1A LIFE&ARTS PAGE 4 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 4 Can sleeping around help a relationship? Easy-to-find pho is better made at home SPORTS PAGE 6 Texas quarterbacks vie for backup position TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 91 76 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com TODAY Layoff s announced in service sector By Collin Eaton & Nolan Hicks effect in mid-September, are president and other administra- we’re running out of room to the largest division in the Of- Daily Texan Staff part of a University-wide bud- tive offices. In a Jan. 15 letter, make cuts in the budget with- fice of University Operations, The University announced get-cutting initiative brought state leadership issued instruc- out having to lay people off,” Campus Planning and Facilities Calendar Tuesday that 17 maintenance and about when state leaders or- tions to all state agencies to re- said Pat Clubb, vice president Maintenance, which accounts ‘As the world service employees in the Universi- dered UT to reduce expenses by duce their budgets by 5 to 8 per- for University operations. “The for about half of the office’s ty’s division of Campus Planning 5 percent for the 2010-2011 bud- cent after lower-than-expected University generally has a large 1,500 employees, she said. turns’ and Facilities Maintenance will be get year, amounting to a total sales-tax revenues from the hol- proportion of its budget in labor. According to a report sent to The Cowardly Leon and Graham laid off as a result of a budget re- $14.6 million in reductions from iday season. When you get into severe cuts, it CPFM staff, $1.9 million in cuts Weber play a free CD release structuring that will also cut 63 administrative offices and indi- “I know how hard we’ve is almost impossible to avoid re- came from Facilities Services, celebration at the Cactus Cafe vacant positions. vidual colleges. The majority of worked to minimize the effect ducing the workforce.” at 8:30 p.m. The layoffs, which will take the cuts will come from the vice on the employees, but I know The personnel cuts come from JOBS continues on page 2 Eagle Eye Williamson The multi-instrumentalist plays Texas Exes drums, guitar and sings his way through a set at Lamberts Spring relieves summer ‘blues’ Downtown Barbecue at 10:30 executive p.m. Tickets cost $5. steps down Campus Watch as director If you see them, By Shamoyita DasGupta say hello Daily Texan Staff 727 E. Dean Keeton St. After 16 years of serving A UT staff member reported as the executive director and a set of keys were taken from CEO of Texas Exes , Jim Boon inside her purse that had been announced Monday that he left inside a secure area. During would be stepping down from the investigation, the officer his position in December to learned the area was not as serve as executive director of secure as the reporting person the recently created Texas Exes Scholarship Foundation. had believed. Occurred Monday During his time with Texas at 5:30 p.m. Exes, Boon has brought a con- siderable amount of Today in history money to the organization In 1861 with his many The Confederacy wins the first achieve- major fight in the Civil War ments. Boon at the Battle of Bull Run at has also over- Manassas Junction, Va. seen proj- ects such as Longhorn Jim Boon Village, a re- CEO of Texas Exes Inside tirement community in the Steiner Ranch area, as well as the creation of the UT In Sports: Kiersten Marian | Daily Texan Staff Heritage Society. The last media days for a Jonathan Walz, 11, and John-Luc MacLean, 10, cool off at the Blue Hole Regional Park in the Hill Country town of Wimberley. Blue Hole is “He’s done a phenomenal job complete Big 12 page 6 located on Cypress Creek and features two rope swings. for us,” Texas Exes President Richard Leshin said. “He has re- In Opinion: Editor’s note: This is the third in a weekly features a spring-fed swimming hole that ally made the association more DIRECTIONS: Hop on U.S. Highway 290 heading Consider whether law school is series highlighting swimming holes stays cool throughout the year. business-oriented and expanded west, take a left at Loop 64/Ranch Road 12, a slight the membership and the scholar- really the right choice page 3 around Austin. “It’s the best place to come to on the hot- left at Old Kyle Road and the first left onto Blue Hole ships over his tenure.” test day of the year,” Austin resident Car- Road/Country Road 285. Continue on this road until By Ashley Meleen rie Kimler said. “My kids love hunting for you reach the Blue Hole. Boon first began working for Daily Texan Staff treasures in