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UNT stays prepared for emergencies CAYDEE ENSEY Intern

Emergencies on campus can range from severe weather to disruptions in communication systems to security threats. To plan for these risks, UNT has a plan in place in case of the worst.

UNT first wrote its Emergency Management Plan in 2010 in the wake of the Virginia Tech Massacre when many universities first realized the need for such plans, according to Blake Abbe, emergency management specialist with UNT Risk Management Services “It’s still cutting-edge for a university to have an emergency action plan,” Abbe said.

“Unfortunately, it’s a reactionary field. We want to focus on trying to prevent damage or loss of life instead of being restricted to reacting in the aftermath.”

The plans are updated every year to fix issues Risk Management finds during yearly exercises of the procedures, which are usually performed in the summer and fall, according to Abbe.

“Every building has safe zones with no windows in the case of a severe weather emergency and one to three building representatives designated by Emergency Management that are responsible for being familiar with the evacuation procedures, shelter maps, and protocol for medical and security emergencies as well,” said Mike Flores, associate director of the University Union.

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UNT assistant coach Shawn Forrest consoles freshman forward Tony Mitchell following the 74-70 loss Tuesday to Western Kentucky University in the championship round of the Sunbelt Conference Tournament in Hot Springs, Ark.

Mean Green falls in tournament final

JOSHUA FRIEMEL Staff Writer

For the second straight year, the UNT men’s basketball team came within one win of the NCAA Tournament, losing a 74-70 heartbreaker to Western Kentucky in the Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Final on Tuesday

in Hot Springs, Ark. The Mean Green (18-14) blew a 13-point second half lead in the loss to the Hilltoppers.

“They made some really tough plays to get back in the game, and we were never able to get that separation from them again,” head coach Johnny Jones said.

Freshman forward Tony Mitchell paced the Mean Green with 18 points, five rebounds and two blocks. WKU redshirt junior forward Teeng Akol led the Hilltoppers (15-18) with 25 points, five rebounds and four blocks.

Mitchell and junior forward Jacob Holmen were named to

the All-Sun Belt Tournament During the ensuing possesTeam after the game. Holmen sion, Williams attempted to scored a career-high 21 points steal the ball after an errant in the semifinals victory over WKU pass, which led to the ball Arkansas State and had 11 being tipped to senior Kahlil McDonald, who knocked down points in the loss to WKU. In the final minutes of the a 3-pointer that gave WKU a game, sophomore guard Alzee lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

Williams made two free throws to put the Mean Green up 69-68. See BASKETBALL on Page 5

Student complaints process simplified by new system R EBECCA RYAN

Contributing Writer

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UNT’s new Net-Zero Energy Lab, expected to be finished later this month, will be powered by solar, wind and thermal energy. The lab is located at Discovery Park and will be used by students to test energy consumption.

New UNT laboratory nears completion date HOLLY H ARVEY

Senior Staff Writer UNT will soon unveil a new laboratory that will allow professors and students to test sustainable energy projects.

The university will open the Net-Zero Energy Research Laboratory on April 20. The UNT Board of Regents approved the project in June and construction began in July.

T he 1, 20 0 squa re-foot building, located at Discovery Park, cost more than $1.1 million

and was funded through higher education funds, operating funds and donations, according to Yong Tao, chair of the department of mechanical and energy engineering.

“Students can create innovate ideas for the future in the lab,” Tao said. “We want to answer the question of how we can build a sustainable society.”

Energ y efficient features of the laboratory, including solar panels on the roof, a wind turbine and insolated

windows and walls, cut down on energy consumption. The building features a sloped roof that will allow rainwater to be captured and recycled for future use, according to Guangyuan Xiong, master’s student and graduate assistant to Tao. “We want to accumulate more knowledge,” Xiong said.

“We’re getting energy leaders to network here and create ideas for the future.”

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UNT and the Dean of St udent s Of f ic e est ablished in August a system to address the complaints of students that has culmin at e d mor e t h a n 2 0 0 submissions.

The system was established in order to simplify the process for students.

M a u r e e n Mc G u i n ne s s , de a n of s t udent s a nd assistant vice president for academic affairs, said the office addresses complaints within three days of submission.

“Before this, our students were going a l l over t he place,” McGuinness said.

“Any student should be able to file a complaint in our office and have it heard by someone. We’ve streamlined the process so that complaints go directly to the Dean of Students Office.”

Complaints range from financial aid problems to parking tickets. McGuinness said she sometimes hears as many as 10 complaints in a single day. Complaints can be submitted via email, phone call or in person at the Dean of Students Office.

“A lot of what we do involves directing students to people in the appropriate departments or offices,”

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Maureen McGuinness, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs, uses email as a way to communicate with students who have filed complaints with the department. McGuinness said she sees herself as an advocate for students. “Sometimes students just want someone to listen,” she said.

“We’ve streamlined the process ...”

—Maureen McGuinness Dean of students McGuinness said. “If it doesn’t fall under another office, we can go through an informal process in which we sit down and have a mediation conversation. If the student wishes to, they can file a formal grievance with the university after that.”

McGuinness said no one has gone through the informal or formal processes as of now. “ We’v e h a d lot s of complaints about financial aid at the beginning of each semester,” McGuinness said.

“There have been many others about stuff in dining halls, graduate school, instances in which students feel they were m isadv ised by t hei r advisors. It’s really all over the board.”

After a complaint is filed and a solution is given to a student, the office tracks the complaint and then follows up with the student who filed the complaint.

