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Students struggle for answers By Linda Kessler Copy Editor @LindaKessler
For a university aiming to take on national prominence, UNT’s communication practices often delay students and faculty from handling certain affairs vital to being enrolled in classes or educating the student body. On college campuses, there are many places students, parents, faculty and staff can go to have their university-related questions and concerns dealt with. But when those places do not operate efficiently it can lead to what UNT President Neal Smatresk and others call the “UNT runaround.” Smatresk described the term as ineffective communication when students or faculty are redirected to various departments, or don’t have their issues managed in a concise and timely manner. Latasha Phillips, a Marine Corps veteran and transfer student, said she knows all about this issue. A recent experience with UNT left her puzzled at customer service when she had enrollment questions last month. Phillips, who feels she’s wasted her time, went from the Student Veteran Services office to the General Academic Building, to the Eagle Student Services Center and back again in her search for answers Phillips said have yet to be resolved. “Two bottles of water later and my anger is through the roof. I make my way back to the GAB and express my frustration,” Phillips said. “An advisor promptly came and wrote me a short form for concurrent enrollment. Why could
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As a kid, Top Game Jiu Jitsu studio owner Blake Dvorak wasn’t focused on kicking a soccer ball around, building train sets or playing with toy cars. Instead, his interests lay within a simple deck of playing cards. Ever since he was 10 years old, Dvorak has spent his time learning different magic illusions. “I watched a David Blaine TV special right around my tenth birthday,” Dvorak said. “Right after I watched it, I went out and bought my first magic set. That was it after that.” Growing up, Dvorak and his family moved around a lot since his father, Dave, was in the Air Force. One of those moves took his family to Vegas when he was in sixth grade. “We lived in Vegas for a while,” Dvorak said. “I got to grow up in an environment where so many magicians lived and performed. I got to see how it worked out firsthand.” Dvorak said when he would walk down the Strip or explore different parts of Vegas he liked to perform tricks for passersby. Just a kid at the time, he wanted to show people what he could do. One of Dvorak’s biggest supporters when
he was starting out was his sister Brittany. She said her brother would constantly come to her asking for advice. “We moved around a lot, so we were each other’s best friends,” Brittany said. “He would come into my room at night after spending hours practicing, have me drop everything and watch his new tricks. His face would always light up when he was doing any of his tricks.” There are thousands of different magic tricks and illusions, but Dvorak chooses to focus on card tricks. He plans to continue improving his skills and has
Blake Dvorak balances cards under his chin on Sept. 23. Hannah Ridings | Senior Staff Photographer
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SPEAKER
Bill Nye to speak at UNT in April By Josh Taylor Staff Writer @ iEnglishBetter Bill Nye the Science Guy is coming to UNT next semester. He joins the latest lineup of speakers for the Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecturers include a Pulitzer Prize winner, a former FBI agent and entertainers. The series begins Oct. 21 with Jose Antonio, a former undocumented American who continued on to win awards for his work and establish the nonprofit Define American. Those attending the lecture can expect to hear inspiring stories about
making the most of their situations. The Division of Student Affairs, which runs the lectures series, intended this series to give its viewers an eye-opening lecture on life skills to better their name alongside UNT. On Nov. 3, Joe Navarro, a body language expert, former FBI agent and supervisor and author of “What Every BODY Is Saying,” will be the second speaker. Jessica Williams, an actress known for being in “Hot Tub Times Machine 2,” will lecture Feb. 9. She is a comedian and a correspondent for the Daily Show on Comedy Central. Bill Nye will speak April 6.
Bill Nye is expected to come to campus April 6 as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Courtesy|Bill Nye
FOOTBALL
McNulty and McCarney to tackle their roots Saturday
By Reece Waddell Senior Staff Writer @ReeceTapout15 In the spring of 1971, North Texas head football coach Dan McCarney walked the across the stage at Iowa City High School. Thirty-nine years later, senior quarterback Andrew McNulty walked the same stage in 2010. Small world. This Saturday, just two and a half miles away from the high school both men graduated from, the Mean Green football team will take on the University of Iowa in Kinnick Stadium. “This isn’t Bill Belichick and Tom Brady coming back to Iowa
City,” McCarney said. “This is just two Iowa City natives who are proud of their roots. It’s a pretty unique situation where a starting division one quarterback and head coach go back to the same hometown, but at the end of the day, we’re trying to get a win as a big underdog.” After playing for the Hawkeyes from 1972-1974, McCarney became its assistant coach under former Mean Green coach Hayden Fry from 1977-1989. He said his time spent at Iowa, both playing and coaching, gave him a unique perspective on the world.
“My time at Iowa definitely enriched my life,” McCarney said. “There are so many great things about it. And if you never worked or lived there, you wouldn’t understand that. But there’s just this incredible loyalty, it’s uncommon and uncompromising.” A few decades later, McNulty was growing up with a father who also played football at Iowa, exposing the quarterback to the game at an early age. McNulty said he’s been immersed in the culture of Iowa football for as long as he can remember. “I grew up watching and I
lived within walking distance of [Kinnick Stadium],” McNulty said. “My brother and I, we would go throw the football around in the yard or in the park, whatever. He helped me get better, but he was older. So he had a one-up on me at times.” Despite the homecoming, McNulty insists on focusing at the task at hand: reversing the 0-2 hole North Texas has dug itself in to start the season. The fact that the next game on the schedule is a bout with the Hawkeyes is nothing more than a
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A Dallas-based foundation has given UNT $28,500 to be awarded this year to five students pursuing a Master’s of Public Administration. The Hatton W. Sumners Foundation awards recipients with a $12,000 stipend for 16 months and $16,500 toward tuition and fees. This year’s recipients are Abbey Heffner, Sean Jacobson, Chelsea Monty, Patrick Ratlif and Julie Winkler, who are all fulltime pre-career student with the MPA program. Winners are expected to attend seminars throughout the year, with a conference in October. Applicants must be U.S. citizens enrolled full-time in the MPA program. Founded by former United States Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, the foundation’s mission is to encourage citizen involvement in government. UNT’s MPA within the Department of Public Affairs is the only program in the foundation that offers scholarships within the field. “Of all of [the foundation’s] programs, I think we fit nicely with their mission because our students are citizens who go on to become leaders of government,” said Robert Bland, endowed professor of local government and faculty liaison to the Sumners Foundation. Bland said the relationship between the MPA and the Hatton W. Sumners foundation “raises the profile of the department, the MPA program, the university and our region as well as the center of academic opportunities.” UNT has worked with the foundation for more than 35 years and Sumners Foundation has assisted other schools with 14 scholarship programs throughout Texas and Oklahoma. The foundation expects applicants to educate the public on its responsibility in a democracy. This year’s recipients will also be research assistants to their respective professor for 10 hours a week for the first year. Heffner, who received a bachelor in psychology and child learning and development from the University of Texas at Dallas, plans to specialize in nonprofit management. “I think it’s going to really teach me how nonprofit organizations work and how to lead organizations in a way that they can overcome the challenges nonprofits face,” Heffner said. The Hatton W. Sumners foundation chooses applicants from a pool of those with preferred majors and qualifications who have an interest in local government and nonprofit careers. The deadline for applications is April 1. Finalists are then interviewed on campus in early May, with an announcement of of the recipients in the spring. With a bachelor’s degree in political science from Abilene Christian University, Monty said she is thankful for the financial support from such a substantial award. “I would not have been able to go to grad school without it,” Monty said. Sean Jacobson, who received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Miami University, said he feels the scholarship’s standards directly apply to him. “Less student debt would allow me to focus on studying as much as I can,” Jacobson said. “Getting a good internship and getting a job and starting public service to fulfill the mission of Hatton W. Sumner.”
