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New vets project eases going to school Program offers counseling, financial aid help, money management and math tutoring, among other services. BY TEMICCA HUNTER The Shorthorn staff
More veterans will enroll in school this year thanks to the new Post 9/11 GI Bill, and the university is working to accommodate them, said Anita Perez, UTA’s Veterans Affairs benefits coordinator. The new GI Bill gives veterans who have served a minimum of 90 days after Sept. 11, 2001, money for university costs. The bill will pay for up to 36 months of tuition at a veteran’s chosen university. It also pays up to $1,000 dol-
lars a year for books. Social work assistant professor Alexa SmithOsborne said the new Student Veteran Project, which started this semester, provides additional, individualized services to veterans. It’s sponsored by and headquartered in the School of Social Work. “The University of Texas at Arlington has been proactive in enhancing its infrastructure and its welcoming environment to serve this group of non-traditional students,” she said in an e-mail. The project offers counseling in areas a veteran student might need help in, including adjusting to college life from a war-like environment, applying for benefits and financial aid, math or money management. The counseling comes
from licensed social workers and advanced student interns. Retired teachers and neurologists assist when needed. Also, specially-trained service animals will serve as a tool to help assist veterans with certain issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Social work graduate student Joel Chaverri served in Iraq from 2004 through 2005. He’s going to school with the help of the GI Bill. “I think it’s awesome. I think it’s a big step in the right direction,” he said. “It’s definitely an improvement over the last GI Bill.” He said it is much easier than the old bill because the school gets the money directly. “People are busy enough with work and school and other things,” he said. “Taking away that one step would take away some of the worry.”
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Eligible veterans also have the option of doing a federal work-study program. It allows students to work and pay a portion of their costs while attending classes. A veteran who wants a job under work study can only work at places related to veteran affairs, VETERANS continues on page 3
ROTC
Ceremony activates new Maverick cadets
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ROTC students salute the flags during the Activation of the Battalion on Thursday afternoon in the University Center mall. This was the first time the group was in uniform and standing in formation this semester.
Outdoor activities and a 15-meter combat swim were part of the day. BY NICOLE LUNA The Shorthorn staff
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Criminal justice junior Stevie Stauffer plunges into the pool blindfolded Thursday at the Physical Education Building. Stauffer dove with three companies, Alpha, Bravo and Charlie, during the 107th Maverick Battalion Activation where ROTC members gathered for their first formation and marched through the campus to the P.E. Building for their first training lab.
“This is the introduction to everything this first semester, then you’re on your own, full speed second semester.” Kevin Hust, German senior
The tradition continued for the Department of Military Science with an activation ceremony of the 107th Maverick Battalion on Thursday afternoon. Since becoming the Carlisle Military Academy in 1902, an activation ceremony took place on campus for the incoming battalion each year. The battalion consists of all the cadets in ROTC. The ceremony marks the start of a new training year. All in their uniforms, the cadets lined up and bowed their heads as Kelly Lee, Dallas Baptist University
Christian Studies sophomore, led the prayer. Lee said she expects the ceremony to show the history of the Maverick Battalion. Then the color guard uncased and presented the colors of the American, Texas and university flags. Jason Robinson, Cadet Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel , commands the battalion with the assistance of Luke Saavedra, Command Sergeant Major Cadet, according to the ROTC Web site. It was the first time everyone was in formation, together and in uniform, said German senior Kevin Hust. Then, the 107th Battalion flag was unveiled. It was the first time any of the 107TH continues on page 3
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The Planetarium — closed Maverick Activities Center 5-11 p.m. Group Exercise — no classes Pool — closed Climbing Wall — 6-9 p.m. Library Architecture & Fine Arts Library — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Central Library — regular hours Science and Engineering Library — 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Special Collections — 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The Plaza — only Pizza Hut and Subway 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. continued service Einstein’s Bros. Bagels— closed Mav Market — closed Connection Café — closed Starbucks — closed UTA Bookstore—closed
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THREE’S COMPANY Arlington residents Passion Solomon, left, and Robert Hingle spend a night surfing the Internet on Thursday with their 7-month-old boy, Kendale, in the Central Library. The family frequents the library computers to look for jobs.
