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Dining Services works to increase student use

BY STACY POWERS

Contributing Writer Voluntary meal plan participation across campus has grown 92 percent since last year, and it continues to grow by word of mouth, said Bill McNeace, executive director of Dining Services.

“Right now, we are a little under 600 students. We are shooting for 1,000 next year, a nd we t hin k t hat just by getting the word out, we should be able to hit that number fairly easy,” McNeace said.

Dining Services have been work ing to increase voluntar y meal plans, and many students don’t know they are available, McNeace said.

Those include the commuter 160, 120 and 80 meal plans.

The mandator y mea l plans include the 5-day and 7-day plans. Participation for those has stayed consistent at more than 5,000 students because they are required to participate.

About 60 percent of t he students eat in all six of the cafeterias at least three times or more a day, said Shohreh Sparks, associate director of Dining Services.

“I eat in the cafeterias pretty much every day because I have the meal plan anyway, so I try to save money by eating here,” said Gregory Nolen, an undeclared sophomore.

“The food is pretty similar every day. I just get tired of it, and after two years, it’s kind of been too much,” Nolen said.

“Spice it up a little. Have some variety.”

Dining Services have formed the student dining advisory committee, which meets every three weeks to address the issues. Students get feedback from other students about the food they eat in the cafeterias, and then voice the feedback at the open meetings so changes can be made efficiently.

“At Maple, I had a couple complaints about the cleanl i ness of t he tables,” sa id Cassandra Holtz, a communications junior, at the meeting held i n Ma rc h . “T he y ’r e often really messy and that’s not cool. Then I had a few com ment s t hat t he pi z z a is a lmost too spic y sometimes.”

Elizabeth George, a fashion merchandising sophomore and PHOTO BY ALEX SCOTT/PHOTOGRAPHER president, said the cafeterias Shohreh Sparks, associate director of Dining Services, said she works to increase meal plan participation among UNT students. should be more attractive to increase meal plan participation.

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“On a nationa l level, If the average student eats “We really want people to in the cafeterias four times a we are probably the cheapest nology sophomore, had a meal classes, labs or work and have day, seven days a week, the in the United States for two plan, he found it less stressful. trouble ma k ing time to go go to West [Cafeteria],” George cost per meal for a 7-day meal reasons. No. 1, it’s all-you- He did not have to worry about to the cafeterias, said Peter said. “Not many people go there. plan would be about $4, said care-to-eat dining, so you can saving or spending money on Balabuch, associate director It’s kind of out of the way for part of the campus.”

Ken Botts, director of special go in and pig out for an hour food because it was already of Dining Services.

There is still a lot of work that But st udent s a lso have and a half or until your next paid for, and it was cheaper. projects.

Some students who have opinions about the cafeterias needs to be done to promote the “Our meal plans are unique class. But it’s also a constant meal plans do not always eat that keep them from eating meal plan and get the word out, and a better value in compar- pass.”

McNeace said. there.

W hen K ief ier Hu nter, a in the cafeterias. ison to other campuses,” Botts

UNT continues working toward Tier One status New status will take years to achieve

The plan being submitted is the promise from the Board of Regents and Chancellor Lee Jackson to continue the path already set before them.

It will take years to accomBY ELISABETH SHEA plish, Diebel said. Texas’ other YARBOROUGH emerging research institutions Senior Staff Writer have had more time to prepare, UNT will submit its stra- and UNT is playing catch up, he said. teg ic a nd resea rch “We’ve got a little pla ns for Tier One bit longer road to go status to the Texas down than they do,” H i g her E duc at ion Diebel said. “That’s Coordinating Board on why we have to be Thursday, said UNT’s more aggressive than Interim President Phil they do.”

Diebel.

In addition to the The commitment to PHIL university’s Tier One Tier One research has DIEBEL initiatives, the plan presented not changed, he said.

“The numbers in the budget in Febr ua r y to spend t he are a significant investment proposed and approved tuition in achieving Tier One,” Diebel increase will be presented to the Board of Regents in May, said.

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said Jean Bush, acting senior associate vice president for finance. The university has predicted they will be able to meet 72 percent of student financial aid, a percentage she said is consistent with the last five years.

“It’s a good percentage, being in the 70 to 75 percent range,” Bush said. “It’s where we’ve stayed for the past five years, and that’s good.”

The overall need for students’ f inancia l aid in t he 20102011 school year will be $248 million, of which the university will be able to provide $178 million. The other $70 million will come from the students and their families, Bush said.

“Just about everywhere you go in the area, you’re going to find a UNT student working,” Bush said.

A lthough the amount of financial aid provided by the universit y has consistently stayed at 5 percent since 2007, t he amount of money has significantly increased.

In 2007, the student need for financial aid was $173 million, as stated in t he proposed spending plan. It will increase by $135 million in 2011, with the difference, which students must pay out of pocket, increasing by $14 million.

Diebel proclaimed his optimism for the future and his faith that Tier One status will be reached, though it is not going to happen overnight.

He reiterated the institution’s commitment to continue what began before he stepped into office.

“We have a wonder f u l product, tremendous faculty and a great student body,” Diebel said. “I feel very good about where we are and where we are going.”

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At the 11th annual Women of Color Conference held at UNT, Maria Contreras-Sweet shared her struggles and accomplishments, such as immigrating from Mexico with her family at the age of 5 and becoming the first Hispanic woman in California state government to hold a cabinet position.

Event empowers women

BY K ATIE GRIVNA Senior Staff Writer

Empowering speeches and workshop sessions sought to inspire more than 100 people in attendance at UNT’s 11th a n nua l Women of Color Conference.

UNT’s Multicultural and Women’s centers hosted the event, which focused on gender equity, Tuesday morning in the University Union.

