NTDaily 9-2-11

Mufflers be damned.

Denton’s friendliest bike gang rolls on.

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North Texas farmers deal with scorching drought NICOLE BALDERAS Senior Staff Writer

NEWS:

Past month marks a turning point in Iraq, Afghanistan wars Page 2

SPORTS:

Local soccer rival SMU comes to town Breaking down UNT volleyball’s upcoming weekend Page 4

SCENE:

The Food Snobs snub Casa Galaviz enchiladas Insert

Thursday marked the 66th day this season that North Texas has been at or above the 100-degree mark, and people aren’t the only ones suffering. On some North Texas farms, the summer harvest is also feeling the burn.

“Crop growth was probably 50 to 60 percent less this year because of the heat,” said Kraig Copp, a farmer for D-Bar Farms, which supplies fruits and vegetables for the Garden Ridge Farmers Market in Lewisville.

“When you get the heat you get the bugs.”

Spraying pesticides more frequently was one of the adjustments made to maintain crop growth.

“As hot as it gets, you have to spray for grasshoppers,” Copp said. “A bug even came in that we had never seen this year, called the blister beetle. It started on one of our rows and almost killed it overnight.”

In addition to pests, the quick change in weather this year posed a problem for young crops. Because the frost was so late and the heat wave came so early, the ground was still cold,

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Rancher Ralph Miller checks one of the receding stock tanks on his land. A drought hitting the area has farmers and ranchers worried about their production this year. causing Copp to lose his first round of seedlings.

As far as the rest of the year is concerned, Copp said they will plant some fall crops so they

can have something to sell in the stores.

“You’re fighting a losing battle trying to plant anything right now,” he said. “What we

will plant for the fall is beans, tomatoes, squash, zucchini and cucumbers.”

Facing similar problems is farmer Daniel Moon, a partici-

pant in the Denton Community Market and co-founder of the new Cardo’s Farm Project.

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Leak floods campus walkways Target brings big business to Denton A LEX M ACON & A MBER A RNOLD

Senior Staff Writer & Managing Editor

ISAAC WRIGHT

A water ma in nea r t he University Union broke around 3 p.m. Thursday, flooding parts of campus and cutting off the water at several UNT buildings.

The water line belonged to the city of Denton, which has been facing problems with broken water mains all summer, said Vincent Stippec, a UNT facilities supervisor.

“The summer’s been real bad on the water lines,” Stippec said.

“Just the dryness and heat has been making the ground shift and breaking pipes.”

The line on campus was only one of four that broke Thursday, said city of Denton employee Mike Landers.

Water was temporarily cut off at the Union, Sycamore Hall, the Hurley Administration Building and the Life Sciences Complex, Stippec said. Water from the broken main ran all the way downhill to the Art Building, causing students to find creative routes around or to bravely ford through the running water.

“It’ll take three or four more hours at the most,” Landers said around 8 p.m. “We’ll be done

Airport Road in Denton is home to some of the city’s biggest employers, and the area will soon become even more central to the city’s industrial growth with the addition of a state-of-the art Target distribution center.

Construction of the facility began this summer.

Target media representatives declined to answer questions regarding what region the distribution center will serve or when the project will be complete.

Linda Ratliff, director of economic development for the city of Denton, said the facility is primarily for frozen and perishable foods.

T he center is a lso t he company’s first entirely automated distribution center, employing only 115 people.

Ratliff said a standard distribution center might employ more than 44,000 people.

“These are all new jobs,” Rat lif f sa id. “They’re a lso different kinds of jobs. These jobs all require a little more skill to work the computers.”

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Biology freshman Aaron Sargent holds his shoes as he walks through the flooded sidewalks near Wooten Hall on Thursday afternoon. Many students took off their shoes to navigate through the water.

Landers said water is back on in all four buildings where it was turned off, and everything should be repaired for classes Friday.

by the end of the night for sure.”

Water around the Union was still obstructing the most direct walking routes.

“These are all new jobs.

They’re also different kinds of jobs.”

—Linda Ratliff Director of economic development for the city of Denton

Taylor Fuqua, a biology junior, said the facility could make an impact, not only on the city, but on some UNT graduates.

“They have to have someone to work with the computer a nd operate mach i ner y,” Fuqua said. “At our engineering school, people graduate and don’t have jobs.

They could go over there and have an internship with Target.”

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Mean Green football team falls in season opener PAUL BOTTONI

Senior Staff Writer It was a stormy night and turbulent season opener for the UNT football team, who lost on the road to Sun Belt Conference rival Florida International 41-16 Thursday night in Miami, Fla. A storm system rolled through the Miami area Thursday evening, causing rain to fall throughout the game and a 20-minute lightning delay to the start of the game.

The first quarter could not have gone any worse for the Mean Green. FIU jumped out to a 28-0 lead and the UNT offense could not gain traction in the game’s first 15 minutes.

