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Mean Green faces uphill battle after injuries BY BEN BABY
Senior Staff Writer If a 0-2 start to the season was not bad enough, the Mean Green has more problems it must deal with on its trek back to relevance. UNT will be without two integral pieces for the remainder of the season, after redshirt senior quarterback Nathan Tune dislocated his hip and junior safety DaWaylon Cook tore his ACL. “As we are finding out as a football team, if you are running number two you are a play away, and you better be ready,” head coach Todd Dodge said. “It’s happened to us quite often.” After losing the competition for the job as starting quarterback this summer, sophomore Derek Thompson will step in for Tune. Tune took a vicious hit with one minute remaining in the fourth quarter of UNT’s 32-31 loss to Rice on Saturday. The Celina H.S. star was taken off
the field on a stretcher, and had surgery this past week to repair the hip, officially ending his career at UNT. Thompson, who has never made a collegiate start, takes over the spot after seeing limited action at the quarterback position. In 2010, Thompson has seven pass attempts, completing f ive passes for 40 yards. “I feel bad for Nathan,” Thompson said. “It’s one of those deals that you never wish a kid gets hurt like that, especially his senior year. It’s my opportunity now, I feel like it’s my team.” The sophomore was forced to burn his redshirt status at the end of last season, as Tune and redshirt sophomore quarterback Riley Dodge were both injured in UNT’s final game of the 2009 regular season. The 6-foot-4-inch Thompson completed all three of his passes for 60 yards and a touchdown. “[Thompson]’s a good quar-
terback a lso,” junior w ide receiver Tyler Stradford said. “As a team, we shouldn’t miss a beat. The offense should still be rolling like it’s rolling.” Throughout the first two games of the season, Tune averaged 270 yards of total offense per game, which is second in the Sun Belt Conference. However, Tune leads the conference with three interceptions. Cook’s absence will add to a struggling secondary that is already missing another starter, junior cornerback Steven Ford, who broke his ankle in week 1. Junior safety John Shorter will start in place of Cook. The defense has allowed 33.5 points per game, and ranks fourth in the conference in passing yards allowed with an average of 210.50 yards per game. A different challenge awaits the Mean Green at 11 a.m. Saturday in West Point, N.Y. as it faces an Army team that averages almost 280 yards per game rushing.
of the Family Outreach Center. Forty-five sexual assault calls have been handled in the Denton area since Jan. 1, according to the Denton Police Department. “Nine out of 10 times, the victim will know the person who assaults them,” Holmes said. Officer Ryan Grelle of the Denton Police Department agrees. “Most of the victims know their suspect,” he said. Five cases of sexual assault have occur red at UNT between 2007 and 2009. All were date or acquaintance
related, according to the UNT crime and securit y awareness report. Acquaintances played the highest role in Holmes’ study, which was conducted in 2008. Fifty percent of sexual assault offenders were acquaintances of their victims, 15 percent w e r e i nv ol v e d w it h t he victims in a romantic sense and 18 percent of the cases involved strangers. “The ones that get reported usua lly occur in residence halls,” said Ed Reynolds, the UNT deputy chief of police.
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Redshirt senior quarterback Nathan Tune dislocated his hip in the final minute of UNT’s 32-31 loss to Rice on Saturday night. Tune was taken off the field on a stretcher and underwent surgery later that night.
Study reports risks of sexual assault for college women
BY K RYSTLE CANTU & LORYN THOMPSON
Senior Staff Writer & Intern One in four women in college will be victims of rape or attempted rape before they graduate, according to a recent Department of Justice study. Between 130 and 150 medical rape exams are administered yearly through Denton Regional, said Dr. Nicole Holmes, the director of victim outreach services at Denton County Friends of the Family. Fifty victims attend counseling at the Denton County Friends
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“Unfortunately, most of those cases involve alcohol.”
