THE DAILY TEXAN 79 56 Monday, April 26, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900

1 SPORTS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 NFL Draft: McCoy, Shipley both go to Ohio teams Austin makes sure Eeyore doesn’t celebrate alone NEWS PAGE 5 Students showcase innovative business ideas TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 79 56 Monday, April 26, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com THE WEEK Exhibit bares its bones at UT Coalition AHEAD protests TODAY changes in On TSTV: Watch it KVRX News 9 p.m. College Pressbox 9:30 p.m. curriculum By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The TUESDAY Wind” floated over the courtyard In Sports: Go Horns! in front of Mezes Hall on Sunday afternoon as students and politi- Baseball vs. UTSA, UFCU cians prepared for a rally to protest Disch-Falk Field, 6:05 p.m. the social studies curriculum revi- In Life&Arts: sions proposed by the Texas State Board of Education. Compact cake Members of University Demo- The Daily Texan catches crats, Chicano civil rights group up with an Austin chef MEChA and the Texas Freedom who makes cake ... in a jar. Network, a nonprofit group that works to combat the religious right voice in education, formed the Save Our History coalition to show a stu- dent presence against the board’s WEDNESDAY revisions, which members say are damaging to Texas children. In Life&Arts: Sex in The revisions first received na- other cities tional attention in March when Hump Day takes a look people learned the board was re- at other sex columns moving Thomas Jefferson from across the country and a world history standard on En- the backlash that such lightenment thinkers. Other con- columns receive. Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff troversial changes include chang- Jill and Rodney Craig tour “Our Body,” an exhibition of preserved human bodies, on Friday at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture ing “democratic republic” to “con- and Sports on campus. The exhibit will be on display until September. stitutional republic” and the exclu- sion of certain minority leaders and THURSDAY INSIDE: Read more about the body exhibit on page 5 BOOKS continues on page 2 Calendar: In style Texas 4000 hosts a fashion show to help raise money for cancer research. University remembers integration BoConcept, 430 W. Second By Alex Geiser Civil Rights, a two-day event cel- her family but decided to re-enroll Street, 6 p.m. Daily Texan Staff ebrating 60 years of integration at two years later. In Sports: Play ball! Sixty years after the integra- the University. “It was the first time I had defied tion of the University, five of the Although the Graduate my mom,” Simmons said. “Later, Softball at Texas Tech, 7 p.m. first African-American students School had been integrated for she let me know that for my life, I returned to the 40 Acres with ap- six years before Simmons, who had made the right decision.” plause and warm welcomes — a shared stories of her experienc- The choice to return to the Uni- stark contrast to the hostile recep- es Friday, was admitted in 1956, versity, however, was not with- FRIDAY tion and discrimination they faced she faced many difficulties as a out its challenges. Almetris Co-op, as UT undergraduates. black co-ed at the predominate- which was torn down in the late Calendar: Cafe’s fate The former students — Eman- ly white University. ’60s for the communication build- Texas Union Board of uel McKinney, Peggy Drake Hol- Simmons said although she had ings, was a dormitory for black Directors meets to vote on land, Eva Goins Simmons, Thel- a full-ride scholarship to Langs- females where Simmons lived. a final proposal regarding ma Miller Bowles and Nathaniel ton University in Oklahoma, she When she lived there, she said the Cactus Cafe. Texas Bradford — spoke as members of was pressured by her high school the regular rooms had filled up, Katherine Medlin | Daily Texan Staff Union Board of Directors The Precursors at the 24th annu- teachers to enroll at UT in 1956. Thelma Miller Bowles speaks about her experiences as one of the first Room, 3:30 p.m. al Heman Sweatt Symposium on After one year, she left to be with PIONEERS continues on page 2 black students at UT at a civil rights symposium on Friday. In Life&Arts: Fun in German town “Why don’t we do it Vietnamese on the road?” goes to APD inaugurates 116th cadet class Fredericksburg. immigrant By Bobby Longoria Daily Texan Staff Citizens and families of the Austin com- recalls story munity watched as officers were pinned with badges that represented the city’s trust FRIDAY during the graduation ceremony of the Aus- of her escape tin Police Department’s 116th cadet class. Bats, Bears Editor’s note: This is the second in The class began its 32-week training program Sept. 14, and 76 students