The conference began with Maria Contreras-Sweet, the morning keynote speaker who spoke of the importance of

finding win-win strategies, understanding core skills, finding commonalities and being one’s self in the workplace.

“I think that it is important that we as women … believe in the possibilities, that we believe we have unbridled opportunities,” she said. “I believe that.”

Contreras-Sweet is t he founder and chairwoman of Promerica Bank and the first Hispanic secretary of business, transportation and housing for California.

“From time to time, we have to take risk. If we stay in our little safe zone, we don’t break those barriers,” she said.

A fter Contreras-Sweet’s keynote address, attendees picked from one of four sessions cover i ng topics from the woman’s role in the peace process, networking for Hispanic women, women’s voting and finding oneself without lowering the corporate ceiling.

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Denton residents welcome new A-train station

BY TIM MONZINGO Contributing Writer

Despite some concern from residents, the A-Train is on schedule to be completed

by December 2010 or spring 2011, a Denton County Transit Authority official said.

City officials and DCTA representatives gathered March 22 for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Downtown Denton Transit Center and the adjacent DCTA Downtown Station.

“There’s been a tremendous amount of progress made since June of last year,” said Dee Leggett, vice president of communications and planning for the Denton County Transit Authority. “Now in the Denton Corridor, because we’ve been working south moving north, people are starting to see more visible signs of progress in the Denton Corridor.”

The rail line, which has been in the works since 2002, will offer a way for commuters to avoid the congestion of Interstate Highway 35 E and intends to help preserve air quality in growing Dentonarea communities.

DCTA is trying to keep the construction’s effects contained, Leggett said.

“There’s been pockets of concern where the project has passed through residential areas, which that’s reasonable

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to understand a rail project passing through a residential area, how are you going to mitigate or minimize those impacts?” she asked. “The agency from the very beginning has worked with the communities to identify what those impacts are, based on the national environmental policy act, look at what the appropriate mitigation measures would be and then make sure that we’re implementing those mitigation measures.”

For instance, DCTA has designed the rail crossings and bridges so that the train will not have to blow a whistle when it passes, eliminating a lot of the noise associated with trains, Leggett said.

Despite some concern, Leggett said that Denton residents have stood behind DCTA in the planning.

“Over whelmingly, t his project has been supported by the community as far as bringing transportation alternatives to Denton County,” she said.

Though many residents support the train, some students don’t see it as an option for them.

Jordan Nally, a music education sophomore, said she doesn’t know if she’ll use the train and still plans on driving for safety reasons.

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The rail line, which has been in the works since 2002, will offer a way for commuters to avoid the congestion of Interstate Highway 35 E . The train is still on schedule to be completed in December 2010 or spring 2011.

“I like driving my car, so I don’t know,” Nally said. “I think it would maybe be safer because you know there are not going to be strangers there or anything in your car.”

Other students said the train is an opportunity for easy and affordable transport.

“There’s a lot of international students here and there’s a lot of young kids who don’t have cars because of financial

reasons, and it’s easier to pay a couple bucks to go down to Dallas, there and back, play gigs, see music,” said Scott Kruser, a jazz studies graduate student. “It’s going to hopefully open a lot of possibilities up for musicians and students in general.”

International students, like Alex Fraile, are excited about the opportunity to travel without owning a car.

“I’m from Spain, and I miss some public transport because I don’t have a car here,” said Fraile, a jazz studies graduate student. “It’s impossible for me to go to Dallas if I don’t have someone who gives me a ride.”

Fraile said the public transportation system in Spain made it easy for him to get from place to place.

“I used to live for five years

in Barcelona, and I didn’t use the car. I was traveling by public transport every day,” he said.

A similar sentiment is what drives public support for the A-Train, Leggett said.

“Right now, your commuting alternative is limited to the congestion along I-35 East, so overwhelmingly the community has been supportive of the project.”

National government implements ‘tan tax’

BY K RYSTLE CANTU Staff Writer

A 10 percent sales tax increase is being administered on indoor tanning services. This initiative is part of the funding for the $940 billion health care overhaul. It is expected to generate $2.7 billion over the next 10 years.

“I think a lot people would look at the particular tax and see it as frivolous,” said Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha of the political science faculty. “I think the justification behind it is that health care increasing is a collective good. Everybody eventually is going to have access to it, so there is an incentive to the government to encourage people to be healthy, and studies show that tanning is not particularly healthy.”

Eshbaugh-Soha said he sees the taxation as more of an encouragement for people to

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As part of the $940 billion health care bill, there will be an initiative to increase the sales tax on tanning by 10 percent for all indoor tanning services. be healthier.

“Instead of going the extra mile to ban tanning outright, which people would be vehemently opposed to, you offer a

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small tax to try and encourage some people to change their behavior, to act more healthily,” he said. “The justification there is that if tanning causes health problems then eventually we will all be paying for it, so it makes sense for the individual who chooses to engage in that activity to bear more of the burden, with the tax going to fund health insurance or health-related programs.”

But Eshbaugh-Soha can see how people might feel concerned that the government is becoming too involved, he said.

“In some ways, you can’t have it both ways,” he said. “The government needs to make it clear that there is evidence and that they are clearly targeting

behavior that is unhealthy.”

Joseph Levy, vice president of the International Smart Tan Network, said that is not the case, and that the original idea was cosmetic surgery taxing Then the idea of a tax on tanning came about through deflection by lobbying groups.

“Originally the bill had a 5 percent tax on Botox or elective cosmetic surgery,” he said “They lobbied at the last minute to have that tax taken out and replaced with the tan tax, which they claimed would raise 2.7 billion dollars over 10 years, but my industry knows we’ll raise less than 50 percent of that.”

