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• Five men strutted their stuff at this year’s Man of the Year pageant on Sunday night. Read the story to get the details on who won and how fierce the competition was. • Freshmen Leaders on Campus took a field trip on Saturday to a sustainable cattle ranch in Grandview, Texas. Visit The Shorthorn: Aisha Butt the Web site for an exclu- Criminal justice junior Allan Cobham talks sive story on about the misconceptions of being Nigerian for they learned. the talent portion of the Man of the Year pageant in the Bluebonnet Ballroom Sunday night. • Read about the women’s tennis team, Online Extras at who went 2-0 TheShorthorn.com to make their conference record 4-0 overall. • There’s more to the Holi festival than space allows. Check out all the colorful photos from the event in the online gallery.
StuDent activitieS
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EXCEL Campus Activities, among a few other student organizations, broke ground at the groundbreaking ceremony for the special events center east of Arlington Hall on Friday afternoon. The special events center will offer a spot for concerts, conferences, commencement ceremonies and other events.
Comedian Loni Love joked about her weight as part of her routine on Monday.
The long-awaited facility came closer to reality on Friday By SHarayaH SHerroD The Shorthorn staff
The special events center was planned and designed with students in mind, and now construction for the building will commence the same way, with only minimal impact to students during the project’s early stages, university spokeswoman Kristin Sullivan said. “Construction is not going to begin in earnest until late May to minimize the impact on students and staff,” Sullivan said after the groundbreaking Friday. She said crews are now beginning on-site preparations ,like arranging for the proper utilities the center will need. To kick-off the construction, city, university and community members gathered at parking lot 43, which is located east of Arlington Hall, to celebrate the groundbreaking of a longawaited center. Several hun-
dred people were on hand for the festivities. “This is something that’s been anticipated for about two decades,” Communications Vice President Jerry Lewis said. “I think students and community members for years to come will look back on this day and say, ‘Wow, that was something big for the university.’ ” The special events center will hold about 7,600 people for concert type events and about 6,500 for court-based athletics, allowing UTA’s sports teams to make their new home in the $78 million building — something alumnus Lucas Ross said has been a long-time coming. “With the absence of a football team here at UTA, we need to put emphasis on the basketball team and having a serious Division 1 basketball program,” he said. “I think this is a great SEC continues on page 6
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Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck and President James Spaniolo broke the ground with local leaders, student athletes and university supporters for the new special events center.
• Go online for a video of the ceremony that includes a video of basketball senior guard Marquez Haynes from the groundbreaking ceremony.
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ultimate goal: making people laugh. “I love the entertainment industry,” Love said. “And I just like entertaining.” By HannaH Dockray Interdisciplinary studies The Shorthorn staff senior Rochelle Davis said the Comedian Loni Love loves show was hilarious. her food. “She had me cracking up “Fat people love buffets,” the whole time,” Davis said. Love said. “I can “The jokes she made wreck shop on a bufabout how she hasn’t fet, I sure can.” been able to cross her Love wrecked legs since the ’90s shop with her jokes were so funny.” at 7:30 p.m. MonLove said she day in Rosebud Thejudges people by atre for a crowd of their food: if she loves about 150 people. their food, she loves The performance the people. was sponsored by Loni Love “I love the Chinese EXCEL Campus comedian people,” Love said. “I Activities as part of also love me some One Mic Stand, a comedy se- Chinese buffet.” ries at the university. Love also gave students Love’s comedy included advice. The Prairie View demographic jokes, using A&M University alumna said stereotypes about Hispanics, she knows college students Asians and the obese. She can always use advice. said her stand-up combines “The first thing is have her experiences growing up in something to do,” she said. the Brewster-Douglass Proj- “Get your degree, that’s what’s ects of Detroit, Mich. and her LOni continues on page 6 love of food to accomplish her
