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‘World-class artist’ to perform tonight BY BRADFORD P URDOM Contributing Writer
Since she was four years old, Mariangela Vacatello has studied music. Growing up in Naples, Italy, she had her first performance at age 14. Now, she’s 27 and was a finalist for the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The UNT Fine Arts Series will start with a performance by the UNT Symphony Orchestra and guest artist Vacatello at 8 tonight in the Winspear Performance Hall. “We are trying mostly to reach out to the undergraduate-college population and get them thinking about the arts in a different way,” said Deanna Brizgys, a graduate assistant with the UNT Fine Arts Series. “It’s just a good opportunity for students to have the experience of seeing a world-class artist right on their campus.” Vacatello will play Franz Liszt’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” with the UNT Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor David Itkin. “The important thing this music does is grab people,” Itken said. In an e-mail interview with Vacatello, she said why the Listz concerto is important to her personally. “I played this concerto for the first time with the orchestra in
Milan when I was 14, and exactly 10 years later, in the same month, they asked me to play it again,” she said. She also said success at her age is difficult because she constantly keeps her performance level high while continuing to develop herself culturally. “Keep in mind that music is like
“ ... music is like life: both things change over time ... ”
—Mariangela Vacatello finalist in 2009 Van Cliburn piano competition life: both tings change over time and, hopefully, in the right direction, so I have to be careful to be myself always, forever,” Vacatello said. When asked what an undergraduate who is not familiar with classical music could take away from her performance, Vacatello said, “They should understand that the same emotions they find in another kind of music they can discover also in the classical.” UNT students can see Vacatel lo tonig ht at t he Winspear Performance Hall in the Murchison Performing
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Guest pianist Mariangela Vacatello, a Van Cliburn International Piano Competition finalist, plays piano with UNT’s Symphony Orchestra during Monday’s rehearsal. She will perform at the Murchison Performing Arts Center at 8 tonight. Arts Center for free with their student ID. General admission is $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, UNT faculty and staff, and $10 for non-UNT students.
The Fine Arts Series has several events planned for this year with performances by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and presentations by Michael Ian Black and
Frank Warren, the creator of the blog PostSecret.com. For more information on the UNT Fine Arts Series, visit web3. unt.edu/fas.
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Growth prompts more buses Cyber Cemetery holds dead sites
BY JORDAN FOSTER Staff Writer
The transportation department added another bus stop and two more buses to the Centre Place route, which accommodates a large student population in two major apartment complexes. The move is part of the department’s broader mission to optimize transportation services for a growing university. UNT’s enrollment reached 36,206 this fall, the highest in school history. “We are re-allocating our recourses to get the maximum bang for the buck based on ridership trends,” said Joe Richmond, director of transportation. Richmond said high ridership makes it hard for the transportation department to keep up. Sometimes students can’t get a ride on the Centre Place route because buses become so full in the mornings. The new stop is near the Forum apartments on Centre Place Drive. The Forum, a new complex finished this summer, can house 1,100 people. Richmond said roughly 65 percent of those residents ride the Centre Place buses each day, which also serve the Campus Place apartments. The highest number of riders on that bus route was 722 in one day. “The cha l lenge is rig ht now. The ridership is up to 1.6 million,” Richmond said, referring to the total number of bus rides during the 2008-2009 school year. Richmond obser ved t he Centre Place route on a Tuesday during peak hours, which is a high ridership day. There were ten buses that came during that hour. Two of them couldn’t pick up any passengers because they were full.
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Many students rely on UNT transportation to take them to their next class. “We had 50,800 hours of service this year approximately,” Richmond said. “That’s the highest number we have ever put out.” The transportation department has a total of 27 buses in the morning spread over eight routes. An average of 15,000 passengers ride the buses every day and 53 passengers per hour of service, Richmond said. Clifton Bell, who has been driving for Denton County Transportation Authority since 2006, has witnessed the increase on the Centre Place route. He began driving for the route this semester. “There has definitely been an increase in riders because that place is so popular now. It’s a very nice facility,” Bell said. Lauren Gern, a sociolog y senior, has been riding on the route for two years and said the
increased ridership makes it hard for her to catch a bus. “I wish they could add another route somehow, and make it less crowded because it’s always crowded, especially in the morning,” Gern said. The department of transportation is working hard to keep up with the inf lux of students, Richmond said. But at certain times of the day, buses will drive pass stops w it hout pick ing up students if the bus is already full and the riders need to get
to class on time. Richmond said that happens most commonly before 9 a.m. classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and 9:30 a.m. classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. “All I can say is if you’re going to a 9 o’clock class, you have to go really early,” Richmond said. “If you walk out there and you can’t get on that bus, look at the schedule and get on the bus before. The solution is to catch the bus before.”