“Just about anything and everything that could go wrong in that first quarter did,” head coach Dan McCarney said. “We’ll learn from [this loss], we’ll move on, but it’s a sickening pill to swallow.”

The Golden Panthers opened the game with a 62-yard kickoff return by senior wide receiver T.Y. Hilton to the UNT 29-yard line. Four plays later, sophomore running back Kedrick Rhodes

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Sophomore wide receiver Bralen Chancellor receives a kickoff from Florida International University during the Mean Green’s defeat at FIU. started the first-quarter FIU scoring spree with a 9-yard rushing touchdown.

Hilton caused problems for the UNT defense throughout the game. The reigning Sun Belt Player of the Year caught a 60-yard touchdown pass from quarter-

back Wesley Carroll and set up another score with a 31-yard reverse to UNT 1 yard-line.

Hilton – proving he was human – was the source of UNT’s only first-half score. Upon receiving a punt from UNT’s Will Atterberry, Hilton fumbled. Mean Green tight

end Andrew Power recovered the ball and ran it back for a touchdown with 14:37 left in the second quarter.

The touchdown was but a small dent in the score and UNT entered the locker room at halftime trailing FIU 31-7.

Despite its early struggles, the Mean Green stopped the bleeding and outscored the Golden Panthers 16-13 during the last three quarters.

“We settled down; we did some things better; we scored twice on defense,” McCarney said. “Those are always positives that you’re looking for, but we missed way too many tackles in the first half.

To me, it looked a lot like a year ago when I watched our defense at North Texas on tape.”

Center J.J. Johnson – who was one of the casualties to last year’s injury epidemic – left the game in the first half with an arm injury, causing a reshuffling of the UNT offensive line. The Golden Panthers quickly increased its pressure of Mean Green quarterback Derek Thompson, who was sacked three times and fumbled the ball twice after being hit.

Thompson’s struggles led to a change at quarterback, as he was replaced by sophomore Brent Osborn in the fourth quarter.

The offensive line dilemma affected the running game as

well. Running back Lance Dunbar was held to 43 yards rushing – surpassing his rushing totals against FIU in 2010 by only 13 yards – on 18 attempts.

The UNT defense was responsible for the final Mean Green scores, recovering a fumble in the end zone after a high snapped sailed over Carroll’s head and notching a safety in the final closing moments of the game.

UNT will try to regroup against the University of Houston in the inaugural home game at Apogee Stadium.

“I didn’t come here to go around and let people run up and down the field on us,” McCarney said.

“I said to the team in the locker room, if there’s any excuses or any finger pointing, they will no longer be on this football team.

All of us, me included, have to do a better job.”

Players were not available for comment.

To read post-game analysis from the writer, see Page 4

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News Heat

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Airport

T he center w i l l ac t a s Target’s protot y pe for t his kind of facility, which may begin to spring up across the country, Ratliff said.

Karen Dickson, vice president for the Denton Chamber of C om m e r c e , s a i d t h e facility will bring a significant amount of money into the city.

The property taxes on the land where the distribution center will sit are about $100 mi l lion over t he f irst f ive years, Dickson said.

The deal between Target and the city of Denton allows for a 65 percent tax abatement for the first five years of its operation.

For t he f irst f ive yea rs,

Continued from Page 1 Target will pay the city only $35 million each year until t he a batement per iod i s concluded.

Tax abatement is a reduction of or exemption from taxes granted for a specified period, usually to increase investment or employment.

Dickson said the city has yet to do an economic study on the distribution and the overa ll impact it w ill have on the city.

“It takes quite a while to really see the impact of these businesses,” Dickson said.

The property along Airport Road ha s been zoned for industrial use and is already home of Fastenal and Peterbilt Motor Company, Ratliff said.

B ot h c om p a n i e s a l s o received ta x abatements from the city of Denton.

In 2001, Peterbilt received a similar ta x abatement from the city and, after the tax breaks expired, Denton received a 162 percent return on investment.

In addition to the extra revenue and jobs created by the distribution center, Ratliff said the addition of Target’s f lagship facility will help get other major employers interested in Denton.

“Having a Fortune 500 company in the city represent s us wel l a nd w i l l attract other companies,” Rat lif f said. “They have that first impression when they’re looking for areas for their business.”

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“Some of [our crops] we did have to replant,” Moon said.

“A lso, transplanting was a stressful time for the crops.

The heat compounds t hat stress and a higher percent of our crops were lost.”

Moon a nd h is fa r m i ng p a r t ne r A m a nd a A u s t i n r u n Ca rdo’s Fa r m Project susta inably, so instead of using pesticides, they have turned to other methods of pest control.

“We bought some guinea hens and are using them to eat grasshoppers,” Moon said.

“They’re good at sur viving in a hot climate, can f ly and sleep in the trees, and they’re a litt le less dependent on human care.”