Lev y said the tanning industry wasn’t involved in the process at all.

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“This is a backroom deal done by a powerful lobbying group for rich doctors and rich clients. In exchange a tax on middle class-owned businesses was put in place,” he said. “This is going to hurt small business and female-owned small businesses, exactly the group this administration said would not be targeted with new taxes.”

Americans have a vitamin D deficiency from a lack of sunlight, Levy said.

“To say that UV exposure is a risk is a complete misrepresentation of the relationship that we have with sunlight,” he said.

“It’s a natural source of Vitamin D …. Seventy-seven percent of Americans are vitamin D deficient. We simply don’t get enough sunlight.”

Lev y said the tanning industry is working to have the taxes removed. The industry’s members and supporters have sent 200,000 letters to Congress.

“It is an economic lobbying job done by the dermatology industry and the Botox people to protect their own interests,” he said. “I have no doubt that if my organization had been at the table and this had been discussed solely on scientific merit, this wouldn’t be taking place.”

Biology freshman Stephanie Reaves isn’t in favor of tanning and agrees that the tax should be implemented to make people aware.

“It’s just not a healthy habit, and I think it kind of helps that it goes to the health care in promoting safety,” she said. “ I worked at a gym that promoted tanning for eight or nine months, and all the personal trainers and workers in the gym got free tanning. There were three people in the time that I worked there [who] were diagnosed with skin cancer.”

Lindsey Morgan, a biology junior, said it was unnecessary to put taxes on tanning when there are other industries that could be taxed, as well.

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Art students collaborate with master printers

BY GRACIELA R AZO Senior Staff Writer

Housed in a windowless, d i sc reet bui lding on Oa k Street, t he Print Research Institute of North Texas holds many bright and colorful art pieces inside.

Also known as P.R.I.N.T., the institute began in 1993 as a way for administrators to bring printmakers and artists to collaborate with UNT art students.

“It allows students to see the artists working,” said Rachel Big gersta f f, t he P.R.I.N.T. program project coordinator.

“We will have several students work side-by-side with master printers on these large productions.”

Coordinators a lso organize lectures and workshops every semester for printmaking students, community members and local artists.

When experienced master printers are brought to the institute, Biggerstaff said, students see the tedious processes of using different layers of color in each print, the precision it takes to do wood etchings and the careful methods of lithography, a way of printing using stone or metal on a flat surface.

Artist Jon Lee of Trinity University and graphic designer Ryan Burkhart are two artists who students have been able to assist and work with recently.

Calina Shevlin, a metals graduate student, worked alongside Burkhart and visiting artist Jiha Moon.

“This experience was invaluable to me, and I feel that it’s a great teaching tool for the university to harness,” Shevlin said.

It is the only P.R.I.N.T. workshop she has attended, but Shevlin said she looks forward to going to more because of the valuable experience she gained working with the two artists.

Because her main area of interest is engraving on copper plates, her time working at P.R.I.N.T. expanded her interest in screen-printing, Shevlin said.

This sort of collaboration is what the institute aims to give students, Biggerstaff said.

“By having students see works that have been created and have experiences with these artists and master printers, it gives them a better appreciation for the art form,” Biggerstaff said.

“It also gives them an insight into working collaboratively, which many artists have not experienced.”

Taylor McClure, a printmaking senior, worked with Lee and visiting artist Robyn O’Neal. He said that the way old and new technologies are used at P.R.I.N.T. was really exciting to him.

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Taylor McClure, a printmaking senior, works on screens Tuesday afternoon. The Print Research Institute of North Texas began in 1993 as a way for administrators to bring printmakers and artists to collaborate with UNT art students. exist in any other situation,” McClure said. “The artists come together from different disciplines to create art in a collaborative alchemy.”

With six working presses, the institute is dedicated to preserving older techniques of printmaking, Biggerstaff said.

Donors have given P.R.I.N.T.

two old presses that are no longer working but are housed in the institute.

It is important to conserve old methods of the art form, Biggerstaff said.

“It shows the progress of invention and the progress of how we do things now, but it also goes back to the old

style of the care and detail of working with one letter at a time,” she said.

The institute also sells the art the v isiting artists and students work on throughout t he yea r during workshop times and when it is open by appointment, Biggerstaff said.

The institute’s next workshop is April 17 and will focus on mezzotint, a printmaking technique where an image is cut into a plate. The workshop is already full, but students can be added to a waiting list.

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bout, you get to be whoever you want to be.”

Barnes, 38, said there is no age limit or skill requirement to be on the team.

“As long as you can skate in a circle, you’re good to go,” she said.

During a bout the women are in it to win it, but afterwards the competitors are friends, Barnes said.

Cooley said her love of competitive sports is one of the reasons she wants to start a roller derby league.

“You can’t be in a bad mood and skate,” Cooley said. “It’s an easy way to be active, and you get to meet some really interesting people.”

Some people have expressed interest in helping to start a new league but want to get a better idea of what roller derby is all about, she said.

Barnes and Cooley plan to attend an Assassination City roller derby bout on April 17 at Dad’s Broadway Skateland at 3022 Moon Drive in Mesquite, and they encourage anyone interested to go with them.

Some people have a misconception that people in roller derbies are rowdy, but moms

and grandparents of roller derby women come to bouts, too, Cooley said.

Gabrielle Underwood, an accounting sophomore, said she would not be interested in joining the roller derby team, because the women who do it are tough and she doesn’t consider herself a tough girl,

she said.

“It would be fun to watch them be mean to each other, but I wouldn’t want to be in there,” Underwood said. “It might get serious with me, and I might have to hurt somebody.”

For more information, e-mail Stormie Cooley at stormiecooley@yahoo.com.

