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Courthouse fate hangs in balance

BY SHEA YARBOROUGH Senior Staff Writer

MCKINNEY — After a year of collaboration between UNT and the city of McKinney, a lack of communication and concrete plans could prevent sustainability projects from moving forward.

L et ter s of i ntent w er e exchanged earlier this year between the two entities to obtain the 125,000-squarefoot former Col lin Count y Commissioner’s Courthouse with an April 1 deadline.

McKinney’s city manager Fra n k Raga n sa id he wa s informed UNT would need more time while he attended the Emerald Eagle Ball on Feb. 27. Ragan granted it because of former President Gretchen Bataille’s sudden resignation, he said.

“Literally, the weekend that letter was being delivered, she was going out the door, and I was thinking there’s no one to read my letter,” Ragan said.

Conversations, which began more than a year ago between UNT faculty and McKinney cit y off icia ls, were dreams of marrying the two sustainability leaders together, Ragan said.

A f t e r n i n e m ont h s of vacancy, the courthouse was brought into the picture as a possible option to promote sustainability, but the exact use of the building is dependent on UNT, he said.

“We don’t know what UNT is w illing to bring,” Ragan said. “We need to make a decision if we are going to build on that site or another site or tear the Courthouse down.”

Paying for it In an original e-mail from Bata ille to Cha ncellor Lee Jackson on Jan. 8 announcing UNT had beg un ta lk ing to McKinney city officials about t he C ou r t hou se, Bat a i l le wrote that the building would be a gift from the city with an added $10 million to the university for renovations.

Ragan said the city never offered the $10 million.

“The building wasn’t being of fered a s a g i f t,” Raga n said. “I told them we would consider the whole proposal of the building once we knew what they wanted to do with it.”

Someone w a s probably saying more than they should have, sa id Provost Wendy Wilkins, but eventually they found out t he money of fer didn’t come from t he cit y.

But, Wilkins said, there isn’t enough information about the project.

“We haven’t begun any of the formal planning steps yet, if we will at all,” Wilkins said.

“It’s still exploratory at this point.”

Fi na ncia l pla n n i ng ha s been turned over to the UNT System while planning for t he actua l progra ms to be implemented have been left in the hands of Todd Spinks, d i rector of susta i nabi l it y.

In a n e-ma i l to t he Da i ly la st week, Jack son stated the System will continue to

suppor t t he rev iew of t he McKinney proposal.

“If UNT determines that t his is a priorit y project it can support and pay for and gives it precedence over other campus needs, t he System will be prepared to support that decision,” Jackson said.

T he or ig i na l renovat ion estimate of $36 million was to change the Courthouse into smaller units with a Council chamber, which could seat as many as 200 people, Ragan said. Depending on the use, he estimates the cost will be much less.

Renovation amounts have ranged from $2 million to $10 mil lion, Wi lk ins sa id. The only proposed renovations she has heard of are updates to the restrooms to make them accessible for disabled users, but t here a re severa l UNT renovations on the Denton campus that will take precedent over this project, she said. “ R i g h t n o w, I ’m n o t prepared to invest anything,” Wilkins said.

Enduring relationship Phil Diebel, UNT interim president and System repres ent at i v e, w i l l t r av el t o McKinney to further assess the property later this month, said Deborah Leliaert, vice president of university relations.

The status of the building is yet to be determined, but all parties involved said they want this partnership with or without the Courthouse.

The cit y orig ina lly approached UN T because it thinks of itself as Grand Central Station for sustainability among Texas universities and the southwest region, Ragan said. McKinney is said to be in the top-10 cities in the nation in “green” development with private businesses jumping on the “green” bandwagon, he said.

“We thought we could help each other, maybe we could be a good partner as we vie for grant dollars,” Ragan said.

“The government is looking for partnerships and collaborat ive ef for t s to donate money.”

The building would have d i f ferent t y pes of cou rse instruction offered, certificate programs for traditional and non-traditional students, as well as an emphasis on loca l a nd i nter nat iona l students w it h a l l t y pes of resea rch endeavors to be conducted at t he faci l it y, Spinks said.

A yea r ago, t he cit y a nd UNT were talking about ways they could work together.

They really did believe they could be mutually beneficial to each other, Ragan said.

He loves the idea of having a university presence downtown to add to the services the city offers to its residents, he said.

“I don’t want to shut the door to UNT,” Ragan said.

“I hope we can make a decision.”

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The faculty of the Construction Engineering Technology program, also referred to as CNET, is moving forward with future plans despite the threat of termination.

Students in the program have built playhouses in labs so they can gain a realistic idea of what skills are needed to build structures in a house.

Leaders plan to continue program

BY LISA GARZA

Senior Staff Writer T he facu lt y of t he Construction Engineering Technology program is moving forward with future plans despite the threat of termination.

College of Eng ineering Dea n Costa s Tstat sou l is recommended to Provost Wendy Wilkins on March 11 that the program be phased out. Wilkins said she has not made a decision yet because the proposal is among others submitted from the deans of each college.