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this not have been done at first you ask? When I find out I’ll let you know.” Because of situations like this, classes can be dropped, students can lose financial aid and faculty may have trouble getting the resources they need. “It’s important that everyone here is spending their main efforts doing what they’re supposed to do,” Smatresk said. “The more you have to spend time on peripheral activities, the more it detracts from your experience. In my opinion, if we want to attract and retain the best students and faculty, we need to offer great customer service.” Smatresk said poor communication can prohibit students from learning, progressing and enjoying campus life, and can keep faculty from interacting with students and doing their research. Hope Garcia, executive director of the student affairs administration, said sometimes a student’s issue is more complex than what one person or department might be able to take care of. That’s when people are turned away, referred to another office or given an “I don’t know how to do that.” “The runaround comes from trying to refer them, so [the student] ends up being told to go to all of these different places,” Garcia said. “Then they get to the new place, the same thing happens and the person says, ‘I know this, but not these answers.’ So the student goes all around campus, doesn’t get what they need, and they possibly end up even more confused.” But the administration is currently developing methods to improve its communication with students, faculty and whomever else may need the university’s services.
“The first layer involves effective core systems and policies: For example, software, customer relations modules and mobile applications,” Smatresk said. “But the second layer involves culture change, and that’s making sure we treat each other the best we can and provide a great level of care, support and customer service.” Right now there are multiple places on campus for students to ask questions, including departments in Chestnut and Sage Halls and the ESSC, as well as access to their advisors. But Smatresk said having these locations spread far apart
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Students express problems with Financial Aid office By Adalberto Toldedo Staff Writer @Adaltoledo29 The financial aid office at UNT serves about 27,000 students who receive some sort of financial assistance. While some experience issues along the way, Senta Macaraeg, financial aid assistant director for customer service, said her office is constantly looking at ways to improve service to students. Regardless, some students express their overall dissatisfaction for the way the financial aid office deals with students’ situations. Of the 50 students North Texas
may not be such a great thing. He said he wants to implement a go-to office in Sage Hall and develop mobile apps for students, which will allow them easier access for paying their tuition and registering for classes. “One of our challenges is that our services are fairly distributed, so sometimes students don’t know where to start,” Smatresk said. Officials said the support center in Sage would save more students from the kind of frustration Phillips had to endure. If they can go to one area and receive efficient
customer service, questions can be answered, problems dealt with and time saved. The planning for Sage’s onestop-shop has already started. Smatresk said this year, UNT will start the program on the first floor of Sage Hall, and by next year it should be completely in place. “If you think of the Union as a one-stop-shop of student support services that are nonclassroom related, [Smatresk] sort of wants to recreate that on the academic side,” Garcia said. “Think about all the classes you have in your schedule, you might need to
see the math lab, take the GRE and go see the writing lab. So his idea is that you should be able to do that on your lunch break in one building.” She added that creating the one-stop-shop, improving customer service and adding the class concierge are all big steps in addressing the runaround, but it’s ultimately a student-answered issue. “You say, ‘This is what I’m doing at work today,’” Garcia said. “I’m trying to get students to feel that UNT answers their questions and meets their needs.”
Students wait at the counter at the UNT Registrar’s Office on Sept. 21. Students often find it challenging to communicate with offices around campus, leading to frustration and, sometimes, dropped classes. Haley Yates | Staff Photographer
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Daily surveyed this week, 60 percent rated the financial aid office three out of five stars. “The problem is I can’t get a hold of people,” biology senior John Thomas said. “They don’t know what’s being done. They thought my application was processed, but it really wasn’t.” But Macaraeg said the office operates effectively. “This year our office has been highly efficient in processing financial aid, with little-to-no backlog,” Macaraeg said. Shannon Goodman, vice president for enrollment, said in an email the financial aid office is not
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perfect, but acknowledged their persistent pursuit for excellence. “Out of over 27,000 students who receive financial aid, only 0.3 percent have raised complaints through formal channels,” Goodman said. “We also understand that not every complaint listing financial aid is actually a financial aid issue, nor is every complaint a resolvable issue.” But that number does not include the informal complaints students expressed during interviews. International studies senior and transfer student Alex Espinoza said while he found the financial aid office timely in responding to his request, the office had a difficult time keeping track of his documents. “When I transferred here they said that I was missing stuff,” Espinoza said. “Even now they always say I’m missing stuff. Since they change people so often, no one knows anything, and I can’t speak with the same people.” At the State of the University address last week, UNT President Neal Smatresk said administration managed to keep long processing times for financial aid down to five days or less.
Photojournalism senior Laura Jarriel had an issue she said took three and a half weeks to resolve. Jarriel was awarded a $4,000 scholarship from the Mayborn School of Journalism, with which she was going to pay for rent and school supplies. Aside from the scholarship, Jarriel had additional money to pay for tuition. When a student has an outstanding balance, available funds in a student’s account – such as scholarships, loans and grants – are used to fulfill that balance. So, in Jarriel’s case, her scholarship was used for tuition, leaving her unable to pay for her other necessities. “I’m disappointed with the lack of urgency from the department,” Jarriel said. “It took so long to sort the matter out and get in touch with someone who knew what they were talking about.” Macaraeg said though it is difficult to classify challenges into one single issue, the office’s response is to work as expeditiously as possible to resolve it. Jarriel said by the time information was made available to her, the semester was already underway, and she did not have the money she was counting on to pay
rent and buy school supplies. “I’m a photography student, and so the equipment for those classes alone is well into hundreds of dollars,” Jarriel said. “I understand that university financial stuff can take time to sort out, but leaving students without the ability to buy basic things like textbooks and supplies for the first month of school is pretty irresponsible.” In these situations, Macaraeg recommends visiting with the financial aid office in person. “Our staff is always open to helping students,” Macaraeg said. “We encourage students to visit with us – especially prior to financial aid deadlines – so that we can discuss their concerns and provide them the information they need.” Jarriel said she visited with the office, and added this is not the first time she has had difficulties. “Helping me find the money I needed didn’t seem like a priority to them at all,” Jarriel said. “I was never on hold very long or waiting in lines. It was more being told to call back the next day or next week because the office didn’t have any information.”
