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MAD Glass is piping hot Thieu wins Jeopardy!

College Championship R EBECCA RYAN Staff Writer

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UNT alumnus Matt Marchand heats glass in a 2,800-degree flame in his studio Wednesday evening. Marchand is preparing the piece for a competition in Las Vegas next week.

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She ca me, she saw, she conquered. Monica Thieu, a UNT Texas Academy for Mathematics and Science junior, beat students f r om St a n for d, M I T a nd Vanderbilt – among others – in the 24th Jeopardy! College Cha mpionsh ip to w i n t he $100,000 grand prize and a guaranteed spot in the next Je opa rd y ! Tou r na ment of Champions. Thieu, 18, is the youngest w in ner of t he tou r na ment since its inception in 1989. “I could only think, ‘Is this really happening right now?’” Thieu said. “I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I was basically walking through a dream for a week.” T houg h t he shows were filmed in January, the championship tournament aired this month and wrapped up this week. During the final showdown Tuesday, a group of 20 to 30 TAMS students gathered in the lounge of McConnell Hall to watch Thieu defeat Goucher Col lege’s Sa ra h Ba r t a nd Vanderbilt’s Zach Terrill. “I was really happy,” TAMS sophomore Ryan Gower said. “I jumped up and shouted. I’ve known her since the beginning of the TAMS program. She loves triv ia. You could ask her 10 random questions, and she’d probably get them all right.” Thieu said w inning Jeopardy! means for her that people now know they don’t

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Monica Thieu, a UNT Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science junior, stands with host Alex Trebek after winning the Jeopardy! College Championship tournament.

“I could only think, ‘Is this really happening right now?’” —Monica Thieu TAMS junior and Jeopardy! winner need to go to an Iv y League university to be proud of their school. “It’s really cool, especially because she’s TAMS,” TAMS sophomore A lex Pr ybutok

sa id. “I bet a l l t he ot her contestants were like, ‘Man, we got beat by a n 18-yea r old.’”

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SGA listens to proposed new Union funding plan JUSTIN BRIGHT Intern

The Student Government Association listened to a funding plan for the proposed ne w Un i v e r s it y Un ion involving a raise to student fees at Wednesday night’s SGA meeting. Andrew Harris, vice president of finance and administration from the Office of the President, presented the plan, which calls

for an increased student fee starting in the fall. The fee would lessen the amount of money UNT would need to borrow and save the school $78 million, Harris said. “Using traditional fundraising, a $120 million Union would end up costing $265 million over 30 years’ time,” Harris said. “Instead of wealthy bankers pocketing $78 million, that money could stay within

the four walls of the university.” The current Union fee is $51 but would increase by as much as $115 if the fee increase is approved. A vote on the plan is expected to be held within the next month. If passed, construction would begin in summer 2013, and the new Union would open in fall 2015.

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A-train’s ridership on Fridays sees decline

Children play Wednesday in the Golden Triangle Mall. Special Leasing Manager Theresa Hodge said the mall is planning to construct new entrances and improve lighting by redesigning the roof windows.

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Declining totals for the Denton County Transportation Authority A-train’s Friday ridership are leading some DCTA board members to consider ending Friday service when the schedule’s pilot period concludes June 30. Documents presented at the board’s meeting Jan. 26 revealed Friday night’s ridership has trended downward since October 2011, and rider-

ship on Fridays is less than half of the other weekdays’ total. Board members Charles Emery and Charles Correll asked members to end the service at its meeting last week, but the board ultimately decided to keep the service intact until the trial run finishes. The board will examine the A-train’s daily ridership and performance in the coming months to help with deciding scheduling changes once the trial run ends, Emery said.

Golden Triangle renovations set to commence in March

“What we’re going to do is to analyze the results, like any other process, by the end of June 2012,” Emery said. “We’ll manage the amount of service we’re supplying with the demand we’re seeing in ridership. Next Thursday’s retreat agenda is the next step.” Costs for the Friday night service amount to $110,000 out of DCTA’s budget toward the A-train.

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Renovations for the Golden Triangle Mall are set to begin in March as part of a three-phase process to redesign the 765,000 square foot shopping center. Representatives from Cencor Realty Services met with CMA, the architect company in charge of designing the mall, on Wednesday to go over plans for the building. The mall was purchased in November 2011 by GTM Development Ltd.

in a partnership created by Cencor. “It’s a very unique piece of property,” said Linda Ratliff, director of economic development for the city of Denton. “It’s not all owned by GTM, all the business owners own their parking lots. Typically you have one property owner, but they’re [the businesses] all on board with it.” The planned renovations will be done in three phases, and construction plans are

currently being finalized. “We’ve been working with the architect and the contractor to get a concept of what we need to do, and as we get that down we do the construction work,” said Jim Greenfield, senior vice president and director of property management for Cencor. “We’re trying to do this as fast as we can. We have an overall initial design, and then we’ll go back and look at that concept.”

