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Fraternity stands up to cancer in fundraiser B Y T.S. MC B RIDE Senior Staff Writer
The boy standing atop the whitewashed wooden pyramid was thin and pale. His head was shaved close to the scalp — a common look for those who have undergone cancer treatment. Ste ven Roger s, 15, w a s ta k ing a shif t as pa r t of a fundraising effort sponsored by the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity to raise money to fight leukemia. The t hree-foot-ta ll white wooden pyramid outside the University Union had a person standing on it continuously since 6 p.m. Sunday. “We’re doing our philanthropy event, raising money and awareness for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society,” said Travis Weeks, a radio, television, and film sophomore and member of Delta Sigma Phi. Fraternit y members took shifts standing on the pyramid. Their goal is to have someone in front of the Union for 100 hours. A fraternity member will be standing in the quad until Thursday at 10 pm. Aaron Warrick, a biochemistry freshman, spent the better part of Tuesday morning on the pyramid. “It’s cold but fulfilling,” he said. St u d e nt s c r o s s i n g t h e campus stopped regularly to
the hardest.” In April, fraternity members decided to give the money they raised to Roger’s family when they learned about the cost of his medical bills. A lt hough Steven Rogers’ family has insurance, Brad Rogers said they owe about $100,000. He est i mated t he tota l medical bill so far to be about half a million dollars. Despite t h is, t he boy ’s father said the family will be giving the money to Children’s Medical Center where Steven Rogers receives his cancer treatments. “Steven wants to give back to the place that’s saving his life,” Brad Rogers. The Newman Smith High School sophomore sa id he wants the money to go toward providing more toys for the younger k ids while they’re getting treatment. PHOTO BY DREW GAINES / INTERN “When I go, I don’t go for Jesus Carmona, a construction engineering junior, mans the platform built by Delta Sigma Phi during the fraternity’s 100-hour stand against leukemia. the toys,” he said, “but for the younger kids it makes their day more pleasant.” leukemia. According to the put money into a collection Now Steven has recovered Leu kemia a nd Ly mphoma jar at the pyramid. Society, it is the most common well enough to only see the By 9 a.m. Tuesday, t he form of leukemia in children doctor twice a month. fraternity had raised about Leukemia has disrupted the under the age of 15. $800. —Brad Rogers Patients with this kind of boy’s normal life, but Steven “We’re on track for $4,000,” leukemia usually recover if Rogers sa id he misses just Weeks said. going to school most of all. Chris Hidalgo, an unde- through his job as a soccer they receive treatment. Last year, Delta Sigma Phi “Honestly, after 9 months “He’s doing well now,” his raised about $3,500 for The clared sophomore, organized coach. Steven Rogers has precursor fat her, Brad Rogers, sa id. of being at home, you miss Leu kemia a nd Ly mphoma this year’s fundraiser after he learned about Steven Rogers B a c u t e l y m p h o b l a s t i c “The first nine months are it,” he said. Society.
“Steven wants to give back to the place that’s saving his life.”
Gas-powered scooters come to UNT Class of 2011
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BY TIM MONZINGO Intern
Many students commute to campus on bicycles and skateboards, but some of them are resorting to another method of cheap transportation: gaspowered scooters. Commonly called Go-Peds, the scooters have small engines installed on the back. The scooters average more than 100 miles to the gallon and can reach speeds up to 30 mph. “It’s one of the greatest investments my parents made,” said Drew Beddow, a business freshman. “It’s just fun riding them.” Beddow has been riding for about five years and commutes to campus daily. He said he uses the scooter as an alternative to driving and only drives his truck when visiting family. “I take it to football games, too,” Beddow said. Beddow’s parents bought him a scooter from Custom Scooters in Plano, he said. Owner Larry Collins said Custom Scooters is the largest gas-powered scooter seller in Texas and has been in operation for about 12 years. Prices for the scooters range from $500 to $3,000, depending on options that improve appearance and performance. Beddow said the scooter is his main way of getting around campus. It costs about 60 cents to fill up the little machine’s onequart gas tank. But Beddow also said he has repeatedly been injured while riding his scooter and advises beginner scooterists to wear a helmet. “I’ve fallen off that thing more than I can count,” Beddow said. He said he was sent to the emergency room with scrapes on his arms and face after he rode the scooter over a curb and lost control.
First-year students spread health awareness
BY A MBER A RNOLD Senior Staff Writer
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For students who prefer lowering their carbon footprint, electric scooters are available. This electric scooter was outside the Information Science Building on Tuesday morning. Texas state law allows scooters on roadways with speed limits of 35 mph or less. But some students a re concerned with the safety of riding them on campus and the impact they have on the environment. Thomas Wild, a psychology senior and avid cyclist, said they should be banned from campus walkways. “They are moving faster and have more dangerous parts than a bicycle,” Wild said.
As an environmental activist, Wild is also concerned with the scooters exposing students on campus to gasoline fumes. Though he is opposed to having scooterists whizzing about in pedestrian-heav y areas, Wild said the scooters are a preferable alternative to driving cars everywhere. “They are more environmentally friendly than other means of transportation,” Wild said. “It takes a more aware kind of person to make a purchase of
that kind than a car.” For people concerned about being environmentally friendly, Collins said that there is a range of electric bicycles available at Custom Scooters. They cost less to operate, averaging about 10 cents a day to recharge. Beddow said he doesn’t think the scooters will overrun UNT anytime soon. “I don’t think there will be more scooters at UNT just because they want to go green,” he said.