Local women to start roller derby league in Denton

BY K ATIE GRIVNA Senior Staff Writer

Two local women want to bring a roller derby league to the Denton area, but until they find three more members, they will continue to practice skating in parks and empty lots.

“It seems like everything happens in the D-FW area, and we want something to happen up here,” said Genena Barnes, a Denton resident.

There are two roller derby leagues in Dallas, Assassination City and the Dallas Derby Devils, but the long drive to practice six times a month is daunting, she said “With our schedules, we want to do something local,” Barnes said.

Ba r nes a nd 20 09 U N T alumna Stormie Cooley decided to start their own league about four months ago, she said.

To sta r t a rol ler derby

apprentice league, they must have five women on a team.

Barnes said she didn’t know it was still an active sport until the movie “Whip It” was released in October.

“We saw that movie and we were just like, ‘Wow! That is so

“For a couple of hours during the bout, you get to be whoever you want to be.”

—Genena Barnes Denton resident

cool!’ and that pretty much did it for us,” she said.

Barnes said she hopes the new league will be ready for compet it ion nex t sea son, which begins in March.

“It’s a good stress reliever,” she said with a laugh. “For a couple of hours during the

A lot of people think roller derby is scary, which might be why more women haven’t jumped at the idea of a new league, Barnes said.

“I think they think it is rough and it’s blood and punching, and it’s not like that,” she said.

Charter school moonlights as nightclub PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun?

A space where hundreds of Philadelphia charter school students have been eating their lunches during mundane weekdays has been doubling in its off-hours as nightclub, offering dancing and drinking despite an expired liquor license.

City and school officials are not happy about the arrangement between Club Damani and the Harambee Institute of Science and Technolog y Charter School, which serves about 450 children in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Sup er i ntendent A r lene Ackerman said in a letter to Harambee on Monday that “a

school and a nightclub cannot coexist in the same space and (the arrangement) must cease immediately,” according to a school district statement.

As a charter school, Harambee receives about $3.5 million annually in public funds but operates independently of the district. Officials at Harambee, which is on spring break this week, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

A statement on the school’s Web site said recent media reports contain “slanderous and inaccurate allegations.”

“This attack on Harambee Charter School is a biased depiction of the true success story that Harambee truly is,” it said.

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Of f icers w it h t he state Bureau of Liquor Enforcement v i site d C lub Da ma n i on Saturday, a day after WPVI-TV first aired a report on the building’s double-life. The segment included footage of liquor bottles and a YouTube video promoting the club in which a man refers to mari-

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Roller Derby Lingo • Bout: a roller derby competition • Jam: shift where both teams attempt to earn points • Pack: eight blockers in front of the jammers • Jammers: most important players, marked by a star on their helmet, who try to pass blockers to earn point • Block : when two bodies make contact

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Study shows increase in technology multitasking

By Nicole L andry Staff Writer

A recent repor t showed that simultaneous use of TV and Internet is up 35 percent f rom t he prev ious qua r ter a nd is quick ly becoming a t rend a mong most col lege students.

T he Niel s en C ompa ny, a lead i ng ma rket i ng a nd media information company, released its quarterly Three Screen Report, which tracks TV, Internet and mobile phone consumption across the U.S. Giena Orona, an ant hropology junior, said she thinks students are simply prone to multitasking.

“Some students need background noise to help t hem concentrate, and this way they can work on their homework and every now and then watch some TV,” she said.

The report features charts d isplay i ng t he cha nges i n

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Sixty percent of Americans use the Internet once a month while also watching TV, according to a new study. med ia i m mersion f rom December 2008 to December 2009. There was a 30 percent increase in t he a mount of

time on the Internet a group of pa nel ists spends wh i le watching TV. The company speculated

that the reason people are spending more time multitasking is because of major telev ision events l i ke t he

tance of female entrepreneurship and how success should be defined by what you do with what you have, not financial wealth.

Alesha Love , a psychology senior, attended the conference and said she thinks it will help women broaden their horizons and get an idea of what they want out of life.

“I think women can do anything they put their mind to,” she said.

Roy Onyebetor was encouraged to attend the conference at the Registrar’s office where he works.

“I was scared there was going

to be a lot of male bashing, but it’s not like that at all,” he said.

It is important for people to hear from other people with a similar perspective and talk about their needs, Onyebetor said.

“Being a minority, I understand and appreciate that there are groups that are unrepresented that don’t get focused on,” he said.

Uyen Tra n, con ference co-chairwoman and director for organizational development of the Multicultural and Women’s centers, said it is important to have conferences about diversity.

“We still have a ways to go before everyone gets to start from the same place,” she said.

She hopes the conference provokes people to consider things they hadn’t before, Tran said.

“I think it’s just a great opportunity to think about what your role is in gender equity and how you have a responsibility to further society to help the people that are coming in after you,” she said.

To decide who will speak at the conference, coordinators first choose a theme, then research women who have been

Super Bowl or t he Osca rs, where people want to update their social networking sites of choice as they watch.

Gabr iel Ig natow of t he sociolog y facult y said t hat the cause could also be that people don’t want to watch commercials.

“I think that regular TV is an old format with a couple commercia l brea ks during a 30-m i nute show, a nd it allows for short-term enterta inment du r ing com mercials,” he said.

Ignatow said that although t here is no suppor t i ng evidence, sites like Facebook and Twitter are making people less productive.

“T he I nt er net h a s t he potential to make people a lot more productive, but they’re finding new ways to waste time,” he said.

A not her feat u re of t he report is a breakdown of how

various age groups spend their time across the board of technological inf luence.

People between ages 35 to 49 spend the most time on the Internet — six hours and 35 minutes per week, and people older t han 65 years of age watch the most traditional TV — 47 hours and 21 minutes per week.

