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Students protest failed referendums

BY ISAAC WRIGHT Senior Staff Writer

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Wav ing signs and brandishing bullhorns, about 20 members from several student organizations protested before t he St udent G over n ment Association meeting Wednesday outside Terrill Hall after the organization failed to bring three referendums to students for a vote.

Protests were sparked after SGA failed to bring the House of Representatives, homecoming reform and marijuana policy reform referendums to students for a vote this semester.

Members from the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance said they were protesting the loss of the homecoming reform bill, and said they were showing support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

Members from the university’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said they were angry the marijuana policy referendum would not be voted on this semester.

“It was supposed to go to a student vote this year and give the administration time over the summer to look at the drug policy,” said Danielle Farley, the president of UNT NORML and social science sophomore.

“Now, the students won’t even vote on it until the beginning of the fall semester.”

PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

James Saunders, a political science sophomore, protests the Student Government Association meeting Wednesday in front of Terrill Hall. Saunders and other student organizations protested the failure of SGA to bring referendums to a student vote this semester.

SGA President Kevin Sanders add re s s e d s en ator s a nd students during the meeting, and apologized that the House of Representatives and the homecoming reform referendums were both erased from the university computer hard drive. Sanders said it was unfor-

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BY L AURA ZAMORA said in the email.

Assigning Editor The president also said the closure was “in appreciation U N T P resident V. L a ne Rawlins sent out an official of the dedication and hard message to all students, faculty work by UNT faculty and staff and staff Wednesday after- and to provide [students] an noon announcing a campus- opportunity to plan for a long weekend.” He did not specifiwide closure on Friday.

A f t er no on c l a s s e s w i l l cally mention the upcoming be ca nceled at t he Denton Easter holiday on Sunday.

Willis Library will close at campus and the university’s center at Dallas. A ll online noon, but the 24-hour general classes will continue as usual, access lab on the first f loor Rawlins sa id in t he ema il. w ill remain open as usua l, The closure will take effect said circulation desk employee Briana Knox. at noon.

Classes w ill resume “University personnel identif ied as essentia l must be Monday.

Photojournalists killed in Libyan conflict devastated by the news.

“We were

BY K ATIE GRIVNA & both strugL AURA ZAMORA g l i ng f reeEditor-in-Chief & l a n c e r s Assigning Editor starting off Two photojournalists were t o g e t h e r CHRIS killed and two were injured du r i ng t he HONDROS Wednesday during a firefight war in Kosovo, and he’s such a in the northern Libyan city of central part of our photojournalism community. It really just Misrata.

Photographers Chris Hondros, feels like a part of my youth has Tim Hetherington, Guy Martin died,” Anderson said.

Hondros was following rebel and Michael Christopher Brown were covering the fighting when fighters who were trying to a mortar shell struck their posi- dislodge government troops.

In his photos posted Tuesday, tion.

Hondros, a senior staff photog- it’s visible that Hondros was rapher for Getty Images, and directly in the middle of the Hetherington, a contributing fighting, Anderson said.

“He’s really just inches away photographer for Vanity Fair, were killed. Martin and Brown, from the fighters in direct contact both freelance journalists, were with these government soldiers,” seriously wounded, according he said. “He was doing very, very dangerous work.” to reports.

Hondros, 41, was a close friend To read the full story, to Thorne Anderson of the jourvisit ntdaily.com nalism faculty who said he was

tunate, but the best course of action would be to resubmit the legislation in the fall.

“All we can do is work with the situation that we’re in,” Sanders said. “We can’t go back in time and change what happened.”

NORML members ques-

tioned why Sanders did not sign the marijuana policy referendum quickly enough to bring the legislation to students this semester. Sanders said he only had two days to set up a special election after the senate approved the referendum.

He said he was not comfort-

able approving legislation in such a short period of time.

“I don’t treat bills lightly,” Sanders said. “You need to take your time looking through them and you need to make sure everything is right. An opinion poll that goes to students can affect so many things.”

Pieing the PIKEs

PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Bailey Watson, a fashion merchandising senior, slams whipped cream into the face of Cameron Alewel, an undeclared sophomore, Wednesday evening. The PIKE fraternity hosted a pie-in-the-face event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Library Mall and on the campus green to raise money for the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Children Miracle Network. The fraternity members bought more than 160 cans of whipped cream for the event.

Brief

Grant to pay for stadium turbines

BY DREW GAINES Senior Staff Writer

The nearly completed Mean Green football stadium has established its place along the Denton skyline and can now be seen from miles away. But the facility is missing three integral pieces that are expected to generate quite a stir come fall.

The State Energy Conservation Office awarded UNT a $2 million grant in August to construct three wind turbines next to the new stadium. Expected to be up and running by the end of the year, the turbines will eventually offset the energy consumption of the neighboring Mean Green Village, the facility surrounding the stadium, by 6 percent and eliminate nearly 323 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

The turbines will stand in a line running parallel to Bonnie Brae Street, a spot viewable by commuters traveling on both Interstates 35E and 35W. They will stand 120 feet tall and will, from at least 130 feet away, emit as much noise as a normal conversation between two people.

