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Tuition increase proposal vote called in Austin Long said he expects the board to accept the proposal. “The All Encompassing Tuition Review Committee put several hours of work BY SHARAYAH SHERROD into formulating our recomThe Shorthorn staff mendation,” he said. “It is a The UT System Board of solid, well thought out recRegents is expected to vote ommendation that will keep today on a proposed tuition the tuition increase at a miniincrease for UTA, in a special mum for students and their families.” meeting called in Austin. The president’s office The All Encompassing can’t comment on Tuition Review the possible tuition Committee recincrease until after ommended a 3.95 the board votes on percent tuition the item Wednesincrease to Presiday, said university dent James Spanispokeswoman Krisolo, which Student tin Sullivan. Congress president In other busiKent Long told The ness, the board will Shorthorn in February satisfies the Kent Long, Student also discuss and Texas legislature’s Congress president take appropriate action in regard to the request for capping five percent budget tuition increases. The Tuition and Fee Pro- cuts Gov. Rick Perry asked posal Development shows state agencies and universities total academic costs per stu- to make. During executive session, dent for fall 2011 to be estimated at $4,646, should the the board is expected to discuss a proproposal be posed negotiapproved. SEE FOR YOURSELF ated gift with B o t h a potential Spaniolo Watch the meeting live at naming feaand Long www.utsystem.edu/bor/ ture. will travel meetings.htm The meetto Austin to ing will begin attend the at 10 a.m. meeting and present the tuition increase and conclude at approximateproposal to the board. Long ly 2:30 p.m. will inform the board about how the committee formuSHARAYAH SHERROD lated the tuition proposal. news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Long: tuition increase should stay minimal and satisfy requirements.

Student groups gear up for fall elections Tuesday who they want to Over two million Texans see face off in November voted Tuesday to decide general elections. who would run in November. Both the College RepubBY JOHNATHAN SILVER The Shorthorn senior staff

Two major political groups on campus say members will devote more time to local races, since statewide contests are over for now. About two million Texans decided in primary elections

licans and University Democrats did not endorse a candidate, but will rally behind their respective parties’ primary winner. “It was like the presidential election,” said Colt Ables, Texas College Republicans vice chairman. “There were conservatives that weren’t

for John McCain, but voted for him anyway.” The College Republicans, who will support incumbent Gov. Rick Perry for governor, are now focusing on future county and state races as some members have campaigned for Barbara Nash and Mary Louise Garcia, who are running for the 93rd Texas House dis-

WHAT’S NEXT What happened – Texans chose who they want to see represent democrats and republicans in November elections. What’s happening now – Two student groups on campus are mobilizing to ensure their picks have a seat in 2011.

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A glimpse in the day of a UTA police officer

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A ‘super-duper campus celebration’ Students will get the chance to experience daily tasks while in a wheelchair and also watch cultural dances to get a bite of diversity at today’s MAVfest. Diversity Week’s third annual MAVfest takes place from noon to 1:30 p.m. and features various activities that promote diversity awareness. Emphasizing more than skin color, MAVfest showcases various student-run workshops and activities. The Office for Students With Disabilities provides gadgets to simulate disabilities, and an obstacle course challenges anyone to tackle daily tasks, such as opening doors and turning corners, while in a wheelchair. Women’s History Month integrates into the celebration with prizes and giveaways featuring the image of Rosie the Riveter. University mascot Blaze will also be present. Free snow cones and hot cocoa are provided as well as face painting and henna tattoos. The diversity celebration also features an authentic Indian fashion show and cultural dances by the African Student Organization, the Latin American Student Organization and the Muslim Student Association. Multicultural Affairs director Leticia Martinez said she gets excited about the valuable experiences MAVfest includes. “It’s a big campus celebration,” she said. “MAVfest provides one main event that brings everything and everyone together.” In the event of bad weather

WHEN AND WHERE What: MAVfest When: Today from noon to 1:30 p.m. Where: University Center mall Admission: Free

MORE DIVERSITY WEEK EVENTS Today What: Maura Cullen will speak about her book Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say. When: 7 p.m. Where: Rosebud Theatre Thursday What: Safe Zone Ally Training When: 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Where: Nedderman Hall Room 601 (Rady Room) What: Organizations will compete with Movin’ Mavs players in the 3-on-3 Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. When: 6:30 p.m. Where: Maverick Activities Center Friday What: Maversity: Disability is a part of Diversity! When: Noon-1 p.m. Where: University Hall, Room 104

the revelry will relocate to the Maverick Activities Center. Martinez said she has faith that MAVfest will turn out plenty of curious students as well as faculty and staff. “MAVfest is a super-duper campus celebration,” she said. “It should be pure fun for everyone.”

