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Denton launches virtual town hall RYAN SCHAEFER Intern
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Grammy Award-winning artist John Legend speaks to a crowd about hard work and success Tuesday night at the UNT Coliseum. Legend’s appearance was a part of the UNT’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
John Legend comes to UNT HOLLY H ARVEY
Senior Staff Writer Music artist and activist John Legend urged students to creatively engage in finding ways to improve the education system Tuesday night, speaking as part
of UNT’s Distinguished Lecture Series to an audience of about 2,500 people at the Coliseum. The nine-time Grammy winner and 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year also played a handful of songs to a roaring, cheering audi-
ence that seemed to know every word to the chorus of “Ordinary People.” Legend took audience questions after the lecture, stressing the importance of education in nurturing creative young
minds. Legend said a broken education system that fails disadvantaged children needed to be fixed with ideas from students.
See LEGEND on Page 2
In the hopes of gathering more attention and feedback from the community, the city of Denton has established a “virtual town hall.” Unveiled last Monday, EngageDenton.com will cut the cost and number of public meetings, broaden the range of available ideas, offer an alternative for residents to become involved and improve the quality of addressing issues around Denton. Residents can bring new issues to vote on, comment on posted discussions and offer new ideas to help officials meet the needs of the community within six weeks of the initial post. “Initially, we [the officials] intended to use this site to get the most ideas from the public for a comprehensive plan,” said Fred Greene, assistant city manager of Denton. “When we saw the potential behind what we were doing, it blossomed into a means to address the community more effectively.” MindMixer, the company providing Denton’s virtual town hall, is currently maintaining the website until the comprehensive plan review
“...it blossomed into a means to address the community...”
—Fred Greene Assistant city manager
is complete. During the trial period of two years, the city is paying about $10,000 a year to MindMixer. After the first two years, if the new process proves useful, the city will keep the site going. Similarly at UNT, the Student Government Association has followed a similar trend with the Twitter Town Hall. “I believe it’s a useful asset for the community,” said SGA President Blake Windham. “Based on the success of the Twitter Hall, this virtual town hall also seems like a good idea, as far as I know.” Currently, three topics are available for discussion on the site: a proposed smoking ban, a topic about how to promote community gardens and a historic preservation survey.
See ENGAGE on Page 2
Savage speaks at UNT’s annual diversity conference NICOLE BALDERAS Senior Staff Writer
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Residents spoke to the Denton City Council on Tuesday night at Denton City Hall. The council voted unanimously in favor of a 120-day gas drilling moratorium.
City Council passes gas drilling moratorium JUSTIN BRIGHT Intern
The Denton City Council unanimously passed a 120-day gas drilling moratorium at a packed city council meeting Tuesday night at Denton City Hall. The moratorium will allow the council time to finish changes to the existing gas drilling ordinance. The moratorium forbids any new permits for oil and gas exploration to be given out, with two exceptions: previously submitted permits can be processed, a nd ex plorat ion a nd product ion on persona l propert y w ill be allowed. The moratorium, however, includes a stipulation that voids exemptions if any fracking is involved.
“Our livehoods are here, our futures are here ...”
—Amber Briggle Denton resident
“Un l i ke Chesapea ke or Devon or Range, we can’t just up and leave,” resident Amber Briggle said to the council. “Our livelihoods are here, our futures are here. We raise children here, and if something goes wrong with the wells, we’re stuck with the consequences.” A dozen Denton residents
spoke out in favor of the moratorium, compared to three who were against – two of which were law yers representing Devon Energy. “This moratorium is a pretty serious invasion of government over private property rights, and there needs to be, I think, a compelling public purpose for it,” said Ike Shupe, a representative of Devon Energy. Te n s i on s r o s e d u r i n g t he meet ing a f ter severa l pa ssionate plea s for a nd against the measure. Two activists in favor of the moratorium sitting close to one of the law yers from Devon Energy attempted to jeer him, to which he responded, “Grow up.”
See DRILLING on Page 2
A large, hushed crowd packed into the Silver Eagle Suite on Tuesday as Dan Savage, syndicated columnist and creator of the “It Gets Better” project, shared memories of growing up gay and his hopes of equality for LGBT youth. Savage was the keynote spea ker at UNT’s 12th Annual Equity and Diversity Conference. Lending to the blunt tone established in his advice column, “Savage Love,” he began with a statement exemplifying his cause – putting a stop to high school bullying and subsequent suicides. “I need to be talking to high school students, not college students,” Savage said. “I would never get an invitation to speak at a high school, unless the principal wanted to get fired the next day.” Savage’s matter-of-fact remarks were well received with laughter by audience members. “He [Savage] can speak frankly to LGBT and straight people, and he’s not sorry for what he’s doing,” music junior Grace McIntosh said. “He’s so humble and almost shy. He’s doing it for the cause, not the glory.” Savage shared the story of the most “gutting letter” he had received. It was from a 15-year-old girl who, for twoand-a-half years, stopped telling people she was gay until she turned 18 and would be financially independent. “She went back into the closet and put up her Justin Bieber poster because it was
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Dan Savage speaks at the 12th Annual Equity & Diversity Conference in the Silver Eagle Suite on Tuesday. Savage discussed LGBT topics including the “It Gets Better” video project created to prevent suicide among LGBT youth.