The UNT freshman class is continuing to help others in the community. The Class Cause project bega n w it h t he freshmen cla s s t hat c a me i n f a l l 20 07 w hen t he St udent Government Association’s freshman interns decided to help child patients at St. Jude’s Chi ld ren Resea rch Hospital. “We ask students what a f fe c t s t hem a nd w h at causes they want to support,” student services coordinator Tonya Riley said. “Now the causes are becoming more themed and less specific.” The latest freshman class chose to focus on the broad topic of health rather than narrowing it, she said. The program listens to the students’ suggestions and then develops a ballot for the freshman class to vote on. Students were given topics to choose from including hea lt h, hu ma n it y or t he environment. E v er y y e a r si nc e t he progra m bega n, t he Student Success Progra m ha s suppor ted t he Cla ss Cause project by giving the freshman class the opportunit y to vote on a cause during First Flight Week in the fall. A boa rd for each class coordinates activities and fundraising opportunities, said class of 2011 coordinator
Lacye Stewart. “We want to help raise awareness and money for St. Jude’s,” said Stewart, a chemistr y junior. “We are also trying to find new ways to help children other than only supporting St. Jude’s, even if it’s just reading to them or doing arts and crafts with children in hospitals.” Upcoming events include a bowl-a-thon to raise money for the 2011 St. Jude’s Class
“We want to help raise awareness and money for St. Jude’s.” —Lacye Stewart Class of 2011 coordinator
Cause and a Music-on-theSquare concert hosted by the 2012 class to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. T he b ow l-a-t hon w i l l be held on Nov. 18t h at University Lanes, and the Music-on-the-Square event w i l l be on Nov. 16t h at Hailey’s Club. “Right now, everything is going great. We have a lot of opportunities for the student body to support the causes,” Riley said. “We’re getting ready for this fundraising month so we’re happy that everything is going well and t hat students are participating.” The class of 2012 voted t o s upp or t Ha bit at f or Humanity, but the trend of supporting certain organizations is changing with the class of 2013.
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UNT libraries evolve with technology BY CAROLYN BROWN Senior Staff Writer
As UNT’s campus continues to grow, its libraries must cope with changes — at times physically re-locating and taking more services to the Web. Media Library The Media Library is housed in Chilton Hall, and holds media collections including DVDs, videocassettes and CDs. The library’s staff works to keep up with changing technology, using new tools such as Twitter and Facebook to connect to students, said Sue Parks, the head of the Media Library. The library has thousands of DVD titles including popular movies and frequently receives new ones. “We get new things every day,” Parks said. “It can be overwhelming.” This fall, the library launched its video game collections for the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles. The prog ra m has been popular, and she said the staff plans to offer gaming equipment for checkout in the spring. A major challenge the staff faces is keeping up with new technology, Parks said. “An ongoing challenge is the format changes and keeping up with those,” she said. “We have to make sure that we continue to maintain a collection that
reflects the diversity on campus and addresses every academic discipline and every genre of film.” Donna Lord, a new media senior, said she enjoys using the library to find obscure movies. “I think it’s really valuable that people get to find stuff that’s not in the common public eye,” she said. Lord sa id she a lso li kes to use t he l ibra r y for her
Exploring UNT’s Libraries Part 2 of a Series classes. “It’s i nva luable for just about anything you can think of t hat requires resea rch,” she said. Science and Technology Library The Science and Technology Libra r y is housed in t he Information Sciences Building and holds collections for science and technology subjects. Though the library used to occupy four of the building’s floors, several staff members and collections had to vacate the second f loor in 2007 for construction purposes, circulation manager Sam Ivie said. “It’s been like any other thing where you have to adapt to changes,” he said. “Libraries
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Justin Stewart, an anthropology senior and employee at the UNT Media Library, searches through the large collection of movies available for students, faculty and staff. The library includes more than 10,000 DVDs and 11,000 videotapes for checkout. are changing all the time, and that’s just the way it is.” To prepare for the change, t he sta f f moved a rou nd shelving and collections. Five of the Science and Technology employees re-located to cubicles in Willis, though two have returned, he said. Beth Avery, head of research
and instructional services, noted that the move was not entirely easy. “We had to wait for things like shelving to be installed in Willis before we could move the collections that had been on the second floor over here,” she said. “It wasn’t a nice, neat move.”
For the past two years, the reference staff members scurried between the buildings to do their jobs. Reference unit manager Beth Thomsett-Scott said some of the more recent Web-based services have made the staff’s work easier. She spend s a bout 12
hours each week working on Web-based services such as the librarians’ Web chat, text messaging service and e-mail that allow librarians to help students anywhere. “I love the Internet,” she said. “I think what we’re doing is meeting users where they are.”
Patient shot after attack BOSTON (A P) — A ma n stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack, police said. The attack took place in the afternoon at a high-rise affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The female doctor, identified by hospital officials as Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, was in serious, but stable condition. Police said the suspect died of the gunshot wounds. He was identified as Jay Carciero, 37, of Reading. “During the course of the stabbi ng i ncident a n of fdut y secu r it y of f icer who was a rmed interceded. He produc e d a we apon a nd ordered the suspect to drop t he k n i fe. A nd w hen t he suspect did not comply, he shot the suspect,” said Boston Pol ic e C om m i s sioner E d Davis. T he secu r it y g ua rd was n ot a f f i l i a t e d w i t h t h e hospital and just happened to be on the fifth-f loor of the bui lding where t he attack occurred, according to Bonnie Michelma n, t he hospita l’s security director. “Certainly heroic, we are happy he wa s here,” sa id Michelman.