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Storytelling Festival comes to Denton Arts & Life | Page 3

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The laboratory will allow researchers to run energ y si mu lat ion s a nd pre d ic t energ y usage and measure sources, Xiong said.

“T h i s bu i ld i ng i s ver y advanced,” Xiong said. “It’s in the top range of energy labs in the country.”

Laboratory space and mate-

rials will help students work on sustainable energy solutions, said Oscar Angulo, an engineering senior and vice president of the Association of Energy Engineers at UNT. Students would potentially be allowed to stay in the lab for extended hours and overnight to test ideas.

“Instead of hav ing to drive somewhere and pay to use facilities, students can conduct their research in the lab,” Angulo said.

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News Complaint Continued from Page 1 Graduate assistant Rebecca Gerbert said students need to know about this system to be heard and have their problems solved.

“We usually get around 10 to 12 complaints per week,” G er b er t s a id . “ We t r ac k complaints and keep a record of who has contacted whom.

It’s important to track everything so we can go back and ma ke sure ever y t hing was taken care of.”

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To not i f y fac u lt y, sta f f and students of a hazardous situation, Risk Management Services and the UNT Police Department use Eagle Alert, a mass communications system that uses the phone numbers provided by students, faculty and staff.

Risk Management is also lo ok i ng to e x pa nd a ler t systems using social media.

“Social media is a powerful tool for situationa l awareness,” Abbe said. “Two high school students were arrested on Monday in Massachusetts for chat t i ng on Facebook about going on a shooting spree at t heir school. We can use it to counter these threats.”

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(940) 565-2648 or go directly to the office in Union 319.

students, facult y and staff about how to prevent a nd r e a c t t o s e c u r it y pr ob lems such as school shootings. Dates for training this semester are not available yet.

Mea su res i nd iv idua l students ca n ta ke include being aware of their surroundings, watching out for suspicious behavior, and having UNT’s number and emergency numbers programed into their personal phones, according to Maureen McGuinness, dean of st udents a nd a ssista nt vice president for academic affairs.

“We a re prepa red as we possibly can be. We have a lot of good people on campus who care and make safety a priority,” McGuinness said.

“You never think it will happen to you, on your campus. The chances are slim, but if we ever have to rise to a security or safety challenge, we will be ready.”

(MCT) WASHINGTON – The United States, the European Union, China and Russia have agreed to resume long-stalled talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear program, potentially reviving the quest for a diplomatic settlement and easing fears of a military confrontation, the EU and the United States announced Tuesday.

Iran appeared to reciprocate, dropping a refusal to allow U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into a military complex suspected of being involved in what the United States, the EU, Israel and other powers charge is a secret nuclear weapons program. Iran says that its program is for peaceful uses. The decision to resume talks with Iran represents a political gamble for President Barack Obama, who was hammered Tuesday as being too soft on the Islamic republic by the Republican candidates vying to challenge him in the November election.

A collapse of new talks also could increase the likelihood that Israel – which views Iran’s program as an existential threat – could unilaterally attack Iranian nuclear facilities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly asserted that right during a two-day visit to Washington that ended Tuesday.

Obama, however, insisted Tuesday at a news conference that there is a “window of opportunity where this can still be resolved diplomatically” –

an apparent reference to a U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran hasn’t yet decided to build a nuclear warhead.

“That’s the view of our top intelligence officials. It’s the view of top Israeli intelligence officials,” Obama said. Netanyahu, whose visit included a two-hour meeting with Obama, also signaled Monday that he was willing to allow more time for diplomacy.

Obama, who has refused to rule out U.S. military action against Iran, stressed that even if negotiations resume, the United States would continue tightening unilateral sanctions that – combined with recently stiffened EU measures – have begun doing serious damage to Iran’s economy.

“We are going to continue to apply the pressure, even as we provide a door for the Iranian regime to walk through where they could rejoin the community of nations by giving assurances to the international communit y t hat t hey’re meeting their obligations and they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon,” Obama said.

The date and location of the talks still must be determined.

Concerns that Iran is developing nuclear bomb-making capability have been fueled by a November IAEA report laying out extensive evidence that Iran researched building a nuclear warhead for an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

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Opposing protesters take their respective corners a block away from San Francisco’s historic Congregation Emanu-El on Tuesday before the visit of Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Israel’s president looks to Facebook to promote peace (MCT) SAN FRANCISCO – Israeli President Shimon Peres praised Facebook as a vehicle for social change during a visit to the social networking company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus.

Peres, 88, came to Facebook on Tuesday to launch his official personal page on the site that he hopes will open a dialogue with Arabs throughout the world and to meet with Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg.

“The matter of peace is no longer the business of governments but the business of people,” Peres told Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview streamed live on Facebook. “Today the people are governing the governments.

And when they begin to talk to

each other, they are surprised.

We should be friends.”

Asked by a Facebook engineer what Facebook could do to promote peace in the Middle East, Peres said: “What you are doing is convincing people they don’t have reason to hate.”

Peres’ visit followed a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama this week. The two disagree about an Israeli military strike against Iran.

Even as Obama called for more time to allow sanctions and diplomacy to work, Peres, who twice served as Israel’s prime minister, condemned the Iranian government.

“The combination of viciousness and nuclear weapons is a

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real catastrophe, a real danger,” he said.

Peres is on a four-day tour of Silicon Valley to tout Israel’s technology industry and strengthen ties between the two high-tech hotspots during stops at IBM and Google and a meeting with venture capitalists.

Silicon Valley in recent years has become a magnet for politicians and celebrities. There is no bigger attraction in Silicon Valley now than Facebook, which has 845 million users around the world and is on the verge of an initial public offering that could value the company at $100 billion or more.

