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Drilling may have caused earthquakes Geophysicist says tremors could be natural, but the link shouldn’t be ruled out. BY JASON JOYCE Contributor to The Shorthorn
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ors reminded her of an e-mail sent by Don Young, with the Fort Worth Citizens Against the Neighborhood Drilling Ordinance. It lists the book, “Texas Earthquakes,” which suggests that oil and natural gas exploitation could trigger earthquakes. “I’m not suggesting there is a serious risk from earthquakes in Tarrant County,” QUAKE continues on page 3
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Special Collections — Revisualizing Westward Expansion: Mondays 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Central Library sixth floor. Free. For information, contact 817-272-3393 or spcoref@uta.edu.
Art Exhibition — “Steve Brudniak and Cameron Schoepp”: 10a.m.-5 p.m., The Gallery at UTA. Free. For information, contact Patricia Healy at 817-272-5658 or phealy@uta.edu. Walk-In Resume Critiques: noon-1 p.m., Central Library second floor. Have your resume critiqued by a Career Services
Tuesday November 4, 2008
staff member. Free. For information, contact Career Services at 817-272-2932 or careers@ uta.edu. UTA Volunteers Meeting: 2:15-3:15 p.m., University Center Student Congress Chambers. For information, contact Allison Bailey at 817-272-2963 or allison.bailey@ uta.edu.
WEDNESDAY Student Alumni T-shirt Day: All day, UT-Arlington campus. For information, contact Tega Edwin at 817272-2594 or saa@ uta.edu.
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McNair Scholars Program Application Deadline: All day, 122 Hammond Hall. Letters of recommendation must be submitted by Nov. 12. For information, contact Joan Reinhardt at 817-272-3715 or Joan. reinhardt@uta,edu.
Living with Loss: noon, UC San
Real Followers: 8 p.m., 311 UTA Blvd. For information, contact the Wesley Foundation at 817-274-6282 or http:// wesley.uta. edu.
272-2932 or careers@uta.edu.
Jacinto Room. Free. For information, contact Lindsey Zaleski at 817-272-6107 or studentsuccess@uta.edu.
Black History Month Committee: noon-1 p.m., UC Pecos Room. For information, contact 817-272-2099 or multicultural_affairs@uta.edu. Walk-In Resume Critiques: noon-1 p.m., Science and Engineering Library. Free. For information, contact Career Services at 817-
Honors College Council General Body Meeting: noon-1 p.m., 106 College Hall. Free. For information, contact Cathy Pritchett at 817-272-7215 or hcc@ uta.edu. From Campus to Environmental Career: 2:30 p.m., 114 Chemistry Research Building. Free. For information, contact Rita Anderson at 817-272-2129 or rand@uta.edu. Recent Work: 4 p.m., 204 Architecture Building. Free. For information, call Robert RummelHudson at 817-272-2314. Calendar submissions must be made by 4 p.m. two days prior to run date. To enter your event, call 817-272-3661 or log on to www.theshorthorn.com/calendar
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QUOTEWORTHY
“Do not let anybody deter or prevent you from casting a ballot ... no matter what, do not leave the polling place without voting.” Bobby Campbell, SAFE’s Policy and Programs director, on students needing to vote despite potential problems. See Page 1
THREE-DAY FORECAST
Today Partly sunny • High 81°F • Low 64°F
Wednesday Windy • High 84°F • Low 57°F
Thursday Sunny • High 72°F • Low 45°F — National Weather Service at www.weather.gov
POLICE REPORT This is a part of the daily activity log produced by the university’s Police Department. To report a criminal incident on campus, call 817-272-3381.
A student reported being verbally assaulted by another student about a parking space Thursday at Lot 47. A student reported his bicycle stolen Thursday by the Fine Arts Building west side. A minor accident between two nonstudents occurred Friday at 300 S. Davis St. Two nonstudents were arrested for public intoxication Saturday at 200 Hancock St. A nonstudent loitering Sunday outside 7-Eleven was issued a Criminal Trespass Warning. A student reported an unknown person had intentionally damaged his car cover Sunday at 701 W. Mitchell St.
