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Thursday, February 2, 2012Volume 99 | Issue 11

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NICOLE BALDERASSenior Staff Writer

Over the past semester, faculty from various depart-ments have been getting close-ups by testing out new video-recording software which records lectures for students to review outside the class-room.

The two programs being tested, Panopto and Tegrity, a re integ rated into t he Blackboard system and allow professors to incorporate anything from PowerPoint slides from a lecture to video of themselves lecturing.

“With lectures being posted online, students don’t have to worry so much about taking notes and are able to interact more in the classroom,” said Jane Himmel, asso-ciate director of the Center

for Learning Enhancement, Assessment and Redesign (CLEAR).

CLEAR purchased a one-year $15,000 license last fall for Panopto, which is being tested in about 12 classes this semester. The software was created at Carnegie Mellon University and is the fastest-grow ing lecture capture system in the world, according to the product’s website.

“I think it would be a good idea to have this in all classes,” economics senior Terrence Clark said. “Even when you’re paying attention, it’s diffi-cult to take the best notes possible.”

Feat u res for st udents include an outline of the class’s video lecture and the ability to thumb through specific sections of a lecture.

“ I f a student has a t h r e e -hour class, t he y may only want to rev iew one specific p a r t , ” H i m m e l said. “Students can search by keyword and find points in the lecture where the topic is mentioned.”

Also purchased by the department was a six-month Tegrity subscription at a cost of $4,000. The software allows for students enrolled in classes currently using the software to access lectures through a Tegrity app for iPhones and Androids.

CAYDEE ENSEYIntern

Guido Verbeck and his team at the UNT Science Research Building are in search of chem-ical fingerprints left by mate-rials ranging from illegal drugs to explosives. Helping them in this search is an instrument of Verbeck’s design: the nanoma-nipulator.

Verbeck, assistant professor of chemistry, and his team have recently received a grant of more than $186,000 from the Department of Defense to develop the forensics tool.

The instrument operates by use of joystick, which controls arms – known as nanoposi-tioners – attached to a staging area.

“The idea here is that the scientist can control the nano-positioners at such a slow speed that they can maneuver a small

glass needle containing a solu-tion between the ridges of a fingerprint using the joystick to collect a chemical sample,” Verbeck said. “So when used for sample analysis, it is virtu-ally nondestructive to the evidence.”

Verbeck developed t he idea for the tool after hearing complaints about outdated technology.

“ W a r f i g h t e r s w e r e complaining about equipment they felt were missing and about problems that needed to be solved,” Verbeck said. “They were frustrated at the number of fingerprints they were picking up and had no way to confirm suspicions that whoever had left them was handling illicit drugs or explo-sives.”

“The technolog y aiding t he forensics communit y is stuck between the ’60s and ’80s,” Verbeck said. “In order to process the chem-istry of what we find on and in certain evidence, we have previously had to destroy that evidence.”

Now, the nanomanipulator is able to trace fingerprints back to an individual.

JUSTIN BRIGHTIntern

The Student Government Association held its second meeting of the semester Wednesday night, electing five new senators representing four colleges.

The new additions increased the senatorial ranks from 30 to 35 members. There are 10 remaining vacancies.

“I can’t wait to get the remaining seats filled and really start kicking off the semester, so we can start getting real business done,” said Morgan Ray, speaker of the senate.

The newly-appointed senators were Justin Meeds and Carlee Niemeyer of the College of Arts and Sciences, Abiola Bakare of the College of Engineering, Susan Castro of the College of Business and Andrew Crosswhite of the Honors College.

Since the seats for College of Hospitality, Management and

ALISON ELDRIDGESenior Staff Writer

Head football coach Dan McCarney announced the official signing of 24 football recruits during Wednesday’s National Signing Day press c on ferenc e at t he U N T Athletic Center. Texas high school recruits make up 70 percent of the class.

“We got better today, no doubt about it,” McCarney said. “I don‘t have any doubt that you’ll see some of these guys contribute in 2012.”

The first call to sign came at 7 a.m. from Brad Horton of Liberty Christian High School

in Argyle, with the final call coming in around 10:15 a.m. from Connor Trussle of Martin High School in Arl ington, McCarney said.

“We’ve really known for the last 48 hours who was going to sign today. It was a matter of just officially and formally getting it done,” he said.

Unlike last year’s class in which t hree quarterbacks were sig ned, none were recruited for the 2012-2013 season.

“Our starter coming back [redshirt sophomore Derek Thompson] still has two years, his back’s coming back for

three years,” McCarney said. “His backup is coming back for two years, and then we redshirted [freshman quar-terback] Cooper Jones, who we still think has a lot of promise. It will be a real important priority next year.”

This semester is the first for newly signed cornerback D.Q. Johnson, who trans-ferred from Iowa Western Community College. Johnson, majoring in sports manage-ment, was the only member of the new class able to attend the press conference.

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UNT head football coach Dan McCarney discusses the program’s new recruiting class during a press conference Wednes-day afternoon at the UNT Athletic Center.

McCarney announces signing of 24 players

SGA adds five senators, talks Twitter Town Hall

Tourism were filled, Niemeyer, a hospitality management freshman, was appointed at large. In order to be appointed, she had to obtain at least 100 signatures to run for a vacant College of Arts and Sciences seat.

She collected 147 signatures in less than 48 hours.

“It was really easy to go up to people. I felt like I was harassing them, but they were really nice,”

Niemeyer said. “A bunch of them wanted to know my spiel, like what I wanted to do, and so I gave them that, but it wasn’t really hard at all.”

Christa Coffey, director of student activities, spoke to the senate in hopes of spreading awareness about her depart-ment.

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Analytical chemistry graduate assistant Charlie Clemons uses a joystick to carefully maneuver a glass tipped needle over a sample in a demonstration of how the nanomanipulator works Wednesday at the Science Research Building.

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Justin Meeds, newly-appointed senator for the College of Arts and Sciences, speaks before the Student Government Association on Wednesday.

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“When I came for a visit and met the people, met the academic advisors, I just liked the environment,” Johnson said. “I liked what I saw.”

McCarney also informally introduced the Mean Green’s new defensive coordinator

She detailed ideas for the future, including increased services and advocacy for non-traditional and transfer students.

Some faculty members have expressed concern over posting full class lectures online, saying they fear students would begin skipping class, Himmel said.

“At other Universities where the software is tested we haven’t seen students skip class,”

“There are lots benefits of the nanomanipulator,” said Rachel Wiley, a biochem-istry senior and member of Verbeck’s team. “Fingerprints are so specific to an indi-vidual, and if a drug is found in that print, depending on the amount, that person was prob-ably handling the drug.”

With the nanomanipulator, investigators will be able to trace illegal drugs back to the creator.

RYAN SCHAEFERIntern

There were only two posi-t ive f lu test s i n Denton County in January compared to the 106 cases in January 2011, according to the UNT Student Health and Wellness Center.

“At this point the strains seem to be a close match w it h t he predict ions, but the numbers usually peak in February,” said Dr. Herschel Voorhees, medical director and interim director of the UNT Student Hea lt h a nd Wellness Center.

The vaccination the UNT SHWC administered in the fa l l was a combination to prevent H1N1, H3N2 a nd Inf luenza B.