Obama was the first sitting head of state to visit Facebook’s headquarters last year for an interview with Zuckerberg.

Facebook held a town hall meeting at its former campus in Palo Alto, Calif. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, also paid a visit there.

Peres was the first sitting Israeli president to visit Silicon Valley. He joked that he no longer has the same kind of sway he had as prime minister.

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Storytelling Festival set for this weekend Brittni Barnett Senior Staff Writer

Kim Lehman ow ns 400 hats and 80,000 honeybees.

MaryAnn Blue has appeared on “Barney and Friends.” Patrick Ball is a world-renowned Celtic harpist, and Kevin Kling lost the use of his arm in a motorcycle accident.

The featured storytellers at this year’s 27th annual Texas Storytelling Festival are as diverse as the narratives they spin.

Story lovers hoping to hear some of these tales will get the chance Thursday at the Denton Civic Center when this weekend’s other four-day festival kicks off.

“The festival celebrates storytelling in its many different for m s,” fest iv a l d i rec tor Elizabeth Ellis said. “It celebrates all of the different ways in which we use it in our world.”

A long w it h t h is yea r’s featured storytellers, the festival also features concerts by other tellers and workshops for those looking to learn more about the art and craft of storytelling.

Work shops include “Fairytales: Finding the Heart of the Story” and “Telling 20th Century Folktales: Detective Stories, Sci-Fi & Comics.”

“We pack a lot of events into

the festival,” Ellis said. “So there is something for everyone.”

Kevin Kling, one of this year’s featured storytellers, will teach a master class titled “Story and Healing: A Writing Workshop.”

“The class will show how

“...nothing will quite touch a human’s heart like a good story.”

—Donna Ingham President, Tejas Storytelling stories have the power to heal,” Ellis said. “Kevin Kling survived an incredible motorcycle accident, so healing is something he knows a lot about.”

Finley Stewart started the Texas Storytelling Festival in 1985, taking inspiration from t he Nat iona l Stor y tel ling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., and bringing the idea back to Texas.

T he Teja s Stor y tel l i ng Association, the organization that sponsors the festival, was established shortly after the first festival. Stewart chose the name Tejas because he hoped

the organization would bring together storytellers from all over the south, said Donna Ingham, president of the Tejas Storytelling Association.

“I don’t care how sophisticated we get with electronics, nothing will quite touch a human’s heart like a good story,” Ingham said. “I don’t think that is something we will ever lose. There’s something magical about that. “ T he fe st iv a l be g i n s Thursday night at 7 p.m. with a free telling of ghost stories. Individual performances are $10, a one-day ticket is $40, and a ticket to the entire festival is $130.

“I hope people take away a sincere appreciation for the importance of storytelling and its beauty and power,” Ellis said. “And an appreciation for the spoken word in general. Storytelling is the basis for all human communication. We tell stories every day, we just don’t think about it.”

For more information about the festival and its lineup of workshops and storytellers visit www.tejasstorytelling.com.

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Texas Academy of Math and Science junior Kurtis Carsch stands beside a periodic table March 6 in the Chemistry Building.

Carsch will travel to Washington D.C. this Thursday for a chance to win $100,000 as part of a talent search.

Actor assailed for remark TAMS student to compete in Science Talent Search NEW YORK (MCT)— Tracey Gold and Alan Thicke, who played Kirk Cameron’s sister and father on the 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains,” have joined t he chor us of per for mers taking exception to their castmate’s anti-gay comments.

Gold, a long-married mom of four, tweeted Sunday, “I am a strong supporter of the #LGBT Communit y, a nd I believe in equal rights for all.”

Thicke, after first tweeting Sunday that, “I’ll address kirk’s comments as soon as I recover from rush limbaugh’s,” wrote Monday afternoon that he was “getting (Cameron) some new books. The Old Testament simply can’t be expected to explain everything.”

Cameron, 41 — a born-again Christian who has starred in faith-based mov ies and

co-founded the Bellf lower, C a l i f .-b a s e d e v a n ge l ic a l m i n ist r y T he Way of t he Master in 2002 — told CNN’s Piers Morgan on Friday that being gay is “detrimental,” “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization.”

He said if one of his children were to come out as gay, “I’m going to say, ‘There are all sorts of issues we need to wrestle through in our life.

Just because you feel one way doesn’t mean we should act on everything we feel.’”

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) i m m e d i a t e l y r e s p onde d , c a l l i ng Ca meron “dated” and “out of step.” And the remarks sent numerous celebrities to Twitter to vent their feelings.

Rosea nne Ba r r w rote on Sunday, “kirk or kurt or whatever cameron is an accomplice to murder w it h h is hate speech.”

Debra Messing, acknowledging Cameron’s right to his beliefs, said, “I can’t be forced to be tolerant of intolerance. I find his words hurtful and ‘destructive’ — but yes; free speech.”

“Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson wrote, “The only unnatural thing about me being gay is that I had a crush on Kirk Cameron until about 24 hours ago.”

A s for Morga n, T M Z repor ted t hat t he ta l kshow host said Cameron was brave for sticking to what he believes, even if most people find his views to be “antiquated.”

Student judged on scientific ability, personality L eigh Daniels Intern

Kurtis Carsch can’t vote, but tomorrow he’s going to the U.S. capital for a different kind of electoral process.

C a r s c h , a 17-y e a r- old junior in the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science program at UNT, is heading to Washington, D.C. to compete in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search.