The program, which began in 2005 with 16 students, has a total enrollment of 147.

“Our program is continuing to grow each semester and to us, it’s a very viable program,” said Althea Arnold of the program’s faculty.

Conflicting statements The four faculty members spoke to t he Da i ly but requested that certain information discussed not be attributed to anyone specific so they can present a unified front.

The faculty members said they were first informed of the phase-out plan when an emergency meeting was called on March 8 with the department chairman, Nourredine Boubekri. Boubekri declined to comment.

Each member of the faculty said he or she was “shocked” upon hearing the news.

The proposal states that “t he C N E T f a c u lt y w i l l require new research facilities, are currently occupying extensive research facilities and there is little potential that they will produce large restricted research expen-

he has not made any requests for more laboratory space.

“We wa nt to ma ke sure that the right information is out there because people are trying to make decisions w it h w rong informat ion,” said Diane DeSimone of the program’s faculty.

The proposa l a lso states that “other than the

“Our program is continuing to grow each semester and to us, it’s a very viable program.”

—Althea Arnold Construction Engineering Technology faculty member

ditures.”

Boubekri told Tstatsoulis t hat A rnold a nd Zhen hua Hua ng of t he prog r a m’s faculty required new research facilities, so he included that information in the proposal, Tstatsoulis said in an e-mail Monday.

“We don’t need any addit iona l faci l it ies,” A r nold said.

A r nold sa id most of her bu i ld i ng i n for mat ion modeling research is done on her computer in her office.

Hua ng sa id h is ex per iments are “in the field,” so

Nuconsteel contract which is now void, CNET faculty have brought in about $150,000 in research over 5 years.”

However, the faculty said that statement is not accurate.

Arnold said that Newconsteel does not guarantee an amount of general money to the program, but grants are funded according to t he specif ic a mount of research they do.

“Rather than have a total [dollar] amount for the whole year, now we have a specific a mount for each piece of

research,” Arnold said. “It’s a different contract, but it has not been terminated.”

T he facu lt y sa id t he rest ricted resea rch dol la r a mou nt i ncluded i n t he proposal is also inaccurate.

“Given the short period of time and the small number of facult y, we have generated $1.2 million in restricted grants to the college, so we consider ourselves a driving force for the college to help achieve Tier One,” said Cheng Yu of the program’s faculty.

Valuable program Students get a hands-on approach to lea r n i ng by demonstrating wood framing, steel framing, electrical and plumbing techniques in the construction labs, the faculty said.

Playhouses are built in the labs so that students can gain a realistic idea of what skills are needed to build structures in a house.

The playhouses are donated to charity after completion.

“We see a passion from our students,” Yu said. “They like what they are doing, they like what they are studying.”

The cu r r icu lu m is a lso a d j u s t e d a s t e c h n iq u e s continue to evolve with technological advances.

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Stakes increase for academic dishonesty

BY A LEX CALAMS Staff Writer

Before last semester, all cases of academic dishonesty went through the offices of the vice president for academic affairs and the Faculty Senate.

However, for the past seven months, William McKee of the economics faculty has provided new oversight.

“We are currently adding revisions to the academic dishonesty code,” he said.

McKee has been teaching at UNT for the past 32 years and now holds one of the university’s newest positions as the academic integrity officer for UNT. He said that his new role requires him to submit a draft due later this month to deal with the rising occurrence of having to revoke degrees.

He said that his new department, the Office of Academic Integrity, was developed last year to have the authority to deal with academic dishonesty and also revise UNT’s current policies.

Revised code McKee had a meeting Monday with campus-wide academic integrity consultants. They serve as part of a committee dedicated to revising and updating UNT’s academic dishonesty code, another new addition to the university. McKee said that UNT has experienced an increase in the amount of degrees it must revoke because of the discovery of a student’s academic dishonesty post-graduation in recent years.

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Twenty-two percent of college students said they have cheated on exams in See NEW on Page 2 surveys conducted by the Center for Academic Integrity.

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Sculptor to speak in UNT’s Nasher lecture series

BY A LEX CHEATHAM Staff Writer

New York sculptor Teresita Fer ná ndez w i l l spea k Thursday and Friday at UNT as part of the Nasher Lecture Series.

The College of Visual Arts and Design hosts the lecture series in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.

“Teresita Ferná ndez is a phenomena l a r t ist whose ca reer ha s t r u ly sk y rocketed because of her work, thought, creativity, and range of materials and concepts she explores,” said Robert Milnes, dea n of t he col lege. “She brings to museums, public spaces and private collectors bodies of work t hat transform the space and bring new understanding to ever yone who sees them.”

T he t wo-day event w i l l begin with it a reception and lecture at 6 p.m. Wednesday at t he Na sher S c u lpt u re Center at 2001 Flora St. in

Dallas. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. Admission is free to the public, but seat reservation is encouraged.