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The victim also works as an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is affiliated with the Haitian Ment a l He a lt h P r og r a m . P ubl ic re c ord s show t he 49-year-old Desrosiers was licensed to practice in t he Massachusetts 16 years ago. Desrosiers is a g raduate of t he State Un iversit y of Haiti’s School of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Harvard University School of Public Health. Her major research interests include the role of psychosocial factors in the t reat ment of mood d isorders, health disparities and the impact of multicultural issues on patient care. “A ca ring a nd dedicated professional, Dr. Desrosiers has spent her career providing ex t raord i na r y ca re a nd t reat ment to pat ients who are among the most vulnerable a nd t hose w it h t he m o s t s e v e r e p s y c h i a t r ic d isorders,” Ma ssachuset ts Genera l Hospita l said in a statement. Police temporarily locked dow n t he Sta niford St reet building, telling employees and patients they could not leave. Nea rby streets were shut down for about an hour. They were let back in when authorities determined the danger had passed. David Schoenfeld, a biostat-
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istician who works in another suite of offices on the fifth f loor, where the attack took place, said he heard a commotion and found the suspect lying on the f loor. “Two nurses rushed in and administered as much first aid as they could until the ambulances arrived a couple of minutes later,” Schoenfeld said. Schoenfeld said he did not see the doctor who had been stabbed. The attack took place at t he Massachusetts Genera l Hospit a l Bipola r C l i n ic & Re s e a r c h P r o g r a m, i n a bu i ld i ng nea r t he ma i n hospital. The program provides cl i n ica l ca re, conduct s resea rch a nd educates t he com mu n it y about bipola r disorder, according to its Web site. The building is in a largely commercial area that includes businesses w it h t reat ment specia lt ies a nd severa l medica l g roups associated with Massachusetts General. “There wasn’t too much pa n ic or con f usion in t he building,” said Arthur Frigault of Waltham, who was with his w ife for an opht ha lmolog y appoi nt ment on t he si x t h f loor. Frigault, who did not hear the shots, went to the lobby but was not allowed to leave as police entered the building. He later saw a man and a woman taken, on stretchers, from the building. He said the woman was “all bloodied up.” David Wert, who lives near t he medica l bui lding, was home with his infant daughter when he saw the commotion outside and became worried about his w ife, A licia, who works on the second f loor. “We ca me out to see i f Mommy was OK,” said Wert, who was carrying his child. Police did not allow him in the building, but his wife called him about five minutes later to say she was all right.
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Arts & Life
Kip Mooney
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Hip-hop lifestyle fuels ex-student’s music BY CHARLIE R ALL
“I used to listen to Wu-Tang like all the time and it just From growing up in Houston steadily got to the point where to selling drugs out of his dorm I was like, ‘W hy don’t I tr y room, one student has lived it?’” he said. “It never hurts to tr y any t hing, unless it’s out the lyrics of his band. Na s h W h it e, a f or mer like crack.” The contemporary hip-hop marketing freshman, is the beat man of the Guerilla Foco genre of the group often faces Clan, an underground rap crew with serious criticism about its impact on youth and chalbased out of Houston. White, his cousin Chess, and lenges to morality. Gangsta vocalist Maggie Vaughn form rap artists have been known Guerilla Foco Clan, a name to feature explicit lyrics about derived from Che Guevara’s sex, drug use and violence. “I don’t like what they rap endeavors in the focolist political theory. The group claims about. It’s just bad stuff,” said influences from Beck to Justice Mat t Hol la nd, a computer s c i e n c e f r e s h m a n . “ It ’s in the creation of its sound. “I like to make a blend of immoral. It’s bad for people, southern hip-hop with electro especia l ly if k ids listen to music,” White said. “I kind of it.” But White defends his music do some weird stuff, but I try as well as the genre. to make it really cool.” “We’re not tr y ing to say, W h ite m i xe s h i s be at s through a variety of methods ‘Go out and do this.’ W hen using synthesizers and digital I make music I’m tr y ing to music software, limiting reli- show people what my lifeance on sampling. He has no style is. I’m just rapping about formal training in music and what I experience,” he said. “If has taught himself a lmost you don’t like it, don’t listen everything he knows. He occa- to it.” Still, White lives within the sionally raps with his cousin Chess, who writes all of the hard-line framework of the gangsta rap lifestyle. group’s lyrics. He was recently expelled “I do want to be big. I want ever ybody and anybody to from UNT for dealing marihear my music.” White said. juana from his Kerr Hall dorm “Our goal is to next summer room. Earlier this fall, White said do shows in New York, L.A., Ch icago. We’re sav i ng up Denton police searched his money now that’s going to go car under suspicion of drug possession. T he a r rest i ng to that. It all takes time.” White, raised in the Houston officer discovered drug paraneighborhood of Montrose, pher na l ia a long w it h t wo was enthralled with hip-hop retractable batons and a pair of brass knuckles. According early. Intern
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Nash White, a former marketing freshman, performs with his band Guerilla Foco Clan, a hip-hop group which takes its name from Che Guevara’s activist policies. The group cites influences ranging from Beck to Justice. to police reports, White was charged w ith possession of prohibited weapons, a misdemeanor, and spent the night in jail. He said he had no intention for violence, but the roughness of inner city life has taught him to be prepared for any instance of self-defense. “I don’t start sh--, but you
got to be ready in some of the places me and my friends hang out,” he said. White officially left UNT on Oct. 3 to return to Houston. That night, however, W hite said he was arrested while out with friends on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Jo s h Ke e fer, a biolo g y f r e s h m a n a n d W h i t e ’s for mer room mate, sa id he was unaware White had been dealing drugs until his expulsion. “He was a nice guy, a really easy guy to live with. He never talked to me about it,” Keefer said. “This is probably best, though. School isn’t his thing.
He was always doing his music. Anytime he was in the room he was making his beats.” Since his last encounter with the law, White is living at h i s c ou si n’s hou s e i n Houston. He plans to attend Austin Communit y College next semester. “It is what it is,” W h ite said.
