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UNT Board of Regents approves tuition increase NICOLE BALDERAS Senior Staff Writer
The Board of Regents approved a 3.95 percent tuition increase for undergraduate and graduate students during a meeting yesterday. The increase would raise tuition rates for undergraduates in fall 2012 and 2013. Graduate students will share the hike only for fall 2012 but will pay an additional $25 per semester credit hour beginning that semester. “It’s important to balance quality and cost effectiveness, and I’m pleased the Board of Regents looks at these issues c a ref u l l y,” U N T Sy stem Chancellor Lee Jackson said. “They asked a lot of questions about operating improvements and approved modest increases for all our campuses.” Underg raduate resident
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Effect of the 3.95 % tuition increase Price of 15 credit hours for undergraduate resident students:
Spring 2012: $4,191.05 Fall 2012: $4,556.70 Fall 2013: $4,740.95
LEE JACKSON
V. LANE RAWLINS
students paid $4,191.05 in tuition for 15 credit hours for this semester. The increase will raise tuition to $4,566.70 for 15
credit hours in fall 2012 and to $4,740.95 for 15 credit hours in fall 2013. “I never really feel good about a tuition increase,” UNT President V. Lane Rawlins said. “I know a lot of students are struggling. Even with the increase it’s still squeezing some tight budgets, but I do feel good about how we’re using this money.”
See TUITION on Page 2
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English senior Devin Kelly and computer science freshman Bryce Fleeman, Quidditch team captain, fight over the Quaffle, which is the ball used to score points in a Quidditch match. See QUIDDITCH on page 3
City council considering new food ordinances NICHOLAS CAIN Intern
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The Old Alton Bridge, located seven miles south of UNT, has been named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, the highest honor the state can give a historic structure. The bridge was built in 1884 and can be found on Old Alton Road near Teasley Lane in Denton.
Bridge named a landmark CAYDEE ENSEY
chairwoman. “A regular marker is for information and education,” Stribling T he Te x a s H i s t or ic a l Commission last week honored said. “The Commissioners’ Denton County’s Old Alton Bridge Court deserves a lot of credit by naming it a Recorded Texas for the work they already do in Historic Landmark (RTHL), the preserving bridges in Denton, highest honor the state can give and giving the Old Alton Bridge a RTHL marker ensures the a historic structure. The bridge, located on Copper county will maintain structure Canyon Road about seven miles in years to come.” In order to be named a RTHL, south of UNT, was built in 1884. The truss bridge is one of the last a site must have historical and standing in Texas, according to architectural significance, be at Roslyn Shelton, Denton County least 50 years old and must not Historical Commission admin- have been moved from the spot where it was built, according to istrative manager. Being given an RTHL marker is Stribling. “Most historical bridges fall different than receiving a typical historical marker, according to short of eligible when we come to Beth Stribling, Denton County that last requirement,” Stribling Historical Commission Marker said. “Almost all of them have Staff Writer
been moved from their original sites.” The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. A lengthy application process and financial commitment kept Old Alton Bridge from being named as a RTHL until now, according to Stribling. “It is a lot of work to submit a site to the THC,” Stribling said. “Lots of paperwork and proof of historical accuracy is needed, as well as a chunk of money. It cost $1,600 to give the Old Alton Bridge a marker. We were lucky that we had the money to designate it; the THC doesn’t always have that luxury.”
See BRIDGE on Page 2
In lieu of its traditional City Council meeting, Denton hosted a roundtable discussion last week to discuss various details in the latest proposed food ordinances. The gathering allowed for establishment owners to discuss with members of the Denton Consumer Health Division new city policies ranging from management certification to regulations toward farmers markets and stipulations that would allow mobile food trucks in the city. “As of now it’s hard for food trucks to exist,” City Councilman Kevin Roden said. “This discussion was a way for businesses to voice their concerns before this ordinance goes before City Council in the next meeting.” Dallas and Fort Worth have already made changes that allow food trucks to operate. “Dallas, and particularly the arts district, is flooded with food trucks, and there is even a park for food trucks in Fort Worth,” Roden said. “In the next meeting we will be talking about many different subjects in the city; however, the new food ordinances will be a big part of the discussion and in particular the mobile food industry.” However, even after this roundtable gathering, many
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Lee’s Grilled Cheese co-owner Lee Perez prepares a sandwich at the food truck outside of the Language Building on Tuesday afternoon. local business owners have concerns about the new ordinances, including Keith Lee Weber and Lee Perez – owners
of Lee’s Grilled Cheese food truck.