L abeled a s com mun it y-sca le t u rbi nes, t he 100-Kilowatt machines are sma ller than their w indfarm cousins and suited to the area’s 12 mph average wind speed.

A s sou rces of renewable energ y, officials said the turbines will serve as a statement of UNT’s pursuit of carbon neutrality.

“It has become more than

just part of the stadium,” said Rick Villarreal, UNT’s athletic director.

An October study by the Office of Sustainability determined the turbines will be used as part of UNT’s academic, resea rch a nd out reach programs. The four-monthlong study was funded by a $200,000 grant from SECO that allowed developers to determine the turbines’ impact on surrounding wildlife and local air traffic.

A ppr ov a l of t he f i n a l funds was contingent upon the turbines’ high visibility, wh ich t hey hoped wou ld increase awareness of renewable energy.

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summer, editors Seniors to debut theirnames dance worksfallFriday

By isaac WriGht Senior Staff Writer

The validity of several referendums voted on by students Y TARYN semesters WALKER has been inBprevious Interninto question because of a called misinterpretation the Student Months of hardofwork all come Government Association constidown to one night. tution, said SGA President Kevin Senior dance students will Sanders. display their original works on Addressing thefirst student Friday for the timesenate at the Wednesday, Sanders the New Choreographerssaid Concert. constitution requires that an The concert will start at 8 p.m. absolute two-thirds majority vote in the University Theatre in ofthe theRadio, senate’s 45-seat memberTelevision, Film and ship is reached toBuilding. bring a referPerforming Arts endum to students.

However, General admission is $5 and Sanders said, the senate has been tickets can be purchased at the approving referendums based box office, over the phone, aton the the number of active senators, door and in advance. which for several semesters has Students enrolled in dance been less than 45. professor Shelley Cushman’s “In the past, by my are interpretasenior projects class required tion and by several other people’s to choreograph or perform in the interpretation, we have not done a concert. They also can complete things with an in absolute tworesearch study fieldwork. thirds majority,” Sanders said.to “Their work is a culmination “What an absolute two-thirds demonstrate the knowledge they majority meansthrough is you need twohave acquired the course thirds of 45 seats.

That is the of their study,” Cushman said. membership of this organizaCushman, the artistic director tion, so you would need 30 votes of the concert, is known for toher pass [referendums].” background in dance. She The senate had 29 seated senators when it voted to approve the homecoming reform, marijuana policy and House of

Representatives referendums.

It is also possible referendums voted on in past semesters, including the Green Fee referendum that earnedand the the 2010referendum University Dance changed the eligibility requireEducator of the Year from the ments of SGA presidential candiNational Dance Association. dates, may have been passed “They have to create a product, with fewer than is the required which the public invited to see, votes. and in this process they have to Sanders the issue they would solve all ofsaid the problems are need to be brought before the given in order to create this work SGA Supreme Court for interof art,” she said. pretation, but he he doesn’t In the class, said students learn believe the decision will affect about dynamics, unity, variety, past referendums. content, form and theme, “As far as I’m concerned, Cushman said. they’re valid,” Sanders said.

From the 10 choreographed Melissa McGuire, the director works at the concert, two dance ofpieces orientation and transition were chosen to represent programs for American the Department UNT at the College ofDance Student Development and the Festival, including Amelia SGA adviser, said Sanders discovWert’s “The Television is Watching ered differing Me the Again” and interpretation Cassie Farzan last week.

Panah’s “Gravity of Deception.”

She said Supreme Court “I set outthe with this image of a would consider the issue motel. I was interested in after doing a something brief is filed, and the SGA different,” Wertwill said. work to amend its constitution “I thought about the idea of why topeople clarifywould what an absolute twowant to stay at a thirds majority is after a ruling motel and wondered what they isfelt.” made.

McGuire also saidpiece it is unlikely Wert’s modern includes that the changes will affect referendums voted on in the past, regardless of whether they were passed with a correct majority.

Ret roact ively over turning referendums would cause a problem, she said, because it would be invalidating the voice ofnine students. dancers accompanied by “We took these things to ait focused lighting to make student vote,” McGuire said.

“I seem as if they are each in their think we would be in a lot of own motel room. Each dancer trouble if we didn’t is isolated from the count othersthe and student vote.” dances with minimalistic moveOne of referendums ment forthe a strong impact.that The may have been incorrectly themes include love, loss, isolapassed on for a studentwhich vote was tion and insomnia, are legislation that removed overlaid by the glow of aeligitelebility restrictions from SGA presvision. idential “It’s aand goodvice-presidential program. We have candidates.

Of the 849that ballots some amazing faculty have cast, about 60 percent of students really pushed us far,” Wert said. voted requireAll to 56remove dancersthe were chosen ments that candidates must from the dance department serve two long semesters in SGA by advanced choreography prior to seeking office. students. Some choreographers If the Supreme Court invalialso decided to dance.