StuDent life
Holi paints campus with the joy of spring Cultural festival dyes clothes, blasts water and celebrates the colors of life. By alanna Quillen The Shorthorn assistant news editor
Sitting on a hillside, Michelle Capuli watched puffs of color hover above a vibrant, pulsating mass of festival-goers. The Net Solutions assistant manager didn’t plan on getting involved but, at the Holi festival, staying clean is difficult. Around 150 people flocked to the west lawn behind the
Maverick Activities Center on Saturday afternoon to celebrate life and color through food, dancing and cultural music. Participants sprayed water and smeared Gulal, a colored powder, on each other’s faces and clothes. Like a snowball fight with color, the festival marks the end of winter and celebrates the beginning of spring. The Indian Student Association, Hindu Students Council, International Student Organization and the Fine Arts Society of India organized the event. For $5, attendees re-
ceived a box of Indian snacks and two packets of color. Organizers used a water hose, buckets and water balloons to add to the fun. “I was supposed to watch and sit on this hill, but I got pulled in and hosed down,” Capuli said. “I didn’t expect on getting colored up.” Prasad Joglekar, physics graduate student and former HSC president, said the main idea of Holi festival is to bring people together and enjoy the spring. “It’s perfect weather today,” he said. “People are getting wet
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Suyash Chhajed, biomedical engineering graduate student, smothers Gulal, colored paint, on Manas Bhalerao, biomedical engineering graduate student, at the annual Holi festival on Saturday afternoon behind the Maverick Activities Center.
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US lags behind other countries in engineering
Creativity Test: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. free. UTA/fort Worth Center Santa fe Station. for information, contact Megan Topham at 817-272-5988 Fresh Start from Tobacco “Understanding Addiction”: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. University Center Pecos Room. for information, contact nekima Booker at 817-272-2716 or nekimab@uta.edu
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Fresh Start from Tobacco “Steps to Quitting”: 3-4 p.m. UC Pecos Room. for information, contact nekima Booker at 817-272-2716 or nekimab@uta.edu Violent Universe: 5:30-6:30 p.m. $5 for adults, $4 for children. Planetarium. for information, contact the Planetarium at 817-272-1183 or planetarium@uta.edu Living a Healthy Lifestyle: 6:30 p.m. free. Bluebonnet Ballroom. for information, contact the Multicultural Affairs office at 817-272-2099 or multicultural_ affairs@uta.edu
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.
FrIDAy Criminal Mischief or Vandalism officers at 11:15 a.m. issued two criminal trespass warnings to two non-students attempting to sell CDs at Lot 47, which is located by the Business Building, on 800 oak St. The case was cleared. Suspicious Circumstances An officer at 11:36 a.m. investigated suspicious circumstances at Centennial Court apartments on 815 Bering Drive. A student advised she received a possible threat from another female via the internet and she wanted to document the incident. The case was cleared. Theft officers at 12:16 p.m. were dispatched in regards to the theft of a backpack and two textbooks from a student at the Central Library on 702 Planetarium Place. The case is active. Theft An officer at 4:20 p.m. investigated the report of a stolen bicycle from Trimble Hall on 700 West St. The case is active. SATUrDAy Drugs/Narcotics An officer at 2:03 p.m. found two students and a non-student in a vehicle possibly smoking marijuana at Meadow Run apartments on 501 Summit Ave. The non-student was issued a criminal trespass warning, arrested and transported to Arlington Jail for possession of marijuana. The case was cleared by an arrest. SUNDAy Disturbance officers at 12:12 a.m. were dispatched to a loud noise disturbance at Meadow Run apartments on 501 Summit Ave. Upon arrival officers broke up a party and everyone was instructed to leave the area. The case was cleared. Disturbance officers at 2:16 a.m. were dispatched to investigate a loud noise disturbance at Maple Square apartments on 400 oak St. officers advised a student of the complaint and issued a verbal warning to keep the noise level down. The case was cleared.
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outsourcing and a lack of women in the field are detrimental, professor says.