By The Numbers 15,000 53
Average number of riders every day Average number of riders per hour
When some government Web sites die, they go to the Cyber Cemetery, where people can dig them up with a search engine instead of a shovel. UNT’s libraries work with the U.S. Government Printing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration on the Cyber Cemetery, an archival project that allows people to view the defunct government Web sites it holds. The sites typically come from agencies and commissions that have been discontinued or lost their funding, said Cathy Hartman, assistant dean for digital and information technologies. “Most of it is really excellent material that the public should continue to have access to,” Hartman said. The Cyber Cemetery is free and open to all computer users. It contains 48 Web sites available to the public, and nine more are archived but not visible, according to a September 2009 UNT library report. The site gets an average of 4,895 visits per day, and an average of 149,313 monthly visits. The most popular Web site is the 9/11 Commission. Web sites that the library is still working to make available include two from the office of former first lady Laura Bush. Hartman helped create the Cyber Cemetery in 1997 and said she has seen many changes in the content and methods used to capture it. “It’s very different structures of Web sites,” she said. “They’re much more interactive and complex than they used to be.” The Government Documents
Department and Digital Projects Unit work together to capture the Web sites, said Suzanne Sears, head of the Government Documents Department. The team uses several methods to figure out which Web sites will need saving. “It’s part investigative work, part luck and part word of mouth,” she said. Sears said she will sometimes scan news sources to find out which commissions will shut down or contact other libraries. In recent years, some agencies have contacted the library because of its growing reputation in the field, she said. Mark Phillips, head of the Digital Projects Unit, said after they’ve identified the sites, “crawlers” or “web harvesters” harvest material from the sites to be placed in the Cemetery. The team has begun using Heritrix, a software designed for archival projects that provides more detail about the archiving process and allows them to keep track of more complex information, Phillips said. “The most challenging part is finding out before things go away that they’re going to go away,” he said. S e a r s s a id t he C y ber Cemetery can be useful to people who want to look back through history at how different government administrations have worked. “Digital information is the most at-risk right now for being preser ved,” she said. “The digital information is disappearing before our eyes. Unless people step up and capture that, it’s not going to be available for future generations to investigate why a certain policy was made and why we did this.”
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Grad student creates ‘one-of-a-kind’ art BY MELISSA BOUGHTON
A pr o c e s s c a l le d i k at weav i ng i n spi res Ada m s’ patterns. Ikat is a method of dying threads that produces an unexpected effect once the threads are woven together. Adams started out painting la nd sc apes a nd received a n u nderg raduate deg ree in painting from Southern Methodist University. “I t u r ned my at tent ion towa rd print ma k ing, and then I graduated and I knew I wanted to make fabric itself, but I didn’t know how to do it,” Adams said. Adams said she researched schools and found UNT is the only school in Texas with a master’s fabrics program. “Also, the fact that it was art-based and not industrybased was really an attraction for me,” she said. Lisa Barnes, co-owner of Kacky and Carl in Dallas, sells Adams’ prints and said they are popular pieces. “They’re really unique, and I think everybody is always looking for a great piece of art that is affordable,” Barnes said.
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Mega n Ada ms sketches nature-inspired designs and prints them on fabric, creating art pieces that can be transformed into every day items. The fiber graduate student was recently featured in Texas Mont hly maga zine for her “one-of-a-kind” prints. “I want my work to be works of art as well as functional pieces,” she said. Ada ms created her ow n line of fabric yardage and her designs have been used for pillows, furniture, lampshades, and drapes. To create a design, Adams starts drawing or scanning in an etching of an image on the computer and then manipulates what she drew by repeating the image in a different pattern than with what she started. “I’ll create something, and I won’t know the outcome until I manipulate it,” she said. Her designs can be manipulated several times, creating multiple organic designs for different fabric yardages.
