VIEWS: ARTS & LIFE: NEWS: Student says ‘give back my Mac!’ Page 7 Sigma Chi members wear pink for breast cancer Page 5 Profs try to help trauma victims Page 2 Road Warriors Mean Green silences Middle Tennessee 23-17. Page 3 The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas ntdaily.com News 1, 2 Arts & Life 5, 6 Sports 3, 4 Views 7 Classifieds 8 Games 8 Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Volume 96 | Issue 47 Cloudy 64° / 46° BY ISAAC WRIGHT Senior Staff Writer The Texas Student Association convened Saturday at the University of Texas to ratify its charter and develop its agenda. Representatives from 13 Texas student government associations discussed the issues they will lobby for on behalf of students before the state Legislature. The organization selected decreasing budget cuts to universities, making textbooks more afford- able and keeping tuition rates the same. “We’ve got to have something to fight for, and we felt like those three things affect every univer- sity,” said Kevin Sanders, vice- chairman of the TSA and presi- dent of the UNT student govern- ment association. John Lawler, chairman of the TSA, said all Texas students can relate to the issues the group decided on. Megan Adams, a merchan- dising senior, said tuition and textbooks concern her. She also said it’s reassuring that there is such an organization tackling student issues. “It’s good for someone to have the backs of students,” Adams said. “It all comes down to money and how you’re going to get through school.” Although the organiza- tion has been inactive for the last five years, Lawler said, the adoption of the agenda and charter has helped unite member schools. “Whenever you have a common enemy, it’s valuable to come together and form a consensus,” Lawler said. UNT has been at the forefront of creating the agenda, Sanders said. Sanders, who wrote the group’s charter, said the docu- ment is like the constitu- tion of the association and is some- thing nearly a million students in the state will have to follow. “It’s a plus that UNT students can say our president actually wrote the charter the organiza- tion abides by,” Sanders said. “I think that gives UNT a huge stake in TSA and puts them on the level to be a major player in the state of Texas.” Initially, Sanders said tuition was not on the TSA’s agenda but UNT was vocal in getting the organization to pay closer attention to it. Valerie Gonzalez, a member of the UNT voting delegation and senator for the College of Arts and Sciences, said tuition is a major concern because of the country’s economic condi- tion. “When you have the median household income decreasing every year but you have tuition rates rapidly increasing every year, you’re going to have a big gap,” Gonzalez said. The organization will meet at UNT in the spring to deter- mine how it will present the issues to the state Legislature. Lawler and Sanders will meet with officials from the Texas Board of Higher Education in the coming weeks to prepare for the spring meeting. “We want to be a familiar face in those offices ,” Lawler said. Student leaders create agenda BY SARA JONES Intern According to police K-9 Gino’s medical records, the dog is “very healthy and well cared-for.” Lori Hill, a veterinarian at Dove Creek Animal Hospital, saw him Thursday morning after the Daily published its story about Gino. According to the medical note, Hill referred to Gino, who was “presented for losing weight,” as “well-muscled and … in good physical shape.” Other notes stated that Gino’s bone structure is “slightly visible” and his blood tests revealed mild dehydration. This, she noted, could be a result of the dog not drinking water that morning. “We’ve actually been feeding him too much,” said Capt. Lenn Carter of the Investigations Bureau. “The vet felt like he would benefit from a high-protein, high- carb diet that might pick his weight back up.” He continued to say that Gino’s previous diet was “six to seven cups of Purina One Pro Plan per day.” Hill wrote in her notes that Gino has a “higher demand for caloric and carb intake than more commercial pet foods can offer, recommending SD (Science Diet) Sensitive Stomach to [increase] carbs while maintaining healthy level of protein to avoid renal issues.” According to her notes, Hill recommends Gino eats six to seven cups per day. Hill’s notes state that “if any symptoms worsen, we can pursue further [diagnos- tics].” She uses examples like X-rays, more blood work and a stool culture. Dove Creek Animal Hospital declined to comment Monday in response to questions about Gino’s records despite permis- sion from the Denton Police Department. Carter said Gino was diag- nosed with tapeworms in July and was cleared of them at a visit in August. In July, he said the canine weighed 79 pounds. “He currently weighs 74 lbs,” he said. In regards to the medical records, veterinarian Chris Norwood of Ponder Veterinary Hospital said dogs like Gino are generally evaluated on a body condition scale of one to nine, with five being ideal. Dogs should have a healthy amount of flesh over their ribs, he said, and if a dog’s bones were sticking out it would most likely be a “two or a three” on the scale. He also said one should be able to feel but not see a canine’s ribs. PHOTO BY SARA JONES/INTERN Gino searches for metal rods hidden by members of the crowd at the Super Grow event on Nov. 6. Officer Russell Weier, his handler, uses Dutch commands to instruct the dog. Vet: Denton K-9 is healthy VALERIE GONZALEZ KEVIN SANDERS Dog put on higher calorie diet “It’s good for someone to have the backs of students.” —Megan Adams Merchandising senior BY AUTUMN REYNOLDS Contributing Writer Some people run for fun, but one group had other intentions this weekend: to raise money for goats. Twenty-three people partic- ipated in a 5K on Saturday afternoon to raise money to buy the animals. Brittany Behrens, an accounting senior, said it was her first 5K and she felt it was for a good cause. “It’s a different way to give back to hungry families,” she said. Goats can provide cheese, yogurt and as much as 16 cups of milk daily for families in need in Third World countries, according to nonprofit World Vision’s website. The idea for the race and fundraising for goats came from two study groups associ- ated with The Village Church in Denton, said Tricia Dealy, one of the group’s leaders. One assignment in their eight-week study required the people involved to have an event to get to know one another better. Dealy said they wanted to do a 5K since several people involved liked to run. 5K runners raise money for goats Nate Daniels, a linguistics graduate student, runs in the 5K on Saturday in Denton to raise money for goats. PHOTO BY AUTUMN REYNOLDS/ CONTRIBUTING WRITER To make it about more than running, they decided to raise money to buy goats so families in need could sustain themselves. “They wouldn’t have any other way to get it if they weren’t given this gift,” she said. The group went through World Vision, which helps people in nearly 100 countries, according to its website. Other livestock that can be purchased through World Vision are chickens, ducks, rabbits or sheep. Along with dairy products, goats can also meet the family’s monetary needs if the family is able to sell offspring or extra dairy products, according to the website. Nate Daniels, a linguistics graduate student, said he felt the goat run was a success. “We had a pretty good turnout,” he said. “It seemed like everyone enjoyed them- selves.” The race took place through the streets of the Villages of Carmel, a residential area in Denton. Those who participated in the 5K raised $235 — enough money to buy three goats, which cost $75 each, Dealy said. To learn more about World Vision, visit www.worldvision. org. PHOTO BY T ARYN WALKER/INTERN PHOTOGRAPHER Viewers gathered in the Lightwell Gallery to see the new media art “Fifteen” exhibit. This piece was created by new media art senior Peter Kusek and is titled “UPC Shrine.” BY MARLENE GONZALEZ Intern Sculptures, painting and canvases can be expected when entering an art exhibit, but in the New Media expo “Fifteen,” artists took a different twist to the idea. Computers, televisions and flat screens are just a few of the art pieces that distinguish this exhibit from others, using technology to portray their artistic visions. The exhibit opened Monday and runs until Friday in the Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building. Shane Mecklenburger of the art studio faculty said he allowed students to choose any subject they felt expressed themselves for their final project in this showcase. “I told the students this is their work, to make a project that represents their work as an artist,” Mecklenburger said. Students have worked on the exhibition since the semester’s start. Students’ new media art exhibit ‘speaks’ See DOG on Page 2 See EXHIBIT on Page 2
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Sigma Chi members wear pink for breast cancer Page 5Profs try to help trauma victimsPage 2
Road WarriorsMean Green silences Middle Tennessee 23-17.Page 3
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texasntdaily.com
The Texas Student Association convened Saturday at the University of Texas to ratify its charter and develop its agenda.