John A. White, chancellor emeritus and distinguished professor of industrial engineering at the University of Arkansas, stopped by Nedderman Hall Monday night and gave the College of Engineering two tasks — become global and attract women. White’s lecture, titled “The World is _____,” focused on what the United States must do to become globally competitive with increasingly successful engineering countries like China and India. White spoke to a crowd of more than 100 people as part of the College of Engineering Speaker Series. He said that we’re losing because of outsourcing, less-advanced degrees and a lack of women in the field. “The world is shrinking. Geographic proximity does not give you a competitive advantage,” White said. “Global outsourcing is the new reality.” Before the lecture, aerospace engineering junior Sean Brady said he wants more information on the field he’ll be going in to. “We’re going to be graduating into a new economy,” he said. “We’re going into some uneasy waters.” Despite outsourcing in a rocky world economy, students are continuously pursuing advanced degrees in engineering, White said. “But about half of these degrees are going to international students,” he said. He displayed multiple graphs that showed many science and engineering degrees are on the rise. However, physical sciences and math — the two most important to White, are at the bottom of the spectrum. Additionally, a number of stu-
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John White, distinguished professor of Industrial Engineering and chancellor emeritus at the University of Arkansas, speaks on Monday evening in nedderman Hall about the issues and challenges that engineering educators face in the current state of science and engineering. White also discussed the influx of international students continuing their education past a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
dents receiving doctorates in the U.S. are moving out of the country, he said.
“It just made me want a Ph.D. even more,” said Jason Benton, computer science and engineering
The College of Engineering turned 50 in fall 2009. This is one of several stories covering the yearlong celebration.
sophomore. White said the U.S. is not moving toward these advanced degrees like the rest of the world. “Today, we are about where we were in 1981,” he said. White said this creates a frightening question: Will there be employment for students in light of the outsourcing issue? He said engineering education must become more global. He said this could be aided by studying abroad and increasing female enrollment in engineering, which would change the future of engineering. “Clearly, our product is not selling well to women,” he said, pointing to a graph illustrating the gender’s minority. “We need to redesign it, tap the brainpower of women.” Again he used graphs to compare different countries’ female enrollment in engineering. “While we’ve made some progress, we’re not making near enough,” White said. “Women in engineering are increasing in other countries far more than in the U.S.” He said most companies and colleges desire female engineers; there is just a small supply of them. K. Jamie Rogers, industrial and manufacturing systems engineering associate department chair, said White’s focus on women in engineering was fantastic. “He used to be my teacher,” she said. “Back in the old days, I was the only woman in his class. We really need more women in engineering.” White said it’s up to students to shape engineering’s future. “The world is — decidedly in our hands,” he said. Chris hunt news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
student life
Locks of Love on campus to accept hair donations Wednesday Students will get a chance to donate more than 10 inches of hair to children suffering from medicalrelated hair loss. The non-profit organization Locks of Love will be in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. Locks of Love creates and donates prosthetic hairpieces for children with diseases who can’t afford pieces for themselves. Diana Gallego, UTA Volunteers youth and education director, said this is the fifth year UTA will host Locks of Love and she is dedicated to
the event. “I am the Youth and Education director, so Locks of Love has everything to do with what I do at UTA Volunteers,” she said. Stylists will only be available by appointments made through the Student Activities Office in the UC lower level or by phone. Appointments can be made until the event begins. Guidelines for the event include a donation minimum of 10 inches. Bleached hair will not be accepted and previously cut hair will only be taken if presented in a ponytail.
Gallego said she has helped with Locks of Love since she was a freshman. Locks of Love going on annually makes it a good tradition to have at UTA, she said. Locks of Love is based in West Palm Beach, Fla. and specializes in making prosthetic hairpieces for children under the age of 21. According to the Locks of Love Web site, their mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to financially disadvantaged children suffering from hair loss by
loCks of love Where: Palo Duro Lounge When: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Wednesday Fee: none To make an appointment, visit the Student Activities office in the University Center lower level or call 817-272-2963
utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics.