Group seeks to end poverty, creates ‘opportunity to help’ BY K ATIE GRIVNA
Jennifer Daniels, an international studies senior and president of When Miguel Juanez went to Students for a Future without Mexico on a school field trip as Poverty. “Our goal isn’t necessarily to part of a special problems class in 2007, he saw people living in eradicate poverty, but rather to see it as an opportunity for sustainabsolute squalor. He wanted to do something ability and the idea of building about it, he said, and became bridges that can … keep people a part of the UNT chapter of and concepts alive,” she said. The quality and diversity of the Students for a Future without Poverty, an organization for eight active group members can students who want to get involved engage anyone in conversation, in activities to increase aware- which is important to keep the ness about poverty and environ- dialogue going between students and the community, she said. mental issues. The UNT chapter is one of two “People come out with a different view on poverty, that student chapters in the U.S. Vanessa Woods, an anthroit’s not a problem, but an opportunity to help out and create pology sophomore, said she things that weren’t there. We try thinks poverty can be eliminated to focus on that as much as we if everyone works together and can,” said Juanez, a community service senior. The members of the organization work on small projects that focus on having a big impact on the community, such as school supply drives. Group members are designing a hydroponics model, which will allow people to grow food based on a water nutrition system instead of soil. They hope to have the model built in Denton by the end of the semester, Juanez said. “We’ve had a lot of students tell us that a Future without Poverty is a funny name because there is no such thing as that. That is fine, but the thing is that it’s not okay to think that you can’t do something,” he said. “If we can help one person, it makes a difference.” He said the number of people living in poverty is overwhelming and ending that can seem impossible, yet the work is worthwhile. “You can’t sleep when you know that in some part of the world, somebody is struggling for a basic necessity that you could fix,” he said. Members are planning a cooking class that will teach people how to cook on a budget while still eating healthy, said Senior Staff Writer
agrees on a plan of action. “We have a sheltered view of poverty and we are taught that poverty is a product of their creation, it is their fault for being in the position that they are in. So we look at is as if they wanted to get out of poverty then they can do it themselves, but there’s really so much more to it than that,” she said. “I think that people do need to be educated in every city and every town so that they realize all the factors that go into it and that there is so much that people can do to help.” The Students for a Future without Poverty meet at 6 p.m. Thursdays in the Multicultural Center, in University Union 216. For more information, visit www.fwop.org.
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Jennifer Daniels, an international studies senior, is the president of the Students for a Future without Poverty organization. She said she keeps the group excited and on task with projects such as asset management for the homeless, teaching food literacy, and cooking on a budget.
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Kip Mooney
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Students refuse strict definition of alcoholism BY BRADFORD P URDOM Contributing Writer
For many students, drinking is an escape from the pressures of class and work. For Harrison Bucy, a printmaking junior, drinking occupies most of his week. “I would say I drink about four nights a week,” Bucy said. Students do not have to look far for their favorite fermented beverage. UNT is bordered by bars with Fry Street area pubs and taverns offering nightly drink specials. “Denton is a really small town and there isn’t much to do here except for go to class and get some work done on the weekdays, and then what are you supposed to do on weekends? ” Bucy said. “Unless you want to go to Bible study or something like that, you pretty much drink until you can’t feel anymore and hang out with your friends.” Buc y does not consider himself an alcoholic. He refers to his drinking habits as binge drinking. “Binge drinkers drink a lot in one sitting. We go to school during the week, and we can’t get wasted on a Wednesday during the day. We have a lot of stuff to do,” he said. “So, during the weekend we drink a lot and then go back to work on Monday. I think it only becomes a problem when
you are drinking by yourself during the day and the only thing you can do to function is to drink.” Briana Camp and Lauren Hendricks are art sophomores at UNT and live in a house near campus that they use as a venue for bands to play. They have had two big house shows this semester and raised money for multiple kegs at t hem. Yet neit her of t hem chooses to consume alcohol of any kind. “I’m just not really interested in getting plastered,” Camp said. “I don’t see alcohol as a way to loosen up, and I don’t need it to have a good time. I k now that sounds cliché.” Camp said she does not view throwing keg parties as contributing to student alcoholism. “People have a choice to drink or not,” she said. “We aren’t providing a lot of beer. Three hundred people are coming to the party tonight, and I think that people will get little sips but nothing too ridiculous.” Hendricks said she felt a different about the idea. “I feel a little weird proving alcohol,” she said. “It’s not something I’m really comfortable with, but I’m one of the roommates here and my roommates want to have it.” Micah Newsom, a sociology
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as five or more drinks for men or four or more drinks for women in a two-hour period. alumnus, turned 21 in 2005. His party featured multiple kegs and led to major issues. “I drank most days, and definitely three or four times a week I think more than a little bit,” he said. “We’ll just put it that way.” These days, Newsom does not drink much. He claims
that after two years of heavy d r i n k i ng, he rea l i zed h is grades had begun to slip, and he did not like how he treated himself or his friends. “I think the main thing that lead me to stop drinking was that spiritually I changed a lot. I’ve been a Christian for a long time and I had fallen away
from that. I think that my beliefs really turned me back around from the fact that I was living for myself completely,” Newsom said. “I wasn’t really true to who I wanted to be or who I was. I was a completely different person.” As someone who has made it through a battle with alco-
holism, he offers this advice to students: “If you have those moments where you feel like you are going too far, there is a good chance you are. I was fortunate enough to have friends who cared about me enough to let me know that I needed to stop. Don’t be afraid to look for help.”
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Artwork by Dorinth Doherty, a photography professor, will be displayed at the Holly Johnson Art Gallery in Dallas through Nov. 14. Doherty traveled to various seed banks to take X-rays and photographs of different plant life.