“The goal was to save lives, and we’ve done that.” —Dan Savage Keynote speaker the closest she could get,” Savage said jokingly. “In the meantime she was watching the [“It Gets Better”] videos online and she saw moms and dads sitting with their gay kids, and it gave her hope for her parents.” After the large lecture, a small group of about 90 students gathered in a room on the Union’s fourth f loor for a Q-and-A session. During this time Savage spared no detail, answering questions about everything from how his sexuality and his strict Catholic upbringing coexisted, to the future of the “It Gets Better” project. The idea for the project came
Facts from Savage’s speech • 9 out of 10 LGBT kids report being bullied • 40 percent of homeless teens are gay teens • Gay teens are 4 times more likely to commit suicide • Gay teens are 8 times more likely to commit suicide if family is hostile
to Savage after finding out about numerous suicides due to anti-gay bullying in 2010. “The goal was to save lives, and we have done that,” Savage said. “There are already some established anti-bullying groups, and we want to support their efforts, not duplicate them.” James Mims, a political science and Spanish senior, said Savage’s experiences have turned into success story. “I think this might sound cliché, but it really does get better,” Mims said. “He has been married for 14 years and has a kid.”
Inside UNT program saving energy News | Page 2
Risky Business program teaches safe sex Arts & Life | Page 4
College students need healthcare Views | Page 6
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“Technolog y helps us to have more democratic processes possible,” said Blake McDaniel, a communication studies graduate student and teaching assistant. “Getting to outreach the bounds of location and find more diversity in input is one benefit, although this might also exclude those on the other half of the social division of the Internet.
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Two workers carry a rock to the end of a path they are working on outside of Kerr Hall. They are hoping to maintain the walkway made by pedestrians as they cut through the grass to get to the entrance to the building.
Energy program takes shape JUSTIN BRIGHT Intern
UNT has implemented a program that would save the energy equivalent of planting 56,000 acres of trees or taking 41,000 cars off the road. UNT was the first public university in Texas to sign the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment when it signed t he commitment in 2008. The commitment is an agreement by university presidents to “initiate the development of a comprehensive plan to achieve climate neutrality as soon as possible,” according to its website. A three-year campus-wide
S av e /Me a s u r e /Ac h ie v e / Reduce/Track (S.M.A.R.T.) program was then put in place to reduce greenhouse emissions by the equivalent of planting 56,000 acres of trees. “It’s the best thing to come along in a long time,” biology professor Dr. Thomas La Point said. Projects of S.M.A.R.T. include upgrading energy monitoring software, low-f low faucets, sensors in classes that turn off lights when not in use and overhauling the air conditioning for the campus with a new chilled water loop. “The old chi l led water loop failed last summer and cut off air conditioning to 16
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“You have unlimited potential to change the world,” Legend said. “Education gives you control over your destiny. Apply a fraction of your life to something greater.” Du r i ng t he 40 -m i nute speech, Legend sa id t hat creativity is the key to building a better world, and students will need to be creative in any field, whether that be music or business. Legend himself worked at a consulting firm before becoming a recording artist. “Creativity is an amazing resource,” Legend said. “So much of our humanit y is involved in being creative.” Creating a better education system was the theme of Legend’s speech, as he decried the state of public education in
Drilling Continued from Page 1 “T hese a re ou r elected of f icia ls [refer r ing to t he council],” geography junior
buildings,” utilities manager Vincent Stippec said. “The new, better loop currently serves 30 and will support 36 once complete.” New improvements added to the S.M.A.R.T. umbrella of projects since include retrofits to Discovery Park’s chilled water loop and adding heating systems using a hot water loop. “We’re a small office, but there’s a lot of support coming from the campus,” said Lauren Helixon, assistant director of operations at the UNT Office of Sustainability. “The S.M.A.R.T. project will give Facilities Management a dashboard of detailed information about
energy usage and will be able to direct power where it’s needed and turn it off when not. Our sustainability efforts could be a model for other colleges and even residential and commercial areas trying to reduce energy waste.” In a recent issue of TIME magazine, Austin, Texas was declared “America’s CleanTech Hub.” Dr. La Point doesn’t agree. “Austin doesn’t hold a candle to what we’re doing,” La Point said. “UNT is a leader in sustainability with 40 percent of its power coming from renewable sources, and the school should take pride in all of these efforts.”
the U.S. and pointed out that Texas ranks No. 43 nationally in high school graduation rates. “Our schools are crumbling, and kids don’t have the chance to succeed,” Legend said. “We should give people a ladder out of poverty, and that ladder is education.” He told of his own experiences growing up in Ohio, saying he grew up with more oppor tunit ies t ha n ma ny others. His graduating class from high school was half the size of his freshman class. “I was the exception in my neighborhood,” Legend said. “I believe education is the civil rights movement of our generation.” Legend urged students to get involved in schools through various programs such as Teach for America, which Legend is a board member of. Teach for A merica is a national nonprofit organization that sends qualified teachers to low-performing schools.
For merchandising sophomore Erika Ipina, Legend’s encouragement to get involved struck a chord. “His message was ver y powerful,” Ipina said. “It’s definitely going to have an impact on my decisions.” During the 20-minute question and answer session, Legend answered questions ranging from how to handle criticism to how to get in touch with Legend’s manager. A f ter t he question a nd a n s wer s e s sion, L e gend per for med severa l songs, including popular hits such as “Ordinary People,” “Everybody Knows” and “Green Light.” An enthusiastic audience swayed to the music, a few holding up lighters and cell phones. “It w a s b e a ut i f u l . It touched my soul,” said Arelle Winchester, a communication studies sophomore who witnessed the performance. “It made me feel great.”