Cushman dates the referendum, vice-presallowed students to perform if idential candidate Edwin Chavez they were up for the challenge. would be ineligible for office if he Rachel Caldwell choreoand presidential running mate graphed “Certain Uncertainty” Blake were elected. and isWindham also performing in “Guess Windham, a Supreme Court Who’s Not Coming to Dinner,” justice, said he would recuse choreog raphed by A n na himself from the bench should Womack. the In case be brought before the Caldwell’s choreography, runoff election results areexperifinaldancers explore the ized.

Sanders did not specify when the case might go before the Supreme Court.

By K atie Grivna

with the previous experience,” to be someshe said. thing that they’ll be The publications committee met Wednesday to decide the really interFall North Texas Daily’s summer ested to pick Pherigo began working for the up.” and fall editors.

Daily in fall 2009 and has worked T h e The committee selected in multiple sections, such as Shaina Zucker, a strategic m a g a - SHAINA news and views. management graduate student, zine will be ZUCKER He said he plans to increase as editor of the Daily’s summer publ ished student engagement in the a magazine On the Record, and o n c e paper.

Josh Pherigo, a journalism m o n t h “As a reader, you can expect to senior and the Daily’s current for t h ree see weekly videos, news briefs, months managing editor, as fall editor. interactive polls,” he said. “We Kathie Hinnen of the jour- during the want to get students more nalism faculty and the Daily’s s u m m e r , involved with the dialogue of adviser said she thinks Zucker with weekly campus issues.” and Pherigo are excellent updates at JOSH Pherigo said he plans to PHOTOstories

BY TARYN Wvisually ALKER/INTERN ntdaily.com PHERIGO choices. present more Dance“They’re students perform Itch,” choreographed by dance senior Anna Olvera, at a rehearsal for the New Choreograor as breaking news happens. both “The intensely with the Daily’s partnership “Zucker is excited about with the Denton Public Access committed phers Concert. to making the NT Daily and its website valuable the summer magazines and channel. focusing on places and events feeling to UNT students, faculty and harmonies.

“Pherigo is deeply serious of dance with touch and ence of being blind by wearing that readers will want to know staff,” she said. about covering news in-depth Caldwell said her piece is about sound rather than with sight,” blindfolds. In 28 rehearsals, the about, as well as experience, keeping ntdaily. give hissaid. readers information Caldwell as an not to four dancers adapted to their blindness com as a place to go for news they need to make important Summer The concert will also be held at hearing and touching senses to a handicap. happenings on a weekly basis decisions, and information served as p.m.

“I was in my modern class last 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2:30that helpZucker them through theEditor-inmodern and on breaking events,” justinwant to know because ChiefCaldwell in spring 2010, andwith said semester Sunday the University Theatre. and we news would lie on they piece. also worked Hinnen said. said. visit www. whilestudent she’s never worked on the Forfun,” moreHinnen information, ground and shut our eyes. it’s music Ryan Pivovar to the Nann Goplerud, the interim He welcomes input from summer magazine, she has big compose a song of looped cello I wondered if I could capture a danceandtheatre.unt.edu. chair for the Department of readers, Pherigo said. plans for the publication.

“I plan to… [make] the Daily “It’s going to be like nothing News, said she thinks Zucker’s [readers have] ever seen before, at previous experience as a Daily more visible on campus through hosting events, meeting students, least from a college publication,” editor will be beneficial.

“Having been away and now talking about issues and finding she said. “We’re going to bring in a good mix of entertaining [and] coming back, I think she’s going out what students want from to have fresh setand of eyes campus timely information…

It’s going little Creative Art paper.”

STUDIO, one of morea visibility havebut the their wife, Leslie Kregel, thought it would be great to increase public more aware of art culture the businesses that has been awareness of the communi- in Denton that isn’t always a part of First Friday since it awaiting Leadership in Energy Morton, the special projects started. ty’s artistic talent and culture, recognized,” Kregel said. and Environmental Design coordinator with UNT’s Office Huttash said her main goal Merchants join with artists Kregel said.

G old c er t i f ic at ion. U N T of Sustainability.

Drawe contacted sources to help promote art and busi- is providing music for the event HKS Architects, the designers President V. Lane Rawlins also and created the website first- nesses. For example, an artist each month. signed the American College & of both the UNT stadium and On Friday, Alex Riegelman, fridaydenton.com to establish looking for a place to display University President’s Climate Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, his or her work could contact a local guitarist and blues the event.

Commitment pact, making UNT and their DesignGreen firm “First Friday has no boss, no a coffee shop owner willing to singer, will play in A Creative the largest Texas university to created the initial blueprints for Art STUDIO. president. I’m just in charge of host the artist, Kregel said. do so. UNT will also be the only the turbines. UNT is currently Keri Zimlich, a journalism Heath Robinson, a pharmacy the website and building it into PHOTO BYofTARYN WALKER/INTERN selecting a Texas university to utilize wind in the process something because I started it,” junior, thinks the event will junior, said she thinks the event Robin Huttash, owner of A Creative Artsconstruction STUDIO, will participate in First manager forFriday the turbines on campus. bring attention to the creativity is a great opportunity to have Drawe said. project.

Organizers were hoping “It was a collaboration Denton. The studio will stay open until 9 p.m. on Friday. fun.