—Hannah Dockray

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UTA Police officer Marcus Epps responds to a possible car burglary Tuesday at Lot 50. The case was later cleared after there were no signs of a perpetrator. Epps has been with the department since January 2008.

To serve and protect BY CHASE WEBSTER

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ith one hand on his holster, the tips of his fingers lightly touching the grip of a police issued 9mm handgun, and his other hand outstretched as a warning, UTA police officer Marcus Epps stepped toward the SUV’s opened passenger side door. “Please, get back in the vehicle,” he said calmly. Epps rejoined the two Arlington police officers at the front of his squad car only after the man in the SUV obliged. It was a simple traffic stop. Epps noticed an expired registration tag and pulled the vehicle over. When the occupants handed him two suspicious security officer badges, he called for backup. Impersonating an officer is a serious offense, a third degree felony, and though

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UTA Police officer Marcus Epps gathers with colleagues to discuss an individual possibly impersonating a security officer Tuesday after being pulled over at Latino’s Tire Shop off Cooper Street and Doug Russell Road. The suspect was later cleared after their credentials were verified.

the identification cards eventually checked out, TheShorthorn.com Epps remained on alert. “I like to run traffic to catch people,” he said. “People with warrants go to jail. I like to help people. You know, victims. Help people not be victims.” The Shorthorn followed Epps on his Tuesday shift from 9 a.m. to noon. During this time he handled five traffic violations including an illegal U-turn, expired registration tags, running a stop sign, and a report of a motor vehicle burglary in progress. Epps has been an officer on campus for just a year and two months, but has been a part of UTA for much longer. Just three classes shy from receiving a For an audio slideshow, visit

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“I like to help people. You know, victims. Help people not be victims.” Marcus Epps, UTA police officer

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Art Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA: Robert Grame & Robert Hower: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. free. The Gallery at UTA, 169 fine Arts Bldg. for information, contact Patricia Healy at 817-2725658 or phealy@uta.edu

The three met in various advanced painting classes, this seAt the Studio Arts Center’s art mester being the first time all gallery, a new art show encourages three are in the same class. They all said they work in the same patrons to make their mark. On display at Gallery West, mind set. The three artists sat in the back “Mark: Investigating Intuitive Mark Making” hosts the work of row of their class, bouncing ideas three painting students, Courtney off each other, painting senior Brown, Kendra Briscoe and Tanya Wilson said. “We have a really Wilson. The exhibigood connection and tion runs until Friday work the same way,” with a reception at 6 when and she said. p.m. today. The artists focus where Along with a comon different elements ment book, a piece Mark: Investigating of mark making. of paper hangs on Intuitive Mark Painting senior the back wall where Making Briscoe said she is patrons can doodle, When: March 1–5 drawn to surfaces and sketch or even just natural mark making. Where: Gallery make primitive marks. “Kendra’s work is West, Studio Arts “It’s very commuvery natural,” Wilnal,” Brown, a paintCenter 810 S. Davis son said. “She is so ing junior, said about Street in touch with herself the paper and the art Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and what she likes.” show. “It’s not a sterile Monday-friday Wilson spent time art show where you Reception at 6-8 in Japan teaching can’t touch anything.” p.m. March 3 English and said JapEach student has anese calligraphy is five pieces, along with an inspiration to her collaborative works, focusing on an element of mark work. She said her work is permaking, a form of art, they gravi- sonal mark making, like creating her own language. It’s about what tate toward. The exhibit investigates a pri- comes intuitively. “Tanya plays with language,” mal state artists get into, Brown said. For her, it’s an extension of Briscoe said. “It is as if she is doodling in chalk and in bathroom journaling, but you can’t read it. It looks intimate.” stalls. The trio will have food from Her art, some of it hanging from the ceiling by hangers, is Potager Café, a local restaurant her way of journaling. She used and live music. All three will be in “cheap, vulnerable and delicate” attendance. “I love for people to come in paper instead of canvases for her installation piece and another and see the beauty of the materiwork is on wallpaper she bought als,” Wilson said. at a thrift store. sara Pintilie “I loved that it had already news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu something there,” Brown said. By sara Pintilie

