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Protests continue over natural gas drilling BY CHRIS SPEIGHT Senior Staff Writer
JOSH PHERIGO Staff Writer
Protesters stood on the side of McKinney Street holding cardboard signs reading “Preserve Our Park,” on Tuesday afternoon. The activists rallied in front of City Hall against the drilling near McKenna Park. The drill site in question is on the Rayzor Ranch development, which is across the street from McKenna Park on Scripture and Bonnie Brae streets. Members of the International Socialist Organization, concerned residents, students, police officers and the press were present before the Denton City Council meeting convened. The organization held the protest because profit is superseding human rights, said Charlie Grand, member of the International Socialist Organization. At about 5 p.m., police told those present at the protest that the issue was still tabled on the city council agenda. It has been tabled three times, beginning in July. The International Socialist Organization has held three protests so far about this issue. “This is one of those not-inmy-backyard situations. Well this time, it is in my backyard,” Grand said. Grand said he does not agree with the idea that Range
Resource, the drilling company, has property rights for something underneath other people’s homes. Texas Railroad Commission guidelines secure mineral owners the right to extract gas for profit. Denying the drilling site completely or even an attempt to move it could pull the city into an expensive lawsuit. “Texas state law really sides on the side of the mineral rights owner,” John Cabrales, city of Denton spokesman said. “If you have the mineral rights, sometimes your right to access those minerals supersedes a landowner’s.” The current drill site would place gas wells across the street from Denton Presbyterian Hospital, a retirement community, a hospice, a park and a residential neighborhood. “It would appear the gas is located beneath the neighborhood, which requires slant drilling and the plummeting of their property value,” Grand said. Sammie Haren, who lives six houses down from the proposed drill site, owns the mineral rights to her residence. She said the property has been in her family for 54 years. Haren came to the council meeting to express her concern about the dangers, which she believes are associated with the proposed drilling, she said.
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(From left) Activists Lee Fatheree, Melissa Crowe and others protest the drilling of gas wells in a demonstration on Tuesday afternoon, outside Denton City Hall. “I’m not going to trash the environment or endanger people’s lives for a buck,” Haren said, when asked about the mineral profits that she stands to gain. Protesters said they will rally every two weeks at city council meetings to make their point heard. Cabrales said that meetings
between the city of Denton, Rayzor Ranch and Range Resource Developers a re continuing. T he t h ree pa r t ies a re discussing the options of finding other locations on the property of where to move the drill site. Sharon Wilson, a member of t he Texas Oi l & Gas
Accountability Project said she came to the council meeting to lend her support to those wishing to voice their opinions. “They can easily move it farther away,” Wilson said. “Current horizontal drilling technology allows drilling to be
ca rried out from greater distances than the proposed site. It’s probably easier, more convenient, and cheaper for the company to put it there but they don’t have to. It’s a convenience issue for the drilling company.”
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TAMS ceases program charge BY JORDAN FOSTER
which increased TAMS money by about $800,000, Sinclair Students living in McConnell said. The department was able Hall and their parents can breathe a little easier since the to cover the financial hole in the budget and eliminate the last Texas legislative session. During the summer, the program charge all together, Texas Academy of Mathematics Sinclair said. The notice and Science department to parents was sent out in discontinued the once manda- August. T he remova l of t he tory program charge of $1,300 program charge for each student. has students and T h e Te x a s parents relieved, Legislature Sinclair said. increased alloKeith Andersen, cation for a TAMS senior, public educaenjoys the tion, making the program and is fee elimination excited about possible. Arnold-Roksendich hav i ng ex t r a T he TA MS cash. charge existed “All of the people that went since 2003. The 2003 Texas legisla- here last year had to pay it, tive session led to a number this year we didn’t. I’m using of cuts, one being a cut on the money I saved off of it the School Fund Foundation, for college applications and where TAMS receives almost student housing,” Andersen half of its money, putting the said. TAMS senior Allison Arnoldprogram in a bind. “So it was a choice, do we Roksendich said she was able to cut out some of the programs buy the car she wanted. “I’m glad it’s no longer and components that make TAMS great or do we ask the around,” Arnold-Roksendich parents to contribute?” Dean said. “It makes it a lot easier on of TAMS Richard Sinclair said. us because we are enrolling in “So we decided to ask the colleges next year and I’m sure parents to contribute and we it will be enough to buy our called it the program charge. textbooks for at least a year.” Sinclair said he believes the It was not very popular with the parents or with us, but it increase took an immense pressure off of parents, and he was necessary.” I n t he 20 07 Te x a s feels happy to see more people Legislature, the TAMS depart- interested in the program. “I think by making it more ment tried to acquire more money to eliminate the charge, affordable, we will be able to increase the diversity of but couldn’t. The 2009 session followed the program which we work hard to do,” Sinclair said. “It with a different twist. The Texas Legislature takes financial pressure off increased the allotment per of everyone and despite the student for public education, economy, we’re doing OK.” Staff Writer
A conceptual drawing of the second building on the UNT Dallas Campus. The building is being designed by Overland Partners Architects. Rendering by Elizabeth Day.
