1A THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 FIRST PITCH Baseball starts season today READY, SET... AN ART MOVEMENT while softball continues perfect roll Students make sacrifices to train for Austin Marathon Local gallery prepares for relocation SPORTS PAGE 1B SPORTS PAGE 8B LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8A >> Breaking news, blogs and more: dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Friday, February 18, 2011 ONthe WEEKEND up for the LEGE FRIDAY count DALLAS COUNTY Proposed law Broken Social would merge Scene The Canadian indie rock band LOSS 0-5% 5-15% 15-25% 25% + two statewide will play a sold out show at La Zona Rosa with Zues. Doors open at 8 p.m. By Melissa Ayala school boards ‘Midnight Train By Allison Kroll ensus data re- Daily Texan Staff to Georgia’ leased Thurs- The Paramount Theatre day verifies Two Texas education agencies may presents Motown singer Gladys what most Tex- merge to ease the transition from high Knight. Doors open at 7 p.m. ans already know — schools to universities if a proposed and tickets start at $30. Cin the last 10 years, the state has seen a bill passes this legislative session. huge population boom and dramatic de- Rep. Fred Brown, R-Bryan, pro- mographic shifts. posed the bill to incorporate the Tex- Texas is still the second most populous state as Higher Education Coordinat- SATURDAY in the nation, after California, growing 20.6 per- ing Board into the Texas Education cent — 4.2 million people — since the 2000 Cen- Agency, which would assume the co- KVRX Pledge sus. The nation as a whole grew by 27.3 million ordinating board’s responsibilities, Drive Benefit people, most of whom settled in the South. Austin said Austin McCarty, Brown’s legisla- tive director. The bill could also trans- alone grew from 656,562 to 790,000 people. Illustration by Veronica Rosalez Show “The data verifies that the Austin metropoli- HIDALGO COUNTY fer the functions of the State Board of The show costs $5 and will tan region has been nothing short of an extreme- Education to the TEA. feature Knifight, Literature, My “[It] is about getting our students ly rapidly growing region, in terms of its population TRAVIS COUNTY Milky Way Arms, Dark Water gained over the last 10 years,” said city of Austin de- prepared to make that jump from the Hymnal, Masonic. Show starts mographer Ryan Robinson. “Totals are all a little bit 12th to 13th grades, which is an issue,” at 8 p.m. in the Spiderhouse above what everyone thought they would be.” McCarty said. “There is a very high Ballroom. Robinson said demographers expected the 2010 number of students going from se- population to be about 785,000 people. The His- niors in high school to being a fresh- Austin Nordic panic population grew more than any other ethnic man in college and requiring devel- Film Fest group and now makes up 35.1 percent of the city opmental education courses, former- The eighth annual film festival total, about 250,000. Austin is now a majority-mi- Texas Demographic Shifts ly known as remedial classes.” will feature works from Norway nority city, meaning that the non-Hispanic white The number of students who are population is less than 50 percent of the total. Percent in need of developmental education and Finland, as well as a City 2000 Census 2010 Census change documentary about novelist “Within the city of Austin, Hispanics now make courses when they graduate from Stieg Larsson. The films start up more than 35 percent of the population, five Houston 1,953,631 2,099,451 7.5 high school, which is up to about percentage points higher than in 2000,” Robinson San Antonio 1,144,646 1,327,407 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bob Bullock EDUCATION continues on PAGE 5A Museum. said. “It shows that we have diversified significantly Dallas 1,188,580 1,197,816 0.8 from a racial and ethnic standpoint. Anybody who Austin 656,562 790,390 20.4 INSIDE: lives here knows that.” The editors weigh in on Sociology professor Jacqueline Angel said the Fort Worth 534,694 741,206 38.6 proposed higher ed changes state’s additional four million people translates into El Paso 563,662 649,121 15.2 SUNDAY on page 4A higher costs for state agencies that assist students, Plano 222,030 259,841 17 The Run Around Laredo 176,576 236,091 33.7 For more on the 82nd The Austin Marathon will kick Legislature COUNT continues on PAGE 6A Souce: U.S. Census Bureau off at 7 a.m. from 16th and see page 6A Congress Streets. Registration slots are filled. Journalism junior Chris ESPN, UT discuss home Benavides Today in history attends the opening of In 1931 the Oscar for Longhorn network Sanchez Toni Morrison, the first black show. The