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SGA campaign season kicks off with presidential debate HOLLY HARVEY
Senior Staff Writer In advance of next week’s Student Government Association elections, the 2012 SGA presidential candidates met in a debate last night in the University Union’s Silver Eagle Suite during which they addressed issues on campus. Morgan Ray and running mate Adam Hasley faced off against opponent Rudy Reynoso and running mate Justin Wood on five main topics: the new Union plan, campus parking, issues facing students, the main problem facing the SGA and diversity.
Candidates were allowed opening and closing statements, and also fielded several audience questions at the end of the debate. Plans for the Union Ray, an English junior, and Hasley, a pre-radio, television, film sophomore, said they would support the vote of students on the funding plan for the new Union. “I’ve worked in the Union, and in some places the floor slants or is buckled,” Ray said. “We definitely need a new Union.” Reynoso, a triple marketing, Spanish, and communications
sophomore, and Justin Wood, a philosophy junior, held the same stance, saying student opinion was needed in deciding how to pay for the Union. “Students should see it as an investment,” Reynosa said. Problems with parking Ray described parking at UNT as “abominable” and said she would work with administrators to relocate some premium parking places and make people more aware of temporary parking passes. Reynosa said he would work to change some meters to regular
parking and relocate where funds from parking fines go. He also wants to create awnings for bus stops around UNT. Most important student issue that needs to change Ray said that the issue that needs to change the most is voicing student opinion and that students need to feel that they’re being heard. She suggested the use of comment boxes and promoting SGA agendas and events. Reynosa also said getting student voices heard was important and that he wanted SGA to do bimonthly video updates and
MORGAN RAY
ADAM HASLEY
use social media and YouTube to promote SGA. Biggest problem at UNT that SGA can address Lack of spirit and traditions is a problem at UNT, according to
RUDY REYNOSO
JUSTIN WOOD
Ray. Building student connections and cosponsoring programs with other campus organizations can increase campus pride and involvement, she said.
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Inside FBI speaks with professor, student News | Page 2
Softball team needs some change Sports | Page 4
Nods and Shakes examines the debate Views | Page 5
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UNT professor, student questioned by FBI JUSTIN BRIGHT Staff Writer
An FBI agent and a Dallas police officer spoke last month with philosophy and religion professor Adam Briggle about specific materials in a syllabus for one of his courses on civil disobedience. Law en forcement of f icials brought up an article in his curriculum that supports “monkeywrenching,” an act of sabotag ing equipment performed by activists to stop projects they deem damaging to the environment. Briggle believed the FBI agent and officer were only seeking information. “They told me they are acting proactively and preventatively to smell out any signs of trouble for any potential eco-terrorist strikes revolving around the gas drilling issue on the Barnett Shale,” Briggle said. The FBI agent referenced a chapter from the book “Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching.” The first chapter, by Dave Foreman, calls on individuals “to act heroically in defense of the wild, to put a monkeywrench into the gears of the machine that is destroying natural diversity.”
“I told the FBI guy I counsel my students to break the law; just the unjust laws,” Briggle said. “As Foreman says, and Martin Luther King said, and Gandhi said, it should be a very serious and prolonged process to make sure you’ve gone through all the legal means first. That’s a very difficult thing to find out: what is an unjust law?” The agent and police officer repeated several times that they supported free speech as protected in the First Amendment but explained there is a difference between protesting and violence. “At one point they asked me, ‘Have you heard anything about IEDs [improvised explosive devices]?’” Briggle said. Briggle serves as the chair of the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group. He supported the moratorium on gas drilling exploration passed by the Denton City Council on the same day as the visit by the FBI. Along with Briggle, philosophy senior Ben Kessler was questioned about his work with Rising Tide North Texas, a direct action activist organization confronting climate change. Kessler was unavailable for comment.