UNT Dallas expands campus BY A MBER A RNOLD Senior Staff Writer
UNT’s Da l las ca mpus, a budding independent institution, is in the process of an expansion. Construction is underway for the campus’ new General Academic Building, which is slated to open the first week of class August 2010. To begin construction on the new building, the campus needed the money to fund it, which they received through a tuit ion revenue bond of $25 million provided by the state, said Gregory Tomlin, director of marketing, news and information. As a requirement for the bond and to achieve standa lone stat us, t he ca mpus needed to reach it s goa l of hav i ng 1,0 0 0 f u l l-t i me students, a number that they hit in the spring of 2009. Since the total cost of the bu i ld i ng is $ 41.8 m i l l ion, add it iona l money w i l l be needed. However, Tomlin assures st udent s t hat t he u n iver-
sit y w i l l seek out a lter native financing through donations and debt service rather than pay ing for it through tuition. “We’re not going to put this burden on the back of our students,” Tomlin said. Overland Partners of San Antonio designed the 100,000 square foot building, which is being built by Beck Group contractors. It will be on the south side of the existing building and w i l l house most ly lect u re rooms, said Raynard Kearbey, associate vice chancellor of system facilities. T he bu i ld i ng w i l l a l so include a food service area, l ibra r y, fac u lt y a nd st a f f of f ices, four teaching labs a nd t he W.W. Ca r u r t h Jr. Da l las Police Inst itute, he said. W it h t h e U N T D a l l a s becom i ng a n i ndependent institution, it w ill be expanding, Tomlin said. “We’d like to see another GAB of the same size along with a school for the phar-
macy progra m, a nd a lso a conference center,” he said. I n keepi ng w it h U N T’s efforts to be “green,” the UNT Dallas administration said it hopes t he bui lding w i l l achieve gold LEED certification, Kearbey said. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Dif ferent levels of LEED certification are awarded to buildings based on sustainable site development, water sav ings, energ y efficiency, materia ls selection a nd indoor env ironmenta l quality, according to w w w. usgbc.org. If const r uct ion goes a s pla n ne d, t he ne w bu i lding’s opening will coincide with the campus becoming an independent institution, which will make it the first free-standing public university in Dallas, Kearbey said. “I t h i n k it w i l l t remendously increase t he development of that section of the city, that section is open wide for development,” Kearbey
“We’ve met and surpassed the goal that the state set.”
-Gregory Tomlin Director of marketing, news and information
said. “It will draw students from all over that area.” Ac c ord i ng to t he U N T Dallas campus Web site, it will accept its first freshman class September 2010, a nd the days are being counted down to the second on the Web site’s homepage. “As of right now we’re an extension of Denton, which is the f lagship universit y,” Tomlin said. “We’ve met and surpassed the goal that the state set, but the transition to being a completely separate institution w ill take a while.”