He w i l l be present i ng his research on converting

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methane gas into methanol, was recently named one of 40 finalists from around the countr y competing to win $100,000. The finalists were chosen f rom about 2,000 entrants.

His chemist r y resea rch can be mind-boggling to the layman but boils down to the highly efficient and environmentally safe process of converting methanol into gasoline. For the process to work, methanol is needed, which is why Carsch’s research into converting methane gas to methanol is so valuable.

“We don’t have a constant source of methanol to be produced, so if we could find a way to produce a constant, steady supply of methanol to convert into gasoline, we would have a cheap fuel that’s more efficient and eco-friendly than petroleum,” Carsch said.

Although the Intel Science Talent Search is looking for students who have show n interest and success in science, they are also looking for a student with spark and personality.

“The main part of the competition, which is interesting, is that it is a talent search, which means they focus on me as a person,” Carsch said.

Carsch believes that he is

qualified for both the academic and personality parts of the competition, and his research advisor Thomas Cundari could not agree more.

The inorganic and computational chemistry professor has had the privilege of working closely with Carsch and believes him to be “a great young scientist – hardworking, knowledgeable and insightful.”

Physics professor Duncan Weathers, who teaches Carsch, admires his talent and has a lot of faith in his research efforts.

“He can speak articulately about his project with a depth of understanding characteristic of a grad student,” Weathers said.

Intel finalists in D.C. will not only present their research but will get a chance to meet state senators and listen to speeches made by prominent physicists and chemists, Carsch said.

Carsch w ill graduate in May, and he looks forward to continuing his education as a chemical engineer student at a prestigious university.

Carsch said he has been accepted to Ca l Tech i n Pa sadena, Ca l i f., but i s still waiting to hear back from his dream school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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“Unleash the Chicken” contestant A.J. Brown opens his mouth to show that there is no more chicken left inside after eating all 10 “Blazin’” buffalo wings.

Brown completed the challenge in 1 minute, 42 seconds. Phi Sigma Pi and Talon Teach hosted the event from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Library Mall.

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Grammy-winning bassist plays, teaches at UNT NADIA HILL Staff Writer

His nimble fingers plucking each string, his body hidden behind a thumping double bass, John Clayton’s smiling eyes track every movement of the conductor’s hands as he times his playing with the students around him.

Grammy-winning bassist John Clayton has been spending this week rehearsing with and directing UNT musicians in multiple bands as part of the Glenn E. Gomez International Artists Endowment for Jazz Studies and will perform with the One O’Clock Lab Band on Thursday at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.

“UNT is such an iconic school, and I’d always heard about it, even when I was a student,” Clayton said. “We are made to understand as young musicians to touch others and to give back what was given to you.”

One night at a jazz club, Clayton saw two men take the stage, embrace and kiss without shocking the crowd or provoking any hateful political comments. He knew right then he wanted to be part of the accepting and lively environment jazz music created.

Equipped with an inspiring story and his impressive skills on the bass, students said

Clayton is something of a role model.

“We’re family,” Clay ton said. “The students love music like I love music. I see it in the comments they make, smiles, sometimes just playing.”

Playing bass and providing insightful comments, Clayton captivated the 19 members of t he si x-time Grammynominated One O’Clock Lab Band on Monday afternoon.

“John was chosen because of his profound importance in modern jazz and his wonderfully positive approach to education,” said Steve Wiest, director of the One O’Clock Lab Band.

“He is the complete package, a true renaissance man. He is an incredibly positive soul, and you can’t help but learn when you are around him.”

Between working with jazz bands, bass ensembles, singers and arrangers, Clayton led nine workshops between Monday and Wednesday, all leading up to his performance coming Thursday night.

An aspiring studio bassist with nine years of experience, jazz studies senior Brian Ward has been inspired by Clayton’s playing since high school, hoping to one day move to Los Angeles and pursue his dreams.

“So many times in music

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Grammy Award-winning bassist John Clayton shows jazz studies major Young Heo bass can be played different ways, while jazz studies junior Addison Frei plays the piano during Clayton’s performance Monday evening. “I would never tell anyone they are playing music wrong,” Clayton said. “There are many, many ways to play the bass.” school we get caught up in what we have to do for school that we forget why we do any of it: the music,” Ward said. “You really have to put the music first. That’s how John Clayton plays, and it really shows in the honesty and clarity of his

playing.”

Clay ton, who won h is Grammy in 2010 as an arranger and bass player on a Yo-Yo Ma album, currently co-leads the Clayton-Hilton Jazz Orchestra, a big band ensemble.

While he conducted work-

shops with all jazz bands, he will perform only with the One O’Clock Lab Band on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Murchison.

Tickets cost from $10 to $15 and are available at the Murchison box office.

“I’m a servant to the music

in any way I can help – whether that’s directing, playing, shutting up and listening, contribute my vibe,” Clayton said. “I’m a team member to make the music happen, just one of the guys. I think big and never quit.”

Innovators enter app contest Student parents balance academia with family life ADRIENNE TATE Intern

Technology is hurtling into the future, and it seems like there is already a mobile phone application for almost everything.

However, four perceptive UNT students saw the potential for one app that doesn’t exist quite yet: an application to help disabled students move around campus easier by providing a map that locates ramps, handicap restrooms and elevators.

The students have entered the Dell Social Innovation Challenge – a competition to identify and financially support college students’ most creative, practical ideas sponsored by the Austinbased electronics corporation – to try and gain funding for “Handi App.” Criminal justice and rehab studies sophomore Joy Moonan thought of Handi App and entered the UNT Innovation Challenge last November.

