1 NEWS PAGE 7 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 14 Cathedral of Junk granted needed permits Jersey Shore cast members big hit this Halloween SPORTS PAGE 8 History of America’s pastime revisited TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 90 62 Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com TODAY UT faculty Calendar want say An oral history of chocolate Pamela Whitenack, director of the Hershey Community Archives, will speak about her in budget experiences as an oral history archivist for the Hershey Chocolate Company and the town of Hershey, Pa. The UT School of Information. 1616 Guadalupe. Room 1.208. planning 7-8:30 p.m. By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff Jazz ensembles As shrinking financial resources force college deans at Cactus Cafe to cut back on personnel and other expenses, UT’s The Butler School’s Alternative Faculty Council is pressing for greater faculty involve- Improvised Music Ensemble ment in budgetary decision-making. and Graduate Jazz Combo Currently, everything from 2-percent merit-based will perform an evening of raises and long-term direction for colleges is essential- compositions by jazz great Art ly determined by the deans. During Monday’s Facul- ty Council meeting, computer science professor Alan Blakey. 8:30 p.m. Free show. Cline said he remembers 25 years ago when the facul- Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff ty budget council in his college had the right to sign Segregation in Chris Ruhling, owner of the Six Lounge on Colorado and Fourth streets, paints the outside wall of his new bar, The Hangar, off on faculty salaries and make an impact on the bud- which will open in mid November. get. For the past few years, he said he hasn’t even seen South Texas a budget for his department, though he can’t remem- A panel featuring UT professors ber giving up that authority to the chair of his depart- Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, ment. Emilio Zamora and filmmaker “Nowadays, there is no participation or any sign- John Valadez will discuss the Candidates argue over ‘sanctuary’ policy ing of anything,” Cline said. “I guess I’d like the pro- discrimination in a small town cess to guarantee that somehow decisions from the that sparked a national Latino By Nolan Hicks ardo Quintero, the illegal immigrant is, it generally refers to municipalities faculty will determine how they deal with [the bud- civil rights movement and its Daily Texan Staff who shot her husband, before he com- that have passed resolutions or laws re- get], as opposed to administrators telling faculty how relevance today. Texas Union With Election Day just a week away, mitted the crime. stricting local law enforcement from co- to deal with it.” Theater. 6-8 p.m. Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign has revived “In the past, Bill White supported operating with federal immigration of- Since the 1994-95 academic year, deans and the pro- previously disproved claims that Hous- sanctuary city policies that made it dif- ficials. vost work together on budget planning and manage- ton is a sanctuary city, arguing that im- ficult for officers to safely do their jobs,” “Houston is not a sanctuary city,” ment under the Dean/Provost Academic Core plan- ‘The Difficulty of migration policies led to the death of a said Johnson in the ad. said Houston Mayor Annise Parker in ning process. The process uses a five-year plan to ful- Being Good’ Houston police officer. The assertion that Houston was a a March interview with the Statesman. fill the long-term priorities of colleges. Each college Author Gucharan Das will speak The Perry campaign has launched sanctuary city or that White supported “If you break a local law in Houston, determines the point that faculty can contribute to the about his book “The Difficulty a new ad airing around the state that such policies simply isn’t true, accord- we will arrest you, we will take you to planning process. For instance, the College of Liberal ing to the Austin American-Statesman’s jail, we will run your information and if of Being Good: On the Subtle features Joslyn Johnson, the widow of Arts has a Budget Council that sends recommenda- Rodney Johnson, claiming Bill White PolitiFact Texas, who rated the claim as you’re in this country illegally, we will Art of Dharma.” UTC 4.112. 