Next spring, they plan to release a biological control to help keep unwanted pests to a minimum.

“We’re going to plant some things like sunflowers, things in t he lett uce fa m i ly a nd hopefully the grasshoppers will be drawn there,” Moon said. “It’s better to do preventative control earlier in the season than try to combat it later on.”

One of his biggest concerns is water, Moon said. Because of the dryness and heat, the farm needs to be irrigated more.

“That is concerning to us

because there is salt in the well water,” he said. “If you don’t have enough ra in to wash out the salt, it can make your soil ungrowable.”

Moon said he hopes to pair w it h UNT’s susta inabi lit y prog ra m i n t he f ut u re to create a solar-powered water distillation system to alleviate this problem.

“We feel like it’s a natural partnership as far as being a susta inable ca mpus a nd lessen i ng ou r i mpac t on t h e c o m m u n i t y,” s a i d Mendie Schmidt, assistant d i re c tor of out re ach for the Office of Sustainability. “I think there are a lot of opportunities for partnership that benefit both of us.”

“It’s better to do preventative control earlier in the season than try to combat it later on.”

-Daniel Moon Denton farmer

T he t wo g roups a re to d iscuss possibi l it ies t his fa l l, t hough no pla ns of action have been determined yet.

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Cracked soil is a sign of dry times in North Texas. Record-breaking heat has taken its toll on local farmers and agriculture this summer, causing crop shortages due to lack of rain.

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Members of the U.S. Army Honor Guard carry the body of U.S. Army Spc. 4 Patrick Lay at the Sarasota National Cemetery on Aug. 21, 2011 in Bradenton, Florida. Lay died Aug. 11 while serving in Afghanistan.

August a pivotal month for U.S. deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — August marked the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died, according to an Associated Press tally.

Figures compiled by the AP show that no American forces died in Iraq in August either in combat or non-combat related situations, a significant achievement in a conflict that has claimed the lives of 4,474 American service members since it began.

All American forces are supposed to leave Iraq by December of this year, but U.S. and Iraqi officials have been discussing whether to have a long-term American military presence in the country.

The numbers come on top of what had been a jump in U.S. troop deaths for the first part of this year. In June, 15 U.S. troops

died in one of the biggest losses of life for American forces in Iraq in years.

All but one of those deaths were combat related, and most came in southern Iraq, indicating the increased activity of Shiite militias in launching attacks against American forces.

This summer, American and Iraqi forces operating in southern Iraq have been increasing operations against Shiite militias in an attempt to disrupt weapons smuggling from Iran, which could account for some of the drop in U.S. troop deaths.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — August has become the deadliest month yet for U.S. forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later.

The 66 U.S. service members killed this month eclipses the previous record of 65 killed in July 2010, according to an Associated Press tally. Nearly half the August deaths occurred when insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter Aug. 6, killing 30 American troops, mostly elite Navy SEALs. In a speech in Minnesota on Tuesday, Obama honored all the troops who have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“As our mission transitions from combat to support, Afghans will take responsibility for their own security and the longest war in American history will come to a responsible end,” Obama said at the American Legion’s national convention in Minneapolis. “For our troops and military families who have sacrificed so much, this means relief from an unrelenting decade of operations.”

Correction In Wednesday’s edition of the North Texas Daily, we incorrectly stated this year’s freshman class has higher SAT scores by a 5 percent margin. This year’s freshman class has higher SAT scores by a five-point margin.

In Wednesday’s edition of the North Texas Daily, we incorrectly reported SGA voted to increase its annual budget by $5,207. SGA voted to allocate an extra $5,207 of its annual budget to its Raupe Travel Grant committee.

S C E N E

FOOD: The Food Snobs test Casa Galaviz

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PARKING:

BIKES: Bike crew pedals its way through town

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Life from the other side of a parking ticket

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MUSIC: UNT graduate ENTERTAINMENT: chases the dream to New York No need for students Page 8 to play catch-up in this class

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FoodSCENE

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Casa Galaviz Restaurant 508 S. Elm St. Denton, TX 76201 M ARLENE GONZALEZ AND DAISY SILOS Staff Writers

From the empty parking lot, t he Casa Ga lav i z Restau ra nt doesn’t have much to offer.

As we entered the restaurant, which serves exclusively breakfast and lunch, there was hope that it’d be an authentic homemade Mexican diner. The guacamole green, melon orange and fuchsia colored walls brightened the small dining space, but after a look at the food there was hope that it’d be edible.

T h e d i n i n g r o om h a s a fa mily v ibe as colorf ul ma riachi hats hang from the ceiling and portraits line the walls. A blue porcelain iguana sat to the right of a television that featured TMZ. For the price of $6, the breakfast platters may seem reasonable, but for a simple meal of eggs and chorizo it’s a bit pricey considering the dish can easily be replicated at home at a fraction of the price.