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SHAC Fun in the Sun Health Fair: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. University Center Palo Duro, U.C. mall, Library mall. for information, contact nekima Booker at 817-272-2716 or nekimab@uta.edu Study Abroad Drop-in Advising and Info Table: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. free. Trimble Hall Breezeway. for information, contact Kelsi Cavazos at 817-272-1120 or studyabroad@uta.edu Calibration in Mobile Sensor Networks: 11 a.m.-noon. free. 515 nedderman Hall. for information, contact Qilian Liang at 817-272-1339 or liang@uta. edu Developing Solar Energy Systems: Beyond Thin film Solar Cells: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. free. 313 Woolf Hall. for information, contact Debi Barton at 817272-2500 or dbarton@uta.edu Designing a Robust Microprocessor: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. free. 202 nedderman Hall. for information, contact David Kung at 817-272-3627 at kung@ cse.uta.edu The Interplay of Orality and Literacy in the Exeter Book Riddles: noon-1 p.m. free. Preston Hall 211. for information, contact Jacqueline Stodnick at 817-272-1329 or stodnick@uta.edu Women’s History Month Lecture- Marjorie Spruill: noon. free and open to all. Central Library sixth floor parlor. for information, contact Beth Ann Shelton at 817-272-3131 or shelton@ uta.edu MAVfest: noon-1:30 p.m. free. University Center mall. for information, contact Multicultural Affairs at 817272-2099 or multicultural_affairs@ uta.edu Mindful Moments: 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. free. College of Business, Room 235. for information, contact Marie Bannister at 817-272-2771 or bannister@ uta.edu

“The Mark: Investigating Intuitive Mark Making” exhibit at Gallery West features mixed media by painting senior Tanya Wilson, painting senior Kendra Briscoe and painting junior Courtney Brown. The exhibit also allows visitors to add to a collaborative artwork with various supplies ranging from markers to chalk.

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wall walker Industrial engineering sophomore Samuel St. Martin leaps off of a trash can and scales a wall outside of the fine Arts Building on Tuesday while doing a parkour workout with industrial engineering sophomore Michael Mount, not pictured. Parkour is the physical discipline of training where one adapts their movements to the environment. St. Martin and Mount are members of the new parkour club at UTA and said they soon want to start group workouts two times a week.

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.

MONDAy Theft An officer was dispatched at 5:52 a.m. to meet with a student at the Architecture annex on 601 nedderman Drive for a theft report. The student stated someone stole her drafting board. The case is active. Theft officers investigated a theft in progress at 7:45 a.m. at the University Center Connection Café on 300 first St. A student advised that someone stole his book and ran back to a fraternity house. The suspect was located and issued a City of Arlington citation. The case was cleared.

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Above left: Painting senior Tanya Wilson’s piece, “Letters,” from the Mark: Investigating Intuitive Mark Making exhibit at Gallery West uses mixed media on a panel. The exhibit features work by Wilson, painting senior Kendra Briscoe and painting junior Courtney Brown. Above right: A collaborative art piece at the Mark: Investigating Intuitive Mark Making exhibit at Gallery West allows for visitors to add to the artwork with various supplies ranging from markers to chalk.

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Accident, Minor officers investigated at 12:08 p.m. the report of a minor accident that occurred on 600 Pecan St. A student hit another student’s vehicle while failing to yield at a stop sign. There were no injuries. The case was cleared.