Representatives from 13 Texas student government associations discussed the issues they will lobby for on behalf of students before the state Legislature. The organization selected decreasing budget cuts to universities, making textbooks more afford-able and keeping tuition rates the same.
“We’ve got to have something to fight for, and we felt like those three things affect every univer-sity,” said Kevin Sanders, vice-chairman of the TSA and presi-dent of the UNT student govern-ment association.
John Lawler, chairman of the TSA, said all Texas students can relate to the issues the group decided on.
Megan Adams, a merchan-dising senior, said tuition and textbooks concern her. She also said it’s reassuring that there is such an organization tackling student issues.
“It’s good for someone to have the backs of students,” Adams said. “It all comes down to money and how you’re going to get through school.”
Although the organiza-tion has been inactive for the last five years, Lawler said, the adoption of the agenda and charter has helped unite member schools.
“Whenever you have a common enemy, it’s valuable to come together and form a
consensus,” Lawler said.
UNT has been at the f o r e f r o n t of creating the agenda, Sanders said. S a n d e r s , who wrote the group’s charter, said the docu-ment is like the constitu-tion of the association and is some-thing nearly a m i l l ion students in the state will have to follow.
“It’s a plus that UNT students can say our president actually wrote the charter the organiza-tion abides by,” Sanders said. “I think that gives UNT a huge stake in TSA and puts them on the level to be a major player in the state of Texas.”
Initially, Sanders said tuition was not on the TSA’s agenda but UNT was vocal in getting the organization to pay closer attention to it.
Valerie Gonzalez, a member of the UNT voting delegation and senator for the College of Arts and Sciences, said tuition is a major concern because of the country’s economic condi-tion.
“When you have the median household income decreasing every year but you have tuition rates rapidly increasing every year, you’re going to have a big gap,” Gonzalez said.
The organization will meet at UNT in the spring to deter-mine how it will present the issues to the state Legislature. Lawler and Sanders will meet with officials from the Texas Board of Higher Education in the coming weeks to prepare for the spring meeting.
“We want to be a familiar face in those offices ,” Lawler said.
Student leaders create agenda
BY SARA JONESIntern
According to police K-9 Gino’s medical records, the dog is “very healthy and well cared-for.”
Lori Hill, a veterinarian at Dove Creek Animal Hospital, saw him Thursday morning after the Daily published its story about Gino.
According to the medical note, Hill referred to Gino, who was “presented for losing weight,” as “well-muscled and … in good physical shape.” Other notes stated that Gino’s
bone structure is “slightly visible” and his blood tests revealed mild dehydration. This, she noted, could be a result of the dog not drinking water that morning.
“ We’v e a c t u a l l y b e en feeding him too much,” said Capt. Lenn Carter of t he Investigations Bureau. “The vet felt like he would benefit from a high-protein, high-carb diet that might pick his weight back up.”
He continued to say that Gino’s previous diet was “six to seven cups of Purina One Pro Plan per day.”
Hill wrote in her notes that Gino has a “higher demand for caloric and carb intake than more commercial pet foods ca n of fer, recommending
SD (Science Diet) Sensitive Stomach to [increase] carbs while maintaining healthy level of protein to avoid renal issues.” According to her notes, Hill recommends Gino eats six to seven cups per day.
Hill’s notes state that “if any symptoms worsen, we can pursue further [diagnos-tics].” She uses examples like X-rays, more blood work and a stool culture.
Dove Creek Animal Hospital declined to comment Monday in response to questions about Gino’s records despite permis-sion from the Denton Police Department.
Carter said Gino was diag-nosed with tapeworms in July and was cleared of them at
a visit in August. In July, he said the canine weighed 79 pounds.
“He currently weighs 74 lbs,” he said.
In regards to the medical records, veterinarian Chris Norwood of Ponder Veterinary Hospital said dogs like Gino are generally evaluated on a body condition scale of one to nine, with five being ideal. Dogs should have a healthy amount of f lesh over their ribs, he said, and if a dog’s bones were sticking out it would most likely be a “two or a three” on the scale.
He also said one should be able to feel but not see a canine’s ribs.
PHOTO BY SARA JONES/INTERN
Gino searches for metal rods hidden by members of the crowd at the Super Grow event on Nov. 6. O� cer Russell Weier, his handler, uses Dutch commands to instruct the dog.
Vet: Denton K-9 is healthy
VALERIE GONZALEZ
KEVIN SANDERS
Dog put on higher
calorie diet
“It’s good for someone to
have the backs of students.”
—Megan AdamsMerchandising senior
BY AUTUMN REYNOLDSContributing Writer
Some people run for fun, but one group had other intentions this weekend: to raise money for goats.
Twenty-three people partic-ipated in a 5K on Saturday afternoon to raise money to buy the animals.
Brittany Behrens, an accounting senior, said it was her first 5K and she felt it was for a good cause.
“It’s a different way to give back to hungry families,” she said.
Goats can provide cheese, yogurt and as much as 16 cups of milk daily for families in need in Third World countries, according to nonprofit World Vision’s website.
The idea for the race and fundraising for goats came from two study groups associ-ated with The Village Church in Denton, said Tricia Dealy, one of the group’s leaders.
One assignment in their eight-week study required the people involved to have an event to get to know one another better.
Dealy said they wanted to do a 5K since several people involved liked to run.
5K runners raise money for goats
Nate Daniels, a linguistics graduate student, runs in the 5K on Saturday in Denton to raise money for goats.PHOTO BY AUTUMN REYNOLDS/ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
To make it about more than running, they decided to raise money to buy goats so families in need could sustain themselves.
“They wouldn’t have any other way to get it if they weren’t given this gift,” she said.
The group went through World Vision, which helps people in nearly 100 countries, according to its website.
Other livestock that can be purchased through World Vision
are chickens, ducks, rabbits or sheep.
Along with dairy products, goats can also meet the family’s monetary needs if the family is able to sell offspring or extra dairy products, according to the website.
Nate Daniels, a linguistics graduate student, said he felt the goat run was a success.
“We had a pretty good turnout,” he said. “It seemed
like everyone enjoyed them-selves.”