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Art Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA: Tommy Fitzpatrick/Margo Sawyer: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 169 Fine Arts Bldg. Exhibitions dates are Sept. 4 - Oct. 10. Free. For information, contact Patricia Healy at 817-272-5658 or phealy@uta.edu. Progress and Trends in Wireless Convergence: 10:30-11:30 a.m., 413 Woolf Hall. Free. For information, contact Sajal Das at 817272-7405 or das@uta.edu. The Coming of Age of Ultra-strength Materials: 1:30-2:30 p.m., 105 Nedderman Hall. Free. For information, contact Debi Barton at 817-272-2561 or dbarton@uta.edu. “Stars at Night are Big and Bright”: 2-3 p.m., the Planetarium. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni, and $2 for UTA students. For information, contact the Planetarium at 817-272-1183 or planetarium@uta.edu. $2 Movie - Cars: 6-8:30 p.m., the Planetarium. Come see your favorite movies again on our really big screen. For information, contact the Planetarium at 817-272-1183 or planetarium@uta.edu. Environmental Society Kick-Off Meeting: 7-9 p.m., 101 College Hall. Icebreaker social. Open to all students. SATURDAY 20% chance of rain • High 89°F • Low 69°F Art Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA: Tommy Fitzpatrick/Margo Sawyer: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 169 Fine Arts Bldg. Exhibitions dates are Sept. 4 - Oct. 10. Free. For information, contact Patricia Healy at 817-272-5658 or phealy@uta.edu.
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CONTINUING EDUCATION
New graduate class does heavy thinking Harvard-designed program, to aid comprehension of learning, could evolve into a master’s degree. BY SHAMBHU SHARAN The Shorthorn staff
In a new course offered under the university’s newly-created Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education, graduate students are learning how to integrate separate fields, such as neuroscience and psychology, to better understand how students learn. The new masters level course borrows from a Harvard University program designed for students interested in “connecting cognition, neuroscience, and educational practice,” according to the Harvard program’s Web site. While UTA’s course is currently standalone, the college expects to launch a master’s program in September 2010, said the center’s director Marc Schwartz. Shwartz said the program needs more professors to teach the classes. The department is planning to spend $25,000 in grant money to create a lab and buy an electroencephalogram, or EEG, he said. Deborah Cockerham, mind, brain and education student, said she found the program on the Internet when looking for a program focusing on the brain. “I think the program as a whole has the capability to strengthen the entire Ameri-
can educational system,” Cockerham said. She said the field of education cannot function independently of the neuroscience and psychology fields. If teachers ignored the mental strengths and weaknesses of the students, little would actually be taught, she said. “Students might absorb information, but they would not learn how to learn,” Cockerham said. Jeanne Gerlach, College of Education and Health Professions dean, hired Schwartz in fall 2007 after traveling to meet him at Harvard. Planning began in 2003 for UTA’s center, she said. It took two years — it started Aug. 27 with 12 graduate students — to develop partly because Schwartz was trying to create a relationship with school districts, he said. Gerlach was inspired to start the program by some of her research on cognitive issues, she said. Harvard started its program in the mid ’90s. Schwartz said teachers in the Metroplex can become classroom researchers by enrolling in the program, thus better understanding educational challenges. “I am trying to reproduce Harvard’s program in a way that meets local needs,” he said. It will take more research in the Metroplex until he finds out those needs, he said. Schwartz said some questions about the way people learn can be answered by using an EEG to study brain activ-
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ity, a technique for studying the electrical current within the brain. Electrodes are attached to the scalp. Wires attach the electrodes to a machine, which records the electrical impulses. Different patterns of electrical impulses can denote various problems in the brain. “EEG is very useful to understand temporal sequences the brain undergoes trying to solve problems,” Schwartz said. Luis Reyes, mind, brain and education student, said he was intrigued to learn how this field could help him become an effective teacher. Reyes said he chose to enroll because the study of the brain attracted him. “I saw an article in Time magazine that discussed how MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, was being used to study teens’ behavior and all the implications that this had concerning the legal system, parenting and education,” Reyes said. Reyes said he hopes this course will challenge him to consider new educational approaches that could contradict the accepted educational dogma. “I think that this course will provide me with a foundation to understand an emerging field that, in my opinion, promises to revolutionize the way we understand the learning process,” Reyes said.
