P1 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 SPORTS PAGE 6 Shop proves variety is the spice of life Mack Brown re-evaluates after his worst season SPORTS PAGE 10 Volleyball to face first round of NCAA Tournament TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 62 37 Monday, November 29, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com THE WEEK Journalism school to reduce AHEAD number of adjunct professors By Collin Eaton said adjuncts bring a great com- announced a policy in early Au- TODAY Daily Texan Staff bination of involvement in the gust that would increase the work- The UT School of Journalism will real world of journalism and solid load for full-time faculty without Big screen lose several veterans of the news teaching experience, and many of increasing the number of classes the classics business next semester as budget them have long-standing relation- college offers. cuts cause a reduction in the num- ships with the school. Rod Hart, dean of the College The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz ber of adjunct professors. “We’re using less this spring than of Communication, said the policy will present the 1947 black The school will drop several spe- we did in the fall, but everyone re- would help the college pay for one comedy “Monsieur Verdoux,” cialized classes and assign full-time mains on our roster of valued teach- time, 2-percent merit-pay increases. based on a story by Orson faculty to more basic courses, lead- ers, and we won’t hesitate to turn Hart said it is difficult to cut back on Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff Welles and directed by Charlie ing to fewer open slots for adjunct to them again when we need to,” faculty because the school has “a lot Because of the budget cuts in the College of Communication, many of Chaplin. Tickets cost $9.50 instructors. Frankel said. the contracts for adjunct lecturers like Michael Whitney are not being and the show starts at 7 p.m. School director Glenn Frankel The College of Communication CUT continues on page 2 renewed for the spring semester. Urban rail car To encourage support for an Austin rail system, Oregon State budget Ironworks will display one of its urban rail cars used in Portland at the Palmer Events may weaken Center from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Texas Youth Commission TUESDAY By Nolan Hicks Leg heads up Daily Texan Staff The state budget deficit could State Sen. Kirk Watson, force the Texas Youth Commission, D-Austin, will give an overview the state juvenile corrections agen- of some of the major issues cy, to substantially lower the costs facing the Texas Legislature of providing services — which may when it reconvenes in January. force layoffs and facility closures. The news comes after the agen- cy, which was rocked by a series of child sex-abuse scandals that became public in 2007, received WEDNESDAY high marks earlier this month from a Sunset Advisory Com- Harmonica Bob mission staff report as well as an The Harry Ransom Center’s internal evaluation. Poetry on the Plaza event will “The biggest costs you have are feature the works of singer/ personnel and facilities,” said state songwriter Bob Dylan. Show Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Plano, vice begins at noon in the HRC plaza. chairman of the House Corrections Committee. “They will get the big- gest look as we cut back on the number of youth there.” Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff The population of children in THURSDAY Shoppers flood the aisles of the Cedar Park Best Buy in search of deals during the early afternoon of Black Friday. TYC custody has declined from more than 5,000 to about 1,500 Do animals have Although some retailers opened earlier than usual to accommodate since the abuse scandals came to light, while the agency still main- shoppers on Black Friday, the extended hours did not translate into rights? tains the facilities and staff from The UT Objectivism Society will more sales, according to a shopping trend analysis firm. when it had significantly more screen a film and host a debate Nationally, there was only a 0.3 percent increase in sales from this children in its care. Madden said about animal rights from 6 to the agency would have to look day last year, according to ShopperTrak, a shopper-traffic and data 8 p.m. in Garrison Hall Room BLACK FRIDAY seriously at cutting the number of 0.120. analysis company. Shoppers spent $10.69 billion on Friday, up from facilities the agency maintains to Holiday weekend’s sales percentages rise little $10.66 billion last year. house children. Longtime critics of the com- Advertising professor Neal Burns said shoppers probably spend from last year’s numbers despite earlier hours mission said neither report ad- more money during Black Friday than any other weekend of the year. dressed the fundamental issues FRIDAY facing the agency. By Allison