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Volume 95 | Issue 29
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UNT Dallas tells faculty to re-apply Lawyers advise Dallas campus to redo process
The faculty began the year with the revelation that the contracts would end in May, she said. “The language was not ‘renewed,’” she said. “We BY LISA GARZA were told by Price that all Senior Staff Writer our contracts were being Faculty members at UNT ‘terminated.’ Termination is Da llas must now submit much more severe than nonapplications at the end of renewed.” The female faculty member May — for their current posisaid the faculty “became very tions. The 38 faculty members nervous and are trying to find r e c ei v e d let t er s Fr id a y jobs.” Faculty members have the stating that their contracts would not be renewed at the option to reapply for their posiend of the spring semester. tions, but there is no guarantee However, school officials said that they will be rehired. The female faculty member the faculty has known since the second week of January said she “honestly doesn’t about the status of their know” if she will reapply for her current position. contracts. “I don’t believe Sta f f members i n t h e l e a d e rwill not have to be ship,” she said. The let go and re-apply Daily attempted to because “the posicontact all 38 faculty tions are staying the members by phone same,” said Deborah or e-mail. Leliaert, vice presNikki Ashcraft, a ident of university bilingual education relations. faculty member at In a Jan. 15 state- DEBORAH UNT Dallas, said ment, John Ellis Price, LELIAERT that all faculty was vice chancellor of the instructed not to UN T System a nd talk to the media CEO of UNT Dallas, and to refer them to wrote that since UNT Tomlin. Dallas “will be recogT he N T Da i ly nized as a comprecontacted Price on h e n s i v e u n i v e rMonday by telephone sit y by t he Texas and e-mail. Hig her Educat ion Bot h at tempt s Coordinating Board, JOHN ELLIS were refer red to cont ract s w i l l be PRICE Gregory Tomlin, execnegot iated w it h faculty members at the new utive director of Marketing university through the hiring News and Information. The Daily made requests processes of the new univerto speak to Tomlin but he sity.” Price told the Chronicle responded each time in an of Hig her Educat ion on e-mail that he was “not going Thursday that the university’s to have time to talk today” legal staff told him that trans- because of a full meeting ferring the jobs of current schedule. “Based on the unique facts facult y members w ithout them having to reapply was and circumstances present and the legally sound courses not an option. A female faculty member, of action available to UNT who spoke on the condi- Dallas and UNT, UNT Dallas t ion of a nony m it y, sa id chose this path,” Tomlin wrote Price assured everyone in in an e-mail. “Communication December that they “were leading to legal advice provided is protected by attorney-client all getting contracts.” “People are very scared privilege.” because we were blatantly told we were going to have To read the Daily’s contracts at the beginning editorial on this of fall [2010],” she said in a issue, see Page 8 phone interview.
Mohit Lalwani, an electrical engineering master’s student, looks up in anticipation of the falling colored powder.
A Celebration of Spring, Color
BY A MBER A RNOLD
Arts & Life Editor
P i n k , pu r ple a nd r e d powdered paint floated through breezy air as students poured festive colors on each other in celebration of the Hindu holiday, Holi, on Friday afternoon at McKenna Park. UNT’s World Echoes organization hosted the colorful celebration, which symbolizes winter’s end and the coming of spring. This is illustrated through the bright-colored powder, or gulal, said Janak Shukla, a priest at the D/FW Hindu Temple. “Holi is our way to express joy and forget all bad relations and enemies,” Shukla said. “You forget about your differences.”