Marcio DaSilva said. “A nd they answer to us, not your checks.” Cou nci l member C h r is Watts said the moratorium addresses two of the public’s concerns. “I think primarily most of the public’s concern regarding
drilling is twofold,” council member Chris Watts said. “One is air quality, and the other one is hydraulic fracking. In my understanding of that process, often times fracking is not required, which takes away one of the main concerns with the issue of drilling.”
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Alex Macon, Arts & Life Editor
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Sisters bring cupcake craft to Denton UNT students NADIA HILL Staff Writer
Nestled in a low-key shopping center in Corinth, NV Cupcakes churns out sweet treats daily, luring customers to the nondescript location with the promise of its fresh cupcake concoctions. The one-oven operation hopes to gain some added visibility this March when it opens a second location at 118 McKinney St. in Denton. Co-owners, sisters and UNT alumnae Van and Ngoc Nguyen opened the Corinth store in November 2010 and have since staked a claim as two of North Texas’ premier cupcake bakers. NV Cupcakes has sponsored UNT football, provided baked goods for bridal showers and won a cake baking competition at UNT last year. Now the sisters plan to open a second shop smack-dab in the heart of Denton, with an extra room for lounging and drinking coffee, or for private parties to rent. “We originally wanted to be in Denton, so we’re just expanding,” Van Nguyen said. “Denton is more our kind of town.” Van Nguyen, who graduated from UNT in 2004 with a degree in rehabilitation studies, began baking her own pastries and cupcakes as a way to protest expensive birthday cakes and a limited selection at grocery stores. She went from a toy-like fire truck cake at her son’s first
birthday in 2008 to baking 500 cakes a weekend at NV Cupcakes. Ngoc Nguyen, a 2008 UNT biology grad, was part of her older sister’s venture every step of the way. “We were hoping it would turn into a full-time thing, and after the first week it did,” Ngoc Nguyen said. “This opportunity only comes once.” Each cupcake is handcrafted with a few simple ingredients and mountains of icing whipped together with a small hand mixer. Their signature cupcake, strawberry with strawberry icing, has real strawberries and pure buttercream icing. Other flavors include mocha latte, bananas Foster, zesty lemon lime, Snickers and hunny bunny carrot, to name a few. Menu staples include classic flavors like chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, while other flavors rotate daily. There are about six different flavors available each day. “It’s nice to have coffee houses to hang out in, but there’s not a place to get baked goods later in the day,” pre-communication design freshman Jonathan Wenske said. “Having this near the square will make it really convenient.” NV Cupcakes in Corinth is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Van Nguyen said a specific date for the opening of NV Cupcake’s Denton location had not yet been
venture to Korea R ENEE TORRES Intern
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Tuesday’s lineup sits in front of the cash register at NV Cupcakes, a cupcake shop that will open in Denton in March, according to owners Ngoc and Van Nguyen. The sisters graduated from UNT and wanted to bring the shop a little closer to home and to their former school. set and that she was waiting to hear back from the city about permitting. She predicted the new store would be baking at full capacity by the end of March, and said she was excited to reconnect with the
Denton community. “We get to be part of people’s birthdays, anniversaries and watch their kids grow up,” Van said. “If we open up more shops, it’ll be locally. I like to be able to talk to customers.”
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The Mean Green Dodgeball Club makes the opening rush during a Friday game at 7 p.m. in the Bahnsen Gym. All students are welcome at the weekly Friday meets.
Dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge A DRIENNE TATE Intern
A new club on campus is giving students the opportunity to relive everyone’s favorite elementary school P.E. class pastime. So fa r more t ha n 100 students have joined Mean Green Dodgeball, spending their Friday nights dodging, dipping, ducking and diving from r ubber ba lls in t he Bahnsen Gym. E c onom ic s s ophomore Austin Milner started the administrative process of forming the dodgeball club last semester when he transferred to UNT. Milner and history sophomore Sam Kalash started a dodgeball club in high school, a nd wa nted to bring t he inherent joy of throwing and dodging balls to UNT. About 50 students showed
up for Mean Green Dodgeball’s first meet Jan. 20, with more students turning up a week later. “Dodgeball has a way of bringing all corners of people together,” Milner said. “You will see jocks, nerds and cheerleaders here all having fun.” The club is a member of the National Collegiate Dodgeball Association, which includes dodgeball teams from universities around the country. Mean Green Dodgeball’s first and foremost goal is to have fun, but members said they have aspirations to eventually compete with other clubs. Undecided freshman Mary Robinson said she heard about the club from a committed dodgeball-playing friend who went to the first meet. For Robinson, dodgeball is a way to exercise and get involved in extracurricular activities at
UNT. “It’s fun, I meet new people and get to exercise,” she said. Dodgeball, long a staple of playgrounds and school gyms, underwent a revival in popularity with the release of the 2004 Ben Stiller film “Dodgeba ll: A n Underdog Stor y,” wh ich memorably feat u red players dodg ing wrenches along with balls. Rules vary, but dodgeball typically involves two teams on opposing sides of a court. The goal is to eliminate the other team through contact with thrown balls. Criticism of the game typica lly revolves around the safety risks of being repeatedly hit with foam or rubber balls. Students in Mean Green Dodgeball are required to sign medical waivers. K inesiolog y junior Jacy Joplin works for the Pohl
Recreation Center and supervises the club. She also supervises fencing, lacrosse and Ultimate Frisbee. “It’s the newest club and the funniest to watch,” Joplin said. “And it’s the only club that plays music.” Joplin said the dodgeball club has gained popularity because it’s a sport almost everyone is familiar with, and is not as competitive as other games. Mea n Green Dodgeba l l meets every Friday at 7 p.m. in the Bahnsen Gym. Members said there are about 110 official members of the team, but at least 30 new people come to each meeting. Members were initially asked to pay $5 for equipment, but there is now no cost to join. For more information, “like” Mean Green Dodgeball on Facebook.