Kroll FRIDAY continues on page 2 Last class day YOUTH continues on page 2 No class next Monday or Tuesday, and the final examination period will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 8. ‘Hello, Avalanche’ DeLay found guilty The Octopus Project will play a show at the East Side Drive-In. Tickets start at $15. of campaign crime, awaits sentencing By Nolan Hicks victions show these charges were Daily Texan Staff substantial all along.” He was one of the most pow- Just after the convictions erful Republicans in Washington were handed down, DeLay and and redrew the shape of Texas pol- his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, itics. But now former U.S. House said the verdict was a miscar- Quote to note majority leader Tom DeLay is a riage of justice. convicted felon “I’m not going who is awaiting to blame anybody. “It was an up and sentencing and This is an abuse promising to ap- of power,” DeLay down‘ season. But peal the jury ver- I’m not going to said on Wednes- ‘ dict against him. day. “I still main- blame anybody. This things are looking A Travis Coun- tain that I’m in- up. There’s no Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff ty jury convicted ‘‘is an abuse of power.” nocent and that Detectives Michael Riojas and Joseph Silas of The UT Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit DeLay on charges — Tom DeLay the criminaliza- question the team work together with Sgt. Chris Bonnet to assist UTPD officers with investigations. of conspiracy and tion of politics un- comes out next money launder- Former House dermines our very ing on Wednes- majority leader system. Maybe we season with a fire Odd investigations increase for UTPD day — five years can get it before after he was ini- people who un- and a passion from By Aziza Musa new system, which gave patrol officers more respon- tially indicted by derstand the law.” day one that Texas Daily Texan Staff sibility for seeing a case through conviction. Now, the then-Travis County District Attor- Travis County prosecutors had The three men responsible for on-campus criminal majority of the unit’s duties include assisting officers ney Ronnie Earle for alledgedly their hands full from the start due has never seen investigations said they have been exceptionally busy with investigations. violating Texas’ campaign finance to Texas’s porous and contradicto- before.” because of the higher amount of unusual cases this “A large part of what we do is to facilitate their in- laws. ry election code laws, said Cal Jill- year. vestigation, assist them with tools and expertise,” said “There were numerous com- son, a political science professor at The UT Police Department’s Criminal Investiga- Sgt. Chris Bonnet. “It’s beneficial to the department, mentators who said this was Southern Methodist University. — Sam Acho tions Unit, comprised of one sergeant and two de- the officers and the public because they get to deal meaningless, that the indictments When prosecutors brought Senior defensive end tectives, used to conduct all aspects of an investiga- with the same person throughout the investigation were just a local prosecutor gone another subject of the DeLay tion, including interviewing witnesses and forming a wild,” said adjunct UT law pro- SPORTS PAGE 6 suspect lineup. In 2003, the department switched to a POLICE continues on page 2 fessor Steve Bickerstaff. “The con- DELAY continues on page 2 P2 2 NEWS Monday, November 29, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 111, Number 119 CUT: Seasoned lecturers 25 cents ‘Tis the season CONTACT US lose positions in layoffs Main Telephone: From page 1 as the new workload policy came (512) 471-4591 down during the summer, it was of students and a lot of teaching Editor: clear there would be fewer ad- responsibility.” junct lecturers. Lauren Winchester Michael Whitney, an adjunct “I think if I were in their po- (512) 232-2212 journalism lecturer, received an e- sition, it’s exactly what I would [email protected] mail last week informing him that have done,” Whitney said. “But Managing Editor: he will not be offered a teaching I always thought we [adjuncts] Sean Beherec contract for next semester. For the brought a certain vitality to the (512) 232-2217 past four years, Whitney taught J [classrooms].” 315, the fundamental journalism managingeditor@ The cuts will affect the entire class that teaches students how dailytexanonline.com college, but one student said it to gather information, report and may damage the School of Jour- News Office: write effectively. nalism the most. (512) 232-2207 Whitney has five decades of Lara Haase, a photojournal- [email protected] news experience working in televi- ism and psychology senior, said sion and was the senior broadcast Whitney was a very encouraging Web Office: producer of “60 Minutes.” He won teacher and showed great interest (512) 471-8616 23 national news Emmy Awards, in his students.