Kregel’s business, Cimarrona, the community has to offer. between UNT System, the to have the turbines up in time “It’s not just one shop, but “I think it’s a good way to sells hats, scarves and warm the stadium’s opening athletics facilities, pher and UNT alumnus, saidin he clothing recycled from old increase the exposure of the arts all the shops getting together month, department, which is where the idea for a final date the Office of Sustainability and September, to rekindle that love of art,” in Denton,” Robinson said. clothes. helped startthough Denton’s First Friday came from. has not been set.

HKSShannon Architects,” said Brandon Robin Huttash ow ns A Zimlich said.

“What we hope is [to gain] a Drawe, a photogra- in in February 2010. He and his Editor-in-Chief

Monthly event promotes art purchases in Denton Turbines to help stadium

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On Friday, the shops off the Continued from Denton Square willpage stay 1open later than usual.

Already, UNThave is planning Denton will its monthly toFirst launch a web-based moniFriday on the Square and toring system that would Industrial Street area. allow viewers tracksculptures, energy producLiveto music, stained tion and carbon reduction glass, appetizers and artfrom will be projects likeuntil the turbines.

Such of available 9 p.m. instead initiatives will6also the regular p.m.be incorporated in course curriculum.

For First Friday, art galleries Developer s sa id t he y and businesses stay open longer consider the turbine project to give shoppers an opportunity totobe the foundation of many admire and buy art. such rene w able ener g and y Several communities efforts at UNT. The 28,000countries have their own First seat Mean GreenThursday stadium each is Friday or First

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Thursday, April 21, 2011 Sean Gorman, Sports Editor

Sports

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Baby Talk: The best is yet to come for UNT athletics Opinion

struggling program.

N o t coming to basketball games next year?

You might BEN BABY want to reconsider.

Don’t forget about the soccer team. Last fall, the soccer season was ended by a shocking first-round loss to Western Kentucky in the conference tournament. This fall, UNT is bringing back six seniors that are undoubtedly looking to purge themselves of last year’s shortages. The team’s top-four goal scorers from last season are returning — something Green could have one of the that can only be a sign of most ta lented ba sketba l l success for the upcoming teams in school history. Four 2011 season.

Let’s not leave out volleyplayers ranked in the state’s top 70 players are coming to ball, swimming and diving, Denton. That’s not including and cross country. All three Tony Mitchell, a transfer from were successf ul in t heir Missouri who was ranked No. respective sports last fall.

Wit h t hat being sa id, 12 in the class of 2010, or Roger Franklin, who is transferring maybe there will be a sense of school pride that has been from Oklahoma State.

Karen Aston will be taking over lacking at UNT for a while.

But I’m not going to get the women’s team next season in hopes of turning around a carried away just yet.

then it may be a sign that you should probably start going

By Ben BaBy to class. Or at least somehow Senior Staff Writer wander on campus.

Dan McCarney will start his To be completely honest, UNT didn’t have the greatest first season as head coach of semester when it came to sports the football team. He brings experience from Iowa State in my mind.

The women’s basketba ll and Florida, where he was on team won five games the entire a coaching staff that won a season. The men’s basketball BCS National Championship team made a tremendous run in 2008.

On the hardwood, the Mean in the Sun Belt Conference tour-

“On the hardwood, the Mean Green could have one of the most talented basketball teams in school history.” nament, only to have a miraculous shot keep the Mean Green out of the NCAA Tournament.

Tennis and softball have struggled. So far, bright spots this semester have been golf and track and field.

But don’t worry, Mean Green faithful: This fall has plenty of things to look forward to.

For starters, UNT will be opening a brand new football stadium in September.

If you aren’t aware of that,

Kirk shows skills with strikeouts

By BoBBy Lewis

Senior Staff Writer In between pitches, redshirt freshman Ashley Kirk steps back, takes a deep breath and fires the ball into her glove before stepping back onto the rubber to face the hitter.

“I take that deep breath and when I throw that ball into the glove, it’s really just me releasing everything and then stepping forward and going into the new pitch,” Kirk said.

Despite a 7-12 record, Kirk is turning in one of the most dominant seasons a UNT pitcher has had. Earlier in the season, Kirk became the fifth pitcher in school history to strike out more than 100 batters in one season. She’s in third place on the all-time single season strikeout list with 120 — 26 behind the all-time leader.

“I really want to get the strikeouts in a single-season record,” Kirk said. “I think the record’s 145, so I’m hoping to get there.”

After starting out as catcher when she was five years old, Kirk tried pitching and hasn’t looked back.

In a high school game, she set the Stony Point High School records for most innings pitched and most strikeouts in one game by going 21 innings and striking out 39 hitters. The game lasted five and a half hours, and the final three innings had to be pitched 10 days later because of University Interscholastic League rules.

“I really want to get the striekouts in a single season record.”

—Ashley Kirk, Freshman Pitcher

“She’s a very talented pitcher,” said head coach T.J. Hubbard.

“It’s been up and down this year, but she’s had some really good performances.”

Kirk’s ability to orchestrate those kind of performances made playing softball at UNT a no-brainer.

“Softball was where the money was,” Kirk said. “It’s the truth, though. Everybody plays volleyball — not everybody plays softball.”