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Arts & Life
Kip Mooney
Arts & Life Editor kipmooney@my.unt.edu
Organization works toward equality BY GRACIELA R AZO Senior Staff Writer
Forty years after the riots at New York City’s Stonewall Inn sparked the modern-day gay rights movement, Denton Count y’s loca l chapter of a nationa l organization is continuing that same quest for equality. The Stonewall Democrats of Denton County is a grassroots organization whose goal is to help put gay-friendly democratic candidates in office. Its namesake is the New York City bar where police handcuffed and arrested Stonewall’s gay customers for congregating, an illegal activity at the time on June 27, 1969. A crowd began to form and fight back against the police force, causing riots throughout the night. Stonewa ll Democrats of Denton County vice president Eloy Machuca said to carry on the same sense of change, the Stonewall Democrats focus their efforts on electing those who will support its values. “What we try to do is try to
reach out to other gay democrats in the area so that they can network and hopefully fight for the legislation, so there is equality for everyone,” Machuca said. The organization’s president John McClelland, who ran against incumbent Republican State Representative My ra Crownover in 2008, said the group helps its candidates through fundraisers, calling voters and campaigning. But McClelland said the group’s ambitions reach further than lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. “We strive to be involved in the community, not just get people elected to office,” McClelland said. Stonewall members also participate in quarterly trash pick-up community service projects, donate money to schola rsh ip ba nquet s for students and recently held a forum to discuss issues affecting the gay community. The organization also celebrated the 40th anniversary
of the riots with a gay pride event in Denton on June 26 and 27, gathering more than 100 people, Machuca said. Members are also preparing for the Gay Pride Parade in Dallas on Sept. 20. “It is definitely a movement where we need to make sure that no one, regardless of orientation, is discriminated against,” Machuca said. With 90 Stonewall Democrat chapters across the country, Machuca said having this organization in Denton County is important because of the number of gay residents. The work the Stonewa ll Democrats are doing will move the gay movement forward, said Diedrick Brackens, Gay and Lesbian Association of Denton president. “ T h i s or g a n i z a t i on i s PHOTO BY JAYDA QUINCY / PHOTOGRAPHER crucial to an area like Denton Count y, which lea ns more Eloy Machuca, vice president of the Stonewall Democrats of Denton County, searches the roadside for trash during an towards conservative voters,” annual trash pickup. The group adopted a stretch of FM 4555 in Sanger, Texas. Br a c k e n s s a id . “I f t h e y important members are young are going to change anything,” succeed in electing LGBT- goes unheard.” McClelland said. “We need Although supporters of all students. friendly representation then “G et t i ng you ng pe ople people who are actually going I think that will bring a voice ages are encouraged to join, to a minority that sometimes McClel la nd sa id t he most involved is the only way we to go out and do stuff.”
Denton County shelter provides help for abused BY K ATIE GRIVNA Senior Staff Writer
People seeking help and services because of an abusive relationship can find relief at Denton County Friends of the Family. The agency provides services for those impacted by physical and sexual violence, said Sarah Martinez, the community resources coordinator for the organization. Relationship violence is often
a silent crime, she said, and is challenging to start a dialogue about it. “It’s something no one talks about,” she said. “There are ways to overcome it.” The agency served more than 13,000 clients last year, Martinez said. “The number speaks for itself,” she said. “If we weren’t here, I don’t know what would happen to them.” The agency provides a free,
confidential, safe place for people affected by relationship violence, Martinez said. The Denton County Friends of the Family offers services such as a 26-bed residential shelter, adult counseling and parenting programs, legal advocacy, hospital accompaniment, and community education, among others. The agency also offers a program for abuse victims to re-teach relationship roles,
Martinez said. A violence intervention and prevention program helps people who are or could be violent in their relationship, she said. The agency served 5,008 violence inter vention and prevention clients, according to the 2008 Denton County Friends of the Family annual report. The Denton County Friends of the Family also has a thrift store at 1014 W. University Drive, which is open to both clients of the agency and the community. Earnings from the thrift store help agency programs. Dr. John Hipple, UNT counseling psychologist and co-author of “Diagnosis and Management of Psychological Emergencies: A Manual for Hospitalization,” said the long term affects of relationship abuse can cause
victims to have trust issues and a fear of getting close to someone again. Hipple said it is important Denton has an agency like the Denton County Friends of the Family because of the many services they offer which give them a social creditability. The people who work there have specialized and advanced training, he said, so they can help those in need. Educational programs about relationship abuse as well as skill and self-esteem building are also helpful to prevent long-term effects of relationship abuse, Hipple said. The agency has many volunteer and internship opportunities for counseling or social work, Martinez said. People who do not have time to volunteer can participate in a donation drive or