“The flu shot is the best way to protect yourself, but not 100 perfect,” said Juan Rodriguez, chief epidemiologist of the D e nt on C ou nt y He a l t h Depa r t ment. “It depends on several factors,,such as geographical location and your immune system, but your safest option is to get the vaccination, especially if you’re at greater risk.”

PHOTO BY RICH SUGG/KANSAS CITY STAR/MCTDelane Kempf, � u shot program manager for the American Red Cross in Kansas City, Missouri, holds a bottle of the � u vaccine on August 30, 2010.

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The SGA also discussed an upcoming Twitter Town Hall hosted by Abigail Glavy, the SGA director of public relations.

The format will ref lect a July 2011 town hall presented by the White House and will center around six main topics: student service fees, parking, dining, a potential smoking ban,

bicycle safety and plans for a new student union.

“It’s the best opportunity for students to come talk to us about issues we can help them fix,” Glavy said.

S G A P r e sident Bl a k e Windham and Vice President Edwin Chavez will be on hand to answer questions submitted

through Twitter, Facebook and from those in attendance.

The event will be held Feb. 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the One O’Clock Lounge and will be streamed live by North Texas Television for those unable to attend.

The SGA will meet again next Wednesday, Feb. 8.

Himmel said. “We find that the students who are going to class will continue to go to class.”

For those faculty members who are still skeptical there is the option of delaying lecture postings until the week before a test, Himmel said.

Some professors testing the software enjoy it for its f lex-ibility.

“There are 120 students in a regular finance core class and

there’s always something that’s happening in one of their lives that keeps them from being in class on a particular day,” said James Conover, professor in the college of business. “It’s very good for them to see a video to catch up with class.”

Though faculty and student feedback on both programs has been positive, CLEAR will need to gain funding in order to make either Panopto or Tegrity readily

available campus-wide in future semesters.

“We presented to t he Information Technology Council on campus last month, but they don’t have a budget,” Himmel said.

CL E A R’s nex t step is presenting to officials from the Office of Educational Innovations, which Himmel hopes w i l l happen t his semester.

Rachel Wiley, research fellow and bio-chemistry senior, uses the nanoma-nipulator, a powerful forensics tool. Wiley is working closely with Dr. Guido Verbeck in the development of a smaller, portable version of the nanoma-nipulator for the Department of Defense. The smaller nanomanipulator “is important for quick transportation in the � eld,” Wiley said.

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“Most [ i l lega l d r ug ] m a nu f a c t u r e r s a r e n’t exactly spectacular chem-ists, and don’t put their materia l t hrough puri-fication processes,” said C h a r l ie C le m on s , a n analytical chemistry grad-uate working with Verbeck. “Through our met hod-ology, we can use identi-fying elements to trace a sample to a region, or even to a specific chemist.”

Verbeck ex pect s t he instrument to be ready to present to the foren-sics community within a year.

John Skladany. Both were members of the Iowa State coaching staff from 1995 to 2006. The Cyclones went from a 3-8 record in 1995 to a 9-3 record in five years and won their first bowl game in two decades in 2000.

“It‘s really a privilege to be working back with coach McCarney,” Skladany said. “I can’t wait to get started.”


ME X ICO CIT Y (A P) — A m i s siona r y c ouple f rom Texas were sla in in t heir home outside the violence-plagued northern industrial cit y of Monterey, the U.S. Embassy and their family said Wednesday.

The embassy identified the couple as John and Wanda Casias.

Valerie Alirez, the eldest child of John Casias, told The Associated Press from her home in Greeley, Colorado, that one of her brothers found her father and stepmother Tuesday dead in their home in Santiago, Nuevo Leon.

The family was originally from Amari l lo, Texas, but relatives said John and Wanda Casias moved to Mexico in the late 1970s or early 1980s and made it their home.

John Casias was a Baptist

preacher, and the couple ran t he First Funda menta l ist Independent Baptist Church in Santiago, Alirez said.

Her brother, Shawn Casias, who lives in Monterrey, said he went to his parents’ home around 4 p.m. Tuesday to pick up a trailer. After he had hooked up the trailer outside he went into the home to say goodbye. He said he found Wanda Casias lying on the f loor with an electrical cord around her neck and a gash from a blunt object on her head.

Missing from the house were a couple of computers, a plasma television and a safe that had been chiseled out of the wall.

T he couple’s Chev rolet Suburban was also missing, and Shawn Casias said he initially thought his father

had been kidnapped.But about four or five hours

later, he said, a forensic inves-tigator informed him that his father’s body had been found in a storage room of a small building on the property. His father also had an electrical cord around his neck.

Shaw n Ca sia s sa id h is sister-in-law in Dallas had spoken to t hei r mot her around 11 a.m. Tuesday and everything was fine. So he believes there was about a five-hour window when the killings could have occurred before he showed up.

He said the killers did not take everything they could have, leaving two of the three T V sets. He sa id perhaps they were warned that he was coming, because anyone watching the winding road approaching the home could

have alerted them.“They’re scum. They’re not

sophisticated,” he said.John Casias was 76. He

had recently priced a knee replacement bec au se he couldn’t walk more than 100 yards (100 meters) without having to sit down, Shawn Casias said. Wanda Casias was 67.

The couple maintained a website, www.casias.org, with details of their lives and their missionary work.

It was the second slaying involving American mission-aries in a year in the Mexican region bordering Texas.

In January 2011, a Texas couple who had been doing missionary work in Mexico for three decades were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of the country’s most violent areas.

Two Texas missionaries found slain

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Holly HarveySenior Staff Writer

W het her he’s ta k i ng a jackhammer to thick slabs of fossi l ized l imestone or delicately hand chiseling a smaller piece, UNT alumnus Wade Colwill creates art that will last a lifetime

Colw il l, who graduated w it h a studio a rt degree last semester, creates large, 3-d i mensiona l l i mestone

sc u lpt u res, foc u si ng on strength and texture.

Some pieces take as little as 15 hours, while particu-larly large sculptures can take months, he said.

Colwill uses his whole body to power through the rock, which can take its toll.

“When I started working the jackhammer, it really shakes your body,” he said. “For about three weeks I was sore.”

Sculptor uses force, finesse to create lasting artColwill said he enjoys the

physicality of sculpting and the connection that forms between a person and the actual object.

With hand chiseling, the sculptor achieves greater control and can better finesse the material. Colwill said he felt more of a bond with his work when chiseling by hand rather than using drills or saws.

“Wit h sculpt ing, you’re con nected to t he for m,” Colwill said. “But with other a rt, l ike pa int ing, you’re disconnected because you’re using a brush.”

Working with power tools can be effective for removing large chunks of materia l, but involves an element of risk, said Chris Engebretson, sculptor and studio art grad-uate student.

“You have to be careful, because the stone can break in its weak spots,” Engebretson said. “If you hit a weak spot, then the whole thing can break in half.”

In addition to his limestone sculptures, Colwill has also experimented with woodcut-ting and fabric, sometimes using wires and circuitry in his work.

Studio art senior Justin Archer, also a sculptor, has seen Colw i l l prog ress as an artist through different mediums.

“Wade has really improved,” Archer said. “What he does with his carving is more than craftsmanship. It becomes art.”

Colw i l l sa id h is ea rly interest in sculpture can be traced back to his childhood, when he would build elabo-

rate creations with LEGOs and K’NEX only to tear them down and start anew.