“We are pleased to welcome artist Teresita Fernández for this special lecture series,” said Jeremy Strick, director of the Nasher Sculpture Center.

“This important series brings out s t a nd i n g a r t i s t s a nd important topics of modern and contemporary sculpture to a wide audience.”

According to Fernández’s Web site, her work is included in many major private collections as well as the permanent collections of t he St. L ou i s A r t Mu s e u m , t he Museum of Contempora r y Art, Miami, the Miami Art Mu seu m, t he Wa l ker A r t Center in Minneapolis, Minn., t he Sa m m lu ng Goet z a nd Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N. Y. She is t he recipient of numerous awa rds bot h in the U.S. and abroad. These include the 2005 MacArthur

Fou ndat ion Fel low sh ip, t he 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1999 Louis Com for t Ti f fa ny Bien n ia l Award.

Fer ná ndez ha s l ived i n Japan, Italy and at ArtPace i n Sa n A nton io. She wa s appointed to create special projects for the museum of Modern Art in the New York Public Art Fund.

In 2009, Fer ná ndez completed t h ree major public assignments. Stacked Waters was created at t he Blanton Museum of A rt in Austin, Blind Blue Landscape at t he Benesse A r t Site in Naoshima, Japan, and most recently, Starfield, a permanent installation at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

Fer n á nde z w i l l b e on the UNT campus Thursday to attend a luncheon w it h students. From 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. she w ill hold an infor ma l presentat ion followed by a Q&A session.

The presentation will be in

Art Building 223 and is open to anyone.

“We have found that by having the lecture on the first night, it gives students a formal presentation of their work,” Milnes said. “Having the artist on campus the second day for an informal presentation [allows] the students to interact more closely and get a different [perspective].”

The lecture series, now in its 11th year, was endowed by a major gift from Nancy Nasher, her husband, David Haemiseggar, and their children in honor of Nancy’s parents, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher, Milnes said.

The money allows UNT and the Nasher Sculpture Center to bring artists, sculptors and critics to students and faculty each year. Milnes said that everyone is happy with the choice of Fernández, who he said was awarded some of the most prestigious prizes in the world.

The faculty said a termination of the program would not only be a loss for students and the university but also for the surrounding areas.

“We want to work with the administrators together as a team to build a stronger const r uct ion prog ra m because this not only serves the locals but also the entire DFW area,” Yu said.

w i l l seek accreditat ion as planned regardless of whether it is phased out. The faculty said there is concern among students t hat ter minat ion w ill cause ABET, a nationally recognized accreditor, to not grant accreditation. “[ABET] gave us the best t hey cou ld bec au se t hey h av en’t s e en ou r rep or t yet and the [director] said it certainly makes it much more difficult if the program is going to be discontinued,”

DeSimone said.

DeSimone said the ABET criteria states t hat part of t he repor t must show t he financial, faculty and school support of the program.

“It’s not impossible,” she said. “We [are] hoping the program isn’t phased out, but no matter what happens, we will certainly move forward to get our report ready,” The accreditation process is lengthy because extensive data about t he program is

assembled before an application is submitted, which is t hen followed by a v isit from an ABET representative.

DeSimone said she estimates a decision won’t be made until January 2012.

With the threat of a terminated program and long wait for an accreditation decision, t he facult y said t hey have encouraged worried students to wait until decisions are made before decid i ng to transfer schools.

“ T h e r e ’s t o o m u c h unknown,” DeSimone said.

“I’ve had students come to me that are concerned, and I’ve told them there is not enough information to make a decision.”

If the proposa l to phase out the program is approved, Yu, Arnold and Huang will be granted one-year teaching contracts and then released.

De Si mone w i l l c ont i nue teaching until the program is completely phased out.

have said they cheated on an academic examination and that nearly double that amount have admitted involvement with “unauthorized collaboration” toward homework assignments.

UNT divides what it considers academic dishonesty into four categories: cheating, plagiarism, fabrication and facilitating academic dishonesty.

“It seems to have hit home with students,” McKee said. “We haven't had any repeat offenders

since the office opened or any serious student cases — students seem to understand all that is at risk.”

The Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities encourages instructors to engage in “proactive strategies” to communicate the immorality of these unethical decisions students are likely to make during their time at the university.

UNT does not have a campuswide academic dishonesty policy.

Instead the department chairperson of each school or the dean of each college is given complete control on how their specific department handles students engaging in unethical academic behavior.

Don Finn, the recently appointed chairman of the accounting department, said that for the most part he refers to what the university encourages himself and his colleagues to promote concerning academic dishonesty.

UNT's center tells instructors that they “might introduce a statement” to their students “regarding academic honesty as it relates to that particular class.”

Although it never states it as a requirement, Finn said that most instructors follow this model.

“When dealing with academic dishonesty, we strictly follow the university's guidelines,” Finn

said. “I tell all my professors and instructors that if they discover any form of academic dishonesty that they immediately approach me concerning the matter and we start the process.”

McKee said that collaborative student work is dependent on a professor’s instructions, something that should be emphasized when an instructor assigns homework.

