P1 P1 THE DAILY TEXAN Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Pitcher-by-committee approach pays off Find out how a professor is again for Longhorns using worms to research Parkinson’s disease SPORTS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 >> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Wednesday, March 7, 2012 ENTERPRISE College media sees transition to Web content TODAY By Megan Strickland newspapers across the nation trying book, will meet today to appoint an on advertising,” said James Tidwell, 2007-2008 fiscal year, to $1,352,632 Daily Texan Staff to find their place in a shrinking ad- interim director who must oversee chair of the Department of Journal- for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. vertising market. the setting of the budget over the ism at Eastern Illinois University. Mark Morrison, lecturer in the With a March 19 budget deadline The Texas Student Media Board next two weeks. “That model is broken. We’re going School of Journalism and TSM Calendar looming, The Daily Texan is oper- of Trustees, which oversees the Tex- “Traditional print media have to have to find a new one.” board member, said the newspaper ating on a six-figure projected def- an as well as KVRX, TSTV, the Tex- spent almost 400 years running sole- Advertising revenue at the Texan Radiohead and icit for a third year, joining college as Travesty and the Cactus Year- ly on a revenue model dependent has fallen from $2,326,411 for the MEDIA continues on PAGE 2 Other Lives Rock band Radiohead performs with special guest Other Lives as part of their U.S. 2012 tour. Chain stores They will be performing at the Frank Erwin Center, for tickets contact the Frank Erwin center. more affected Tickets are sold out and the show is 7:30-10:30p.m. by bag ban Screening of ordinance ‘Girl Model’ By Rachel Thompson The Center for Russian, Eastern Daily Texan Staff European, and Eurasian Studies presents “Girl Model”, With the passage of a new city a documentary about the ordinance that will ban the use of modeling industry in Siberia disposable bags next year, some and Tokyo. Screening will be at Austin grocers may have to al- 7 p.m. in BUR 106. ter parts of their stores in order to comply with the ban. The ordinance was passed last Sanger Center week after several years of discus- job info session sion over prohibiting paper and The Sanger Center is among plastic bags and will go into effect the largest student employers in March 2013. on campus. Attend the info CVS manager Phil Wallace said session to learn more about the ban may present challeng- employment for 2012. The es for his store because of the in- session will be in JES A121A tegration of plastic bags in the 5-6 p.m. checkout system. “It looks like it could be an is- sue,” Wallace said. “Our registers are set up with specific-sized plastic Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff bag rack holders, so I’m not quite Nicole Marcoe (right), a mountain bike enthusiast visiting Texas from the San Francisco Bay Area, rides through a straight-away in the Peddler sure yet how all this is going to Dirt Derby Tuesday night. s h ap e out .” Today in history While revising the physical lay- In 1876 outs may be an inconvenience, Wallace said he believes the plastic Today 29-year-old Alexander bag ban is a positive step for cus- Graham Bell received a patent tomers to develop environmental- for his revolutionary invention, Dirt Derby draws excitement ly conscious habits. the telephone. “I think it’s a good thing, and I By Bobby Blanchard zation CTXGC names the Dirt Der- football,” Albert said. “Most other license, which adds to the cost. think in Austin we’ll see a favor- Daily Texan Staff by series each year after its title spon- sports you can just pick it up; go play “Out here, you can come and try able response to it in general,” he sor. The Peddler, a bike shop in Aus- with your buddies in the backyard it for $5 with no license, no barrier said. “But there’s still a lot of un- tin, is this year’s sponsor. The sec- or the park. We want to make more to entry really — just show up with knowns at this stage.” With the hope of getting more be- ond in their series of six races was opportunities like that for people a bike,” Albert said. “This is a good While the concept of reusable On the Web ginners riding on Texas trails with hosted Tuesday night, with about 40 with cycling.” beginner level event for people who bags is relatively new to stores their bikes, Central Texas Grassroots racers participating. Albert said there are typically two want to come out here and sample.” like CVS, Wheatsville Food Co- Cycling will be hosting four more bi- CTXGC’s president Ryan Albert different kinds of bicycling races: Albert said the reason their prices op has promoted the idea for a cycle races this spring. said the organization’s mission is noncompetitive charity events, which were comparatively low was because while now, said brand manager The Peddler Dirt Derby, CTXGC’s to promote fitness through cycling can be expensive to get into and USA of the sponsorships they get. Raquel Dadomo. 