1 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 11 Singer gabs to the Texan about her start Sir Elton John rocks Austin for first time in 10 years SPORTS PAGE 7 Longhorns sweep Jayhawks TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 80 62 Monday, April 12, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com THE WEEK Event allows AHEAD Girl Talk rocks Forty Acres Fest UT students TODAY to pitch their Calendar: Miss UT The Asian American startup ideas Culture Committee presents the Miss UT ‘3 Day Startup’ provides Asia cultural pageant to groups with opportunity increase awareness of and celebrate Asian-American to launch business plans culture, heritage and By Aziza Musa traditions, Texas Union Daily Texan Staff Ballroom, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. It took psychology graduate student David Lewis nine cups On TSTV: Watch it of coffee and 11 energy drinks KVRX News 9 p.m. to make it through the first 48 College Pressbox 9:30 p.m. hours of the fourth biannual “3 Day Startup.” The event takes place once ev- ery semester and allows students the opportunity to bring their TUESDAY ideas for potential businesses to In Sports: Bobcats life. Students are broken up into Baseball vs. Texas State, small teams and then have three UFCU Disch-Falk Field, days to conceive an idea and de- 6:05 p.m. velop a business model. Nearly 150 undergraduate and graduate In Life&Arts: Good students apply every semester, taste in a taco shell but only 40 are accepted. The smaller the group, the Taco Stand By Me heads more synergy they are going to to North Lamar Boulevard have, event spokesman Ruben for a taste of Honduras. Daniela Trujillo | Daily Texan Staff Cantu said. He said the small Greg Gillis, professionally known as Girl Talk, performs at the Forty Acres Fest on Saturday as students dance onstage. groups allow participants to col- laborate more efficiently during a small period of time, which WEDNESDAY Annual festival showcases hundreds of student-run organizations will bring them toward the ulti- mate goal of completing a busi- Calendar: ‘Hercules’ By Aziza Musa attendees. Taylor Steinberg, said. “I was able to talk with [Gil- For many students, the fes- ness model. Daily Texan Staff MEC chairman and manage- lis] after the show, and he was tival started well before Girl The SEC Film Committee “3 Day Startup” attracts stu- Swarms of people danced, ment senior, said Greg Gillis, so enthusiastic about the crowd Talk took the stage. Members dents from all academic back- hosts a “Hercules” sing- sang and fist-pumped as mash- the artist behind Girl Talk, told and his experience in Austin.” of more than 100 organizations grounds, including engineer- along, Texas Union up DJ Girl Talk turned the South him the concert was one of the Nupur Shah, head chair of set up booths showcasing their ing, business, law, communica- Theatre, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m Mall into an outdoor club Satur- best he had ever played because the Forty Acres Fest committee groups throughout the day. tions and design. Four business In Sports: Luna, Luna day night. of the audience’s energy. and human biology junior, said “Forty Acres Fest provides ideas were chosen after students The concert, organized by the “It’s amazing to me how one she was excited to have Girl an opportunity for students to pitched their plans to all of the Softball vs. Baylor, Red and Music and Entertainment Com- guy can command that kind of Talk perform at the festival be- showcase who they are,” said participants on Friday. Charline McCombs Field, mittee as part of the Forty Acres energy and get the crowd as ex- cause he would attract a differ- Lewis, who developed a plan 6:30 p.m. Fest, boasted more than 10,000 cited as they were,” Steinberg ent type of crowd to the event. FORTY ACRES continues on page 2 PITCH continues on page 2 THURSDAY Vietnamese program cut In Life&Arts: Playing Student sets multitasking record it close to the vest By Destinee Hodge The Daily Texan takes Daily Texan Staff because of lack of funds a look at men’s fashion Multitasking has taken on an By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert ter English and Spanish. in our ongoing seniors entirely new meaning for one Daily Texan Staff Joel Brereton, the chair of the in textiles and apparels UT student who can recite the Starting in the fall, students in- Asian Studies department, con- series. first 100 digits of the mathemat- terested in signing up for a Viet- firmed the Vietnamese program ical constant pi while solving a namese language course will have would be canceled