“We know that students generally study together,” he said. “They learn a lot from each other, and we don't want to diminish group study. But it is important to know that if an instructor takes the time to point out an assignment is to be completed individually that students do not divide up homework or share answers.”

McKee warned that although only students who are expelled for academic dishonesty carry its stigma on official documents, that could change in the future for smaller offenders.

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Teresita Fernández, a sculptor from New York, will be featured as part of the Nasher Lecture Series that will take place April 8 and 9 at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.

Faculty advises students to wait for program’s fate Continued from Page 1 “With all the green produc t s, t he 2030 cha l lenge from the government is for ever y new building to put back as much energ y as it takes,” DeSimone said. “There is whole lot of research and research that has to be done to get the industr y to that point, and of course, we want to be part of it and make sure our students are ready for that.”

ABET controversy Tsatsoulis said the program

New rules on cheating to take effect at UNT Continued from Page 1 In addition, McKee has also been asked to consider developing a student honor code for UNT. He explained that they are typical within private universities, but there “has been a growing trend in public universities” to promote an academic integrity code.

“Some research suggests that expectations laid out through an honor code results in a reduction in academic dishonesty,” McKee said. “It is essential that

students are made aware of what is expected of them and the measures put into effect if they do not hold up their end of the bargain for an honor code to succeed, though.''

Academic dishonesty The Center for Academic Integrity recently revealed information collected from its latest surveys about academic dishonesty.

The Center reported that 22 percent of college-aged students

Prevention methods One of the encouraged preventive measures is typically seen and heard by students on the first day of classes when instructors pass out course schedules and syllabi.

“For the most part, professors include something about it in their syllabus,” said Peter Lu, an international business sophomore. “On test days, they usually repeat what is at risk ... just so you know the consequences of cheating.”

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Denton Redbud Festival to celebrate Arbor Day

BY A LEXANDRIA SILVA

Contributing Writer

Springtime has reached Denton, bringing with it the 17th Annual Denton Redbud Festival to celebrate Arbor Day. The nonprofit organization, Keep Denton Beautiful, hosts the officia l Denton Arbor Day festival every year.

Event and outreach coordinator Mendie Schmidt stresses the importance of celebrating Arbor Day with the Redbud Festival.

“It provides an opportunity for us to educate Dentonites on the many benefits of trees, which go beyond making our community more aesthetically pleasing,” Schmidt said.

Trees impact the community and residents’ health, and tree-lined neighborhoods have lower crime rates. A hundred trees remove 26 tons of carbon dioxide each year.

Festival-goers will have the chance to purchase one of the 300 trees being sold on a first–come, first-served basis with proceeds going to Keep Denton Beautiful.

Denton is considered the

Denton Redbud Festival Place: Denton Civic Center Time: Saturday, 10 a.m to 4 p.m.

Admission: Free For more Information: 940-349-8738 Redbud capital of Texas. The Redbud is a small understory tree, native to Denton and marked by pink spring flowers a nd hea r t-shaped leaves.

The festival, held in conjunction with Children’s Arbor Day, will provide a bounce house, recycle relay race and environmental education activities. In addition, Keep Denton Beautiful provides every Denton thirdgrader with a redbud seed.

Attendees can also visit a home and garden show at the Denton Civic Center with more than 60 vendors from across North Texas who will showcase gardening and home improvement products. Booths will include the sale of outdoor pottery, yard art and birdhouses.

The festival will also offer Xeriscape classes, which promote

w a t e r c on s e rvation t hrough landscaping.

“Our hope is to equip area residents with the knowledge they need to save money, save water and have beautiful landscapes.” said Kara Roberson of D e n t o n ’s public communication office.

PHOTO COURTESY OF KDB Bonnie Reese, a n a c c l a i m e d A Denton resident views various native plants for sale at one of the outdoor vendor booths. The Redbud Festival was held Saturday at l a n d s c a p i n g the Civic Center and was hosted by Keep Denton Beautiful. d e s i g n e r, w i l l teach two classes at the festival.

Reese is the owner of a do-it- Room of the Denton Civic be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The first class about Xeriscape yourself landscaping design Center and require preregis- Saturday. For more informalandscaping will be held from 9 and consulting company called tration, which can be done at tion or volunteer opportunities, a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and the second Beautiful Landscapes. www.cityofdenton.com/xeri- contact Mendie Schmidt of Keep about picking the right plant will Both classes will be scape or by calling 940-349-8172. Denton Beautiful at 940-349be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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Students found theater co.

BY LORI LEE

tuning as they went along, Lucas said.

“The biggest challenge was C o d y L uc a s, a t he at r e senior, is making a name for making a dance studio look himself. At 21, he has written a like a dilapidated house,” said play and helped found a local Tashina Richards, set designer theater company, Sundown, and member of Sundown. “We all worked together to come with a group of alumni.

“I’m thankful that Sundown up with the best idea on how has been able to a llow me to do that, and I created my to act, write and direct, and design from that.”