Ga lav i z does of fer a w ide variety of Mexican dishes such as breakfast tacos and tamales

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with foods such as posole and menudo reserved as weekendonly dishes.

The hours are from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Sunday.

The tortilla chips were served promptly and direct from the microwave, which explains their staleness.

The sa lsa was sur pr ising ly spicy and had good consistency, not clumped with tomato. What the chips lacked, the fiery salsa made up for.

Canned beverages along with Ja ritos a nd ot her glass-bott le sodas are the choices available for dr in ks, which diners ca n grab from the glass-door refrigerator.

The service is speedy. The food was prepared within minutes and on the table in disposable plates, complete with plastic utensils.

Though t he place had t hus had been hit or miss, we were PHOTO BY AMBER PLUMLEY/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER hesitant to judge it until we’d The Mexican food restaurant Casa Galaviz serves breakfast and lunch. Meals all cost less than $10. Many flavored Mexican sodas are taken a bite of the $2.99 chicken available as well. taco. Wrapped in a f lour tortilla with a taste that was borderline but worse.

If you’re looking for a quick stale, we realized our judgment appeared correct after all. The mediocre Mex ica n brea k fast/ chicken wasn’t that bad, but it brunch then this is your place, at least during t he weekdays. was unremarkable.

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Cyclists swarm Denton streets by night A SHLEY-CRYSTAL FIRSTLEY Senior Staff Writer

A cluster of 60 cyclists cruises down Hickory Street toward the Denton Square for the start of a 15-mile ride. Each week they weave a random 15-mile route through Denton like a flock of nocturnal birds in a casual migration.

For more t ha n f ive yea rs, Tuesday Bike Night has drawn a crowd of different ages, interests and social lives together for an easy-going ride. The group doesn’t vote on leaders or pay dues; they’re governed on the fly and ride routes by consensus. Before they take off, it’s tough to know exactly where the ride is headed – they just sort

of wing it. The only thing that holds this loose group together is a common interest in bicycles.

“It’s just something we do, and we do it together,” said Owen Wilson-Chavez, who is one of the de facto leaders of the group.

During the cruise, they look out for each other during routes, from the rear of the peloton, riders yell “behind,” “turn left” or “turn right” as a warning for an approaching car or change of direction.

T he meet i ng beg i ns each Tuesday night at 9 p.m. as cyclists begin to accumulate near Fry Street outside the Language Building.

After about 30 minutes, the group pushes off.

Tracing back to its bike trails The history of Tuesday Bike Night dates back at least six years, Wilson-Chavez said.

It’s been around longer than when he joined back in 2005. He said he’s only aware that the ride has been juggled and passed down from different groups of people.

Different times of the year affect the number of riders who participate, he said. As many as 150 people can attend during the fall and spring and as few as 10 people bear through the winter to ride.

The most Wilson-Chavez said the group rides is 15 miles, but the route alters depending on the day.

Biking has become a lifestyle for Howard Draper. The cyclist advocate, along with what would appear to be a growing number of Denton residents, shares a passion for this mode of transportation that has peddled its way up, garnered more fans and established itself as a subculture.

“It’s the most efficient means of transportation,” said Draper, a writer with BikeDenton, a news blog for the Denton biking community. “There’s almost nowhere that you can’t ride to in Denton … So you can kind of cover almost everywhere.”

And the cyclists cover just about every route in the Denton area, which varies every week, WilsonChavez said. Red lights flash from the bikes to make them visible to passing cars and pedestrians as the group makes its rounds to places such as the Denton Square, Denton Municipal Airport, North Lake Park and South Lake Park.

A bike subculture Biking wasn’t always a trend Denton residents followed.

The idea of installing more bike racks to accommodate a growing city was practically unthought-of eight years ago, and commuting bikers were an unusual sight,

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Draper said.

It wasn’t until 2008 that a bike culture began to emerge and gain attention, he said. It was around that time that politicians like Mayor Mark Burroughs advocated for improving bike lanes; UNT director of parking and transportation Joe Richmond created bike racks for 3,000 bikes; and the Safe Passing Bill was passed in 2009 by the Texas Senate.

“There’s an ease of access about biking that people are becoming more aware of,” said Joe Holland, an employee at Denton Bicycle Center. “It’s an excellent mode

of transportation that’s inexpensive.”

Jennifer Lane of the music faculty said she thinks a lot of people consider the bike to be one of the greatest inventions because of its simplicity. She’s been riding with the bike group since November 2009 and said she finds it to be a great opportunity of meeting others and teaching safety techniques in a friendly environment.

“It’s a world where people can communicate and learn from each other,” Lane said. “It’s a quality of life for cyclists.”