Art exhibit reveals seed X-rays BY K RYSTLE CANTU Contributing Writer
An ex hibit at the Holly Johnson Art Gallery merged the fields of science and photography together Oct. 17 in Dallas. Dornith Doherty, a photography professor, made this possible with the help of an X-ray machine. “The X-ray adds a whole another level it,” said Natasha Hart, an art history senior. “I think she’s done an excellent job with all of it. It’s just amazing and beautiful.”
Professor Doherty’s inspiration for this exhibition titled “Archiving Eden II” was an article she read about seed banks and their preservation efforts because of the face of climate change. She used on-site X-ray equipment to photograph samples of seeds that multiple seed banks have collected as a back-up strategy for the world’s botanical life. Doherty said they are collecting seeds from all over the world and putting them in vaults to save them. “I traveled to various seed
banks and investigated their collections,” Doherty said. “They showed me different kinds of seeds they’re doing tests on.” The photographic process for the exhibit took almost a year. The photographs on display were only a quarter of those taken. All of them will be collected in a book. “There will be 80 in the series eventually. What you see here tonight is just 20 of them,” she said. Some students, including those taught by Doherty, came
to the exhibit to view the photographs. “The holographic paper is blowing my mind. I never imagined this,” said Kasumi Chow, a photography junior. “The content is a really good inspiration for students as well.” Students also praised the dedication Doherty put into this project. “It’s really terrific work,” said Lee Fatheree, a photography senior. “I think it turned out well. I don’t know if I would’ve had the patience for this sort of process.”
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Move over, it’s Saturday night at Club Bounce and people are bouncing onto the dance floor in a big, big way. These are big, big people, all dressed to the nines and many tipping the scales at 250, maybe 300 pounds. That’s because this expansive nightclub a couple blocks from the Pacific Ocean, with its f lashing lights, friendly atmosphere and wall-rattling hip-hop sounds, caters specifically to fat people. That’s right, fat people. Not just any fat people, either, but fat people who are proud to call themselves fat people. People who joke that they are part of the new Fat is Phat movement. “Self-conscious? No! Not at all,” laughs Monique Lopez, a curvaceous woman of 23 as she arrives in a tight black dress and heels. “I was like, ‘I’m going to Club Bounce tonight. I’m going to wear my shortest skirt.’” (Which she did.) The movement for equal rights for plus-sized people is nothing new of course. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, with chapters around the country, was founded 40 years ago. A nonprofit group, it advocates that everyone be treated equally regardless of size, arguing that we don’t live in a one-size-fits-all world. But what has been slower coming, fat advocates say, are places like Club Bounce, where people who might have some trouble getting past the velvet ropes at other night spots because of their size are made to feel like they fit right in. “W hen you’re not what t hey consider idea l, you know, and you’re out there trying to get your dance on at those other places, you get the looks, the stares. But not here. Everything’s accepted here,” says Vanessa Gray of Long Beach, an attractive 30-something woman who acknowl-
edges jovially that after giving birth to three children, “I’ve got a little more meat on my bones.” Such clubs are still a relat ively new phenomenon, however, w ith a handful scattered across California, mainly in coastal cities from San Diego to San Francisco. “The whole thing really started on the Internet, with clubhouse parties organized online,” says Kathleen Divine, who runs another Southern California plus-size club, the Butterfly Lounge. “Now you see a lot more large people out in public, not hiding behind their keyboards anymore.” But veteran fat activist Lynn McAfe of the Council On Size and Weight Discrimination would like to see more clubs. “It’s nice to have a place to go where you can do a little flirting and maybe bring your thin sister or somebody from work who isn’t fat, and they’ll be in your world for awhile,” says McAfe, a pioneer of the fat advocacy movement. “That’s an amazing experience for a lot of people who aren’t fat, to spend a day or night in a world of fat people.” Not that every large person prefers to be called fat, especially by someone who isn’t. Lisa Marie Garbo, who opened Club Bounce five years ago, says she prefers plus-sized or larger-framed. “But I don’t think fat is a bad word anymore,” she adds. “I think a lot of people embrace it now.” Garbo, a vivacious, 40-yearold blonde partial to f lamboyant outfits of tight-fitting pants and low-cut tops, said she opened the club for herself and others who were tired of being “the only fat girl at the local nightclub.” The club, with a capacity of 400, attracts relatively equal numbers of men and women, although Garbo says about three-quarters of the women tend to be heavy, while only about a quarter of the men are.
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Justin Umberson
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Coach uses running policy to erase mental mistakes BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer
Ask a coach in any sport and he will point to mental errors as the biggest reason for losing games, and the Mean Green has had its share of those so far this season. UNT lost three heartbreaking games by a combined nine points because of untimely penalties and an inability to finish drives with touchdowns and turnovers. This led to head coach Todd Dodge instituting a new practice policy: Make mental mistakes and the whole team pays for it. “We are going to run them for every mistake they make,” Todd Dodge said. “The little things have killed us this year and we have got to get those rights in order to be successful. The plan is to break those habits and keep them focused on winning games.” In UNT’s first five games the team averaged nine penalties for 75 yards and four turnovers a game while completing less than
50 percent of its drives inside opponent’s territory with touchdowns. Throughout the last two games, the Mean Green has taken notice of the policy and have looked much sharper, averaging just five penalties for 42 yards and finishing every drive inside its opponent’s territory with a touchdown. “I think they have taken notice and realize if we improve these areas we can win games,” Todd Dodge said. “We have the talent, passion, and desire to succeed and now we just have to eliminate those unforced errors.” At the end of practice, the coaches tally up every mental mistake and the team runs gassers for each one. A gasser is running the width of the field and back. Basically, it is a 106-yard sprint. The players can have gassers subtracted if they make a big play or stand out as a leader. “We want to get things as perfect as we can,” said quarterback Riley Dodge, an unde-
clared redshirt freshmen. “We have got in our own way too many times this year and this has really helped us to regain our focus. Nobody enjoys running wind sprints, but you can see the difference it makes.” There is no time like the present for UNT with just five games remaining on the schedule. “We have 35 days left in this season and we still have time to make it a good one,” Todd Dodge said. “We have to capitalize on our opportunities and I am completely confident that we can stay focused and finish strong. The Mean Green is looking to shed its six-game losing streak and finish the second half of the season with some momentum, starting with Western Kentucky University visiting Fouts Field on Saturday. “We are so explosive that it is hard to stop us if we don’t stop ourselves,” Riley Dodge said. “Every game we play we should win. We have everything in place, now we just have to execute.”