Unfamiliar customs and the opportunit y to face a changing world filled with cultural challenges are all pa rt of t he adventure for students enrolled in foreign exchange programs. Next fa ll, a student-exchange program with Korea University in Seoul will be ta k i ng 20 st udent s f rom u n i v e r s it ie s a c r o s s t h e United States, including two students from UNT, which is sending students to Korea for the first time. Journalism senior Ishmael Singh and accounting senior Michael Robinson are the only African-Americans in the group. “T h is is t he f i rst yea r UNT sends students to the c a mpu s i n Kore a ,” s a id Richard Menard, director of U N T ’s s t ud y a br o a d pr og r a m . “Mor e p e ople a re show i ng i ntere st i n t ravel i ng to A sia, a nd it looks phenomena l on the student’s resume.” Robinson learned about t he prog ra m t h roug h a n acqua i nt a nce w ho k new about Robinson’s love for traveling. “She just came up to me and talked to me about this prog ra m t hat wa s pret t y c he a p,” Robi n s on s a id . “It didn’t take long for me to c a l l up Ish m ael a nd convince him to go.” In exchange for teaching English to Korean students, Robinson and Singh will pay a reduced tuition at Korea University, Menard said. To save money for t he trip, Robinson a nd Singh worked part-time jobs and applied for various scholarships. Singh said he encouraged more minorities to join the program in the future. T h i s i s not Si n g h or Robi n son’s f i r st t i me to travel abroad. T he t wo f i rst met i n a German airport in 2010 on a trip that also took them to Austria and Russia. Last year t hey v isited A msterda m, Br u s s e l s a nd P a r i s f or spring break, but the trip to Korea will be their first time liv ing abroad for an extended period of time. “Two years ago, working at Home D ep ot m i x i ng paint, I never knew I would
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Michael Robinson picture myself at the DMZ – a buffer zone between North a nd Sout h Korea,” Si ng h said. Si ng h a nd Robi nson leave for Sout h Korea on Feb. 21 a nd w i l l stay for one semester. A s pa r t of t he excha nge, Si ng h a nd Robi n s on h a v e t o t a k e courses in Korean language and culture, as well as three additional classes, for a full semester. “I rea l ly w a nt to t a ke t aek wondo cla ss w hen I get there,” Singh said. “But I also want to tr y the local cuisine, and we’re also going to take a camping trip to the Great Wall.” Robinson said his time abroad had fundamentally changed his attitude about life here at UNT. “I thought I was going to come to school, ea r n my degree and get out of here,” Robinson said. “I want to come back and know I can do anything.” St udy i ng abroad g ives students a chance to learn about different cultures and learn how to succeed in an i n c r e a s i n g l y c on n e c t e d world, Menard said. “Studying abroad exposes people to new ideas a nd experiences,” Menard said. “It takes one step further to an education.” For more i n for mat ion about t ravel or oppor t un it ies w it h U N T’s st udy a br o a d pr o g r a m s , v i s it i nter nat iona l.u nt.edu.
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Program teaches students sex is Risky Business A SHLEY GRANT Staff Writer
E nt hu s i a s t ic mem b er s of Risky Business, a sexual education program at UNT, and a “condom table” lined with neatly stacked pamphlets about safe sex greeted students at Bruce Ha ll on Monday evening. “Do you guys want free c ondom s ? ” a s ke d Ker r y Sta n hope, ad m i n ist rat ive outreach supervisor at the Student Health and Wellness Center. Stanhope handed students plastic bags filled with an assortment of brightly colored condoms, lubricant and an informative card detailing how to properly use a male condom. “It started with the Student Government Association setting up a free condom table, and the administration got upset with it, so there was a lot of back and forth with how we could distribute condoms on campus responsibly,” Stanhope said. “It was decided that if we were going to distribute condoms, then we needed to do an educational piece along with it.” In the past, Risky Business has gone to other areas on and around campus, such as fraternity and sorority houses, but now it mainly focuses on educating students in residence
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Terrance Harris and Colleen Lesher, health educators at the UNT Health and Wellness Center, ask students sexual health trivia questions at Bruce Hall on Monday night. Harris and Lesher gave free condoms out to students for answering questions. halls. Rachel Goodman, an intern for the Meadows Center for Health Resources and health promotion senior, got involved w it h t he prog r a m a f ter attending one of its events.
“It’s exciting and I feel valuable, like I have a purpose, especially since health is something I’m passionate about,” Goodman said. “It feels like we are making a difference little by little.”
The events are open, interactive and educational, said Justin Chevalier, a member of Risky Business and sociology senior. “We open events with a conversation about sex, then we
ask students true or false, myth or fact questions,” Chevalier said. “There’s also a condom demonstration and games to make it more fun and comfortable.” Risky Business also makes
use of a special feature that allows students to anonymously text questions that they aren’t comfortable asking aloud during the program. Texted questions go to a Google Voice account, which group members can access to answer anonymous questions. Terrance Harris, hea lt h educator at the Meadows Center for Health Resources, said national statistics show one out of three college students will have a sexually transmitted disease or infection by the age of 25, adding that Dallas has the highest HIV rate in Texas. “Not hing dera i ls your college education like finding out that you have an STD or HIV,” Stanhope said. Students and administrators in Risky Business said they hope students walk away from the program knowing the basic options of safe sexual health. Risky Business workshops are held in dorms around campus about once a month. The Meadows Center for Health Resources in Chestnut Hall Suite 302 offers free anonymous HIV screening every Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more i n for mat ion on Risky Business and the Meadows Center, visit http:// healthcenter.unt.edu/meadows-center-health-resources.