The race took place through the streets of the Villages of Carmel, a residential area in Denton.
Those who participated in the 5K raised $235 — enough money to buy three goats, which cost $75 each, Dealy said.
To learn more about World Vision, visit www.worldvision.org.
PHOTO BY TARYN WALKER/INTERN PHOTOGRAPHER
Viewers gathered in the Lightwell Gallery to see the new media art “Fifteen” exhibit. This piece was created by new media art senior Peter Kusek and is titled “UPC Shrine.”
BY MARLENE GONZALEZIntern
Sculptures, painting and canvases can be expected when entering an art exhibit, but in the New Media expo “Fi f teen,” a r t ist s took a different twist to the idea. Computers, televisions and f lat screens are just a few of the art pieces that distinguish this exhibit from others, using technology to portray their artistic visions.
The exhibit opened Monday and runs until Friday in the Lightwell Gallery in the Art
Building. Shane Mecklenburger of
the art studio faculty said he allowed students to choose any subject they felt expressed themselves for their f inal project in this showcase.
“I told the students this is their work, to make a project that represents their work as an artist,” Mecklenburger said.
Students have worked on the exhibition since the semester’s start.
Students’ new media art exhibit ‘speaks’
See DOG on Page 2
See EXHIBIT on Page 2
u n d e r g o t h e r a p y i n a d d i -tion to the counsel ing s u p p l i e d b y t h e clinic. The st udy w i l l c o n c l u d e with a post-
test to determine progress and gather results.
Holmes is confident there is a group of people who will benefit from the therapy.
“We’re nit-picky with our research,” Holmes said. “We have to decide that we think it will not cause harm and that there’s a benefit to our clients to participate.”
Rober t s descr ibed t wo commonly used types of treat-ment for the disorder. The first, prolonged exposure therapy, is designed to desensitize the event for the patient, and the second, cognitive processing therapy, helps to restructure the patient’s belief system.
Roberts said those types of therapy have an 80 to 85 percent success rate.
“[The patients] all describe some efficacy, some effect,” Roberts said. “It’s in degrees. It doesn’t get rid of the symp-toms, but it mutes them.”
Boals believes developments with event centrality have the potential to help a wide range of people.
“The rate of soldiers coming back with PTSD is alarmingly high,” Boals said. “This will help not just combat veterans, but really anyone who’s experi-enced a traumatic event even car accidents where a person thinks that, in that moment, their life is threatened.”
David Ashmore, a theatre freshman, used to have a girl-friend who suffered from the disorder. It was a struggle to maintain their relationship, he said.
“It didn’t affect me as much as it affected her, but having to cope with it was really frus-trating,” Ashmore said. “Often she would call me in the middle of the night because she was having a panic attack.”
P re v iou s re sea rch ha s linked the disorder and event centrality, but nothing further, Boals said.
“If we’re able to show that the therapy is effective in reducing event centrality, then I think that we have a way to enhance existing therapies for PTSD,” Boals said. “This therapy will specif ica l ly address event centrality in a way that no other therapy today does.”
BY LORYN THOMPSONIntern
About 8 percent of the populat ion mil l ions of people worldwide suffers from the debilitating effects of a mental condition called p o s t t r a u m a t i c s t r e s s disorder, said Adriel Boals of the psychology faculty.
Boals and his colleague A my Mur rel l received a $15,000 grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to pursue research that could change the way patients with the disorder are treated.
“P TSD develops a f ter a horrif ic event happens in one’s l i fe,” sa id K itt y Roberts, a psychologist at the Counseling and Testing Center. “The effects of the event continue to cause disturbances in daily living, concentration and sleeping patterns.”
B o a l s a n d Mu r r e l l ’s research will study the way a phenomenon called event centrality affects patients.
“[Event centrality] is like an unhealthy way a person can respond to a traumatic event,” Boa ls sa id. “For example, a woman [who has been raped] might say, ‘I am a rape victim,’ meaning that’s a core part of who she is.”
Boals said he and Murrell
h o p e t o d e m o n -strate t hat t herapy to lower event c e n t r a l i t y w i l l a l s o lessen t he d i s o r d e r ’s symptoms.
To conduct t hei r st udy, Boa l s a nd Murrell recruited 80 partic-ipants from an abuse clinic in Denton called Friends of the Family.
“It’s always an exciting thing to try a new interven-tion,” said Nicole Holmes, director of outreach services
at the clinic. “We believe in the value of research in this field.”
Boals and Murrell identi-fied participants through a screening process, Holmes sa id. Nex t, a ra ndom ly selected control group will
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In comparison to Carter’s statement, Norwood said it is “not likely” that a dog overfed would end up skinny.
“A dog eating a lot but losing weight may have an underlying medical problem,” he said.
In this case, the veterinarian would first perform a physical exam possibly followed by tests to check for illnesses like diabetes and pancreatic disorders.
Norwood also said that when dogs have a tapeworm it is “not ideal,” but there are very few symptoms. A tapeworm “robs them of nutrition and health,” but he said it is rare to have a sick dog that is made sick by the worms.
The owners usually notice tapeworms by finding what looks like “grains of rice” in the animal’s stool, he said.
Norwood said generally there are no outward symptoms, including weight loss.
Carter said he had never worked with a canine without a medical problem in a condition similar to the picture taken on Nov. 6 of Gino.
“Gino’s kind of gangly-looking,” Carter said. “… He just looked
taller than when I’d seen him the first time. His energy level was still good, and he was eager.”
Police Chief Roy Minter explained that Gino and other canines the department has
employed are subjected to high activity and inconsistent sched-ules, saying Gino “is just like any other officer in the depart-ment.”
“The dog for the most part is a tool,” he said. “It’s an extra tool that the officers use to assist with their daily duties and responsi-bilities.”
Minter said Gino is the only police dog being used by the police department. The dogs used in the past worked for about five to six years until they retired and went home with their handlers, he explained.
An example the officers used was K-9 Blitz and his handler, Junior Torres. Blitz retired and continued to live with Torres until he died about two years ago after getting out of his fenced yard
and being struck by a vehicle one night, according to policelink.monster.com.
Chief Minter said Gino’s condi-tion has nothing to do with whether he was fed. He said his handler, Officer Russell Weier, thinks of Gino as “his family member.”
“Russ even went so far as to say — there are some times when he’s on patrol, he’s going from call to call to call,” Minter said. “Russ may not get a chance to stop and get a hamburger or something …, but he always makes sure Gino gets something to eat.”
Dog acts as ‘tool,’ PD says
They came up with the name “Fifteen” because there are 15 students and art pieces. Coincidentally, the opening date also happened to fall on the 15th.
“In media, you deal with numbers a lot, like zeroes and ones,” Mecklenburger said. “Fifteen is also a number.”
The students’ themes dealt with the effects the media has on individuals and society as a culture, part icularly video games and television. Overcoming difficult times, consumerism and consump-tion were also issues showing the artists’ thoughts.
Blake Bruns, a new media art senior, used three computers, taking out the screens and placing goggles in the back to express the theme of the media brainwashing society in his piece “Me, Myself, and Eye.”