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Setter Kayla Saey, an interior design freshman, spikes the ball against Denver Monday. The Mean Green lost a close match to the Pioneers in five sets 25-20, 17-25, 25-16, 21-25, and 15-12.
Mean Green advance in Sun Belt standings BY R EMINGTON BIRD Staff Writer
The Mean Green volleyball team (9-16, 5-6) is back in contention for a spot in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament after winning two of its past three matches. Road wins over the University of South Alabama (11-13, 2-9) and Troy University (11-13, 6-6) moved the Mean Green within a win of tying for the last spot, but Monday’s home loss to Denver (12-13, 7-4) has UNT still out of the tournament picture. “We were just tired of losing,” said middle blocker Brittany Brown, an undeclared freshman. “We’re fighting to go to conference and we’re right on the edge, so we’re trying really hard for everything.” Friday’s win over USA came in four sets 27-25, 13-25, 14-25, and 24-26, as UNT put together a .255 hitting percentage and eight team blocks, compared
to South Alabama’s .113 hitting percentage and five team blocks. Saturday’s win over Troy was also in four sets — 25-21, 19-25, 17-25, and 18-25. The Mean Green managed a .303 hitting percentage and 18 errors compared to Troy’s .166 hitting percentage and 25 errors. “I am fully confident in that we know how to play on the road,” head coach Cassie Headrick said. “We came to play, and we had our minds pretty set.” The team returned home for the match against Denver on Monday and lost in five sets 25-20, 17-25, 25-16, 21-25, and 15-12. The Mean Green’s hitting percentage dropped to .147 in this match and racked up 35 errors, including 11 missed serves. The team shined in blocking, with 15 team blocks in the match. Middle blocker Kati Dillard,
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a psychology sophomore, had two solo blocks and assisted on seven more in the match. “I think we held back a little because we played to not lose rather than playing to win,” she said. The match was the first of a streak of six home games against conference opponents with only seven matches left in the regular season. “We haven’t been home much, so it’s kind of a weird feeling,” Brown said. The UNT volleyball team now faces must-win scenarios in order to make the cut for the SBC Tournament, which begins on Nov. 19. “We just made too many errors,” Headrick said. “We’ve got to learn how to play on our home court now.” The Mean Green’s next match will be at home against University of Arkansas-Little Rock on Friday at 7 p.m.
Landover, Md. (MCT) — If Brian Westbrook were a boxer, which he is not, and if he were indeed knocked cold Monday night after a knee rudely encountered his head, which he was, he would not be playing again until about the Eagles’ 15th game of the season. Because this is football, no one expects that. But as the Eagles enter the meat-grinder part of their schedule, it seems pretty clear that they will be doing it without their top running back. As the real games begin — Giants and Cowboys and Chargers and et cetera — it appears as if the Eagles will have to scheme their way and Wildcat their way and Shady McCoy their way around the absence of their most accomplished runner. If Westbrook were to play Sunday against the Giants, it would be as miraculous as it would be irresponsible. With 7:03 left in the first quarter of the Eagles’ 27-17 win over the Redskins, Westbrook was motionless on the field for several minutes after taking an accidental knee to the back of the neck from Redskins linebacker London Fletcher. It was one of those scary NFL moments, easily identified not as much by the play or the injury but by the obvious concern expressed by players from both sides as the player is being attended to. When players start kneeling in prayer in the vicinity of the fallen player, you know they are worried. When they need to be shooed away by the officials and only leave with reluctance, you know. In this case, there was the additional, poignant gesture made by Eagles coach Andy Reid. As the players from both teams were moved away, Reid made sure that one of the Redskins stayed with
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Philadelphia Eagles’ Brian Westbrook is helped off the field after an injury in the first quarter of the game against the Washington Redskins on Monday. him near the fallen Eagles star. The player was By ron Westbrook, Brian’s brother, a Washington special-teams player. Eventually, Westbrook moved his legs and sat up and then stood up. He was immediately walked to the Eagles’ locker room. Within minutes, it was announced in the press box that Westbrook had suffered a concussion. Such a quick public diagnosis is rare for this team. That told everyone, right there, how clear-cut the injury was. Twice, he has suffered terrible
injuries on this field — the field closest to his hometown of Fort Washington, Md. In 2003, it was a torn tricep in a late December game that ended his season and greatly affected the Eagles in later weeks, particularly in their NFC Championship Game loss to Carolina. Now, this. How bad it is remains unknown. So much about concussions remains unknown. The good thing is, Westbrook has no known concussion history. The bad thing is, every concussion is different and every concussion sufferer is different.