A Journey Back in Time UTA alumnus speaks about his life as a Cambodian refugee and his experience after moving to the U.S. BY ANNA KATZKOVA The Shorthorn staff
In a quiet Arlington neighborhood, in a two-bedroom house with a small green yard, sits a man watching football on a big-screen TV. Saroeurn “Sunny” Soeun’s home does not reveal anything about his Cambodian refugee background, but the scars left from sickness, his escape and his 20-year maturing path, do. He shares those memories in his book Scars of a Lifetime, which he will discuss at noon Wednesday in the University Center Rio Grande Ballroom. Soeun, who earned a history degree at UTA, originally wrote his story to share with his daughters, 4-year-old Jocelyn and 2-year-old Madelyn. When his wife, Marissa, was pregnant with Madelyn, he spent nights he couldn’t sleep writing. “I wrote it but not to be a book,” he said. “I’m one of those guys who thinks the worst is always going to happen, and if I die, my kids won’t know who I was and what I went through.” Soeun’s wife urged him to publish the book. “He was very scared,” she said. “He did not want to publish it. It was something to do, a new accomplishment.” Born in Oddar Meancheay, a Cambodian province, Soeun lived through the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The party eliminated free markets, enslaved people, enforced free labor and executed more than 1.5 million people. As a child, Soeun got sick often, once being near death, but traditional medicine and God’s grace saved him, he said. “When I was growing up, they really withheld a lot of medication,” he said. “In our culture, we have a lot of remedies — alternative medication — and they had to burn me.” He sustained more than 30 scars
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Alumnus Saroeurn “Sunny” Soeun talks about his life as a Cambodian living in Texas. Soeun will speak as part of Asian Heritage Month on Wednesday at the University Center Rio Grande Ballroom.
from the burn. Later, a missionary doctor brought his aunt’s family to America. There, his aunt asked the doctor to help Soeun’s family. So after a frightful escape through the Cambodian jungle, his family made it to Thailand, and later America. Soeun’s family arrived in Texas in 1981 and settled in an Abilene duplex. After 15 years, Soeun attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he met his wife and discovered his love for helping abused adolescents. Now Soeun teaches world geography and economics at Nimitz High School in Irving. “One of the biggest joys in the world is that I get to mold young men or women and really inspire them,” he said. “It’s a lower socioeconomic school, and I can relate to that.” Soeun teaches about diversity and interaction and helps his students explore their potential. He advises
them about their goals and problems. “You can’t use that as an excuse to not try anything, to not have a goal and not be successful,” he said. Seoun has left an impression on his students and his friends. His college roommate Bruce Buchannan said he was always impressed with Seoun’s internal strength and experience. “I’ve known him for several years, but there’s always something new,” he said. “He seems like somebody that’s going to accomplish anything.” Seoun said he wants to visit Cambodia after the country becomes safer and his girls grow up. “As Cambodia is part of my culture, America is also,“ he said. “It has given me the opportunity to live and to raise a family.” ANNA KATZKOVA news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
Michael Jin, materials science and engineering assistant professor, will host a lecture, “Shedding Light on Thin-Film Solar Cell Technology,” at 7 a.m. Wednesday at 601 Nedderman Hall. Jin will provide an overview of thin-film solar cell technologies and current activities at the university. Thin-film technology is a semi-conducting device, like a solar panel, that converts sunlight and electricity. The event is free to Arlington Technology Association members, university students and first-time guests, but everyone else must pay $5. Jin said students should come because they should know about solar energy if they care about energy, and because this will be a big part of their lives in 10 to 12 years. Jin has received awards like the Outstanding Paper Award at the 6th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference and 2005 NASA Tech Award. The event is sponsored by The College of Engineering and the Arlington Technology Association. Everyone is welcome and a light breakfast will be provided. — Bryan Bastible
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Interstate 4 entrance ramp signs sit on State Road 599 in Polk City, Fla., on Oct. 21. In this battleground state, no region is considered a greater bellwether of who will win Florida than Tampa Bay and the counties that stretch up through Orlando and into Daytona Beach along Interstate 4.
