1A LIFE&ARTS PAGE 6 SPORTS PAGE 8 LBJ exhibit highlights anchor’s long career Aztex offers player one last chance to play LIFE&ARTS PAGE 6 Alternative-rock veterans Thrice return to Austin TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 87 75 Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com Employees, TODAY Ranch o ers cool summer swim gay couples aim for UT Calendar World Cup policy shi Germany vs. Spain at 1:30 p.m. By Destinee Hodge Daily Texan Staff The Pride and Equity Fac- ‘Always a friend’ ulty Staff Association is push- Alejandro Escovedo plays ing for the University to pro- KGSR’s Blues on the Green vide insurance benefits that cov- at 7:30 p.m. at Zilker Park. er partners of UT employees in Admission is free. same-sex relationships. The University allows its insur- ‘Big Sweet Life’ ance coverage to extend to “spous- Austin musician Jon Dee es” of UT employees. Under Tex- as law, a “spouse” is a person mar- Graham takes the stage at The ried to someone of the opposite Continental Club at 10:30 p.m. sex. This means that at UT, hetero- sexual couples who choose not to be married and people in same-sex relationships cannot receive cover- age, which some say could drive Today in history prized faculty from the University seeking benefits elsewhere. In 1958 As a result, Lindsey Schell, chair The Alaska Statehood Act is of the Domestic Partner Benefits signed into law by President Committee of the association, said Dwight D. Eisenhower. University officials contend the state must change its definition of “spouse” before UT’s insurance policy can change. Schell, however, said UT can Kiersten Marian | Daily Texan Staff make changes to the policy with- Mike Heffington, a professional artist and native Austinite, fly fishes on the Pedernales River within Milton Reimers Ranch Park. Reimers out making changes in state law, Inside Ranch is one of the newest additions to the Travis County park system and is located in Dripping Springs. and although no other public universities in Texas have made In Opinion: Editor’s note: This is the first in a Although pools are open on “It’s one of the most beautiful tain bikers and rock climbers year- such changes, Baylor College of Student Government focuses weekly series highlighting swimming campus at Gregory Gymnasium, places in the world,” park techni- round, swimmers flock to the river Medicine has done so. on tuition control page 4 holes around Austin. the Austin area provides a variety cian Tamara Knox said. “It’s just a in the summer to escape the intense “Baylor Medical is obviously a of swimming holes including Mil- really special place out here.” Texas heat. Located a short drive very conservative [private institu- In Sports: By Shamoyita DasGupta ton Reimers Ranch Park on the In 2005, the ranch became the from Hamilton Pool Nature Pre- tion], yet they saw the ethical and Daily Texan Staff Pedernales River. Located approx- most recent addition to Trav- serve, another popular swimming moral requirement to be fair to all Netherlands make the World As temperatures continue to imately 30 miles southwest of Aus- is County Parks when it was pur- hole, people often come to Reim- Cup finals page 8 of their employees and not to dis- climb and the summer progress- tin, the Reimers Ranch was orig- chased from Milton Reimers. Cur- ers Ranch to swim on the days that criminate, and that’s what UT is es, the idea of taking a dip into a inally owned by the Reimers, a rently, it is the largest parkland in bacteria levels make swimming at doing,” Schell said. “The regents swimming pool is more than wel- family of shepherds who first came the Travis County area, Knox said. In Life&Arts: come to most UT students. to Austin from Germany in 1882. Though the park attracts moun- HOLE continues on page 2 BENEFITS continues on page 2 Could a male birth-control pill be on the horizon? page 6 Researchers SG strategy focuses on a ordability By Destinee Hodge addressed until the legislative obtain grant Daily Texan Staff session starts in January. Student Government is work- “Until then, we’re trying to to discover ing to create a discount program figure out what are the differ- that is aimed at helping stu- ent avenues we can use to try dents save money and giving to reduce the cost of higher ed- cancer cure local businesses around campus ucation at UT Austin,” he said. Quote to note the opportunity to attract more “One of the ways that we imag- By Leah Wise student customers. ined is trying to use student- “I went from living Daily Texan Staff As a part of its campaign lobbying power in order to Researchers at UT-Austin have promise to “make UT more af- work with businesses to create the dream to living received a $3.3 million grant from fordable,” SG is attempting to student discounts.” ‘ the Cancer Prevention and Re- create a program for students Talarico said the fact that this the opposite.