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Theft An officer was flagged down at 2:50 p.m. by a student at Centennial Court apartments on 701 Mitchell Circle. The student reported a motorcycle theft. The case is active. Medical Assist An officer was dispatched at 4:15 p.m. to a student who had a seizure at the Central Library on 702 Planetarium Place. eMS evaluated the subject, who refused transport to the hospital. The case was cleared. Theft An officer was dispatched at 4:26 p.m. to a theft report at the Paint Shop on 1100 Davis St. A staff member reported a blue Graco airless paint sprayer was stolen from the shop. The case is active. Accident, Minor An officer made contact at 4:50 p.m. with two drivers involved in a minor vehicle accident on 600 UTA Blvd. Both drivers exchanged information. The case was cleared.

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from sleep like TV, laptops and things from work in order to Jeremy Roden, QUEST make a relaxing place. Energy drinks and coffee are University Wellness assistant director, talked about health to culprits for insomnia, Roden a crowd of approximately 15 as said. He said that people tend to have trouble falling asleep part of Food for Thought. The presentation’s purpose after consuming caffeinated was to teach students and fac- beverages any time after 4 or Student Parking5 p.m. In addition, those bevulty how to balance the stress of family, work and school life erages are loaded with sugar, Faculty Parking and the importance of self which increases blood sugar care, wellness and healthy eat- levels and makes people crash Housing ing. The event kicked off Social more easily. Work Month, whichRecreational follows sports Roden said sugar is not necessarily bad, but we need a balwith a blood drive today. Roden said sometimes stu- anced diet. Buildings “I just learned that it’s betdents are in such a hurry that they choose junk food rather ter to have sugar either before Buildings or after working out, because than healthy options. “I rush out of class and don’t it burns it off,” said Barbara have time to go to the kitchen, so Powers, a social work graduate I just get fast food,” social work student. Roden said working out junior Erica Gutierrez said. Roden put an emphasis on regularly can alleviate stress to the importance of time man- some extent. “Working out 30 minutes agement. “We need to slow down, to one hour a day can help put learn how to manage time, or- stress off of you,” Roden said. Roden encouraged the auganize, put a block of time for something, and don’t let stress dience to take advantage of sercreep into your mind,” Roden vices available at the Maverick Activities Center. Those sersaid. Roden explained people vices include personal training, who manage their time prop- massages, dieticians and fitness erly more likely have a happy, classes. healthy life. For insomniacs, he suggested putting away the Charlotte lee news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu things that could distract them The Shorthorn staff

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Tuesday at the Social Work Complex about the importance of stress reduction, self-care and how the services offered by the Maverick Activities Center can help.

degree in finance, Epps said he hopes to finish this summer with an eventual goal of becoming a detective. “I love my job,” he said. “It’s just hard to schedule around it.” He said when he started at UTA he wanted to go into banking but police work was always something that appealed to him. He started looking into it in November 2007, and it stuck with him. In April of 2008 he became a public safety officer and started the police academy in July. He graduated from the academy on Dec. The Shorthorn: Rasy Ran 12, 2008. “It’s been pretty positive,” Epps gets ready for his shift Tuesday morning outside the Police Building. Epps, the only family member to he said. “I have a better outserve in the police, said he joined to help educate people. look and I’m more familiar with the law.” There are many aspects didn’t realize there were poof the law Epps has to be lice on campus. People tend ready to handle at any given not to see what they’re not N moment. Within one sec- looking for, he said. ond of observing a passing On Nedderman Drive, University Center vehicle he knows whether a student driving a silver they’re violating the law. Solara made an illegal URunning “I’ve got good eyes,” he turn right in front of Epps’ stop signs said. “It’s not something patrol car. Without hesitathey really train you to do, tion, Epps reported it in, they just tell you pulled the car that you’ll get betover, and issued Illegal left turns ter. I start from the a citation. For the daily Student Parking going eastbound bottom, looking “He said he’d Davis Hall Faculty Parking and southbound police report first at the plate, been doing it then at the regHousing see page 2 for a while,” he Nedderman Drive istration sticker, said, “so he’s Driving south on Recreational sports and finally at the going to do it West Street Buildings driver. It used to again if I just Illegal take me about 10 seconds. let him go with a warning.” U-turns Buildings Now, it only takes me one.” Even if an officer gets Mitchell Street Epps’s favorite place on a call at the end of a shift, campus is the Arlington they have to see it through Hall roundabout. Hidden to completion, regardless of Lot 49 only to cars that run the how long it takes. An eightParking facing stop sign, he waits patiently hour shift can be made into wrong direction until someone rolls through a sixteen-hour shift dependDoug Russell Road in a hurry. ing on the nature of the call “Most people seem to or violation. think that we don’t have Epps is quick to say povideo,” he said “Every traffic lice are not here to punish stop that we do has a video people; rather, they’re here attached to it.” to help and rehabilitate. tiCket hot spots Some students don’t even Officer Marcus Epps shares common places where people get know UTA has its own potickets. lice department, he said. Chase WeBster For six years, Epps himself news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu Cooper Street