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Jeopardy Continued from Page 1

Thieu applied to be on the show a year ago and was chosen from more than 10,000 applicants to be in the tournament. “She’s really smart and has an interesting personality, but it’s

also a lifelong dream of hers to meet Alex Trebek,” TAMS sophomore Bryson Dulack said. “She was so excited.” As for the $100,000 prize money, Thieu said t he majority of it would go toward her education. “The vast, vast majority of the money will go toward tuition, but I might buy something nice for myself.”

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“We are doing our best to keep the fee as low as possible,” said Elizabeth With, vice president for student affairs. “We’ve sent our architects back to come back with 10 percent less square footage to keep costs as low as possible.” UNT has recently paid for large projects after construction was completed, such

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as Apogee Stadium and the Business Leadership Building, Harris said. “It is common elsewhere to build up a pile of cash before you start building. Some schools require 20 to 50 percent of funding be collected before the ground breaks,” Harris said. “The traditional way UNT has funded construction is the absolute most expensive way to do a project. Investors pocket tons of money over time, and most universities are smart and say, ‘screw that, let’s not pay them,

freshman Laura Valentina Abril and Griffin Rice, a political science, economics and philosophy sophomore, will represent the College of Arts and Sciences, and pre-journalism freshman Lauren Smith will represent the Mayborn School of Journalism. A resolution proposed to revise how senators are re-elected to SGA was postponed indefinitely. Another resolution urging the UNT bookstore to hold a weeklong sale to encourage pride was postponed until next week.

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Phase one of mall renovations will consist of interior renovations such as more sophisticated lighting structures and is set to begin in early March. The second phase, set to commence around May, will include a groundbreaking ceremony, complete with ribbon cutting. During phase two, the mall’s t wo ma in ent ra nces – one located by Sears and the other by Barnes and Noble–will be redone to have a more dramatic feel, Greenfield said. “We hope to attract some sitdown restaurants and are also planning to put a food court on the west side,” Greenfield said. The final phase will focus on changes to exterior landscaping and parking areas. It is yet to be determined when phase three will begin. “This mall is in a great l o c a t i o n ,” s a i d S u s a n Schweiker, Dillard’s cosmetic a n d l i n g e r i e m a n a g e r. “It doesn’t make sense to let it go

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Kinesiology sophomore Chassidy Douglas has her eyebrows threaded Wednesday by Shraddha Aryal in Browz A Round at the Golden Triangle Mall. The shop was a cart in the mall before opening the storefront last year. to pot. We’re hoping these renovations rejuvenate the mall.” Hopeful retailers have sought out space inside the soon-to-beupdated mall, though names will not be released until leases have been signed, Greenfield said. “We have set up a merchan-

A-train Continued from Page 1

Dee Leggett, v ice president of DCTA’s communications and planning, said she hopes the A-train can continue running on Fridays. “Our pr ior it ies when it comes to providing the services for the community are to make sure we have the midday trains available, the later evening schedules on weekdays and

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let’s pay ourselves.’” An unofficial hand count showed the majority of SGA senators agreed with the accelerated fee increase. “It’s better to start investing in our future now,” said SGA Vice President Edwin Chavez, who supported the proposed fee increase. “It might hurt, but the benefits pay off after we graduate and leave UNT better then when we arrived.” The SGA also appointed three new senators to represent two colleges: political science

dising plan that we showed to the retailers,” Greenfield said. “We want to upgrade existing space and bring in some new merchants as well.” Though renovations promise to improve the quality of the mall, Greenfield said not to expect to see a Gucci store.

“It’s hard for me to say upscale [or] downscale, but there will be a blend of shops like in any mall, with stores at different price levels,” Greenfield said. “Our goal is to bring in stores that will attract people to return to the mall who maybe have never really shopped here before.”

then the late-night schedule on Friday and Saturday,” Leggett said. “People have suggested that we need to extend our times, but we are struggling to meet the amount of ridership. We have to remain fiscally responsible.” UNT Parking and Transportation Services coordinator Ken K indle hea rd about the proposed changes Friday. “I would hate to see them [DCTA] do that, but there has to be cuts made some-

where,” Kindle said. “I would have to have more information before I can make an opinion on whether it is to their benefit.” Leggett said DCTA will make an effort to receive feedback while assessments on ridership are made. Ideas for new changes in August can either be brought to the public meetings in March and April or sent through the DCTA’s Facebook and Twitter pages, along with its website: www.dcta.net.

POLICE BLOTTER Alcohol and Drugrelated Offenses Thursday, Feb. 9 11:13 p.m. – A UNT police officer approached two males, a 17-year-old and an 18-yearold, at the 600 block of Central Avenue. Both suspects fled on foot before being apprehended. The 17-year-old was found to have marijuana in his possession and was taken to the Denton County Jail. Friday, Feb. 10 10:19 a.m. – A UNT police officer approached a suspicious person, a 20-year-old UNT student, at the top of the Union Circle Parking Garage. The student was in possession of K2, issued a citation and released from the scene. An offense report was filed.