WASHINGTON — It’s a nightmare scenario for Democrats — their nominee Barack Obama winning the popular vote while Republican John McCain ekes out an Electoral College victory. Sure, McCain trails in every recent national poll. Sure, surveys show that Obama leads in the race to reach the requisite 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Sure, chances of Republicans retaining the White House are remote. But some last-minute state polls show the GOP nominee closing the gap in key states — Republican turf of Virginia, Florida and Ohio among them,
and Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania, too. If the tightening polls are correct and undecided voters in those states break McCain’s way — both big ifs — that could make for a repeat of the 2000 heartbreaker for Democrats that gave Republicans the White House. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore narrowly won the popular vote by 537,179 votes. But George W. Bush won the state-by-state electoral balloting that determines the presidency, 271 to 266. The outcome wasn’t clear until a 36-day recount awarded Florida, then worth 25 electoral votes, to Bush by just a 537-vote margin. Before the 2000 election, po-
litical insiders had speculated just the opposite, that perhaps Bush would win the popular vote but lose the presidency to Gore. One day before the 2008 election, Obama sat atop every national poll. Enthusiastic by all measures, the Illinois senator’s Democratic base was expected to run up the score in liberal bastions of party strongholds such as New York and California. But the race appeared to be naturally tightening in top battlegrounds that each candidate likely will need to help them reach the magic number in the Electoral College, electoral-rich Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia among them.
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amounts of fluid or gas from the ground and constructing reservoirs and lakes. “In the last 100 years, there have been about 150 earthquakes,” he said. “Of these, there are 12 that are certainly related to oil and gas wells and another 20 to 30 that arguably are related.” Presgrave said the North Texas area appears to sit on two fault systems, and natural tremors are possible. “We’ve had little swarms like this in areas in Colorado where there were not any oil and gas exploitation,” he said. Frohlic said that whether or not the recent earthquakes were triggered by human activity is complicated by how widespread oil and gas exploitation has become. “If you stick a pin in a map at random and say ‘where’s the nearest well,’ it’s not hard to find one within 10 kilometers,” he said. “At the same time, there’s an awful lot of oil and gas wells in areas where there are no earthquakes.”
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tion at least once while in college. Student Affairs vice president Frank lamas helped create the position last year after various Student Affairs divisions and departments thought the program would benefit the campus. Moran filled the vacancy after previous coordinator lisa Andrews moved to California in May for personal reasons. Students seeking help with relationship violence were directed to campus counseling while administrators searched for a replacement. Campus Recreation director Doug Kuykendall, who led the candidate search, said Moran is a good fit and will build on the strong foundation started by Andrews. “She’s very energetic, she’s excited. We’re excited for her too,” he said. He said Moran will develop guidelines and procedures dealing with sexual assault and relationship violence. She will also implement an on-call system, giving students access to staff after normal business hours. Moran was excited to see the administrative support and wants that support to spill over to the student population. “I see the program as being very beneficial to the campus,” she said. “I want to encourage student support by getting students invested in what we’re about.” Moran earned a bachelor’s in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston University in Huntsville, has a master’s in counseling from Midwestern State University and is pursuing her doctorate at Texas Women’s University. Before accepting the coordinator position, Moran was a forensics interviewer and worked with children who were sexually assaulted or witnessed family violence crimes.