Adams said her work is oneof-a-kind because the fabric yardage she completes can’t be repeated perfectly. Because of this, one of the obstacles Ada ms sa id she struggles with is being able to produce large quantities on her ow n for orders she receives, she said. T he compa n ies Ada m s works with charge the fabric by the yard, which forces her to charge more for her pieces. “I think it’s just finding that niche market where people do find it unique because some people don’t value art that can be used functionally,” Adams said. An installation of Adams’ work is on display at t he Universities Center at Dallas on Main Street. Adams was a lso feat u red i n mu lt iple magazines and news features during the summer. “That benefits all of the university by featuring our students in that space,” said Amie Adelman, fibers associate professor and program coordinator. “But then for somebody outside of UNT to
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Megan Adams, an art graduate student, sits in her studio at Bain Hall on campus. Adams created fabric designs by screenprinting original art onto fabric yardage. do a review, that just brings notoriety not only to the fibers program but to the college and the university.” Adel ma n sa id t he n ice thing about Adams designing yardage is people who buy it get to ultimately decide what it
gets used for, such as pillows, drapes and clothing. “I think that finished piece is influenced by the decisions of the person that buys it,” she said. Ada ms w i l l g raduate in May 2010 and said she hopes
to incorporate more into her work by exploring embroidery. She is also working on designing clutch handbags. For more information about Adams and to see her designs, students can visit www.meganadamsdesigns.com.
POLICE BLOTTER Saturday, Sept. 26 At 9:39 p.m., an officer reported a major car accident at South Bonnie Brae/ Interstate Hig hway 35E. An ambulance responded, and the officer filed a motor vehicle crash report. A police officer approached a 20-year-old man who was intoxicated at Fouts Field Stadium, 2300 N. Interstate Highway 35E. The man was arrested and taken to the Denton City Jail. An officer approached a 20-year-old man at 7:33p.m. on the 1500 block of Maple Street. The man gave the officer false identification information a nd was in possession of a stolen bicycle. He was arrested and transported to the Denton County Jail. A 19-year-old man was arrested at 6:32 p.m. at Fouts Field Stadium, 2300 N. Interstate Highway 35E on suspicion of causing an immediate breech of the peace. He was transported to the Denton City Jail. A 20-year-old man was arrested at 5:57 p.m. at Fouts Field Stadium, 2300 N. Interstate Highway 35E, for being intoxicated and disorderly. He was taken to the Denton City Jail. An officer responded to a report of indecent exposure at 4:21 p.m. at 1179 Union Circle.
A report was written. At 3:00 p.m., an officer responded to a report of an unauthorized male in an office at the 1400 block of West Highland Street. The officer was unable to locate the suspect and an offense report was completed. At 3 : 03 a .m ., pol ic e received a report of assault at 1003 Maple St. An officer responded and a report was completed. An officer initiated a traffic stop at 1:46 a.m., at 2100 W. Prairie St. where a 27-yearold woman was arrested for having an outstanding warrant in Peoria County, Ill. She was taken to Denton County Jail. An officer investigated 18-year-old man at 1:18 a.m. on 1401 W. Hickory St. He was arrested on suspicion for possession of a controlled substance and marijuana and transported to the Denton County Jail.
Sunday, Sept. 27 An officer approached a 19-year-old man at 8:10 p.m. on the 1300 block of West Eagle Drive. He was arrested on suspicion for possession of marijuana and taken to the Denton County Jail. At 2:32 a.m., a 21-year-old woman was arrested at the 900 block of West Prairie Street on suspicion of drunken driving.
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She was transported to the Denton County Jail. An officer pulled over a 21-year-old man in a routine traffic stop at 2:05 a.m. on the 700 block of South Welch Street. He was wanted by the Lewisville Police Department, arrested and taken to the Denton County Jail. At 1:57 a.m., an officer approached two 19-yearold men at the 200 block of North Texas Boulevard. One was arrested on suspicion for possessing a controlled substance, and the other was arrested on suspicion of possessing of marijuana. Both were taken to the Denton County Jail.
Monday, Sept. 28 A police officer responded to a complaint of theft of diesel fuel at 3:32 p.m. on the UNT Dallas Campus on 7300 Houston School Road. An offense report was completed, and no arrests were made. At 2:20 p.m., an officer pulled over 28-year-old man at 1706 W. Sycamore St. He was wanted by the Mesquite Police Department. He was arrested and taken to the Denton County Jail. A police officer responded to a report of theft of currency and checks at 1:25 p.m. at 1155 Union Circle, the University Union. The officer completed an offense report.