Theft and Burglary Wednesday, Feb. 8 3: 06 p.m. – A student

reported his bicycle stolen at the 1600 block of Chestnut Street. A UNT police officer responded and a report was filed. Tuesday, Feb. 14 2 :35 p.m. – Denton PD reported a theft in progress at 113 Avenue A. A UNT police officer responded and approached the suspect, a 27-yea r-old non-student. The suspect was found to be i ntox icated a nd had committed the theft of food. He was arrested and taken to Denton County Jail.

Miscellaneous Saturday, Feb. 11 1:57 a.m. – A UNT police of f icer approached t wo suspicious males, both 24 years old and non-students. One was intoxicated, while the other was in possession of a dagger, and both had committed crimina l

m i sch ief. T he su spec t s were arrested and taken to Denton County Jail. Sunday, Feb. 12 6:22 a.m. – The digital fire alarm system reported an alarm at Legends Hall. UNT police officers responded and determined it was a false alarm. An investigation discovered a 20-yearold male student had activated the fire alarm pull station. The student was also found to be in possession of alcohol. He was arrested and taken to Denton County Jail. Monday, Feb. 13 2:57 p.m. – A complainant found unk now n medication at Traditions Hall and reported to UNT police. The responding officer identified the medication as a controlled substance and took it into custody. An incident report was filed.

Correction In Wednesday’s edition of the North Texas Daily – in the story “UNT teams on path for success” – tier-one funding was said to go to athletic departments. Tier-one f u nd ing is act ua l ly used for resea rch purposes. The Daily regrets this error.

Thursday, February 16, 2012 Alex Macon, Arts & Life Editor

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“Monologues” returns to UNT N adia H ill Staff Writer

T he t h i n l i ne bet ween v ictimization and empowerment, the trauma and joy of sex and the various names for the female anatomy are all explored in “The Vagina Monologues,” now in its 11th production at UNT. “The Vagina Monologues” opens Friday at the Lyceum and will run all weekend. The play features heartfelt and vulnerable stories told from the perspectives of battered, abused women. UNT’s performances this year will feature seventeen fem a le monolo g i s t s a nd fourteen chorus girls under the direction of theatre arts senior Erin Kane and politica l science senior Shelby Henderson. The production is sponsored by t he Fem i n i st Majority Leadership Alliance at UNT, who said the performance was to support t he “Monologues”-inspired V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. “ We don’t t r y to h ide what we’re ta lk ing about,” Henderson said. “We had the girls watch a film about V-Day so they knew right from the first day that this was more than Denton and more than just acting. It’s about a movement.” Both Kane and Henderson h av e pr e v iou s l y pa r t ic ipated in t he play at UNT, delivering monologues and singing in the chorus. Kane also did some directing in high school and taught at a summer camp. Their previous work with “The Vag ina Monolog ues” led them to interview for the directing position. “We were asked to have

a theme, and I think that’s why I got the job,” Kane said. “It’s t he idea of a phoeni x rising from the ashes, that as sisters, we don’t have to go through that, and there’s always hope.” The phoenix theme can be seen in small details added to t he production production, such as the movement of sand from scene to scene to signifying rising from the ashes. “Coming f rom a n ROTC backg rou nd I t houg ht strength came from masculinity, but doing this made me realize the strength in femininity,” Henderson said. “I like being there for the girls, and this brings people from different backgrounds.” Kane encouraged monolog ists to f ind words t hat spea k to t hem, of fer ing a fresh perspective from years past, updating and adapting the monologues, which were or ig i na l l y per for me d of f -Broadway in 1996. Henderson worked specifically with the chorus to build on the stories and relate them to the audience. “This isn’t about say ing ‘vagina’ and shocking people,” Kane said. “I want there to be a feeling of cha nge, hope, power. It’s about reclaiming t hose words, a nd t hat our body parts aren’t an insult.” F M L A P re sident S a r a h Dow n i ng sa id t h is yea r’s show was bound to get people talking about how to prevent violence against women. “The show will be phenomenal with the cast that Shelby a nd E r i n put to ge t her,” Downing said. “I think the audience can take what they see at the show and start real conversations about rape and abuse and what we can all do.”

“The Vagina Monologues” Show Times All performances will be at the UNT Lyceum Friday, Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6 p.m.) Saturday, Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. (Doors open at 1:30 p.m.) Tickets are $8 at the Union information desk and $10 at the door. All proceeds will go to the Women and Girls of Haiti and the Mosaic and Resolana organizations.

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UNT alumnus Matt Merchand heats glass in a 2,800-degree flame in his studio Wednesday evening. Merchand is preparing the piece for a competition in Las Vegas next week.

Alumnus, glassblower goes MAD A shley Grant Staff Writer

The dark, buglike safety glasses protecting Matt Marchand’s eyes reflect the flame’s glow. A UGK song piping in from a nearby stereo almost drowns out the sound of the torch’s hiss, as Marchand blows through tubes and maneuvers rods to give shape to the bubbling molten glass delicately held in the steady fire. It isn’t long before a newly formed glass pipe begins to appear. The 30-year-old UNT sculpture graduate and professional glassblower is doing what he does best. Marchand got his first torch in 2005 as a gift from his mother, also a glassblower, and he’s been blowing glass ever since. Although some of Marchand’s larger, more elaborate pieces sell for thousands of dollars, he said the bulk of his business comes from pipes, which are sold at head shops around Denton. He said his glasswork was designed to be both practical and artistic. “I’ve been trying to take the pipe world and introduce it to a university setting so it’s not something that’s looked down on,” he said. “Just because I make a functional piece doesn’t mean I’m asking you to go do something illegal with it.” Marchand begins making his pieces with rods of either clear or metal-oxide colored glass.