completed Baseball at Baylor, a two-part series profiling Vietnamese- American immigrants in Austin. the class. Because of budget cuts, city offi- 6:30 p.m. cials delayed the class’ starting date by six By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert months, from March to September 2009. The Daily Texan Staff class was almost entirely cut before officers Nancy Bui can recall with vivid from the Austin Police Association deferred memory what she thought would pay raises in June to pay for the class. be the final days of her life. “This is the class that almost didn’t hap- Bui was stranded at sea with her pen,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said. children and 22 other refugees 31 “The challenge they just had is nothing com- years ago after trying to escape from pared to the challenges they are going to Vietnam by boat. She was adrift at face, moving from theory to practice to the sea for three weeks — plagued by real world.” starvation, dehydration and storms Changing the start date for the class — on a broken boat floating slowly saved the city about $1.4 million and was toward Thailand before she and the Bobby Longoria | Daily Texan Staff part of an effort to reduce the budget by Officer Michael Hankemeier takes his oath of office into the Austin Police Department Friday. BOAT continues on page 5 Seventy-five other graduating cadets joined the department after a 32-week training program. CADET continues on page 2 TIP OF THE DAY PRESENTED BY Advertise campus events... using e-mail or in mass publications like The Daily Texan, rather than putting up ﬂiers. P P interOnet.net Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy HALLIBURTON BUSINESS FOUNDATIONS SUMMER INSTITUTE BusinessBusiness isis Hot!Hot! June 1st-July 30th, 2010 • APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 7 Earn 15 hrs credit and a Texas BFP Certiﬁ cate in just nine weeks 10 SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE! For more information or to request an app, email [email protected] 2 2 Design Editor: Olivia Hinton Monday, April 26, 2010 News www.dailytexanonline.com The Daily Texan NEWS cadet: Budget Volume 110, Number 194 BRIEFLY Books: Groups protest board’s revisions 25 cents cuts delayed Exxon Mobil Corporation From page 1 culating an online letter among with White’s request, Perry cam- CONTACT US University history professors and paign spokeswoman Catherine Main Telephone: donates funds to University movements. Texas is the nation’s researchers asking the board to Frazier said. graduation day (512) 471-4591 The University will receive largest purchaser of textbooks, so further consult experts about the McLeroy said he finds White’s more than $1 million in dona- the state’s curriculum standards revisions before voting. The pe- suggestion insulting and unreal- From page 1 Editor: tions from Exxon Mobil Corp. will impact textbooks purchased tition had 1,183 signatures as of istic. It is necessary that current Jillian Sheridan in May, as part of a grant from by states across the nation. Friday afternoon. board members continue to be ac- $20 million, according to media (512) 232-2212 the annual ExxonMobil Founda- “I grew up in Iran, and I didn’t Some students object to the mis- tive in their roles until their terms reports. The police union’s deci- [email protected] tion’s 2009 Educational Match- know anything about real histo- sion of Save Our History, although end in November, he said. sion to forgo its members’ pay ing Gift Program, in which em- ry because everything came from there is no organized group in sup- He also encouraged individu- raises saved the city $5 million Managing Editor: ployees and retirees donate the government, so the history port of the revisions. On Friday, als who object to the board’s stan- and went toward establishing Ana McKenzie money to higher educational in- we learned was partisan and not government junior and College dards to take advantage of the the police class. (512) 232-2217 stitutions across the nation. true,” said Save Our History mem- Republicans member Justin May public commenting option on the Cadets stood in rows pri- Exxon Mobil matches those managingeditor@ ber Shana Mirhosseini. “I felt really wrote a Firing Line in The Daily Texas Education Agency’s website, or to the ceremony, each await- donations by a ratio of 3 to 1. In dailytexanonline.com uneducated, and I don’t want the Texan that criticized University- where a copy of the revisions are ing inspection by Acevedo him- Texas alone, contributions to- same thing to happen to students wide representative Jeremy Yag- available for review. self. Once the ceremony began, Retail Advertising: taled $7.9 million to 83 colleg- in Texas.” er, who authored the SG resolu- “When people demonstrate, we es and universities.

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