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Justin Umberson
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Mean Green defensive Week 8 Sun Belt Pick ‘em captain’s career cut short BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer
Though the Mean Green w i l l not ta ke t he f ield for a ga me tomor row, it w i l l suffer its biggest loss of the season. S en ior l i neb a c k er a nd d e f e n s i v e c a p t a i n To b e Nwig we will miss the final five games of his illustrious c a r e er a s he u nder go e s surgery tomorrow to repair torn ligaments in his foot. “ To b e i s t h e f i e r c e s t competitor that I know and if he could physically be out there with us he would,” head coach Todd Dodge said. “It is just an extremely painful
injury and there is no way to get over it without surgery.” Nwigwe, a sociology senior, suf fered t he injur y in t he fourth quarter against Florida Atlantic University, but fought through the pain and finished the game. He tried to ignore his anguish and play Saturday, but it was too much. “He wanted to play so bad in that game,” said cornerback Royce Hill, an arts and sciences sophomore. “He is our leader on defense and I have so much respect for him.” Nwigwe is currently second on the team with 57 tackles and leads the team with six
tackles for loss. He will end his career with 213 tackles, 15.5 for loss, 2.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, t hree interceptions, one blocked kick and an All Sun Belt Conference selection last season. “You cannot replace a guy l i ke Tobe Nw ig we,” Todd Dodge said. “The rest of the defense is going to really have to step up to fill that void.” AJ Penson, a sociolog y junior, will be faced with the daunting task of replacing Nwig we. Penson does have experience. As a starter last year, he finished fifth on the team with 51 tackles.
The Script: McGwire’s return good for baseball Opinion BY JUSTIN UMBERSON Sports Editor
Mark McGwire is returning to Major League Baseball, but this time as a hitting instructor. St. Louis Cardinals’ manager Ton y L a R u s s a , McGw ire’s former manager with the Oak land Athletics and Cardinals, hired the former singleseason home run king shortly after a n nou nci ng h is decision to return to coach the team. Despite a ca reer t hat is jam-packed with steroid-use accusations, Big Mac deserves
a chance to prove himself as a coach. He has no coaching experience to his name, but his 583 career home runs say he knows a thing or two about hitting. Concerning the steroid use: Even though it has never been officially proven, his “I’m not here to talk about t he past” rhetoric to Congress almost confirmed it. But in an era when numerous players were juicing, McGwire outplayed the rest. Even MLB Commissioner Bud Sel ig, who is doi n g e v e r ything he can to erase the steroid era from baseball, is pleased with McGwire’s
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Astros hire Mills as manager Houston (AP) — Brad Mills is finally getting his chance to run a big-league team. The 52-year-old Mills was hired by Houston on Tuesday after si x seasons as Terr y Fra ncona’s bench coach i n Boston. He’l l ma nage in the majors for the first time, though he’s managed a total of 11 seasons in the minors, with affiliates for the Chicago Cubs (1987-92), Colorado Rockies (1993-96) a nd Los A ngeles Dodgers (2002). “One thing that I’m going to bring in is a freshness, being with a champion and bringing that freshness in,” Mills said. “It’s a fresh voice, it’s a new voice.”
Genera l ma nager Ed Wade sa id M i l l s ag reed to a t wo-ye a r c ont r ac t, with a team option for the third. The Astros made an of fer to former Nat iona ls manager Manny Acta over the weekend, but Acta took the Cleveland Indians’ job instead. Mills, interviewed by the team for the third time on Tuesday, set aside the notion t hat he w a s t he A st ros’ second choice. “I’m going to move on from that,” Mills said. “I have to do what I think is best, and this opportunity is very good opportunity. I’m not talking about just to be a manager. To be in this organization is
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very special.” Houston ow ner Dray ton McLane spoke with Francona about M i l ls by phone on Sunday. Francona said Mills practically ran the Red Sox at times, allaying McLane’s concerns about his lack of major-league managing experience. “He said, ‘I have given Brad more responsibi lit y t ha n I have ever seen a bench coach have,’” McL a ne sa id. “He totally runs spring training and he handles most of the c om mu n ic at ion w it h t he players. Terry said he’s been t he assista nt ma nager a nd has gathered all the necessary experience.” T he A st r os f i re d C e c i l Cooper on Sept 21. Thirdbase coach Dave Clark served as interim manager for the final 13 games and Houston finished 74-88. Clark was one of 10 candidates to interview for the full-time position, and he spoke for a second time with the team on Tuesday. Cla rk was g ua ra nteed a position on next year’s staff if he was not hired as the fulltime manager, and Wade said Clark will return as Houston’s third-base coach. Mills sold the Astros with his emphasis on communicating with players, a problem in the clubhouse when Cooper was manager. “He t a l ked a lot about respect, t hat you ga in t he respect of the players,” Wade said.
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Motorized bikes raise concerns Editorial Motorized scooters have been popping up on campus as a cheaper, more fuel-efficient way to get around. While many students consider them a great compromise between the convenience of an expensive automobile and the economy of a bicycle, certain things need to be taken into consideration before making the switch. These scooters can go up to 30 mph, posing a serious risk for pedestrians, especially when the cyclist uses the sidewalk rather than the road. Standard bicycles can gravely injure pedestrians. Add a motor to the equation and the risk increases substantially. As such, students who choose to operate a motorized scooter should keep off the sidewalk to prevent harming pedestrians. Pedestrians should also take it upon themselves to pay attention to cyclists, but as motorized scooterists are able to seriously injure pedestrians, it is up to them to make responsible choices. Many students with motorized scooters also act as though they are riding a bicycle, not considering that the increased speed can make otherwise small accidents, such as running over a pothole, exponentially dangerous. Students who choose to operate these vehicles should take the precaution of wearing a helmet, even if they’re only traveling a short distance. They should also maintain constant vigilance and be aware of their surroundings. To ensure the safety of themselves and others, cyclists should always give clear and timely hand signals to indicate stops and turns, and also remember that they are obligated to obey the same laws that apply to motorists. Many students argue in favor of motorized scooters because, compared to motor vehicles, they’re more fuel efficient and, as such, more earth friendly. While they are undoubtedly greener than cars and trucks, they are still inferior to bikes, which use no fuel and pose no threat to the environment. Bicycles also provide more physical activity than motorized scooters, making them the less-lazy way to travel. Though it is admirable to try and think green in terms of travel, students should consider all these things before laying down the money for a motorized scooter. Students who are aiming to live a greener life or find a cheaper mode of transportation would do better to buy a bike. As for students who still decide to go the motorized scooter route, they should make every effort to ensure the safety of their fellow students.