It can be diff icult to get that I’ve been able to explore all these different facets of people to see indie theater, theater,” director and media so the hope is that submitdesigner Christopher David t ing work to fest iva ls li ke the Out of the Loop Festival Taylor said. will generate interest, Taylor said.

Play “I think our play is a step Lucas’ play, “Videotape,” was performed at the Out of toward legitimizing indepenthe Loop Fringe Festival at dent theater,” he said the Water Tower Theatre in Addison last month.

Theatre Company The play is about what can Lucas, who comes f rom happen when chi ldren get an acting background, said a l l t heir infor mat ion f rom he’s always wanted to study T V, Luc a s sa id.It foc u ses writing. He decided to help on two boys abandoned by form Sundown, which pushed their parents who have been educated by sitcoms and TV evangelists.

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Dexter Cirillo will give a lecture today about the cultural significance of her Southwestern Indian jewelry collection.

Jewelry style makes comeback

BY JESSICA PAUL

“That was a big trend — I saw it being sold and people L i ke a ny ot her st yle of making it,” Sterling said. “The fashion, jewelry trends change, big, chunky turquoise is really and the Southwestern or native coming back.”

Sterling said it would be style could be making a comeinteresting to see how this back.

Dexter Cirillo, an expert on particular artist incorporates Native American jewelry, will it into her work.

Milnes said he has witnessed speak from 2 to 3 p.m. today in Art Building 223 about the the changes native jewelr y history of Southwestern jewelry has had through visiting sites and new directions for jewelry in Santa Fe and other places where people are showing and in the 21st century.

“It’s always interesting to selling pieces.

Rebekah Majors, an elemenlisten to traveling artisans,” said Elizabeth Sterling, an tary education freshman, also interior design freshman. “It’s designs and sells jewelry and always good to see new trends said the lecture would be interand cultures and techniques esting in discovering new types to make jewelry and also to see of jewelry in the art world.

“It’s really cool to see the one person’s work for inspiradifferent st yles of jewelr y,” tion.”

Robert Milnes, dean of the she sa id. “I’ve def i n itely College of Visual Arts and made some t hat have t hat Design, said students should attend the lecture because it will be “a fascinating lecture about Southwestern Indian jewelry, its history among tribes and current practitioners.”

Cirillo has published several books on the subject, including “Southwestern Indian Jewelry,” wh ich received cr it ica l acclaim.

The cultural significance of jewelry, Milnes said, “occurs in all cultures around the world, as forms of body adornment. It has sculptural implications, either in conjunction with being worn or as objects of itself, and it has religious implications.”

Sterling said she thought the lecture would be interesting and beneficial to find out what else is going on in the art world, especially in specific fields such as jewelry making.

Sterling designs and sells jewelry.

Sterling said she worked at a bead shop and sold turquoise, a common stone in Southwesternstyle jewelry.

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Southwestern style.”

Milnes said Cirillo was chosen to speak today based on her expertise on the topic of Southwestern and Native jewelry styles.

“She has a book t hat has come out recently and received awards in the field,” she said. “She’s known to people on the campus, and we had the opportunity to be part of her tour.”

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Su ndow n Col labor at ive Theatre began when a group of alumni wanted more acting oppor t u n it ies i n Denton, Lucas said.

“This is our second f u l l season, and every show has an open casting call, which gives opportunities to local actors,” Lucas said. “So we’ve picked up the f lag to offer more opportunities for actors in Denton, and we do want to provide them.”

T he g roup rehea rses i n l iv i ng rooms a nd ga rages a nd per for m s i n plac es around Denton, like Green Space, TWU Theatre and The Hydrant Café, he said.

A lt hou g h mo s t of t he c o m p a n y ’s b u d g e t p a y s for per for m ing r ig hts a nd book i ng fees, t he venues have been ver y supportive, he said.

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Ranked tennis team sweeps weekend matches

BY ERIC JOHNSON

Kazarova tore through her opponent without dropping a single game, for her fourthstraight victory.

Not to be outdone, Dinuta demolished Denver’s Lorinda Boothman 6-3, 6-0, to earn her sixth-straight win.

“I think that we are both more focused and just so confident in our game right now,” Dinuta said.

“I trust every one of my shots, and I knew while we were warming up that we were going to win today.”

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There was no letdown for the No. 73 UNT tennis team (11-5) after recently earning its firstever national ranking. The Mean Green earned two more firsts last weekend, defeating the Denver Pioneers and Louisville Cardinals.

A focused and confident Mean Green extended its season-long winning streak to five matches.

UNT gutted its way past the Pioneers 4-3 on Friday, before crushing the Cardinals 6-1 on Sunday.

“We stayed poised throughout the match, and more importantly, we believed that we were going to win,” head coach Sujay Lama said.

“This was a great week for us in so many ways, and we accomplished three things that this program has never done.”