donate paper goods, she said. “Here, you really make a difference,” Martinez said. Natalie Rochester, a counseling psycholog y masters student of Texas Woman’s University, said she works at Denton County Friends of the Family as part of the counseling psychology program. The best part of working at the agency, she said, is getting to know the clients and hearing their powerful stories. “You get to know a strength they don’t recognize in themselves,” she said. She said the hardest part of her job is facing the realities the agency’s clients experience. “People do go through the things you hear in the news,” she said. Rochester said the Denton County Friends of the Family is a respectable and caring place. “They really try to do their best and are dedicated to people they serve,” she said. For more information about Denton County Friends of the Family, visit www.dcfof.org or call 940-387-5131.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Arts & Life
Page 3 Kip Mooney
Arts & Life Editor kipmooney@my.unt.edu
Following the leader JEPH BURTON Staff Writer
Fouts Field comes to life, glinting gold and silver like a wave of sparks skidding across the field. From this glittering landscape of trumpets and horns, the UNT Fight Song erupts, an anthem blanketing the air with adrenaline-pumping rhythm, and the Green Brigade begins to march. Weaving in between some 300 student-musicians, music education junior Kaleb Schumann adjusts the formation, nudging bodies an inch here, an inch there. He pushes two fingers against one performer’s hip and shoulder, aligning their spine. Every visual aspect counts. Schumann, 20, was appointed
this year as the Green Brigade’s first Lead Field Instructor, a position designed to unify the band’s marching and musical directions. The job takes an incredible amount of patience, objectivity and attention to detail, but Schumann says, despite the responsibility, he can’t help but put a smile on fellow band members’ faces. “I like entertaining people,” Schumann said. “I get to be out and big in front of everybody. Taking something that can be pretty drab, your 8 to 5 marching step, and making it entertaining. That’s probably the aspect I enjoy the most.” An avid speaker and enthusiastic teacher, Schumann
said his new role in the Green Brigade was almost exactly what he wanted, but it also requires focus and endurance. “Speaking in front of a big group takes lots of energy, and you have to overcompensate with your voice and with the words you say,” he said. “One mess-up, and you confuse 50 people.” Schumann has to employ this attention to detail in everything he does, whether in his duties on the executive board of music-centric fraternity Mu Phi PHOTO BY CHRISTENA DOWSETT /PHOTO EDITOR Epsilon, instructing the Green Brigade or teaching one-on-one Kaleb Schumann, music education junior, is the Lead Field Instructor for the Green Brigade. His job involves checking in his studio of 13 kids, where posture and formations on the field during marching band practice. he teaches them fundamentals of music and how to play their Schumann began to imple“That’s my goal when I teach: of planning, communication, respective instruments. Does the kid know how to play responsibility and all that, so by ment his ideas for the band, the horn, and can the kid prac- the time I was in high school, I promoting peer-teaching and tice without somebody playing was already three years ahead more communication. “The Green Brigade is made it for him?” Schumann said. of everybody who wanted to be up mainly of music educa“Making self-sufficient musi- a leader.” Kevin Buhl, Scout Master of tion majors,” Schumann said. cians is my goal.” To S c hu m a n n , t h e s e Schumann’s Boy Scouts troop, “I want to get as many people mounting responsibilities are said Schumann exemplified teaching as I can, and I think a performance in and of them- good leadership and manage- we’re already seeing a little of that.’” ment skills at a young age. selves. But what goes on behind “He was organized,” Buhl “I view now my performance to be when I’m teaching,” he said. “He seemed to plan things, the scenes to make the Green said. “Even if I don’t know, I and he had a PDA to keep track Brigade a success is still buildhave to look like I know what of what was going on. That’s kind up for gametime. Schuma nn says t here’s of unusual for kids today.” I’m talking about.” Steph a n ie L e e, mu sic nothing like performing in front Schumann has been cemented in various leadership positions education senior, a former of a stadium full of people and since the sixth grade, he said, Green Brigade member of four the roar of applause that comes during which time he was made years and an innovator in the from weeks of hard work and the Scout Patrol Leader of his marching band’s history, has planning. “A lot of times your victoBoy Scouts troop. The experi- full confidence in Schumann’s ries are personal victories,” ence of managing 26 people, ability to help lead the band. “He’s really going to promote Schumann said. “But once some younger, some older than himself, almost caused him to direction,” Lee said. “In the past, you hit a big set and the whole quit, but Schumann stuck with there was no defined leader and crowd is cheering for you, that’s people wandered. I think it’s a shared victory. It’s the pay-off it. “As the years went on, I finally great that they have a leader you’ve been waiting for.” got this leadership thing down,” now.” To see multimedia for this story, visit ntdaily.com Schumann said. “I got the ideas