Left: Sebastian Ariza, a radio, television and film sophomore, repairs a bike in front of the Language Building before the weekly Tuesday Night Bike Ride. The ride is held every week to encourage Denton to become a more bike-friendly city.

Top Left and Above: Cyclists wait for the start of the Tuesday night community bike ride at the Language building. The group meets there every Tuesday night at 9 p.m.

Top Right: Denton resident Chris Newvy and radio, television and film sophomore Jacob Daniels converse before the weekly Tuesday Night Bike Ride in front of the Language Building. The event is held by Bike Denton to encourage Denton to become a more bikefriendly city.

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Sports

Page 4 Sean Gorman, Sports Editor

Friday, September 2, 2011 seangorman@my.unt.edu

UNT welcomes rival SMU, travels to Houston Bobby Lewis

Senior Staff Writer The schedule gets much tougher for the UNT women’s soccer team today, as the team attempts to keep its unbeaten streak going.

U N T (2-0-1) welcomes familiar foe SMU (3-1-0) to Denton at 7 p.m. tonight, then hits the road to take on Houston (0-3-0) at 1 p.m. Sunday.

SMU The last time UNT and SMU met, the Mustangs squeaked out a 3-2 overtime victory in front of a Mean Green Soccer Complex-record crowd of 1,246.

Almost a year later, UNT head coach John Hedlund said he and his team hope to get similar support from the Mean Green faithful.

“We’re happy to have it at home because it’s a game we circle every year,” Hedlund said.

“Supposedly we’re supposed to have a big crowd, so it’s going to be huge for us.”

Last year’s loss to SMU still stings for the seven projected UNT starters who played in the loss.

“Revenge is definitely a factor,” sophomore defender

Kelsey Hodges said. “They’re our biggest rivals, so for sure we want the win.”

Hodges and the rest of the team will be tasked with getting the ball past SMU senior goalkeeper Courtney Webb, who started for the Mustangs last year. Webb is coming off a shutout victory over Oklahoma.

Freshman goalkeeper Jackie Kerestine, who has split time with junior goalkeeper Haley Newsome this season, will likely start in goal for the Mean Green, Hedlund said.

Houston Houston will go into Sunday’s game winless, but two its three losses came to Duke, the ninthranked team in the nation, and the nation’s top-ranked team, North Carolina.

“I think we come out aggressive in every game, so it’s not a matter of more or less,” Houston head coach Susan Bush said of the team trying to get its first win. “I think North Texas will come out aggressive too, so it’s not a matter of more or less; we’re just trying to get a result.”

Hou ston’s st reng t h of

Photo by James Coreas/Senior Staff Photographer

Junior forward Michelle Young and sophomore Tiana Bateau of Grambling State University battle for the ball at Sunday’s game. The women’s soccer team will play SMU at 7 p.m. tonight at the UNT Mean Green Soccer Complex. schedule isn’t lost on UNT, which will play its second road game of the season at Robertson

Stadium.

“They were a top-four team in Conference USA last year,

they’ve just played a pretty tough schedule coming out of the gate,” Hedlund said.

“They’re going to be trying to get their first win, so we expect their best.”

Mean Green to take on trio of non-conference foes A lex Young Staff Writer

The Mean Green volleyball team (3-1) is off to another solid start, and with a difficult threegame home stand ahead, all hands will need to be on deck to defeat three out-of-conference foes.

UNT looks to build on Tuesday’s three set sweep of UT-Arlington as it prepares to face off against opponents from some of the nation’s top athletic conferences.

“We will see a different level of athlete in here than we have seen up to this point,” head coach Ken Murczek said. “Against a Big-12 team [Oklahoma] and the defending Big-East champion [Cincinnati], we will continue to play our brand of volleyball, which will hopefully match up against them.”

Senior libero Sarah Willey and freshman libero Addason Lamb keep their eyes on the ball as it is in play on the front row of the court. Mean Green, now 3-1, will play Sam Houston State, Oklahoma and Cincinnati at the North Texas Invitational starting 7 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Mean Green Village volleyball complex.

Scouting the opponent

Sam Houston State ranks first in the Southland conference in When: 7 p.m. tonight Opponent: Sam Houston State opponent hitting percentage with 0.75 and first in blocks with (4-0) Outlook: Sam Houston State 2.87. A quick start will be key for swept its opening invitational a Mean Green victory. and owns a 4-0 record for only When: 11 a.m. Saturday the second time since 1983.

Opponent: Oklahoma (4-0) Senior outside hitter Carli Outlook: It is always a big Kolbe produced 21 kills against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and deal when UNT faces a major is a dangerous player because of conference team, and an Oklahoma team that made it how hard she can hit the ball.

Senior libero Sarah Willey has to the Sweet-16 in 2010 is no kept UNT on the attack, ranking exception.

The key here is not getting sixth in the Sun Belt with 60 behind; Oklahoma has lost one digs.

set in its first four matches and thrives on building big leads.