People in college and graduates with jobs spend up to fou r-a nd-a-ha l f hou rs per week catching up on shows by watching v ideos online or through time-shifted TV — television shows recorded on DVR devices.

Orona said she also thinks t hat major T V event s do have a part in the amount of multitasking that people do, because societ y thrives on social groups and this generation believes in voicing its opinions on a wide range of subjects.

Conference helps women to ‘broaden their horizons’ Continued from Page 1 Du r i ng t he a f ter noon, another round of workshop sessions covered topics such as financial empowerment, university support for transgender women, strategies for career transitions and a session from a representative from the Denton County Friends of the Family called “Walk in Her Shoes.”

A’Lelia Bundles, a producer and author of a biography about her great-great-grandmother, “On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker,” spoke about the impor-

“We still have a ways to go before everyone gets to start from the same place.”

—Uyen Tran Conference co-chairwoman and director of organizational development for the Multicultural and Women’s Centers in the news recently who can bring a new message to the conference, Tran said.

After this year, the Women of Color conference will be added to the UNT Multicultural and Women’s centers’ Equity and

Diversity conference and will no longer exist under the Women of Color conference name, said Cheylon Brown, conference co-chair and director of the Multicultural and Women’s centers.

Republicans list money spent at nightclub in financial report WA SH I NGT ON ( A P ) — T he Republ ic a n Nat iona l C om m it t e e s p ent $1, 9 4 6 last month at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. Now the GOP wants its money back.

Listed in a monthly financia l repor t, t he a mount is itemized as expenses for meals at Voyeur West Holly wood.

RNC spokesman Doug Heye said Monday the committee doesn’t know the details of how the money was spent, all who may have attended or the nature of the outing, except to say it was an unauthorized event and that the expenditure was inappropriate.

The RNC will be reimbursed

by Er i k Brow n of Ora nge, Calif., the donor-vendor who billed the committee for the club visit, Heye said.

Brown did not respond to an e-mail and phone message seeking comment. The transaction was first reported by the Daily Caller.

Since November, the RNC has paid Brown’s company, D y na m ic Ma rket i ng I nc., about $19,000 for print ing a nd d i rec t-ma i l ser v ices, campaign spending reports show. He has cont r ibuted several thousand dollars to the party.

T he most recent f i na ncia l disclosure report sa id t he RNC spent more t ha n $17,000 for private planes in February and nearly $13,000 for car ser v ices. Heye said such services are used only when needed.

The $1,946 for mea ls at Voyeur West Holly wood was the most eye-catching item in the monthly report.

R NC Cha i r ma n Michael Steele, whose spending decisions have a ngered some donors in this midterm election year, had nothing to do with the nightclub expenditure, Heye said.

T he conser vat ive g roup Concerned Women for America said the RNC should disclose

more about the episode.

“Did they really agree to reimburse nearly $2,000 for a bondage-themed night club?” group president Penny Nance asked in a statement. “W hy would a staffer believe that this is acceptable, and has this kind of thing been approved in the past?”

Much of t he most lav ish spending by the major political parties is associated with fundraisers, which often target wealthy people.

The RNC spent more than $144,000 for rooms at the Four Seasons Resor t in Jack son Hole, Wyo., in 2009. On March 19, 2009, it spent $31,980 for catering by the Breakers Palm Beach in Florida.

T he R NC pa id $18 , 361 over the past several months to t he “Tiny Jewel Box” in Wa s h i n g t o n f o r “o f f i c e supplies,” which may have included trinkets or gifts for big donors. It spent more than $13,600 at Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York City.

Some Republican officials and donors have complained about Steele’s spending decisions, saying the party should devote every available dollar to trying to win House and Senate races this fall. He held t his yea r’s four-day w inter meeting at a beachfront hotel in Hawaii, although it often takes place in Washington.

Some donor s g r u mbled when Steele spent more than $18,0 0 0 to redecorate h is office.

Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, also has received substantial fees for making speeches, even though the RNC pays him a full-time salary.

Ste ele’s suppor ter s s ay he has brought a refreshing frankness and energy to the party’s leadership.

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Women’s golf team gears up for postseason

BY SEAN GORMAN Senior Staff Writer

Less than three weeks from the Sun Belt Conference Tou r n a ment , t he U N T women’s golf team has used strong play from its seniors and focus on its short game to earn a top-10 placing at every tournament this season.

The Mean Green can earn an automatic berth to the NCAA Regional Tournament by winning the Conference Tournament in three weeks after it competes in its final regular season tournament at Baylor University.

“We set a lot of goals at the

beginning of this season and have been able to achieve a lot of them so far as a team,” head coach Jeff Mitchell said. “At this point, we have a couple more goals in mind, such as winning the conference tournament and competing at t he NC A A Reg iona l Tournament.”

Senior leadership has been a big reason for UNT’s success, as Jordan Rose, Maggie Noel and Janna Golden have three of the team’s top four average scores while playing in every tournament this year.

“This is really a senior-run team,” sophomore Kelsey Kipp

said. “They’ve been playing all year, dating back to the fall and have provided great leadership for the younger players.”

A f ter a second place finish at the Islander Spring Classic on March 2 in Corpus Christi, UNT has continued to improve, placing in the top 10 against national competition in its last two tournaments.

“I think a big confidence booster for this team came at Corpus Christi. I really liked the way we competed there,” Mitchell said. “From a practice and mental standpoint, this team is more prepared now

than it has been all season.”

UNT’s recent success has paid dividends, as it moved up from 132 to 93 in this week’s national rankings.

“We were ranked 77 at one point but that only lasted a day,” Mitchell said. “Any time you move up in the rankings, you feel better about your team and what they’re capable of.”