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Sports
Justin Umberson
Sports Editor ntdaily.sports@gmail.com
UNT Athlete of the Week:
Goalkeeper Mandy Hall ERIC JOHNSON
The Script: Players leaving doesn’t reflect coach’s ability
Senior Staff Writer
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Junior goalkeeper Mandy Hall truly embodies the student athlete. She has excelled on the field, in the classroom and in her community. She is a leader on and off the field for the Mean Green soccer team, and expects this to be a banner year for the team. “I expect nothing less than a championship,” Mandy Hall said. “We have a lot of talent on this team, and I know what we are capable of being.” In its first two games of the season, Mandy Hall led the team past Sam Houston State University and New Mexico State University by saving 12 shots and earning her ninth and tenth career shutouts, the second most in school history. The performance earned her national honors as she was named to the national team of the week on www.topdrawersoccer.com. “She is playing at an extremely high level,” Head Coach John Hedlund said. “She is a tremendous leader and really sets our defense up. Her and our other captains are really taking us in the right direction.” Mandy Hall began playing soccer at the age of four and knew immediately that she was going to be a goalkeeper. Her mother, Cindy Hall, was watching from the beginning and knew that her daughter had talent. “She was playing co-ed at the age of four, and wanted to be a goalie from day one,” Cindy Hall said. “She was playing against all boys, but she never backed down and you just knew she was going to be a keeper.” But there is more to Mandy Hall than just soccer. The 21-year-old history major carries a 3.9 grade point average. She plans on a teaching career after earning her degree and would like to continue to have soccer be a part of her life. “I want to coach soccer when I am through playing,” Mandy Hall said. “I would like to coach and teach at the high school level, but I will definitely be coaching whether it is at the high school or club level.” She is off to a head start on her coaching career, spending two nights a week teaching
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Mandy Hall, a junior, reached second place this weekend in most career shutouts by a UNT soccer goalie. soccer lessons to children in her hometown of Coppell. Mandy Hall runs the kids, ages 5 through 10, through different drills and teaches them the basics of soccer. She has also worked Hedlund’s soccer camps the past two seasons, convincing him that she has what it takes to be a great coach. “She works well with everyone around her and is very patient,” Hedlund said. “She is a great leader and really knows the game. She is a great role model for other players to look up to.” Coach Hedlund expects Mandy Hall to own all of UNT’s goalkeeping records when she is through, but for now Hall is just enjoying what she loves to do. “This is what she has wanted to do all her life,” her mother said. “I am so proud and she has exceeded all my expectations for her.”
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Since the Mean Green women’s basketball season ended, head coach Shanice Stephens has seen five of the team’s top six scorers leave by either transferring to other schools or graduating. The players that transferred have brought up questions about Stephens’ ability to lead the team that should never have been asked. After spending the final few months of last season around Stephens and the Mean Green, there is no doubt in my mind that she is the right woman for the job. To judge her by players leaving whom she did not recruit is a mistake. Last season was coach Stephens’ first as a head coach, where she had to deal with a discipline problem that former coach Tina Slinker staff recruited into.
Bringing in Stephens meant that the Mean Green women would not only have new offensive and defensive game plans, but a new discipline system as well. Stephens’ discipline was tested early and often during her first season, when the team’s only all-conference player broke team rules and was eventually kicked off the team. No player is bigger than the team with Stephens at the helm, and that is the right way to begin her tenure at UNT. A senior majoring in general business last season, Jo Hall was one of the players that earned a suspension from the rookie head coach. After Stephens’ first season, Hall told me that Stephens will win at UNT when she gets the type of players that fit her system, so if a few unhappy players leave early, it just gets Stephens closer to that goal. She can now use roster spots on players who will
not only stick around to play four seasons, but on students who will make the university proud with their off -the-court behavior. Stephens also brings experience from her playing career that will ultimately lead to the Mean Green’s success. During her college playing days with the Oklahoma State Cowgirls, Stephens reached two NCAA tournaments, advancing to the Sweet 16 her senior season. Coach Stephens also has 12 years experience as an assistant coach, including nine at Rice University, where she interviewed for its head coach position after the 2005 season. With her personal experience, good character and leadership skills, Shanice Stephens has the right make up of a colligate basketball coach. One year coaching a team that did not follow rules should not be the judge of her potential.
