education and Re- search Building. The construction TUESDAY of the EERB, slated for completion in 2015, is the first phase of the en- Representation, legislation Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff Student Government meeting gineering school’s 13-year master Terry Ross celebrates at Shoal Creek Saloon as New Orleans Saint Tracy Porter returned an interception 74 yards for a touchdown at 7:00 p.m. in the Glenn Malo- plan. to seal a Super Bowl victory for the Saints. ney Room of the Student Servic- The Union renovation propos- es Building. al highlights needs for a fire-sprin- Keep the beats going kler system installation, as well as other interior and exterior building The Daily Texan reviews new Hot Chip and Yeasayer albums. renovations. The UT System Of- e Saints came marching in fice of Facilities Planning and Con- struction will oversee the project. The focus of the renovation is safe- By Audrey White the franchise’s first Super Bowl win. ident who watched the game at the Ala- ty improvement, in addition to up- Daily Texan Staff Saints and Colts supporters cheered mo Drafthouse at the Ritz on Sixth Street, grades in the mechanical, electrical “I’ve been watching the Saints play for on their favorite team at sports bars and where fans could catch the game on one and plumbing systems, said Bob 20 years, and I’m about to watch them clubs across Austin on a night known for of the theater’s movie screens. WEDNESDAY Rawski, the office’s regional pro- win,” math sophomore Chris Tosh said as cutthroat athletics, witty commercials and Chada and a group of four friends She shoots, she scores gram manager. the first quarter of Super Bowl XLIV be- beer. The crowds included lifelong fans as have watched the Super Bowl at the Ala- Women’s basketball at Colorado, 8 He said the renovations can also gan. well as those who just wanted to watch mo Drafthouse at the Ritz for the past five p.m. FSN. make the Union building more en- Tosh and his friends went to Cuatro’s, good football. Many threw their horns up years. The men have known each other Wash your hands vironmentally friendly. a West Campus sports bar and restaurant, when their team scored. since they were kids and use the game as Science Under the Stars, “Influenza “The systems in a building have Dynamics and Vaccination in Tex- to watch the game. His optimism paid off “It’s un-American not to watch this as,” from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at — the Saints defeated the Colts 31-17 in game,” said John Chada, an Austin res- GAME continues on page 6 the Brackenridge Field Laboratory. REGENTS continues on page 2 Just the bare necessities Strippers strip to pay for college in Hump Day. What I’d truly like to be University musicians Visit UT alumna Alison Kwong and Found copy of Declaration her post-grad job: driving the 27- foot Oscar Mayer Wienermobile honor black composers around the country. By Gabrielle Cloudy rican-Americans throughout his- makes way to LBJ Library Daily Texan Staff tory. UT students, faculty and alum- UT vocal performance gradu- By Collin Eaton ni joined with Huston-Tillotson ate student Nicole Taylor came Daily Texan Staff University to celebrate the mu- up with the idea for the concert A copy of the Declaration of THURSDAY sical works of African-American in 2007 while working on her an- Independence taken by horse- Step up to the plate composers and arrangers at the notated bibliography on African- back to one of the 13 Colonies Softball vs. TWU, McCombs Field, Bates Recital Hall on Saturday American female composers. UT soon after July 4, 1776, made its 6:30 p.m. night. and Huston-Tillotson took inter- way to the University on Friday For the past three years, stu- est in the event and have been in- afternoon. dents from UT’s Butler School volved every year since. One of only 26 surviving Dun- of Music and the Huston-Tillot- “I discovered all this great mu- lap broadsides of the document son concert choir and jazz combo sic that was like hidden treasure,” was displayed in the Lyndon have come together to produce Taylor said. “And that’s when I Baines Johnson Library and Mu- FRIDAY the Black History Month Concert got interested in putting it out seum on Saturday as a long line in an effort to highlight the classi- of visitors read and walked by the Here, batter, batter cal and inspirational music of Af- MUSIC continues on page 2 document from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Softball Time Warner Invita- A Dunlap broadside, which tional, McCombs Field, 5 p.m. is about the size of an unfolded Humming, strumming along newspaper, is a copy of the Dec- Scott Squires | Daily Texan Staff Guy Forsyth talks with The Dai- laration of Independence print- Emma McCarson and Lily Zachary, age 8, examine one of the 26 ly Texan about his music and the ed on the night of July 4, 1776, surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence with Emma’s Cactus Cafe. by John Dunlap, a printer for the mother, Kim McCarson. A hairy Valentine’s Day Second Continental Congress. “Valentine’s Day” and “The Wolf- Dunlap originally printed 200 spokeswoman Anne Wheeler. to the LBJ Library. man” hit theaters today. broadsides that were carried to The broadside made its way A woman, whose name has From the East to the West the 13 Colonies. to Austin on Friday after the Na- not been released, discovered the How will you celebrate the Lunar “I think the presidency, more tional Student/Parent Mock Elec- broadside in 1989 after she pur- New Year? than any other institution, has tion, a nonprofit educational orga- chased a $4 frame and a small shaped this country,” said li- nization, recognized Austin’s An- painting at a flea market. brary director Mark Updegrove. derson High School for high vot- “She went to take the paint- “The two people who were er turnout in its nationwide mock ing out of the back [of the frame] most instrumental in [the Decla- presidential election, according and noticed that there was a pa- ration’s] creation went on to be- to a press release from the Aus- per back there, and it was [a come president.” tin Independent School District. Dunlap broadside],” said Ellene UPDATE Katherine Medlin | Daily Texan Staff The display was the first time The broadside display was shown Miles, spokeswoman for Declare What’s next? UT doctoral student Nicole Taylor sings opera at the Bates Recital Hall this broadside had been shown to only to the Anderson High School More Cactus Cafe coverage.