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Philosophy and religion professor Adam Briggle was recently questioned by the FBI regarding course material in his syllabus, along with his personal opposition to hydraulic fracturing.
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The increase was approved in a cluster vote. The vote also included a 3.6 net increase to room and board rates – varying by dorm – and $1 increases to student service and Union fees – which is not a part of the Union Master Plan – as well as an increase in dining services fees. The projected amount to be gained from the increases is $11.7 million.
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Rawlins and staff presented their reasoning for the increase to the Board, which included the need to compete with outside university housing facilities in regards to the room and board increase, the need for more travel grants for students and the need for additional student financial aid. Of the $11.7 million projected increase from tuition and fee increases over the next two years, $4 million would be used toward academic growth, $2 million to hire counselors
and advisors, $2 million for graduate student recruitment, retention and scholarships, $1.4 million for employee salary raises, and $2.3 million would go to need-based financial aid. “[Need-based a id] is a primary area we try to raise private money for,” Rawlins said. “We want students to have access to more financial aid.” The Board also approved tuition increases for UNT Dallas and the UNT Health
Science Center in Fort Worth, meaning all three campuses in the UNT System will see tuition increase. A l so d i sc u ssed at t he meeting was a performance evaluation to be conducted by Regent Brint Ryan to evaluate business policies and practices of the university, selections for an architect for the Business Service Center renovations at Woodhill Square and established tuition rates for the College of Pharmacy when it opens in fall 2013.
and has been the setting of memories for families in the community. When the bridge was closed in the late ’90s, there was a public outcry to reopen it. “Most bridges are pushed
of f to t he side somewhere and become junk, so people became really interested in preserving it,” Stribling said. “W hen I f irst moved here in the ’80s, we would drive across this very interesting
bridge. It is one lane across, and you had to honk before you drove across it to avoid hitting other cars or pedestrians. It is hard to imagine it now, but it is such a charming gem of Denton’s history.”
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“If they try to regulate it like big restaurants that have a lot more resources than food trucks then there is a problem,” Perez said. “As long as they realize that these are average people who many are like us: laid off, and this business is really their plan B.” The City Council will next meet on April 3, at which time it will discuss the proposed new ord i na nces. T houg h t he new food ord i na nces will not be the main focus of next week’s meeting, last week’s informa l gat hering will provide City Council new ideas to shape the new ordinances. “This is new ground for us,” Roden said. “What will happen
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Lee’s Grilled Cheeses co-owner Keith Lee Weber sells a sandwich to studio art junior Ben Shawver on Tuesday afternoon. “I think they’re awesome. You get more variation,” Shawver said. is in about six months we will look at these ordinances and
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Musical performance sends UNT up in smoke Nadia Hill Staff Writer
Lost in a smoky haze, a curvaceous beauty strips naked a wide-eyed young man, all his doubts drummed out by belly dancers and fire-eaters celebrating the once innocent youngster’s descent into delirium. “Reefer Madness,” the modern day musical satirizing the 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same title, invites audiences to witness an absurd battle with weed and the implications surrounding this controversial issue, and is coming to UNT tomorrow night. “It’s not pro-marijuana. It satirizes everyone involved,” student director Tony Capps said. “We just want to entertain the audience and blow off steam around the whole subject. It’s meant to poke fun.” Jimmy, the 16-year-old goodytwo-shoes played by theatre senior David Ray, is lured into the Reefer Den by the sleazy Jack, a weed dealer. With each hit, Jimmy’s life spirals further out of control, surrounded by people he shouldn’t trust and betraying the ones he loves. An orgy and a series of violent murders ensue. “A lot of the characters are one-sided or stay the same throughout the play,” Ray
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Pre-theatre juniors Kole Franklin and Gemma Garcia and theatre seniors David Ray, Clayton Younkin and Caroline Dubberly perform as Ralph Wiley, Sally, Jimmy Harper, Jack Stone and Mae during rehearsals for “Reefer Madness” on Tuesday evening. Franklin, Garcia, Dubberly and Younkin’s characters pressure Ray’s character into smoking marijuana for the first time. said. “Jimmy is in transition. He doesn’t go off the deep end and still maintains part of himself. It’s a really interesting balance.” UNT movement specialist
professor Timothy Wilson co-directed “Reefer Madness” alongside Capps in a rare student-faculty directorial collaboration to provide deeper comedic insight and balance to