Libraries’ database grows Brittni Barnett Senior Staff Writer

UNT Libraries is wholeheartedly embracing the digital era by continuing to add thousands of documents and images to its sizable online collection. The Portal to Texas History, one of UNT Libraries’ online databases, recently expanded its collection with the addition of the “Texas Standard,” the official publication of the Teachers’ State Association of Texas. The publication chronicles the efforts of the TSAT, which was founded in 1884 to promote educational equality for AfricanAmerican students and improve the working conditions and salaries of African-American teachers in the early part of the twentieth century. “What’s special about this is that this publication existed while segregation was in place,” said Tara Carlisle, project development librarian for UNT Libraries. “And so it was the only voice for African-American teachers. And as you go through each of the issues, you see that it really

empowered them and enabled them. The 98 issues of the “Texas Standard” were acquired and digitized through a partnership with Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. Prairie View archivist Phyllis Earles said they had been holding the issues since using them in a project several years ago. “Putting these documents online opens them up to a worldwide audience instead of just those who see the ones in paper format,” Earles said. “Now anyone who has Internet can access this information.” The “Texas Standard” is part of more than 174,000 items and more than 900,000 digital images that can be found in the Portal to Texas History, Carlisle said. The portal, which began in 2004, serves as a digital gateway for various historic documents and images from around the state. Documents can be found from each of Texas’ 254 counties, Carlisle said. Funding for the portal comes from grants provided by various

agencies and private donors, said Dreanna Belden, assistant dean for external relations for UNT Libraries. In addition to the Portal for Texas History, UNT Libraries also hosts the UNT digital library. According to the latest report issued by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain, UNT is ranked 9th in North America and 19th in the world for its digital presence. This puts UNT in the ranks with universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Smithsonian and NASA, Belden said. “What we think about a lot in this library is what is means to be a library in the 21st century,” Belden said. “So part of being a library in the 21st century is providing access and delivering materials to people that are one of a kind, unique things that they can’t get anywhere else and providing that to them online.”

While the torch is blowing, he twists the linear rod in front of the flame to shape the glass, blowing through a long tube to give it form and structure. Marchand has been making ornate glass wall pieces, installations and jewelry for about six years but has been focusing mostly on pipes for the last four. W hen Ma rcha nd was pursuing his bachelor’s degree in sculpture, a friend asked him to help out with a few projects at Vetro Glassblowing Studio in Grapevine. “I went every single day. Even after the projects were completed, I was there all the time helping out,” he said. “That’s when I really got into it.” His constant presence at the studio landed Marchand his first apprenticeship. A few years later he ventured to Murano, Italy, considered the mecca of glassblowing, where he also found work as an apprentice. After Marchand returned to Texas several years ago, he decided to branch out on his own with Marchand Art Design Glass Studio, or MAD Glass. He now creates most of his pieces at his warehouse studio in Denton. MAD Glass salesman Kent Barrow said he got sucked into glassblowing the same way Marchand did, by getting involved in various tasks at the studio.

“I’ve always appreciated the craft, and to be able to manipulate glass the way Marchand does is just amazing,” Barrow said. The Zebra’s Head on Fry Street carries a variety of MAD Glass glassware, priced anywhere from

“It just grabs hold of you and doesn’t let go.” —Matt Marchand MAD Glass $50 to $1000. Marchand said his most expensive piece sold for $15,000. In February 2011, Marchand won a competition at the CHAMPS Trade Show in Las Vegas with a 3-foot-high water fountain decorated with colorful flowers, frogs and two detachable lizards adorning the sides. “That piece took about three months to make,” Marchand said. “It’s currently going for $20,000.”

He will return to Las Vegas on Saturday to compete again. Marchand said he loved his job but admitted that creating such intricate pieces could be dangerous. About a year and a half ago, Marchand said he lost his vision for three days following a live glassblowing demonstration gone wrong. “I was in a poorly lit area and lifted my goggles for the last 30 minutes of the demonstration,” he said. “I woke up the next morning not being able to see anything. It was the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me.” UNT’s master glassblower William A. Smith said the heat isn’t the only danger to glass artists. “Chemicals can come off the glass, and there’s also a possibility that glass particles can be inhaled when working,” Smith said. Despite the risks, Marchand said that for him, glassblowing was like a disease. “It just grabs hold of you and doesn’t let go.” To see more of Marchand’s work, “like” MAD Glass on Facebook.