–Hannah Dockray
Crime
Assailants flee Centennial Court apartments after brawl early Sunday A late night get-together turned into a melee Sunday after a group of males broke into an apartment at Centennial Court apartments and started throwing punches. According to the police report, UTA Police officer John Morrison was responding to a vandalism report at 4:24 a.m. when an unknown number of assailants kicked in the apartment door and assaulted the tenants. One of four females, who had previously been told to leave by one of the apartment tenants, was having a seizure when the assault happened, the report says. “It’s not your typical burglary,” as-
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sistant police chief Rick Gomez said. “They used force to break into the house and commit a crime.” The women may have been involved in the incident, Gomez said. Police are looking into the identities of the other assailants. Apartment resident Roy Vann, an undeclared freshman, said he called police when one of the women threw an iPod, taken from the apartment, through his window from outside after the women were asked to leave. As one of the females began having a seizure, Vann said six males arrived and forced themselves past
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the officer and into the apartment. “I’m very positive she was faking it to get the officer’s attention off the door,” he said. “The officer was tending to her. He was trying to hold the door shut with one hand, but the guys just went around him. They kicked the door open and came in.” Vann’s roommate and three of their friends were also in the apartment at the time of the assault, he said. “I was sitting on the couch and one of them hit me,” he said. “I stood up and hit him back, and then they went out the door. As they were leaving another girl started having a
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similar episode around the corner.” According to the report, the women, both nonstudents, were taken to Arlington Memorial Hospital following the incident. The assailants fled before police backup arrived. No suspects have been named. Gomez said the most important thing is to identify the individuals who committed the crime. “We want to find out who they are in case they ever come back on campus,” he said. The incident is under investigation.
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mavS drop game to iSlanderS
Mavs tame Cougars in 2 of 3 games
UTA shuts out Southeastern Louisiana
Poor shooting plagued UTA as the team shot 30 percent from the floor while Tamara Simmons became the 17th Maverick to score 1,000 points in Saturday’s game vs. A&M Corpus Christi at Texas Hall.
By Sam morton The Shorthorn staff
tamUCC 65, Uta 57 TAMUCC Player FG-FGA REB Myles 3-7 9 Scott 8-10 3 Green 3-5 10 Davis 2-11 3 Montgomery 5-9 3 Darley 1-2 2 Smith 0-4 5 Jammer 0-0 0 Jeffery 1-4 3 Beagle 3-5 6 Totals 26-57 50
PTS 6 16 6 13 12 2 0 0 4 6 65
MIN 22 23 35 27 31 6 18 4 17 17 200
UTA Player FG-FGA REB Dike 0-2 7 Martin 2-6 10 Shofner 4-10 8 Nelson 5-19 3 Simmons 2-11 4 Paskell 0-0 0 Parker 1-2 0 Terral 0-0 3 Duffey 3-7 0 Mergerson 1-3 3 Totals 18-60 28
PTS 0 4 12 18 8 1 2 0 8 4 57
MIN 20 25 40 35 22 0+ 15 0+ 22 21 200
Records: A&M Corpus Christi (20-9, 12-4), UTA (14-15, 9-7)
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Senior guard LaTosha Duffey shoots a layup while fending off Islanders center Elisa Beagle on Saturday during the Mavericks’ final game of the regular season against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Texas Hall. The Mavs will begin the Southland Conference Tournament on Tuesday against UT-San Antonio in Katy, Texas.