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CORRECTIONS The Texas Research Incentive Program story, which ran Wednesday, should have said that the university announced the monetary amount qualifying for matching funds on Tuesday. Also, the headline should have stated that the program will match the funds, because the university hasn’t received the matching money yet. The editorial Wednesday should have said the 81st Legislature’s House Bill 51 included three programs and a constitutional amendment to be voted on in November.
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cadets had seen it. “It’s like the turning of the tassels,” Hust said. The ceremony might not be important to everybody, but to the battalion it is, he said. “This is the introduction to everything this first semester, then you’re on your own, full speed second semester,” Hust said. “It’s very important, it’s the invocation of the battalion for the whole year.” After the flag was unveiled and the color guard marched off with the colors, the cadets were told to gather their supplies, equipment and march to the inside pool of the Physical Education Building. The cadets split into three sections, and as they marched
Criminology senior Dean Largey prepares for his 15-meter combat swim Thursday in the Physical Education Building pool. Each member must complete a series of annual tests to complete their induction into the 107th battalion of UT Arlington’s ROTC.
began a call and answer cadence. Once they reached the pool, they began combat survival training. At the pool, the battalion regrouped and participated in a 15-meter combat swim, dove off the diving board and practiced treading water before moving to outdoor training activities, said interdisciplinary studies senior Aaron Ballard. Political science senior Jorge Lemus said Thursday was the battalion’s first actual lab, which is used for training sessions. “It’s a sense of tradition not only for ROTC but for the whole university’s history,” he said. “Military science is such an important part of the university’s history.” nicole luna news-editor.theshorthorn@uta.edu
Science Urban Ecology Conference to discuss human-environment interaction UTA will host an Urban Ecology Conference today to bring together people to address questions about how humans interact with the environment. The conference will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Concho Room in the University Center. Engineers, economists and ecologists from surrounding universities, such as Southern Methodist University and University of North Texas, will attend the conference. Laura Gough, biology associate professor and an event host, said the conference will be used to find how humans are affecting the Dallas-Fort Worth environment, specifically the Trinity River basin and how the environment is responding back.
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Gough expects 40-45 “We are at a critical point in this area,” Gough said. participants and certain “We don’t have enough graduate students with inwater to support the pro- terest in ecology, who have been invited, to atjected population tend. Undergradugrowth and need to wHen ate students who find new ways of have an interest are supplying water.” and allowed to attend After a brief wHere if there is enough outline of the goals space and seating. of the conferWhen: 1-4 With aid from ence, participants p.m. today the stimulus packwill break up into Where: Conage, NSF has been brainstorming cho Room, able to increase groups to develop University funding thereby ideas for a proposal Center increasing the opto present to the portunities for reNational Science search, Gough said. Foundation in JanGough said that uary, Gough said. “The National Science Dallas-Fort Worth is a Foundation will be accept- prime location for ecologiing six new sites for long- cal research. term urban research and we are hoping to be one of — Vinod Srinivasan those sites,” Gough said.
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Perez said. This includes the Texas Workforce Commission, Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics. Warren Ponder, social work graduate student and veteran, said the new bill helped him attend classes this semester. He’s Veterans Alliance of UTA president. “The benefit’s office is staffed to the maximum and has provided excellent customer service every time I have had to go there,” he said. “They help by making the process easier if the veteran is reaching roadblocks.” The Student Veteran Project has been a good program so far, Ponder said. “It’s done a good job helping veterans return to school,” he said. Ponder said the Student Veteran Advisory Council’s meeting in July was the first
Gi naTional ouTlook Congress passed the Post 9/11 GI Bill last year, offering veterans the most significant expansion of educational benefits since the original GI Bill in 1944. The new benefits will exist alongside other continuing programs like the Montgomery GI Bill. Altogether, the VA expects nearly half a million veterans to participate in the coming year. Overall, the department has received 236,000 claims related to the Post-9/11 GI Bill and has completed action on 169,000. Getting the program up and running was a colossal
step in helping veterans transition to the role of students. The meeting was where the Student Veteran Project idea originated. “The student counseling [services office] had a representative at this gathering and we brainstormed ways to make their services more
bureaucratic undertaking. Claims under the new bill are more complicated than under the old, in part because the government is now essentially cutting three separate checks: one to colleges for tuition and fees, and two directly to veterans, one for housing and the other for textbooks and supplies. Also, it’s a multistage process, with the department certifying eligibility but colleges also required to send in paperwork to certify enrollment.