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ULM travels to Denton for conference rematch Men’s Basketball

UNT vs. University of Louisiana at Monroe

BRETT M EDEIROS Senior Staff Writer

With just two weeks left in the regular season, the UNT men’s basketball team will begin its final stretch of the regular season with a twogame home stand starting off against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks tonight in the Super Pit at 7 p.m. The Warhawks lead the alltime series against the Mean Green by six games, but the last five years has been dominated by UNT. The Mean Green (14-11, 7-5) has won nine of the last ten matchups since the 2007 season, including a 13-point victory in January. “We still got to do a great job defensively against them [ULM],” head coach Johnny Jones said. “It’s all about overall execution at high level. There cannot just be one specific thing we have to do better than the other to have success.” In the teams’ last matchup, UNT jumped out to a 19-2 lead to open the game and never looked back on its way to a 68-55 road win. The Warhawks (2-23, 1-13) have struggled this season and sit in last place in the Sun Belt Conference. ULM has the longest losing streak in the conference with eight consecutive losses. “It’s all about getting wins,” freshman forward Tony Mitchell said. “We need to close out the

7 p.m. tonight at the Super Pit

Player to watch: Junior guard Roger Franklin Franklin accumulated 16 points and a career-high 15 rebounds in the season’s first matchup. There’s no reason to think he can’t have a repeat performance.

X-Factor: Junior forward Jacob Holmen Holmen exploded in the second half against Florida Atlantic for 20 points. Even though UNT lost to FAU, Holmen’s ability to stretch out the defense helps take pressure off Tony Mitchell when both are on the court.

Last Matchup: UNT 68, ULM 55 UNT kept ULM winless at home with a relatively easy 13-point win Jan. 14.

games and keep on the gas when we have the lead.” The last time UNT played, t he tea m blew a 19-point second half lead before eventually losing a double-overtime game to FAU. While both UNT and ULM rank in the bottom half of the conference in defense, the teams’ scoring averages are polar opposites. Against conference opponents, the Mean Green boasts

the Sun Belt’s No.1 offense with 73.6 points per game, while the Warhawks are last with a 59.2 point per game average. “It’ll be all about us and playing with a sense of urgency out there,” sophomore guard Alzee Williams said. “We just need to go out there and play Mean Green basketball.” The Mean Green is a lso using a f luctuating starting l i neup. Jones has rotated

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Senior guard Tyler Hall expresses exhaustion during practice Tuesday in the Super Pit. With only two games left, it was one of the most strenuous practices of the season. The Mean Green will face University of Louisiana at Monroe at 7 p.m. tonight in the Coliseum. senior guard Tyler Hall and junior forward Jacob Holmen in and out of the starting five, depending on the problems the opponent’s starting lineup presents.

Mean Green falls to ULM in overtime Women’s Basketball A LISON ELDRIDGE Senior Staff Writer

The Mean Green women’s basketball team (13-13, 6-7) extended its losing streak to four games with a 70-67 overtime loss to Louisiana-Monroe (9-17, 7-6) on Wednesday night at the Super Pit. The loss kept head coach Karen Aston one win shy of her 100th career victory. Aston will be only the second women’s basketball head coach in UNT history to do so while coaching the Mean Green. Former head coach Tina Slinker claimed her 100th in 1999. “This might be the toughest loss we’ve had this year,” head coach Karen Aston said. “From the standpoint of feeling like we had the thing won and just made too many mistakes down the stretch.” In the last meeting between the teams in January, the Mean Green won on a buzzer-beating layup by senior guard Brittney Hudson. Wednesday night’s game was the first back in the Super Pit after the team traveled to Florida last week. With the loss, the team drops to fourth place in the West Division. Sophomore guard Desiree Nelson made a layup with two seconds left in regulation to send the Mean Green into overtime for only the second time this season. The layup gave Nelson her first points of the game. UNT went up by four in the overtime period before ULM scored six consecutive points to put the Warhawks up for good. “We just made too many mistakes because we had a lot of opportunities,” junior for wa rd Ja sm i ne Godbolt said. T he f i rst poi nts of t he game came from a foul on senior guard Tamara Torru, who made 75 percent of her free throws during the game. T houg h t he Mea n Green started the scoring for the night, it struggled offensively in the first half, turning over

This season, Hall averages 1.9 points per game in 12.4 minutes of action per game, while Holmen, who recently returned from injury, averages 5.4 points per game.

The Mean Green’s projected sta r t i ng l i neup aga i nst t he Wa rhaw k s compr ises Williams, Mitchell, Holmen and junior guards Brandan Walton and Roger Franklin.

Mean Green Trivia Question: In his first year at UNT, freshman forward Tony Mitchell has taken the Sun Belt Conference by storm, winning three straight Sun Belt Player of the Week Awards last month and leading the conference in five major statistical categories. Which five categories does Mitchell currently lead the Sun Belt in? Answer: Mitchell leads the conference in scoring, rebounds, field goal percentage, 3-point percentage and blocks. For the latest updates on UNT athletics and more Mean Green Trivia, follow the NTDailySports Twitter, @ NTDailySports!