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The UNT Financial Aid and Scholarships office is focusing on making the financial aid process quicker for the 27,000 students they serve. Paulina De Alva | Staff Photographer
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Volunteers register student voters at UNT By Julian Gill and Rhiannon Saegert
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For National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 22, the Denton chapter of the League of Women Voters helped University of North Texas students get registered for the upcoming election year. Julie Leuzinger, political science librarian at UNT and vice president of community relations
for the local League of Women Voters chapter, registered 128 student voters between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. — some first-timers, some with new addresses. She said that sometimes a lack of information prevents students from voting. “I did get a lot of questions today about ‘I didn’t even know how to register to vote, and I’m so glad you’re here,’” Leuzinger said. “That is another reason why I do the voter registration, it
removes another barrier for the students.” “People don’t know how to vote, where to go vote, or maybe they don’t feel like they know enough to go vote.” Government information librarian Robbie Sittel, a deputy voter registrar with the Denton chapter of the League of Women Voters, was volunteering as well, first in the afternoon and again between 6 and 8 p.m. “It’s a valuable service,” Sittel said. “Last year, we did it in the Library Mall during a campuswide event, but I think perhaps it was better today. Plus, we didn’t have evening hours last year.” Denton County Republican
Party chairwoman Dianne Edmondson said voter registration is an ongoing process. “We are always registering new voters. Denton County is such a growing area,” Edmondson said. “We have someone at our headquarters registering people all the time.” Denton County Democratic Party chairwoman Phyllis Wolper said her approach to registering new voters is similar. “We don’t make such a big deal out of one day,” Wolper said. “We have approximately 90 voter registrars working throughout the county.”
Librarian Julie Leuzinger hands a voter registration receipt to Kati Havenridge, behavior analysis and child development senior, during National Voter Registration Day. Kristen Watson | DRC
CLUB
Money running out for Eagle’s Nest fund, clubs urged to apply now By Aldalberto Toledo Staff Writer @Adaltoledo29
Student organizations that have yet to apply for Eagle’s Nest funding could be running out of time, as the almost $60,000 is quickly being consumed. The fund, which was established for organizations to receive extra money, has already given five or six groups monetary support. Each applicant is approved by the Student Government Association, SGA director of student affairs Dawaelyne Jones said. “We’re already almost halfway done with the funds for this semester,” Jones said. “My goal is for the fund to be exhausted, because it is student money and it needs to be used by the students.” Eagle’s Nest funding is exclusive to campus events.
“Eagle’s Nest is not going to fund you for day-to-day materials, or operating costs,” said Dan Goodwin, coordinator for student organizations. “You wouldn’t be able to get, say, $500 for t-shirts.” Goodwin advises all clubs struggling to gain members to speak with the Office of Student Activities. The office will provide advice and ideas as well as work shops. Student organizations must already attend an orientation workshop after their re-registration every year, but other workshops are offered. Student organizations should not only solely rely on the Eagle’s Nest funding, but some find it difficult to exist without its assistance. Joe Brodeur, president of UNT Model United Nations, said previous presidents have tried to get additional funding but failed. “I’ve never even tried Eagle’s Nest because we haven’t had
Leader Development workshop series.” The workshops focus mainly on the aspects of how best to market a student organization. According to the student affairs’ website, student organizations will leave the workshop “with some great action items and ideas to increase your visibility on campus and see those membership numbers soar.” Goodwin added that an organization’s worst mistake is to charge students excessive entry fees. “The whole point of a student organization, quite frankly, is Photojournalism junior Tom Gonzalez leads a meeting for Hatch Visuals, one of many orga- that anyone should be able to nizations eligible for the Eagle’s Nest fund. Hannah Ridings | Senior Staff Photographer participate,” Goodwin said. ways an organization can get “They should not become burmuch luck,” Brodeur said. Brodeur added that much aid without help from Eagle’s densome financially on the student.” of their funding comes from Nest. Most organizations do not “We have some really reimbursements from the require a lot of funding, but fundraising advice political science department as great there are certain specific well as donations from alumni and recorded workshops,” Goodwin said. “We also offer organizations that do require groups. Student Organization some money for entry dues. Goodwin says there are the
“A book club is just getting together after reading a book, so maybe the expense of the book is the expense of being in the organization,” Goodwin said. “There are a lot of organizations that do not ask for funding because they don’t feel they need it.” Goodwin added that the previous two freshman classes have been increasingly involved. “The fact of the matter is that incoming freshman classes are as involved as we’ve ever seen,” Goodwin said. “What we see are students that come out of the gates blazing, wanting to be involved in everything.” Those students wishing to get involved in student organizations can speak with the Office of Student Activities, and clubs wishing to apply for Eagle’s Nest funding can visit the SGA office. Both are located in Stovall Hall.