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Kelly Evans, an English language senior, reads a passage from John Gardner’s “Grendel” on Tuesday at the Library Mall in celebration of Banned Book Week.
UNT community reads banned-book excerpts BY K ELSEY K RUZICH Contributing Writer
Students, faculty and staff took turns reading hand-picked passages from banned novels and poems at the Banned Books Read-Out on Tuesday at the Library Mall. The UNT chapter of Sigma Tau Delta along with UNT Willis Library hosted the event in celebration of Banned Books Week — a 27-year-old tradition that runs during the last week of every September. The selected books were either banned or challenged in the United States and other countries because of inappropriate content.
“The goal of the event is to educate people about banned books, and to let them know that the books are not necessarily evil because they are banned,” David Fletcher, an English senior, said Fletcher said he chose to read, “Howl”, a poem by Allen Ginsberg, which was taken to court in 1957 in an obscenity trial. The book was dubbed obscene but later cleared and is now an important piece of American literature, Fletcher said. The passages chosen by the readers have a personal representative value, and they may or may not be the reason why the book is banned, he said. “The event surprised people that books had been banned,” said April Kendra, the faculty sponsor for Sigma Tau Delta. Kendra said the purpose of the Read-Out was not to offend people, but to make them aware. She said she hoped it would
prompt attendees to read important books and would let them know they have freedom to read. David Holdeman, chairman of the English department, also chose a passage to read. He said he chose an excerpt from Ulysses by James Joyce to show that a funny and interesting book had been banned. “I specifically want to call attention to censorship and show how absurd it is that some of the classics are banned,” Holdeman said. In addition to the read-out, the Honor Society is supporting Books For Africa, which brings books to children in Africa who might not otherwise have them. Donations of used books can be made on the first floor of the Auditorium Building under the Sigma Tau Delta bulletin board. The banned books week motto this year is: Speak. Read. Know. It.
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Modeling organization starts open call BY MORGAN WALKER Staff Writer
Students with a passion for fashion and the entertainment industr y now have a chance to strut their way into the business. MosĂŠ, or Models of Style Exposed, is a UNT student modeling organization. The group held auditions in the Un iver sit y Un ion 413 on Tuesday and w ill continue tonight from 7 to 9. “We aren’t just looking for models,â€? said Tim Musomba, a sociology senior and president of MosĂŠ. “We’re a lso interviewing photographers, stylists and designers.â€? The auditions will be open to not on ly UNT students but also students from other colleges. Du r i ng t he i nter v iew s, wh ich ca n la st a ny where b e t w e en t w o a nd s e v en m i nutes, st udents w i l l be asked questions about why they want to pursue a career in the industr y, have their photo taken, and will be asked to show their walk, Musomba said. Once t he ca l lback s a re f i n i s he d, Mu s om b a s a id the organization will begin
meeting once a week, typically on Sundays. Students will then participate in work shops where t hey lea r n basics such as how to walk properly on the catwalk. “By the end of the year, not only do students know about the industry in terms of how it works but they w ill a lso get experience in casting for jobs,â€? Musomba said. Since the spring of 2003, MosĂŠ has hosted its annual fashion show, Ex posed, in which proceeds go toward loca l non-prof it orga ni zations such as AIDS Services of North Texas. I n M a r c h 2 0 0 5, Mo s ĂŠ a lso pa rticipated w it h t he Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS during its 17th annual Benefit and Fashion Show in Dallas, according to the MosĂŠ Web site. Kayla Serur, an early childhood education senior, has been a member of MosĂŠ for one yea r a nd w i l l be aud it ion i ng aga i n for t he upcoming year. Serur said since she has joined MosĂŠ she has participated in various photo shoots in Dallas as well as a runway
show for Merchandising Inc., a UNT organization open to students interested in fashion, home f urnishings or electronic merchandising. Female students who are interviewed for modeling are expected to dress the part, wearing high heels and formfitting clothes, Serur said. “Once you’re a pa r t of MosĂŠ t hey w i l l send you tons of opportunities, especially through Facebook, for modeling and acting jobs,â€? she said. “It’s a matter of you ta k ing t he t ime to pursue those opportunities.â€? Many MosĂŠ students also pa r t icipate i n A r tWea r, a fashion show by the College of Visual Arts and Design, which is held in May each year. ArtWear is an ex hibition for fashion desig n seniors judged by prominent figures throughout the industry, said Marian O’Rourke-Kaplan, a College of Visua l A rts and Design associate dean. “We get a lot of models from MosĂŠ to put in the show and it’s always been a good group to work with,â€? she said. Students accepted into the program will receive phone calls by Friday.