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Junior Ashley Akin returns the ball with a forehand. The Mean Green finished this weekend with a 4-3 win against Denver and a 6-1 win against Louisville. UNT faces No. 48 Rice Sunday in Denton.

Cruz and freshman Barbora Vykydalova secured the opening Friday Against the Pioneers (7-13), doubles point for UNT in what the pairing of senior Catalina would be the deciding factor.

“That point was squarely on their shoulders, and they looked like professionals in that moment,” Lama said.

Taking the 1-0 lead into singles, UNT was led by its most intense players, sophomore Paula Dinuta and junior Narine Kazarova.

Last year, the Cardinals (10-9) humbled UNT in a 6-1 victory, but the Mean Green repaid the favor this time, dropping only two sets in its thrashing of the Cardinals.

Again Dinuta and Kazarova led the way. Dinuta won in dominant fashion, dropping just two games en route to her seventhstraight victory.

Kazarova fell behind early in

the first set before winning nine games in a row to take the match in straight sets, and earn her fifthstraight win.

“I like to figure out my opponent’s game so that I can take advantage of it,” Kazarova said.

“I feel like I did a great job of that today.”

Cruz and Vykydalova jumped into the No. 1 doubles position and continued their consistent play with an 8-4 victory to seal the doubles point.

With just four matches left before the conference tournament, the Mean Green is peaking at the right time.

“Top to bottom, this is the best match we have played all year,” Lama said. “This is all a build toward conference, and we need to capitalize on our opportunities.”

The last ranked team on the Mean Green’s schedule waits on the horizon, as UNT will host the No. 48 Rice Owls on Sunday at the Waranch Tennis Complex.

Mean Green bests FIU Panthers in weekend series

BY SEAN GORMAN Senior Staff Writer

Playing behind its best offensive effort of the season, the UNT softball team overwhelmed the Florida International Golden Panthers, sweeping a doubleheader Saturday but losing the final game of the series Sunday.

The Mean Green (15-12, 5-4) picked apart the Panthers’ (22-13, 5-4) pitching in a 10-2 win, used five Golden Panthers errors to win 5-1 and blew a lead during a 10-9 loss in the final game.

“We feel good about our pitching staff, but it has taken some time to get our offense going this year,” head coach T.J. Hubbard said. “Being able to generate the kind of offense we did was extremely important, and I hope we can continue to play at this level.”

Saturday Junior outfielder Mariza Martinez carried the Mean Green offense and after an early lead the team didn’t look back, pummeling FIU in the opening game.

After Martinez scored off a

wild pitch in the first inning, the Panthers responded with a run in the bottom half but could not regroup after UNT’s effort in the third inning.

Martinez got things going with a one-out single and sophomore infielder Amber Miller drove in junior infielder Mallory Cantler and sophomore infielder Lisa Johnson with a single to give UNT a 4-1 lead.

“All year we’ve been confident in our ability to score, so it’s no surprise that we had that kind of success at the plate,” Johnson said.

Junior outfielder Ranae Bromley’s two-run home run added insurance in the sixth inning, and a two-run single by sophomore outfielder Megan Rupp expanded the Mean Green lead in the seventh.

Picking up her first conference victory, freshman Brittany Simmons held the Panthers in check by pitching a completegame four hitter and holding the Panthers to one run.

“Brittany has come so far this year,” Hubbard said. “It’s great to see her thrive in different situa-

tions and continue to improve every game. I’m excited to see what she can do for this program during the next three years.”

Mistakes came aplenty in the nightcap, when UNT received all the help it could get from five FIU errors.

UNT got ahead early by scoring off an error in the first inning and Martinez took over, notching an RBI single in the second inning and adding a two-run home run in the fourth.

“Teams have a difficult time dealing with the top of our lineup because we have so many great hitters to face,” Hubbard said.

Sunday Despite a strong start in game three, the Mean Green was shut down in the last four innings and could not prevent a Golden Panther comeback.

The Mean Green set a season high for hits in a single game with 14 and scored all nine of its runs in the first three innings while Cantler and Martinez combined for five hits and seven runs batted in.

“I am glad we were able to

PHOTO BY RYAN BIBB/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore Megan Rupp slides into home against UTSA last month. The Mean Green won two of three games against the Florida International Golden Panthers this weekend in Miami. get off to a fast start because we normally take a few innings to get used to the opposing pitcher and score runs,” Hubbard said.

The Golden Panthers recovered from an early deficit and tied the game with two runs in

the fifth and secured the win in the seventh inning off a Mean Green error.

“Dating back to last year, errors have been something we’ve had to overcome,” Johnson said.

Senior Ashley Lail took the

loss, pitching the game’s final 4.2 innings and allowing two earned runs off eight hits.

The Mean Green returns to action when it takes on Big 12 foe Baylor in a double header at 4 p.m. on Wednesday in Waco.

School records fall at nation’s second-largest outdoor meet

BY BEN BABY Staff Writer

At the second-largest outdoor meet in the nation, the UNT track and field team topped three school records.