UNT Health Center hires first full-time gynecologist AIMEE PASS
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Student education and prevention are at the forefront of this semester’s agenda for UNT Health and Wellness Center’s first fulltime gynecologist. Dr. Cynthia Hermann named her greatest concern for UNT students as the prevention of STDs and the prevention of unplanned pregnancies, which she says account for 49 percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. “W hatever we can do,” Hermann said. “Counseling, birth control options or abstinence— whatever—just to get people informed will really benefit our female students.” Originally from Corpus Christi, Hermann worked at a private practice in Indiana for two years before moving to Denton. She became the first designated women’s health care professional to be hired by the Wellness Center last semester. “We usually hire family practice physicians, but we have so many female students,” said Kerry Stanhope, administrative outreach supervisor with the Health and Wellness Center. “Dr. Hermann’s extra experience made her a good match.” Many of the women’s services offered at the Wellness Center remain the same, but female patients now have the benefit of seeing a specialist in specific rooms set up for women’s health
Mon. Feb 13-Fri. Feb 17: “Get Yourself Tested” 8-11:30 a.m. and 1-4:30 p.m. “Lab Specials” 8 a.m.-1 p.m. reduced STD testing and lab specials Mon. Feb 13: “True Colors” 7-9 p.m. Union 413 Relationship panel talks about healthy relationship standards and what constitutes abuse PHOTO BY SAVANNA BREGGS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Dr. Cynthia Hermann is the new gynecologist at the Health and Wellness Center at UNT. exams. Hermann also offers free consultations and counseling for birth control options, testing and any other women’s health concerns. All appointments are free, and the Center offers baseline prices on testing and lab work. “They do a great job here tailoring the costs so that it’s affordable for just about everybody,” Hermann said. Prices for testing will be further reduced next week for “Love Your Body Week.” The program, sponsored by the Wellness Center, will offer half-price STD testing, free HIV screening, a healthy relationship
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panel and an opportunity to “Talk with a Doc,” where students can talk to Hermann in person, or text or tweet health questions that they may not feel comfortable asking in public. “I think it’s a good idea that they’re doing it,” said Annalise Boydston, pre-psycholog y sophomore and Health Center employee. “It gives female students more options in general, and it helps that [Hermann] is very nice and professional.” The Health and Wellness Center is hoping next week’s events and the addition of a women’s health specialist will attract more female students to use these services and educational opportunities. “If people have comprehensive sexual health counseling, then they’re more likely to have safer UNIONMASTERPLAN sex,” said Darian Gore, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance officer. “Because they’re thinking about their sexual health and being proactive about it, which makes your whole sexual experience better.” For more information, visit the Health and Wellness Center’s website at healthcenter.unt.edu. UNIONMASTERPLAN
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Members of Camp Gladiator move 5-gallon water barrels during a Dallas/Fort Worth Session.
Gladiator works second job as English professor A LISON M ATLOCK Staff Writer
Waking up before dawn to lead an adult fitness boot camp before transforming into a teacher is a common routine for UNT professor Sara Schroeder. S c h r o e der h a s t w o careers: first as a primary trainer for Camp Gladiator, voted best adult fitness boot camp in Texas by Competitor Magazine, and second as an English professor at UNT. She said she tries to help people understa nd life mentally and physically as both a professor and trainer. “It’s all about total wellness in every aspect: physical, mental, emotional,” Schroeder said. “So I find that I really love what I do, because I’m able to do it in an academic setting as well as an outdoor, physical setting.” She has been a trainer for a couple of years with the Denton area Camp Gladiator, which has 100 locations around the U.S. Schroeder and her partner Christian Garcia lead boot camps together, teaching groups of 10 to 20 people. Workouts they put together involve body weight, endurance, sprinting, interval
training, plyometric, agility and speed work, Schroeder said. “You never get the same workout,” she said. “If you don’t like it one day, come back the next day and it will be something different.” Associates said Schroeder shows consistent energy at the boot camps. “She has a great attitude, so she’s fun to work with,” Garcia said. “She’s always positive, and if I’m ever having a bad day, I can just kind of feed off of her.” Schroeder’s students agree that her unflagging enthusiasm and positivity are infectious. “She would make the subject of English more exciting because of her positivity towards any subject,” kinesiology junior Joey Barrientes said. “She embraced when students talked about different topics and made them exciting.” Being healthy and fit comes with the right mental attitude, Schroeder said. “It’s about the total wellness, being healthy, being able to enjoy your life and living it to its fullest,” Schroeder said. She encourages her campers, the people she trains and her students to be the best that they can be in all aspects of life, including fitness. Although Camp Gladiator calls its sessions boot camps,
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the trainers aren’t yelling and screaming the whole time, Schroder said. They encourage their campers to do their best and push through. “Our boot camp is extremely fun, so it kind of brings a big kid out of the older people,” Garcia said. “It’s a place for people to just be themselves.” Camp Gladiator is a big family and support system, Schroeder said. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or have been working out for years because the camp caters to all fitness levels, she said. Schroeder said teaching and training were equally important to her. “I can’t have one without the other now,” Schroeder said. “This is my life.” For more information on Camp Gladiator, visit campgladiator.com
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Mean Green goes international in its recruiting TYLER OWENS Staff Writer
Head tennis coach Sujay Lama remains adamant that UNT has done its best to recruit some of the top tennis players in the world. With the way the season has started out for the team, it’s hard not to believe him. “We just want the best student athletes possible,” Lama said. “We aren’t going to lower our expectations because we have to have American kids.” All eight members of this season’s tennis team were born outside of the United States. “Our No. 8 [ranked player on the team] this fall was beating 5-star American recruits in tournaments,” Lama said. Five-star players are the second best ranked tier of players in the world. “We have players that have played in Grand Slams, like the Australian Open, amid our team,” he continued. Lama, originally from Nepal, added that the coaching staff is not afraid to travel abroad to pursue foreign players. “I play it just like any other recruit. Tennis is a global game and we are trying build a program that is Top 25,” he said.