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effectively disseminated,” he said. “The community, University of Texas at Arlington, and the School of Social Work are demonstrating a very proactive stance in assisting veterans. Temicca HunTer news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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A Golden Anniversary Here’s to 50 years of success, and to the next 50 Congratulations to the College of Engineering on 50 years of progression and successes — the campus certainly wouldn’t be the same without them. The celebration kicked off Wednesday with the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the remodeled Engineering Lab Building, and included the College of Engineering Speaker Series hosting Dean Kamen, who invented the Segway. The university’s landscape and mark on the Metroplex would be very different if engineering wasn’t such a big part of its identity. Engineering draws students to campus from all over the world, turning the university into a diverse campus. The prestigious research conducted at this college draws large donations from many sources, bringing new jobs and degree programs. Much of the research done here is applicable in areas worldwide, helping students to gain employment when they graduate. Of course, there is research in all campus areas, but our engineering college is especially known for its exploration, which brings EDITORIAL much recognition that we ROUNDUP wouldn’t have otherwise. The issue: Engineering students and the The College of Engiwork they do should bring us neering kicked off its closer to becoming a nation50th Anniversary on Wednesday, planning to ally recognized research insticelebrate its 50 years tution, which, in turn, should of success all year. attract the brightest and We suggest: most promising students, Celebrate with the faculty and staff here, as our College of Engineering, check out all the university grows. research being done Just to name a few areas there and all of the research is going on in — other programs that affect so many in our civil, environmental, electricommunity. cal, robotic, industrial, mechanical and aerospace engineering — which doesn’t even include all the joint efforts with the College of Science, such as research in the nanotechnology and biomedical fields. Specific examples include the mechanical engineering department’s SAE racing team, which wins national awards and gives mechanical engineering students invaluable experience. Bioengineering assistant professor Kytai Nguyen is developing platelet-mimicking nanoparticles meant to help attack diseases like cancer without the need for harmful radiation treatment. Debra Wawro, CEO of Resonant Sensors Inc., works with electrical engineering professor Robert Magnusson. They developed a way to sense the presence of substances in real time, making her technology applicable to the Department of Homeland Security and pharmaceutical companies. The College of Engineering is taking great strides that do and could affect people in medicine, national security, manufacturing, and infrastructure maintenance and innovation. Take a moment to look around and see how many areas of your life engineering truly touches — this will help you appreciate what 50 years of success really means.
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Decision to speak to nation’s children not justified
resident Barack Obama is sched- to do?” Here is where the problem lies: this uled to address students across the nation on Tuesday urging them to scheduled speech and the classroom disstay in school and work hard for their cussion that the government is requesting future. Schools across the nation are de- to follow are prime examples of parens paciding whether to air the speech live in triae gone too far. Parens patriae was first classrooms. Some districts are opting to established in 18th century England to provide a link to the speech on their Web allow the king to intervene in the interests of the children. The term means “father of sites. the country.” Today, parens paParents across the nation triae refers to the government’s are divided on the issue. Some right to take a protective role say this is a historic opportuin overseeing children’s welfare. nity for children to feel like In today’s world, the govthe government is taking an ernment has already pressured active role in their future and parents by assigning homethat this message is purely work for kids as young as kinpro-education, while Educadergarten age, requiring partion Secretary Arne Duncan ents to do this work with their said, in a letter to the press, children every night or the kids’ “He [Obama] will also call grades will suffer. What are we, for a shared responsibility and MICHELLE A. GAUSE as taxpayers, paying the teachcommitment on the part of ers to do, if we are expected to students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every teach children as well? If I had the time school receives the best education pos- and resources to teach my children at sible so they can compete in the global home, I would home-school them. I send economy for good jobs and live rewarding my children to school so they can receive and productive lives as American citizens.” the education they need to be productive Duncan’s letter also encourages teach- adults. Now, the government is pushing ers to use the speech as a classroom tool, parents to do even more, and I think they asking students to discuss issues such as, are also interjecting political agenda into “What is President Obama inspiring us our children’s education.