are being fixed by education. She said the machines are rigorously tested for accuracy and shouldn’t have any problems returning accurate numbers. “We even test the paper ballots,” she said. If voters are uneasy about the machines, they can use paper ballots, she said. Considering record turnouts this year, the problems have been few and far between, said Randall Dillard, Secretary of State’s office spokesperson. The office projects nine million voters, combining early voting with anticipated Tuesday turnouts, surpassing the previous record of 7.4 million in 2004, he said. He doesn’t expect any problems on Tuesday, but nothing’s perfect. “We’ve been working diligently for months with election officials,” he said. Political science profes-
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candidate winning a good margin and then by vote that way to fit in and say they voted for the winning candidate,” he said. “On the other hand, it could provide some with a false sense of security causing them not to vote.” Mechanical engineering junior Chris Johns said polls won’t have a major effect on today’s vote. “I guess some people that see Obama winning might lean toward that, but I think people have their mind made up,” he said. Ignagni explained that polls do not necessarily depend on accuracy but on the source. He said that two types of polls exist — scientific and nonscientific. In the first, everyone has the same polling chance, and in the second
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said. “I was really intrigued by his work, I did a lot of research as I was making my decision to participate.” Wells said $1.2 million has been raised from people purchasing kits to have their own DNA analyzed. The money goes into a legacy fund for indigenous people around the world to preserve their culture. “Turns out we’re going through a period of cultural mass extinction,” he said.
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“When you lose a language and a culture, you lose some aspect of what it means to be human and all the knowledge they’ve accumulated.” Radiology freshman Edgar Garcia said he’s fascinated by Wells’ work and wanted to experience it first hand Monday. “I just wanted a chance to meet him in person,” he said. “I just think it’s interesting to know and get a chance to break that boundary of the whole origin of where we came from.” sarah Lutz news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
“Turns out we’re going through a period of cultural mass extinction. When you lose a language and a culture, you lose some aspect of what it means to be human and all the knowledge they’ve accumulated.” spencer Wells,
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they ask viewers, listeners or readers to call in and vote. “Non-scientific polls — I’m not going to trust at all,” he said. “They’re worthless.” He said the difference in scientific and nonscientific polls comes from the election being so close. “Pollsters are trying to ask people who are likely to vote, and there is a tremendous number of people going to vote for the first time,” he said. Ignagni said pollsters don’t know if they can trust new voters to actually vote. Also, new voters predominantly choose Obama, and the results vary because some polling agencies include new-voter polls and some don’t. “It is a big dilemma for a pollster,” Ignagni said. “In general, it can appear that Obama is winning, but we won’t know until they show up to vote.” Johns believes the polls are
pretty accurate since they lean toward Obama. “I just think a lot of people have come out and voted who haven’t in the past because they all want Obama,” he said. Business management sophomore Roberto Maddox said people shouldn’t make fast conclusions and view the polls as completely accurate. “People are naturally biased and that is where you have to look at the polls from different angles,” he said. Smith doesn’t trust the polls. “I never believe the polls are 100 percent accurate because nothing is perfect, and everything has some type of glitch,” Smith said. “Not only are there already glitches, but there are also unfair people who will sway things to go their way.” anna KatzKova news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Young wrote in the e-mail. “There are far more serious risks from drilling, but expanded gas drilling and injection wells in the North Texas region have moved us into uncharted territory.” Scientists aren’t sure if there will be more local earthquakes, if they will intensify or even if they are related to drilling, said Bruce Presgrave, a U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center geophysicist. “It would be irresponsible to immediately rule out the possibility that they’re linked to natural gas exploration,” he said. “At the same time, we don’t have any direct evidence that they are linked.” Cliff Frohlich, “Texas Earthquakes” author and UTAustin Institute for Geophysics associate director, said three things can trigger seismic activity: injecting high pressure fluids into rock formations beneath the earth’s surface, withdrawing large
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Gay is not OK, mmkay? One TV network is sending us mixed signals. While ABC has pretty much been deemed the gayest broadcast network today thanks to its several gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered characters in primetime series, Entertainment Weekly reports that Brooke Smith, who plays Dr. Erica Hahn on “Grey’s Anatomy,” has been abruptly fired from the hit show. Hahn and Dr. Callie Torres, played by Sara Ramirez, began a lesbian relationship — or something like it — at the end of last season, and it’s been moving along slowly. Smith told EW she was shocked to be let go after writers told her she was doing great work, particularly last week’s “I’m so gay” monologue. Smith added that she felt the move wasn’t made by the show’s staff. “It seemed like some decision came down from above,” she said. ABC didn’t comment, but an anonymous “Grey’s” source told EW.com that network executives “had issues” with the couple’s explicitness but more so Smith’s character in general.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks in Charlotte, N.C. on Monday night.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain speaks in Indianapolis on Monday.