“I like that with stone, the sculpture is forever changed,” Colwill said. “Years from now

people can dig up the sculp-ture, and it will still be the same.”

UNT alumnus Wade Colwell stands behind a sandstone totem he sculpted at his home studio Wednesday.

UNT alumnus Wade Colwell chisels a sandstone block Wednesday at his home studio.

Photo by Colin Dobkins/staff PhotograPher

Photo by Colin Dobkins/staff PhotograPher

UNT Orchestra readies for big performances

WNBA star inspires students with life storyasHley GrantIntern

Indiana Fever forward and 2011 WNBA MVP Tamika Catchings spoke to students Wednesday about her life growing up hearing-impaired and her struggle to achieve her lifetime goal: playing professional basketball.

UNT invited Catchings in honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and about 30 fans and admirers gathered in the dimly lit Golden Suite.

Dressed in a black Nike track jacket and sweatpants, Catchings narrated a slideshow that high-lighted some of her most notable achievements such as playing on the 2004 Summer Olympic team, which won a gold medal.

Catchings said childhood issues with her hearing and speech

motivated her to succeed.“I always got made fun of in

school,” she said. “Whether it was my big hearing aid, my braces, my glasses or the way I talked.”

Despite the relentless teasing from her peers, she worked hard to reach her ultimate goal, although she never lost her desire to fit in.

C atc h i ng s, a for mer Duncanville High School student, stopped wearing her hearing aids in third grade. It wasn’t until her freshman year at the University of Tennessee, when head coach Pat Summitt sat her down for a discussion, that Catchings began wearing her hearing aids again.

“Summitt wanted me to be an example for so many young kids facing the same problem,” she said. “She helped me see

that I could be a role model for others.”

After that meeting, Catchings said she decided she wasn’t going to let having a hearing impair-ment stop her from making her dreams come true.

More than 10 years later, she was voted one of the top 15 players in WNBA history.

Muhammed Saliu, a pre-engi-neering sophomore, has been a fan of Catchings for about eight years and said that she is his favorite player in the WNBA.

“I was actually supposed to be at work, but I called in sick,” Saliu said. “I was in bed last night thinking about this and was so excited.”

Catchings is currently making moves on and off the court. She does motivational speaking in

cities around the country, and in 2004 c r e a t e d t he Catch T he St a r s Foundation, w h i c h p r o v i d e s academic and sports related programs for at-risk youth.

Cherita Cunningham, an undecided freshman, described Catchings as a positive role model who is honest about her life and career.

“She decided not to let her disability affect her negatively,” Cunningham said. “It’s a part of who she is, she doesn’t shy away from it and she doesn’t let it stop her.”

olmar vaneGasIntern

After a hiatus of almost 10 years, the UNT Symphony Orchestra will return to the pres-tigious Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio on Feb. 10 to perform with the best that Texas has to offer.

Before t he 80-member orchestra departs for San Antonio, they will give a preview performance Saturday at Winspear Ha l l in the Murchison Performing Arts Center, playing with the UNT Concert Orchestra for the first time.

Maestro David Itkin, director of orchestral studies, will conduct for the first time.

Itkin said he wanted to chal-lenge students by playing pieces that are usually too difficult for a university orchestra.

“I wanted to make the program broad, spectacularly

unique,” Itkin said.The 70-minute program

will include Claude Debussy’s “Trois Noctures,” played by the Concert Orchestra and directed by Clay Couturiaux, assistant director of orchestral studies.

Saturday’s program will also feature three selections played by the Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (mvt. I), Strauss’ “Don Juan” and Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine.”

Couturiaux said the Debussy piece was especially chal-lenging, both stylistically and technically, but that UNT’s orchestra had managed to perfect playing it in the time provided.

Debussy’s “Trois Noctures” is divided into three move-ments, which will comprise the opening orchestra: Nuages, Fetes and Sirenes, performed in collaboration with the women of the chamber choir.

Nicole Ayala, a performance sophomore and soprano in the choir, praised Chamber Choir director Richard Sparks for helping direct what she said would be a wonderful perfor-mance.

“Dr. Sparks and the Chamber Choir women have worked very hard with the time we’ve had, and we are sure it will be a stun-ning collaboration—we feel thrilled to be singing for such a talented group,” Ayala said.

Strauss’ “Don Juan” will be the second piece performed by the Symphony Orchestra.

“The opportunity to play Don Juan is valuable because it’s a big audition piece for so many instruments,” said Annika Donnen, a performance graduate student and principal viola player in the orchestra.

The Symphony will end the show with Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine,” described by performers as a crowd favorite

composed to challenge audi-ences with unusual minimalist earmarks.

This weekend’s performance will be Saturday in Winspear Hall at 8 p.m. Tickets are free

for students and currently available at the Union box office.

• Six-time all-WNBA team2001 WNBA Rookie of the Year• Top 15 All-Time WNBA players (2011)

• 2011 WNBA MVP• Recorded quintuple-double as a player at Duncanville High School (1997)

Tamika Catchings Career Highlights

Clay Couturiaux, assistant director of orchestral studies, conducts Claude Debussy’s “Nocturnes” during a Concert Orches-tra practice Wednesday in the Murchison Performing Arts Center.

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Thursday, December 2ndRoger Creager/Zach Walther-8:00pm @ Rockin’ RodeoTill They’re Blue or Destroy-7:00pm @ The Hydrant CaféDenton Holiday Lighting Festival-5:45pm @ The Square

Friday, December 3rdNorth American Skull Splitter Tour 2010: Skeletonwitch/Withered/Landmine Marathon/The Spectacle-8:00pm @ Rubber GlovesCrooked Finger-9:00pm @ Public HouseDenton Bach Society-7:00pm @ The Hydrant CaféMillionYoung/Teen Daze/Old Snack/Goldilocks & The Rock-9:00pm @ Hailey’sThe Quebe Sisters/Will Johnson-8:00pm @ Dan’s SilverleafFatty Lumpkin-7:00pm @ The Boiler RoomReindeer Romp-7:30pm @ South Lakes Park

Saturday, December 4thLa Meme Gallery opening: Sally Glass/Oh Lewis!/Murdocks/Jon Vogt-9:00pm @ Rubber GlovesAngel Tree Fundraiser-8:00pm @ Rockin’ RodeoThe Contingency Clause-9:00pm @ The Hydrant CaféA Spune Christmas 2010: Telegraph Canyon/Monahans/Birds & Batteries/Seryn/Dour Burr/Glen Farris-7:30pm @ Hailey’sDisc Golf Winter Open: Amateur Team Tournament-10:00am @ North Lakes Disc Golf Course

Sunday, December 5thSundress/Final Club/Land Mammals/The River Mouth-9:00pm @ Hailey’s

Monday, December 6thTrivia Monday with Norm Amorose -7:30pm @ Public House

Tuesday, December 7thPearl Harbor Memorial Day

Thursday, December 9thJosh Abbott Band/Rob Baird/ William Clark Green-8:00pm @ Rockin’ Rodeo

Friday, December 10thBurial/Wild Tribe/x- unit 21’s first show/Wiccans/Rotundus/Youth Agression-8:00pm @ Rubber GlovesDirty City Band -9:00pm @ Public HouseNew Riders of the Purple Sage/ Violent Squid Day vs. Night Achtone-8:00pm @ Dan’s SilverleafThe Second Shepherds’ Play/ Christmas Pie...A Madrigal Farce & Feaste-7:30pm @ The Campus TheaterSaturday, December 11thDead Week Print Show: Pan Ector/Gutterth Productions/La Meme/ Pants-9:00pm @ Rubber GlovesJessie Frye, with Sam Robertson-8:30pm @ The Hydrant CaféArts & Crafts Show-8:00am @ Danton Civic CenterThe Second Shepherds’ Play/ Christmas Pie...A Madrigal Farce & Feaste-7:30pm @ The Campus Theater

Sunday, December 12thThe Second Shepherds’ Play/ Christmas Pie...A Madrigal Farce & Feaste-2:00pm @ The Campus Theater

Monday, December 13thThe Gay Blades-9:00pm @ Rubber Gloves Trivia Night with Norm Amorose -7:30pm @ Public House

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

BY MARLENE GONZALEZIntern

On Friday, the shops off the Denton Square will stay open later than usual.