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Sophomore guard Desiree Nelson dives to steal the ball from University of Louisiana-Monroe Jasmine Shaw during the Mean Green’s 70-67 overtime loss Wednesday in the Super Pit. the ball 12 times and making only 29 percent of its field goal attempts. “It was frustrating to lose when we knew we should’ve won,” Torru said. “We should’ve played the first half as hard as we played the second half.” Torru finished the game with a double-double, as she scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. She and Godbolt led the team with 16 points each. “What concerns me more than anything is when you haven’t had a n enormous amount of success then, when

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adversity comes, you kinda go back to what you were,” Aston said. “I don’t want us to do that. We’ve got to keep moving for ward. We’re not where we were.” The game was the annual promotion of the Kay Yow Ca ncer Fund. Bot h tea ms

warmed up in pink “Play 4Kay” T-shirts, and both benches sported various shades of pink. The Mean Green will play its final home game of the season at 1 p.m. Saturday against the University of LouisianaLafayette.

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Campus Chat

Do you think drug use is widespread throughout the NCAA?

“I would assume people do whatever they need to get by, so selling drugs for money to keep tuition and even for performance enhancers, there’s a lot of pressure on kids to succeed. Too much.”

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“These are college kids, right? I’d assume there’s a lot of drugs going on.”

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TCU handled drug scandal properly The last year has been a scandalous one for the NCAA. It began in May 2011 when Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel resigned amid allegations of knowingly allowing his players to violate NCAA regulations and trade signed memorabilia for tattoos. Then, in November, the sports world was rocked by allegations that Jerry Sandusky, Penn State assistant coach of 42 years, had been charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse of young boys. Now, scandal has hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area with the arrest of four Texas Christian University players for selling marijuana, cocaine, acid, ecstasy and numerous kinds of prescription drugs. Defensive players Tanner Brock, Devin

Johnson, D.J. Yendrey and offensive tackle Tyler Horn were all taken into custody as part of a drug bust that resulted in the arrests of a total of seventeen TCU students. According to Brock’s arrest warrant, obtained by ESPNDallas.com, an undercover police officer first bought marijuana from Yendrey and Horn and several months later was referred to Brock for the purchase of more marijuana. The key difference between Ohio State and Penn State and this recent scandal in Fort Worth is the way TCU administration addressed the issue. In Ohio State, when the transgressors were punished with a five-game

suspension for the start of the 2011 football season, it was done as a façade. Tressel didn’t bench star quarterback Terrelle Pryor because he thought it was the right thing to do, he did it because everyone else suddenly became aware of the violations being committed. Tressel had known about the rule-breaking for eight months and did nothing. In a horrific case of inaction, Penn State officials were made aware of allegations against Sandusky and did not immediately alert the authorities. The poor handling of that situation led to the resignation of both former Penn State President Graham Spanier and the late head football coach Joe Paterno. In stark contrast, TCU worked with

Fort Worth police for six months to orchestrate the bust. The bust took place Wednesday morning, and by that afternoon both the athletic director and head coach had issued statements that made a strong case for zero-tolerance when it comes to drugs. TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. stated, “...if you want to do this kind of thing, you can’t go to TCU.” Other collegiate athletic programs could learn a thing or two from TCU’s hard-nosed approach. The Edboard commends the immediacy and honesty of TCU’s response to this scandal. If athletes can’t meet standards of honor set by their own schools, then they have no place in the NCAA.

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Sports media is Lin-credibly annoying The unexpected doesn’t happen too often in the National Basketball Associat ion. W hen t he season begins, there are usually only four or five teams with a legitimate chance of winning a championship and three or four guys with a shot at Most Valuable Player. There’s not really too much in your typical NBA season that will ever surprise you. Maybe that’s why the national media cannot get enough of Jeremy Lin. Lin, the New York Knicks starting point guard, thrust himself into the national spotlight by playing out of his mind over the last seven games. I won’t beat you over the head with stats, but he’s scored the most points in NBA history in anyone’s first six starts of their career. Throw in him being the first A mer ica n-bor n NBA player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent and that he is a second-year undrafted player who slept on a teammate’s couch until a few days ago, and it’s easy to see why it’s such a great story. That said, I’m beyond sick of hearing about Jeremy Lin. I turn on the television and there he is. I get online and his mug is in my face. For whatever reason, I can’t get away from him. Yes, I get it, it’s ridiculously easy to make puns out of his last name (Linsanity, Lincredible, etc.), but can we please calm down? First of all, it’s an incredibly small sample size. Don’t get me wrong, he’s definitely a good player, but let’s see him play like this over a couple of months before we start the Jeremy Lin News Network. If

he was as good as he’s played over the last week, he wouldn’t have been riding the pine for the first season and a half of his professional career. I don’t care if Lin finally moved off his teammate’s couch and got his own place, nor do I care to see the same Jeremy Lin highlight 459 times on a single episode of SportsCenter. Pa r t of t he attention comes from the fact that he plays in New York, where nearly everything is overrated, and that he is AsianAmerican in a league where you don’t see too many Asian-American players. I don’t d isl i ke Jeremy L i n. He seems like a nice guy who I wouldn’t mind seeing succeed. But there’s no need to beat his story to death before we ever find out if Lin’s game has any kind of sustainability. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re heading toward months and months of Tim Tebowlike coverage.