By Allistair Pinsof woman to receive the Nobel and performances. The network, show depict- Prize in Literature, was born in Daily Texan Staff which UT and ESPN announced ed Mexican Lorian, Ohio. last month, does not yet have an gay, lesbian Sports broadcasting giant ESPN official name. Programing will in- and transgen- may be taking over the entire sec- clude Longhorn sports as well as dered fami- ond floor of the Jesse H. Jones studio shows, historical program- lies in their Communications Center Building ming and other academic and cul- homes. B to house studios for its $300 mil- tural events when it launches this lion Longhorn network, said Col- summer. lege of Communications Dean Three weeks ago, ESPN rep- Roderick Hart. resentatives identified the build- Quote to note The plan might impact the De- ing as a strong candidate for the partment of Radio-Television- studio. Legendary news anchor “We know these Film, which uses space in the and former UT student Walter Allen Otto places [colonias]. CMB, one of the buildings in the Cronkite once said the building Daily Texan Staff ‘‘ communications complex. RTF was better than the CBS studio in We know what production faculty are meeting to New York. we’re doing here, discuss ESPN’s interest in the stu- “It is probable [the facility] will dio space today, according to an be in the CMB, which will pro- Photos showcase LGBT Mexican families and it’s that truth e-mail RTF production area head vide optimal opportunities for fac- By Marty McAndrews nas series in the mid-1990s, docu- ed through daily cohabitation,” said the Census Bureau Andrew Shea sent to the faculty ulty and student participation and Daily Texan Staff menting the families going about ALonzo, who spoke with about 50 members. learning,” said UT vice president daily life in their homes. Leticia people at the opening. “The con- should remember “I believe this has potential to for legal affairs Patricia Ohlendorf. Editor’s note: Some statements Bonifaz Alonzo, professor at the nections are not established through whenever they’re be seen as one of the best things “I expect we will conclude the lease were partially translated from Universidad Nacional Autónoma blood relation or reproductive sex- to ever happen to the RTF depart- document very soon.” Spanish. de México in Mexico City, said uality but through the union of in- dealing with us.” ment,” Hart said. “It’s a wonderful With the potential arrival of A series of black-and-white por- the unity in the families included dividuals pursuing happiness and building. To build studios of this ESPN in the building, the big- traits reveal the private lives of gay, in the project have nothing to do commitment in love.” — Mike Seifert quality today would be extraordi- gest challenge for the RTF depart- lesbian and transgender families in with biological similarities. Associate Spanish and Portu- spokesman, narily expensive.” ment would be finding a space for Mexico City in a new exhibit at UT’s “The exhibition takes the reinven- guese professor Hector Dominguez- Equal Voice Network The 20-year deal would also the all the broadcasting equipment Fine Arts Gallery. tion of family as a plural phenom- Ruvalcaba, who is also a co-chair of give ESPN rights to Studio 6B, cur- Óscar Sánchez took the pho- enon, based on a variety of effec- NEWS PAGE 6A rently home of KLRU broadcasts STUDIO continues on PAGE 2A tographs in the Familias Mexica- tive relationships that are construct- EXHIBIT continues on PAGE 2A TICKETS ON SALE NOW! FEB. 22-27 • LONG CENTER Tickets available at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com, 512.474.LONG (5664) and the Long Center Box Office. For groups of 15 or more, call 877.275.3804 Due to the nature of live entertainment dates, times, prices, shows, actors, venues and sales are subject to change without notice. All tickets subject to convenience charges. 2A 2A NEWS Friday, February 18, 2011 EXHIBIT continues from PAGE 1A organizing for the Queer Studies English translator. Cluster, said the goal of the exhibi- “The decision was influenced by tion’s opening night was to bring in Alonzo’s fluency, but I also believe people centrally involved in the pro- that Texas is not English country. It’s cess of legalizing same-sex marriage Spanish country,” Dominguez-Ru- in Mexico. valcaba said. “It was something of The first civil unions, including a political statement to hold the lec- those for same-sex couples, took ture in Spanish.” place in Mexico in 2007. In Janu- The audience for the lecture ary 2009, an amendment to Mexi- and the opening included Spanish co City’s civil law legalized gay mar- speakers, bilingual people and Eng- riage in the capital.