Kipp, who owns the secondlowest average score per round for the Mean Green at 77.90, has been UNT’s most consistent player, which she attributes to concentrating on her short game.

“I’d say about 80 to 85 percent of golf is being able to shoot well when you’re close to the pin,” she said.

Kipp isn’t the only player focusing on success from short distances, as Mitchell said it is the top priority for UNT during practice.

“If we’re going to have any success at the conference tournament, we will need to put together a couple of strong rounds and play our best golf around the cup,” Mitchell said. “That is going to make or break us because we certainly have enough power to put ourselves in

a good position from the tee.”

With the Baylor Spring Invitational one week before, moment u m com ing into the tournament could help elevate the Mean Green’s play in the postseason.

“Right now I think we’re kind of the sleeper in the tournament, because if we find a way to play well at the Baylor Tournament, we can gain enough confidence to contend for the Conference Title,” Kipp said.

The Mean Green finishes the regular season on April 12 at the Invitational.

Mean Green continues hot play at First Tee Classic

BY SEAN GORMAN Senior Staff Writer

Notching its third-straight top-five finish, the UNT men’s golf team placed fifth out of 18 teams at the First Tee Classic hosted by Arkansas-Little Rock that ended Tuesday.

The Mean Green relied on strong performances by the freshmen pair of Rodolfo Cazaubon and Carlos Ortiz to finish with a final score of 879 while competing against 11 of the top-100 ranked teams.

“We’ve been able to play so well recently because of the momentum we’ve fed off of,” senior Dustin Thompson said. “The last tournament we struggled at earlier this month was a huge turning point for us, and we’ve been playing our best golf since that point.”

UNT started strong on the first day by shooting a 286 in the opening round, securing

its lowest opening round score during the spring season.

“Every time we play, we know there are at least three or four guys that will put us in a good position to win,” senior Peter Fallon said. “This is a big step for us and helps our efforts in reaching a top-60 ranking, so we can automatically qualify for the NCAA Regional Tournament.”

Cazaubon did all he could to keep UNT close to the leaders early on, shooting an even-par 72 in the first round and securing his third sub-70 score this season with a 3-under 69.

“As a tea m, we did a much better job at keeping ou r d r ives st ra ig ht a nd approaching the pin from short range,” Thompson said.

“We need to continue playing at this level and build more momentum for the next few weeks.”

After finishing the first day in fifth place, the Mean Green kept up its pace and posted the second-best round of the tournament with a 267 in the final round.

“Finishing strong is something that great teams do, and we work hard to play our best round at the end of the day,” Fallon said.

Other Sun Belt Conference teams didn’t stand a chance against the Mean Green, as UNT finished with a lower score than its conference opponents in the tournament.

“It absolutely gives us more confidence knowing that we have defeated the teams we will be competing against in the Conference Tournament,” Fallon said.

“Recently our guys have all been playing pretty close to par, and knowing that we can beat our conference

“Finishing strong is something that great teams do.”

—Peter Fallon Senior golfer

opponents gives us a lot of faith.”

The Mean Green plays its final game before the Con ference Tou r na ment when it travels to Ohio State to compete in the Robert Kepler Invitational.

“Our ex pectat ions a re very high for the Conference Tourna ment,” Thompson said. “We expect to win,” “I think playing smart is the key for us during these next two tournaments.”

PHOTO BY CLINTON LYNCH/FILE

Senior Dustin Thompson practices at Bridlewood Golf Club in Lewisville.

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Injuries, competitions: themes of spring practices

BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer

The crack of full speed collisions echoed throughout Fouts Field on Saturday morning during the UNT football team’s first scrimmage of the spring, and the hits continued Tuesday.

W it h t he dept h cha r t completely open and every position being hotly contested, the level of intensity rises with every practice.

“Now is the time for these men to make an impression and show us that they want to win football games,” head coach Todd Dodge said. “You can see it in their eyes, and they come out here and fight every day to earn their spot.”

After redshirting last season, freshman cornerback Hilbert Jackson has impressed the coaching staff this spring and looks to help improve a secondary that struggled in 2009.

During the 12-game season, UNT had seven interceptions, two of which were by linebackers.

“We have a lot of great athletes on defense, and I think that we have developed really good chemistry in the secondary,” Jackson said. “We compete against a great group of receivers and some talented quarterbacks every day in practice, so I think that is definitely going to help us to improve and force more

turnovers next season.”

At 6-foot-4-inches and 223 pounds, sophomore quarterback Derek Thompson has grabbed the attention of the coaches with his size, strength and ability to throw the deep ball. Thompson lost his redshirt status after two injuries forced him into the Mean Green’s final game of 2009.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Riley Dodge, who is not at 100 percent after breaking his right arm in that same game, said he feels the pressure of Thompson staring over his shoulder in search of the starting position.

“Derek is going to compete for the starting job,” Todd Dodge said. “He has looked incredible through the first week of spring, and he played extremely well in our first scrimmage. We knew he was going to be a guy who could help us when we recruited him, and he is earning our trust right now.”

The Mean Green has been without several key members of the 2009 squad so far this spring after being plagued by injuries, including seniors offensive tackle Victor Gill, wide receiver Mike Outlaw, offensive tackle Esteban Santiago, offensive guard Kelvin Drake and tight end Draylen Ross.

Junior center J.J. Johnson is

the only starting offensive lineman from last season’s team that has remained healthy going into spring practice. With 80 percent of its starting offensive lineman missing, the Mean Green will enter the 2010 season with a deep and experienced group of reserves.