Bobby Lewis is a journalism senior. He can be reached Blew7@ hotmail.com

People should research before self-medicating The other day when I was at work, a woman came up to me and asked if we carried vitamin D. I escorted her to the correct aisle, and she proceeded to ask if vitamin D was “popular” right now, as if it were a style of clothing that was “in” this season. Unfortunately, she isn’t the only person who has asked me questions of this nature before. Quite regularly, shoppers come to me overwhelmed by the vitamin section, asking for products whose names they can’t pronounce and whose effects they couldn’t tell you. These blind consumers seem to be running rampant lately, and they also seem to be watching far too many episodes of Dr. Oz. Many consumers are so enthralled by the little bits of information they are given on health-related TV shows that they do little to no research of their own. When daytime tv is coupled with the rest of the media’s message that it’s cool to be healthy and organic, a lot of uninformed customers are compelled to hop on the holisticbandwagon. I f requent ly get ca lls f rom customers that go as follows: “Cupboard Natural Foods, this is Nicole.” “Hi, yes, I was wondering if you had any (insert holistic product here).” “I’m not quite sure what that is, can you tell me what it is for?” At this point in the conversation many bewildered customers answer with “Well, I’m not sure” and let out a guilty chuckle. You see, many customers don’t seem to know what it is they’re buying or why they’re buying it. They just heard it was

the greatest thing since calcium in pill form. This trend of self-diagnosing isn’t a new one: in fact, Americans spend $33.9 billion a year on alternative medicine, according to consumerreports.org. With the rising cost of health insurance and health care, self-treatment can be an enticing propsect. But those who choose to self-treat should at the very least make themselves aware of their own personal health needs before entering the vitamin section of their local health food store as if it were really just full of lollipops. There can be very serious risks associated with misdiagnosing yourself such as unexpected health problems. Not to mention that medicine you don’t need is a complete waste of money, and vitamins aren’t cheap. If you’re not going to go to an actual doctor, at least take time to consult the Internet. If you insist on doctoring yourself, try and do it well.

Nicole Balderas is a journalism senior. She can be reached at nicolebalderas12@gmail.com.

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Freshman makes immediate impact at UNT Profile TYLER OWENS Staff Writer

Get used to hearing the name Kseniya Bardabush on the UNT campus. In her first eight matches of the dual match season, Bardabush – also known as Ksusha (su-sha) to her peers – has taken the Mean Green tennis team’s competition by storm and has moved into the No. 1 singles slot. Since taking over the top slot last week, Bardabush beat TCU junior Olivia Smith, the nation’s No. 114 ranked player in straight sets. It was the Mean Green’s second win en route to coming back from being down 3-0 to beat TCU 4-3. “It is very rare that you see a freshman playing at that spot,” head coach Sujay Lama said. “For her to adapt and adjust and play at this level, it is not very common.”

Bardabush began her tennis career at only eight years old in her home city of Lutsk, Ukraine. Because tennis was not popular in her native area of Ukraine, her parents, Viktor and Galina Bardabush, took her to Kiev, the

come here to study and play at the same time.” Obviously, coach Lama saw something special in her. “For her to adjust to the demands and rigors of college is exceptional,” he said. “She really

“For her to adapt and adjust and play at this level, it is not very common.” —Sujay Lama Tennis head coach capital city of Ukraine, to help her hone her skills. After four years in the capital, her family moved back to Lutsk, and she began playing in professional tournaments. “Coach Lama came to the Ukraine to meet me [last year],” Bardabush said. “I decided to

has impressed me. She’s done so well both on and off the court, [in a] new country, new culture and new team.” The transition has not been easy. She had to leave her parents, her sister Irina, 26, and her brother Denis, 11, in Ukraine, quickly learn English and come to the

United States to get an education and play tennis. “At the beginning it was so different being here,” she said. “The people here are more socialized and nicer than in the Ukraine.” In her first season with the team, Bardabush has stepped into one of the primary leadership roles. “She is a complete person,” Lama said. “She is so mature. She carries herself so well both on and off the court. She is a good human being, and her teammates absolutely love her.” Not only do her coaches and peers see her as a leader, she looks at herself in that light as well. “I have a strong mentality. I am a fighter,” she said. “I never give up.” She epitomizes what the team looks for in a No. 1 tennis player and is also there for her teammates off the court. “She is a big support for her team,” fellow freshman Franziska

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Classification: Freshman Hometown: Lutsk, Ukraine Hobbies: Cooking, dancing and modeling Major: Hospitality management Sprinkmeyer said. “Not only in the tennis part but also as a friend.” UNT has won three straight matches – two against ranked

teams – with Bardabush leading the way. “She’s got a great future here,” Lama said. “I wouldn’t trade her for anybody.”