The celebration The organization provided about 40 people with 30 pounds of gulal for the Hindu event. Once the colored dust settled and the laughter grew quiet, the
Spending cuts eliminate raises promised for faculty, staff BY LISA GARZA
Senior Staff Writer Fac u lt y a nd sta f f were informed in a mass e-mail Monday morning t hat t he 1 perc ent “Fac u lt y/St a f f Excellence Pool” is not available for raises for the 2011 fiscal year. The pool is money a llocated to department heads for raises. The e-mail was sent out despite the fact that the UNT community was promised a pool of money on Feb. 3 to award select faculty and staff with raises. “The spending pla n changed, and those dollars were no longer available for raises in 2011,” UNT Interim President Phil Diebel said. “T hat deci sion had been made, and I needed to make
sure that the universit y c om mu n it y u nder s to o d that decision had been made.” The decision comes PHIL after the DIEBEL Board of Regent s approved a 3.95 p er c ent t u it ion a nd fe e increase during the February meeting instead of former President Gretchen Bataille’s i n it ia l 5 percent i ncrease recommendation. “That decision had to be made, and Dr. Bataille made it,” sa id Jea n Bush, acting senior associate v ice president of f i na nce. “There’s no money beyond that 3.95 percent.”
PHOTO BY MELISSA BOUGHTON / ASSIGNING EDITOR
Fiscal year 2012 will also see a 3.95 percent tuit ion and fees increase and a $105 student-approved athletic fee, which “bumps up the total in 2012 to 6.6 percent,” Bush said. This increase will provide money for a pool in 2012, she said. Bush said the decision was also based on the estimates of next year’s enrollment and the fact that “we were told by the state to identify reductions.” Bataille took her decision “ver y seriously” as to what would be the best thing for UNT, Bush said. “T he fo c u s i s mov i ng forward, the focus is on our st udent-resea rch-centered university and keeping the st udent’s costs in check,” Bush said.
“Holi is our way to express joy and forget all bad relations and enemies. You forget about your differences.”
To see multimedia of this story, see ntdaily.com “I think if the event had been on campus, it would have been pretty huge,” Morawala said. “We had to change the venue, so it was a bit smaller.”
—Janak Shukla D/FW Hindu Temple priest The tradition
group ended the celebration with dancing and traditional Indian music. “I wanted to celebrate Holi, but I wanted to involve more people in it so I can spread my culture,” said K rishna Morawa la, a n accou nt i ng junior and World Echoes treasurer. “We wanted to have an event for our friends so they can celebrate an Indian festival.” Morawala initially created a closed event on Facebook with Arnoldo Hurtado, a studio art senior, and Sophia Shah, an accounting senior.
Morawala said she would like for Holi to become a tradition However, after more people at UNT and would consider t ha n ex pected wa nted to involving more of the tradiattend, Morawala, Hurtado and tional events. Shah decided to have World A Holi celebration in India Echoes sponsor the event. usually lasts multiple days and “A lot of my friends are in includes a bonfire on the first World Echoes, and they asked day. to sponsor it and make it an “Usually married women open event,” Morawala said. have a fast,” Morawala said. The Holi event was initially “Then they dress up and have located on UNT’s campus, but food, and with their plates, when Carmen Banea, president they throw them into the fire of World Echoes, discovered to ‘feed the fire.’” the university needed at least Holi is a time for people to 10 days notice for approval, she have fun despite differences, contacted the Denton Police she said. Department to get approval for a new location. See STUDENTS on Page 2
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Rick Perry Incumbent Governor Perry defeated U.S. Kay Bailey Hutchison underdog political tivist Debra Medina
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Tuesday in the Texas gubernational Republican primary election. In September, Rasmussen Reports’ telephone surveys revealed Hutchison held a 2 percent public-opinion lead over Perry. Her lead maintained a steady decline shortly after the survey’s report was conducted. If Perry wins the election, he will be the first Texas governor elected to three terms.
Bill White Former Houston Mayor Bill White triumphed over six others on the Democrat primary ballot, including main competitor Farouk
Shami, owner of Houston-based hair care company Farouk Systems, with an impressive 516,621 votes. Rasmussen Reports surveyed 500 Texas residents last week after the primaries, showing the public favoring Perry over White by 6 percent. With the election still more than a half a year away, White has plenty of time to switch the numbers in his favor.
The 2010 Texas gubernatorial election will take place on Nov. 2. Early voting in Denton will take place from Oct. 18 to 29. For information on where and how to vote this November, visit elections.dentoncounty.com. A third-party candidate may still enter the race at a later time if he or she gains the required number of signatures.
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