“There was a time two years ago that we were in desperate need of lineman, but now we have really built our depth at the position,” Todd Dodge said. “We have those three guys PHOTO BY CHRISTENA DOWSETT /FILE hurt, but we have four guys who are Redshirt sophomore quarterback Riley Dodge takes a snap from junior center J.J. Johnson last season against the Ohio Bobcats. Johnson now going to have will anchor the line for the Mean Green for the third straight year in 2010. an opportunity to prove themselves, and so far they “There is so much talent at the Stradford, who transferred from trying to do is make sure that I have been very impressive.” get better and everyone around position we can’t worry about Oklahoma last year.

Receivers Will Cole and guys who are not here,” junior “There is some pressure on me gets better so that we win Forrest Rucker are no longer wide receiver Tyler Stradford me because people have been football games.” with the team, but it will not said. “We are going to make talking about me since I got The Mean Green will have have a big effect on the Mean plays, and we are going to make here,” Stradford said. “People its second of three scrimmages Green’s most talented position a difference.” believe that I have the talent to before the spring game at 10 a.m. group.

Expectations are high for play at the next level, but all I am Saturday at Fouts Field.

Script: Mean Green players look to earn starting spot Opinion

BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer

As the temperature rises, so does the pressure on the Mean Green players to improve upon the football team’s 2-10 season.

UNT lost just three starters from that team, but with an entire community expecting the team to win now, head coach Todd Dodge said that every position on the depth chart will have to be earned.

However, there are a few positions that should be guaran-

teed after a stellar 2009 season.

There is no question that junior running back Lance Dunbar, junior cornerback Royce Hill, senior wide receiver Jamaal Jackson and sophomore wide receiver Darius Carey will all hear their names in the starting lineup in September.

For now, I will focus on the key positions that will make the difference for this team when the Mean Green opens up play Sept. 4 on the road against Clemson.

Starting corner opposite Royce Hill Hill is a lockdown corner who barely had the ball thrown in his direction in the last half of the season, which means that whoever is starting at the other corner spot will need to be prepared.

Mid-yea r tra nsfer Ryan Downing and redshirt freshman Hilbert Jackson look like the leading candidates to fill the position. Downing is bigger and stronger, but Jackson has more speed and athleticism.

With the spring game quickly approaching, one of these men will need to prove that they are ready for the responsibility.

Middle linebacker Junior Craig Robertson will anchor the linebacking corps, but replacing NFL prospect Tobe Nwigwe at middle linebacker will be no easy task. The team

will have to find a way to replace Nwigwe’s talent and leadership.

Junior A.J. Penson filled in for Nwigwe in the second half of last season, but he will be challenged by junior college transfer Forlando Johnson and junior Julian Herron. Dodge referred to Johnson as a “tackling machine” when he announced the 2010 recruiting class, and he has spoken highly of Herron for the last nine months. Both men will need to add some size if they are going to be the brick wall that the Mean Green needs in the middle.

Outlaw will miss the spring after his surgery, so he could fall behind the other four.

Lewis and Lott are great route runners who understand the system better than the other three, and both have added size since the end of 2009.

Taylor has the potential to surprise some people. He has impressed the coaching staff through the first week of spring practice. Dodge said that this would be a big spring for Taylor and that he possesses the speed and quickness to separate from defenders.

Stradford is a transfer from Oklahoma, and he made his highly anticipated debut last week. At 6-foot-2-inches, Stradford has great size, but what makes him stand apart is his athleticism. He could be the best pure athlete on the field.

No matter who earns the starting spots opposite Carey and Jackson, the Mean Green has the deepest receiving corps in the Sun Belt.

Eric Johnson

Tyler Stradford vs. Mike Outlaw vs. B.J. Lewis vs. Alex Lott vs. Willie Taylor With Jackson and Carey all but locked in as starters, two spots remain for five men.

Outlaw’s first season with the Mean Green was overshadowed a bit by Jackson and Carey. But he still had a solid year, using his speed and experience to grab 41 passes for nearly 500 yards.

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Nods and Shakes Editorial Shake: Denton paper publishes name of dead child A 7-year-old Denton girl died Tuesday afternoon shortly after finishing her lunch in the Ryan Elementary School cafeteria. The child became distressed after eating a home-packed lunch. A teacher rushed her to the nurse’s office where the Heimlich maneuver was administered. The girl collapsed and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

The Editorial Board takes great care in dealing with content relating to the death of a child.

The Daily — along with most reputable publications — subscribes to a policy that prevents it from printing the names of minors unless otherwise given consent by the family. We believe this sensitive approach provides the greatest amount of courtesy to the child’s family and friends.

The Denton Record-Chronicle evidently takes the counter approach.

Record-Chronicle Staff Writer Donna Fielder submitted an online story about the incident at 5:53 p.m. on Tuesday evening — hours after the girl died.

Fielder and the Editorial Board chose to identify the 7-year-old by looking on the Tarrant County medical examiner’s Web site after citing that school officials “have not released the girl’s name.”

It’s easy to understand why the school would refuse to release that information. Mere hours after the tragic incident it is likely many family and friends had yet to be notified. One comment posted on the RecordChronicle Web site Tuesday night was made by a person who said they were “familiar with the family.”

Journalism is guided by a principle that commands reporters to do no harm. In this case, printing the child’s name certainly calls the Record-Chronicle’s commitment to that framework into question.

Nod: SGA opens candidacies to all students The ballots opened Monday for UNT students to vote on candidates for the offices of Student Government Association president and vice president. The voting process takes a little less time than a commercial break, and the Editorial Board encourages all students to vote.

But it won’t just be the presidential race you vote on.

This semester the SGA is giving students the opportunity to vote in two referendums.

1. One proposal will change the number of students sitting on the Supreme Court from five to seven.

The Editorial Board gives an indifferent shrug of the shoulders to the number of supreme court justices — we couldn’t figure out exactly what they do or why we need more resume-padding lame ducks in important positions.