Denton will have its monthly First Friday on the Square and Industrial Street area.

Live music, sculptures, stained glass, appetizers and art will be available until 9 p.m. instead of the regular 6 p.m.

For First Friday, art galleries and businesses stay open longer to give shoppers an opportunity to admire and buy art.

Several communities and countries have their own First Friday or First Thursday each

Monthly event promotes art purchases in Denton

month, which is where the idea came from.

Shannon Drawe, a photogra-

pher and UNT alumnus, said he helped start Denton’s First Friday in in February 2010. He and his

wife, Leslie Kregel, thought it would be great to increase awareness of the communi-ty’s artistic talent and culture, Kregel said.

Drawe contacted sources and created the website first-fridaydenton.com to establish the event.

“First Friday has no boss, no president. I’m just in charge of the website and building it into something because I started it,” Drawe said.

Kregel’s business, Cimarrona, sells hats, scarves and warm clothing recycled from old clothes.

“What we hope is [to gain] a

little more visibility and have the public more aware of art culture in Denton that isn’t always recognized,” Kregel said.

Merchants join with artists to help promote art and busi-nesses. For example, an artist looking for a place to display his or her work could contact a coffee shop owner willing to host the artist, Kregel said.

Heath Robinson, a pharmacy junior, thinks the event will bring attention to the creativity the community has to offer.

“I think it’s a good way to increase the exposure of the arts in Denton,” Robinson said.

Robin Huttash owns A

Creative Art STUDIO, one of the businesses that has been a part of First Friday since it started.

Huttash said her main goal is providing music for the event each month.

On Friday, Alex Riegelman, a local guitarist and blues singer, will play in A Creative Art STUDIO.

Keri Zimlich, a journalism junior, said she thinks the event is a great opportunity to have fun.

“It’s not just one shop, but all the shops getting together to rekindle that love of art,” Zimlich said.

PHOTO BY TARYN WALKER/INTERN

Robin Huttash, owner of A Creative Arts STUDIO, will participate in First Friday Denton. The studio will stay open until 9 p.m. on Friday.


Dance students perform “The Itch,” choreographed by dance senior Anna Olvera, at a rehearsal for the New Choreogra-phers Concert.

BY TARYN WALKERIntern

Months of hard work all come down to one night.

Senior dance students will display their original works on Friday for the first time at the New Choreographers Concert. The concert will start at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre in the Radio, Television, Film and Performing Arts Building.

General admission is $5 and tickets can be purchased at the box office, over the phone, at the door and in advance.

Students enrolled in dance professor Shelley Cushman’s senior projects class are required to choreograph or perform in the concert. They also can complete a research study in fieldwork.

“Their work is a culmination to demonstrate the knowledge they have acquired through the course of their study,” Cushman said.

Cushman, the artistic director of the concert, is known for her background in dance. She

earned the 2010 University Dance Educator of the Year from the National Dance Association.

“They have to create a product, which the public is invited to see, and in this process they have to solve all of the problems they are given in order to create this work of art,” she said.

In the class, students learn about dynamics, unity, variety, content, form and theme, Cushman said.

From the 10 choreographed works at the concert, two dance pieces were chosen to represent UNT at the American College Dance Festival, including Amelia Wert’s “The Television is Watching Me Again” and Cassie Farzan Panah’s “Gravity of Deception.”

“I set out with this image of a motel. I was interested in doing something different,” Wert said. “I thought about the idea of why people would want to stay at a motel and wondered what they felt.”

Wert’s modern piece includes

nine dancers accompanied by focused lighting to make it seem as if they are each in their own motel room. Each dancer is isolated from the others and dances with minimalistic move-ment for a strong impact. The themes include love, loss, isola-tion and insomnia, which are overlaid by the glow of a tele-vision.

“It’s a good program. We have some amazing faculty that have really pushed us far,” Wert said.

All 56 dancers were chosen from the dance department by advanced choreography students. Some choreographers also decided to dance. Cushman allowed students to perform if they were up for the challenge.

Rachel Caldwell choreo-graphed “Certain Uncertainty” and is also performing in “Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner,” choreog raphed by A nna Womack.

In Caldwell’s choreography, dancers explore the experi-

Seniors to debut their dance works Friday

ence of being blind by wearing blindfolds. In 28 rehearsals, the four dancers adapted to their hearing and touching senses to help them through the modern piece. Caldwell also worked with music student Ryan Pivovar to compose a song of looped cello

harmonies. Caldwell said her piece is about

blindness as an experience, not a handicap.

“I was in my modern class last semester and we would lie on the ground and shut our eyes. I wondered if I could capture a

feeling of dance with touch and sound rather than with sight,” Caldwell said.

The concert will also be held at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. For more information, visit www.danceandtheatre.unt.edu.

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Jesse Sidlauskas, Arts & Life Editor [email protected]

UNT graduate lands role on the big screen

1998 radio, television and � lm graduate Stephen Young has played parts in TV shows such as “Murder by the Book” and “Homicide Hunter.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHEN YOUNG

DAISY SILOSStaff Writer

Though radio, television and film graduate Stephen Young can’t say he’s headlined major films, he has made the big screen.

Young, who plays a small role in the film “Like Crazy,” which opened on Halloween, had previously racked up a series of TV credits in shows such as “Murder by the Book,” and “Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda.”

“I always kind of lived in my imagination and liked playing different characters,” he said. “Movies were always my big escape.”

You n g , w h o i n i t i a l l y attended the University of Texas at Austin, said he trans-ferred to UNT because of the opportunity to gain more

hands-on experience. “I tried working in Austin,

but it was just so big I couldn’t really gain anything from their f i lm department,” he said. “Transferring to North

Texas and working for ntTV definitely gave me the expe-rience that I needed.”

W hen he came to UNT, Young said his goal was to learn the ins and outs behind

the camera, rather than in front.

“I thought to myself, I love movies so much that I wanted to know how they were made,” he said. “I figured I’d do that

as an undergraduate and then go to an acting conservatory or go into sketch and improv comedy.”

After graduating from UNT in 1998, Young said he worked for KDAF in Dallas as a camera operator and graphics artist.

In 2000, he moved to L.A. and enrolled into The Groundlings theater school, a prestigious improv school where stars such as Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell have gone.

It was while he was there that Young met “Like Crazy” director Drake Doremus, who

offered him a small role in the film.

“It’s a small part, but he was nice enough to offer me the part,” he said. “It was a great experience and I learned a lot from him and the other actors in the movie.”