this controversial subject. “Wilson proposed “Reefer Madness” because he knew I wanted to do it and couldn’t without help,” Capps said. “It’s been very side by side, and we’d
give each other ideas we couldn’t have thought of on our own. It made the show better.” Although there has been no direct public outcry over the musical’s controversial subject
matter, a few cast and crew members said they had some reservations about ruff ling feathers. Ray is keeping his lead role a secret to most of his conservative family and limited the ways he promoted the show. Other local limitations on publicity inspired the cast and crew to reach beyond traditional forms of promotion. “When we went to hang posters in Denton, people were apprehensive about the word reefer,” said Amanda Breaz, box office and promotions manager. “So we had to resort to guerilla marketing with little fliers and social media.” Complete with a studentdesigned set, a professional music director and a professional costume designer, the 20 cast members and band will perform in front of an estimated 400 people for each performance. Reefer Mad ness opens Thursday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the RTFP building and will run until Sunday. Performances are 7:30 p.m. each day, with 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $10 for students. “We don’t steer too controversial,” Ray said. “If you take something out of context, it could be offensive, but it’s a satire. There’s a fine line in a comedic way.”
Quidditch team brings wizards’ sport to life Emily Peek Intern
No flying is necessary for “Harry Potter” fans looking to join UNT’s very own Quidditch team, which plays a less magicoriented version of the wizarding world’s favorite sport. About 12 Muggle students regularly practice a modified version of the high altitude broom-and-ball game popularized by the Harry Potter books and movies. “There are brooms, we just don’t fly,” said computer science freshman Br yce Fleeman, co-founder of the team. Fleeman and two friends from the UNT marching band – pre-mechanical engineering freshman Bryan Perez and business freshman Brooke Vlahos – started the team together and used social media to spread the word about its existence. In the game of Quidditch, there are seven players on each team: a seeker, three chasers, two beaters and a keeper. The game is over whenever the seeker catches the Snitch. In Harry Potter, the snitch is a flying golden ball with wings,
represented by a yellow-shirted neutral player with a sock and a tennis ball attached to the waistline for the purposes of UNT Quidditch. The neutral player is
“You can’t do anything without a broom between your legs.”
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given free reign to distract and avoid the two teams. Meanwhile, the teams’ chasers score goals by throwing a Quaffle – a slightly deflated volleyball – through one of three hoops, standing at six feet, four and a half feet and three feet tall. Two Bludgers, which are slightly deflated dodgeballs, are thrown at other players by the teams’ beaters. Being hit by a Bludger is like being knocked off your broom, so a struck player has to drop their broom and
run back to the hoops before rejoining play. The keeper is a goalie who cannot be tackled. Tackles from behind may result in a warning or an ejection from the game, which typically lasts about 20 minutes. There is one other very important rule. “You can’t do anything without a broom between your legs,” Perez said. The brooms have to be 44 inches long, and it is not uncommon to see people with sticks instead of brooms. Fleeman, Perez and Vlahos are collaborating on designs for fliers, T-shirts and jerseys, and said they have plans to compete with other Quidditch teams in the area. The game has caught on at universities around the world, including the nearby Texas Christian University, and a yearly World Cup is held in New York City. “I am excited to compete, and it is a great way to meet people,” Vlahos said. Team members said that building hoops from PVC pipes
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The UNT Quidditch team switches to the athletic field next to Fouts Field after their first field was reserved by UNT’s ultimate Frisbee team. They are currently recruiting members in hopes of becoming an official team. and buying other supplies to start the team cost about $300. UNT’s Quidditch team is currently registered under the Students Activities Center as an organization, although members are working with faculty sponsor Sarah Williamson, assistant hall director at Victory Hall, to get registered as a recreational sports team. Getting recognition as a sports team would help with funding and access to practice
fields, Williamson said. She said the process of attaining recreational sports team status requires a lot of paperwork and details to work out, but that the team is still having plenty of fun. “If someone asks you to be the advisor of a Quidditch team, you don’t say no, you say yes. I couldn’t turn it down,” Williamson said. Williamson said the team was
a great opportunity for Potter fans and others. “I’ve been a fan of Harry Potter since I was really little, and it has always been a part of my life so it is kind of funny that an opportunity like this fell in my lap,” Williamson said. UNT Quidditch practices on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and Fridays from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the intramural fields. Find them on Facebook at “UNT Quidditch.”