“The main purpose of the app is to create a detailed map that will help students move from one point to the other,” Moonan said.

The UNT challenge, which was open to all students, called on

groups of four to come up with ideas and attend weekly meetings for mentoring.

Mathematics graduate student Eduardo Espinola and communication design seniors Jennifer Jennings and Natalia Padilla joined Moonan’s team after they heard her presentation at the entry meeting for the UNT Innovation Challenge.

The team beat out the UNT competition for first place – and iPads – and decided to move forward to develop the app.

Lacking funds, Moonan reached out to professors in the computer science department.

Business computer science professor Joh n W i ndsor responded to Moonan’s email asking for assistance.

“They had a great idea for an app,” he said. “I believe the app could go worldwide if partnered with Google Maps.”

Windsor directed Moonan to UNT alumnus Cesar Ferrigno and computer engineering grad student Trey Tartt, who developed the University of North Texas Unofficial App that launched three months ago.

Tartt and Ferrigno said that they were willing to help, but

that the team would need at least $30,000 to develop the application.

The first place prize in the Dell Innovation Challenge is $50,000, which would allow the team to go ahead and create Handi App. There are two separate contests: one judged by Dell and a people’s choice contest that totals online votes.

Moonan has been holding vot i ng session s i n t he Multicultural Center to educate students about the potential app.

Espinola said the group and its Handi App idea were reviewed by first-round judges and officially entered in the contest.

“I want students to vote and realize they might not be aware of something until they need it,” Espinola said.

Voting for the People’s Choice Awards ends and Grand Prize Award finalists are announced on May 13. People’s Choice Awards winners will be announced May 14, and the Grand Prize Winners are announced June 12 at a finalists weekend in Austin, Texas.

To see the projects in the competition and vote, visit dellchallenge.org.

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Senior Staff Writer & Contributing Writer A bald 40-year-old man of six feet sits in the back of t he classroom, barely able to fit in his desk. As he surveys the teenagers and 20-somethings around him, he feels out of place.

“I’m older. I’ve seen more of t he world,” Mat t hew Edwards said. “I’ve experienced more life than they have.”

A political science junior and Army veteran, Edwards has gone from serving in Desert Storm, Desert Shield and Iraq to sitting in the back of t he cla s sroom in Wooten Ha ll because of an injur y. Edwards is a husband and fat her of four children, ages 4, 15, 16 and 19.

“My wife does a lot of the juggling with what the kids do,” Edwards said. “[My kids] think that I should know how to do their homework, but just because I’m in college doesn’t mean I’m good at algebra.”

Edwards is one of t he many parents enrolled at UNT. Parents have been e n r ol l i n g a t u n i v e r s ities at an increasing rate.

According to the National Center for Educat ion St at i st ic s, t he nu mber of students ages 35 a nd older in universities has i n c r e a s e d f r om a b out 823,000 in 1970 to about 2.9 million in 2001.

T he rea son cou ld be the necessity of a degree i n pr ofe s sion a l f ield s : accord i ng to NCES, 5 4 p erc ent of hou s ehold s headed by a high school graduate were in the lowincome bracket, compared to just 22 percent of families headed by a parent who had at least some college education.

F o r t y-t h r e e -y e a r- o l d Patty Terry is a mother and education junior. Enrolled in “Parenting in Diverse Families,” Terr y has real world experience with what it takes to raise a blended

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family of six children, ages 2 to 24.

“Stress is something I deal with all of the time,” Terry said. “Tr y ing to get homework done and dealing with my kids feeling disappointed when I have to go to class is really hard. I’ve had to miss

girl.

“I had a neighbor, she was a little girl, and she was deaf,” Terry said. “I would shadow her in elementary school and ever since then, it’s been a passion of mine.”

“I feel out of place,” Terry said. “I feel like students look at me and think, ‘She can’t do it.’ I have to work twice as hard.”

UNT has ta ken steps to make it easier for parents to go to school with a $792,000 Ch i ld Ca re Access Mea ns Pa rent s i n School g ra nt, which was created three years ago as part of the $800,000

“Trying to get homework done and dealing with my kids feeling disappointed when I have to go to class is really hard. I’ve had to miss some of their pep rallies and games that my girls cheerlead for.”

—Patty Terry Education junor some of their pep rallies and games that my girls cheerlead for.”

Terr y’s husba nd is gone three weeks out of the month for work.

“He is very supportive of me going back,” Terry said.

“Sometimes he doesn’t understand all of the things that go into a degree, but he still supports me a nd is proud of me.”

After Terry graduated high school, she got a scholarship a nd en rol led at UNT, but “the finances weren’t there, so I went to work,” she said.

In 2009, Terry decided to go back to school to finish her degree.

“I wanted to go back to show my kids I set a goal earlier and I needed to accomplish that goal,” Terry said.

Both Terr y and Edwards wa nt to become teachers.

Terry wants to pursue special education, which was ver y close to home as a young

UNT received to support the improvement of child care for student parents.

The program will distribute the money over four years and encourages student parents to complete t heir deg rees by prov id i ng f u nd i ng for child care not only at UNT but i n ch i ld ca re centers in surrounding areas, said Ca rol Hagen, d i rec tor of UNT’s Chi ld Development Laboratory.

About 85 students are qualified and receive the grant each year, Hagen said.

Edwards said his experiences and age separate him from other students, but that is what he hopes will help him to be a high school government teacher and eventually a political science professor.

“Not ma ny h ig h school kids know how government works,” Edwards said. “A lot of college kids don’t know how it works. I’d like to change that.”

