Showing posts with label news 8 austin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news 8 austin. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

austin news


austin news

Boy, that was fun, right? If you are one of the lucky ones to Austin, you know what I'm talking about: a big football game, a big party before the game, great BBQ and an amazing night in Austin.For those who only observe from your living room, maybe you missed one of the most amazing experiences I think I had as a Bruin fan (located in the Ben Ball Warriors win in Oakland and Adam Morrison, Gonzaga 13 - 9). Also big props to all the Bruins, who came, crossed the 100 heat, the sun is bad, the sticky humidity and cheered their hearts out for the Bruins. Meet the players could hear us, hiding in our corner of the upper deck of the stadium, really made it special.

More on my journey to the heart of Texas, after jump.Before go, I have to give special recognition to the fans of the Texas Longhorns and the good people of Austin. I have a lot of games in college football and I've never met a group of fans who were so kind, polite and smart as the people wearing orange in Austin. I'm not sure that our schools are very similar (large academic institutions with elite athletics) or if our mutual hatred for U $ C (thanks to Vince Young!), But I've never had a better interaction with an opposing base of fans that I did this weekend.

In a rapid destruction of the burnt orange Coeds were great. Let's say I'm a big fan of short skirts and jeans boots.Before the game, Texas fans were very friendly, talk football, congratulating us on the demolition of Houston (which is definitely the redheaded stepchild of Texas, at least Longhorn fans agree), and more than willing to drink beer with us. After wandering from bar to bar and back-to-back (with HT uclaron1 to its long list), I was ready for the game.

Of course it is easy to be friends with an opponent weaker non-conference is expected to get around and sacrifice. If your team loses, it's a completely different story for most sports (especially some of the crashes in other programs Pac-10), but not in Austin. Even if the BCS national title hopes and dreams evaporate before their eyes, yet fans of Texas, kind and congratulations.

Two examples really bring the message to me. During the game, some drunk jackass Frat type species are not too far from me and some other Bruin fans. As the game went on, more and more belligerent and uses a wide range of unpleasant homophobic insults, racist, or just flat-UCLA fans in his section. Every school has kids like that, but not all schools are treated as Texas does. Sometime during the quarter, a fan of older people in Texas approached the officer told the authors, and, like his days in DKR was done. As fans entered early, a couple passed by the UCLA group of people who were with and apologized for the classless trash drunken Frat boys had said. That was pretty impressive.

university of texas

university of texas


The University of Texas at Austin was part of a block last week after a suspected gunman wielding an AK-47 shots and then turned the gun on himself in a campus library.The attacker died, said Robert Dahlström, chief of staff of the Austin Police Department. No one else was injured.Police searching for a possible second suspect and control of campus buildings in search of possible explosives left behind, said Austin Police Chief Art University Acevedo.The closed mid-morning and all classes were canceled the day that teams law enforcement descended on the campus.

An ambulance was seen just before 9 am in front of the Perry-Castañeda Library, reported CNN affiliate KXAN. SWAT teams, armored vehicles and helicopters around the campus.The identity of the suspect or suspects or motives were known immediately. "Suspect in PCL library shooter is dead," said an alert posted on the University of emergency in place at 10.30 pm "The police are looking for a second suspect. If you are out of school, stay away. If the gates of the campus, do not leave the building. All classes organized for today, 28 September have been canceled. "

University of Texas, Professor William Randall heard gunshots on his way to class and saw students struggling for safety. She said she saw a man in a dark suit and a ski mask pulled his face in the direction of the library shortly after 8 amWilhite said the man had what appeared to be an assault rifle and fired at random.

ut shooting

ut shooting


A gunman opened fire Tuesday at a campus library at the University of Texas and then fatally shot, and police are looking for a possible second suspect, the university police said.A man fired an automatic weapon in the sixth floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library early Tuesday, UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said.

"He then shot himself. He is dead," he said, adding that no one else was reported injured.Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a press conference that police are investigating what they described as a means of crime outside the library where shots were fired too.Randall Wilhelm, associate professor of law at the university, said he was heading to class when he saw that "students begin pursuing revolver trash cans, trees and monuments ", and then a young man with an assault rifle, running down the street.

"It was a cross for me ... and shot what I thought were three shots ... not for me. In my address, but not me, of course not for me," said Prof. Said goalkeeper Guillermo . The opportunity to shoot several students and Wilhelm, but not.Police patrolled nearby buildings with bomb-sniffing dogs to find the second suspect as possible and ensure that no explosives were left behind.

"What we are doing so methodically eliminating the second suspect," said Acevedo.No shots were fired by police, university officials said.Police Acevedo and urged students to stay home. The university canceled classes for the day. "Suspect shot dead in the PCL library. The police are looking for a second shooter possible. Locking doors, not leaving the building," the university said in an e-mail alert to students and staff. Weldon said there is no report that the possible second suspect may be armed, but police are taking all precautions and keep the campus closed.

Investigators trying to determine what led to the shooting at the UT campus in Austin, which is one of the nation's largest with about 50,000 students.Law maintaining the campus police, police in Austin and the Department of State for Public Security raided the campus The first reports of gunfire. armored tank and is placed near the library. A DPS helicopter around the campus overhead.Jennifer Scalora, who works in revenues, was in his office about 100 meters from the library. She said police, SWAT teams and helicopters are swarming the campus, but in reality are the only ones around.
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