Photo by Sara JoneS/Senior Staffer

Senior Amy Joubert serves the ball during the Mean Green’s match against Tarleton State April 12. The Mean Green defeated the Texans 7-0.

Tennis team to defend Sun Belt title

By Brett Medeiros Staff Writer

Photo by Stacy Power/Senior Staffer

Redshirt freshman pitcher Ashley Kirk leads the team with 120 strikeouts this season after missing the 2010 season because of an injury. her freshman year because of a knee injury she suffered in October 2009.

“I was on crutches for six weeks, and my quad seriously got to the size of my forearm,” she said. “It was tiny, so [Hubbard] was like, ‘You can’t play with that.’”

During her freshman year, she could do everything with the team except play, which she said was very difficult.

“It was extremely hard,” said her mother, Lisa Kirk. “She’s very competitive and it was extremely hard for her to sit on the sidelines and not get to play.”

Days after the diamond When Ashley Kirk wraps up her career at UNT, she wants to become a Spanish teacher, which is what she is studying for.

“A blonde-haired, blue-eyed Spanish teacher is a little unusual, but that’s what she wants to do,” her mom said.

Regardless of where Spanish takes her, softball will always be her biggest passion, she said.

When Kirk goes back home to Round Rock in the summer, she Redshirted will coach a little league team Kirk has accomplished all this — something she said she’d like in her first year on the field for to pursue after her playing days UNT after redshirting during are over.

“I just started last summer,” she said. “But I’ve been helping my dad coach, going out to practices and helping him out, so yeah, I love it.”

The UNT tennis team begins the defense of its conference title when it starts play ing in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament today.

The team opens the tournament with a match against South A labama (2-12), who the Mean Green (9-11) beat 6-1 a month ago.

“There’s only one expectat ion a nd t hat’s to w in a cha mpionsh ip,” sa id head coach Sujay Lama. “We want to bring back that trophy on Sunday night.”

UNT is a si x seed in t he tou r na ment a nd w i l l have to play all four days of the tournament in order to win the title.

“I’m not worried about the seeding. I’m just concerned that we are ready all four days if it’s necessary,” Lama said.

“I have a lot of confidence in this team.”

The Mean Green’s biggest cha l lenge w i l l be its r iva l Flor ida Inter nat iona l. T he

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There’s only one expectation and that to win a championship.”

—Sujay Lama, Head coach

“O u r s uppor t for e ach other and our fight are what set us apart from ever yone else,” said junior Nadia Lee. “I think that bond is so tight that other teams struggle to break it when they play us.”

The only other team UNT

lost to in conference play was Denver, who begins the tournament as an eight seed.

“It has been toug h w it h all the adversities this year,” sa id sen ior A my Jouber t . “ We’ve pu l le d t he s e la st three matches out and it has done wonders for our confidence.”

W i n n i ng it s l a st t h re e matches and si x of its last eight, the Mean Green heads i nto t he tou r na ment w it h strong momentum.

“Experience, we have five starters from last year that won a championship. We’ve done it before,” Lama said.

“Now, we just need to make sure we stay on a role and keep doing the job we need to do.”

A f t er t he Me a n Gr e en f i n i she s t he f i r st rou nd, tournament play continues through Sunday.

Sports

Page 4 Sean Gorman, Sports Editor

UNT softball team to visit USA

By Donnie PiPes Staff Writer

The Mean Green softball team will try to keep its twogame conference w inning streak alive when it heads to Mobile, Ala., for a three-game series with the University of South Alabama Jaguars today and Friday.

W it h t h ree week s lef t before its conference tournament, UNT (19-26, 5-13) sits in seventh place out of nine teams in the Sun Belt.

“I’m very pleased with the way we’ve played recently and the way we fought and battled last weekend,” said head coach T.J. Hubbard. “Even though we didn’t win every game, we showed we can compete.”

Players to watch

Mean Green finishes fourth at SBC Championships Intern

Photo by Stacy PowerS/Senior Staffer

Junior infielder Maddelyn Fraley throws the ball home after catching it at first base during practice. The team will face South Alabama tonight and Friday in Mobile, Ala. sta f f w i l l have its ha nds f u l l, as t he Jag ua rs ra n k second i n t he Su n Belt with a .317 batting average.

USA’s Meghan Collins and Brittany Fowler lead the team with .394 and .387 batting a v e r a g e s , r e s p e c t i v e l y.

U N T ha s h it t he ba l l well also, with three batters hav ing si x or more home runs, and 35 or more hits.

S en ior f i r s t ba s em a n and pitcher Mallory Cantler leads the team in RBIs, hits a nd on-ba se percentage. in.

The series starts at 11.0 7 p.m.

today and closes with a doubleheader at 2 p.m Friday.

Softball stats 1. UNT hasn’t lost to South Alabama since 2008.

2. Head Coach T.J. Hubbard picked up his 100th career win in his last outing.

3. Brittany Simmons has pitched 15 complete games this season.

Failing to gain ground in the final round, the UNT women’s golf team finished in fourth place at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament Wednesday.

The Mean Green trailed tou r n a ment ch a mpion Denver by four shots going into Wednesday’s final round, but kept its place on the leaderboard after shooting a final round score of 295.