Volleyball team seeks revenge BY R EMINGTON BIRD Staff Writer
The Southern Methodist University Mustangs and UNT volleyball teams shared a hardfought battle midway through the 2008 season. The Mean Green was swept in straight sets but kept them very competitive. The Mean Green is seeking revenge at 7 tonight, when the team travels to Dallas to take on SMU at the Moody Coliseum. “SMU is really a very quick team, so we’re going to have to continue to work on footwork and every part of our game,” head coach Cassie Headrick
said. This year, the Mean Green plays at SMU with a record of 0-3, while the Mustangs have a record of 1-2. Both teams’ records come from the Mean Green Volleyball Classic last weekend, but they never met in the tournament. The Mean Green lost to the University of Texas at San Antonio, Northern Colorado and New Mexico State. SMU also lost to Northern Colorado and New Mexico State, but defeated UT-Sa n A nton io 3-1. UT-San Antonio was the Mean Green’s most competitive match in the tournament, going all five sets.
Sophomore Spanish language major Rachelle Wilson was not satisfied with the Mean Green’s performance in the tournament, and she has concerns about errors and cohesiveness. “We want to wait on them to mess up, we don’t want to be the ones to mess up,” Wilson, a middle blocker, said. “We’re just going to be working on our intensity and our consistency in order to keep building from what we have.” Junior outside hitter Amy Huddleston is not completely sure what all the team will be working on in practice during Monday and Tuesday, but she has confidence it will be ready for SMU by game time. “I know we’re going to work on offense a lot, so it will be ready by the time we play,” Hudd leston, a i nterd isciplinary studies major, said. “The defense looks good, we just have to get the small things to work.” SMU also lost five of its starters from last year, Headrick said. She feels like the Mean Green est abl i shed something in the tournament with good passing, but she still has concerns. “We’ve got to continue to work on our slide-blocking,” Headrick sa id. “We’re not getting ourselves in good position when we’re one-on-one out against attackers, so that is definitely something we’re going to have to work on.”
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Amanda Mielcarek
Views Editor ntdailyviews@gmail.com
College savings bill could help students Editorial September is College Savings Month so it’s a good time to consider 529s. These are college savings plans designed to help people, especially families, set aside money for future college expenses. They can be used to pay for any qualified college nationwide, including UNT, and despite what state your plan comes from, you can still attend any eligible college in the country. A bill has been introduced to Congress that would allow more flexibility for plan holders and their financial advisers. The bill, HR 1351, would make the changes that have been in practice this past year permanent. There are two plans that can be chosen from, a savings plan and a prepaid plan. The savings plan works like a 401K and invests the deposited money in mutual funds or other similar investments. The success or failure of these investments affects the value of your account. The prepaid plan allows you to pre-pay all or part of the expenses for college, and within that plan you can choose to work toward an in-state college, an out-of-state college or a private college. In the past the number of plan changes a person could make was limited to one per year. If this bill passes, people can make two changes per year. This would allow greater flexibility for people trying to save for college, either for themselves or for a family member. The editorial staff feels it is a positive step toward giving people more control over their college savings plans, and that the change is a long time coming. With the average college student graduating with more than $20,000 in debt, according to MSN Money, savings plans are certainly an advantageous option to consider. While this bill is definitely a step in the right direction, the editorial board hopes that in the future even more flexibility will be possible with regard to making changes to these plans. For now, however, students should pay attention to this bill and give it their full support as it makes its way into law. hopefully To contact your local representative, Michael Burgess, call 222-225-7772.
Campus Chat What was the highlight of your summer?
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“Well, I guess the highlight unfortunately was taking a class here … I took biology for non-biology majors.”
Brian Arevalo Hospitality Junior
“The highlight of my summer was, I guess, preparing to play football next season here. I went to Deion Sanders Football Camp.”