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I’m a little bit weird about feet. A well-groomed paw won’t set me off, but the sight of dirty nails, crusty heels and bunion-sporting big toes is enough to prevent me from finishing lunch. Needless to say, I was a little sickened to learn recently that UNT has no policy requiring students to wear shoes to class. That being said, I’m also a proponent for freedom of expression. Dress codes have no place at public universities, which are supposed to be birthplaces of groundbreaking ideas. We should be focusing on education, not appearance. If some people worry that a quarter-inch of rubber hinders them from being at one with the earth, they should go barefoot. There’s no rule against it. And if I trusted the entire
UNT population to shower daily and trim those toenails on a regular basis, we wouldn’t have a problem. But I’m no fool. You can’t make 36,000 people do anything. If we can’t make them go to class every day, we certainly can’t force them to pumice their heels and scrub between their toes. But when they do show up for class, that doesn’t excuse them from having proper foot hygiene. If you must shed your shoes on campus, at least show some respect for your classmates and professors – the ones who have to smell and look at you. You also don’t want to hurt yourself. So here you go, UNT – some quick tips for going ba refoot, cour tesy of t he American Podiatric Medical Association: 1. The obvious one – watch your step. By going shoeless, you run
the risk of cutting or scraping your toesies on glass, rocks and other sharp objects hidden in the grass or on the sidewalk. 2. If you do get cut, take care of it. If dirt or sand gets into the wound, it could get infected, so wash it and cover it with a bandage. If the laceration is deep, consider getting a tetanus shot and a few stitches. 3. Wear sunscreen. Getting burned on the tops of your feet is quite painful, especially if you have to wear shoes afterward. 4. If you have diabetes, the barefoot lifestyle probably isn’t for you. Because of ci rcu lation problems in the lower ex t remit ies, diabet ics a re more prone to i n fect ion from a cut and take longer for the wound to heal. The American Podiatric Medical Association recommends that diabetics don’t go barefoot
ever – even in their own home. And by all means, keep your feet clean. I don’t want UNT telling me what I can and can’t wear on campus, so I won’t lobby for a shoe rule to be implemented. With proper care, feet can even look cute. So if going shoeless is the life you choose, just be smart about it, and please exercise proper foot hygiene. Don’t make me lose my turkey sandw ich.
This latest installment in my collection of articles for the NT daily is inspired by “autonomous-hippopotamus,” who left a comment on my previous article. In that comment, he or she insulted the Bible. I will take it as my duty to defend my faith. The best part is I will not need to quote the Bible or any holy text to prove my point. First off, I would like to punch a hole in “high and mighty” science. I do not understand why religion is almost always the butt of ridicule when science is just as “phony” as religion. Science is based on a bunch of theories. These theories are merely hypotheses that have not been disproven, but this does not make these theories is fact. A theory is, and always will be, a theory. Let’s take a look at a real-life experience. How many high school science experiments have you done that didn’t come out “right”? Is there a “right” result in the first place? You have done everything according to
the instructions, but your results were just not “right.” Apparently theory works 100 percent of the time, but it did not hold true in your experiment. Isn’t that something to think about? Now how about this: The fundamental theory of science is the theory of atoms. Have you ever seen atoms? Can you ever see them? No! This is ridiculous. Science is based on a theory that cannot be proven or disproven. Much like believing in God or gods, is it not? You cannot see it, but you can feel the effects and you attribute it to “atoms.” At the end of the day, there really is no difference with attributing it to a work of a god. As of now, it is probably apparent you need to believe in science before knowing more about it. You need to accept the basic assumptions/theories of science before diving deeper in it. But why does that same standard not apply for a god? Do you not know you have to believe before you can understand more? Yet atheists and agnostics keep saying “I want to understand
before I believe.” But, of course, science is logical. Who would not believe in something logical? This brings me to my next point: believing in a god is logical too. The logical deduction to believe in a god is simple. Philosophers call it the Pascal’s Wager (please feel free to Google). Pascal’s Wager proposes the idea that if God was real, you would be better off when you die. If he does not exist, you would lose nothing. It then goes on to state if you are not a believer and God is real, you would lose everything, and if he does not exist, you would lose nothing. Is it not a “logical deduction” to believe in a god if you stand to gain everything if you believe and lose everything if you do not believe? Alike to any philosophical argument, Pascal’s Wager too has an antagonist. They call it the AntiPascal’s Wager. In this argument, it states nonbelievers stand a chance to gain a more fulfilled life (a.k.a. more hedonistic), and believers lose
this chance if God is not real at the end of the day. My counter argument is that, while you may like to live a more self-indulgent life and call it a “fulfilled” lifestyle, I would call it simply existing. You breathe and eat but that is all you will ever do: exist and float by life. With a religion, I am guided daily on how to live. Religion teaches you how to live, while being faithless teaches you how to exist. So make your choice. I know I have made mine.
Brooke Cowlishaw is a journalism senior and the Scene editor for the Daily. She can be reached at brookecowlishaw@ gmail.com.
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