“It shows how the media portrays us and speaks for us even though we’re not saying, ‘This is how I want to look,’” he said.
In the last television set the
Exhibit showcases students’ new media creations
ADRIEL BOALS
AMY MURRELL
PHOTO BY TARYN WALKER/INTERN
This piece titled “UPC Shrine” was created by Peter Kusek, a studio art senior. The new media art’s “Fifteen” exhibit will be in the Lightwell Gallery until Friday.
viewers find themselves looking at their reflection.
“Shred,” by Andrew Bowling, a new media art senior, consisted of three parts: a video demonstration, a shredder where people participate and the video, which illustrates how onlookers can shred away their problems.
“I was trying to match the realistic nature of the piece itself and the ritual sacrificing
of your unfulfilled hopes and dreams so you don’t have to carry them around,” Bowling said.
Kate Rapport, a new media senior, sa id she t hought Bowling’s display was neat.
“I liked that it was personal, and the shutter sounds cool,” she said.
Chris Dunklin, a criminal justice junior, said he was drawn to Ray Allen’s “Wandering,” an
interactive installation piece that included technology as well as old-school painting.
Dunklin said he liked Allen’s visual graphics.
“He painted the piece and transferred it into different layers,” he said. “When you place the mouse on it, it becomes the focus. … He’s a painter as well a new media artist, he mixes the old and new. I like that.”
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PHOTO BY TARYN WALKER/INTERN
The new media art exhibit “Fifteen” in the Lightwell Gallery will be open until Nov. 19. Several new media art students have pieces in the exhibit.
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“He just looked taller than when I’d seen him the first
time. His energy level was still good, and he was eager.”
—Lenn CarterDenton Police Department captain
Study to help abuse victims
“PTSD develops after a horrific event happens in one’s life.”
The NCAA South Central regional meet on Saturday concluded the 2010 cross cou nt r y season for t he Mean Green, as f ive top performers represented UNT at the Cottonwood Creek Golf Course in Waco. A team has to run five men and five women athletes to record points. The Mean Green ran three men and two women, each setting new personal records.
This was the 2010 cross country team’s first season with new head coach Sam Burroughs. The results speak for his performance.
MenSenior Patrick Strong and
freshmen Adrian Nevarez and Matt Russ ran for UNT. It was Strong’s last regional meet of his career. For Nevarez and Russ, it marked a begin-ning.
Strong finished first for the Mean Green, clocking 31:15.6 for the 10K race and recording a new personal
h ig h . H i s time placed 29th in the r e g i o n . T h e N e w Z e a l a n d n a t i v e completed h i s c r o s s c o u n t r y career with a perfect 20-for-20 in UNT’s top finishes since 2007.
“Pat r ic k w a s hopi ng to qualif y [for the NCA A Championships], but that didn’t quite happen,” Russ said. “He [recorded a personal record], so that just shows you that the competition is getting stronger each year.”
While Strong didn’t place as high as he hoped, he’s in the “best shape of his life” right now, Burroughs said.
Russ f inished his f irst regional 10K in 33:02.8 to place 82nd regionally, and Nevarez came in two places after in 33:07.7.
Cross country concludes season
BY BEN BABYSenior Staff Writer
When junior running back Lance Dunbar fumbled the ball into the end zone on UNT’s first drive of the fourth quarter, the Mean Green was on the brink of squandering its lead, some-thing that happened quite often in 2009.
However, the Mean Green was able to solidify its defense. Junior defensive back John Shorter snatched any chances of a come-back out of the air, intercepting Middle Tennessee quarterback Dwight Dasher on the Blue Raiders’ last drive of the quarter.
“Riley told me before we went back out, ‘Go make a big play,’” Shorter said. “The defense stepped up. It wasn’t just me, it was all 11 guys, from the defensive line to the linebackers to the [defensive backs].”
The pick was Shorter’s second of the night. UNT forced three turnovers in the 23-17 victory. The Mean Green has won two of its past three games, a feat that has not been accomplished since the last time UNT had a winning record, in 2004. UNT (3-7, 3-4) has won as many games this season as it had in the previous two years combined.
“We’re stepping up, making plays,” Shorter said. “Everybody is coming together. We’re playing as brothers now. We’re playing
as one.”Despite the fumble, Dunbar
had his best game of the season, carrying the ball 36 times for 226 yards and a touchdown. The total was 12 yards off his career high, and Dunbar became the second person in school history to have back-to-back 1,000 yard rushing seasons. He was named Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week.
Freshman kicker Zach Olen was also rewarded for his effort. Olen earned SBC Special Teams Player of the Week, going 3-for-3 on field goal attempts, including a monster 53-yard field goal to close out the first half. Olen, who wasn’t the starting kicker at the beginning of the season, has converted on 10-of-12 field goal attempts.
“I was a little disappointed in myself at the beginning,” Olen said. “But I kept my head up, and I waited my turn.”
Redshirt sophomore quar-terback Riley Dodge completed 16 of 25 passes for 167 yards, a touchdown and a interception, described UNT’s third road victory of the season as a game that could change a program.
“This team’s got a lot of confi-dence,” Dodge said. “We’re really coming together now as a team. I wish it would’ve happened earlier in the season. It’s a huge win.”
The victory puts the Mean Green in fourth place. While it
may not be bowl-eligible, UNT has a chance to end the season with a .500 conference record, for the first time since 2004. It would need to win its final conference game of the season against Louisiana-Monroe next week.
“We felt like we played a good football team last week,” interim head coach Mike Canales said. “We said if we’re going to become that kind of team where we can compete with the upper echelon of this conference, we have to
cross the line as a team and as a program. And that’s what our team did.”
Since Canales has taken over, the team is 2-1, with its only loss coming at the hands of second-place Troy. A national search for
the next head-coaching candidate is currently under way.
“I want to be the next head coach at the University of North Texas,” Canales said. “I believe our kids are trying to help make that statement.”
Mean Green ‘crosses the line’ over Middle Tennessee
BY LAURA ZAMORASports Editor
Three quick sets were all it took to find the division crown.
The Mean Green (19-12, 11-5) defeated Denver 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 25-22) Friday night to close out the regular season with a share of the Sun Belt West division title. Arkansas State (17-11, 11-5) clinched its share of the title Saturday by shut-ting down Louisiana-Lafayette 3-0.
The co-championship title was especially exciting to junior outside hitter Shelley Morton, who was a newcomer to the squad this year.
“It was definitely way more meaningful than it would’ve been for Arkansas State to take it [alone],” she said. “It’s a big deal for the new teammates and the ones who were already here. We’re peaking at the right time and turning the program around.”
UNT hadn’t clinched the division title since 2006.
Denver at UNTThe Mean Green jumped
out to a quick 4-1 lead in the first set with a pair of kills and service aces from junior middle blocker Melanie Boykins and senior outside hitters Brittani Youman and Amy Huddleston. The team had as much as a 13-6 lead, but Denver caught up to lose the first frame by a two-point deficit and out-hit the Mean Green .267 to .244.