SAFETY
Committee: No plans yet for campus carry By Rhiannon Saegert Senior Staff Writer @missmusetta The committee creating concealed handgun policies for UNT met for the first time last week to begin hashing out plans and discussing potential problems the campus may face when the law goes into effect in August. The campus carry committee will meet throughout the year and present their policies to the Board of Regents for approval sometime in early 2016. SGA president Adam Alattry, who serves on the committee, said the first meeting was mostly a brainstorming session and a chance for those on the board to bring up safety concerns. “We need to discuss where the gun-free zones will be, what to do about residence halls, what to do if one roommate has a concealed
handgun license and the other doesn’t, and what sanctions we will take if someone with no license does bring a gun on campus,” Alattry said. He said for him, the biggest concern is spreading correct information about the new laws to students, since confusion over the differences between open carry and campus carry is still common. “Over the summer, we actually had students coming into the SGA office, thinking campus carry was already in effect, when it won’t go into effect until next year” Alattry said. “That’s something we really need to bring up to students.” The campus carry law only allows students with concealed handgun licenses to carry concealed handguns on campus, and it does not make open carry on campus legal. Deliberately displaying a concealed weapon on campus
is still illegal, and knives with blades longer than 5.5 inches will still be prohibited on college campuses. Alattry said there’s still no word on where the gun-free zones will be, or whether or not gun lockers or safes will be installed on campus to accommodate them. He also said the committee discussed reaching out to other local universities and finding out how they plan to implement the new laws. The administration at Texas Woman’s University is approaching campus carry with a different strategy. In a statement released earlier this year, TWU chancellor and president Carine M. Feyten said she plans to form three committees to address the issue – one to represent students, one for faculty and one for staff. Like UNT’s committee, these three groups will form
a task force and present their plans to the TWU Board of Regents for approval sometime before August 2016. “Each committee will meet a number of times during the fall semester and will solicit input during public forums as shown on the schedule,” Feyten said. “It is anticipated that the committees will provide preliminary plan recommendations at the end of the fall semester for submission to the chancellor’s cabinet for a mid-process review.” TWU police chief Elizabeth Pauley, who will chair all three committees, declined to comment, as no plans or policies have been made yet. TWU will hold public forums on all three of their campuses in October and November to collect feedback from students, faculty and staff. For more information, visit http://www.twu.edu/dps/ campus-carry.asp.
Junior Sebastian Faura displays his handgun at his home. Faura said he would consider concealed carrying if there were ever an active shooter situation. Matt Brown | Staff Photographer
HOUSING
New honors hall reflects a desire for tier-one recognition By Alejandro Medellin Staff Writer @skinny_fats
As the university seeks to be recognized as a more prominent institution, recruitment has become fixated on attracting high-level students like those at the Honors College. Its construction patterns reflect that effort as the newest dormitory, Rawlins Hall, is reserved for honors students. Other dorms have undergone less expensive renovation projects. UNT invested $37 million in Rawlins, newly built and located
across from the Gateway Center. That project costs more than four other priority renovation projects, which will cost the university a total of about $14 million. Rawlins Hall is the second residence hall for honors students to be built in recent years, just as the university began to roll out its intentions to become a tier-one research university. “I think we were already trying to do that,” said Helen Bailey, the director of facilities management and construction. “This is part of UNT’s goal to attract the best students to
UNT.” If the university continues to see growth, students can expect to see more constructions crews and closed-off areas, and that includes more renovation projects to existing dorm halls. “We are really excited at the moment to be given the opportunity to really start digging into the best ways to improve and refresh our existing residence halls,” Bailey said. “Some of them are starting to look a little dated, and some of them have a lot of historic value to them.” There are four residence halls that were either renovated
recently, or will be up for improvements soon. They include Kerr Hall, West Hall, Maple Hall and Bruce Hall. “Really, Bruce Hall started that whole thing with the new addition to the dining hall that went on,” Bailey said. “Because it’s an iconic favorite and the oldest residence hall.” Bruce, which opened in 1948, was not built to cultivate a community atmosphere, which Bailey said is an important aspect of a residence life. “[We’re building] more spaces for community inside the dorm so that you’re not feeling like you have to walk to the
union to socialize with your friends,” Bailey said. Apart from the addition to the dining hall at Bruce, this summer it was closed for renovations on the third floor that cost $1.2 million. The renovations ranged from cabinets to water fountains. First and second floor renovations for Bruce Hall are estimated at $1.7 million. Kerr Hall, the tallest building on campus, had many of it’s A-tower doors replaced this summer. Some door replacements are expected to finish during Winter while school is out. The doors have cost the university $325,000,
and the A-tower elevator another $350,000. A plan to renovate the Kerr Hall kitchen is estimated at $7.4 million, and is scheduled to begin construction in 2017. West Hall will be finished with its lobby and common area renovations later this semester. The changes include a game room and a new exterior look that has so far cost UNT $1.8 million. The university anticipates it will work on the Maple Hall common area, the project likely costing UNT $1.65 million. “We value the other resident halls on campus and we’re trying to do all we can to bring them up to today’s standards and make them more appealing,” Bailey said.
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Blake Dvorak shows off a card trick on Sept. 23. Hannah Ridings | Senior Staff Photographer
parties or when he is out with friends, but he also feels he has the right skills for them. “I have always been more of a card man than just a magician,” Dvorak said. “It has been more of moving away from step-by-step tricks and going with the flow. I have more of an arsenal of slight-of-hand techniques as opposed to just tricks, and I can use those techniques to build up more of a variety of card tricks as I go.” One particular person that became extremely interested in Dvorak’s card skills was his wife of nearly five months, Katy Dvorak. They met in high school when they both worked at McAlister’s Deli. “Whenever he would clock out of work, he would go sit down at one of the tables and pull out his deck of cards,” Katy said. “It would always draw people in – including me – because I thought it was so fascinating. It isn’t something you see everyday or some card trick that everyone and their mom knows.” Now, Katy always carries around an extra deck of cards for him in her purse. Dvorak said a single trick could take months of rehearsal, but added practicing is one of his favorite things to do. He said the trick to performing
is mastering each movement until it is completely smooth so clunky and unnatural actions look like the simplest task. If a trick is not fluid, it ruins the whole effect. “I love learning new skills, especially difficult ones, and finally nailing them down after a lot of practice,” Dvorak said. “I keep drilling a trick over and over again in my mind until I feel I’ve mastered it, and that is actually extremely fun to me.” While practicing his skills and spending time with his wife, Dvorak also opened Corinth-based Top Game Jiu Jitsu Studio in April 2014 with his father. Dvorak has been practicing jiu jitsu since he was a sophomore in high school. He now spends most of his days at the studio, which means he isn’t able to practice his card tricks as much as he would like. Although he is busy trying to find ways to balance his love of card tricks with his interest in jiu jitsu, he said at the end of the day, the two are not much different. “Jiu jitsu is really similar to card magic in that it takes a long time to learn, a lot of drilling and a lot of dedication to master it,” Dvorak said. “It gives me a reason to wake up every day, really. It’s something I have that’s mine that no one can take from me.”
Blake Dvorak poses in his jiu jitsu gym Wednesday night. Hannah Ridings | Senior Staff Photographer For the past 13 years, Dvorak has been challenged with balancing multiple aspects of his life, but he said no matter what, he won’t stop performing. Not only does it make him happy, he said, but he also loves the looks on peoples’ faces after he has successfully completed a trick. “I like to use my card tricks to take people out of their lives for a second and have them believe that something impossible just happened before their eyes,” Dvorak said. “No matter what though, everything I have put my heart into has come to fruition so far, and I hope that it stays that way.”