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EDITORIAL/OUR VIEW

DISCOMBOBULATION by Houston Hardaway

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The university kicked off the third Diversity Week this week, but celebrating Maverick diversity is not something that should be restricted to one week. According to the university fact book, as of 2009 less than 47 percent of the university’s student population is white. According to a previous Shorthorn article, in 2008 the university was ranked fourth in racial diversity in the nation with a score of .64. The top universities all scored above .70. According to U.S. News and World Report, Rutgers University scored .74, which means almost three in every four people someone meets will be of a different race. But diversity surpasses racial borders. “UTA has a lot of pride in diversity,” Multicultural Affairs director Leticia Martinez said in a recent Shorthorn article. “People tend to think it’s just race and ethnicity, but we have all types of diversity here, and we’re really excited about it.” Diversity can be many things, including topics we do not consider, like economic standing, sexual preference, sexual identity, military history, disability, age or religion. The university has programs and organizations to meet the needs of all these people. According to the university fact book, the largest percentage of students, almost 20 percent or about 5,500, fall into the 25-29 age group. But about 24 percent are over 30, of which at least 84 are over 60 years old. The university has hundreds of clubs and organizations to fit almost any personality or group a student may fall into or associate with. The Movin’ Mavs, the university’s wheelchair basketball team, has three players who have been invited to try out for the USA Team, two former players having had already made the team. But more than that, the team members are celebrated as campus stars of an athletics program, despite it being a club. The Maverick Promise provides tuition for students whose household income is below $65,000, which has been raised twice since the $25,000 cutoff in early 2008. This diversifies the economic background of the university community. Varying religions can find kindred spirits on campus as well. The university has 25 religious clubs that represent faiths as diverse as Ba’hai and Buddhism. Examples of diversity in the university community and how it is supported can go on and on, but one thing is clear: UTA is a truly diverse campus year-round, not solely during Diversity Week.

All types of diversity are appealed to on campus and deserve more than one week of recognition

Seasonal Friends

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To Diversity and Beyond

Enjoy all relationships, no matter how long they last

riendship can be a fluid concept. People enter and leave our lives daily. It’s nothing to feel sad about. It’s part of life. You can’t keep them all, no matter how much you’d like, because people require time. Relationships with people require a lot of time. Looking back over middle school, high school and even past college buddies, I have to wonder how many friends I actually had. I can tell you who my friends are at the moment, but few friends have remained since childhood. My Facebook says I have 904 friends. I can look through at faces and remember how we met, what we were involved in and why we’re friends on a social networking site. I speak to about five of them weekly. I remember high school graduation and the tears shed. I watched girls bawl and hug, but I felt a bit detached. I attended three high schools, and I wonder if I would have been crying with them had I been there the full four years.

Part of the difficulty with beginning college is saying goodbyes. Daily encounters with best friends sometimes become monthly or restricted to holidays. I began my college experience at Texas Christian University. After a falling out with friends there, I transfered to Malone University in Ohio, my home state. Time had changed my friends there. We couldn’t relate anymore. When I started at UTA, I decided to keep my distance. I had my friends back in Ohio to call on the phone — I didn’t need to feel connected here. I entered fall 2008 with that mentality. Then I began to meet people in my classes. Much to the detriment of my “keep distanceed” plan, I really started to like the people at UTA. They’re real and all so unique, it’s hard not to feel like you have a place here. One girl in my French class really made a mark. Granted, we got in trouble a few times for talking in class, but we were con-

BROOKE CURETON Brooke is a broadcast senior and columnist for The Shorthorn. Join the discussion by commenting at theshorthorn.com necting and relating to each other’s stories. I continued to end up in classes with her for the following two semesters, and I wouldn’t trade the laughs for anything. UTA may never be your home, but give it a chance before you move on. There’s a special grouping of people here, and it’s worth enjoying their company before college ends and we move on with our lives. Even short friendships can have a profound effect on your life.