Morton stopped Denver in its tracks in the second set, helping her team cruise to a 25-18 victory. UNT ousted the Pioneers’ attack .297 to .214.
Denver took a 13-8 lead in the third set, but Huddleston assured UNT of a tie at 16-all. The Pioneers’ took a timeout, but Huddleston continued to threaten the Denver defense, forcing it to call a second timeout. The Mean Green held onto the lead for the remainder of the set and sealed the match with a service ace from junior outside hitter Lacy Reasons.
Huddleston and sophomore middle blocker Rachelle Wilson each slammed 10 kills and junior setter Kayla Saey gave a match-high 39 assists to her team. Junior defensive specialist Sarah Willey’s 12 digs carried the Mean Green defense.
The victory was assisted by UNT’s 52-32 kill advantage over Denver.
“Our hitting was doing really
UNT clinches share of West title
Sophomore line backer Daniel Prior and sophomore wide receiver Darius Carey celebrate after scoring a touchdown to bring UNT within seven points against Troy on Nov. 6. The Mean Green defeated Middle Tennessee 23-17 over the weekend.
PHOTO BY MIKE MEZEUL II/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
well, and our defense made some great plays,” Morton said. “They couldn’t beat us in anything — not serving, hitting, passing or
defense.”A crowd of 697, the largest in
school history, rooted UNT on at the Mean Green Volleyball
Center.Morton attributed the win to
several circumstances. “We had just come back from
Arkansas and played really well, and having our last game at home with a record crowd was awesome with all that energy there,” she said.
The team was upset Nov. 5 at Arkansas-Little Rock, which was also a factor in the team’s moti-vation to beat Denver, Morton said.
“We were ready to play,” she said. “We know we should’ve won the UALR game, and since then we’ve been playing with a chip on our shoulders.”
Secured SeedingsThe Mean Green will now
be seeded No. 5 at the SBC Tournament, which begins Thursday in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
No. 4 Arkansas State earned the seeding advantage over UNT in the tie because of a 5-4 edge in sets won between the two teams this season.
The tournament bracket has the No. 4 and 5 teams facing off in the first round, forcing a show-down between the West division rivals.
UNT and Arkansas State’s first-round contest begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Alumni Memorial Gym on Middle Tennessee’s campus.
Junior setter Kayla Saey sets her teammate up for a kill against the Denver Pio-neers on Friday night. UNT swept the Pioneers 3-0.
Playing in the first non-tourna-ment game of the college basket-ball season, the UNT men’s basketball team impressed a crowded Super Pit with its first win of the year over Henderson State on Friday afternoon.
The Mean Green (1-0) trailed for the game’s first 12 minutes but recovered with aggressive defense and key 3-point shooting en route to a 92-66 victory over the Reddies (0-1).
“It’s always exciting to win, but at the same time I’m somewhat disappointed with the way we got there,” head coach Johnny Jones said. “Someone has to emerge from this group to have the ability to reach their teammates in the locker room and take this team to the next level.”
Senior guard Dominique Johnson set career highs with 21 points and five 3-point field goals made.
Jones called for a full-court defense and the Mean Green thrived, forcing 10 first-half turn-overs while scoring 21 points off HSU mistakes.
“That definitely gave us some energy. We started off too slug-gish and that can’t happen again,” senior guard Tristan Thompson said.
UNT got to the line early and often, going 36-47 on free throws. Thompson led the way from the line, making 13 of his 16 attempts and leading the team with 25 points.
A clear home-court advan-tage was present for the Mean
Big 12 matchup follows Mean Green’s season-opening victory
The teams have played 13 games, with Texas Tech owning an 8-5 edge overall and a 2-1 advan-tage in the Super Pit.
Big 12 clubs give UNT problems, as the Mean Green is 37-105 all-time against the current mem-bers of the conference.
Averaging 14.5 turnovers in its first two contests, the Mean Green must stay mistake-free if it wants to win.
Keys to the game
PHOTO BY RYAN BIBB/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior guard Tristan Thompson drives through Henderson State’s K.J. Williams on Friday afternoon. The Mean Green won 92-66.
UNT overwhelms
Reddies, prepares for Tech
Mixed results mark � rst weekend of play
BY BOBBY LEWISStaff Writer
The disappointment of an exhibition loss to Texas Woman’s University washed away as the UNT women’s basketball team avenged last season’s embar-rassing loss to Stephen F. Austin. However, the disappointment quickly returned with a humbling loss against Oral Roberts University.
Stephen F. AustinUNT (1-1) was able to with-
stand a furious comeback from the Ladyjacks to pull out a 78-75 victory Friday in its home opener.
The Mean Green led by as many as 18 points in the second half, but SFA (0-1) used an 18-7 run to pull to within 4 with seven minutes left in the game.
“I think we got a little fatigued and gave a little bit more daylight than what we had been giving,” UNT head coach Shanice Stephens said.
SFA dug itself into an early hole by shooting 22 percent from the field in the first half, while UNT finished the game shooting 47 percent from the field.
Sophomore forward Jasmine Godbolt led the Mean Green with a career-high of 21 points. Godbolt got off to a slow start but took over the game in the second half by scoring 17 of her 21, including a 3-point play that halted SFA’s run.
“In the first half, I was getting
PHOTO BY RYAN BIBB/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERJunior Guard Kasondra Foreman attempts a two-point shot in UNT’s 78-75 vic-tory over Stephen F. Austin on Friday.
Women’s basketball
team even after two games
contact before I went up and I was getting frustrated because they weren’t calling it,” Godbolt said.
UNT sealed the win on a steal and breakaway layup by senior guard Denetra Kellum with a minute left.
“I was just like, ‘I’ve got to go to this passing lane and get this win,’” Kellum said.
Oral RobertsUNT began its eight-game road
trip in Tulsa, Okla., as the team fell to ORU 120-87 on Sunday.
ORU’s point total is both the most points scored in ORU history and the most points allowed in UNT history.
UNT began to unravel at the end of the first half when, down by four, it allowed the Golden Eagles (2-0) to go on a 14-2 run and take a 16-point lead into the locker room.
Unlike the SFA game, UNT was not able to recover.
“The last three minutes of the first half really cost us,” Stephens said. “It hurt our confidence and we put our heads down. Once we did that, [ORU] took off.”
Among UNT’s problems was its inability to stop sophomore guard Kevi Luper, who torched the Mean Green for 36 points including shooting 6-for-6 from 3-point land.
Turnovers haunted UNT again, as it racked up 30 that led to 36 ORU points. UNT now has 54 turnovers through its first two games.
Godbolt led the team in scoring again, although 16 of her 19 came in the first half.
“It seemed like they played me a little differently in the second half, but I still had some open looks, and I should have made them.” Godbolt said.
Freshman guard Laura McCoy provided a spark off the bench by hitting three from beyond the arc to finish with 11 points.
Next StopThe team is off until Sunday
when it takes on George Washington University from the Smith Center in Washington, D.C.