Freshman outside hitter Eboni Godfrey will be important for UNT to start fast; she ranks fifth in the Sun Belt with 47 kills. Oklahoma counters with senior middle blocker Carlee Roethlisberger – the sister of NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger – who ranks third in the Big-12 with 1.60 blocks per set.

When: 7 p.m. Saturday Opponent: Cincinnati (2-3) Outlook: Cincinnati is the

defending Big East Champion but is not off to a great start this year despite being competitive in almost every set. The Bearcats rank ninth in the Big East in assists with 11.47. UNT has to make Cincy work all around the floor; service aces are important here because the Bearcats are capable of making a handful of 5-point runs in the blink of an eye.

Freshman middle blocker Hallie McDonald can help with that, ranking eighth in the Sun Belt in service with .43 aces per set for UNT.

Cross-country teams open season with fourth-place finish in Denton Austin Schubert Intern

The UNT men’s and women’s cross-country teams started their season at home Thursday, competing in their first meet of the season, the North Texas Metroplex Opener.

Play ing behind UNT’s Waranch Tennis Complex, six runners for each UNT team hung tough against local competition.

In the women’s 4k race, Silje Fjortoft of SMU finished first overall with a time of 13:16, leading her team to a first place finish. TCU finished in second, followed by Texas Wesleyan, UNT and DBU respectively.

“We needed this to open our eyes,” freshman Hanna Rice

“Overall, I’m very pleased with the performance from both teams.”

—Sam Burroughs UNT cross-country head coach

said. “Everyone was nervous but we gutted it out. This was a great starting point and I’m excited to see what we can do once we start working in more speed training.”

Rice led the way for the women’s team, finishing seventh overall in 15:08. Freshmen Elisha Arends and Lauren Sullivan followed close behind in 11th and 14th. Head coach Sam Burroughs said the opener allowed his new

runners to get acclimated to the college game.

“It was great to see the new girls race competitively,” Burroughs said. “This is a building block for our season and we’ll continue training hard in order to be ready for more important meets.”

In the men’s 6k race, sophomore Matt Russ led the way for the Mean Green with a second place finish behind Daniel Ludwig of TCU, finishing in

20:05. As a team, UNT finished second overall behind TCU and in front of DBU. “Russ had a great race,” Burroughs said. “Overall, I’m very pleased with the performance from both teams.”

Senior Michael Sandoval was next across the line for UNT in seventh, right in front of freshman Austin Yaeger.

Freshmen Andrew Marks and Brad Pullman rounded out the top five for UNT. “We have a really good team, considering we only have one returner,” Sandoval said. “I think we learned tonight that we can compete.”

UNT cross-country returns to action at the Baylor Invitational on Sept. 17.

Photos by Amber Plumley/Staff Photographer

Senior libero Sarah Willey passes the ball to the setter after a deep serve from UT-Arlington at the Mean Green game 7 p.m. Tuesday. UNT is hosting the North Texas Invitational starting with tonight’s game against Sam Houston State. The team will also square off against Oklahoma and Cincinnati.

Postgame observations Senior staff writer Paul Bottoni shares his thoughts on UNT’s season opening 41-16 loss to Florida International in Miami.

Opinion Paul Bottoni

Senior Staff Writer Sophomore wide receiver and kick returner Brelen Chancellor was one of the few bright spots for UNT. The sophomore finished w it h 2 39 a l l-pu r pose yards.

The Mean Green’s late safety was its first since a 68-49 win over Western Kentucky in 2009.

F I U defen sive back Chuck Grace was ejected i n t he fou r t h qua r ter following a blind-side hit

Paul Bottoni on UNT tight end Andrew Power.

The Panthers showcased what all the preseason hype was about. FIU looks poised to make another run at a Sun Belt Championship.

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ParkingSCENE

Friday 09.02.2011

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A day in the life....

[ of a community service officer ]

BRITTNI BARNETT Senior Staff Writer

When he’s not learning about Buddhist art in Asia or playing bass for his band, Travis Oliver can be found strolling through the campus in blue Dickies shorts, neatly tucked khaki shirt and allblack tennis shoes – the typical uniform for a UNT community service officer, more commonly known as a parking officer.

Oliver, an art education senior, has held the job for three years.

“I’ve always had jobs where I’ve

worked outside, even when I was working with my dad as a kid,” Oliver said. “The best part is just to be able to walk around, talk to people; you get to help out people sometimes. It’s good exercise and the pay’s pretty decent.”

Pay for a CSO starts at $10 an hour, Oliver said. For that rate, he will walk continuously for his daily 7 to 11 a.m. shifts for about 20 hours a week, rain or shine.

“T he ha rdest pa r t [of t he job] kind of depends,” he said.