“The recruiting process is pretty much the same as recruiting American [players], it’s just a little bit more complicated, and there is a little bit more patience needed.” The players do not see much difference in playing internationally either. “It is the same,” junior Barbora Vykydalova said when asked how the game differed in her home country of the Czech Republic. “I was excited to come to the U.S. to see the different lifestyle and different people. I think tennis is the same everywhere.” Sen ior Pau la Di nuta sha red Vykydalova’s sentiment that the game is basically the same overseas. “We play on a different surface, the game is a little bit slower, but overall it is the same,” Dinuta said. “It’s just that here we play on hard courts and there we play on clay.” The team beat its highest ranked opponent Saturday when it beat No. 53 Kansas State, 4-3. The Mean Green (3-3) plays No. 44 TCU on Thursday. “Hopefully, in the near future with the performance we have on the court, everyone will see this as a great tennis school,” Lama said.
Far away from home
IRINA PARASCHIV Bucharest, Romania
VALENTINA STARKOVA Almaty, Kazakhstan
ILONA SERCHENKO Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine
BARBORA VYKYDALOVA Sumperk, Czech Republic
PAULA DINUTA Pitesti, Romania
PHOTO BY SAVANNA BRAGGS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
KSENIYA BARDABUSH Lutsk, Ukraine
NADIA LEE Almeria, Spain
FRANZISKA SPRINKMEYER Nordhorn, Germany
The tennis team consists of players from six European countries and Kazakhstan. The team is 3-3 this season and will play TCU on Thursday in Fort Worth.
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UNT falters in first spring tournament Wednesday match pushed back a day Women’s Golf
RYNE GANNOE Intern
In it s f i rst tou r na ment si nce October, t he Mea n Green women’s gol f tea m fa i led to beat a ny of t he e i g h t n a t i o n a l l y-r a n k e d teams at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational. The team shot a combined 68-over-pa r, as t he Mea n Green finished tenth out of 14 teams in the three-day tournament. After two rounds, the Mean Green were in ninth place, slightly ahead of the No. 34 San Diego State Aztecs. The Aztecs finished the tournament five strokes ahead of the Mean Green in ninth place. The third round started as a battle between the Mean Gre en, le d by f re sh m a n McKenzie Ralston, and the Aztecs, led by junior Christine Wong, for ninth. Si x holes into t he t hird round, the Mean Green relinquished control of ninth place and never regained it. Senior Jacey Chun, who went into the tournament as the No. 47 player in the nation, struggled the entire tournament, posting her worst score of the season at 22-over-par. Senior Addison Long (+16) st r uggled in t he f irst t wo
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Senior Addison Long works on her short game at Oakmont Country Club to prepare for the Sunbelt Conference tournament in April of last year. The club finished in tenth place at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational in Tucson on Tuesday, shooting 31-over-par. rounds, but recovered to play her best round of golf, at fourover-pa r. She a nd Ra lston finished the highest on the
leaderboa rd for t he Mea n Green, with the two finishing tied for 36th place. Senior Kelsey K ipp, t he
highest-ranked UNT golfer of the first two days at 24th, struggled in the third round, shooting a 20-over-par, which dropped her to 62nd, lower t han a ll four of her teammates. Kipp finished the tournament at 27-over-par. The wind may have been a bigger factor than the teams a nt icipated, a s on ly t wo teams, the host Wildcats and UCLA, finished the tournament under-par at 13-under and one-under, respectively. A r i z ona’s home cou r se advantage was clear, as the Wildcats dominated everyone, including UCLA, the nation’s top-ranked team, to win the tournament by more t han 10 st r oke s. A f ter UC L A , A rizona’s closest competition was Arizona State, which finished 33 strokes behind the Wildcats. Arizona Wildcat freshman sensation Manon Gidali solidified her team’s dominance, shooting 12-under-par for the tournament, the best in the field. Con ference opponent Denver f in ished si x t h, 18 strokes ahead of UNT. Head women’s golf coach Jeff Mitchell and the team were not available for comment after the tournament. T he Mea n Green’s nex t tournament is Feb. 20, at the UNLV Rebel tournament.
Tennis Brief BOBBY LEWIS Sports Editor
The UNT tennis team’s match with TCU has been pushed back a day because of an expected temperature drop Wednesday in Fort Worth. The match, which was originally scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, has been pushed back to the same time on Thursday. The teams are
still set to play outdoors on TCU’s campus on the Bartzen Varsity Courts. According to the National Weather Service, the high temperature in Fort Worth is in the lower 50s Wednesday, while it is in the mid-50s Thursday. In its last matches, the Mean Green (3-3) fell to No. 32 Arkansas, before beating No. 53 Kansas State, 4-3. It was the third time in school history the team has beaten a nationally-ranked opponent.