Campus parking deserves remodeling
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ere we are, back on campus. Over the summer the u n i v er sit y h a d a facelift— remodeled residence ha l ls, new creat ive landscaping and a life science building that looks less like the setting of a 1980s horror movie than it did in May. With all of the improvements, it’s only obv ious to assume that parking, a major issue on the minds of many students, would not only be addressed, but completely revamped. Maybe it’s not so obvious, because it didn’t happen. We are still fighting for the very few spots within a block or two of our classrooms or dorms, which, unless you’ve got super-human speed and lightning-fast ref lexes, you won’t get. It’s got ten to t he poi nt that students spend longer
driving around looking for a parking space than they do in the class they’re headed to. I thought that we were supposed to “Mean Green.” I recently discovered that the parking office sells more t ha n t w ice t he number of parking permits than there are parking spaces. Their logic, if you can call it that, is that some students commute and don’t have class every day, so not all 35,000 students are on campus at the same time. This fails to consider the large population of students who live on campus and have to walk several blocks in the rain, heat or dark just to get home at night. The proposed solution to that problem is E-Ride, the campus bus that runs similarly to a taxi. Between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m., one simply calls the police
station and gives the operator your name, cell phone number, location and destinat ion. Then, in about 20 minutes, a driver comes and picks you up. T h i s i s a g reat ser v ice when going f rom one sa fe locat ion to a not her, but if you’re calling because you feel uncomfortable walking a lone in t he da rk, wa iting for 20 minutes for your ride is less than desirable. T he bus a lso on ly r u ns on campus, which does not include Fry street or sorority row, not to mention any of the apartment complexes many students choose to live in. This would be bad enough if t here was a pla n to add more pa rk i ng on ca mpus near academic buildings and dorms, but there isn’t. It is r u mored t hat UNT President Gretchen Bataille wa nts pa rk i ng w it h i n t he
campus to disappear, making UNT a no-driving campus. Again, this would be bad enough if there was a plan to add parking, if not on campus then at the perimeters, but there isn’t. I guess I’ll be walking this year, and waking up at 4 a.m. to scoot my car just a little bit closer to the door.
Jessika Curry is a journalism junior. She can be reached at jessika.curry@unt.edu.
Disney films have hidden stereotypes
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n today’s societ y, it’s important to see why race, class and gender still matter. As a youngster growing up I watched plenty of cartoons and animated movies just like so many other children do when they are at that age. Watching these films as a child you only see how funny they are and how they are meant to be for your amusement and entertainment. It wasn’t until I watched a documentary in one of my classes last semester that I realized most of these popular children’s films have some racial stereotyping in them. In our class last semester we d iscussed how Disney movies have hidden stereotypes in the way they portray their characters. In some of the movies it’s very obvious, and in ot hers you have to look for it. In most of these films you have your typical characters: the princess, the evil witch or step mom, the prince, his sidekick, the villain and the father of the princess or the prince. These films aren’t really
just about race, but also class and gender. The princess is always white, graceful and heterosexual. T he sa me goes for t he prince, who is tall, muscular, white and definitely heterosexual. In these Disney films the other characters, such as the villain, evil witch and sidekick, are rarely Caucasian. The sidekick to the prince is usually smaller, of a lower class, sometimes ethnic and mouthy. These characters are funny to the viewer because they are supposed to be that way in the movie but in reality there is a hidden form of discrimination going on. In some cases the animals in the mov ie have obv ious ethnic tones to their voices. I n one of t he f i l m s, t he mon keys a re supposed to sound black. This is an obvious form of racial profiling. These characters are meant to be seen as f unny at t he t heir ow n expense. The documentary “Mickey Mouse Monopoly” describes and shows us some of these
examples. As a child I watched almost all of these films, but as a child you are k ind of blind to these racial undertones. In t he Disney f ilm “Pocahontas,” Disney definitely distorts the truth as to w hat rea l ly happened when the Europeans came to America. Poca hontas never married a man named John Smith, and the natives and whites didn’t really get along that well for the most part. Or in “Lady and the Tramp,” the Siamese cats sing a song toget her a nd you notice they have a distinct Chinese or Asian accent. I don’t believe t hat ch i ld ren understand or e v e n n ot i c e t he d i f ferent stereot y pes t h at oc c u r i n t hese f i lms. I’m definitely not saying that Disney films are
going to make a child racist or warp their thoughts, but it’s interesting to note that these stereotypes are so prevalent within them. Bryan Hughes is a sociology junior. He can be reached at bhugh81@gmail.com.
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