the water with their goggles.” Texas Exes in 1994 and served For those looking for a natural-spring The Blue Hole draws people of all ages APPROXIMATE DISTANCE: 39.6 miles as the fifth executive director in ON THE WEB swimming hole off the beaten path, the with its open, grassy banks and swings HOURS: Sunday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday the organization’s 125-year his- Blue Hole in Wimberley offers a cool get- that hang from large trees surrounding the and holidays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. tory. Boon is a UT alumnus, and ‘Daily Headlines’ away on hot summer days. area. Visitors can bring food and drinks was attracted to the position for COST: Children under 2: free; children 3-12: $3; TSTV talks open Located approximately one hour south- for picnics and barbecues, but alcohol this reason. adults (13-59): $7; seniors (60+): $3; season pass: relationships with Hump west of campus, the 126-acre Blue Hole Re- $40 Day writer Mary Lingwall in gional Park runs along Cypress Creek and SWIM continues on page 2 BOON continues on page 2 today’s installment of the “Daily Headlines” webcast. @dailytexanonline.com Legislature considers Stores pull kombucha tea from shelves By Addie Anderson Daily Texan Staff merit pay for teachers People might have felt a happy buzz after drinking the popular By Nolan Hicks merit-pay program would encour- health-food store beverage kom- Daily Texan Staff age good teachers to stay. bucha over the past few years, Experts who testified at a hear- “The only way to compete is but that buzz may not have been ing of the Texas Senate Committee to improve teacher quality,” said from the antioxidants. Quote to note on Education called for the Legisla- Eric Hanushek, a fellow at the In mid-June, Whole Foods ture to expand merit-pay programs conservative Hoover Institution. Market pulled kombucha tea “Male same-sex for public school teachers. “Don’t let bad teachers stay in from its shelves after discover- Republicans on the committee the classroom.” ing the drinks contained elevat- couples in long- seemed supportive of the presen- The Texas State Teachers As- ed levels of alcohol, which has ‘ tation made, which claimed prin- sociation rejected the results of led many Austinites to make term relationships‘ cipals and school districts should Hanushek’s presentation, which the tea at home. report higher levels be empowered to fire teachers included modeling data that sug- The tea’s origins can be traced who don’t perform. The experts back to ancient China, Russia of satisfaction, are who testified said expanding the SCHOOL continues on page 2 and Japan. Companies made a Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff better at resolving name for kombucha in the U.S. Kombucha, a fermented tea with active enzymes, has been removed in the early 2000s when Whole from some stores after elevated levels of alcohol were detected. conflict, have Foods started carrying kombu- cha brands such as GT’s Kom- they help your body to perform said that about a month ago less destructive bucha . Kombucha is a ferment- better, to repair yourself, to heal many people were coming into argument styles, ed tea with active enzymes, yourself. I’ve had people who the store asking for the prod- probiotics, amino acids, antiox- have had chemotherapy who uct, and that the tea should share housework idants and polyphenols. Mak- said their scars healed faster be back on the shelves at the ers claim the beverage works and kombucha helped them get end of the summer or early more equitably, with the body to restore balance through chemotherapy.” fall when the labeling issues etc. We’re also a and vitality. There is little pub- After learning that some of are resolved. lished research on the benefits the teas have more than 0.5 per- “One of the most heartbreak- hell of a lot less of kombucha, but makers and cent alcohol by volume per bot- ing parts about all of this is how likely to be strictly fans alike say the product heals tle, Whole Foods and Central we get phone calls from people and energizes. Market have stopped selling all who drink our product who are monogamous.” “There are beneficial acids — brands of the product. drinking it for genuine health gluconic acid, acetic acid,” said A Whole Foods representa- benefits — with their digestion, Kimberly Lanski, owner of local tive said that the problem has their immune system ailments, — Dan Savage Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff kombucha business Buddha’s “Savage Love” columnist to do with labeling discrepan- illnesses they’re going through, Sens.