UNT shattered previous bests in the women’s 4-by-100 relay, the women’s 400-meter hurdles and the men’s 4-by-400 relays at the 83rd annual Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin.

The weekend included four personal records with the school records.

“The stage is the best part,” sprint coach Sammy Dabbs said.

“It builds a great deal of confidence, knowing that, ‘OK, we just had some success on that track against those people, and we’ll see them again in eight weeks.”

In the women’s 4-by-100 meter relay, juniors Missy Barnes,

Brittany Blaylock, Alysha Adams and Brittani Simmons finished the race with a time of 44.76, which was good enough for sixth place. The time posted in Austin was .08 seconds faster than the time posted by the four in the same event at the Bobby Lane Invitational at UT-Arlington.

The women also had a strong showing in the 4-by-200 relay, in which Barnes, Blaylock, Simmons

and sophomore Janesa Moore finished in fifth place in a school record time of 1:35.70.

Adams fell just .01 seconds short of another school record in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing in 13.41 seconds. The junior would go on to finish seventh.

Freshman Roshunda Pierson had a personal and school record in the 400-meter hurdles invitational section. Pierson outpaced

the competition, winning the event with a time of 1:00.44.

“This race, I wanted to go out there and run really good,” Pierson said. “Even though maybe the odds were against me, … in my head, I was like, ‘I can go out there. I can get in the mix with some of those girls and run a really good race.’”

Sophomore Keyth Talley competed in the men’s 100-meter dash, failing to get out of the preliminaries. Dabbs said Talley has been dealing with a nagging injury since before the indoor national championships.

Dabbs said that he does not see

a timetable for a full recovery. The sprint coach also said he believes that the competition from the bigger programs was not something to be intimidated by.

“We don’t necessarily respect the people we run against — we don’t put them on a pedestal or anything like that,” Dabbs said.

UNT will try to improve upon its results Saturday when it hosts the North Texas Spring Classic.

“The only way to get respect is you got to win the head-to-head matchup with the so-called big programs, and that’s the attitude we take going in to competition,” Dabbs said.

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Health Bill raises constitutional questions

Fill out your census form Editorial The 2010 Census has been accompanied by an unprecedented and extravagant advertising campaign, which has included a sponsored NASCAR stockcar, a series of expensive and bizarrely conceived television ads, and a city-by-city tour.

The latest effort to encourage American’s to send in their census packets came on a day when we were busy fooling one another.

April 1 was national census day.

Less popular than Christmas and overshadowed by Easter, the holiday gave no one a day off work, nor did it result in a spike in national greeting card sales.

Instead of opening presents or watching fireworks, the date was set aside by the U.S. Census Bureau as the arbitrary deadline to return completed census forms — an activity arguably characterized as less fun but more important than eating a Thanksgiving feast.

Gimmicks aside, the Editorial Board encourages all U.S. residents and specifically college students to accurately complete and return the census form.

The census is vital to the health of the democracy.

Mandated by the constitution, the count takes place every 10 years. It forms the basis for congressional redistricting and balances the distribution of federal money. For each person who fails to complete a census packet the city in which they reside will lose an estimated $14,000 in federal aid.

College students are expected to fill out the form for the city in which they live. It is a common misconception that parents are responsible for including their dependant-students who live away from home on their own census forms.

The Thursday deadline was basically irrelevant, but it’s important to get the census form sent as quickly as possible. The process takes about 10 minutes and will likely be the most discreetly significant activity of your day.

Beginning May 1, census workers will begin knocking on doors. Unless the promise of a future visitor brings you hope and comfort, send the form soon and save them the trouble.

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“Terminator. That’s a guy movie. Violence — that pretty much sums it up.”

Terrance Harris Microbiology junior

“A movie that I like to watch would have to be “The Hangover.” I like to think that [stuff] like that could actually happen.”

Last week, Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) went on a series of town hall meetings to discuss the effects of the recently passed health care reform legislation. An exerpt from one of the discussions posted on YouTube several days ago has become quite popular, receiving more than a quarter of a million views, and for good reason.

Although the discussions primarily focused on health care reform, one subtopic that kept coming up was the mandate to purchase health insurance that will be imposed on most Americans as a part of the reforms. He was questioned multiple times by attendees to name the section of the Constitution that grants Congress the authority to require a citizen to purchase health insurance.

He swiftly retorted this legitimate inquiry by stating, “I don't worry about the constitution on this, to be honest.”

He may not worry about it, but many Americans and a number of states do. Fourteen state Attorneys General (including Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott) are suing the federal government over constitutional issues relating to the health care

reform, including the individual mandate. Hare continued by saying he cares more about the people that are dying every day because they do not have health insurance.

A fter being questioned further about his concern for the Constitution, he stated, “I believe that it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

It was promptly pointed out that this quote is from the Declaration of Independence and not the Constitution. Hare responded by saying it did not matter to him, and that either one was a justification for the bill.

After being asked the same question a final time, he finally answered, “I don't know.”