Mean Green Trivia With the help of first-year head coach Karen Aston, the UNT women’s basketball team has completely bounced back from last year’s 5-25 campaign with a 13-10 start to the 2011-2012 season. In terms of wins, UNT currently has the second biggest turnaround from last year to this season in the NCAA. Which team ranks ahead of the Mean Green with the largest turnaround from last season in Division I women’s college basketball? Hint: The team’s mascot is the Matadors. For the latest updates on UNT athletics and more Mean Green Trivia, follow the North Texas Daily Sports Twitter, @NTDailySports!
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What are your thoughts on gas drilling in Denton?
“I’m so against it. Did you know that these drilling companies use 500 unknown chemicals that are directly put into the Earth, then they are topped off with purified water that all just ends up going into the Earth, basically polluting the Earth from the core out, and this is for a good cause? If you really want to know more, watch the movie “Gas Land.”
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“I guess I’m against it really because I don’t like so much crazy activity around Denton.”
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“Personally against it. It shouldn’t be so close to the communities, it should be close to nothing in general so if it is harmful in some way, then the drilling and chemicals would be a good distance away from the Denton citizens.”
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NT Daily Edboard: Nods and Shakes Shake: Uplift Education If you’ve ever been to the Deep Ellum neighborhood in Dallas, it was probably for a night of music and drinking. The neighborhood, cha racterized by its ding y dive bars and exuberant nightlife, is the last place you would expect to see a school. However, that could soon change. Upl i f t E duc at ion pl a n s on opening a charter school for an estimated 960 students in a vacant building on the 2600 block of Elm Street, directly across from many of Deep Ellum’s bars. “I don’t see how it’s a good environment for them,” Anvil Bar owner Josh Bridges said. Bridges, along with almost 30 other bar owners, met to address the potentia l issue last Monday
night. They referred to the school at the meeting as a “game-changer.” A long w it h concer ns for t he student’s environment, owners of the bars also worry that the school could have a serious impact on business. According to city codes, no bar may open within 300 feet of a school. Bars already in existence would be grandfathered in, but if a new bar wanted to fill in for a bar that closed, that wouldn’t be allowed under the codes. If the school goes in, that could mean t he beginning of t he end of one of Dallas’ most important economic and cultural establishments. It ’s not of ten t hat bu i ld i ng schools could be rega rded as a bad idea, but the location of Uplift Education’s proposed charter earns it a shake.
Nod: UNT Sustainability Council A nod t his week for t he UNT Sustainability Council, which will be meeting Friday to discuss the possibility of UNT moving “beyond coal.” The meeting will take place in room 320A of the Environmental Science Building at 10:00 a.m., and students are welcome. T he pr i ma r y focus of t he meeting will be the UNT Fossil Fuel Feasibilit y Study, completed by UNT’s Office of Sustainability. The FFS assesses UNT’s energ y needs and prov ides some a lternative solutions to fossil fuels, as well as options for UNT’s transit ion away f rom non-renewable energ y. President V. Lane Rawlins will be in attendance, demonstrating
yet another example of how UNT ad m i n i st r at ion i s i nve ste d i n mov i ng away f rom fossi l f uels and fully embracing alternative sources of energ y. Rawlins met w it h t he student g roup Beyond C oa l at t he be g i n n i ng of t he semester to discuss similar issues, showing the president’s commitment to this particular cause. UNT has made strides in renewable energ y over t he pa st yea r and a half, with three buildings on t he Denton campus earning L EED cer t i f icat ion du r i ng t hat t i me : t he Busi ness L eadersh ip Building, Life Sciences Building and Apogee Stadium. Hopefully the study, conducted by the Office of Su st a i nabi l it y, w i l l f u r t her encourage UNT to invest in alternative energy and move our school away from the use of fossil fuels.
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Santorum’s failed culture war I hate to break it to you, Mr. Santorum, but the LGBT community has never been, nor will it ever be, a threat to your idealized vision of the American family. The fact that Santorum is a serious contender for president scares me on a level that I’m not comfortable with. Rick Santorum, during his tenure as a representative of Pennsylvania, has said things publicly that are without a doubt wholly prejudiced against the gay community, and the fact that no one has stood up to him is absurd. He has said on more than one occasion that homosexuality is a threat to the American people, but it’s never explained. These are the same remarks and arguments that 40 years ago would have been used against interracial couples. He continues to get away with this because he claims to use his Christian faith as a model of righteous living. Now, as a Christian, I have no problems with molding your life after the teachings of Christ. What I do have a problem with is a senator twisting the word of God to justify his homophobia. But it’s not just gay rights that he’s attacking: it’s small government as well. He claims to be a small government conservative, but I’ve yet to see a good example. In June 2011, Santorum said he would continue to “fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.” In an NPR interview in the summer of 2005, Santorum discussed what he called the “libertarianish right,” saying “they have this
idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do. Government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulation low and that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues, you know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world, and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone...” He wants to be the opposite of a Libertarian, which is to say socially conservative and fiscally liberal. I don’t think there’s even a name for something as ridiculous as that. As long as Rick Santorum continues to push his message of hate, and as long as people continue to listen to it, nothing will change. We cannot afford, both socially and fiscally, to elect someone like Rick Santorum.
Nicholas LaGrassa is an emergency administration and planning senior. He can be reached at NicholasLaGrassa@ my.unt.edu.