“Today was a big struggle from start to finish,” said head coach Jeff Mitchell. “With the wind up, we just could not get any momentum going. We struggled a lot on the greens and made very few birdies.”

After the tournament, the team was honored by the Sun Belt for its accomplishments during the 2010-2011 season.

Mitchell was named the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year, while senior Chandra Alexandra, juniors Kelsey Kipp and Addison Long, and sophomore Jacey Chun were added to the All-Conference Team.

“Jacey Chu n, Kelsey Kipp, Chandra Alexander and Addison Long have all had outstanding seasons,” Mitchell said. “Collectively, they had amassed 16 top-10 finishes. We continue to build on each tournament.”

Mitchell is the first UNT women’s golf coach to win the award, while the total of four All-Conference players in one season is a Mean Green record.

The team finished two

Photo by conrad Meyer/Staff PhotograPher

Senior Chandra Alexander tied for 11th place at the Sun Belt Conference after a third-round score of 76. strokes behind Arkansas Little Rock, nine strokes behind runner up Middle Tennessee, and was 14 behind the Pioneers, who have won eight-straight Sun Belt titles.

Kipp led the way with an even par for the second round and a 1-under-par 71 for the final round, landing her in a tie for sixth place. In the final round of the tournament, she dropped four birdies in the last six holes, giving her a final tournament score of 219.

Alexander notched a final round of 76 and finished in 11th place.

Chrismer posted her best round of the tournament in the final round with a 73, which landed her in a tie for 13th place.

Chun and Long placed outside the Top 15, finishing in 24th and 34th, respectively.

The team will wait to see if it receives an at large bid to the NCAA Regional Tournament, which begins May 5.

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The series The Mean Green will be challenged at the plate by the South Alabama pitching crew, which has a 2.70 ERA on the season.

“We’re going to have to work ha rd aga i n st t hei r pitchers and do whatever we can to get a hit,” said sophomore shortstop Lesley Hirsch.

“All I’m trying to do is get on base as much as possible.”

UNT is coming off backto-back conference victories against Louisiana Monroe at Lovelace Stadium last weekend, whi le t he Jag ua rs (30-12, 9-7) have struggled recently.

USA has dropped five of its last seven games while playing Sun Belt teams at home. The team is 13-11 after winning 17 of its first 18 games.

H i s t or y i s on U N T ’s side, as it hasn’t lost to the Ja g ua r s si nc e 20 0 8 a nd leads the all-time series 5-3.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011 Katie Grivna, Editor-in-Chief

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Professor styles cultural attire into curriculum

BY JENNIFER MCELROY Intern

PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sensei James Karin (left), a shijou ryu juijitsu trainer, teaches Coby Normiler a lock. Karin leads the martial arts and selfdefense class at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays. The students train at North Lakes Park, meeting outside regardless of weather.

Shijou Ryu kicks up in Denton

BY A SHLEY-CRYSTAL FIRSTLEY Staff Writer

Standing 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds, Matthew Hunter can probably take down a guy twice his size.

For a year and a half, the business logistics senior has trained with Sensei James Karin, an instructor with 26 years of selfdefense experience under his belt, who Karin met at Guardian Angels of Dallas.

Karin, who is also the chief instructor of Shijou Ryu jujitsu in Dallas, established the first classes of this style in Denton. In an hour, students can learn two to six moves in five individual techniques.

“Having the skills that we’re teaching here enables you to go anywhere you want to go,” Karin said. “You’re free to be yourself because no one’s going to tell you any different.”

Shijou Ryu is a style of Japanese jujitsu that incorporates the strengths of boxing, Judo, Aikido, Ken-jitsu, Wing Chun and karate, according to his website.

Karin’s teachings are designed

to take on opponents despite their size, offering individuals a sense of security. His training keeps it as real as possible, he said.

“You look at MMA now. Great fighters, but they have rules and they’re fighting one person with a referee,” Karin said. “In the street, you’re fighting more than one person, there’s no rules and there’s nobody to stop the fight.”

College altercations Almost every student is going to be in a party scenario, whether it’s at a bar or hanging with friends, Hunter said.

In those scenarios, he explained that altercations could occur with drunken or rowdy people where there’s no control.

“You have to be able to take that element out if you need to,” Hunter said. “So being able to know how to do that and learning that here is something that’s enormously beneficial [to students].”

It’s best to have the knowledge before a student faces a quarrel, Karin said.

“The element of surprise is huge in this,” he said.

Women’s self defense Women are welcomed to attend the class, Karin said, but it’s unlikely that the techniques he teaches will benefit them because they get attacked differently than men.

He said he wants to start women’s defense in Denton for college women.

“Smaller woman actually have an easier time doing a lot of the stuff, because you don’t want to use muscle, you don’t want to use force. It’s all body mechanics,” Karin said.

Latreshia Johnson, a speech pathology sophomore, said she hasn’t been in a situation where she had to defend herself from a male, but has thought about the possibilities.

“So if women were taught how to correctly defend themselves, it’ll be a good thing for them, especially on campus around the bars,” Johnson said.

