1 NEWS PAGE 5 The future of UT professor’s book looks at the future of unions Longhorn basketball LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 SPORTS PAGE 7 ZACH Theatre gets delightfully ‘drowsy’ TOMORROW’S WEATHER High Low THE DAILY TEXAN 86 76 Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com IN MEMORIAM DOLPH BRISCOE TODAY Former governor, UT alum Calendar embraced higher education No reservations By Nolan Hicks at the age of 87. The cause of death He said it took a bit of convinc- Anthony Bourdain will discuss Daily Texan Staff was pneumonia and kidney failure, ing to get Briscoe to agree to do an his book “Medium Raw: A Former Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe former Gov. Mark White said. autobiography. Bloody Valentine to the World was known as a passionate advo- “He loved history and was a gen- “He didn’t like to talk about of Food and the People Who cate for expanding access to high- erous supporter of the Center [for himself, which he considered brag- Cook” at Book People at 7 p.m. er education while he was gover- American History],” said Don Car- ging,” Carleton said. “He was very The free wristband handout nor and for his long-standing rela- leton, the executive director of the old-school like that.” starts at 9 a.m. tionship with the University after Dolph Briscoe Center for American Briscoe donated his private pa- he left office. History at the University, who wrote pers from his time as governor to the Daily Texan file photo Briscoe, a UT alumnus, died Sun- Briscoe’s autobiography. “He was a Former Texas Governor and UT alumnus Dolph Briscoe signs a bill in ‘An army of day at his family home in Uvalde very warm and generous man.” DOLPH continues on page 2 April 1977. He died at his family home in Uvalde on Sunday. vampires?’ “Twilight: Eclipse,” the third film in the popular Stephenie Meyer vampire series, hits theaters at Austinites midnight. C G G take steps to ‘Save Muny’ Today in history from zoning In 1972 By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff The U.S. Supreme Court rules Leaders of the Lions Municipal that the death penalty could Golf Course said Monday that the constitute “cruel and unusual City Council may have reason to punishment.” consider acquiring the course from UT after the Austin Planning Com- mission recommended including the Brackenridge Tract in a West Austin neighborhood plan. Inside The council’s first reading of the recommendation to include the UT System’s 350-acre tract into the Cen- In News: tral West Austin Combined Neigh- Geosciences school helps borhood Plan is scheduled for July capture carbon page 5 29, and a second reading must be scheduled before the council can ap- prove the language. If adopted, the In Sports: city would be assigned to consider Goodbye to Rosenblatt the ideas of the neighborhood and Stadium page 7 other stakeholders when planning a zoning change or development. “We wanted to have a say about In Comics: the future of the Brackenridge Color comic knows why eagles Tract,” said “Save Muny” member Mary Arnold, who has been work- cry page 10 Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff ing to preserve the course for de- The Golden Gate Bridge, completed in May 1937, connects the city of San Francisco and Marin County. The suspension bridge remains a cades. “We felt that through our In Life&Arts: popular tourist attraction in the Bay Area, and its “international orange” color is central to the San Francisco skyline. neighborhood plan, we would be TV Tuesday takes on the telling the city and the University, vampire craze page 12 INSIDE: More from the “City by the Bay” on page 3 LIONS continues on page 2 Students still split over hall debate University, Capital Metro be used by the committee that was commis- Second forum gathers feedback sioned to make a recommendation to Pres- on renaming Simkins dormitory ident William Powers Jr. He will then give negotiate terms of contract By Destinee Hodge his recommendation to the Board of Re- Quote to note Daily Texan Staff gents, who will make the final decision. By Aaron West There was a sense of urgency in the Some students were concerned that if Sim- Daily Texan Staff San Jacinto Hall Multipurpose Room kins Hall, which was named after a former Capital Metro and UT are ham- “To have three on Tuesday as students and Austinites Ku Klux Klan member and UT law profes- mering out the details for the re- scrambled at their last chance to give sor, is renamed, it will start a frenzy on cam- newal of their long-term shuttle players‘ selected in pus to rename all the