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Must vote then see TV The Maverick Activities Center is sometimes light on non fitnessrelated activities, but tonight there will be commotion away from the exercise equipment. The university’s NAACP chapter hosts an election night watch party at the MAC from 6 p.m. to midnight in the upper level recreation area. There will be food, drinks and games to tide people over as the election results come in, and the group said it doesn’t matter which candidate you’re supporting. We suggest, no, demand, that the TVs be tuned to the dapper Anderson Cooper (above) on CNN.
Free Starbucks Do we really have to say anything else? Starbucks will give free cups of coffee to customers today, and all you have to say is that you voted. Just to be sure, we checked with the on-campus location, and manager Sheena Jackson said they are participating in the promotion. But non coffee lovers be warned, they won’t be substituting anything for the free java. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Jackson said. Boo.
Le Sigh of the Week DeAnna Pappas of “The Bachelorette” has asked for her final rose back. Pappas broke up with her fiancé Jesse Csincsak last week, and he relayed the news to the public via YouTube. Le sigh — more because of YouTube’s involvement than anything else. One, it’s not that shocking to hear of another doomed showmance. Second, Pappas should’ve chosen Dallas’ Jeremy Anderson. Duh. And FYI to those who don’t believe in any of this: The first “Bachelorette” couple Trista and Ryan Sutter remain married. So there. — Anthony Williams
John McCain bears some resemblance to ‘The Gipper’
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ohn F. Kennedy’s name is on lots of things. There’s JFK International Airport in New York City and the JFK Library and Museum in Boston. And it seems like every other middle school in the U.S. is named for him. Lately some voters are trying to put JFK’s name on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. His attitude and policies have been compared to those of the former president in publications everywhere — online and print magazines and political Web sites or blogs. For political science professor Tom Marshall, the similarities aren’t that strong. Marshall sees similarities in their ages — Obama is 45 and Kennedy was 40 during his campaign — but Obama doesn’t have a résumé anywhere close to Kennedy’s. President Kennedy was a naval war hero from a prominent family who wrote several historical books after receiving his bachelor’s from Harvard. Plus, he served in Congress for seven years before becoming the first Catholic president in American history. In contrast, Obama has four years in Congress under his belt. He has not served in the military but has written four books — all biographies. He doesn’t come from a prominent family. If elected next month, he will be the first black president. “If you think of the president as a manager of a large bureaucracy, or the head diplomat or the commander in chief, then Sen. Obama doesn’t score very highly on any of that,” Marshall said. “Even compared to recent governors, like [Bill] Clinton or George W. Bush, he would come across with a slight résumé.” From a historical standpoint, the similarities may be closer. History professor Jerome Rodnitzky said he believes Kennedy gave the first signal for change. He said Kennedy was exceedingly charismatic and that trait hasn’t been matched yet. “Obama comes close, but Ronald Reagan was probably the closest,” Rodnitzky said. “But you’ll have to wait to see if it’ll show up in Obama.” Rodnitzky, who specializes in 20th century social and cultural history, said the presidents who came before Kennedy — Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman — weren’t the most successful, which made Kennedy seem better. The same could be said for Obama if he becomes president, he said. “If you have a good act to follow,
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you look better,” he said. “And Kennedy still looked good afterwards because the president behind him [Lyndon B. Johnson] wasn’t exactly the best, either.” Another quality Obama and Kennedy may have in common is their ability to relate to the common man. Rodnitzky finds Obama can connect well with the general public; Kennedy could too. “When people don’t understand what you’re saying, it’s like you’re talking down to them,” he said. “Obama tries to speak with the masses, and Kennedy could connect better with them because he was a war hero.” During the 1960s, Rodnitzky said nearly everyone knew someone in the war. He said if Kennedy had lacked that connection, he probably would have lost the election to Richard Nixon. Student Congress parliamentarian William Knisley, a political science graduate student, said similarities can be found, but it takes some digging. “John F. Kennedy is one of our best presidents,” he said. “But Democrats will always try to equate their president to JFK, just like Republicans use Ronald Reagan.” Similarities can only go so far. Rodnitzky said he believes the biggest difference between the two men is the voters. In the ’60s, voters viewed the world differently than they do today, he said. “It was, ‘Look at us, look at what we’ve done,’ ” he said. “Now it’s, ‘Look at what they’re [the government] doing.’ Sometimes we forget that the government is us. If they’re doing it, we’re doing it.” Jhericca Johnson