Students need cheaper health care Last week I turned 23 years old, and all I could think about was the line in that one Blink-182 song, “Nobody likes you when you’re 23.” W hether or not that’s true (I hope it’s not), I then realized that in three years, I would no longer be covered by my mom’s health insurance plan. I don’t know all the details about the new health care legislation that President Obama signed into law in 2010 (I certainly haven’t read the 900-plus-page bill), but what I do know is that thanks to “Obamacare,” I can still afford to see a doctor when I get sick. Not only can I afford the actual visit with the doctor, but I can also afford the prescription medications that the doctor prescribes. This is unfortunately not the case for many. I know a student who, without the UNT Health and Wellness Center’s services (free to current students), would simply not be able to go to the doctor if she got sick. Her parents do not have health insurance, so she doesn’t benefit at all from the new health care legislation. She is a full-time student and she works two part-time jobs to get by, but one serious illness could force her to quit school and become indebted to the for-profit health care system for the rest of her life. Last time she got sick, the doctor she visited suspected that she had strep throat. Since the actual strep test costs about $30 without insurance, the doctor just prescribed the antibiotic that is used to fight strep
throat without performing the test. As it turns out, she did not have strep throat, and the medication – which cost her almost $100 – did nothing. She ended up having to go back to the doctor to get the correct diagnosis, a sinus infection that resulted in two additional prescriptions, costing about $100 each. Last time I got a sinus infection, I went to my doctor and, because I have insurance, I got an X-ray of my sinuses, a blood test to determine everything that I am allergic to and a steroid shot to alleviate the inflammation, and this all cost me $30. Oh, and the antibiotics that the doctor prescribed cost less than $5 to fill. Health insurance shouldn’t be a luxury, and I sincerely hope that in the very near future, things will change – hopefully before my 26th birthday.
Kyle Cage is a library science graduate student. He can be reached at kyle.cage@gmail.com.
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Sports
Page 8 Bobby Lewis, Sports Editor
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 blew7@hotmail.com
Sheffield brings championship mentality to UNT Profile JOSH FRIEMEL Intern
At the Michael Johnson Performance Center, a program to help track athletes gain a competitive edge, top-tier runners with raw talent from around the world were assigned a linear speed coach. Carl Sheffield’s job while at the program in 2007 was simple: mold the athlete into a star while maximizing their potential. Under his tutelage, kids from the United States, Australia, China and Great Britain all got faster. But something lingered in the back of his mind. “It’s track season,” he said. Before becoming the UNT track and field coach four years later, Sheffield didn’t know if he’d ever return to coaching track. He even tried to incorpo-
rate track events into his linear speed coaching. “I just kept trying to make that track and field, but without the track it was kind of hard,” he said. Sheffield’s love of coaching track can be traced back to his time as an athlete at UT-Arlington. Without a hurdle-specific coach, he had to learn everything he knew from a relay coach. His work ethic stems from what he calls his “most defining point of my coaching career.” After leaving UTA, Sheffield made his way down to the bayou to Louisiana State University in 1988 and became a volunteer coach for the track and field team. “I spent 12-14 hour days either on the track, watching film or in the offices of the coaches that were there,” he said. “That laid the groundwork for my coaching philosophy.” The coach that was there when
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Sheffield arrived was dismissed from the team that spring, so Sheffield and one other assistant took over the women’s team. Sheffield said he was trying to “right the ship” while he was there. He did that and more, as LSU dominated the track world, winning 11 consecutive NCAA indoor and outdoor titles. “It was national championship fever there for a while,” Sheffield said. He came back to Dallas after his tenure at LSU and created his own elite track team while teaming up with Nike. The teams were made of recent college graduates that wanted a place to train. The Nike Texas team competed at events in the Caribbean, Germany, Switzerland and France while boasting several Olympic-caliber athletes. Under his guidance, Ron Clark was a U.S. National Champion in the 200-meter. Sheffield became an assistant coach at UNT in 1994, specifically coaching sprints and hurdles, while still working with the Nike team. In 2007, he began working at the Michael Johnson Performance Center. Sheffield returned to UNT in late August of 2011 as the track and field team’s head coach. UNT Athletic Director Rick Villarreal admitted letting longtime coach Rick Watkins go was PHOTO BY JORDAN FOSTER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER difficult, but the reports coming out of the performance center First-year head track and field coach Carl Sheffield walks on the field before practice. Sheffield took the job in August. made Sheffield a desirable hire. “It’s totally different now. I may need some time to regroup He also said he thought Sheffield’s the track, but in the classroom love coaching,” Sheffield said. and build the program back up. time away from track “made him as well.” “I come in and work on As head coach, Sheffield has “[Watkins] was the one in here come in invigorated.” The UNT Office of Disability Accommodation announces walk-in “[Sheffield’s] strengths are to be able to balance the admin- doing the interview while I got training,” Sheffield said. “I go hours for Fall 2011. Drop by with any questions, Monday - Friday outside and I work on training. I to play outside.” istrative work and his love for first organization and No communicafrom 2-3 pm. appointment necessary. First come, serve. come back at night and prepare Villarreal said Sheffield’s situcoaching, which is more than he tion, which is extremely impor- Office of Disability Accommodation University Union, Suite to worry about as321 an assistant ation is a lot like head football training for the next day. That’s tant,” Villarreal said. “He’s strong had (940) 565-4323 www.unt.edu/oda coach Dan McCarney’s, in that he all.” Sheffield said. in accountability, not only on coach, University of North Texas
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