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The life and times of “mad man” professor Bill Ford By Harrison Long Editorial Writer @HarrisonGLong
William Ford has performed with his band in front of screaming crowds at the Nokia Theatre in New York City. He’s served as the chair of two prominent Dallas-Fort Worth advertising agencies. He has designed for companies like Disney, Frito Lay and Southwest Airlines. Now, in addition to singing as a front-man for blues band Bona Fide Blues, senior lecturer William Ford also heads and advises UNT’s advertising agency, SWOOP. Savannah Collins, a senior advertising student and president of SWOOP, was shocked when she initially found out about Ford’s side hustle. “I just went up to him and said, ‘Ford, it’s like you’re leading a whole other life,’” she said. “And he just nonchalantly shrugged and said, ‘Yeah.’” Ford and the Bona Fide Blues began playing when he was teaching advertising at Southern Methodist University. “Usually we would play just for fun, but after we got a gig at a fundraiser in Oak Cliff, the other band members
and I began to take it more seriously,” Ford said. The former ad man said
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Bill Ford, UNT journalism senior lecturer who compares himself to Don Draper from “Mad Men,” poses in his office on Sept. 23. Meagan Sullivan | Associate Visuals Editor Beatles and Led Zeppelin. “All of those bands are blues bands,” he said, “and some of their songs redefined the genre.” When he isn’t jamming onstage, Ford also enjoys focusing on the advertising industry. He said one of his favorite shows to watch is “Mad Men,” a seven-season undertaking that brought the advertising industry to the public eye. Set in New York City, the AMC drama series follows the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency and the career of creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm). “If I were most like anyone on the show, I would say I’m most like Don Draper--minus the incessant boozing and womanizing of course,” Ford said. “I can identify with all of the other characters in the show, however, because I’ve met people like each of them at some point in my career.” Ford pointed out a major oversight in the show, claiming the agency on the show misrepresented the scale
in which employees would have to work for each client. “They had far too few employees to have been representing clients like Ocean Spray or Jaguar,” he said. Collins said she fell in love with advertising after taking Ford’s introduction class a few years ago. “As a professor he is very straightforward, but in [SWOOP] he is so cool,” she said. “He is like a dad in that he always has advice but draws the respect of everyone and has a very real persona.” Collins said the greatest advice Ford had ever passed to the colloquial SWOOP-ers was the counter-intuitive phrase, “The client is not always right.” Collins said this was both inspiring and reassuring, as many interactions the SWOOP agency has with clients can be anxiety-inducing. In addition to his career as an advertising man and musician, Ford has been all over the world, even leading the Mayborn trip to London this past summer. Senior
broadcast journalism major Josh Kerber attended the recent tour. “Ford is a very adventurous guy, and I really appreciate that he volunteered his time to accompany some of us across the pond,” Kerber said. “I know the [advertising] students appreciated the trips to foreign agencies that he organized.” Ford said the pinnacle of his musical career has been his performance at Battle of the Ad Bands in New York City. In addition to performing for cheering fans at Times Square, Bona Fide Blues won second place. “We played a song called ‘Oreo Cookie Blues,’” he said. “So as a gimmick, I walked out on to the stage ramp and threw Oreos into the crowd. They ate it up.” After the curtain fell following their set, Ford turned to his band mates with a smile. “Enjoy it, guys,” he said. “This is as good as it’s gonna get.”
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Texas Fashion Collection: a high-fashion history display By Anjulie Van Sickle Staff Writer @anjuliegrace
A rosy-cheeked curator cheerily greets each newcomer, gesturing to the gallery room containing rack after rack of history. “Welcome to the collection,” he said. Edward Hoyenski walks through the workroom, where a woman sits at a desk archiving a pair of patched blue jeans. Pushing open another door, he enters the heart of the Texas Fashion Collection. Located in a warehousetype room in the Welch Street Complex at UNT, the collection holds 20,000 garments. Cherrypicked from various time periods and locations, the items range anywhere from the early 1800s to the present. An entire wall is dedicated to 1,000 pairs of shoes and hats. A 1,000-year-old textile fragment from Central America sits in a display drawer. Wedding dresses from the 1840s, flapper dresses from the 1920s and a golden headdress fill the small space. “These are irreplaceable, historical and artistic objects,” Hoyenski said, gesturing to the rows and rows of clothing. “Some of these pieces are the only ones in existence. Other ones were worn by famous people who have passed away.” The Texas Fashion Collection has been housed at UNT since 1972, but the idea of a Texas collection began with fashion forerunners Stanley and Edward Marcus in 1938.
Dallas has been a forerunner in Texas fashion since its beginning. It was the home of the first Neiman Marcus. During the late ‘60s, the Dallas Fashion Group, an association of fashion lovers, began showing historical clothing items. They partnered with the Neiman Marcus Collection in 1969. Eventually the collection was moved to UNT and renamed the Texas Fashion Collection in 1972. “I tend to think if you can’t see history and culture in here, then you’re not looking,” Hoyenski said. The collection is open to tours of students, faculty, staff and anyone else interested in history told through fashion. Fibers professor Lesli Robertson takes all her design classes on a tour of the collection at least once per semester. “They’re seeing things that would otherwise be in museumquality textiles and pieces,” she said. “It’s high-quality, and the students can see things they would normally [only] see in books.” Erika Falk, an intern with the collection since May, has helped with the archival process as well as the collection’s several exhibit projects. “The collection is full of history,” she said. “I love being able to work with so many historical garments.” The collection has had several exhibitions showcasing decades of history. Its current “Art Meets Fashion” exhibition is being shown at NorthPark Center. Hoyenski has been
volunteering with the collection for about 20 years and was hired as a full-time employee about four years ago. He worked for the UNT Library at the time and was hired at the collection to work on digitalization. “We’ve got more than 2,000 of the pieces photographed and
catalogued in the database,” he said, gesturing to the table topped with shiny hats and shoes. The two-person staff, along with 15 volunteers, has 18,000 more items to process, catalogue and photograph before the digitalization project can be
Top: Mannequins display part of the collection at the Welch Street Complex. Bottom: A collection of clothes are sorted on racks. Paulina De Alva | Staff Photographer
complete. Information science senior Page Williams just started volunteering with the collection. “I’m looking forward to getting to work with things [able to be archived], because that’s what I want to do when I finish school,” she said.