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ritics call Barack Obama a celebrity like it’s a bad thing. Let’s not forget that one of America’s most acclaimed presidents was an actual movie star. Ronald Reagan, the original celebrity-turned-president, electrified the ’80s conservative movement. His core values of homeland security, low taxes and a balanced federal budget influence the Republican party platform to this day, and some voters sense shades of the Reagan Revolution in John McCain. How does McCain compare to the most respected Republican president of the post-modern era? It turns out both men have a bit of a maverick streak. Originally a registered Democrat, Reagan left the party in 1962. The politician’s famous parting shot: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic party left me.” And some Democrats left their party to vote for Reagan in 1980 and again in 1984. “Reagan Democrats” were moderate Democrats who were more conservative on issues like immigration and national security. They were usually white, working class Northerners. Both McCain’s and Reagan’s styles manage to transcend party lines, but Allan Saxe, political science associate professor, said Reagan’s appeal was much more direct than McCain’s in that respect. “Reagan was able to say to those moderate Democrats, ‘Your party is far too left. Come with me.’ And eventually they did,” he said. McCain’s campaign tends to push the fact that he’s voted against his party as one of his assets, another characteristic he shares with Reagan. “Both men walked out of step with their party at different times,” but not always for the same ideological reasons, history associate professor Stephanie Cole said. In terms of the party platform, Reagan stuck hard to his core values, but Cole said, “McCain is more eclectic and independent on issues. He’s not an ideologue, but he doesn’t adhere to all the Republican issues and he’s willing to be identified with issues outside his party, like stem cell research.” Sometimes they are even out of step with each other. During his freshman year as a house representative in 1983, McCain opposed and voted against Reagan’s deployment of Marines in Beirut for a peacekeeping
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The 40th President Ronald Reagan
mission. When interviewed, he told The New York Times that he “[did] not see any attainable objectives in Lebanon” and that “the longer we stay here, the harder it will be to leave.” Their personal lives share a lot of similarities as well. At 70, Reagan was the oldest American president when he assumed office in 1981. Should he be elected, that mantle will pass to 72-year-old McCain. Both adopted a child, and Reagan, who is to date the only president with a divorced wife, would also be joined in that regard with McCain. Cole remembered that then, as now, there was a lot of public scrutiny over the president’s age. “People talked a lot about how old [Reagan] was, and by his second term, I think that’s when a lot of people had some concerns for his health,” she said. In the first month of his presidency, would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan, the bullet narrowly missing his heart. “Some people didn’t think he was quite the same after the experience of getting shot,” Cole said. For computer science junior Rogers Green, the greatest similarity between “The Great Communicator” and the Maverick is their rhetoric. “John McCain calls them ‘my friends,’ Reagan said ‘my fellow Americans,’ ” he said. “They both really knew how to personalize a message.” emily aBerg
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BASELINE SportS talk “I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. by the time I get to the locker room, I’m done.” tom osbourne, current athletic director and former head football coach at university of nebraska
uta SportS calendar Today Women’s Basketball vs. Houston Jaguars (Exhibition) Time: 7 p.m. Place: Texas Hall Thursday Intramural table tennis tournament Time: Registration from 7 p.m. to 7:50 p.m., Play begins at 8 p.m. Place: Maverick Activities Center game lounge Cost: Free
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Conference Standings East Stephen F. Austin Central Arkansas Northwestern St. McNeese St. Nicholls St. Southeastern La.