Students give thanks to teachers Leigh Daniels Intern
Parents around the country have for years tried to teach their children to say please and thank you. Now students have a chance to make their mothers proud and exercise those manners with UNT’s new “Thank A Teacher” program, which allows students to send notes of gratitude to their favorite professors. “Teachers make learning challenging and fun, they are available when needed, and they weather many storms with students to foster bright futures,” said Nancy Fire, faculty professional development specialist for UNT’s Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign. Fire said that with Thank A Teacher, students can now seize the opportunity to thank the teachers that helped them create these bright futures.
“In a 2010 study it was determined that student learning was enhanced at universities where support and respect were part of the campus environment,” said Fire, pointing to the study as a reason behind CLEAR’s decision to bring the program to UNT. Fire said the program is already well established at many universities across the nation. CLE AR Director Patrick Pluscht said that the program allows for an environment of mutual appreciation. “Pa r t ic ipat ion i n t h i s program brings happiness to the student who expresses gratitude and the instructor who receives it,” Pluscht said. This year is the university’s first attempt at the program, but the response from the fall semester was overwhelming, with nearly 1,000 letters sent, CL E A R Sen ior A ssociate Director Mike Simmons.
Fire said that notes from last semester included students saying thank you for a variety of reasons: making the course interesting, making learning fun, providing valuable help in future career choices, being supportive during a difficult time and for being inspirational. She said the program is ongoing, and notes go out to teachers along with a letter from the Provost at the end of the semester. Students can go online to
www.thanks.unt.edu to send however many notes to however many teachers as they would like, Fire said. She also said the program is looking to expand and is asking students, faculty and administration to help spread the word about the program so that everyone can have the opportunity to say thank you. If saying thank you to a teacher one on one seems a bit too invasive, students can use this program to show their appreciation.
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Mean Green finishes disappointing spring
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Club tries to return to playoffs Women’s Lacrosse A LISON ELDRIDGE Senior Staff Writer
Women’s Golf RYNE GANNOE Intern
The Mean Green women’s golf team missed its last chance at a podium finish in the team’s final tournament of the regular season, as the team finished seventh in the Arkansas-Little Rock Women’s Golf Classic on Tuesday. UNT finished in third place twice in the fall but failed to finish in the top five in any of its five spring tournaments. At the UALR tournament, the team dropped two places in the third round. “I don’t think the team realized how difficult the spring schedule was going to be. I don’t think we worked very hard over the Christmas break,” head coach Jeff Mitchell said. “We weren’t ready then, and we haven’t been ready since. You can’t take the entire winter break off and expect to play
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well in the spring.” Ha lf of t he Sun Belt Con ferenc e’s 12 tea m s competed in the tournament. UNT finished behind Middle Tennessee and UALR but ahead of Louisiana Monroe, Arkansas State and Troy. The six teams will meet again April 16 when they compete in the Sun Belt Conference Championship in Muscle Shoals, Ala. The tournament is the teams’ last shot to qualify for the NCAA regional tournament. The University of Texas at El Paso won the tournament, with No. 34 Tulsa, the highest-ranked team in the tournament, finishing one stroke
behind in second place. Seniors Addison Long and Kelsey Kipp shot their lowest scores on the final day, both shooting a 73. Long and Kipp had their best finishes of the spring, finishing tied for ninth and 17th place, respectively, out of the field of 99 golfers. Senior Jacey Chun finished the tournament in 37th place. Mitchell said she is struggling with an injury. “She’s really not doing well as far as her back is concerned. We’ll have to see how good of shape it is for conference,” Mitchell said. F r e s h m a n Mc K e n z i e Ralston tied for 67th place, while sophomore Chaslyn Chrismer finished tied for 62nd place. “I think part of it is our attitude,” Mitchell said of the team’s struggles. “They hit a couple of bad shots and get down on themselves. It’s hard to play golf that way.”