all or nothing The Mavs must defeat UT-San Antonio on Tuesday to advance in the Southland Conference Tournament. against the Roadrunners this season, winning the last It’s win or go home for matchup 78-71 on Feb. 13. the eight teams participat- In that game, Nelson had 22 ing in the Southland Confer- points, and junior forward ence Tournament this week in Shalyn Martin had a doubledouble with 19 points and Katy, Texas. One automatic bid to the 14 rebounds. The first half consisted of five NCAA tournalead changes and ment is at stake. three ties, but the Three wins and “We have to let Mavericks took the team is con- saturday’s game ference champi- go and learn from the halftime lead and never trailed ons. For senior in the second half. guard Meghan it. then when In the first Nelson, the next tuesday comes, matchup, the loss will be her go win three Roadrunners won last game wear69-51 on Jan. 16. ing a Maverick games in a row, In that game, Neluniform. She one at a time.” son had 15 points wants to win so and Martin had she can continue Samantha morrow a double-double her career into head coach with 10 points the NCAA tourand 10 rebounds. nament. “We’re going to win the The Mavericks were held to title and bring the trophy back 28.8 percent shooting from the field, and UT-San Antonio home to UTA,” Nelson said. It all starts Tuesday for the shot 41.5 percent. UT-San Antonio comes Mavericks. In a rematch of last year’s Southland Confer- into Tuesday’s game ranked ence Tournament final, the first in scoring defense in fifth seed Mavericks will play SLC, but if the game comes down to free throws, the Mavfourth seed UT-San Antonio. The Mavericks went 1-1 ericks will have the advantage By traviS detherage
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because UT-San Antonio is last in the conference in free throw percentage. If the Mavericks win and No. 1 seed Lamar wins, the Mavericks will play a team that has beaten them twice this year. In both games against Lamar, the Mavericks had a huge lead but lost them at the end. Junior guard Tamara Simmons wants to learn from Saturday’s loss to Texas A&MCorpus Christi and use that to play better in the tournament. “We can’t play like we did Saturday,” she said. “We just have to go out, shoot the ball better and box out.” Head coach Samantha Morrow said her team has what takes to win a conference title. “We have to shoot the ball better and rebound better, and if we do that we will win,” she said. “We have to let Saturday’s game go and learn from it. Then when Tuesday comes, go win three games in a row, one at a time.”
After the Mavericks dropped the first three games of the season to Dallas Baptist, head coach Darin Thomas challenged the team to be ready to learn, or else the season would go awry. The Mavericks pounded Brigham Young pitching this weekend, churning out 33 runs on 50 hits, indicating the message was well received. “We played a lot better this weekend,” Thomas said. “I was proud of the way we swung the bats. We finally came out of our shell offensively, and that’s encouraging to see.” Despite dropping the Saturday finale, the Mavericks have now won two consecutive weekends. In Thursday night’s game, the Mavericks’ bats exploded, posting 17 runs on 20 hits to give senior pitcher Jason Mitchell his first win of the season. “We scored for him,” Thomas said. “He got better as the game progressed, and it was good to get him a little cushion.” Michael Choice led the charge, going 6-for-11 with 5 RBI and a pair of homers on the weekend to give him four on the season and 22 for his UTA career. Choice isn’t hesitant to acknowledge the improvement the team has made. “We’ve definitely progressed,” he said. “To go from that [DBU] series to the way we’re swinging the bats now, it’s big.” Freshman infielder Preston Beck came into the series hitting .143 on the season, but after going 9-for-14 with five runs, his average skyrocketed to .343. “We were definitely locked in at the plate,” Beck said. “I’m seeing the ball better with a lot more confidence. It’s like I’m hitting a beach ball right now.”
the SCoreS Game one, Thursday: UT Arlington 17, BYU 2 Game two, Friday: UT Arlington 6, BYU 3 Game three, Saturday: BYU 11, UT Arlington 10
Senior catcher Steffan Guest and junior catcher Chad Comer had tremendous weekends as well, combining to go 16-for-27 with 7 RBI. Friday night featured junior pitcher Rett Varner’s best start of the season, throwing six innings of two-run ball and striking out five to beat his former team 6-3. Varner went to BYU in 2007 before transferring to UT Arlington. The Mavericks pieced together four consecutive singles and had three RBI base hits in the fourth inning to give Varner a 4-0 lead, one he wouldn’t relinquish before junior Logan Bawcom pitched three strong innings to close the game for his first career save. Saturday’s finale was a backand-forth slugfest, but the Cougars took advantage of a weary bullpen to score two runs in four of the last five innings, including a home run from Cougar center fielder Stephen Wells over the right-field wall in the ninth to eliminate the Mavericks’ hopes for a sweep. “Our bullpen’s got to get people out,” Thomas said. “It’s going to be our Achilles’ heel until we figure it out.” The Mavericks hope to settle their bullpen situation in a hurry with No. 7 Texas Christian University coming to Clay Gould Ballpark on Tuesday night. “It’s our Metroplex rival,” Choice said. “We haven’t beaten them in years, so it’d be big to win that one.” Sam morton sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
Junior outfielder Michael Choice pitches during his first career appearance on the mound in the ninth inning to close out the Mavericks’ 11-10 loss to BYU on Saturday at Clay Gould Ballpark. Choice went 3-for-4 batting with a double and a solo home run.
