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Volume 96 | Issue 29
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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
Alumni to be honored at annual Hall of Fame event BY SHANNON MOFFATT Intern
PHOTO BY DREW GAINES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Paul North, a barista at Jupiter House Coffee on the Square, has seen business increase at the shop since the beginning of the fall semester.
City says buy in Denton BY DANIELLE BICE Intern
The city launched Shop Here on Purpose program, a citywide campaign to educate the community about the benefits of shopping in Denton, at the beginning of the month. Spending money in town keeps sales tax dollars working for t he communit y, cit y employees said. Christina Davis, administrative office assistant of the city of Denton’s economic development department, and Kara Roberson, a public communications specialist of the public communications department, started the campaign. “We found out that the city’s budget is based on sales tax, and sales tax is low,” Davis said. “I looked at her and she looked at me and we were like, ‘We have to get this out to the public. The public needs to know that we need to shop.’ We need to keep our money here and keep the sales tax going.” The sales tax rate is 8.25 percent. The revenue goes to various community services, including fire and police departments, libraries, parks, and roads. In the 2010 to 2011 fiscal year, 24 percent of the city’s budget is supported by 1.5 percent of sales tax revenue. “When you shop in your
community, it makes those businesses in your community stronger and then those businesses are available to help for fundraisers and help all of these other community-based programs that support people in the community,” Davis said. The campaign started in March as an internal campaign for city employees. “If we were encouraging other people to do it, then we should be doing it ourselves,” Roberson said. The city wide campaign began Sept. 30 at the Mayor Council breakfast. At the event, the city told about 150 community leaders, business owners, business leaders and major employers of the campaign. “They hear this information and then they get really excited about it, and then they go back and they tell their employees and they tell the people they work with and they tell the people in their family,” Davis said. “It’s kind of like a grassroots thing, where it just spreads, and it grows and gains momentum.” Not all Denton business owners are aware of the program yet, including Mike Sutton, the owner of Big Mike’s Coffee. “If I don’t know anything
about, how do the citizens know anything about it,” Sutton said. He added that encouraging people to spend money locally would help any business. Many students unknowingly help the S.H.O.P. cause by shopping and going out on the weekends near campus. “I go out every weekend,” said Shelly Morrison, an information technology freshman. “That’s usually when I stock up on my food.” Sales tax revenue does not only come from retail, but also from restaurants, commercial businesses and other places. “I’m not much of a shopper, but I go out to eat a lot,” said Keegan Roser, who plans to transfer to UNT. “A couple times a month I’ll go and try to pick up a CD or a shirt.” One project S.H.O.P. is working on is educating store owners about the benefits of the campaign. “It seems to be pretty wellreceived,” Roberson said. “They understand the benefit to them that we’re encouraging people to shop in their stores and to spend money here, and keeping people from going to places like Lewisville to spend money. The more that we get economically, the more people will shop here.”
On Saturday, notable athletes including former NFL players will be on campus for UNT’s annual Hall of Fame breakfast. Players inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame, created in 1981, have done great things for North Texas athletics, said Matt Phillips, assistant director of sales for UNT’s athletics department. “Whether they led us to a bowl game or whether they were on the track and set all kinds of records, they’ve exceeded their expectations as a North Texas athletic member,” he said. The breakfast will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday in the Gateway Center Ballroom. George Dunham, voice of the Mean Green and co-host of the Dunham and Miller morning show on KTCK-AM 1310, The
Ticket SportsRadio, will host the ceremony. “Some people don’t view North Texas as an athletic school, they visualize us as just an artsy school,” Phillips said. “But we’ve had some very famous people come through in sports and had some very successful teams.” Four athletes are inducted each year and are voted on by members of the Hall of Fame committee. This year, Patrick Cobbs, Kevin Galbreath, Mike Hagler and Ben Moturi will be inducted as the Hall of Fame class of 2010, according to the UNT website. Cobbs, a professional football player for the Miami Dolphins, will not attend because of a game against the Green Bay Packers. Instead, a pre-recorded video of his acceptance speech will be played,
Phillips said. Jenni Wanger, an accounting senior, said she was an athlete, which was like a full-time job. “I think it’s great that they’re being recognized,” she said. “People don’t really know all the hard work students put in [sports].” Joe Greene, nick na med “Mean Joe” Greene, will attend the breakfast. Greene is one of UNT’s most famous Hall of Fame members, Phillips said. Greene attended UNT from 1966 to 1968. He was chosen as the No. 4 overall draft pick for the Pittsburg Steelers in 1969 and went on to win four Super Bowls with the team. He has also been inducted into the NFL’s Professional Football Hall of Fame.