‘ It search Institute of Texas with the similar to the UT Employee is not a tuition-setting year has wasn’t because of goal of furthering research of can- Discount Program. made SG think of creative ways cer to eventually discover a cure. SG executive director Jim- to help students save money. anyone but myself. UT announced that they were my Talarico said that although “I think most people have fo- selected by CPRIT for the grant on SG intends on making head- cused on the big three [financial I could’ve bitched Huay Bing | Daily Texan Staff Thursday by a panel made up of way on the cost of textbooks, aid, tuition and textbooks], so no UT parents Jim and Donna Tessmer order at the Texadelphia on the people strictly from out of state so tuition and financial aid poli- and moaned or I Drag. Texadelphia is one of the few places that offer student discounts. as to ensure that there is no con- cy, those issues cannot truly be SG continues on page 2 could’ve dealt with flict of interest. it, which is what “UT-Austin is obviously a mover and a shaker, so they’re forever going I had to do. Now to be receiving grants for research,” said Ellen Read, spokeswoman for Professor to help locate unwillingly detained every time I get the CPRIT. “It’s amazing how many chance to play I’m people send in applications, so we By Collin Eaton years with the Working Group on “disappeared,” became popular, the are very selective about who we pick. Daily Texan Staff Enforced or Involuntary Disappear- appointment brings another special so happy.” It is certainly prestigious.” A UT law professor, who also serves as ances, responded to The Daily Tex- element. Finally, two of my mother’s Of the $3.3 million, Tanya Paull, director of the University’s Latin Ameri- an via e-mail Tuesday while travel- cousins disappeared in the mid-1970s, professor in molecular genetics and ca Initiative and director of the Human ing in Argentina. during the military dictatorship in Ar- microbiology, is one of three UT pro- Rights Clinic, was recently nominated The Daily Texan: How does it feel to gentina. Thus, I also feel a person- fessors who applied for the grant. to join a United Nations working group be nominated for the position? al connection to all the families of the Paull was awarded $527,974 to con- to help ascertain the whereabouts and Ariel Dulitsky: I feel very hum- disappeared worldwide. tinue research on a protein in hu- futures of people unwillingly detained ble and it means a great challenge and DT: What issues will you, specifical- — Jamie Watson ly, be working on as a part of the U.N. man cells called ataxia telangiectasia by foreign governments. responsibility. As a person who was Austin Aztex forward Working Group? Ariel Dulitzky, who accepted the born, raised and studied in Argenti- SPORTS PAGE 8 GRANT continues on page 2 Ariel Dulitzky nomination and will serve for three na, where the word “desaparecido,” or NOMINATION continues on page 2 2A 2 NEWS Wednesday, July 7, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 111, Number 25 SG: Co-op might support 25 cents It’s a bird, it’s a plane! CONTACT US student discount program Main Telephone: From page 1 There are businesses around (512) 471-4591 one has really thought [about] campus that have chosen to of- the other things that cost stu- fer discounts to students, but Editor: dents money,” Talarico said. not as a part of an official UT Lauren Winchester Although they have not be- program. Although there has (512) 232-2212 gun to discuss the program never been a student discount [email protected] with businesses yet, SG Vice program before, the Universi- President Muneezeh Kabir ty has taken steps in the past Managing Editor: said they already have some- to make it easier for students to Ben Wermund what of a head start by work- pay for food and other services (512) 232-2217 ing with Jennifer Hammat, as- around campus. managingeditor@ sistant vice president for stu- “[The] Bevo Bucks pro- dailytexanonline.com dent affairs, who helped create gram is an example of how the employee plan. the UT administration has in- News Office: terfaced with local businesses (512) 232-2207 Kabir also said that because of SG’s good working relation- and how they are maybe recep- [email protected] ship with the University Co-op, tive to dealing with students,” Talarico said.