as part of the Rubik’s Cube and balancing 15 to choose another class to fill their department’s 30-percent budget books on her head. language credit. cut, a response to the Universi- Lauren Moore, a liberal arts Professor Hoang Ngo announced ty’s overall budget cut. The de- FRIDAY honors and philosophy fresh- to his Vietnamese class last week partment also had to reduce the In Life&Arts: Don’t go man, performed her unique tal- that the program would be canceled number of lecturers, teaching ent on the “The Ellen DeGeneres in the fall due to financial restraints, assistants and cultural courses, against the grain Show” on Friday, which was sparking a student-organized peti- he said. The Daily Texan trims also her birthday. tion to save the program. “If you want to blame someone, away the confusion on “It’s really not that interesting “I was a bit shocked and thought blame me, but it was the last deci- how to keep facial hair of a story,” Moore said. “In high it was an unfair decision,” Ngo sion made, and I didn’t do it hap- neat and stylish. school, in one of my math classes, Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff said. “The program is so beneficial pily,” Brereton said. “The decision there was a poster on one of the because the Vietnamese communi- has nothing to do with the quality Lauren Moore, a liberal arts honors and philosophy freshman, has walls with pi around the edges. I’d ty is very big and well-developed of the course — it was purely bud- gained notoriety for her ability to solve a Rubik’s Cube and recite the be doing my homework and said, first 100 digits of pi while balancing a stack of books on her head. in Texas.” getary, and I wish we didn’t have ‘I could actually memorize pi,’ so Ngo, the only Vietnamese lan- to see it go.” FRIDAY that’s how I got to 100 digits.” plete the puzzle. ance multiple books while doing guage instructor at UT, said al- The cancellation of the Vietnam- She acquired her Rubik’s “The fastest I’ve solved it is in other tasks. though there are only a few ese language program will save the Aggie agony Cube skill during her sopho- 40 or 50 seconds,” she said. “I was with my church youth Vietnamese language classes of- University approximately $50,000 a more year at Cypress Commu- The book-balancing came more group a lot, and I was always bal- fered at the University, he con- year, he said. Jackie Robinson Day: nity Christian School in Hous- recently. Two summers ago, while ancing Bibles on my head,” she said. sidered the classes important in A college proposal to reduce the Baseball vs. Texas ton when one of her friends with her church youth group, a state where Vietnamese is the A&M, UFCU Disch- taught her a fast way to com- Moore realized that she could bal- RECORD continues on page 2 third most-spoken language af- LANGUAGE continues on page 2 Falk Field, 6:05 p.m. Acevedo one step closer to Dallas job By Bobby Longoria Suhm, Acevedo said if he is not a $12,000 salary increase from Daily Texan Staff hired by the city of Dallas, he will Austin city manager Marc Ott Austin Police Chief Art Aceve- not pursue another position for on March 11 and said money is do is one step closer to potential- four to six years. not a factor in his consideration ly being hired as the new Dallas “You guys better get used to for the Dallas position. police chief after Dallas city man- me. I will probably stay here till As Austin’s first Hispanic po- ager Mary Suhm made a recent [I am] at least 50 or 52, and then I lice chief, community members visit to Austin. will move on — unless I get run credit Acevedo with mending Suhm said Friday that she vis- out,” said Acevedo, who will turn race relations in the city and re- ited Austin to meet with commu- 46 in July. “Like I said, job securi- ducing the crime rate. nity members and police officials ty is a concern that really worries “He redefined policing in to get a perspective of Acevedo’s you when you are a police chief the city of Austin by being ac- job history and performance. in a position like this.” cessible,” said Nelson Linder, Suhm said she will choose from Acevedo was appointed Aus- president of the NAACP Aus- six finalists, including Acevedo, tin police chief in July 2007 af- tin Branch. “He made folks feel toward the end of April. ter spending 21 years in Los An- welcome and [like] they were Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan Staff Although happy with the pro- geles County with the Califor- Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, center, arrives to give a press conference ceedings of his discussions with nia Highway Patrol.