The Mean Green women’s lacrosse club started its season by losing its first two games of the season, including a 21-1 loss to the University of Texas at Austin last Saturday, but bounced back with a 13-12 win against Texas Tech on the same day. As it has done so many times over the past year, the team hopes to build on the momentum of its first win this season. “We could definitely be a Big 12 [Conference] team someday,” head coach and former UNT lacrosse player Chantal Grier said. “When I was here, we beat OU [Oklahoma University], and this year they [UNT] beat Tech.” The team was scheduled to open the season in February against Louisiana State and Saint Edwards University, but inclement weather forced them to cancel those games. T he ca ncel lat ion cou ld impact the club’s return to the playoffs after qualifying for the first time in club history last season. UNT is a member of the 15 -te a m Te x a s Women’s Lacrosse League, which is composed mainly of teams from Texas including Baylor, Texas A&M and Texas Tech. Two teams outside of the state, Louisiana State and Oklahoma, also compete in the TWLL. UNT is one of only five Division I teams in the league. The T W LL is one of 11 leagues that make up the U.S. Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates. At the end of the season, each league’s champion will compete in the WCLA national tournament.
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Senior goalie Julie Kavanagh practices catching and shooting passes Monday night. The team will compete in away games against Sam Houston State on Saturday and Texas State on Sunday. I f t he club i s able to reschedule the games, the number of points by which it wins will determine its playoff eligibility. If UNT is not able to reschedule, the number of wins for the regular season will be the deciding factor. “We’re really working on getting those games rescheduled,” senior Kayla Morain said. “It’ll be a big deal down the line.” At the beginning of the season the club didn’t have a head coach, and players spent practices coaching each other. The addition of Grier in the
past month has been a significant benefit to the club, senior goalie Julie Kavanagh said. “The intensit y level has really changed. At first we were leading our own practices, and now we have a bigger variety of drills,” she said. Next on the schedule for the club are games against the Sam Houston State Bearkats and the Texas State Bobcats. The club will play the Bearkats at noon Friday in Huntsville. The team will then return home to play the Bobcats at lower Traditions Field at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Softball team needs to change a few things up Opinion BRETT MEDEIROS Senior Staff Writer
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In major professional sports, the teams with the youngest superstars are usually favored over veteran-led franchises to go the distance and win a championship. However, in college sports there is only a four-year window for possible excellence. For the past four years, the backbone of the Mean Green softball team has been seniors Caitlin Grimes, Megan Rupp and Lisa Johnson, but they have less than half a season left at UNT. The Mean Green (13-17) is on pace to end with a losing record for the second straight season. With such important players leaving at the end of the season,
the time for the UNT softball team to make a move up the standings is now. You could point to the team’s struggles to close out games as an excuse, but the team’s two best pitchers have to step their games up. Over the past two years, sophomore Ashley Kirk and junior Brittany Simmons have started 73 of the 82 games, 24 of which were complete games. If the pitchers are not fooling opposing offenses, at some point a change must be made. Compare the Mean Green’s situation to the LouisianaL a fayet te Rag i n’ Caju ns, who have won the Sun Belt Conference championship in 11 of the past 12 years. Yes, the Cajuns also only go as far as their two starting pitches can carry the team, but the talent level is completely different.