“The last three minutes of the first half really
cost us.”—Shanice Stephens
Women’s basketball coach
Green, as 2,000 students from Denton ISD elementary schools attended the game and cheered on the team.
Scoring 80 points has been a key for UNT teams under coach Jones, as the Mean Green
improved to 75-16 under Jones when reaching that point.
Texas TechUNT will try to stay undefeated
when it hosts Big 12 competitor Texas Tech (1-0) at 7 tonight in a game preceded by the hanging of a banner celebrating UNT’s conference title last season.
The Super Pit has been a dangerous place to play for Big 12 teams, as UNT has defeated Oklahoma State and Baylor at home under Jones.
“Any time you get the chance to play against top competition it says a lot about your program
and how far it has come,” Jones said. “We’re excited for the opportunity to play an excellent basketball team in Texas Tech.”
Tech had no problems disposing of fellow Sun Belt team Louisiana Monroe last week, shooting 55 percent and winning 86-67.
Pl ay i ng a g a i n st top competition has brought out the best in senior guard Josh White, as he averages 16.3 points per game against Big 12 teams, including 28 points against Texas two years ago.
Selected to finish seventh in the Big 12, the Red Raiders returned six of their top seven scorers from last year.
Two players who could hurt UNT are guard John Roberson, the f irst Tech player to reach more than 500 assists, and forward Mike Singletary, who averaged 15 points and 6.8 rebounds per game last year.
“They have some talented players, but we feel like we can play with anyone,” White said.
“We feel like we can play
with anyone.”—Josh WhiteSenior guard
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Almost daily, students see fraternities and sororities tabling on the campus green with their letters standing tall behind them.
Something that is not usually seen are the brothers from Sigma Chi standing proud in bright pink shirts as they rally students around their table to collect donations for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Sigma Chi’s Tough Enough to Wear Pink fundraiser honors anyone dealing with breast cancer. The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Thursday outside the University Union.
“It’s a cycling effect because even though they’re donating to help a cause they’re not person-
ally involved in, they’re still helping,” said Kyle Giles, a Sigma Chi member.
Fighting for SurvivalGiles, a marketing sopho-
more, said he proposed the idea to his chapter after his girl-friend’s mom died from breast cancer in October.
“It was a real growing expe-rience and an eye-opener,” he said. “You don’t realize what you have until it’s gone.”
Giles got the idea to show support after he watched an NFL game during Breast Cancer Awareness Month and saw the players wearing pink cleats and gloves.
Instead of athletic equip-ment, they chose shirts, Giles said.
Cheyanne Turner, a member of Pi Beta Phi and Giles’ girl-friend, said she is thankful for everyone’s help.
“I have people in greek and non-greek life that are supporting me through this because they’ve been here too,” said Turner, an international studies sophomore.
Sigma Chi decided to donate the money in honor of Turner’s mother’s name, Giles said.
The fraternity hopes to raise between $500 and $1,000, Giles said.
Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the highest diag-nosed cancer for women in the U.S., according to breast-cancer.org.
Everyone is ConnectedOther members of greek life
are supportive of the event because everyone has expe-rienced breast cancer, said Andrew Crosswhite, member of PIKE fraternit y, whose grandmother died from the disease.
“Either we know people, someone in our family has been diagnosed or you can think of someone who has been a victim,” said Crosswhite, a business sophomore.
Ashley Boucher, a sister of Pi Beta Phi, said she is thankful Sigma Chi is acting to support the fight against breast cancer because her mom’s best friend is a survivor.
“Although we’re all labeled with our own letters and occa-sionally have friend rivalries, when it comes down to it we all pull together on the things t hat are important,” said Boucher, a fashion merchan-dising sophomore.
Ashley Adams, a sister of
Alpha Phi sorority and an international studies junior, has a lso lost someone to breast cancer.
Adams said she defines the event in one word: “compas-sionate.”
“T h is shows t hat t hey care about something bigger than themselves, which a lot of people don’t under-stand about the greeks,” she said. “Even though we’re our own community, we relate to everyone.”
By stephanie rossContributing Writer
At 21 years of age and without a bath for three years, Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann came to the end of the 350-mile death march. With ghost-white hair and her 68-pound frame, Weissmann’s dream of being rescued had finally come true.
UNT’s Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign (CLEAR) is hosting its annual interactive videoconfer-ence with Weissmann, now a renowned motivational speaker, at noon today in Chilton Hall 245.
“I think this event is going to have a lot of impact on the UNT community,” said Sapora Bradley, a radio, television and film graduate student. “The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation focuses a lot on responsibility, service learning and shows students and staff how to have tolerance...”
Senior marketing specialist Amber Bryant said she believes the videoconference is a unique chance for students to immerse themselves in history.
“I haven’t gone to her confer-ence yet,” Bryant said. “But when I talk to people who have seen it, it makes me excited. This confer-
ence is for everyone, and it’s a unique and interesting oppor-tunity to actually touch history first-hand and talk to a primary source. The Holocaust may be foreign to you, or it may actually personally be related to you, but their generation isn’t going to be around much longer...”
Mindy Rice, a kinesiology sophomore, said her fascina-tion with the Holocaust drove her to participate in the video-conference.
“I feel like I’m connected in some way with the Holocaust and its survivors,” Rice said. “It may sound abnormal, but I personally feel like in some way I’m a reincarnation of a victim and to actually meet a survivor
is a once in a lifetime experience that I would love to have.”
Weissmann was rescued by U.S. Army Lieutenant Kurt Klein in January 1945, whom she married in 1946. Together, they traveled across the country sharing their stories with schools and strove to make a differ-ence by teaching tolerance and equality.
“Students are now at the age where they can start voting and having an impact in the country,” Bradley said. “Because Gerda and Kurt have such an amazing story, it gives them the tools to speak up... With that, they can teach the later genera-tions to have that same type of understanding.”
Greek life’s ‘tough enough’ to raise awareness
Fraternity brothers wear pink in order to raise money for the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer foundation.
Photo by berenice Quirino/Staff PhotograPher
Photo by berenice Quirino/Staff PhotograPher
The men of Sigma Chi are ‘Tough Enough to Wear Pink’ in order to raise money for the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation. They will be asking for donations outside the University Union all week.
Holocaust survivor to video chat with students today
-About 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in their life.
-Currently, more than 2.5 million women are breast cancer survivors.
-20 to 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer have a family history of the disease.
Courtesy of www.breast-cancer.org
Fact Box
Photo courteSy of gerda Klein
Kurt Klein and Gerda Weissman founded the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation to promote tolerance for differences. Weissman will speak by videoconference at noon in Chilton Hall 245.
BY ASHLEY-CRYSTAL FIRSTLEYIntern
UNT students from around the world will indulge in a variety of cultures through foreign films, tasty cuisines and study abroad fairs this week.
From today through Friday, the campus is celebrating a week of multicultural activities
for International Education Week.
“So we try to bring all kinds of events to the UNT campus so that people can experience a little bit of the richness of international culture,” said Mary Beth Butler, coordinator of the events.