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Electronic news sophomore Richelle Scott reads poetry for Models of Style Exposed on Tuesday in the Uni versity Union.
‘Dumpster diving’ reuses trash
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Brandon Nichols, a photography junior, said his favorite discovery while searching Dumpsters was an easel he found next to a Dumpster in his apartment complex on Monday. BY GRACIELA R AZO
Nichols said. “I think a lot of changing places, so they throw a to landfills,� Davis said. “It’s just times people are just lazy and bunch of stuff away, so it’s a gold less going to the dump.� For Nichols, sa lvag i ng mine,� Nichols said. “Every time For Brandon Nichols, one wasteful.� As for disinfect ing t he I go to throw something away in unwanted items by the side of person’s trash is his new items he finds, Nichols said he the Dumpster, I always come the road or by Dumpsters is just computer chair. another way to be environmenNichols is part of an envi- wipes them down and doesn’t back with more stuff.� “Dumpster diving� is just tally friendly. ronmental recycling movement restore them because he likes “It is always good to reuse known as “Dumpster diving,� the the quality of the furniture he another way of recycling, similar to buying used clothing what we can and not be practice of searching through comes across. Nichols said he finds the most at Goodwill stores, said Erin wasteful,� Nichols said. “People trash binsNT Daily Ad for GP Day 2009 for useful items. Nichols, a photography junior, unwanted furniture around Davis, assistant to the director think they shouldn’t get these things just because they’ve been began taking home items left Dumpsters near the end of the of the Office of Sustainability. “It’s just a part of the recy- in the trash, but you just need to by and around Dumpsters and school year. “Normally when school lets cling triangle. It’s the reuse of keep an eye out on your garbage trash cans3x3 ad to run Thursday and Friday, Oct 1 and 2, 2009 two years ago when he first became a student at out, people are moving and an item instead of them going and be open to anything.� UNT. “I’m usually on my bike, so as I pass dumpsters, I look to see th what people leave around them,� Nichols said. “I don’t actually have to dive in.� He said he has come across many furniture items and has Regularly attended by university adorned his apartment with representatives from over 50 graduate and these recycled finds, such as his computer chair, a dresser, and a professional schools across the United States. rack on which he and his roomFind out about admission requirements, mate hang wet clothes to dry. financial assistance, scholarships and degree Some of the more valuable programs. Several law schools and medical items Nichols has come across are an art easel and a laptop schools will be in attendance. computer. www.tsgs.unt.edu “I don’t know why anyone would throw that stuff away,� Senior Staff Writer
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New recruits learn from three Mean Green seniors BY JONAH KUEHNE Contributing Writer
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(From left) Doubles partners Madura Ranganathan and Irina Paraschiv will be the first UNT athletes to compete at the collegiate All-American Tennis Tournament in California this weekend.
Athletes of the Week: Duo earns invitation BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer
The top 100 players in women’s college tennis will gather in California this weekend at the National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American tournament. Among them will be two of UNT’s own: Irina Paraschiv and Madura Ranganathan. Ranganathan, a business junior, and Paraschiv, an advertising sophomore, were a force to be reckoned with last season and were ranked among the top players in the region. They have helped the program take a big step forward by earning UNT’s first invite to the All-American’s, which will push the program toward national recognition. “For a program to be one of the elite, you have to go out and play with the elite,” head coach Sujay Lama said. “We are starting to break onto the national scene, and this should help build our confidence and our program.” This is one of the three college tennis majors, along with the NCAA’s and the National Indoor tournament, and is one of the major goals Paraschiv set for herself.