UNT athletics hitting the ground running Opinion B M Senior Staff Writer

UNT has gone through monumental athletic changes in the last 10 to 15 years. Before the changes, there were part-time coaches and inadequate facilities, and UNT simply was not able to attract the best athletes to the school. I spoke with Athletic Director Rick Villarreal earlier in the week, and one of the things he mentioned was that about

30 years ago UNT had ignored athletics and only had sports at the school because that was what you were supposed to do. What hit me the hardest was Villareal said UNT actually contemplated dropping the football program. I understand UNT was a very arts-heavy institution even back in those days, but dropping football would have been an awful decision. The football team hasn’t offered much to get excited about since 2004, but head football coach Dan McCarney, who was hired in November 2010,

has brought optimism to the program. The team failed to win half of the games in McCarney’s first season with the Mean Green (5-7), but it was just three wins shy of matching UNT’s win total from the previous four seasons combined. Since 2002, the strides taken by UNT to upgrade the athletic facilities have been the most noticeable. Built on what used to be the Eagle Point Golf Course, the football, volleyball, soccer and softball teams each call the Mean Green Village home.

Excluding football because of its recent move to Apogee Stadium, the teams on the south side of I-35 have gathered six Sun Belt Conference regular season titles since 2002 and are making strong pushes to continue that trend. In golf, the men’s team is No. 37 in the nation, while the women’s team also cracks the top 75 at No. 61. The tennis team has already played four teams ranked in the nation’s top 50, picking up wins over No. 53 Kansas State and No. 44 Texas Christian University.

In the future, more success could find its way to the Mean Green Village. Getting a Division I baseball team at UNT is no fairy tale. The athletic department has already brought in a one-of-a-kind football stadium, so why wouldn’t they do the same for America’s pastime? Villarreal told me one of his goals when he got the job was to bring a baseball team to Denton, especially since it would bring more people to campus in the spring. Because of the impressive changes in facilities, staffing,

Brett Medeiros rosters and even the fanbase over the last 10 to 15 years, Mean Green athletics are stronger than ever.

TCU football players arrested in drug bust FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Authorities arrested 17 students at Texas Christian University on Wednesday as part of a six-month drug sting, an especially embarrassing blow to the school because it included four members of the high-profile football team. Arrest warrants painted a startling picture of the Horned Frogs, with a handful of players who allegedly arranged marijuana sales after class or around practice and who told police that most of the team had failed a surprise drug test just two weeks ago. According to police, players sold undercover officers marijuana during the season and as recently as last week. “There are days people want to be a head football coach, but today is not one of those days,” coach Gary Patterson said in a prepared statement. “As I heard the news this morning, I was first shocked, then hurt and now I’m mad.” The 17 people arrested were caught making “hand-to-hand” sales of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs to undercover officers, police said. They said the bust followed an investigation prompted by complaints from students, parents and others. Three prominent defensive players on the team were arrested: linebacker Tanner Brock, the

leading tackler two seasons ago, defensive tackle D.J. Yendrey and cornerback Devin Johnson. The other player is offensive lineman Ty Horn. While school Chancellor Victor Boschini said he didn’t think TCU had a “football problem,” the arrest affidavits raise the possibility that other players were involved. In November, a Fort Worth police officer was informed that Horn was selling marijuana to “college students and football players at Texas Christian.” The officer allegedly bought marijuana that day, Nov. 3, two days before a road game at Wyoming, from both Horn and Yendrey. Officers during the next several months allegedly set up drug deals with the players outside restaurants, a grocery store and other areas around campus. On Jan. 19, Brock allegedly sold an officer $200 worth of marijuana after Yendrey ran out. “After a short conversation about the marijuana, Brock and I exchanged phone numbers, telling me to come to him from now on instead of (Yendrey),” according to the affidavits. Brock allegedly told an undercover officer that he failed the surprise test “for sure,” but that it wouldn’t be a problem because there “would be about 60 people screwed.”

Horn had looked through the football roster and “said there were only 20 people that would pass the test on the team,” Brock said, according to the warrant. And six days after the test, Johnson allegedly sold an officer $300 worth of marijuana. In response to that allegation, TCU cornerback Kolby Griffin posted a tweet on his personal account Wednesday that read, “This rumor about 82 of us failing a drug test is false completely false.” “The comments about failed drug tests made by the separated players in affidavits cannot be verified simply because they were made in the context of a drug buy,” the school said. Patterson declined to answer questions beyond his prepared statement. Police said they had yet to determine if other football players were involved or would be charged. “I expect our student-athletes to serve as ambassadors for the university and will not tolerate behavior that reflects poorly on TCU, the athletics department, our teams or other studentathletes within the department,” athletic director Chris Del Conte said. “Our student-athletes are a microcosm of society and unfortunately that means some of our players reflect a culture that glorifies drugs and drug use. That mindset is not reflected by TCU nor will it be allowed within athletics.” Boschini, the chancellor, called the charges against all the students “simply unacceptable.” Fraternity members were among those arrested, though Boschini said he didn’t think any whole fraternity houses were at fault. “Today’s events have changed the life of everybody at TCU,” Boschini said.

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