The week is a nat iona l observance of international
e d u c a t i o n all over the world, Butler s a i d , a n d was officially declared by t h e n - p r e s -i d e n t B i l l C l i nt on i n 2000.
-10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Latin America Cuisine in Bruce Cafeteria
-10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Study Abroad Fair at Discovery Park
-12 to 2 p.m. World Cultures Tour in the One O’Clock Lounge
-3 to 5 p.m. Global Engineering Opportunities at Discovery Park
-3 p.m. Japanese Film: “Ponyo” in Language Building 107A
-8 p.m. African Ensemble in the Music Building Concert Hall
To check out the events for the rest of the week, visit international.unt.edu.
International Education events going on today:
UNT celebrates international education, cultureaccounting senior, came to Texas in 2006 from Saudi Arabia and volunteered for events his first two years on campus.
“I think whatever they know about the other coun-tries, it’s from the TV... so when they meet people from
other countries, they will be more open to other cultures,” he said.
Internationalizing UNTThe mission of the faculty
members on the second f loor of the Information Sciences Building is to help interna-tionalize the university, Butler said.
Part of doing this is the international students who come to study and interna-tional scholars who come to Denton to do research, she said.
“I could tell you that we have 2,50 0 i nter nat iona l students and about 36,000 UNT students, so not as high of a percentage as we like, but we’re working on that all the time,” Butler said.
Olga Greico, director of the
International Welcome Center, said she describes this week as one of intercultural aware-ness and aims to have students get along and appreciate each others’ cultures.
“We’re trying to educate the UNT campus and community about the world,” Greico said. “And it’s only through educa-tion that we will have peace in this world.”
Promoting Diversity “...We try to promote the diver-
sity and culture on campus,” volunteer and psychology junior Wen Wen Chong said.“... and hopefully more people will join us and know more about international students and our culture and our country.”
Anyone who wants to volun-teer can visit the International Welcome Center in Information Sciences Building 286 or visit international.unt.edu to sign up.
“What we’re trying to accom-plish is to provide a diverse array of opportunities for our students to sample a little bit of the world outside of Denton,” Butler said.
This week the University Program Council will host a series of events for Hunger Week. Each day holds a new event that raises awareness of hunger-related issues.
PHOTO BY JOSHUA BANGLE/INTERN
BY TIM MONZINGOSenior Staff Writer
With the holidays coming up, students’ dreams may be filled with images of turkey and cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and stuffing.
Full-plate Thanksgivings a ren’t u n iversa l, t houg h, and the University Program C ou nc i l w i l l spend t h i s week trying to show that to students.
“Hu nger Week is ba si-cally bringing awareness to the UNT campus about how disproportionate the wealth is not on ly in t he United States, but [also] worldwide,” said A lex zandria Cormier-Hill, the UPC’s vice president for hot topics. “There are a lot of people who are going hungry every day.”
Hunger Week, beginning today, is a series of events that runs through Monday to build awareness of hunger-related issues.
Cormier-Hill said this is the event’s second year.
She wa s i nspi red by a speaker at last year’s event, w h i c h m a d e t h e i s s u e persona l and rea l for her, she said.
“It just put t h ings into perspect ive,” she sa id. “It changed my mindset on how I view life in general.”
She sa id she hopes t he effect that speaker had on her will be felt by more of the student body after this week.
Elizabeth Liser, the director of philanthropy at the North
Texas Food Bank in Dallas, said the event should raise awareness about a growing problem in the region.
“I think the awareness is getting stronger every day,” she said. “The struggle is we need more help. North Texas has always responded gener-ously. It’s just the need is growing exponentially.”
Ac cord i ng to i n for ma-tion received from the food
UPC raises hunger awareness through events
Tuesday- Orange pins distributed in the Union Courtyard to show support for ending world hunger and poverty.
Wednesday- Volunteers dressed as homeless people will be around campus to tell stories about how people become homeless and hungry.
Thursday- Pizza for Poverty sup-porting Pizza Hut’s World Hunger Relief Campaign. Proceeds are donated to the United Nations World Food Program
Friday- Volunteer with Our Daily Bread soup kitchen.
Monday- Hunger Banquet featur-ing guest speakers. A chance to learn about homelessness and hunger and what can be done to help.
Hunger Week
“The struggle is we need more help.”
—Elizabeth LiserDirector of philanthropyNorth Texas Food Bank
bank, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports Texas is the second-hungriest state with 17 percent of households reportedly going hungry.
Arkansas is the first.Cormier-Hill said the event
is intended to make students aware of hunger issues by localizing it.
“It doesn’t have to be someone who is destitute in a Third World country,” she said. “It could be your friend a nd you don’t even k now
about it. It’s just bringing the issue in a different way to light and making it more personal.”
Devin Guerrero, a music theory and music education senior, said he feels hunger is an issue that is often not widely addressed.
“I think probably it’s not made aware enough to most people, a nd it is rea l ly a problem,” he said. “I think it’s definitely something that should be refigured because
there’s no reason for that to be happening.”
Guerrero said he wants to learn more about the topic.
And that is exactly what Cormier-Hill wants.
“Even by making yourself aware and paying respect to these type of events can be a way to help out,” she said.
For mor e i n for m at ion about the event, visit the UPC Facebook page or contact the North Texas Food Bank at ntf b.org.
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FDA’s scare attacks unlikely to work
Response: Socialism unfairly villified
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Campus ChatDo you think the FDA’s new graphic
warnings for cigarettes will help smokers quit or prevent people from
starting? Why or why not?
“No, I don’t think it’s going to help. The warning has
been there since the ‘80s. If people haven’t paid much
attention since then, they’re not going to start now.”
“Yeah, maybe. I think what they can do is it show
people that it’s not good for you.”
“No I don’t. If you want to do it, you’re going to do it regardless of the pictures
on the pack.”
As America works to combat high health care costs, more attention is being turned to harmful voluntary behav-iors, such as smoking. Claiming 443,000 deaths annu-ally, tobacco use is the U.S.’ leading cause of preventable and premature death, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Tobacco use also causes $193 billion in medical costs and lost productivity each year.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced new anti-smoking strategies on its website as part of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act, which gives the FDA power to regulate tobacco products.
The plan includes placing graphic depictions of the harms of tobacco use on cigarette packages and ads. Under the law, new graphic warnings about tobacco use’s consequences must cover at least half of the upper parts of cigarette packs and at least 20 percent of ads.
The images range from mild, such as a smoker shielding her head to light up in the rain, to disturbing, such as an emaciated cancer patient. Several make emotional appeals about the effects of smoking on children and pregnancy.
The FDA’s proposal allows the public to comment on 36 example images through Jan. 9, 2011. After further studies and research, the FDA will choose the final nine text and graphic pieces by June 22, 2011. After Sept. 22, 2012, companies will have to use the new warnings on all ads and packages for sale or distribution in the U.S.
Some countries, including the U.K., New Zealand and Brazil, have already taken this step, according to a PBS Newshour blog entry. A study by the International Tobacco Control organization examined such efforts in four coun-tries and found that more explicit text and graphics were more effective at changing smokers’ behaviors, according to a 2007 article from medicalnewstoday.com.