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The UTA softball team finished its weekend with a two-game home-stand, beating Southeastern Louisiana 9-0 and 6-0 on Saturday at Allen Saxe Field. The Mavs improved to 12-8 overall and 3-2 in Southland Conference play. The Mavs’ offense broke out with 12 hits in each game. The pitching dominated as well, allowing only four hits in two games. Head coach Debbie Hedrick said she isn’t surprised the offense came alive. “We were aggressive,” she said. “We’re not trying to look for the perfect pitch in the zone.” Three players for the Mavs had three RBIs on the weekend. Sophomore shortstop Courtney Enocksen chipped in as well and went 5-for-6 on the weekend with one RBI. Stellar pitching performances from senior Cara Hulme and freshman Teri Lyles combined to strike out 12 batters. In the first game Hulme led the charge with a one-hit shutout, striking out nine batters. “Cara pitched well,” Hedrick said. “She got ahead in the count and mixed up a lot of pitches.” In the second game Lyles pitched a gem. She gave up one run in the first three innings, but was lights out in the fourth, fifth and sixth with 1-2-3 innings. “Teri has been consistent,” Hedrick said. “She is able to make adjustments getting the ball out.“ A key moment came in the bottom of the third inning when the Mavs exploded with four runs. Collom cranked a two-run shot. Two batters later, Washington singled down the left-field line, driving in Enocksen and senior catcher Samantha Chumchal en route to 6-0 win. The Mavs will go on the road to face Prairie View A&M on Tuesday for a two-game series and will host the No. 13 Texas Longhorns on Thursday at Allan Saxe Field.
— Will Doan
men’S BaSketBall
Team ends regular season with a loss tamUCC 82, Uta 79 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Player FG-FGA REB Drake 0-4 1 Palmer 8-17 6 Hammonds 0-0 3 Coombs 4-9 0 Toncinic 0-2 3 Nelson 0-1 0 Jones 0-0 2 Watt 7-9 9 Reynolds 3-7 5 Bond 3-5 1 Totals 25-54 35
PTS 0 26 0 10 1 0 1 24 9 11 82
MIN 29 38 14 29 13 3 1 29 22 22 200
UTA Player Haynes Gentry Moffitt Parker Long Davis Williams Awange Catlett Reed Reves Totals
PTS 17 7 6 4 15 2 9 0 0 9 10 79
MIN 34 24 19 24 30 13 13 5 2 16 20 200
FG-FGA REB 5-11 3 3-6 1 2-6 4 1-1 2 4-10 3 1-1 1 3-8 1 0-0 1 0-1 1 4-5 3 5-9 7 28-58 32
Records: TAMUCC (16-14, 10-6), UTA (16-13, 8-8)
wheelChair BaSketBall
Movin’ Mavs go 2-1 in pretournament tune-up The Movin’ Mavs went 2-1 in their final tune-up before the national tournament on March 19-20. The Movin’ Mavs beat the URO Sports Texans twice and lost to the Dallas Mavericks wheelchair basketball team. In the first game, the Movin Mavs’ lost to the Dallas Mavericks 64-52. Senior James Patin finished with 12 points and freshman guard John McPhail had 10 points. Dallas had recruited many former Movin’ Mavs players: Bobbie Nickelberry, Enoch Ablohr, Aaron Gouge, Danny Fik and David Gonzalez. The Dallas Mavericks are the No. 1 team in the in the championship division in the NWBA, having gone undefeated in the regular season. In the second game, the Movin’ Mavs won 68-43 against the URO Sports Texans. Senior
forward David Wilkes had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman Aaron Patterson had 18 points. The URO Sports Texans consisted of former USA national team members. On the third game of the day, the Movin’ Mavs played the Texans and won 69-30. With most of the starters taking a rest, the Movin’ Mavs played most of their bench players. Freshman forward Anthony Pone had 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting. Newcomer Jacobus Velloen had a double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds. Head coach Doug Garner said it’s good to play challenging teams before nationals. “Playing them helps us get prepared for the teams at nationals,” he said. “Especially Illinois and Wisconsin-Whitewater.” — Travis Detherage
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Alice still wonders fans
YOURSCENE Each week, Scene gives Mavericks a platform to voice their thoughts, feelings and opinions.