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To cont r ibute to International Week and satisfy university curriculum, Christy Crutsinger, a professor and the associate dean of the merchandise and hospitality management department, has created an innovative lesson for students to interact crossculturally through different modes of dress.

The Inter nat iona l Dress Panel, which took place Tuesday, is put on by Crutsinger’s fashion theory class every semester and consists of people who can access their culture’s traditional costumes.

“Seeing is believing to me, and seeing authentic dress up close is a much more handson approach than reading it out of a textbook,” Crutsinger said.

Along with the visual representation of different cultures through clothing, participants in the panel provide a historic background on their culture.

Crutsinger said the panel has included experts covering countries like Vietnam, China, South Korea, India and Greece, who wear their traditional costume in front of the audience and tell the history of their dress, how it originated and its relevance to modern dress.

Audhesh Paswan of the marketing facult y and educator on India’s different subcultures of dress previously participated in the panel’s efforts to build awareness of different cultures and customs.

Paswan said it is vital for students to understand what

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Left to right: Tanya Srivastava, a merchandising freshman, and Stacy Lee and Ren Huang, merchandising graduate students, all wear traditional dresses from their own cultures. role in history culture plays, and the panel is a method to let students understand the concept visually.

He provided information about the Indian culture, dating back 4,000 years, and how it contributes to the attire seen all over the world today.

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“... The panel is amazing for international students.”

—Tori Tran, Merchandising student

student from Vietnam, said she hopes to contribute next year with traditional Vietnamese costumes and family traditions.

“To me, the panel is amazing for international students from anywhere, not just Vietnam, to feel at home and more incorporated into UNT,” she said.

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sented India, Korea, China, and Vietnam.

Participants included Stacy Lee and Ran Huang, merchandising graduate students, and Tanya Srivastava, a merchandising freshman.

Lee, who provided expertise on Korea and wore a traditional HanBok dress, said although the Korean costume and customs are very time-honored, many people no longer follow the strict Korean traditions they once did when it comes to clothes.

Srivastava represented India for the panel and said the sari, a necessity in Indian garb for women, is viewed as sophisticated and beautiful, but many women opt for the more modern dress that is so prevalent in America.

Crutsinger said the panel is a unique way to build awareness of other cultures and the values they hold as seen through their attire.

“The overall lesson here is to learn something different from someone who is different from you and from me,” Crutsinger said.

Views

Page 6 Abigail Allen, Views Editor

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Innovation comes by becoming humble

SGA must fix itself Editorial There are so many problems with the Student Government Association — many of which were evident in Wednesday’s chaotic meeting — it’s hard to know where to start.

The Editorial Board is frustrated and discouraged by the lack of decorum and professionalism expressed by our student leaders.

A couple of issues have been brought up about SGA recently. One is that it’s possible the group has not had enough votes to create student referendums for years.

Another is that President Kevin Sanders has appeared unwilling to sign pieces of legislation, like the referendum about changing the university’s marijuana policy, for vague reasons.

Problems at the meeting First, let’s look at the limited number of senators attending the meetings. Although the total number of seats is 45, only 29 are filled right now. At roll call Wednesday, only 18 senators were present, and some of those senators left before the meeting ended.

Next, Sanders’ reaction to questions and comments at the meeting can be summed up in one word: defensiveness. His tone in response to the senators and UNT community members created an obstacle for working through the issues.

Then, there’s the clerical oversight that resulted in the loss of two of the biggest, most controversial pieces of legislation this year. Two bills that would have allowed students to vote in referendum were not saved properly.

One would have given students a choice between two gender-neutral changes to Homecoming. The other would have let students say if they want a subject-based House of Representatives to better represent student issues.

The Board applauds Sen. Chris Walker for taking responsibility for the pieces not being saved properly even if it wasn’t his fault. However, the exact wording that the Senate approved is still missing.

Unfortunately, even if the bills hadn’t been lost, it seems likely from Sanders’ comments that he wouldn’t have approved them because of a “lack of time” for the referendums to be held. That raises the question — why were they ever voted on?

The Student Senate’s focus on internal thoughts and frustrations over students’ needs brings the legitimacy of the group into question. Internal fighting is not a new problem for the SGA, and it has reached an extreme this semester.

What it means With $160,000 at its disposal every year, the SGA needs to have better organization and greater focus on student issues.

Student government shouldn’t be about the personal feelings of the people involved. If the members take pride or offense at things that happen on the Senate floor, they need to keep that in check. The student body president shouldn’t say things like, “I know I shouldn’t take it personal, but I do.”

Being a leader isn’t about the individual — it’s about the people he or she leads.

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Despite traditiona l v iew s, creat io ex n i h i lo (“creation out of nothing”) is nowhere to be found in the Hebrew Bible. This was instead a development of the second century CE. The God of Genesis brought forth a habitable world out of a formless, watery deep following an incubation period.

The Psalms contain scattered references to Yahweh’s triumph over the dragon of chaos, thus bringing order to the cosmos. Furthermore, the Hebrew God did not act alone, but instead counseled with His divine assembly: “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26).

It was only after these important stages that the new creation was deemed “good.”