SLC 8-3 6-4 5-7 4-7 4-8 3-9
Overall 17-6 17-7 10-12 8-15 7-15 9-14
West Texas St. Lamar UTSA Sam Houston St. UT-Arlington A&M-CC
SLC 11-1 9-2 8-3 6-5 2-10 1-10
Overall 18-12 11-9 16-9 11-16 6-20 3-18
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The number of games the Mavs sit behind the eighth and final playoff spot
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Blocks per game average of the team, which ranks third in the conference
Volleyball team splits weekend upper hand for good. the Mavericks made a late charge in the set, but fell short of evening up the set and match score. Aguilera fell one kill short of her By Stephen peterS eighth double-double of the year, The Shorthorn staff pacing the team with nine kills and Looking to stay in the playoff race, 14 digs on the night. Freshman libethe volleyball team split its weekend ro Alicia shaffer was the only other matches at texas Hall, beating the player to record double-digit kills McNeese state Cowgirls 3-1 Friday with 12. “today obviously wasn’t good,” night, but losing in a three-set sweep shaffer said. “We tried to stay in it to stephen F. Austin on saturday. Friday night saw the Mavericks but our fight level wasn’t where it (6-20, 2-10) out hit the Cowgirls should have been.” sFA freshman middle blocker .211 to .163 in the match, which included a fire alarm midway through Mary Caitlin Bottles dominated the net with 17 kills and one error for a the first set. .762 attack percentage on Freshman outside hitthe night. senior outside ter Amanda Aguilera and hitter Lauren railey also junior outside hitter teena Box Score had a big game for the sobczak led the team ofSFA 25 25 25 ’Jacks with 15 kills and no fensively with 19 and 12 UTA 13 23 19 errors for a .405 percentkills, respectively. age. In the second weekend Kills — SFA: 52 Head coach Diane seymatch, the team could not UTA: 29 mour said they expected stop the powerful LadyDigs — SFA: 50 to go 1-1 on the weekend jacks, losing in a threeUTA: 46 but would have preferred set sweep 13-25, 23-25, Assists — SFA: 49 to win both games, since 19-25. UTA: 28 they were at home. stephen F. Austin (17Blocks — SFA: 9 “We’re a little disap6, 8-3) scored 23 more UTA: 6 pointed,” she said. “I think kills than the Mavericks we could’ve beaten stephen throughout the match on F. It would have been good to get the way to the victory. Freshman middle blocker Christy that win on the home court because Driscoll, who tied for second on the we don’t travel very well.” seymour added that preparing for team with six kills against the ’Jacks, said the team did not play as well as two different styles of play this weekend might have contributed to the it did on Friday. “I felt we worked a lot harder poor play against sFA. seymour said [Friday] night than we did [sat- McNeese was a “blue-collar” team urday],” Driscoll said. “If we had while stephen F. Austin played a worked harder, we would have beat- more fast-paced style. “the adjustment was obviously en them.” the Mavs had a lead at one point difficult for a young team, I think,” in each set, but could not find a way she said. the Mavericks have four matches to stop the Ladyjacks from retaking remaining on the schedule, with the the lead and winning the sets. Even with a 10-3 lead in the sec- final two away games this weekend ond set, the Mavs allowed the ’Jacks against sam Houston state on Frito go on a 13-5 run, giving them the day and Lamar on saturday.