“This is one of my biggest dreams coming true,” Paraschiv said. “Playing against the best competition and being recognized as being a great player, it is unbelievable and I am so excited.” Paraschiv will play in both singles and doubles tournaments, and Ranganathan will be Paraschiv’s partner for doubles. The two combined for over 40 wins last season and were the top two players on the team. Both players were honored and excited to be playing in such a high caliber tournament, and have made their teammates proud. “They worked so hard for this,” Catalina Cruz, a business senior, said. “They deserve this and did everything to earn it. I hope they do well and really demonstrate the kind of players they are.” Like four of their other teammates, these two came from thousands of miles away to play tennis for this program, so the daily grind and not being able to see their families does take its toll. The two were able to go home over the summer and had an opportunity to relax, spend
time with their families and get rejuvenated for the upcoming season. “I only get to see them at Christmas break and over the summer,” said Paraschiv, a native of Bucharest, Romania. “It means a lot to be able to go home and spend time with them. It gives me a chance to get mentally prepared for the season ahead.” Ranganathan got an opportunity to train with her father again, who was her coach before she began playing at the collegiate level. “I actually work out harder when I am at home on break,” said Ranganathan, who is from Coimbatore, India. “He pushes me harder than anyone and really whips me into shape, but I come back feeling refreshed and ready to play.” The tournament will begin Friday and they could spend up to a week and a half in California, depending on how deep they can go in the tournament, which would suit these two just fine. “We are looking forward to spending the week out there,” Ranganathan said. “We get to go have fun, relax, play tennis and see all the Hollywood stars.”
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Twenty-five women play for the Mean Green soccer team. Of those 25, three seniors are on the roster: Midfielders Kelli Lunsford and Kendall Juett and defender Lauren Shockey. Head coach John Hedlund said they are all starters and leaders on and off the field. They give the impression that they don’t hesitate to let it be known it’s their team. At the same time, they try to create a cohesive environment for the younger players. “We’re still growing every game, and we’re still growing step by step,” said Shockey, an advertising senior. “We have great leadership, and we like to see the girls grow as we progress as a team— even the older girls learn from the younger girls.” There are still bumps in the road even with the leadership of the seniors. “We have the three solid captains, and we have the seniors,” Hedlund said. “At times, we have to go through some growing pains, but as you see, we can beat pretty much anyone on our schedule, and we can lose to anyone.” Hedlund said he finds micromanaging the young team isn’t always the way to go, but it’s more about the adjustments he makes. “I find that I have to adjust my personality because I’m pretty intense on the sideline,” Hedlund said. “I think if you are a little bit too hard on freshmen, you’re not going to get the most out of them. With the veteran players that have been playing under me for years, they know how I can be, and they can pretty much take anything.”
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Freshman Carly McDowell gets a helping hand from Lauren Shockey. Shockey is one of three seniors on the soccer team this year.
we had done and put that past us, so that we could refocus on conference,” Hall, a history junior, said. “There were things that we needed to address like intensity and the level that we needed to play at.” To ensure the three-game losing streak didn’t continue, the leaders made a point to have meetings before conference play. The plan was to help the younger players with anything they might have been struggling with. With their experience and Overcoming growing pains calm attitudes, they also tried to Being 4-1 in the first five games steady the waters for the younger of the season and losing three players. consecutive games afterward “We said that this isn’t a team says a lot about the struggles of that loses three or four games in youth. But with veteran leader- a row,” Juett, a sociology senior, ship from these three seniors and said. “We just really needed to co-captain goalkeeper Mandy realize what the mentality was Hall, they were able to get out of going into the game. We needed the hole with two straight wins to pull everyone in and build in the Sun Belt Conference. everyone’s confidence and “We just had to make sure letting people know where we’ve everyone had learned from what been before.”
Confidence and inconsistency are huge issues with younger players, but that was to be dealt with encouragement, the players said. Ideas and perspectives were presented and their play was studied. The meeting was then able carry over to games because the seniors were able to, as Hedlund put it, “be coaches on the field.” Lunsford said there wasn’t any pressure for anyone to voice her opinion, and it was about taking the team in the right direction. “The captains wanted to bring the team together and watch film to basically critique how we were playing. We also wanted to take down how we could do better and break down our type of play, so that we could turn it around,” Lunsford, a kinesiology senior, said. “It was a positive.”