buildings and statues services contract, which provides their opinion on the possible renaming ‘ that commemorate people who do not hold shuttle access to students, faculty one draft is very of Simkins Hall Dormitory. The opinions expressed in both forums as ideals that conform to modern standards. and staff at the University. impressive. ... All of well as through e-mails to the Division of A Cap Metro committee con- Diversity and Community Engagement will HALL continues on page 2 vened Monday to go over the spe- them had dreams cifics of the three-year deal, which Former UT will remain largely the same aside of playing in the employee Carl from a few tweaks. NBA long before Webb spoke These changes include in- at the second creased financial obligation for they came to the public forum on UT; changes in the branding of University of Texas, the potential the UT buses to expedite the ro- renaming of tation of new vehicles into the and now they can Simkins Hall fleet; and an option for greater Dormitory, use of general advertising on bus- begin to realize which was es, a move that could create a new those dreams.” named after a revenue stream for shuttle fund- former Ku Klux ing. The vote to implement these Klan member changes will happen at the July 26 and UT law board meeting. professor. “What we’ve come up with is — Rick Barnes Chelsea Kindley | Daily Texan Staff UT basketball head coach entering into a three-year contract where the University would pay Doug Allen, interim president and CEO of Jeff Heimsath Capital Metro, discusses adjustments in UT and SPORTS PAGE 7 Daily Texan Staff METRO continues on page 6 Cap Metro’s long-term service contract. Austin Toll Free 877-495-1559 TXbooks Local 512-499-1559 Order online @ www.AustinTXbooks.com 2 2 NEWS Tuesday, June 29, 2010 HALL: THE DAILY TEXAN LIONS: Plan aims to preserve golf course Decision not likely Volume 111, Number 19 From page 1 25 cents ‘Look, these are our ideas about the to be postponed to fall CONTACT US Brackenridge Tract, and we hope that said that having the forums you will propose something that re- From page 1 Main Telephone: and sending a University- spects those ideas and incorporates (512) 471-4591 “If we do change the name wide e-mail were steps that them into your plan.’ We were able to of the dorm, we need to draw no other student represen- reach a deal in 1989.” Editor: a very clear line and say that tatives had taken to involve According to the 1989 agreement be- Lauren Winchester this is why what Simkins did the student body before. tween the city and the University, the (512) 232-2212 was too far, and he shouldn’t Another element that fac- UT System will lease the golf course [email protected] be honored with a building tored into the decision to have to the city until 2019. The city main- named after him,” former Stu- only two forums is that this is- Managing Editor: tains that the use or development of the dent Government representa- sue is uncharted territory for Ben Wermund golf course for non-university purposes tive Alex Ferraro said. “This the University. (512) 232-2217 is subject to zoning and other land use campus is full of buildings “I don’t know that there has managingeditor@ and development regulations, and that and statues that are tributes ever been any issue on cam- dailytexanonline.com to “establish mutually acceptable devel- to people who were not con- pus that’s been this well-pub- opment regulations,” the city will be re- sistent with the values that we licized with so much public Retail Advertising: sponsive to the “community needs and Chelsea Kindley | Daily Texan Staff have now.” input,” Kabir said. (512) 471-1865 [desired],” economic and environmen- James Bradford, a UT alumnus and retired Air Force colonel, plays right Another issue raised at Tempers flared at times as [email protected] tal quality of the land. of Owen Price, 6, at the Lions Municipal Golf Course on Monday. the forum was postponing people with differing opin- In 1910, Col. George Bracken- the decision to rename the ions took the microphone. Classified Advertising: ridge gave the UT System 503 acres fice at the UT System, said in a letter to the language [that would include the dorm until the fall, when “Don’t give me this non- (512) 471-5244 in southwest Austin. The city estab- Austin Planning Commission Chair- Brackenridge Tract into the Neighbor- the majority of students will sense that he was a product classifi[email protected] lished the 18-hole, 144-acre Lions Mu- man Dave Sullivan that she appreciat- hood Plan] — I’m not sure what the be in Austin.