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Bobby Lewis, Sports Editor

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NCAA can’t claim all UNT’s student athletes Opinion A LISON ELDRIDGE

Senior Staff Writer

No one can deny UNT loves its sports.

We’ve got a brand new stadium for our football team, which went 5-7 last season, its best record since UNT went 7-5 in 2004.

We’ve got Su n Belt Conference leaders and record breakers in both track and field and swimming and diving. We have multiple Sun Belt Conference honors for men’s and women’s basketball, and the men have played in three straight SBC tournament finals.

This place is a breeding ground for attracting and creating stellar student athletes. We definitely know how to make a mark in the NCAA. But we also know how to make a mark outside of the NCAA. We’ve got teams that have phenomenal seasons while competing against teams like the University of Texas and the University

of Arkansas, such as the Mean Green ice hockey club. Then there are teams that go to national competitions every single year without fail, like the Mean Green inline hockey club.

NCAA teams bring a lot of attention, which is certainly understandable, but students shouldn’t feel like they can’t wear a green and white jersey because they don’t have the speed or strength to compete in track and field, or the hand-eye coordination necessary for softball or tennis.

Hate the idea of running but love to bike? Join the Cycling Club. Not a fan of hitting objects, but love the idea of hitting people?

Try out for the ice hockey or inline hockey clubs. Prefer strategy to strength and stamina? Check out the Disc Golf Club or the bowling club.

UNT student athletes have 26 recreational sports clubs and each one gets to sport the green and white. Each club stands as a representative for UNT to the rest of the nation. The clubs seem to cover any athletic event under the sun, from dodgeball and fencing to paintball and wakeboarding.

Each club has different require-

Alison Eldridge ments for actively participating and joining. Some even make meeting a certain grade point average mandatory. Practice standards also differ, with some clubs meeting multiple times a week, sometimes even late into the night.

What it all boils down to is there is no shortage of opportunities for students to get their name onto an athletic roster, feed that competitive spirit or be the game-winning hero.

For more i n for mat ion regarding which club sports currently compete for the University of North Texas, visit the Sport Clubs tab on the UNT recreational sports website at www.recsports.unt.edu.

PHOTO BY RYAN BIBB/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior guard Roger Franklin shoots over junior forward Teeng Akol of Western Kentucky University during the Mean Green’s 74-70 loss to the Hilltoppers on Tuesday in the championship game of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Hot Springs, Ark. “We have had difficulty finishing games all year, and in the end it came back to bite us,” Franklin said.

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“We just collided, and we fell,” Williams said. “He just ended up tipping the ball to a teammate and they hit the three.”

Down by four points, junior guard Brandan Walton was fouled on a three-point shot.

After making the first two free throws, Jones elected to intentionally miss the third free throw coming out of a timeout.

Walton missed, but WKU was able to scrap for the rebound.

“I think what it really is that

they [WKU] just wanted it more tonight [Tuesday,]” junior guard Roger Franklin said. “I think they came out and they played the full 40 minutes, and at the end of the day, they were crowned champions.”

Things looked good for the Mean Green coming out of a 32-30 halftime lead. Midway through the second half, UNT began to pull away from WKU by going on a 12-0 run to put the team up 55-42 with 12 minutes to go.

Western Kentucky countered with a 9-0 run after calling a timeout, stalling the Mean Green offense and bringing the

score to 55-51.

“When we were up by 13 points, we should have stepped on the gas,” Franklin said. “We should have stepped on their necks. Coach Jones always tells us that once you have a team down, keep them down.”

The win marks the sixth time Western Kentucky has won the Sun Belt Conference championship since 2001. UNT last won in 2010.

“It’s a ll about closing,” Franklin said. “If we would’ve had better composure and make the plays, we would be out there holding up the Sun Belt 2012 Championship.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF AUSTIN HENSLEE/SWIMMING CLUB PRESIDENT

The swim club, which meets from 8 to 9 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, is open to UNT students at all levels of swimming. While previous attempts at a club have been unsuccessful, members are eager to keep this club going so they can hold meets.

UNT students diving Houston Texans reward Foster with long-term deal into new swim club HOUSTON (AP) — Arian Foster’s mother finally got her fruit basket.

The Texans star running back fulfilled a childhood promise to her on Tuesday after signing a five-year, $43.5 million to stay in Houston.

When Foster was growing up in Albuquerque, N.M., the bigdreaming kid told each family member what he was going to get them when he hit the salary jackpot in pro football.

“I was, like, 7 years old,” Foster said at a news conference. “I was going to buy a house, I was going to buy a car.”

He had a specific gift in mind for each family member, and told his mother, Bernadette Sizemore, that he’d get her a fruit basket. It became a running gag in the family for years, with relatives always asking Arian when he would make good.

On Tuesday, Sizemore got the fruit basket delivered to her office in Albuquerque, where she’s an administrative assistant for African-American students at

the University of New Mexico.

“I was just really floored,” Sizemore said in a phone interview. “It’s funny, it’s a joke. But it’s also so profound in so many ways.”

Foster held back tears as he recalled hardships that his family made when he was young.

At one point, Sizemore pawned her wedding ring to buy food.

“I just told myself that I wanted to do something with my life,” Foster said before stepping away from a podium to gather his emotions. “I just wanted to do something with my life to make sure that when I have a kid, she never had to worry about the lights being on, she never had to worry about any of that. I didn’t care if I had to work three jobs, whatever.”

An undrafted free agent in 2009, Foster made only $525,000 last season, even after leading the league in rushing in 2010 (1,616 yards). His agent, Mike McCartney, said Monday that the Texans told Foster that they needed to see him have another

productive year before they talked about an extension.

