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Volume 99 | Issue 44
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Highland Street to see parking closures
Back to the basics
Brief NICHOLAS CAIN Intern
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Student teacher Charles Brown (standing), human development and family studies senior, conducts an activity with Denton High School seniors William Jiminez, Johnathon Fu and Matthew Perry on Wednesday morning. The balloon activity was done to show the students how toddlers develop cognitive thought. See A DAY on page 6 of the SCENE
Parking on Highland Street may be a thing of the past when construction begins to fix a water main under the road near the UNT Coliseum. Parking meters and handicap spots are used along the portion of Highland Street between North Texas Boulevard and Avenue C. UNT will soon close parking on that part of the street to accommodate for the construction. “The City of Denton will be repairing the water mains that are under Highland, which will close the street, and therefore the parking will have to be removed, “ said Ginny Griffin, associate director of UNT’s parking and transportation services. “My understanding is that the construction is going to start after the spring commencement.”
The construction is being handled solely by the City of Denton. After the construction is completed, the question will remain as to whether or not the parking areas will be re-opened by UNT. “It’s all very up in the air right now,” Griffin said. “As of now we really aren’t too sure of what parking on Highland Street will look like once all of the repairs are complete.” Griffin, who started at UNT back in July, has heard different ideas as to what the street will be used for after the construction, such as the blocking of the street for emergency vehicle purposes only. However, administration has not decided on anything official. “I think that what we really need to do is just get everybody that is involved with this construction in one room; that way, we can just sit down and figure out what to do,” Griffin said.
Student Service Fee Committee discusses fund use NICOLE B ALDER AS Senior Staff Writer
The Student Ser v ice Fee Committee met last Friday to discuss how to spend the Board of Regents-approved $1 per semester credit hour increase. The increase, which w ill begin in t he fa ll semester, will change the current fee of $12.10 to $13.10 and generate approximately $900,000 per year. The Board of Regents approved the increase at its meeting last week. “The students listened to all areas that are requesting a fee increase, and they evaluated their requests and decided how much each should receive,” said Elizabeth With, vice president for student affairs. The plans discussed will be presented to UNT President V. Lane Rawlins in the middle of April, and he will have to approve t hem before t hey go into effect, according to With.
“We decided t hat some of t hat f unding needed to go towa rds t he new Union funding model,” said Blake W i n d h a m , U N T St u d e nt Government Association president and member of the SSF Committee. “We also established new funding to the UNT Veterans Center. We see also that the Counseling Center is being used more and more; a bad economy can mean bad times for students.” St udent Ser v ice Fee money covers a broad range of services, including recreational activities, artist and lecture series, cultural entertainment series and student government, according to the UNT website. Speci f ica l ly, SSF money goes toward the Distinguished Lecture Series, Counseling and Testing Services, Veterans Ser v ices, travel gra nts and other programs.
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Hospitality management senior Dani McArthur and hospitality management freshman Carlee Niemeyer discuss the Union Master Plan. Voting for the new Union See FEE on Page 2 ends today at 5 p.m. Voting polls can be found online at SGA.unt.edu.
“The Biggest Loser” dietary coach visits UNT A SHLEY G R ANT
contestants brought to tears on “The Biggest Loser” during Dr. Robert Huizenga, former a visit to a morgue. He also Los A ngeles Raiders physi- showed the audience several cia n a nd dieta r y coach on charts and graphs displaying NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” the results of research findspoke to about 100 people in ings regarding fat, exercise the University Union’s Silver and diet. He g a v e t he a ud ie nc e Eagle Suite on Thursday night as part of the Distinguished suggestions for shedding fat and keeping it of f, such as Lecture Series. Hu i zenga p r e s e n t e d engaging in a weekly total of personal health tips, encour- nine hours of vigorous workaging the audience to focus outs. Hea lt h promotion junior more on losing fat instead of weight because excess fat Angela Houters heard about can leave people susceptible the lecture after she attended to pancreatic ma lf unction, t he Dist ing u ished Lect ure Series in February when John cancer and knee issues. “For ever y one pound of Legend was speaking. “I went on UNT’s website excess fat on your stomach, t here a re t hree pou nds of ju st to ma ke su re it w a s weig ht on your k nees,” he true,” she said. “I watch the show, and tonight was more said. Huizenga showed a clip of of a personal call to action, Senior Staff Writer
“... tonight was more of a personal call to action ...”
—Angela Houters Health promotion junior
whereas when you’re watching t he show, you rea l ly don’t think much about it.” While working as the team physician for the Los Angeles – later Oakland – Raiders from 1983 to 2000, Huizenga said his job was to keep the linemen big. It had an adverse affect because they were losing weight.
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“Doctors won’t recommend exercise because they are scared … but it’s the only thing proven to work,” said Dr. Robert Huizenga, associate professor of clinical medicine at UCLA, author and physician on The Biggest Loser for 12 seasons, at a See LOSER on Page 2 Distinguished Lecture Series presentation in the Silver Eagle Suite on Thursday.
Inside Mapping out the geography department
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Track team hosts its first meet of the season
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PourHouse Grill kicks up the quality of sport bar fare
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