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UNT crime stats show decrease in alcohol abuse, increase in drug use BY ERIN LIPINSKY
Contributing Writer The UNT crime statistics released last week on t he Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities website show that housing liquor law violations are down, drug-related violations are up and habitation burglaries are steadily decreasing. In 2007, there were 200 disciplinary referrals sent to the center for liquor law violations, 35 for drug-related violations and 26 habitation burglaries.
PHOTO BY ALYSSA THOMPSON/INTERN Liquor law and drug related Corporal Bredger Thomason of the UNT K-9 Unit and Joy, a narcotics dog, search housing violations In the two years following the 2007 report, liquor law violations decreased by 13, then increased by 32 and drugrelated referrals increased by 24, then decreased by 59. Some rea sons t he d r ug and alcohol violations have changed could be because of the two K-9 units on campus, better trained Residence Life
parked cars for drugs.
staff and a better educated housi ng com mu n it y, sa id Maureen McGuinness, assistant vice president for student affairs. After receiving an incident report from the reporting resident assistant and housing director explaining their side
of the story, the center sends out a notice of complaint to the student. The not ice infor ms t he student of the allegations and the time, date and location of the violation.
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Mean Green soccer team climbs to No. 7 in South BY SEAN GORMAN Senior Staff Writer
A f ter notch i ng it s f i rst road conference w ins t his weekend, t he UNT soccer team ascended from ninth to s e vent h pl ac e i n t he South Region in this week’s Hendr ickCa rs.com/NSC A A Poll.
The ranking marks the fourthstraight week UNT has made the poll. “We have to keep winning and we’re playing a very good team on Friday,” head coach John Hedlund said. “If we can win on Friday and Sunday and get some upsets of the teams in front of us, we could crack the top five
Large earthquake strikes Oklahoma BY ISAAC WRIGHT Staff Writer
was that someone had hit the building with a vehicle,” said Jim Bailey, Norman deputy fire chief. “We went outside and didn’t see anything and we thought it may have been an explosion. That’s just one of the things that goes through your mind.” The epicenter of the earthquake was 4.9 miles below Lake Thunderbird, east of Norman. The emergency call center was flooded with calls reporting the earthquake this morning, Bailey said. However, he said, the fire department was not required to mobilize in response to any damage and he had received no reports of injury because of the earthquake. Bailey, a 30-year veteran of the Norman fire department, said that was the first earthquake he had experienced.
Wednesday morning at 9:06, a 4.3 magnitude struck about eight miles southeast of Norman, Okla., that was felt as far away as Tulsa. The earthquake that struck in Norman has been declared a 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale by the United States Geological Survey website. Reports t hroughout t he day differed on the size. The Oklahoma Geological Survey has reported the earthquake reached a magnitude of 5.1, a size that would make it the second largest in the state’s history. According to reports received by the U.S. agency, the quake was large enough to be felt in parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Some students at UNT also reported feeling the tremors in Denton. “The feeling we had at the fire administration building See EARTHQUAKE on Page 2
for the first time ever.” Winner of four straight, the Mean Green (9-5-1, 4-2-0) has used strong play from its midfielders to move into third place in the Sun Belt Conference. Junior Julie Lackey and sophomore Ellen Scarfone have made their presence felt in the
midfield, leading UNT in points with 17 each. “The defense is pretty much set with the defenders we have back there, so I just try to use my passing and shooting skills to take over the midfield,” Scarfone said. Hedlund’s offense has been explosive all season with the
Mean Green ranking 16th in the nation and first in the Sun Belt in goals scored per game. UNT hasn’t had trouble getting ahead of its opponents as it has trailed for only 4 percent of its minutes played. “One of our problems early on was keeping a lead, but we’ve gotten a lot better at that,” soph-
omore forward Michelle Young said. Fellow Sun Belt members Denver, Florida International and Western Kentucky joined the Mean Green in this week’s rankings. The Pioneers are ranked second while the Panthers and Hilltoppers sit behind UNT at eighth and 10th.
Bessie — ‘The perfect woman’
See which UNT football player drives around Denton in this soped-up 1988 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
COURTESY PHOTO
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