Manager of the Texas Fashion Collection Edward Hoyenski shows off one of his favorite pieces of the collection. Paulina De Alva | Staff Photographer
All for one and what’s for dinner at Dorothy’s Kitchen? By Matt Payne Senior Staff Writer @MattePaper After cleaning out an antiquated kitchen-and-diner combination, local business Dorothy’s Kitchen Table established itself two months ago. They practice what the staff calls a dignified expression of charity. Operating out of the old building across from Fred Moore High School off South Bell Avenue and Robertson Street, the restaurant has a “pay-as-you-can” policy. Monetary compensation is welcome, but not required. It’s often the case nonmonetary donations are preferred, staff member Hannah Loveland said. “We’re focused on respecting the dignity of those who come and join us to share a meal,” Loveland said. “Many of us have struggled to get by before, and have had to awkwardly wait in line at a soup kitchen feeling irrelevant.” With a name inspired by American journalist and women’s suffrage activist Dorothy Day, Dorothy’s Kitchen Table was created with Day’s philosophy in mind: respecting the lower class, the bourgeois of society. The restaurant operates as an extension of the Catholic Worker Movement, a nonprofit organization established during the Great Depression as an affiliation with Day’s newspaper, “The Catholic Worker,” which is still printed today. It is open Thursday mornings for breakfast and Friday evenings
Dorothy’s Kitchen workers slide into a booth for a photo. The restaurant, which operates on a “pay-as-you-can” policy is open for breakfast Thursday mornings and for dinner on Friday evenings. Meagan Sullivan | Associate Visuals Editor for dinner. Guests can return the favor through a variety of ways some give a gift like hand-crafted soap, while others perform a guitar sing-along or offer help in the kitchen. “The goal is not to seize what doesn’t belong to us to exploit people for a profit. We want to
make people feel included and welcome,” Loveland said. “We’re taking what’s been given to all of us as a human race and spreading it in an appropriate way.” The staff is united by faith, but also by mistakes, various struggles and a mutual desire to provide an inclusive venue for the
entire community of Denton. “There’s undignified, toxic charity that brings about a stark, insidious separation between people preparing food and those who eat it sometimes,” staff member Christopher Klabunde said. “We’re getting away from a cold transaction and making this
Even though the collection doesn’t have the best location for displays or exhibitions, the staff and volunteers want to be able to show how people lived through what they wore. “Open your mind,” Hoyenski said. “The collections we have here are history.”
a space for absolutely anybody who needs it.” Active engagement with the local community is a guiding principle of Dorothy’s Kitchen Table. Every dish the restaurant serves is made with locallysourced crops, namely from Johnson’s Backyard Garden off
Mockingbird Lane. “We want to cook for others like we would cook for ourselves,” food preparer Maureen Leak said. “It’s part of our focus to grow with the community and be an outlet for the community to gather.” As the restaurant cooperates with several local businesses in Denton to provide their ideal experience, the staff also aspires to offer their location to anyone interested in using it on days food isn’t served. “Whether for UNT students [or] local business startups seeking a location to start from, the kitchen is meant to offer hospitality,” Leak said. “Personal sacrifice for a great benefit.” Klabunde recalled a Friday evening visit by from family of seven. Warm smiles, exuberant service and live music played in the background. “It was so unorthodox to the father of the family. He was veritably startled by our approach,” Klabunde said. “I had the hardest time explaining to him the premise of the restaurant.” As the weekly dinner progressed over the course of an hour, with steady conversation, the father ordered more courses. He would eventually feel comfortable enough to freely walk into the back kitchen, helping to prepare food and wash dishes. “It was as if the guilt which came from visiting dissipated,” Klabunde said. “I think that’s what separates us from the stereotypical soup kitchen. We’re all united not only by our pasts, but by that idea.”
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Midfielder Karla Pineda talks free kicks By Clay Massey Staff Writer @Clay_FC
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coincidence to the senior. “It’s a great opportunity and a great environment to play in,” McNulty said. “But this is just like any other game. And we need to get in the win column. That’s my focus.” McNulty said he didn’t have a lot of offers coming out of high school, despite winning a state championship his junior year and accumulating more than 1,700 all-purpose yards and 26 total touchdowns his senior year. McNulty is considered undersized for the quarterback
position, listed at 6’1, 211 pounds. He said scouts glossed over him during college recruitment. Despite the snubs, there was one man who always had faith in the Iowa City native: Iowa City High School head football coach Dan Sabers. “I certainly knew he was capable of being a quarterback at the next level,” Sabers said. “He didn’t necessarily come out division-one ready. But I knew if he got in the right system, like the one Coach McCarney runs, he could make it happen. Andrew is a winner.” McCarney and McNulty’s
roots run deeper than just their hometown. Sabers said McCarney had a tremendous impact on recruiting McNulty to North Texas and the time he spent in Iowa as a coach helped him form a bond with the quarterback. “I have such an incredible amount of respect for Coach McCarney,” Sabers said. “Nobody in the nation runs a camp like he does. He’s so committed and it really shows. All those years he was at Iowa and Iowa State, he got to know Andrew’s parents. And without a doubt, I think he’s the reason he
went to North Texas.” The Mean Green leaves for Iowa City on Friday and kickoff with the Hawkeyes is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Fittingly, both men plan to have a larger than normal cheering section in the crowd. “I had to buy quite a few extra tickets for this one.” McNulty said. And even though McCarney’s Iowa City roots go back over half a decade, he isn’t giving his extra tickets to just anyone. “If they want to get in,” he said, “they better be wearing green.”