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UNT swim team uses two intrasquad meets to prepare BY SEAN SWINNEY
against alumni. When the results were in, the team had made significant Looking to build on its best conference finish a year ago, the improvements compared to this Mean Green swimming and diving time last year, reason for optimism team kicked off their 2009-2010 for head coach Joe Dykstra. “The chance to do an schedule with a pair of intrasquad intrasquad meet is a chance to meets over the weekend. Friday, the Green and White work out all the kinks in a competMeet matched the veterans of itive setting, and there are some the team against the newcomers kinks,” Dykstra said. “I can tell and Saturday the team competed in training where we’re at, but doing it in a meet and being able to directly compare results from one year to another is a helpful way for the team to reinforce the fact that they’re on track for the right kind of season.” The White team, made up of veteran swimmers, won eight of the 13 events in the intrasquad meet, led by Alicia Hale, an international studies senior, with three wins. Hannele Luoma, a business freshman who attended high school in Finland, was the most impressive newcomer, earning three wins and one second place finish for the Green team. Dykstra said Luoma is obviously someone to keep an eye on moving forward because of MON.-FRI. 10-6:30; SAT., 10-2 her talent and work ethic. With 1003 DALLAS DR., DENTON five of the team’s seven divers also newcomers, youth should (in the pink building) be well represented in the team Contributing Writer
this year. “It seems like the team just gets better every year,” said Hiliary Riedmann, a pre-biology sophomore, who took first place in the 200-yard fly. “I definitely think the team’s goal is to place higher at conference. That’s all that’s in everybody’s mind, who beat us last year and who we want to beat this year.” On Saturday morning, the team continued its preparations for the meets to come, holding the second annual Alumni Meet. The team competed against returning alumni, and after the events were over the past swimmers ate lunch and shared their experiences with the current team. “We don’t have a lot of history, so we don’t have a ton of alumni yet, but we want to keep everybody that’s ever been in this program as involved and a part of it as we can,” Dykstra said. Riedmann said that it was good to hear what the alumni had to say, and to know she and her teammates will be invited back to share their stories as well. Dykstra echoed those sentiments. “We have so many alumni still pretty close in age to the girls on the team, so there are a lot of social connections,” Dykstra said.
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No excuse not to read Editorial This week is Banned Books Week, an annual celebration meant to highlight the importance of reading and free access to information, as well as the negative effects of censorship. It is also meant to teach people the importance of ensuring the availability of all literature, even if the viewpoints it communicates are unpopular or unorthodox. We’ve all heard about books that were famously banned at one point or another, such as “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” Though many books were the targets of attempted bannings, the majority of these cases did not result in the book actually being banned. It was the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers and members of the community that made retaining these books in the library collections possible. This shows how important literature used to be, while, comparatively, this generation seems to have put it on the back burner. Few would disagree that banning books is antithetical to a healthy democracy, and yet literature has nevertheless been subjugated and robbed of its value by the single-minded practicality of today’s generation. The editorial staff feels this is a shame. The humanities, as in the study of literature, language, philosophy, and culture, have died at the hands of math and science. Though we do not argue against the importance of math and science, it is undeniable that education today is more geared toward passing tests and getting jobs than people enhancing themselves through great works of art or expanding their minds by exposing themselves to new ways of thought. Instead, classrooms tend to reinforce what students already know, teaching them to memorize facts rather than think for themselves. The cost is much more than a loss of culture. Critical thinking skills also suffer from a lack of creative stimulation. Teachers should take it upon themselves to truly educate their students by providing them with a wellrounded education that prepares them to not only follow orders, but to also think and feel for themselves. The responsibility is not entirely in the hands of the schools and universities, however. The bulk of the responsibility lies with the students. In the end, it is up to them to take up the battle for literature passed down from past generations. Not so long ago, people had to fight for the right to read certain books. Students today have it much easier, and have only to pick the book up and read it.
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UNT has decided to build a new, bigger football stadium. Do you think this is a good idea?
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“No, because we can’t even fill the stadium we have, and the only use for it would be marketing to attract more students.”
SAT scores don’t mean anything Being a transfer student from another country, I get the question sometimes, “What is your SAT score?” My answer is that I don’t have one because I have never taken the SAT test. This is interesting, as proponents of the SAT test claim it to be a fair and reliable predictor of student’s success in college. But before we dive into highlighting why the SAT test has become irrelevant, let us first go through what the SAT test really is. The SAT test, in essence, compa res a n i nd iv idua l’s performance on the test with t he nat iona l popu lat ion’s performance to arrive at a test score. Ideally, the population’s score would be updated every year to give an up-todate score. However, seeing that the SAT score ca n not have a mov i ng reference g roup, because then you would get different scores if you took it in a different year, the creators decided to have a fixed norm group. Test scores are derived today
by comparing a participant’s performance with a 1990 reference group. In short, your SAT score is a relative score based on a comparison of your performance with a reference group who completed the test in 1990. Even before I ca n sta r t ranting about the SAT test, it becomes apparent that the design of the SAT test itself is obviously flawed. How ca n you compa re 2009’s minds to 1990’s minds? Don’t high school graduates these days know so much more thanks to the information overload we get from living in the IT age? To be fa i r, t he Col lege Board, developers of the SAT test, would retort that at least there is a fair and reliable standard colleges can look to when admitting new students, though it is a little f lawed. This is where my argument starts. Is it a standard at all? Transfer students bringing in more than 30 credit hours to UNT do not need to have an SAT score.