Foster never considered holding out before the season, and never seemed upset by his contract situation during it.

Bothered by a hamstring injury early in the season, he still ran for 1,224 yards and 10 touchdowns. Since becoming a fulltime starter in 2010, Foster has led the NFL in rushing yards per game (97.9), rushing touchdowns (26) and yards from scrimmage (4,061).

“I’m an extreme believer in karma, for the most part,” Foster said. “If you take care of this game, it will take care of you.

Even if it didn’t, something else in my life, I was going to be OK somewhat. I just believe that. I think belief is 90 percent of the battle.”

Foster will make $18 million in base salary next season, and the deal includes $20.75 million guaranteed. He acknowledged that the negotiation was “nerveracking,” but says now the pressure is off.

CHELSEY COX

Contributing Writer With the help of a few sophomores, UNT is looking to make a splash with the new UNT Swim Club.

Sophomores Austin Henslee, Rebecca Preston and Cameron Sikes have set up the club, which meets from 8 to 9 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

“I’m really looking forward to getting it growing and maybe having meets here [at UNT],” said Preston, swim club vice president and a pre-veterinarian major. “And becoming not just like a little club that we just swim together but being pretty serious about it.”

The club provides members the opportunity to swim competitively against each other and to learn better swimming techniques. ”We’re going to hold a meeting soon about trying to possibly scheduling a meet, and we’re going to try to get shirts and all that kind of stuff,”

said kinesiology major Henslee, the club’s president.

For now, the club practices at the Pohl Recreation Center along with members of the Mean Green Triathlon Team.

“If it wasn’t for the triathlon club, we wouldn’t be able to compete, because they are helping us pay for the pool,” Henslee said. “They are renting about half of the semester for us.”

The triathlon club members receive help in return, as swim club members practice with them to improve in that area of the triathlon.

“I’ve had a lot of experience,” Henslee said. “My coaches taught me, so I can help them do drills and get better dynamics in swimming so they’ll be faster.”

The club is open to all UNT students, and members work with all levels of swimming, from basic fundamentals to more advanced workouts.

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While previous attempts at a UNT swim club have been unsuccessful, the officers and members are eager to keep this club going so they can experience the thrill of competition.

“I’m looking forward to meets a lot,” Preston said. “Meets are so nerve-racking, but they are the most fun because you get to show off how hard you’ve been working.”

For more information on the club, go to unt.orgsync.com or the club’s Facebook page.

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NT Daily Edboard: Nods and Shakes Shake: Stanford’s spending scandal Houston billionaire R. A llen Sta nford was conv icted on 13 different counts on Tuesday including conspiracy, wire and mail fraud.

Stanford spent 20 years tricking investors into handing more than $7 billion that he then arranged into an old-fashioned Ponzi scheme encompassing North and South America.

According to The Washington Post, Stanford used the money that he pulled from a Caribbean bank account that held the investors’ money to finance an extravagant lifestyle that included yachts, private

jets, bribery and failed small businesses.

This kind of high-level abuse of investors is what landed Bernie Madoff a 150-year sentence last year.

Because of Stanford’s egregious actions, entire life savings were lost, and families suffered because of the financial hit. After the verdict, Angela Shaw, director of the Stanford Victim’s Coalition, said, “In the three years it took to convict Allen Stanford, many of his victims have lived a life that is worse than prison in many ways.”

Stanford earns a shake from the Edboard for his blatant disregard for the laws that are supposed to protect investors.

Nod: UNT men’s basketball team The UNT men’s basketball team’s season ended Tuesday night when it lost in the Sun Belt Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Final for the second straight year.

UNT held a 13-point second half lead but couldn’t hold on, as Western Kentucky rallied to seize a 74-70 win and an NCAA Tournament bid.

Despite the championship game loss, UNT can look at this season as a success.

The Mean Green finished the season with an 18-14 record, which was enough to earn it a first round bye in the confer-

ence tournament.

The team had the Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year in Mitchell and overcame the suspension of two starters – freshmen guards Chris Jones and Jordan Williams – to make it to within one game of the NCAA Tournament.

When also remembering that this was a team that lost seven seniors after last season, the Mean Green’s run to the final is nothing short of impressive.

The UNT men’s basketball team earns a nod from the Edboard for its efforts this season and its deep run in the conference’s postseason tournament. Mean Green fans can expect this team to contend for more conference titles in the years to come.

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Spread the word to end the R-word March 7th is the National Day of Activation in the “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign. This is a campaign to end the derogatory use of the r-word, retard. You might think this is another case of political correctness run amok.

However, what this campaign is really about is another r-word: respect.

“People with intellectual and developmental disabilities,” the phrase used in the medical community, describes people that lead normal lives. The word “retard” directly contradicts that fact by marginalizing that person to only their disability. The federal government has recognized this and is committed to ta k ing “menta l retardation” out of federal statutes. These laws have stemmed from the principal of “person-first language,” describing the person before their disability.

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities have feelings, wants and dreams, just like any other person. Saying, “I look like such a ‘tard today” has nothing to do with any medical definition.

This may sound like an inconsequential remark, but if you have a disability or know someone who does, these words can sting.

My younger brother was born w it h high-f unctioning autism.

“Retard” was not a word that was used in our household. Once my brother was old enough to start competing in Special Olympics, I got involved in the program, too. I know it meant the world to him to see me cheering him on when he was competing.

I sta r ted helpi ng out w it h

anything I could get my hands on.