Mean Green Trivia The UNT softball team has turned to the long ball early and often this season, ranking No. 25 out of 300 NCAA Division I teams with .97 home runs per game. Senior infielder Maddelyn Fraley has led the way, ranking No. 55 in the nation with .27 home runs per game. How many home runs has the team hit so far this season? Hint: The Mean Green has hit the second-most home runs in the Sun Belt Conference this season. Think you know the answer? Tweet your guesses at the North Texas Daily Sports Twitter, @NTDailySports! Those who answer correctly will be mentioned in Thursday’s paper.
Brett Medeiros The Mean Green is not blessed with the same level of talent as the Cajuns, which means UNT must take a different approach than it has been taking. For a team always looking toward the future, UNT needs to mold younger pitchers, which comes easiest with experience. The only way young pitchers can gain the experience is by taking the rubber during games. The room for error with this team is smaller than in past years. The Mean Green shows great passion, but the passion this season dies after the seventh inning, which is the final inning of a normal game. When the team has been forced into extra innings this season, UNT is just 2-7, which is the difference between a losing record and being a .500 ball club this year. The Mean Green has five more conference series this season to make a name for itself and get back into the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. It could definitely happen, as the toughest part of the schedule is already behind the team. At this rate, UNT needs more time to get things worked out, but right now time is not on its side.
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“I’m glad I went. I wish more students would have came because it was very important for students to experience.”
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“I feel like only one side was prepared and actually relevant. [Referring to Morgan Ray] They both had ideas, and one actually had plans to execute them.”
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NT Daily Edboard: Nods and Shakes Today’s nods and shakes are a bit special in that we’ll be recapping the Student Government Association presidential debate between candidates Morgan Ray and Rudy Reynoso. The candidates each gave an opening statement then answered a series of questions from Brian Lain, moderator and UNT Debate head coach, while presenting the platforms for their campaign.
Shake: Candidates didn’t clash
“Both candidates were professional, and they answered questions adequately. I’m glad they didn’t follow the national debates in knocking one another. They brought out the best in each other and were trying to point out flaws.”
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By far the biggest issue with tonight’s debate was the similarity between the candidate’s stances. Good debate is defined by clash and the deconstruction of your opponent’s arguments. There was little to none of that in tonight’s debate, so voters have no
real divisive issue by which they can evaluate the candidates. Ray and Reynoso had such similar approaches to their policies that at times it was difficult to distinguish the two candidates at all. Even when they were given the chance to distinguish themselves with the last question, they had difficulty drawing differences between their own policies and the views of their opposition. Each presidential candidate focused more on their personal experience rather than how their administration’s policies would differ from their opponent’s.
a glimpse into their backgrounds and experience. Beyond that, Ray’s running mate Adam Hasley and Reynoso’s running mate Justin Wood both seem generally enthusiastic about creating a stronger bond between SGA and the student body they represent, which, as Wood explained, SGA has lost sight of in recent years. There’s no question that some students feel underrepresented by SGA, so both candidates from both sides making that a primary concern shows a degree of awareness.
Nod: Student connection
Shake: Overlooking problems
The candidates did a good job of introducing both themselves and their vicepresidential candidates and providing
Early on in the debate, both candidates established the importance of connecting SGA to the student body so
that student opinion is better reflected. They discussed creating web polls, setting up comment boxes in academic hallways and face to face chat, but all of these things ignore a basic problem with connecting to the student body. The problem isn’t creating an available outlet for students to voice their opinion. The presence of an outlet doesn’t guarantee people will become engaged. The difficulty is getting students to want to voice their opinion and have a genuine interest in what happens. While there are more than 36,000 students enrolled at UNT, fewer than 100 attended last night’s debate. There are some students who simply don’t care, and the real problem lies in reaching those students. Addressing the root cause of apathy went woefully unaddressed.
