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Mean Green drops ball in Sun Belt opener TYLER OWENS
Senior Staff Writer
In its first Sun Belt Conference game of the season, the Mean Green fell to the Troy Trojans 14-7. Going 0-2 in the red zone on offense, a 14 percent third down conversion rate and poor execution from the kicking team were all factors in UNT dropping to 1-3 on the season. “Before you start winning, you have to stop losing,” head coach Dan McCarney said. “Frustration is an understatement.” In a postgame press conference, McCarney said that the practice week prior to the Troy game was the best in two years, but the Mean Green could not translate that success to game day. “I thought our meetings, our walk-throughs, our focus, our execution [and] our effort during practice this week was the best since I’ve been at North Texas,” McCarney said. “They key is to do it on game night.” After an efficient performance last week against Kansas State (89 percent completion rate), redshirt junior Derek Thompson failed to come through in key situations as he overthrew receivers and only completed 12 of his 29 passing attempts. “I missed some throws this week,” Thompson said. “It starts with me as the captain of the offense, and those guys look to
missed a 27-yard attempt. “He’s got to carry over what he does in practice to the game field,” McCarney said of Olen’s execution. “I didn’t have any plans of going to the backup guy tonight, but how many times are we going to watch a missed field goal?” The Mean Green defense shut down the Trojans for most of the first half, but the missed opportunities on special teams allowed Troy back into the game. Troy quarterback Corey Robinson threw for a touchdown with a minute left in the second quarter and connected with Chip Reeves for a 76-yard touchdown early on in the third. “They just came out and started passing the ball better than they did the first half, and we didn’t do what we needed to do,” junior defensive tackle Richard Abbe said. “We stopped the run well. It’s the big plays that killed us.” The next two games for the Mean Green will take place on the road, as the team travels to face Florida Atlantic and Houston. PHOTO BY ZAC SWITZER /SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “It sickens me to lose that Junior tight end Drew Miller almost made the finishing catch on a trick pass play. Redshirt junior quarterback Derek Thompson handed the ball to senior running back Jeremy game the way we did tonight, Brown who threw it back to Thompson, who then threw it to Miller. The Mean Green ultimately lost 14-7 to the Troy Trojans, but not before missing three field goals and numer- but the good news is we do have two-thirds of a season in front of ous turnovers on both sides of the field, resulting in a 1-3 record for UNT. us,” McCarney said. “There are a kicker Zach Olen and freshman goal in practice last week, Olen, and 47-yard field goals on back- lot of opportunities out there, and me and I’ve got to get better.” The special teams unit also kicker Zach Paul struggled in who missed an extra point to-back drives in the second how we handle a setback like this and had a 45-yard field goal quarter. After halftime, Paul will be a real measure of where didn’t translate its practice the game. After making a 57-yard field blocked against KSU, missed 40 came on as a replacement and we go with this football team.” success into the game. Junior
MythBusters speak at Coliseum JASON YANG
Senior Staff Writer It’s possible to turn flatulence into flames. No, really. The ha rdwork i ng skeptics of Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters” proved it in an unaired video shown Monday night at the UNT Coliseum. “MythBusters” co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage spoke to about 5,500 students as part of UNT’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture consisted of brief speeches, videos and a question-andanswer session with the audience, who filled more than 60 percent of the Coliseum’s 8,000 seats. The popular show will enter its 10th season when it returns in January. Filming 45 weeks a year, earning four Emmy nominations, setting off more than 2,800 explosions, conducting 850 experiments and going through more than 100 pounds of lubricant would take a toll on anyone, but Hyneman and Savage said the show’s integrity and commitment to busting myths kept them passionate about the job.
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UNT named 9th most transfer-friendly school DANIEL BISSELL Staff Writer
PHOTO BY MICHELLE HEATH/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage answer questions at the Distinguished Lecture Series in the Coliseum on Monday at 7 p.m. A crowd of 5,500 people gathered to listen to the lecture.
UNT has been ranked the 9th best university in the nation for transfer students in the Princeton Review’s annual list of transfer-friendly schools. UNT, which enrolled almost 4,000 transfer students in fall 2010 with a transfer acceptance rate of 78 percent, is one of four Texas schools – the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Houston, and Texas A&M-Commerce — on the list. The rankings are based on enrollment data starting in 2010. UNT Transfer Center Coordinator Ashlea Coulter said 3,829 transfer students were admitted this semester. Although that marks a slight drop from the 3,891 admitted in fall 2010, it was still enough to make the top 10. “I think it’s a true testament to how transfer-friendly the university is,” Coulter said. “It shows that we care about our transfer students.” Coulter said she believes UNT is appealing because of
PHOTO BY TYLER CLEVELAND/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Mechanical and energy engineering junior and transfer student David Janes looks through an apartment booklet Monday in the Union. James transferred from the University of Arizona. its transfer-friendly nature, closeknit community, academic reputation, prestige and proximity to Dallas and Fort Worth, where many of the university’s transfer students come from. “I think that people appreciate the university because, although it’s a very large school with a large
number of students, it has a smallschool feel,” she said. “The faculty and staff are very dedicated. They know students’ names and take a personal interest in them, so students don’t feel like small fish in a big pond.”
third semester that groups have been expanded to include students globally, Farris said. He said st udents a ren’t u su a l ly c h a l le nge d w it h finding a solution for the case study. The real struggle is coordinating communication and accommodating for time zone differences. “We don’t tell students how to communicate, but we’ve
seen st udents use Sky pe, email, Facebook and even by phone, a method that can be very expensive,” he said. St udents a lso have t he option to use Adobe Connect, a web conferencing software prog ram ma naged by the University of the Andes in Peru.
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Logistics students’ group projects go global A SHLEY GRANT
Senior Staff Writer
T h e c ap ston e log i st ic s and supply chain management course in the College of Business is broadening the definition of “group project” by requiring its students to collaborate with colleagues at universities around the world. Busi ness sen iors i n t he class, Adva nced Log ist ics
Problems, will work with more than 300 students from 18 universities in places as disparate as Alabama, France and Germany. “No single group consists of members from the same school,” marketing professor Ted Far ris said. “It helps students get a better understanding of what it’s like in the real world and to work in
displaced work groups.” To w a r d t h e e n d o f November, students enrolled in Farris’ class will receive the names and email addresses of other group members. To crack the case study provided by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the four-person groups will have to determine the costs, risks and most effi-
cient routes to get products from various starting locations to a distribution center at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth. Students have two weeks to prepare a presentation and submit their findings and recommendations to faculty members. Although case studies have been used in logistics classes since 1997, this is only the
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