2012 spring bike series, takes place while making it more accessible for cycling events which are also costly “We typically sponsor with “We have socially aware, Tuesday nights at the Del Valle Mo- those with a casual interest. and can intimidate a beginner. Albert torcross Park. The nonprofit organi- “We want it to be like backyard said USA cycling events also require a DERBY continues on PAGE 2 BAGS continues on PAGE 2 In Sports: Championship week sets stage Thomas for March Madness. Burgess bit.ly/wUTakI Teenager breaks barriers observes the original works of Dr. Seuss in ovarian cancer research Tuesday after- noon at ART on By Jody Serrano the UT Texas Advanced Com- 5th, the largest Daily Texan Staff puting Center Tuesday night contempo- and talked about her research rary gallery in Seventeen-year-old Shree with Alakananda Basu, a mo- Austin. Bose can trace her passion for lecular biology and immunol- science back to her first sci- ogy professor at the University ence fair in fourth grade, when of North Texas. Bose said there she suggested parents dye their is a lack of mentors available to Quote to note vegetables blue to make them high school students interested more appetizing. in science. She urged professors “In general, our fe- Her interest in science has to open up their labs and give expanded since then and now male‘ students younger students a chance. ‘ Bose has been tackling a new is- Bose said the opportunity tend to be hard- sue — drug resistance in ovarian Shea Carley to work in Basu’s lab when she Daily Texan Staff cancer patients. er on themselves was only 15 years old helped her Bose took part in the monthly and think they Austin Forum on Science, Tech- are not doing as nology & Society sponsored by CANCER continues on PAGE 2 well in classes. We Local exhibits feature ‘The Lorax’ By Alexa Ura through all the aspects of Geisel’s ter Liz Carpenter, press secretary of have anecdotal ev- Daily Texan Staff career,” he said. “This month we are President Lyndon B. Johnson, met idence that they highlighting ‘The Lorax’ which is Geisel at a benefit dinner in 1970. Austin has been the home of Dr. one of the major parts of his art and Carpenter suggested that Presi- leave because they Seuss’ “The Lorax” since the 1970s, his books.” dent Johnson should ask Geisel for think they are do- and two local exhibits are cele- ART on 5th is the largest con- the artwork of the environmental- brating the historical connection temporary art gallery in Austin. It ly friendly book that matched Lady ing worse than their this month. is the home to multiple collections Bird Johnson’s efforts to beautify male colleagues ART on 5th is hosting the larg- of “The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss” that America in the ’60s. est Dr. Seuss gallery exhibition in have been permanently on display When Geisel was handed a phone when it is actually the country and features a collec- at the gallery for 15 years. with LBJ on the other line, the for- the opposite.” tion of Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” draw- The 40,000 square foot exhibi- mer president simply thanked Gei- ings that launched March 2. The ex- tion also includes 40 historical pan- sel for his donation to his presiden- hibition is a retrospective look at the els about Dr. Seuss and his career in tial library. — Tiffany Grady Zen Ren | Daily Texan Staff life and art of Theodor Geisel, oth- children’s literature and art. “That’s the way LBJ did poli- erwise known as Dr. Seuss, said Joe The original drawings of “The tics,” Sigel said. “And that’s why Shree Bose, the Grand Prize winner of the inaugural Google Global Sigel, owner of ART on 5th. Science Fair in the 17-to 18-year-old category, shared her research on Lorax” were donated to the Lyndon NEWS PAGE 5 ovarian cancer at the AT&T Education and Conference Center Tuesday. “Our permanent gallery goes B. Johnson Library & Museum af- LORAX continues on PAGE 2 P2 P2 2 NEWS Wednesday, March 7, 2012 for discovering a link between young people.