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The Commerce Michael Bay could be good for Clause allows for “Ninja Turtles” misinterpretation “Nerds” – an unfair and hard to define term, but let’s just say it applies to people who care too much about the legacy of four anthropomorphic reptiles – are an easily outraged group. Whether it’s the botched ending of a popular sci-fi video game or anything George Lucas has done in the past 25 years, the nerd subculture can be notoriously vocal about what they see as indefensible changes to beloved franchises. The latest outrage began to simmer with the announcement that director Michael Bay would be helming a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” liveaction movie reboot set to hit theaters in 2013. Bay, who is known mostly for “Transformers,” “Armageddon” and a whole slew of other high-budget movies that are heavy on explosions, women in bikinis and cheap dialogue, immediately struck fear in the hearts of “Turtles” fans when he said the turtles would no longer be mutants but rather aliens. But nerd rage didn’t truly boil over until Bay decided to drop the words “teenage” and “mutant” from the title. It’s understandable that some people would be up in arms about any changes to the four pizza-loving turtles’ identity. Since “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” got its start as a comic book in 1984, the series has spawned four movies, a TV show, a video game, and countless toys and merchandise. At this point, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is something of a national institution and probably the source of a lot of fond childhood memories. However, those who claim Michael Bay is sullying the good name of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are forgetting a
few things: rap punch line Vanilla Ice’s “Ninja Rap” in the second movie, the “Coming Out of Their Shells” musical tour and the female ninja turtle introduced in one short-lived TV series. The turtles may be named after Renaissance artists, but the franchise isn’t exactly some untouchable Holy Grail of artistic integrity. If anything, the turtles – with their love of television, manufactured hip “slang,” junk food and senseless violence – are a testament to the glorious, mindless fun of American commercialism. The king of loud, dumb, perfectly enjoyable visual spectacles is a perfect fit for a “Ninja Turtles” movie. So what if they’re not teenagers or mutants? They’re still turtles who walk on two legs and fight with nunchucks, which is all I really ask for with my popcorn entertainment, and a franchise like this is clearly open to experimentation. It’s not “Citizen Kane.” It’s not even “Star Wars.” This is “Ninja Turtles,” and I’m along for the ride. Cowabunga.
Alex Macon is a pre-journalism senior. He can be reached at alexdmacon@ yahoo.com.
Sound the death knell; the great experiment that was American Universal Healthcare is over before it even went into full effect. Each of the justices, even democrats Sotomayor and Kagan, has expressed reservations regarding the controversial “individual mandate.” But that’s not to say that they will necessarily come to a consensus; each is expected to vote along party lines. The deciding factor will be conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy. The conservatives of the Supreme Court have taken an almost morbid excitement in picking apart the arguments. Aggressive in their questioning of both sides, the justices fired off hard-hitting queries about the limits of the federal government’s power and whether it could even extend to requiring eating broccoli and buying gym memberships or cars. Justice Antonin Scalia in particular seemed concerned that Congress and the federal government would have unlimited powers if the law was upheld. “What is left? If the government can do this, what else can it not do?” The four liberal justices – Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – all indicated that they believed the mandate valid under the U.S. Constitution. The ninth justice, conservative Clarence Thomas who is expected to vote against the law, asked no questions. The individual mandate is the most important part of the Affordable Care Act, and thus it’s the most controversial. Does the government have the power to force you to buy something? The individual mandate rises from the various interpretations of the Commerce Clause, which states
Congress shall have power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” The problem with the commerce clause is that it is absurdly vague, making it subject to an infinite amount of interpretations. The clause was used in Gonzales v. Raich when the Court upheld a ban on the growth of marijuana intended for medical use on the grounds that Congress could rationally conclude that this growth might make enforcement of drug laws more difficult. So what am I getting at? I’m saying that Congress has given itself way too much power through ridiculous and contrived interpretations of the Constitution. The free market cannot function with government impeding it every step of the way. The simplest solution for the Supreme Court to use this opportunity to set a precedent on what the Commerce Clause means. Now more than ever, Congress’ power needs to be put under control. Free the market, and the people will prosper.
Nicholas LaGrassa is an emergency administration and planning senior. He can be reached at NicholasLaGrassa@ my.unt.edu.
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