UNT business a lumnus Russell Petty said he’s known Young since seventh grade and said he thinks this is just the start of Young’s career.

“When it came to drama, he always seemed to steal the show in whatever he was in,” he said. “I always thought he had the drive and ability to make it.”

Petty has seen Young in action during their college years together and has even seen some of the work he’s done at Groundlings.

V ic tor ia A r m st rong , a t heater sophomore, sa id k now ing that people who were in her shoes before are having some success moti-vates her for the future.

“Even if it’s a small part like his, it’s a big movie that’s gotten great reviews,” she said. “There isn’t such thing as a small part as long as you gain some experience from it.”

“There isn’t such thing as a small part as long as you gain

some experience from it.”—Victoria Armstrong

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Katie Grivna Arts & Life Editor [email protected]


BY MARLENE GONZALEZIntern

On Friday, the shops off the Denton Square will stay open later than usual.

Denton will have its monthly First Friday on the Square and Industrial Street area.

Live music, sculptures, stained glass, appetizers and art will be available until 9 p.m. instead of the regular 6 p.m.

For First Friday, art galleries and businesses stay open longer to give shoppers an opportunity to admire and buy art.

Several communities and countries have their own First Friday or First Thursday each

Monthly event promotes art purchases in Denton

month, which is where the idea came from.

Shannon Drawe, a photogra-

pher and UNT alumnus, said he helped start Denton’s First Friday in in February 2010. He and his

wife, Leslie Kregel, thought it would be great to increase awareness of the communi-ty’s artistic talent and culture, Kregel said.

Drawe contacted sources and created the website first-fridaydenton.com to establish the event.

“First Friday has no boss, no president. I’m just in charge of the website and building it into something because I started it,” Drawe said.

Kregel’s business, Cimarrona, sells hats, scarves and warm clothing recycled from old clothes.

“What we hope is [to gain] a

little more visibility and have the public more aware of art culture in Denton that isn’t always recognized,” Kregel said.

Merchants join with artists to help promote art and busi-nesses. For example, an artist looking for a place to display his or her work could contact a coffee shop owner willing to host the artist, Kregel said.

Heath Robinson, a pharmacy junior, thinks the event will bring attention to the creativity the community has to offer.

“I think it’s a good way to increase the exposure of the arts in Denton,” Robinson said.

Robin Huttash owns A

Creative Art STUDIO, one of the businesses that has been a part of First Friday since it started.

Huttash said her main goal is providing music for the event each month.

On Friday, Alex Riegelman, a local guitarist and blues singer, will play in A Creative Art STUDIO.

Keri Zimlich, a journalism junior, said she thinks the event is a great opportunity to have fun.

“It’s not just one shop, but all the shops getting together to rekindle that love of art,” Zimlich said.


Robin Huttash, owner of A Creative Arts STUDIO, will participate in First Friday Denton. The studio will stay open until 9 p.m. on Friday.


Dance students perform “The Itch,” choreographed by dance senior Anna Olvera, at a rehearsal for the New Choreogra-phers Concert.

BY TARYN WALKERIntern

Months of hard work all come down to one night.

Senior dance students will display their original works on Friday for the first time at the New Choreographers Concert. The concert will start at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre in the Radio, Television, Film and Performing Arts Building.

General admission is $5 and tickets can be purchased at the box office, over the phone, at the door and in advance.

Students enrolled in dance professor Shelley Cushman’s senior projects class are required to choreograph or perform in the concert. They also can complete a research study in fieldwork.

“Their work is a culmination to demonstrate the knowledge they have acquired through the course of their study,” Cushman said.

Cushman, the artistic director of the concert, is known for her background in dance. She

earned the 2010 University Dance Educator of the Year from the National Dance Association.

“They have to create a product, which the public is invited to see, and in this process they have to solve all of the problems they are given in order to create this work of art,” she said.

In the class, students learn about dynamics, unity, variety, content, form and theme, Cushman said.

From the 10 choreographed works at the concert, two dance pieces were chosen to represent UNT at the American College Dance Festival, including Amelia Wert’s “The Television is Watching Me Again” and Cassie Farzan Panah’s “Gravity of Deception.”

“I set out with this image of a motel. I was interested in doing something different,” Wert said. “I thought about the idea of why people would want to stay at a motel and wondered what they felt.”

Wert’s modern piece includes

nine dancers accompanied by focused lighting to make it seem as if they are each in their own motel room. Each dancer is isolated from the others and dances with minimalistic move-ment for a strong impact. The themes include love, loss, isola-tion and insomnia, which are overlaid by the glow of a tele-vision.

“It’s a good program. We have some amazing faculty that have really pushed us far,” Wert said.

All 56 dancers were chosen from the dance department by advanced choreography students. Some choreographers also decided to dance. Cushman allowed students to perform if they were up for the challenge.

Rachel Caldwell choreo-graphed “Certain Uncertainty” and is also performing in “Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner,” choreog raphed by A nna Womack.

In Caldwell’s choreography, dancers explore the experi-

Seniors to debut their dance works Friday

ence of being blind by wearing blindfolds. In 28 rehearsals, the four dancers adapted to their hearing and touching senses to help them through the modern piece. Caldwell also worked with music student Ryan Pivovar to compose a song of looped cello

harmonies. Caldwell said her piece is about

blindness as an experience, not a handicap.

“I was in my modern class last semester and we would lie on the ground and shut our eyes. I wondered if I could capture a

feeling of dance with touch and sound rather than with sight,” Caldwell said.

The concert will also be held at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. For more information, visit www.danceandtheatre.unt.edu.

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Campus group hones cra� of public speakingBRITTNI BARNETTSenior Staff Writer

The UNT Toastmasters club is one of 13,000 branches world-wide that help members master the art of public speaking.

UNT’s branch, which was chartered in 2002, is one of about five clubs in the Denton area.

“We felt that this club was a natural fit for the univer-sity,” said Russ Stukel, director of student life for the Texas Academy of Math and Science and one of the club’s members. “Being able to form ideas in a concise manner using proper grammar and eloquent vocabu-lary is very important.”

In addition to learning skills such as body language, gestures and voice inflection that help with prepared public speeches, members also learn to speak off the cuff. Each of the meetings incorporates time for what are known as “table topics.” In this exercise, members are asked a question and must give a short answer on the spot.

Tracee Robertson, director of the UNT art galleries, decided to join the club three years ago after giving a presentation for her job.

“I struggle, like most people,

with speaking in front of a crowd,” Robertson said. “It was embarrassing. I stumbled over my words and I couldn’t get my PowerPoint presentation to work right. It was just a mess.”

After her presentation, Robertson said a Toastmasters club member approached her and told her about the organi-zation and what it offered.

“At first my feelings were hurt, of course,” she said. “But I knew he was right, so I went, and it’s changed everything. It’s made such a big difference in my confidence.”

The club meets weekly from noon to 1 p.m. in Marquis Hall 118. The meetings serve as an opportunity for members to practice their public speaking and leadership skills through a step-by-step process.

Once members complete a series of usually 10 speeches or 10 projects they can move on to the next level.

Club member Helen Schenk has obtained Distinguished Toastmaster , the highest level in the organization, which took her six years to accomplish.