3:30- tions to the dean regarding the college budget. supported policies that prevented law false in February. While there is no le- 5 p.m. enforcement from catching Juan Leon- gal definition of what a sanctuary city SANCTUARY continues on page 7 BUDGET continues on page 2 Today in history Austin goes on record for film project In 1787 James Madison and Alexander Hamilton publish the Federalist Papers, which argue for SBOE elections attract ratification of the Constitution. moderate candidates By Audrey White Three of the most conserva- Daily Texan Staff tive board members will not be There are eight open seats on returning. Two were ousted in the State Board of Education, and their March primaries, and Cyn- the state’s largest thia Dunbar, who teacher and school represented District board associations, 10, which includes Quote to note as well as candi- Austin, did not run dates, said they for re-election. hope to see the new “The main thing “Before [the Kan- board focus on ed- we’re looking for ‘ ucational excellence is a board that has sas State‘ game] I rather than politics. more deference to got a coach’s shirt The 15-member and better under- board garnered na- standing of educa- torn down the mid- tional attention in Marsha Farney tors and the educa- Republican candidate dle with a cam- the spring over its tion process,” said Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff social studies cur- Monty Exter, a lob- National Trust’s Julia Rocchi interviews graduate student Jessica Ugarte at the Renaissance Market on ouflage shirt and riculum revisions, byist for the Associ- Monday for a project called “Austin Unscripted” that asks Austinites what makes their city unique. which many teach- ation of Texas Pub- pants underneath. I ers, curriculum ex- lic Educators, the perts, politicians largest teacher asso- National Trust asks residents to reflect on local identity, preservation of culture ripped the shirt off and media outlets ciation in the state. in pregame, pulled condemned as hy- “It’s very hopeful By Vidushi Shrimali The project aims to capture what makes the city per-conservative. A that is the kind of Daily Texan Staff unique for Austinites and what elements of the the pants off [and “conservative bloc” board we’re going hen UT graduate Jason Clement city’s cultural heritage should be preserved. did the Soulja Boy of seven members to get. This will be asked Austinites to describe their Clement graduated from UT in 2004 with a de- led the charge on a very important Wcity in one word, some of the most gree in advertising and considers himself an Aus- dance.]” these changes, in- two years.” popular answers were eclectic, weird, con- tinite. He said the city was a perfect place to see if cluding an empha- Judy Jennings The incoming fused and home. a social media project would be effective at reach- sis on the free enter- Democratic candidate board will have Clement and Julia Rocchi, online content pro- ing the community. — Mack Brown prise system, Amer- the opportunity to viders for the National Trust for Historic Preser- “If it didn’t work in Austin, it wouldn’t work Head football coach ican exceptionalism and exclu- make changes to standards estab- vation, made a stop at the Renaissance Market on anywhere else,” Clement said. sion of what some called key mi- 23rd and Guadalupe streets on Monday to film in- SPORTS PAGE 8 nority events and leaders. BOARD continues on page 2 terviews for their “Austin Unscripted” project. UNSCRIPTED continues on page 6 GHOSTLANDGHOSTLAND OBSERVATORYOBSERVATORY LAST CHANCE to nd FREE TICKETS for the Oct. 28 Cedar Park Center show inserted in today’s THE DAILY TEXAN on campus 2 2 NEWS Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6 THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 111, Number 97 25 cents BUDGET: Deans’ exclusion abets employees’ concern CONTACT US From page 1 Main Telephone: Janet Staiger, a radio-television- (512) 471-4591 film professor and past chair of the council, said as far as she knows, Editor: there is no faculty discussion of the Lauren Winchester budget in her department. During (512) 232-2212 Monday’s discussion, Staiger asked [email protected] Steven Leslie, UT provost and exec- utive vice president, what instruc- Managing Editor: tions he has given to deans and de- Sean Beherec partment chairs to involve faculty (512) 232-2217 in budgetary decisions. Leslie re- managingeditor@ sponded that he has not given any dailytexanonline.com instructions to individual colleges to involve faculty. News Office: “What I’ve asked the deans to do (512) 232-2207 at this point is to work at the dean’s [email protected] level through a budget-planning process so we can get started on de- Web Office: termining what the school’s priori- (512) 471-8616 ties are,” Leslie said. [email protected] Faculty Council Chairman Dean Neikirk, an electrical and comput- Sports Office: er engineering professor, present- (512) 232-2210 ed several suggestions from coun- [email protected] cil committees about ways the fac- ulty would like to see the Univer- Life & Arts Office: sity allocate resources. The Faculty (512) 232-2209 Welfare Committee proposed mon- [email protected] itoring the rights of nontenured fac- ulty and making changes to ben- Photo Office: efits for UT employees and retir- (512) 471-8618 ees.