A handball foul was whistled during UNT’s soccer match against Texas Christian University on Sept. 13. On the ensuing free kick just outside the left side of the 18yard box, senior midfielder Karla Pineda stepped to the spot, sized up the defensive formation and prepared for the attempt. Despite nerves settling in, she struck the ball as she had many times in the past, adding her signature curve to the strike. “It just felt like it was going in,” Pineda said. “I know when it’s a good hit and when it’s not. That is a great feeling.” The shot nestled itself into the right side netting, precisely where she aimed. The goal would win the game against TCU, one of three game-winners she has had this season in addition to the 11 in her career. Pineda has been a threat from set pieces, free or corner kicks, since joining the Mean Green in 2012. The Houston native led North Texas with seven assists in her freshman season and was named to the Sun Belt’s allconference first team. She has directly scored from corner kicks twice in her career, a feat rarely seen at any level of soccer. Head coach John Hedlund said he recruited Pineda because of her ability to get her teammates the ball, whether in open play or from corners. She’s done this effectively over the past three years, as Pineda currently sits tied for second on the school’s all-time assist list with 29. “We noticed when we were recruiting her just what she could do with the ball,” Hedlund said. “The way she could bend it and the feel she has for the ball anywhere on the field. She can take balls that are far out and loft them to find our key players in the air. That’s why she has so many assists.” Hedlund could only compare Pineda’s set piece ability to North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame member and former forward Marilyn Marin. Marin held every offensive record in the school’s history by the time she graduated in 2003. When watching a Pineda free kick, it becomes clear. Taken with her right foot, the ball spins in almost a curveball way, dipping and knuckling toward where she aimed, a talent that throws goalkeepers off when they try to get a good read on a free kick shot. “I have practiced ever since I was little,” Pineda said. “I don’t think it’s natural. I have always been playing outside with my brother practicing, and I feel like that has helped me a lot.” Pineda also attributes her unique ability to watching professional soccer at a deeper level, and her favorite player is Lionel Messi. “He doesn’t score a lot of free kick goals, but when he does they’re amazing,” she said. “I try to kick it like him, but I have used the technique of Ronaldinho. He was my role model growing up. He’s really good at free-kicks, so I think he’s the main one.” In soccer, there can be a lot of build up to a corner or free kick, she said, as the referee sets the players up and determines when to allow the ball to be played. This can leave time for players to think, or overthink, what they need to do with the ball. Pineda said she has to combat every time she stands over a dead ball. “When I put the ball down, I look at the goal and see what angle is better for me. And that tells me how to kick the ball,” Pineda said. “If it’s on the right side, then I know to curve it in, and if it’s on the outside I know to hit it with the outside of my foot. I try to relax as much as I can and focus on the ball and goal.” VISIT NTDAILY.COM TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY AND WATCH THE VIDEO
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Jakii Moore eyes fresh start at North Texas after UAB shutdown By Reece Waddell Senior Staff Writer @ReeceTapout15 A f ter ret u r n ing f rom class at the Un iversit y of A laba ma Bi r m ingha m last December, jun ior defensive back Ja k ii Moore’s cell phone ra ng as he wa l ked into the footba ll meeting room h is old jun ior college coach was on the other end. Noth ing seemed out of the ordina r y to Moore, th in k ing h is old coach was ca lling to check in on h im. But what happened next, a nd what would t ra nspi re over the next 24 hou rs, rocked the enti re rea lm of NCA A ath letics. “I sa id, ‘Hey coach, what’s going on?’” Moore sa id. “A nd he sa id ‘Have you seen ESPN? Have you seen what they’re saying?’ A nd I remember going ‘No, I haven’t. W hy, what’s up?’” ESPN was repor ting that UA B was shut ting down its footba ll prog ra m a m id f ina ncia l concer ns. T he reason, as repor ted by ESPN, was the rapidly increasing cost to f ield a competitive footba ll tea m. “No one could believe it, ma n.” Moore sa id. “Ever yone was just numb a nd in shock. Disbelief.” Moore sa id no one on the footba ll tea m was given a ny adva nced in for mation on the prog ra m shutdown. I n fact, ma ny of h is f r iends a nd players were in class or wa l k ing a round ca mpus when the news broke. “We held a tea m meeting later that n ight a nd the ath letic di rector ca me in a nd told us,” Moore sa id. “T here was ha rdly a ny yelling or screa m ing. It was pret t y quiet. Some guys were cr ying.” W hen it beca me off icia l,
ever y player on the UA B roster beca me im mediately eligible for a f ree t ra nsfer by the NCA A. T h is a lso mea nt that players would not have to sit out a yea r upon t ra nsfer r ing, a r ule the NCA A en forces on st udents who complete a regula r t ra nsfer. It took Moore a wh ile to gather h is thoughts, but event ua lly, he sa id he k new he had to move for wa rd. “I had just got ten there in the sum mer, so I didn’t k now what my next move was going to be,” Moore sa id. “But I ended up get ting a n offer to come to [ Nor th Texas]. It wasn’t easy, it was diff icult. It must be the f i rst time in a long time a prog ra m has done someth ing li ke th is.” I n fact, UA B beca me the f i rst major college footba ll prog ra m to shut down since the Un iversit y of Pacif ic in 1995. Despite the hea r t ache felt for the players a nd coaches at UA B, ma ny k new there would be oppor t un ities elsewhere. Nor th Texas head coach Da n McCa r ney saw those oppor t un ities, wh ich led to the recr uitment of Moore to Denton. “Just a ter r ible th ing they had to go th rough down there,” McCa r ney sa id. “To have the r ug pulled r ight out up f rom under you, a nd to no longer have a footba ll prog ra m. No one should have to go th rough that. But we k new when it happened there would be players to recr uit, a nd [ Moore] was someone we t a rgeted f rom the begin n ing.” Moore spent a yea r at Nor theaster n Ok la homa A&M before t ra nsfer r ing to UA B, where was redsh i r ted. McCa r ney sa id he a nd h is coach ing st a ff believe in Moore’s abilit y, especia lly
h is ath leticism, but so fa r he has under whelmed a nd not cont r ibuted much to the tea m. “W hen we brought h im here, we expected h im to have a n im mediate impact, even come in here a nd st a r t for us,” McCa r ney sa id. “He hasn’t done that. He’s helping us out on specia l tea ms some, but we wa nted h im to rea lly be a difference ma ker in the seconda r y. T hat hasn’t happened yet. A nd r ight now, he isn’t out there st r ictly f rom a per for ma nce st a ndpoint. He’s hea lthy a nd has no inju r ies.” Even though the past few months have been a roller coaster for Moore, he has kept a positive at tit ude. Sophomore linebacker Ca lvin Minor sa id despite Moore get ting off to a slow sta r t, he rema ins con f ident h is tea m mate ca n t u r n it a round a nd help the tea m win ga mes. “[ Moore], he’s a jokester. He’s got a good head on h im,” Minor sa id. “I’ve hung out with h im some. He’s a good guy. He doesn’t ta l k a lot about what happened at UA B, but it’s underst a ndable. We’ve a ll seen what he ca n do on the practice f ield. He h its ha rd, isn’t passive. He just needs to t ra nsfer it to ga mes.” For now, Moore is still look ing to ma ke the sta r ting lineup on defense. A nd with a depleted seconda r y that a l ready lost sen ior Ken ny Buyers a nd redsh i r t f resh ma n Ced r ic Fer na ndes to inju r ies, now is a per fect oppor t un it y for the UA B t ra nsfer to prove h imself at Nor th Texas. “I’m just in a lit tle bit of a slump, that’s a ll,” Moore sa id. “I’ll bounce back. I’ll get it back. I k now how to f ight th rough th ings.”