Critical Accomplice In Rape “I think alcohol plays a dangerous role,” Holmes said. “In any situation where there is drinking going on, it’s the No. 1 date drug used.” Often when someone has been drinking, he or she has less ability to fight off the attacker and becomes more vulnerable, Holmes said. “They just make an easier target and easier victim,” she said. “Alcohol plays a role in the
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Star Wars club vice president Jonathan Smith (left) and president Andrew Mount (right) show off their lightsaber skills. “Our purpose is to make a community where people who might not normally get involved in an extracurricular activity have a place to come and hang out with fellow Star Wars fans,” Mount said. The Star Wars club meets at 7:30 p.m. every other Tuesday in Language Building 217. Club members will meet again on Sept. 21.
know something, but not what happened, which makes it difficult to recall and report the rape, Holmes said. “We see that situation fairly frequently here,” she said. “It makes it hard for police reports. Not all victims will pass out when drugged, Holmes said. Some may have a toxic response and end up in the ICU, while others simply seem really intoxicated. Sometimes victims are even coherent.
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Clark Grill closes after 44 years BY CHRISTINA MLYNSKI
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offender, as well. They are more apt to offend.” Grelle said most of the sexual assault cases he has handled were alcohol-related incidents. “It puts victims in a bad situation,” he said. “People open themselves up with alcohol.” With alcohol events, there is always a high risk of drug-induced sexual assaults, Holmes said. Sometimes women may not even know they are intoxicated until it’s too late, or may not even know it as it is happening, she added. Often drugs will impact memory. Some victims may
The fire went out on Clark Grill forever last spring. Dining Services made the decision to shut dow n t he cafeteria behind Clark Hall because it was economically ineffective and impractical, said Bill McNeace, executive director of dining services. “We are way over-balanced in trying to serve our residential population and of course it’s important to us, but five cafeterias on a campus our size is more than is needed,” he said. The Cla rk Gri l l building is being used for meetings, student prog ra mming a nd specia l events for housing and university curriculum, sa id Tom Ru fer, a ssista nt vice president for auxiliar y services. The cafeteria was known for serving fast food items, like burgers and pizza, and being open from 6 p.m. to midnight, McNeace said. The Kerr Hall cafeteria has taken over as the night cafeteria, extending its hours to 2 a.m., McNeace said. “It’s been a challenge but we’re getting better at it each day,” said Sean Coxon, food service manager for Kerr cafeteria. “On the positive side, we’re a bigger cafeteria, so we can accommodate more students than Clark was able to.” The cafeteria serves triple the amount of food compared to last year, he said.
Students like Katie Miller, an art education sophomore and former Clark resident, were surprised and upset to find out about the closure. “I’m a fa irly pick y eater and I know that I like what they had to offer at Clark,” she said. “Now, I don’t always k now t hat I’m going to be completely satisfied eating at another cafeteria.” Aaron Johnson, an undecided sophomore and Kerr resident assistant, sees the shutdown as an improvement for students. “Overall, I think the change was for the better because Kerr obviously has more room and it seems as if the same food options are [as] readily available as [they were] last year,” he said. Food opt ions have expanded at Kerr since last year because Dining Services wants to meet all aspects of students’ eating habits, Coxon said. A not her d i n i ng a lter native is the f lexible meal plan, which also allows students to purchase food in reta i l locations like the University Union, according to the UNT Dining Services website. Since Cla rk Grill closed, housing and meal plan rates have not increased significantly, which was a big factor in deciding to close the cafeteria, McNeace said. “If we open up Kerr at 7 a.m. and keep it running until 2 a.m., that’s a more efficient way of taking care of students’
needs than having Clark Grill, which sits dormant a ll day long,” he said. T he Ker r c a feter ia w i l l be remodeled in December during the winter break. An expanded menu and a faster, more c onven ient w ay for students to receive their food are a few planned improvements, Coxon said. From a f i na ncia l sta ndpoint, no major change has been seen, McNeace said. Dining Ser v ices is i mprov i ng it s ef fect iveness and dining experience, McNeace said. “A ny t ime you ta ke away something it won’t be popular, but the big picture from a food service perspective is being able to provide more access to food,” he said.
Dining Facts • Clark Grill opened in 1966 • Kerr Hall houses 896 residents, almost double Clark’s 463 • The McConnell, Crumley, Marquis, Chilton and Kendall buildings all housed cafeterias at one time • Kerr cafeteria has 62 percent more traffic than Clark last year