YOUR VIEW

The creativity well has run dry Modern movies can only build on past ideas, but even that becomes a complete failure

K Hollywood, it is painfully obvious that you have run flat out of anything resembling original thought when it comes to providing entertainment in films. The rash of remakes is getting to the point of an epidemic; the bad remakes more glaringly so. Seriously, what movie executive honestly thought tossing Will Ferrell into a remake of “Land of the Lost” was a good idea? That was a classic TV show in the 70s that I watched on Saturday mornings without fail, and yet Farrell desecrated it. Let’s remember for a moment a few of the bad remakes of classic TV shows and movies Hollywood has ruined in the absence of creative thought: Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Batman & Robin, Bewitched, Dukes of Hazzard, Fat Albert, Godzilla, Lost in Space, The Honeymooners, The Invasion and Wild Wild West. “The Avengers” was such an iconic TV show, yet the movie with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman was so terrible you can’t blame Sean Connery for retiring a few years later. But now, to add insult to injury, Hollywood wants to remake films that shouldn’t be remade. Not because they were bad, but because they were already good:

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TODD LUCAS Todd Lucas in an interdiciplinary studies senior and guest columnist for The Shorthorn. Join the discussion by commenting at theshorthorn.com. Highlander, Cliffhanger, Total Recall, The Thing, Romancing The Stone, The Crow, Conan the Barbarian, Footloose and even Terminator 2! If you are going to remake a film, especially one in a series, start at the beginning, not in the middle with the best film of the franchise and possibly the decade. And then we have the films that have been made and are pending release to see if they fly or fall on their face with an epic fail of “Homer Simpson setting corn flakes on fire by pouring milk on them” intensity: A Nightmare On Elm Street, Clash Of The Titans, The Karate Kid. The list just never seems to end. As if remaking highly successful films

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isn’t dumb enough, let’s talk about this other new trend of “rebooting,” which is basically taking an ailing or troubled series and redoing it to hopefully breathe new life into it. J.J. Abrams did it perfectly with the new Star Trek film, but if a film was good the first time, why do we need a reboot? With all said and done, it still just boils down to one simple thing: zero creative talent left in Hollywood. At this point, we have nothing left but a bunch of no talent hacks living in Beverly Hills mansions. Congratulations, you successfully helped dumb down a few generations of Americans with your inability to think and only give us mindless entertainment. But guess what, we don’t always want mindless entertainment. We want something that makes us think at times. We loved movies like Speed, Die Hard or The Sixth Sense. Movies that had points to them aside from “look, another explosion.” Granted, explosions in film are cool, but they aren’t everything. So please, for the sake of all American movie-goers, please try to at least think before you pen something that is just another in a long, sad line of unimaginative movies before someone like me finally decides to come out there and kick you out of your job.

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LIBRARIES

STUDENT GOVERNANCE

New library system lets students ask questions via text

SC shoots down printing resolution

The service allows students to get quick answers to inquiries. BY RACHEL SNYDER The Shorthorn staff

The Text a Librarian program has recently fully opened its availability after going through testing phases in January. The program is a resource for text-savvy students to get help from librarians and reference assistants with questions or school projects. The program was testlaunched on Jan. 15 and is now finalized and available for student use. Students can text 66746 and start their questions with the keyword ASKUTA for service. Standard messaging rates apply. The service is available from 8 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. If a text is sent after hours, the sender will receive a response stating that the service is closed and includes next available hours. The library also offers a free instant messaging service, during the same hours, for students to ask questions. The IM service uses free Meebo software, but the Text a Librarian software costs $12,000 per year. The text messages are received via Mosio, an online mobile software company, not to another phone, and the librarian or research assistant responds using a computer. According to an article from Inside Higher Ed, this software is used for Text a Librarian programs in 250 libraries nationwide. Information Services co-