Jakii Moore stretches during a North Texas practice. Dylan Nadwodny | Intern Photographer
Jakii Moore transferred to North Texas after the UAB football program shut down. Dylan Nadwodny| Intern Photographer
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Physical play lights fire under Mean Green soccer team By Alex Lessard Staff Editor @alexlikechexmix
Often times in sports, unexpected trends arise through the beginning portions of a season. For the Mean Green soccer team, a recent string of physical games may be proving the team is living up to its moniker. Through its first 10 games, North Texas has racked up 129 fouls and 18 yellow cards, each more than any other team in Conference-USA by a comfortable margin. Comparatively, Mean Green opponents have totaled just 96 fouls and eight yellow cards. “We play hard, we work hard, we’re aggressive, and we’re intense. Sometimes that’s going to lead to fouls,” said head coach John Hedlund. “In some cases, it’s not a foul, but it’s being called. It might just be our reputation.” While it’s impossible to tell if a reputation has formed, Hedlund’s squad has been strongly disciplined by officials in recent games. On Sunday, North Texas and Texas A&M University combined for 38 fouls, the most in any Mean Green game since 2013. Senior midfielder Lindsey Hulstein said the team’s aggressiveness comes
naturally and isn’t something the coaches stress. “It’s just who we all are as players,” Hulstein said. “It’s a competitiveness in us that makes us want to get to the ball first.” During a matchup against Texas Christian University on Sept. 13 in Fort Worth, some fans tweeted their concerns how they thought North Texas was playing, leading to a barrage of replies from the Mean Green faithful. Hedlund said games against teams in the Dallas-Fort Worth area can get intense because opposing players are more familiar with each other. Regardless of location and the increased number of fouls, he also said his team plays the right way. “We consistently go after the ball,” Hedlund said. “We don’t go after players, that’s for sure. That’s not that way they’ve been coached.” Hulstein said the team becomes more and more aggressive as the game goes on, and the numbers back her up. Cumulatively, North Texas has 54 fouls in the first half of games compared to 72 in the second half. In a hectic ending to a 1-0 win over Oral Roberts University on Friday, junior midfielder Alexsis Cable received a red
card for a hard foul in the 89th minute. Quickly thereafter, junior forward Rachel Holden was given a yellow card with five seconds remaining in the game. Due to NCAA rules, each player was ineligible for the next game. Even with the ejections, senior defender Molly Grisham said the team’s aggressive mentality motivates her even more when she steps onto the field. “When we see our teammates working hard to win every single tackle and giving extra effort, that makes us work even harder,” Grisham said. “It kind of intimidates the other team whenever we’re trying to win every single ball.” As North Texas jumps into its conference schedule at 8-2, Hedlund said his team will not change its style of play, regardless of the escalating number of fouls against his team. “Whether it’s warranted or not, we have a team that plays very aggressive, works extremely hard and has a high work rate,” Hedlund said. “That’s it more than anything, rather than being an extremely physical team or what some cross-town fans might be saying is a dirty team. I just don’t believe that.”
North Texas junior forward Rachel Holden sends in a cross. North Texas has more fouls than any other team in C-USA. File Photo UPCOMING GAMES
North Texas senior midfielder Lindsey Hulstein attempts to block a header during a home game against Lamar. Meagan Sullivan | Associate Visuals Editor
North Texas junior forward Rachel Holden challenges a Kansas defender in the home opener. Meagan Sullivan | Associate Visuals Editor
Friday •Soccer: @ Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) – 6:30 p.m •Volleyball: @ UTEP (El Paso, Texas) – 6:00 p.m •Tennis: OU Invitational (Norman, Oklahoma) – ALL DAY Saturday •Football: @ Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) – 2:30 p.m •Cross Country: Texas A&M Invitational (College Station, Texas) – 8:15 a.m •Tennis: OU Invitational (Norman, Oklahoma) – ALL DAY Sunday •Volleyball: @ UTSA (San Antonio, Texas) – 1:00 p.m Tennis: OU Invitational (Norman, Oklahoma) – ALL DAY Monday •Men’s Golf: Windon Memorial Classic (Chicago, Illinois) – ALL DAY •Women’s Golf: Bob Hurley ORU Shootout (Tulsa, Oklahoma) – ALL DAY
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“The Martian,” a new science fiction romp from director Ridley Scott (“Prometheus,” “Alien”) based on a book by author Andy Weir, is a fiction tale for the new age. The story follows Mark Watney (Matt Damon), an astronaut with a specialty in botany. Watney is among the first to visit Mars in the
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and inspire them to aid in the development of Earth’s future beyond itself. Notice the use of Earth, rather than simply the United States, in naming the target audience of this film. One of the most stirring aspects of “The Martian” is the collaboration of both the American and Chinese space programs, a seemingly peculiar circumstance that should be thought of more as a goal rather than an anomaly of the film. Life beyond our home planet is certainly possible, but political tensions brought forth by selfish interests and the promotion of less pertinent topics of discussion will only hasten our effort to get there. Collaboration is not just optimal, but wholly necessary. Let us just hope the public realizes the need of people like Elon Musk, the titan of an industry responsible for spearheading modern innovation in space travel, for they are the one’s who will be able to find a piece of themselves in astronaut Mark Watney. The question for continued space travel and exploration is not an “if,” but a “when.”
Having grown up witnessing NASA end its perennial shuttle program and a subsequent gutting of the organization, millennials have found films like “The Martian” to be the last bastion of organic thought in answering that question. In a time where NASA has taken a backseat to private sector behemoths like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic in terms of innovation we have found the theme of each film in this new, mutated version of the sci-fi genre to be a not-so-subtle campaign geared toward the advancement of the human race through space travel. A review written by critic Devin Faraci for Birth.Movies.Death. cited Ridley Scott’s new film as “an absolute masterpiece of cinema and science,” also proclaiming that the film could, in theory, “save the world.” Strong words, but does Faraci have a point? The world seems to look less and less to life beyond Earth, instead facing the challenges of climate change, overpopulation and clashing cultures. Perhaps a young child is sitting at home waiting for a tale like Watney’s to come along
not too distant future. Apart from the fact the movie will almost certainly be engaging and entertaining, a new thread of consideration has been brought up in the wake of the story’s transition from novel to silver screen: is the film a prop to propel a new space age? “The Martian” excels in that it follows the example set by the other space thrillers of the last few years, namely Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity”, maintaining a suspenseful pace all the while keeping a realistic, highly-scientific element prevalent within. Following the inevitably doomed third manned mission to Mars, viewers follow alongside Watney as he experiences the trials of an astronaut left to his own ingenuity on a strange planet countless miles from home. Arguably an allegory to the American dream in a time which views such a concept as lost and hollow, watching Watney engage the elements is a testament to both problemsolving and perseverance. The question the audience is left to mull over as the credits roll is namely: How close are we to achieving this?
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