2. The other proposal will amend the bylaws to allow any student to run for president or vice president.

This change would remove the stipulation that requires candidates to participate in SGA before running for office.

The Board gives an enthusiastic nod to opening up the election.

Confining the roles of top student leadership for an entire university to the members of one organization greatly limits the diversity of perspective available.

We hope the referendum will pass and next year the election will include fresh ideas from across the UNT spectrum.

Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day, the biggest prankster day of the year. People everywhere are concocting jokes and fibs to fool their friends with, but not me. I had some bad experiences back in the day.

I’m not sure of the exact year I began hating April Fool’s Day, but I have it narrowed down to 1993 or 1994. It all started in the morning.

I was in kindergarten or first grade, but I woke up and started getting ready for school. Mom always had breakfast ready for us before we started our day.

My brothers and I walked into the kitchen with empty stomachs. We saw Mom standing there, in her pajamas, ready to serve us food, but she had something to tell us before we ate.

“Surprise!” she shouted.

“You don’t have to go to school today.”

I threw my backpack on the ground and jumped for joy. I was elated. It’s not that I hated school

as a kid, but any chance to stay home and watch cartoons or play video games is always preferred over learning and coloring.

My victory dance was shortlived, however. In the middle of celebrating, I hear my mom say loudly, “APRIL FOOLS!” I’m not kidding when I say I immediately burst into tears and bawled my eyes out. My amazing day off was snatched from me in the blink of an eye, and I was upset.

As I got older, I talked to my mom about that incident. She told me she thought it was a funny joke to play on the three of us but didn’t realize I was going to take it so hard. She thought she traumatized me when I started sobbing.

I’m not traumatized, but I did loathe the day for the longest time. That would change.

Average, normal, everyday people aren’t the only ones pulling the proverbial wool over eyes.

Some examples of good April Fool’s pranks came from Electronic Gaming Monthly.

When they were around (and will soon be on newsstands once again), they hid some kind of gag in their April issue every year.

A few farces included the infamous Sheng Long being a hidden boss in “Street Fighter II,” an accessible nudity option in “Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball,” or nonexistent games that were in development, like “Lego Halo.”

I knew to take every story with a grain of salt in those issues, but I fell for some of them. I tried my hardest to unlock Sonic as a playable character in “Super Smash Bros. Melee” but failed to meet the high standard that was set.

I learned the thing was a hoax when my May issue arrived.

Half of the letters section was dedicated to readers who painstakingly did everything they could to unlock the blue hedgehog, but he never appeared

for them. I got a good laugh out of it and had a new appreciation for April Fool’s Day. Although my mom’s prank backfired on her and upset me, it’s all good. I’m no longer bitter, but I am apprehensive now. So, don’t tell me an outlandish story tomorrow, because I probably won’t believe it. I can’t wait to prank my kids the way my mom got me.

This has been a tough Lent for the Roman Catholic Church. Its seemingly endless sexual abuse scandal finally has seeped into the papal apartments, and the Vatican’s response to this week’s revelations suggest that far too few have learned from this squalid affair.

Until now, Pope Benedict XVI seemed to take a far more forthright approach to the problem than his predecessor John Paul II, in a most recently blistering “pastoral letter” to the entire Irish church.

Last week, however, the New York Times published a pair of stories suggesting that before becoming Pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger participated in the same sort of secrecy and administrative negligence that has been at the root of this scandal.

Documents produced over the church’s objections in an American lawsuit show the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith­ — which Ratzinger headed from 1981 to 2005 — declined to defrock Father Lawrence C. Murphy,

even though he molested at least 200 boys at a Wisconsin school for the deaf. In 1996, then Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland twice wrote directly to Ratzinger requesting a trial aimed at defrocking Murphy, whose crimes were known to three successive Milwaukee prelates.

Ultimately, Ratzinger’s deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, authorized a trial, then halted it after Murphy — aging and in ill health — wrote to Ratzinger appealing for leniency.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that, as archbishop of Munich, Ratzinger presided over a meeting that approved the return to parish work of an admitted pedophile, who went on to molest more children.

The Holy See’s reaction to both stories has been swift.

An unsigned editorial last week in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano attacked the New York Times by name, accusing the paper of willfully ignoring the “truth” of Ratzinger/Benedict’s record and of attempting “to instrumen-

talize, without any foundation in fact, horrible episodes and sorrowful events uncovered in some cases from decades ago.”

The media, it continued, showed a “despicable intent of attacking, at whatever cost, Benedict XVI and his closest collaborators.”

Earlier in the week, New York’s archbishop Timothy Dolan used his blog to dismiss the New York Times’ reports and defend the pontiff’s record by arguing that authorities outside the church also are culpable. Stories about sexual abuse by priests were “fair” if “unending,” he wrote.

But he condemned the media for portraying child sexual abuse “as a tragedy unique to the church alone. That, of course, is malarkey.”

Sadly, this latest everybodyis-responsible-so-nobody-isto-blame defense is of a piece with a little-noticed section of Benedict’s letter to the Irish church in which he seemed to blame the crisis, in part, on “new and serious challenges to the faith arising from the rapid transformation and secularization of Irish society.”

So what happens now?

In all likelihood, nothing.

Even if further revelations show that Benedict was negligent as a cardinal, there is no canonical mechanism that could force him to step down. The last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415.

What now seems likely is the pontiff, who turns 83 next month, will spend the rest of his papacy dealing with the fallout of an ever-widening scandal.

His situation will be precisely the one over which he assailed the Irish bishops in his recent letter: “It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. ... It must be admitted that grave errors of judgment were made and failures of leadership occurred. All this has seriously undermined your credibility and effectiveness.”

Ryan Feuerhelm is a journalism senior. He can be reached at Ryan.

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