Obama is applying parens patriae to all the nation’s children instead of targeting problematic areas. Non-political methods can be used to improve the quality of education. If improving education is the sole agenda, why not visit the lowest performing districts, find out what the problems are, and work on a proactive solution to make a difference in the lives of the children most likely to drop out of school? If Obama expects the nation to follow his lead on issues, we all can agree need action, he needs to use better methods for getting his message across. There is already too much government involvement in citizens’ private affairs. Children do not have the right to vote, so the government shouldn’t be permitted to overrule the parents, who have sole legal authority on their children’s secondary education. Parents who don’t stand up for their right to keep education and politics separate will find increased governmental involvement in their children’s lives. This is only the start if we don’t speak out. As for my first-grader son, he won’t be in school on Tuesday. I choose to stand up for my son. What will be your choice?
— Michelle A. Gause is a criminal justice senior
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Outsourcing parking unjust considering high fees
ith the high yearly fee for student and faculty/staff parking stickers, I am deeply concerned with UTA’s willingness to boot students and faculty/staff out of their proper parking spaces to accommodate Cowboys Stadium employees. Currently, not only are four student lots closed (49, 50, 51 and 52) but those surrounding the dorms are filled with new and returning students scrambling to move their mini-fridges into their minuscule, overpriced sleeping cubicles. Adding to these conditions was a fireworks show that had faculty Lot F-10 closed, forcing faculty and staff to park in the quickly-diminishing available spaces. Interestingly, as of 2 p.m. on Aug. 21, there were only a handful of vehicles in any of the closed parking spaces even though they have been closed all day. That’s not even mentioning the fact that new students and their parents (who do not have parking stickers) have nowhere but a handful of “visitor” spots in front of Davis Hall to park in order to take care of last minute enrollment issues, etc. Unless, of course, they are willing to pay!
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You say there are only a few people that midst of this, UTA has closed some lots this arrangement will affect. That may for the Engineering Research Complex well be, but I seriously doubt the univer- construction and will undoubtedly close sity is going to decline the opportunity to more lots in the spring when construction is scheduled to begin for make a quick buck during the the special events center and fall semester. On the schedule mixed-use building. It’s time for the new stadium it appears for the university to focus on that fortunately, at present, only what is best for the students two dates conflict with the fall it is serving. Not adding to semester. Those dates are Sept. the already ridiculous parking 28 for a Monday night game situation in exchange for a few and Oct. 12 for a U2 concert. of Uncle Jerry’s dollars. Maybe Additional dates may be added, we could build parking lots and one would assume that before we close existing lots in once the football season ends the ongoing construction projgood ol’ Jerry will want to book M. RYAN ects. UTA still has a great deal his house out solid, which could PFAFFENGUT of commuter students who adversely affect our parking attend classes during the day during the spring semester. If past behavior is an indicator of fu- and at night. Before I see one more dollar ture behavior, so far, every time they have of fees added to my tuition, I would like closed lots for events at the new stadium, the university to think about what effects these decisions have on its student body as the lots have been closed all day. Tuition is on the rise, and students are well as faculty and staff. paying fees for services they are never made — M. Ryan Pfaffengut is a philosophy aware of and are unlikely to use, especially if they are non-traditional students. In the and history junior.
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about sports Mark Bauer, managing editor sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu Sports publishes Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Page 6
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UTa sporTs Calendar Friday Volleyball vs. Georgia Southern Time: 5:30 p.m. Place: Colorado State Hilton Classic, Fort Collin, Colo. Saturday Volleyball at Colorado State Time: 2:00 p.m. Place: Colorado State Hilton Classic, Fort Collin, Colo. Volleyball vs. Ohio State Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Colorado State Hilton Classic, Fort Collin, Colo.