Having the opportunity to coach these kids from the first day of practice to watching them compete at the end of the season never fails to give me goose bumps. It always brings tears to my eyes once a race or game is over. My athletes are standing there with their fingers in the air, proclaiming to everyone that they are No. 1, that they can do things just like other kids.

I work with children and adults who have intellectual disabilities.

They are still people, just like you and me. They are amazing individuals who love selflessly, and I have learned so much by working with them. I am thankful every single day for my autistic brother, not only because he gets us to the front of the line at Disney World, but for an endless amount of other reasons. He is not “retarded,” and society has no right to describe him as such.

The derogatory use of the word “retard” must be done away with for people like my brother. Help me make this possible.

Devin Axtman is a political science senior and can be reached at Devin.

Axtman@UNT.edu. Jessika Jones is a restaurant management freshman and can be reached at jessikaj17@yahoo.com

Texas’ education system is failing, must be preserved When we were kids and didn’t want to go to school, our parents might have said to us, “Education is not a right, it’s a privilege.” This was supposed to motivate us to appreciate that which was not guaranteed. This statement, however, is only effective if we assume that rights are something we are in fact guaranteed.

More than 200 years of American h i stor y c ont r ad ic t t hat ver y assumption. A right is something innate, something we are entitled to by virtue of our humanity, and therefore justifies our existence.

Education is the right that makes all other rights possible. For the sake of our countr y we should be fighting for this right. Instead we stand idly by as we are slowly robbed of our liberty.

A total of $5.4 billion was cut from Texas public education last year. But what exactly does that mean? Larger class sizes for one, and fewer teachers to be sure.

Some studies have estimated the student-to-teacher ratio will rise to 35-to-1 in the coming years. If a daycare had 35 children between the ages of five and nine with only one adult to super vise them, it would be called child abuse. In schools, it is called efficient.

These, however, are just some of the short-term consequences of such drastic cuts. In the long term, Texans can expect to see lower incomes and higher unemployment, according to “Forbes.”

But let us, for a moment, not think about the academic and financial implications of the budget cuts, and instead look at the moral issues at hand. Before long, a private educa-

tion will be the only means of quality education.

Privatization of Texas education, then, is a matter of social justice. If the already underprivileged children in this state are not guaranteed a quality education, what chance do they have to change their circumstances? How can we say that we uphold the virtues of equality and justice on which this country was founded if we tell a poor child that he is not allowed to “know” as much as his wealthy counterpart?

Education is a right that we as Americans are privileged to, not a commodity to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. If you agree and want to help out, write your representatives and sign the petition at savetexasschools.org. As students, we have the most to gain by supporting public education, and everything to lose by allowing it to fail.

Deva Kellam is a pre-international studies freshman. She can be reached at deva.kellam@gmail. com.

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Mean Green Trivia History repeated itself Tuesday as the UNT men’s basketball team dropped its second straight Sun Belt Conference Tournament Final with a 74-70 loss to Western Kentucky. Who was the team UNT lost to in the final round last season, and what was the score?

Hint: Soloman Bozeman hit a 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds to help this team beat the Mean Green in last season’s final.

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UNT’s season ends with missed chances Analysis ZACH CLAUSSEN Staff Writer

The UNT women’s basketball team had its season come to an end in the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament on Sunday in Hot Springs, Ark., in what has become a familiar sight for fans of the team.

After leading its quarterfinal matchup against Florida Atlantic by as many as 19 points, UNT squandered its lead and was unable to get a shot off as the clock expired in the 56-55 loss.

The game was a microcosm of the Mean Green’s entire season: get out to a healthy lead, lose focus and eventually hang on and pull out the win or have its heart broken in a loss. “I told them in the locker room if they had played with the kind of urgency that they played here [Hot Springs] in the last few days and last half of the conference season, we would have been a better seed and had more wins,� head coach Karen Aston said. “I can think of three or four wins that we could have had, and that would have been close to 20.�

UNT finished the season with a record of 15-16. Of its 6 losses, 13 were by single digits.

By comparison, Denver, which finished one spot higher than

the Mean Green, finished with just four more conference wins than UNT. The Mean Green posted the fourth best turnaround in the entire NCA A this year after winning just five games last year. This season the team won its fifth game less than a month into the season while posting its best record since 2005. “W hen you start talking about that, and you envision 20 wins, then absolutely we had made progress,� Aston said. “We will continue to build, there’s no question about that.�

UNT hasn’t had a 20-win season since the 2001-2002 season when the team went 21-9 under former head coach Tina Slinker.

Two of this season’s losses were a seven-point loss to the Arizona Wildcats of the Pacific-12 Conference and a nine-point loss to the Big 12 Conference’s Texas Longhorns, who were ranked No. 24 in the nation at the time. The Longhorns picked up a 79-64 win over No. 22 Texas A&M in its final game of the season.

The Mean Green also boasted a big defensive improvement from the year before by cutting down the points it allowed by 15.9 points per game.

UNT will lose four seniors this year in guards Tamara Tor r u, Br it t ne y Hud son, Alyssa Hankins and Kasondra Foreman. The four guards combined for 43 percent of

PHOTO BY JOE IMEL/MBO

Junior forward Sara Stanley shoots over Troy senior forward Tenia Manuel during the Mean Green’s 75-61 first-round victory over the Trojans on March 3 at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Hot Springs, Ark. this season. “I’m really proud of our team,� Aston said. “I think the next step for us is to figure out how to practice every day and continue to improve.�

the Mean Green’s total offense.

Each player played at least 13 minutes per game this season.

Torru, who was second on the team in scoring with 10.9 points per game, started every game

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