In addit ion, Texas hig h school graduates who constitute the top 10% of their class will gain automatic admission to state universities, regardless of that particular high school’s actual education standard. And finally, we all know the not-so-well-kept secret of how schools attract and reta in at hletes: They give them ‘leeway’ (some call it ‘freeway’) in such admittance tests. Don’t take my word for it. Feel f ree to do a l it t le research on UNT’s website and also read USA Today’s 2008 article titled “Public university athletes score far below classmates on SATs.” That takes care of the argument that the SAT test provides a fair standard. If it was at all fair, it should be applied across the board regardless of who the applicant is. W hat about t he a r g ument that it provides a reliable predictor of success in college? To counter this argument, I will cite NCAA President Myles Brand’s words in the above-
mentioned USA Today article, which states, “the question isn’t whether athletes are as qualified when they enroll but their potential for success” when referring to scores on the SAT test. If the SAT were already a “reliable predictor for success,” there would not be a need to further test an athlete’s “potential for success” if they did not meet the requirements in the SAT test. Perhaps the College Board should start rethinking the usefulness of the SAT test. Perhaps the real question is if the SAT test should even be used at all.
Jamie Chin Han Khoo is a psychology senior. He can be reached at jch.khoo@yahoo. com.
Society puts people in gender boxes From an early age, we are all taught what toys are appropriate for girls and what toys are appropriate for boys. Walk down any toy aisle at Wal-Mart, and you will see a blatant distinction of the sexes. Watch a cartoon with a 5-year-old and listen to the language used in the commercials. “Barbie dream house comes fully equipped with functional kitchen!” “With Lego Pirates you can actually load the cannon and fire!” T h roug h f i nely cra f ted advertising we are telling children who they should be. But it is not only advertising that shapes our gender roles. We learn who we are in our society from school, our peers, mov ies, telev ision and our families. This has become a normal part of society and something with which we can all identify. Because no one wants to be an outcast, we adhere to
certain types of norms simply to fit in. These norms have put us into a box of hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity. When is the last time you heard a guy say, “Me and my boys are going to go get a manipedi, just to relax.” Or have you ever heard one of your female friends say, “My ride’s been messing up so I’m going to spend Saturday working on the engine.” But how did we get to this place of “men are supposed to do this and women are supposed to do that? ” This didn’t happen overnight, and I think it’s been a long time coming. Fr om w ome n w e a r i n g corsets tight enough to break bones and cut off their circulation to men fighting duels a nd ga l loping of f to wa r, our gender roles were well ensconced long before we ever arrived on the scene.
Wit h Ha l loween fast approaching, I have been online looking for costumes. Invariably t he majorit y of cost u mes for women a re rather promiscuous. It’s pretty difficult to find a Halloween costume for a woman that is scary without being sexy. Yet another example of society’s rules for how a woman should look. Alternately, it is rare to find a men’s costume in which they are not fully clot hed. Ads for litt le girl costumes are f ull of princesses, rock stars, and fairies, while little boys can trick or treat as super heroes, ninjas, and pirates. I am 35 years old, so my perspective may be a little different than that of a 20 year old. I am a wife, a mother and a st udent. My 8-yea r-old daughter told me the other day after hearing the song, “So What” by Pink that she really
liked songs where the girls told the boys “what’s up.” Maybe we’re at a turning point in our society. Some men are able to express their feelings a little easier these days without the threat of repercussion. More women are able to tell the men in their lives “what’s up” without feeling like they are doing something wrong. I think there is a sort of safet y in perpetuating the societal norms. Stay in your labeled box, and no one gets hurt. Keep the status quo going at an even keel, and everything will be fine. But what if an individual steps out of t hat box? I suppose we’ll never know until a handful of brave souls give it try. Michelle Roan is a pre-social work sophomore. She can be reached at ghostgirl@charter. net.
David Hammond pre-med sophomore
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