“I decided after a couple of years that I wanted to try for that title,” said Schenk, an adminis-

trative assistant for the College of Engineering. “I have made a lot of speeches, but it’s a learning process for me too. By listening and evaluating other speakers

you learn things, and this is helpful for me as well.”

Students, faculty, staff and community members alike are encouraged to join the club,

Robertson said.“Your goal is to have people

go away with an understanding of your ideas and your message,” Robertson said. “Toastmasters

really helps you kind of unleash your talents and your passions and it allows and inspires you to share those with other people.”

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Tracee Robertson is the UNT Art Gallery director and coordinator of Toastmasters, a group that focuses on improving members’ communication skills and public speaking abilities. The group meets on Monday afternoons in Marquis Hall.

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Alex Macon, Arts & Life Editor [email protected]

ALISON MATLOCKIntern

College students typically require a few things when preparing for an all-nighter.

A stack of books, the pages highlighted and dog-eared. Notebooks filled with scribbles taken during class lectures. An open laptop and the quiet of a library.

For many, no study session is complete without the ever-pop-ular study buddy, caffeine.

Whether it’s the canned kick of an energy drink or the tried and true jolt found in a mug of coffee, dietitians and psychol-ogists warn of the potential mental and physical health risks associated with abusing caffeine.

“Students who use caffeine to do an all-nighter to pass a test are mistaken in their endeavor,”

Experts: ca� eine not the best fuel for studentssaid Lora Williams, dietitian at the Student Health and Wellness Center. “A sleep-deprived person can’t focus their atten-tion as well as when they are fully rested.”

According to the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre, caffeine is the world’s most widely used psychoactive drug, and about 90 percent of North American adults consume the stimulant daily.

Overconsumption of caffeine products can lead to phys-ical and mental dependence, Williams said.

Only a moderate amount of caffeine per day – no more than 200 milligrams, or two cups of coffee - is recommended.

Marketing junior Colton Wallace said he uses caffeine to squeeze a few more hours

out of the day.“Coffee and caffeine helps

you wake up and focus,” Wallace said. “It gives me that extra boost to make it through my

classes or put in the extra hour of study time.”

28,810 Monster and Red

Bull energy products were sold at on-campus locations last semester, said Susan Cruz, busi-ness manager of UNT Dining Services.

While caffeine may deter drowsiness and increase alert-ness for students trying to study, some health risks that come along with drinking it daily include dehydration, addic-tion and migraines, psychology professor Miriam Boesch said.

“A lot of caffeine may lead to jitters and inability to stay seated for long periods,” Boesch said. “However, with moderate use, it may increase alertness.”

The need for caffeine isn’t just in people’s heads, Boesch said. With time, their bodies become dependent on it and create a need for it in a real, physical way.

“However, for a few, it may be

more of a psychological thing,” Boesch said.

Boe s ch re c om mende d walking or engaging in another form of physical activity to maintain alertness and decrease

drowsiness when feeling tired or sluggish throughout the day.

“Decrease the amount of caffeine a little each day rather than quit cold turkey,” Boesch said.

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The UNT women’s basketball team can make history when it hosts Middle Tennessee on Thursday, as head coach Karen Aston and junior forward Jasmine Godbolt are each in striking distance of a career milestone. What are the career records that the pair could break Thursday?

Answer: Godbolt is five points away from her 1000th career point and Aston is one win away from her 100th career victory.

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Last Meeting: MTSU 78, NT 71

Mitchell has been absolutely dominant this season, with averages of 15.6 points per game and 9.5 rebounds per game. After falling victim to foul trouble against Louisiana-Lafayette last week, he responded with a 21-point, 15-re-bound effort against Arkansas State. If he has another big game, UNT could pull off the upset.

If UNT is going to beat a team as good as Middle Tennessee, it cannot get stagnant on offense. That means not relying completely on Tony Mitchell or on three-pointers. MTSU boasts the best defense in the SBC, so swinging the ball around to everybody is essential.

The last time these two teams met up was last season when MTSU knocked off the Mean Green 78-71 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Despite a comeback led by Josh White, UNT couldn’t overcome a 13-point halftime deficit. The loss snapped a six-game UNT winning streak.

UNT vs. University of Louisiana at

Monroe7 p.m. tonight at the Super Pit

Sports

Bobby Lewis, Sports Editor [email protected]


BRETT MEDEIROSSenior Staff Writer

With another opportunity to take hold of f irst place in the Sun Belt Conference West Division, the UNT men’s basketball team will welcome the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (20-3, 9-0) to the Super Pit. This will be the first and only meeting between the two teams during the regular season.

The Blue Raiders are the No. 47 team in the nation

Mean Green welcomes division leading Blue Raiders

ZACH CLAUSSENStaff Writer

UNT women’s basketball head coach Karen Aston will be looking for her 100th career win as the Mean Green take on defending Sun Belt Conference champions Middle Tennessee State University on Thursday.

The milestone win won’t come easy for Aston and the Mean Green (13-9, 6-3) as the Blue Raiders, winners of 11 straight games, visit the Super Pit for the first time since 2009.

“We have to be highly, highly competitive,” Aston said. “They’re a competitive team and they play hard every possession.”

The Mean Green will try to continue their climb to the top of the Sun Belt West Conference standings and hand MTSU their first conference loss of the season.

A major factor in the game will be UNT’s ability to handle the full-court pressure from Middle Tennessee. MTSU’s (17-5, 9-0) press is forcing 22.4 turnovers per game, and the offense is averaging a Sun Belt-leading 66.5 points per game.

Aston believes the Mean Green’s tough early season schedule, which included games against Texas, Alabama, and Oregon State, will help the team handle the press in

Aston aims for 100th career winWomen’s Basketball

Men’s Basketball

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Sophomore forward Ash’Lynne Evans goes up for a layup against Arkansas State Red Wolves during the Mean Green’s 68-54 win Jan. 28 at the Super Pit. The Mean Green will face Middle Tennessee at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Coliseum.

Thursday’s matchup.“[Playing those teams] does

help, because you can make some comparisons between Middle Tennessee and those other teams,” Aston said. “We’re going to turn it over with this team; I think that’s a given, but we’ve done a pretty good job as far as preparation.”

UNT will also have to be wary of MTSU sophomore forward Ebony Rowe and junior guard Kortni Jones. Rowe averages 17.7 points per game in confer-ence play, and Jones averages 17.6 points per game.

Overall, the pair ranks third and sixth, respectively, in points scored per game in the Sun Belt.

“We have to handle their pressure, play our game, box out and rebound,” junior forward Jasmine Godbolt said.

Home court advantage should also give the UNT women an extra morale boost as they look to improve on their 4-1 home conference record and earn coach Aston her 100th career win.

“I think [the win] means a lot to us, ‘cause she’s our coach and she’s come here and made a huge difference,” Godbolt said. “I think we’ll be excited just like she will.”

In addition to the possibility of Aston’s 100th victory, Godbolt is just five points from reaching 1,000 career points.

The game tips off at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Super Pit.

PHOTO BY COLIN DOBKINS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

while the next closest Sun Belt team, Denver, is No. 89, 42 spots behind. The Mean Green (13-9, 6-3) is No. 194 in the nation.

“Yeah, they have a good team, but we’re just worried about us t hough,” senior guard Tyler Hall said. “When the game comes, we have to go out there and execute and have some fun.”