He has since revised and extended his remarks in a YouTube video that Hare posted the day after the initial video of his remarks was uploaded.

He said in this video that he was not worried about the health care bill being ruled unconstitutional, and that if he thought that it was then he would have never voted for it. Next he explained that the Constitution was “near and dear to him,” that he served

in the military for six years and that he swore an oath to defend it.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution reads, “[The Congress shall have the power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.”

Although the reach and scope of the Commerce Clause has seemed to expand over the past century, the Congressional Budget Office has determined that in the history of the U.S., the federal government has never required a citizen to purchase a good or service simply for being a citizen.

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), who represents Denton, recently stated that this mandate “... flys in the face of what a free society should be.”

He went on to explain that the federal government could require us to purchase General Motors brand vehicles instead of foreign competitors. He has also stated that he agrees with the suit that is being brought by the Attorneys General.

We should expect more of our representatives.

They should be able to properly cite the constitutionality of unprecedented legislative acts, like this one. If the congressman is unable to clarify how this bill is constitutional, then perhaps he should work to amend it, not ignore it.

It is important to recognize what Burgess said. If the courts uphold that the federal government can make us purchase health insurance then there is no longer a limit on the goods or services that we could be mandated to purchase.

Trayton Oakes is a political science and economics junior. He can be reached at TraytonOakes @ my.unt.edu.

Rush Limbaugh issues idle threats As the battle over “Obamacare” was reaching fever pitch, Rush Limbaugh threatened to leave the U.S. if the health care bill passed. Well, the bill did pass, and he’s still here.

This reminded me of the time one of my friends vowed to change his citizenship and move to Ireland if George W. Bush got re-elected. Bush did get re-elected, but my friend never left New Jersey. Neither did my friend who said she’d move to France if Bush won a second term. Bush got his second term, but my friend never once budged from her New York apartment.

Her vow to scoop up her marbles and pack it in, just like Limbaugh’s histrionic vow to become an expatriate, fell into the broad, general category of the idle threat.

Ever since I was a child, I have abhorred idle threats.

Real threats, like “I’ll knock your teeth down your throat if you tell Sister John Laurentia who put the softball through the stained-glass image of St. Anthony of Padua,” didn’t bother me because they were graphic, implacable and let you know exactly where you stood.

Nor did I get all that upset when my mother would warn us that Dad would beat us when he got home. What upset us was when Dad didn’t beat us when he got home.

Now we had no way of knowing whether he had merely forgotten, or if he was using this delaying tactic as an additional measure in the reign of domestic terror he mistook for parenting.

Either way, it added a level of uncertainty to our lives that we did not need.

If you were going to make a threat, you were honor-bound to go through with it. Otherwise, you were merely confusing the issue.

Throughout my life, I have tried hard to avoid issuing idle threats.

I once told a local pharmacist who charged me twice to send the same fax that if he didn’t give me my money back, I would never come into his store again. He thought it was an idle threat. Twenty years later, I was still snubbing him, right up until the day he went to prison for Medicaid fraud. Ha! I also told the guy in the 7-Eleven that I would stop

coming into his store, and I’d forbid my children to patronize the establishment, unless he stopped calling me “Boss.” For two years I honored that threat and kept a close lookout to make sure that my kids did the same.

One day he got so fed up he quit.

Or so I like to believe.

And three years ago I told everyone I knew that I would stop patronizing Starbucks if they didn’t stop disrupting my Starbucks client experience by stacking the counter to overflowing with lame Paul McCartney CDs and touchyfeely twaddle like “The Kite Runner.” They never altered their policy.

Neither have I. Serious, non-idle threats have been a major component of my daily life for as long as I can remember.

A few years ago, I threatened to boycott all future Kate Hudson movies until she finally made a good one, and thus far I have honored that commitment.

And my son is about to find out the hard way that when I drew that mythical line in the sand, vowing that I would never

pay a nickel toward either of my children’s graduate school education, this was no idle threat. He can go to law school on his own dime.

Last week I read about a new poll indicating that if the health care bill passed, 46 percent of primary-care physicians would close up shop. Well, it’s passed, so now it’s time to put your money where your mouth is, physicians of the republic. The same goes for you, Rush.

This is unconscionable. If you tell everybody that you’re so fed up with the direction the country is headed that you’re going to leave, then you are morally obligated to leave, or at least give your fellow Americans a timetable for your departure.

Otherwise, the rest of us find ourselves in a Boy-Who-CriedWolf scenario, wondering what whopper you’ll tell next. But unlike the boy, who only told a fib, you committed a truly unforgivable crime. You got people’s hopes up.

Joe Queenan writes frequently for Barron’s, the New York Times Book Review and the Guardian.

He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

Sabrina Kent

Elementary education senior

“That’s a tough one, but I have to say “Scarface,” because it is action packed.”

Thomas Kim

Criminal justice junior

“I don’t think I have a favorite, but one movie, if it were on, would have to be “Snatch.” I don’t know why I like it, but I always watch it.”

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