The Editorial Board thinks although the measure is well-intentioned, it won’t be very effective in the long run. The Board believes the warnings may affect people who are considering starting or quitting, but they won’t strongly affect devoted smokers who have spent their lives hearing about tobacco’s harmful effects. The Board feels more effective measures would include raising taxes on tobacco products to deter people from starting and put more pressure on users to quit. The harms of smoking aren’t immediate and concrete, but price increases are. They force people to examine their choices. Money from extra taxes could also be used to fund anti-smoking initia-tives and programs to help people quit.
To leave online feedback on the images, visit www.regu-lations.gov and enter docket number FDA-2010-N-0568 in the search box.
On Wednesday, a scathing critique of UNT’s International Socialist Organization, as well as modern socialists every-where, was published in the “Views” section of The North Texas Daily. Although the piece could have been a sincere attempt to oppose socialist ideology, what the reader was instead subjected to was a slew of condescending remarks mixed with anecdotal, unsub-stantiated claims, which ulti-mately had no connection to the ideology of the ISO.
Using words like “loud,” “obnox ious,” and “of fen-sive,” the author attempted to vilify the ISO’s protest of the anti-abortion display (put up by Justice for All) without providing much specificity as to the events that took place and supplementing the lack of information with demonizing, arbitrary adjectives.
The author then continues to assert socialism “has been tested time and time again, and every single time it’s failed catastrophically.”
Next, the coup de grace is presented: The author himself
lived in a “socialist country.” What follows is a story-time presentation of individual cases of atrocity in said unnamed country, where the unemploy-ment rate was at a supposed 70 percent.
Ultimately, the column finished by comparing social-ists to people who still believe the Earth is f lat. This kind of writing hinders dialogue, debate and education.
Members of the ISO, however, see crises within capitalism. Whether it’s the omnipresent aff lictions of the economic recession upon the domestic working class, the exploita-tion of foreign labor, the use of political and militaristic power to gain control of prof-itable resources, something just doesn’t make sense about the system in which homeless workers sleep on the streets just blocks away from empty houses that cannot be sold.
One cannot explain all of the ideas behind Marxist-Leninist international socialism within the confines of this column. It definitely cannot attempt to persuade others to abandon
the capitalist ideology without degrading itself to the kind of anti-intellectual mud-slinging rhetoric we were subjected to in Wednesday’s paper.
Rather, the ISO can offer its fundamental viewpoints: worker’s control over what they produce and how they produce it, internationalism, and full equality and liberation for all people. The best things you can do are come by the ISO table and simply ask what they believe.
When I first met them, I was greeted warmly and informed plenty. This isn’t support for the misnamed state-capitalist countries of Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China or Cuba. This is support for a move-ment that seeks to remedy the perceived detriments of capi-talism on the international level.
This breed of socialism seeks worker cooperation, not competition. It seeks an end to the oppression of all peoples, regardless of gender or race. It seeks a society in which human needs never come second to corporate greed.
They have no connection to the mysterious country from which the author is from. They have no connection to so-called tested and failed systems of the past. What they have is a connection to the real-world struggles of workers today and oppressed groups everywhere. If they are wrong for working toward bettering what they see as harrowingly backward systems, then who wants to be right?
In an attempt to call all socialist ideology outdated, the author writes, “W hen people believed man could never fly, they changed when the Wright brothers built the airplane. Why? Because those notions, doubts and ideas became outdated.” Imagine how many previous attempts to fly occurred before the Wright brothers.
The ISO isn’t trying to f ly where others have fallen. It is trying to build the airplane.
James Saunders is a polit-ical science freshman. He can be reached at [email protected].
Brent MadduxFinance junior
Cedric MizeleIntensive English Language
Institute
Drew Maxwell Finance junior
Dude, seriously, where’s my laptop?Dear Thief,In addition to all of my
extremely positive traits — being pleasant, persistent and usually hygienic — I’m also forgetful.
For more than 21 years I’ve been able to elude most of the serious ramifications of that flaw. Sure, a few wallets have been replaced over the years. Yes, I go through debit cards like postage stamps (one every three to four months). Of course, I left a brand-new video camera on the roof of my car last year, but I remembered later — after I saw it smash into a thousand pieces in my rearview mirror.
My point is, we all forget things from time to time, and except for the camera thing — that was totes my fault — we all rely on the generosity of other people to throw us a bone every now and then. It’s just part of being a decent human being.
Like yesterday, when I saw a guy drop $15 from his left pocket. Did I want to take the money? Uhh, yes I did. News flash: $15 + the change in my car = three 24-packs of Yo Gabba Gabba Silly Bandz. But I didn’t take the money. I alerted him because I’m a decent human being — and I
already have three 24-packs of Yo Gabba Gabba Silly Bandz.
My point is: Last Friday the forgetfulness finally caught up with me, but not in the way I thought it would, and definitely not in the way it should have.
After a pleasant lunch at my girlfriend’s near-campus apart-ment, I hurried out the door so I wouldn’t be late for class. I completely failed to remember to cover the cage of her two parakeets — Wally and Eva — with their beach towel/blackout curtains. This was a problem because they get fussy if they don’t have an afternoon nap, and they can’t sleep if they’re not covered.
Anyway, wracked with guilt, I made my way to class, then on to the Daily’s weekly staff meeting in General Academic Building 114. This is where you come in. Not literally; you didn’t actu-ally come in the room at that time, but within the context of the story, this is the point where your participation begins to be relevant, so pay attention.
I carry my books and my unor-ganized mass of class handouts and loose-leaf notebook paper in a dark green satchel. It’s more
sophisticated and only slightly less comfortable than a tradi-tional shoulder-strap backpack. Plus, I find it makes me cooler than the average person — it’s from Fossil, so it’s legit. In addi-tion to the textbooks and doodles, the bag serves as a vehicle for my most prized possession: a brand-new Macbook Air.
I know what you’re thinking, and no, I didn’t necessarily buy it with money. That’s not how people acquire them. Macbook Airs find their owners, and that makes them more special. Mine found me in a free raffle. Originally released in 2008, Airs were billed as the lightest, thin-nest laptops in the world, yet no one wanted them because they were overpriced and they look silly. Put on your magic it-was-free goggles and all of a sudden it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
But of course you know the feeling, don’t you?
At the conclusion of the two-hour meeting I bolted to the bathroom, and after that I felt so free I skipped all the way back to my apartment. I soon realized — on Sunday evening — that I forgot my dark green satchel.
But by the time I got back to Room 114 on Monday, it was too late. There was the bag, exactly where I’d left it, minus a brand-new Macbook Air. You even took the charger.
My point is: I’ll find my Macbook Air because I’m persis-tent — unless it finds me first. But more importantly, the next time you drop your keys or leave your phone on the bench or don’t set your parking break on a steep hill, I’ll be the decent human being who helps you out.
Enjoy the computer.
Josh Pherigo is the Assigning Editor for the Daily. He is a political science and journalism senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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