Similarly, good ideas do not randomly burst onto the stages of our minds. They instead take the form of what science writer Steven Johnson calls the “slow hunch.”

These hunches steadily inch along, growing and progressing with both time and nour-

ishment. More often than not, unions with other hunches bring about a grander, more complete idea worthy of the label “good.”

T he mo der n i nc r e a s e in social connectivity has created a global network for ideas to conjugate in a flurry of creativity. In a world where no one person possesses even 1 percent of all available knowledge, the public support should be behind an interconnected, Hayekian model of society.

As Johnson says, “Chance favors the connected mind.”

Though there are obvious economic and political implications in embracing an innovative culture, I find the most important implication to be ethical in nature. I’m always slightly uncomfortable with the use of the adjective “openminded.”

The term has become an irredeemable, self-aggrandizing cliché because of its abuse by persons unfit for its description. Too often, it is exploited by those who tend to think that disagreement is akin to close-

mindedness. Even worse are those who confuse being ignorant or lacking moral commitment with being open.

Humility is the true prerequisite for an innovative mind because it makes one teachable.

Innovation is about sharing: the sharing of ideas, criticisms, and experience. If our slow hunches are to move forward, we must be less worried about appearing “open-minded” on the surface and more focused on humbling ourselves.

William Hamblin, an historian of the Middle East and ancient religions, understands this well: “In the nearly 40 years I have spent studying ancient history and religion, one of the most important truths I’ve discovered is this: I know fewer answers today than I ‘knew’ when I started studying four decades ago … Ontologically, I believe there is absolute truth.

But epistemologically, I believe that truth about the human past cannot be absolutely understood by humans …

“This is not because of the

relative nature of truth, but because of the limited nature of the surviving evidence from the past, and the imperfect nature of human reason, knowledge, and understanding. In the tension between intellectual hubris and humility, I think most of us could use a healthy dose of the latter.”

If pride comes before the fall, imagine what follows a little intellectual humility.

Walker Wright is an organizational behavior and human resource management senior. He can be reached at WalkerWright@ my.unt.edu.

Letter: Planned Parenthood is untrustworthy Dear Editor, Recent battles in Congress regarding the government funding (or defunding) of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers has drawn scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans.

However, t he abor t ion debate a nd a nt i-abor t ion message transcend party lines.

This issue is not strictly the Right versus the Left, although it definitely leans that way at times.

The real question is should t he government rea lly be funding an organization that systematically kills our younger generations? If the human rights of the most innocent among us are not protected, from what basis do we draw our own human rights?

The author states that lies and misinformation abound.

This is true on both sides of the aisle.

Yes, Sen. Jon Kyl used sensationalism to argue his point. He should not have done that.

This is not hing new to politics, and certainly not

contained to just one side of the aisle.

The fact of the matter is the 2010 fact sheet from Planned Parent hood’s ow n website shows that 96 percent of pregnant women that visit Planned Parenthood do so for abortions, not for prenatal care.

To suggest that easier access to contraception will “solve” the problem of abortion is to divorce oneself from reality. No contraception is 100 percent effective, and unplanned pregnancies will still occur.

According to the Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood), 54 percent of women who seek abortions had been using a contraceptive method. More contraception simply encourages an increase in recreational sexual encounters and does not solve the underlying problem.

Planned Parenthood has broken the law on numerous occasions, put t i ng you ng women in jeopardy. A New Jersey Planned Parenthood was videotaped teaching a man

posing as a sex trafficker about how to obtain abortions and STD testing for his underage female sex slaves.

Several Planned Parenthood locations have been videotaped telling girls posing as underage victims of rape and incest that they should lie about their age to obtain abortions, and that the police would not be contacted.

Planned Parenthood claims they protect the rights of women, but their actions speak louder than words. Why on earth should the government fund an organization that behaves in this way?

To permit the killing of an innocent life to preserve the lifestyle of another is a sign of a morally corrupt society.

We need to support mothers struggling with the reality of their new parenthood.

Friday, t he UNT Eagles for Life in conjunction with the TW U Pioneers for Life collected donations at the Kroger on Loop 288 to support the material needs of pregnant mothers.

Donations of diapers and money were collected and sent to the Loreto House, which is a nonprofit pregnancy center here in Denton that provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and material assistance to desperate mothers. It is centers like these that should be at the forefront of the battle to protect mothers and their unborn children.

Planned Parenthood just cannot be trusted.

Theodore Hatch is a mechanical and energy engineering senior. He can be reached at theodore.hatch@gmail.com.

“It’s so random, but I like it when it’s nice and cold instead of being 94 degrees.”

Josh Webb

Undeclared graduate student

“I like how one day it’s really hot, and the next it’s cold and rainy.”

Mackensy Gray Psychology junior

“It’s annoying because I was outside and it was super hot, then today it’s the complete opposite. It’s like summer and winter combined.”

NT Daily Editorial Board The Editorial Board includes: Katie Grivna, Abigail Allen, Josh Pherigo, Laura Zamora, Sean Gorman, Nicole Landry, Brianne Tolj, Berenice Quirino, David Williams and Will Sheets.

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