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Entry deadline for tournament Tuesday Entries for the Sept. 10 preseason flag football tournament are due at 11 p.m. Tuesday at the front desk at the Maverick Activities Center. The division is men’s only and limited to eight teams. Entries served on a first-come, firstserved basis. The format is single elimination and the entry fee is $10 per team. Tak Momose, intramural sports and sport clubs coordinator, said he is glad the teams can play on the new stadium turf. “I’m excited to have it at the stadium again. It was a fun time having it there last year,” Momose said. A team managers meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the MAC. Each team is required to have a representative present. A T-shirt will be awarded to the tournament champions. All students, faculty, staff and alumni are eligible to participate in intramural sports. Each contestant may only play on one team. — Travis Detherage
Friday, September 4, 2009
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Team looks forward, not back, when competing for post-season play. By Trevor Harris The Shorthorn staff
Expectations run high for the men’s golf team this year after a disappointing end to the 2008-2009 season saw them come within five strokes of reaching the school’s first NCAA Tournament berth. In the final round of the NCAA Golf Regionals last season, UTA held a spot as one of the top five teams with a chance to advance, but a string of double bogeys killed its chances to reach the NCAA Tournament. The team finished in eighth place with a score of 893, as the team’s longest postseason run to date ended. The defeat only motivated the Mavs in the offseason, as senior leader Bryce Easton said he feels Nationals are in reach this year. “I think we have a great chance to go to Nationals. We wanted to do that last year, and we missed out by just a few shots. We were right in it until the last few holes,” Easton said. UTA comes in the season nationally-recognized, after placing second in four tournaments and winning the UTA Waterchase Invitational last season. After the Mavs historical run last season, the team comes in ranked 43rd in the nation, according to golfstat.com. The men’s five-man starting rotation consists of seniors Easton, Bobby Massa, Michael Van deVenter, and juniors Zach Fischer and Wes Worster. Worster comes in as a transfer student from Lon Morris Junior College and has already made an impact on the team with his tie for 45th at the Golfweek Conference Challenge. Last season UTA had three people earn spots on
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Interdisciplinary junior Zach Fischer tees off Thursday at Waterchase Golf Course. The golf team has high expectations of going to nationals.
the Southland Conference teams as Massa, Fischer and Van deVenter look to excel after they were placed on the first, second and third teams. Last season’s individual accolades were nice, Fischer said, but his goal in offseason was to progress as a team to win the Southland Conference and make the NCAA Tournament. “We were only 5 shots off from making Nationals last year, and just 10 shots the year before. Everybody is returning, except for one senior and we have a really competitive team,” Fischer said. “So personally I believe that we have a good chance to make the NCAA Tournament.” UTA started its season at the Golfweek Conference Challenge undermanned and
came out with a tie for 11th place. The next tournament for the men’s golf team takes place Sept. 21-22, when they look for repeat victories as host of the UTA Waterchase Invitational. Last season’s Southland Conference coach of the year, Jay Rees, knows that if his team plays its best then it has a shot to win the event for the second consecutive year. “We are going to have three weeks to get ready for the next qualifier,” Rees said. “That will give us time to get prepared and get our best team playing in our home event, which will give us a good chance to win.”
Trevor Harris sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
Gone are the dog days of sibilities including schoolsummer with nothing to do work and employment take except find the nearest air priority over entertainment. Ask yourself what’s conditioning unit. A new school year brings with it a more exciting: watching new season for UT Arling- SportsCenter alone for the ton athletic teams and an umpteenth time, or seeing opportunity for you to show a live event with a couple support for our student- thousand of your closest classmates for free? athletes. The volleyball team will Supporting your unimake its Texas versity at athletic Hall debut a week events is a great from Saturday way to display and the basketschool spirit and ball teams will meet people with begin their season similar interests. in November. Your tuition dolStill, a comlars pay, in part, mon theme for the scholaramong students ships of the athwho do not attend letes and I, for events is that they one, would like simply do not to witness my ClinT UTley know when to go. money hard at Gregg Elkin, work. Nevermind the fact that associate athletic director the basketball team made for communications and the NCAA tournament two media relations, said the reseasons ago, they compete design of the Intercollegiate for a conference title each Athletics’ Web site, more signage, posters and schedseason. one only needs to look at ule cards for every sport attendance figures for home will be more prevalent on games from last year to see campus and direct students the dearth of participa- when and where to go. Elkin also said students tion among students. Texas Hall, home of men’s and attending games would women’s basketball, volley- be able to participate in a ball and the Movin’ Mavs, rewards program. More games attended will inhas a capacity of 3,309. Last season, men’s bas- crease student’s chances of ketball averaged 848 people winning university prizes, per home game. Women’s such as T-shirts. Students want their athbasketball averaged 538 people per game, and the letic programs to be sucvolleyball team pulled 325 cessful and competitive. The best way to make this people a match. Men’s basketball, the happen is to show up and most popular draw, only help them achieve that sucfilled 25 percent of Texas cess. Hall for every home game; a discouraging statistic. – Clint Utley is a obviously, not everyone one can make it to each ath- journalism junior and letic event on campus, even a sports reporter for The if they wanted to. Respon- Shorthorn
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