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Update, 2:45 p.m.: According to the Make UT Sweatshop Free Coalition's Facebook group, all students have been released from jail. This afternoon, UT spokesman Gary Susswein said "Our position remains the sam as yesterday. The issue is closed."
Nineteen activists entered the President’s office Wednesday and began an afternoon-long protest that ended with UTPD arresting all protesters involved.
NEW YORK — Top members of the computer hacking group LulzSec have been arrested and will face charges in New York, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.
Five people with the group were either under arrest or being sought, the official said. The details of the allegations weren’t immediately available, but were expected to be made public in court documents being unsealed Tuesday morning.
Editor’s note: This is a weekly series showcasing the best live music of the coming week.
THE BUSINESS
The Business has become a career for singer Micky Fitz.
The word “hipster” instantly brings to mind a number of stereotypical images: Ray-Ban sunglasses, record players, moustaches and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
The television show “Portlandia” on IFC has hipster-mocking down to an art. From the local grocers who snub you if you don’t bring your own bag to the bartender who wants to be referred to as a mixologist, the characters on the show are extreme examples of hipster subcultures.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Police in Bellingham, Wash., say a 10-year-old boy defended his mother from an attacker by shooting him in the face with a BB rifle as many as four times.
The man accused of the attack rents a room in the woman’s home and came home drunk and angry Tuesday morning. Police say he kicked in a bedroom door and started choking the woman.
Officers say the boy hit the attacker with a board and then shot him in the face with the pump-action BB rifle as he grappled with the woman.
UT alumnus and current high school physics teacher David O’Dell is not usually the one to bring up the subject of Chinese punk rock, but if asked, he would be able to explain in detail how he helped start the Chinese punk rock genre.
O’Dell talked about the coming-of-age for Chinese punk rock at a presentation featuring his new book “Inseparable: The Story of Chinese Punk Rock” on Monday.
Hip-hop has never been associated with hundreds of kids in mob formation chanting a band’s name on the verge of a violent riot in the streets of a major metropolitan area. In contemporary music history, only variations of rock ‘n’ roll, particularly punk, have been able induce such vigorous enthusiasm from its fans. Regardless, Los Angeles rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, often shortened to Odd Future, was able to spur a crowd of 350 into a sort of miniature riot on the streets of Boston last May.
Nantucket Reds, Sperry Top-Siders, Brooks Brothers shirts and knit v-neck tennis sweaters delicately draped over the shoulders have been the traditional garb of the Northeastern elite who spend their weekends dividing time between regattas and country clubs. More recently however, “prep fashion” has started to permeate into sartorial spheres outside of the yacht club, faring on a more prominent level than in years past.
DALLAS — A Dallas man accused of kidnapping and drowning his two young sons had a history of violence, and child protective services officials had been tracking the family for months, according to records and interviews with case officials Tuesday.
Naim Muhammad, 32, is charged with capital murder and is being held on $2 million bond. Police said he kidnapped 3-year-old Elijah, 5-year-old Naim and their mother by threatening her with a brick as they walked to school Monday.
Editor’s Note: This is the last installment in a three-part series on underage drinking, focusing on the role of bartenders.
Any system of rules and regulations based on controlling alcohol requires some level of trust between all the players involved.
However, when you’re a bartender you can never fully trust anyone who walks into the bar since they could either be a minor with a fake ID or a cop on a sting operation.
A recent GQ magazine article ranked Austin as the 18th worst-dress city in the nation, due to the hipster and casual fashions.
Parenthood exerts financial, physical and emotional stress on every parent. But the stresses that come with parenting can be reduced if parents are willing to slow down and listen to their children and their intuition, according to the philosophy of Slow Family Living, an Austin-based familial organization.
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a semimonthly, three-part series of Thirsty Thursday Investigates underage drinking focusing on counterfeit identification. Check back next week for a brief update and video preview of the following week’s investigation.
On Tuesday afternoon, Wes Pearcy practices his hula hooping skills at the corner of St. Edward's campus. Pearcy performs at various festivals using his basic, fire and lighted hula hoops.
Emilia Harris | Daily Texan Staff
Wes Pearcy practices his hula hooping skills at the corner of St. Edward's campus on Tuesday afternoon. Pearcy performs at various festivals using his basic, fire and lighted hula hoops.
On Tuesday afternoon, Wes Pearcy practices his hula hooping skills at the corner of St. Edward's campus. Pearcy performs at various festivals using his basic, fire and lighted hula hoops.
Catrina Hyde remembers seeing a mother reading to her daughter in a visitation room at Child Protective Services in Austin. When she looked closer, the scene held one glaring problem: The book the mother read from had several pages torn out and colored in. Earlier this month, Hyde, a social work senior, started a toy drive to replenish the toys in visitation rooms at CPS. She works at the agency as part of the Child Welfare Education Collaboration, a paid internship program at UT that prepares students for work with CPS after graduation.
Divorce is more common among conservative Christians and young people, according to a recent study.
University of Iowa sociology professor Jennifer Glass presented her study on skyrocketing divorce rates in regions highly populated with conservative Christians to an overflowing crowd in Burdine Hall on Friday.
“Politically and religiously conservative states, especially in the Deep South, exhibit higher divorce rates than politically and religiously liberal states in the Northeast and Midwest,” Glass wrote in her study.