The toughest opponent MTSU has faced this season is No. 26 Vanderbilt on Jan. 28 in an 84-77 loss.

Middle Tennessee is one of just five teams in the nation to crack

the 20-win mark. The Sun Belt-leading Blue Raiders are off to their best record in school history.

“They are a very talented team, and we’ll have to just play really solid on both ends of the court,” head coach Johnny Jones said. “They have a lot of weapons, and we have to take care of the basket-ball.”

The Blue Raiders have the No. 1 defense in the Sun Belt, holding conference opponents to 54.2 points per game. MTSU is one of the worst free throw shooting teams in the confer-ence, shooting just 65 percent from the line.

However, UNT’s offense is the best in the Sun Belt, aver-aging 74.2 points per game in nine conference games, mea n i ng t h is ga me w i l l match up the conference’s best offense against its best defense.

“Their record speaks for itself, Middle Tennessee is a great basketball team,” junior guard Roger Franklin said. “Being able to play in front of our fans will be an edge for us, but when it’s all said and done, I think it’s really going to come down to playing for 40 minutes straight.”

UNT will also welcome the current SBC Player of the Week, MTSU redshirt senior forward LaRon Dendy. Dendy’s honor prevented UNT freshman forward Tony Mitchell from being the first player to win the award four consecutive times.

The two teams will tip off at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Super Pit.

Freshman forward Tony Mitchell blocks a shot attempt by Arkansas State junior forward Brandon Peterson during the Mean Green’s 76-64 win Saturday at the Super Pit. Mitchell had 6 blocks in the victory.

signing of eight incoming freshmen for next season’s team Wednesday.

T he tea m went 13-4-2 la st sea son a nd won t he regular season conference title, beating Denver 1-0 in its season finale. The team was eliminated by Western Kentucky in the semifinals of the SBC Tournament on penalty kicks.

“It was very important to bring in a strong class for this year,” Hedlund said. “When you lose six quality seniors and are coming off a cham-pionship season, t he goa l must be to bring in several players t hat can ma ke an immediate impact. I truly feel we have done that with the 2012 class, making the future very bright.”

A mon g t he de p a r t i n g seniors are three midfielders, t w o f o r w a r d s a n d a defender.

To replace them, Hedlund will bring in eight incoming

f r e s h m e n a n d o n e transfer for t h e 2 0 1 2 season.

T h e team’s lone t ra n sfer i s f o r w a r d A m a n d a Burgardt, who played with SMU. She w il l be a junior w h e n t h e 2 01 2 s e a s o n starts.

As a f reshman w it h t he Mustangs in 2010, Burgardt sc ore d fou r goa l s, good for second on t he tea m. Burgardt also trained with the Under-15 United States National team.

Hedlund’s freshmen class consists of defenders Paige Bucklew, Tess Graham and Lindsey Hulstein, midfielders M o l l y G r i s h a m , J a c k i e Moreau and Gabi Ortiz, and Amber Haggerty and Karla Pineda will join Burgardt as incoming forwards.

Opinion roster will have to work overtime to keep the team afloat.

In last week’s game against the Louisiana-Lafayette Rajun’ Cajuns, UNT showed the first signs of wear on a team that just lost two of its starters. Freshman Tony Mitchell, now the heart of the Mean Green’s offense, played only 17 minutes instead of the usual 30-plus because of early foul trouble.

ULL defeated UNT because they attacked its strength, which also happens to be its weakness. Mitchell is a dominating pres-ence in the post on both sides of the ball. He is also very aggres-sive in his play, playing above the rim in any situation and looking to play the part of NBA superstar Dwight Howard and swat away anything in his vicinity.

ULL took advantage of his disruptive defensive play and forced him to commit point-less fouls, sending Mitchell to the bench to avoid fouling out of the game. In doing so, the Cajuns took the well-deserved victory.

Look for sophomore guard Alzee Williams and junior guard Brandan Walton to really break

out and make a name for them-selves in these next seven-plus games. Don’t rule out senior forward Kedrick Hogans, who just came back from a knee injury, to provide solid minutes in relief of Mitchell as Hogans works his way back into the starting lineup.

I’ve got no idea how this season is going to end for UNT. I don’t think anyone does because of how tumultuous the last few weeks have been. All I can say is that the road to the Sun Belt Conference Tournament final is going to be much more diffi-cult than last year. If there is any team that needs all 12 active players to exceed their expecta-tions, it’s the Mean Green.

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Bobby Lewis, Sports Editor [email protected]

BRETT MEDEIROSSenior Staff Writer

At what point does a team have to give everything it’s got?

Is it when it’s down one run in the bottom of the ninth in Game Seven of the World Series? Is it when it’s behind by five points in the Super Bowl with two minutes left, and the ball is within its own ten-yard line? How about a game out of first place in its division with seven games remaining in the schedule and two of its top scorers unable to play?

That last example is the exact situation that UNT men’s basket-ball finds itself in. Since losing freshmen guards Chris Jones and Jordan Williams because of academic ineligibility, the Mean Green is 2-1, not including an exhibition game demolishing of Huston-Tillotson.

By no means is that record a viable representation of where this team is heading without Jones and Williams, but if one thing is for sure it’s that the entire

State of men’s basketball team

BOBBY LEWISSports Editor

With the team losing six seniors f rom its Sun Belt Conference regular season championship team, UNT soccer head coach Joh n Hed lu nd a n nou nced t he

Hedlund brings in nine playersBrief

Brett Medeiros

ZACH CLAUSSENStaff Writer

It’s a crisp, sunny Denton after-noon. The wind blows a plastic shopping bag across the staircase, which leads to one of the largest buildings on campus. Upon entering the Super Pit, there is almost complete silence.

Sometimes, the loudest noise comes from the 5-foot-7 Laura McCoy. Her voice carries, and fills the 200,492 square foot Super Pit with life, passion and dedi-cation.

“I have never coached a player that worked as hard as Laura did day in and day out,” said Sherika Nelson, McCoy’s head basket-ball coach at Flower Mound High School. “She does whatever it takes to get the job done. She pushes her teammates to be the best players they can be and refuses to lose.”

McCoy was born in Michigan before moving to Flower Mound at four years old. The love of basket-ball was inherited from her older sister, Julianne, whom McCoy would watch play.

“My older sister started playing when she was younger, and I copied everything she did,” McCoy said. “I’ve loved playing ever since I was in third grade.”

With great effort comes great success, and McCoy’s accolades prove that.

As a high school junior, McCoy was named Most Valuable Player

Guard embraces leadership role in sophomore seasonPro� le

PHOTO BY KRISTI SOTO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore point guard Laura McCoy looks for an open teammate during UNT’s 68-54 win over Arkansas State in the Super Pit on Jan. 28.

of the Flower Mound team and was also selected as the District 6-5A Offensive Player of the Year. Currently, she is the Jaguar’s all-time leader in scoring and assists.

“I’m just really competitive,” McCoy said. “[Basketball] is just something that I’ve always done, and I like getting better at it. I like the fact that it’s a team sport,

and I think it teaches you about life too.”

McCoy chose to continue her basketball career at UNT and hasn’t looked back since.

“At the time [high school senior year], I really loved the coaching staff. I loved the school and it was close to home,” she said.

In her freshman season with the Mean Green, the sharp-shooting point guard played in 29 games while becoming accli-mated to the difference between high school and college basket-ball.