“Somet imes it’s t he weat her,

PHOTO BY BERENICE QUIRINO/MULTIMEDIA MANAGER

Alex Proctor, a criminal justice senior and parking officer, waits for a tow truck to take away an illegally parked car next to the Chemistry Building Thursday afternoon. s o m e t i m e s i t ’s t h e a n g r y customers. Sometimes you talk to people and you’re just like, ‘Is this guy going to punch me in the face right now?’”

He adds that although he has been called one many times, he is in fact, not a Nazi.

“I’ve heard some pretty good ones,” he said. “My favorite one was, I looked up and this guy was in the passenger seat and he just said, ‘Someday, you’ll get a ticket.’”

Oliver sa id he actua l ly has received a few tickets, even after he started dishing them out.

“I got my first ticket my very first day of college,” he said. “I come f rom a sma ll tow n a nd I guess I had never been in a parking lot that had been full and so I parked in the grass and I got a ticket, and I was like well, yeah, I guess now I know.”

Sarah Reed, an anthropology senior, received a parking ticket when she was a f reshma n as well.

“I parked in a space that turned out not to be an actual parking

“Sometimes you talk to people and you’re just like, ‘Is this guy going to punch me in the face right now?”

-Travis Oliver Art education senior

space,” she said. “At the time I was pretty mad about it because I thought it was more of an issue with the parking lot instead of my fault, but I don’t think it was the guy’s fault who ticketed me.”

When Oliver writes out a ticket he types the information into a handheld, a tiny computer with a built-in camera to document illegally parked cars. The handheld then automatically sends t he i n for mat ion back to t he central office. Finally, the ticket

is printed out with a small printer that Oliver carries as well.

There a re usua lly about 25 to 30 student parking enforcers on staff at any given time, said Lee Mears, community services manager for parking and transportation.

On their shifts they’ll usually patrol one of nine zones, each measuring about three to four square blocks, Mears said.

Besides monitoring the parking lots on campus, officers work parking at events such as graduation, basketball games and football games, Oliver said.

“We look for students who can do the job in terms of walking, someone who ca n ha nd le confrontation and someone with a good attitude,” Mears said.

Ol iver w i l l be g i n st udent teaching in the spring, but he’s unsure whether he will continue the job.

“I d o i t b e c a u s e I l i k e it,” he sa id. “I wa s h i red by UNT and I’m just doing my job, a nd most people u ndersta nd that.”

EntertainmentSCENE

Local entertainment review Opinion PABLO A RAUZ AND CORRISA JACKSON Staff Writers

What’s happening now in local music?

The local independent music scene is back in full force this month, which means there are plenty of acts to pick from when you’re deciding which deserve the bills in your pocket. We’ve compiled a sort-of Spark notes of local notables for September.

Screamy post-punk act Innards will be headlining J&J’s Pizza on Friday night with pop-punk folk veterans Star Commander and the math-rock darlings, Two Knights.

Avec Souci, a fresh new indie act will be opening up for their premiere show in the popular basement venue.

Rubber Gloves will be finishing off its week of free shows Friday and Saturday with two shows presented by the Meme Gallery and Gutterth productions, according to the Rubber Gloves website. Several local acts will be playing each show, most notably the lo-fi punk act New Science Projects on Friday night.

Hailey’s Club will be having its usual weekly events, said Nas

Mazboudi, bartender and promoter of the club. That includes 90’s night on Tuesdays and 80’s night on Wednesdays. The club will also be having their Back to School Bash Saturday night with Baruch the Scribe, Peopleodian and several other local acts.

As for the rest of the month, Andy’s Bar will host Ft. Worth and Denton Collide, a showcase of punk rock acts from each town on September 9. Bands include hard-hitting locals Blarney Street Hooligans and Beer Gnomes.

Lion’s Den, one of Denton’s only remaining house venues, will host High Castle from Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 25 with locals Squeeky Vomme, Bummer Sticker and Bukkake Moms.

A preview of local art In addition to the thriving and eclectic music scene, Denton provides many opportunities to check out visual art, stage performances and more.

A great place to check out visual art is the Greater Denton Art Council, located at 400 E. Hickory St. Jennifer Wohlrab, administrative assistant for the Greater Denton Art Council, said people can look forward to a dual exhibition featuring work

from the Denton Quilt Guild and Stephen J. Miller.

The exhibitions will run from Sept. 11 to Oct. 30 and admission is free.

Oxide Gallery will host two exhibits, one at the main Oxide location on Hickory Street and one at Banter Bistro on Oak Street.

The exhibit at the main location is titled “The American Dream,” and will feature artists’ interpretations of what it means to be an American, said Warren Hooper, owner of the gallery.

The exhibit at Banter will show various pieces from UNT artists.

The American Dream will open Sept. 6, and the Oxide at Banter show will open Sept. 16. Both events are free and open to the public.

Those looking to watch a stage performance can check out the Campus Theatre on the Square this month.