The young team may have struggled with preparation for facing teams with different styles.
Conference leading blocks total of freshman middle blocker Christy Driscoll
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Conference leading blocks per game average for Driscoll
Sophomore setter Raegan Daniel sets the ball during the game against Stephen F. Austin Saturday at Texas Hall. The Mavericks lost to the Ladyjacks 3-0 and will play Sam Houston State at 7 p.m. Friday in Huntsville.
Driscoll said for the Mavericks to go into next weekend and win both games and keep its playoff hopes alive, they would need to keep the energy level up in both matches. “Now, we’re in a position where we have to win the rest of our games if we have a chance to get into the tournament,” she said. “I know no one else wants to end this season not making the tournament.” Stephen peterS
“We tried to stay in it but our fight level wasn’t where it should have been.” alicia Shaffer
freshman libero
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Mavericks finish conference in Nacogdoches The head coach thinks senior Idilio Campos has a chance in the NCAA Championships. By Ben hauSS
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the men’s and women’s cross country teams finished their conference championships yesterday in Nacogdoches, with senior Idilio Campos recording his fourth top-five finish this season. Both the men and the women fourth out of the 12. “the effort was awesome on both the men’s and women’s teams,” head coach John sauerhage said. “the men and women ran their guts out.” the men’s team finished with six
runners in the top 50, good for 130 points. texas A&M-Corpus Christi beat out the men by one point for third place. Campos led the men by finishing 5th with a time of 25 minutes, 23 seconds. “Idilio ran very well,” sauerhage said. “Judging by his performance today, he has a good shot at getting an at-large bid for the NCAA championships.” Behind Campos was senior ozie Hood’s 17th place finish with a time of 26 minutes, 14 seconds. “I think we’ll be fine going into regionals,” Campos said. “I think we’ll finish in the top 10.” Lamar’s men won the men’s championship with a team score of 29.
sauerhage said. “they all their closest competitor competed with a lot of heart.” was stephen F. Austin with the texas A&M Corpus 87 points. Christi women took first place the Maverick women on the women’s side with a placed five runners in the total team score of 49, with top 32 to give them a team stephen F. Austin finishing in score of 108. second place with a score of senior Caroline 61. Erlingson, who finished in the men’s and women’s 11th place with a time of 22 Idilio Campos, teams have less than two weeks minutes, 40 seconds, led senior cross to prepare for regionals. them. It was her best time country runner “We are going to go to of the season and also the regionals to have fun, and to second time in her college run a good race,” Mose said. career to finish in the top-15. the NCAA regional meet is Finishing right behind Erlingson was junior Christina Mose in 19th with saturday, Nov. 15, in Waco. a time of 23 minutes 15 seconds. “these girls have exceeded Ben hauSS expectations all season long,” sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Freshman Mindaugas Celedinas finished one win shy of his first career title as the men’s tennis team wrapped up their fall season on Sunday in Austin. Celedinas fell to Texas A&M’s David Pace in the finals 6-2, 6-3 after advancing to his first career final during the Texas Invitational. In the semifinals, Celedinas defeated the Aggies’ Colin Hoover in four sets (6-4, 2-6, 7-6, 7-6).
The final set went to six tiebreakers before Celedinas finished off the victory. Pace defeated Maverick freshman Jason Lateko in four sets (6-2, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6), winning the final set in three tie breakers, to advance to the finals. Sophomore Brieuc Hamon advanced to Saturday’s quarterfinals before dropping out in straight sets to Miguel R. Varlea of Texas. The event marked the end of the Mavs fall schedule. They return to the court on Jan. 23 with a home match against DePaul. — Justin Rains
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