This season, McCoy has taken over the reins of the women’s

basketball team and has become one of the best floor generals in the Sun Belt Conference.

The sophomore’s work ethic was instilled in her by her mom, Carol.

“I really look up to my mother, she’s a really good person,” McCoy said. “She handles herself really well. She’s sincere and trust-worthy. She really means a lot to me.”

Besides being one of the more vocal players on the team and a high-profile athlete on the court, McCoy, a business major, has been labeled by her peers as “bubbly” and “someone who loves to laugh.”

“I think she has a silly side to her that I’m not real aware of yet,” said Karen Aston, UNT women’s basketball head coach. “I see players giggling [at practice], and I think she’s the instigator.”

If she wasn’t playing college basketball, McCoy says she would be a full-time student and have a job to help get her through college.

“You always know what you are going to get out of Laura,” Nelson said. “One day, her senior year, I was up at school working late [10 pm.], and she was shooting. She had been in the gym for at least three hours, and I went by on my way out and said ‘Laura, it’s time to go home!’”

“Laura replied, ‘Coach, I still got to make 100 more free throws to get to 1,000!’”

Practice makes perfect.

“I have never coached a player

that worked as hard as Laura did ...”

—Sherika NelsonMcCoy’s high school coach

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Blackboard transition went ignored

Pro Bowl needs to be changed or

eliminated

Legalization of marijuana an easy

decision

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Columns

Campus Chat

Mike LossingPre-theater junior

Alex Ikard Pre-communication design

sophomore

Caitlin Bossert Pre-psychology junior

Will you vote in the SGA elections this

semester?

“No. I’ve got a lot on my plate. I’m not into school stuff like that

anyway.”

“I would. I think it’s important for the student body to be

heard.”

“Yes. If you know about something, if you have an opinion, you have a say. “

Many who have attended college in the past decade have likely experi-enced some form of frustrating web experience. For years, Blackboard was the source of such headaches, with constant web-outages and inconsis-tent site performance, but now UNT has begun a transition to its new Learn system.

While UNT deciding to move away from the old Blackboard is a good thing, the university’s execution of the transition was poor.

UNT administration didn’t do anything to publicize the transition. Most students weren’t aware of the new platform until the first week of

school. If teachers hadn’t used the new system, students still wouldn’t know about it.

The main problem with the two Blackboard sites is the lack of consis-tency between classes. Many students have voiced complaints about having to access the old Blackboard site for several classes, and the new Learn site for others. A key reason for online access to academic information is convenience, and the current system lacks that.

As a further result of this poor communication, in some cases both Learn and Blackboard weren’t avail-able for the first couple weeks of class,

meaning there was nowhere to find important syllabus information or interact within the class.

Early on in the semester, many professors didn’t know if they were going to be using the old Blackboard platform or the new Learn platform for their classes. That means that during the crucial first week, while administrators sorted out logistics, communication between students and professors suffered. That kind of impact on learning is unacceptable, especially when the university had a month to work out the kinks and let the students know.

Today’s college generation is

familiar with the digital world in all of its forms. That means they’re also likely to exhibit a different degree of technical awareness. When Blackboard won’t allow a student to properly place an assignment in Dropbox, they’re going to know it’s a network problem, not user error. Similarly, when a data-heavy website like UNT.edu doesn’t have a streamlined interface, people are going to notice.

As paying clients, students should see their money being re-invested in a positive and helpful manner. Learn isn’t a bad investment, but the way UNT has handled this digital transi-tion is sloppy at best.

The Pro Bowl sucks. There, I said what a lot of other people have been thinking for years. Those thoughts were reaffirmed Sunday when the NFC and AFC superstars of the NFL “competed” in the league’s version of an all-star game in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In comparison to the other all-star games from the “big three” major league sports (NBA, NFL, MLB), the Pro Bowl just seems unable to hold its own.

The NFL’s yearly trip to Honolulu consists of just the one game. To be blunt—it’s simply not enough. There used to be a skills competi-tion that would be played before the game, involving quarterbacks throwing, punting and running drills, but it got axed in 2007 for unknown reasons. Now the game is a joke to even the most hardcore of football fans –myself included– who want a last chance to see a few of their team’s players on the field before the “dark ages” of the offseason.

The lack of theatrics is a problem, but the real stor y here is the minimal effort put forth by the professionals.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers called out his NFC teammates after the game, saying in an interview with ESPN that their effort was “embarrassing.” I can vouch for that as someone who watched the game. The defense just stood there and didn’t pursue the quarterback or make many attempts to tackle. The fans paid to see a

game, not a group of professional athletes jogging around the field like they didn’t want to be there.

I understand the worry about injuries and other things that make the rules of the Pro Bowl different and try and keep it from being too physical, but to not even show effort and completely dispense with the illusion that it can be compared to an actual game is just absurd.

These men are paid millions of dollars to do things even the most ambitious of people can only fanta-size about, they are gifted with their physical talents and size, but it is shameful to the most popular sport in the country when they basically give a middle finger to their adoring fans by walking around the field like they don’t care.

The NFL needs to figure out how to make people care about this game, or just get rid of it.

Alex Young is a journalism junior. He can be reached at [email protected]

For those who are apathetic to poli-tics, marijuana legalization seems like a relatively unimportant issue. Yet, according to a recent Gallup poll, fifty percent of the population supports the full legalization of marijuana use. This isn’t just medical marijuana for patients going through chemotherapy or people with multiple sclerosis. This is full-blown, smoking-pot-in-front-of-a-Drug-Enforcement-Administration-officer’s-face kind of legalization.

A new public relations move by President Barack Obama known as the “YouTube Forum” further highlights the problem. The YouTube forum gives citizens the opportunity to submit their personal questions in a forum, and in a democratic fashion the president is supposed to answer the most popular questions.

Surprisingly, the master orator and his dozens of political advisors refused to answer one of the most popular questions because it was “inappro-priate.” The National Organization for the Reformed Marijuana Law asked, “With over 850,000 Americans arrested in 2010 on marijuana charges alone, and tens of billions of tax dollars being spent locking up marijuana users, isn’t it time to regulate and tax mari-juana?”

I don’t understand what is so inap-propriate.

Our federal government is crip-pled by debt because of irresponsible spending, nation building, special interest, lobbying and an economic crisis that continues to frighten our nation into lethargy. But we can’t muster the resolution to legalize a

thriving industry? We can’t stop pros-ecuting users and wasting tax dollars on people trying to bust a chill after work?

If we legalized and regulated the marijuana industry, the black market would dissolve instantly. It would take money out of the hands of criminals and put money into the hands of citi-zens. Isn’t this an easy decision that everyone would support? This would be an act of reducing the size of govern-ment, creating more jobs and bringing in more tax dollars without tax hikes. It would also reduce the teenage mari-juana use rate, because a licensed clerk is less likely to sell to a minor than homeboy down the street

I would like to challenge you to do some independent research, find a counterargument and email me. This issue is not going away, and the argu-ment that “more people will drive stoned” is simply not good enough.

Andrew McGinnis is an English senior. He can be reached at [email protected].

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# 21

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# 22

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# 23

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# 24

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# 17

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# 18

V. EASY # 18

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# 19

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V. EASY # 2

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# 3

V. EASY # 3

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V. EASY # 50

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# 52

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# 49

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# 50

V. EASY # 50

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# 51

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