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ordinator Suzanne Beckett put the program together at UTA and said the program is helpful for students with quick questions, fact-checking on papers or research. Bilingual education sophomore Zayra Avelar said she hasn’t used the service since it started, but plans to use it instead of the IM service for future questions. “I think it’d be more helpful because everyone texts now,” Avelar said. Beckett said the library answered 18 questions through text with common topics like the library’s hours, school closings and weather updates. She said there is a minimum of 2 librarians monitoring the questions during the regular hours. Kathleen Houston is one of the 20 reference assistants and librarians that field the questions at different times. Houston said she typically answers one or two questions per week. “I hope the program will better help students get the information they need,” she said. Beckett said she got the idea from the KGB service where users pay $0.99 to text their questions. She looked at national studies on how many students text and wrote a proposal to Library Dean Gerald Saxon to start the program in early January. “We’re trying to make it easy for students to get a hold of the library and to communicate with students,” Beckett said. RACHEL SNYDER News-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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BIG AIR Arlington High junior Beanie Alonso jumps off a ledge outside of Nedderman Hall Tuesday evening. Alonso rides his bike everyday as “something to keep me occupied,” he said.

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trict seat and Tarrant County Clerk, respectively. University Democrats will focus on sending former Houston Mayor Bill White to the governor’s mansion, while some UD members will juggle the election efforts of Paula Pierson, Nash’s democratic opponent, and Chris Turner, a democratic incumbent who is running for the 96th Texas House district seat. University Democrats president Gabriel Rivas said democrats have good chances of winning major contests statewide. There hasn’t been a powerful candidate on the democratic side since former Texas Governor Ann Richards, he said. “We have one of the best chances in a long time. People are excited,” he said. “There has not been a candidate as experienced or as high profile as Bill White.” Both groups refrain from

endorsing candidates because they want members to gain campaign experience with whomever they support within party lines. Allan Saxe, political science associate professor, said the state government has much power to administer and revoke programs and funding that impact institutions like UTA. “It helps to have people in the legislature and in the Governor’s office friendly toward higher education and particularly to UT Arlington,” he said. Many local representatives supported legislation in 2009 to relocate money to another fund that would aid emerging research institutions like UTA. “The legislature has been very friendly to the university in the last couple of years,” Saxe said. “I feel pretty good that that receptivity will continue.” According to their campaign Web sites, both gubernatorial candidates support having more nationally recognized institutions in Texas,

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The Student Congress Student Affairs committee killed a resolution Tuesday that called for computer lab printing allowances to be redeemable at other campus locations. The resolution went through two rounds of research prior to committee action. Nursing senator Kemi Quadri reported to the committee that resolution “Can I Get My Money Back” was met with opposition. Co-authors of “Can I Get My Money Back” argued that the $100 printing allowance on students’ Mav Express cards is lost after a semester if left unused. The writers called for the money to be used at other campus locations where food or other supplies are sold, or be refunded back to students. As part of her research, Quadri contacted Suzanne Montague, the Office of Information Technology vice president. During their exchange, the OIT administrator described the printing allowance as solely a gift that has no monetary value, the senator reported. Quadri predicted the resolution would be killed after conducting the initial research. “It’s not a dollar amount,” she said. “It’s not from the money we pay as students. It’s a limit for being a student.” The resolution originated from a meeting of College of Education and Health Professions students. — Johnathan Silver

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Arlington resident Anne Mackey leaves the voting polls at the Tarrant County Sub-Courthouse in Arlington on Tuesday evening after voting in the primary elections.

reduced tuition costs and more college readiness programs. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, the republican nominee and incumbent, will face democratic nominee Linda Chavez-Thompson for the lieutenant governor title. Democratic nominee David Cozad will challenge

incumbent US Rep. Joe Barton for the 6th US Representative seat, which includes Arlington. State Rep. Diane Patrick, R-Arlington, ran unopposed. Her district encompasses UTA. JOHNATHAN SILVER news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

PRIMARY RESULTS Governor candidates

Bill White, Democratic candidate

Rick Perry, incumbent Republican candidate

U.S. Representative candidates District 6

David Cozad, Democratic candidate

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State Representative candidate District 94

Joe Barton, incumbent Republican candidate Diane Patrick, incumbent Republican candidate who is running unopposed