On Sept. 9, actors at the Campus Theatre will perform “39 Steps,” a comical adaption of Alfred Hitchcock’s film “Thriller,” said Kyla Welch, office manager for the theater.

Welch said the committee that decides what plays to put on thought the show would be a lot of fun for audiences.

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that’s a class Opinion JESSE SIDLAUSKAS

Arts and Life Editor This week, many of you have undoubtedly rea lized that you’ve signed up for a class that’s more work than you had hoped. While some classes are harder than they seem and others are easier than what they’re billed for, there are others still that beg the question: That’s a class?

A mong t he ma ny sportcentered classes offered at UNT in physical education is Ultimate. The disc sport that’s a product of the 60s is also a class at UNT. Though the lucky 18 who registered will likely receive course credit to play a game twice a week, it’s not exactly a blow-off class. The continuous nature of the game requires a lot of high-intensity running.

“Combining the non-stop movement and athletic endurance of soccer with the aerial passing skills of football, a game of Ultimate is played by two seven-player squads with a high-tech plastic disc on a field

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similar to football,” according to the sport’s governing body, USA Ultimate.

Class instructor and kinesiology graduate student Marissa Hayes said she’s pretty sure her class is aware of the physical workload.

“I described it to [the class] as a sort of non-stop football game,” she said.

Hayes said this semester she will learn the game along with her students because the game is new to her as well.

Hayes said the class would be graded for overall effort and how well they play as a unit in a team.

So wh i le it’s a n easy “A” compared to almost any book-andstudy course, it’s not automatic thanks to the running, though that might be hidden by the competition in the sport.

“I like out-playing my defenders.

I dish out a bunch of tricks on them,” Kevin Hill, a mechanical engineering freshman, said.

But as far as classes go, this isn’t something students will stress about during finals week. It’s more likely to serve as a break from class. In that sense, it’s pretty much what you’d expect from a physical education course.

MusicSCENE

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Big Apple dreams: Eyeing the big time A lex Copeland Staff Writer

In 2009, with little more than a master’s degree and a plan, John Guari set out to be a musician in the Capital of the World.

Two yea rs later he’s goi ng strong, playing gigs, arranging music and putting out Baritone EP, a five-track album of his own pop work.

At UNT Gua r i played w it h the Two and Three O’Clock Lab Bands, various ensembles as well as his own jazz and rock groups.

T he One O’C lock L ab ba nd recorded his original composition “November” for its Grammynominated album, “Lab 2009.”

Moving to New York was like magnifying the size and competitiveness of UNT’s music program to a whole new scale.

“As many people as there are at UNT, in New York there are thousands of people,” Guari said.

“You’ve got a couple hundred people at UNT and they’re all badasses. They’re all doing great.

Now I’m in New York and it’s that times a thousand.”

Guari has developed his own voice that goes beyond his jazz training, embracing a wide range of music including indie and pop sounds, he said.

“You quickly realize it’s not about being the best, it’s about being the best at expressing your own self,” Guari said.

Fewer st udents a re ta k i ng Gauri’s route to a career in music in recent years, said Mike Steinel of the jazz studies faculty.

“If you’re a skilled musician and your skills are broad, you’re going to have a lot of directions you can go to,” Steinel said. “We don’t necessa ri ly t ra in musicians for a particular job, but we educate musicians for a lot of different things.”

However, he said, jazz studies increasingly leads to an academic career like his own.

Photo courtest of Christopher Duff

John Guari performs at Kenny’s Castaways, a club in Greenwich Village, New York.

“The reality is, if you’re just going to do jazz any more, you’re probably going to be in teaching,” Steinel said. “The industry has just moved t hat way, towards ja z z educat ion, a nd it needs teachers.”

Most teachers are still talented performers and arrangers, he said, but finding work solely as a musicia n has become more difficult.

“In recent years, as the music industry has gotten tougher with downloading and all that. There’s no big record companies, but in a strange way there’s more opportunities,” he said.

“There’s no big record companies, but in a strange way there’s more opportunities.”

—Mike Steinel UNT jazz studies faculty

Guari’s pursuit of living in New York has led him to these opportunities. He’s carried a hodgepodge of freelance jobs, from performing at weddings to transcribing scores and technica l composition work.

“It’s just about doing as many different things that you can,” he said. “Which is tough sometimes because it’s a juggling act.

If I’m going out every night to these shows and I’m spending money and I’m not at home, then

I’m not composing. But if I’m home composing I’m not going out. So you just kind of have to balance it.”

For Guari there was never any quest ion about pursuing a ny sort of backup pla n, t hrough academia or otherwise.

Nothing else really interests him the way that music does, he said.

“It sounds like a cliché, but I can’t not do it,” Guari said. “I get depressed if I don’t do enough music, if I’m not performing, if I’m not working towards … making good music and connecting with people that way.”