145 years after publication, Alice in Wonderland continues to catch imaginations. BY SARA PINTILIE
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Sergio Reyes marketing junior Do you have a study ritual? “Not the library. Somewhere on campus where it’s quiet. Going to the library stresses me out.” What’s the one thing you would rather do than study? “I’d rather be with my fraternity brothers playing soccer.”
Emily Townsend nursing freshman Do you have a study ritual? “I do the five-day study plan where you do a chapter a day till the day of the test.” What’s the one thing you would rather do than study? “Facebook. Just being social.”
— Andrew Plock
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lice travelled back down the rabbit hole Friday, but the public has stayed there in some way since the story published in 1865. The story still enchants pop culture 145 years later. Last weekend, Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland grossed $116.3 million at the box office, the highest ever for a spring release, according to Entertainment Weekly. “Alice’s journey from childhood to adulthood is a timeless theme,” English lecturer Nancy England said. “And her adventure is so fantastical — the crazy creatures, odd and frightening.” The original book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written in 1865 by the author Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. In 1871, he wrote the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Both stories follow Alice as she tries to find her way back to her reality after crossing into an imaginative world where caterpillars smoke hookah and playing cards walk and talk. “During the ’60s, in which young people challenged the stable worlds of their parents, including racism, the war in Vietnam and the patriarchal family, the counterculture championed Alice’s way of looking at things, promoting ‘alternative’ modes of experience that could lead to greater truth and even liberation,” said Ben Agger, sociology and anthropology professor. There are two visions of Alice, biology sophomore Karina Reyes said. As children, it’s imaginative and catches the eye. As an adult, the story’s layers unravel. “It takes on a darker meaning with time,” Reyes said. After its publication, various artists interpreted the story for the stage, screen and in countless different ways in print. One of the more widely told version of Alice’s escapade is the 1951 Disney film, Alice in Wonderland. It sticks mainly to the first of Alice’s outings to the land, but elements of the sequel appear, such as the characters
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Tweedledee and Tweedledum. “It is one of the greatest cartoon Walt Disney movies,” biology sophomore Yasmin Hinojosa said. Architecture sophomore Diego Wu said he liked the film because it was something different, both visually and narratively. His sister, marketing senior
Paola Wu, said she didn’t like the film as a child. “A lot of things in the film are not for kids,” she said. Diego Wu elaborated, saying he got an impression of drug influence in the film. The Caterpillar tells Alice that one side of the mushroom “will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” England said she has heard the
drug argument before. “Supposedly, Disney hated it because he thought it was too bizarre,” England said. “It’s pretty psychedelic.” Reyes said the possible drug references are easier to detect with age. “It takes out the magic,” she said, going back to her double-meaning idea. “But it’s still enjoyable.” Though some see drug references in the story, it doesn’t make take away from the story’s relatability as a whole, interior design sophomore Laura Quintero said. “There is always a point where you feel lost,” she said about daily life. At one point in the story, Alice and the Caterpillar have a discussion about self-awareness. “Who are you,” the Caterpillar asked. “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at the present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then,” Alice replies. Quintero said the theme is often emulated in more modern literature, like in Pocho by José Antonio Villarreal. She said the protagonist is trying to assimilate into American culture, and it’s like being in a different world. Paola Wu said she sees several homages to Alice in Wonderland in one of her favorite movies, The Matrix. They are living in an imagination and they have to take the red pill to get to the real world, she said. She pointed out the element of the white rabbit, remembering in the movie the protagonist follows a girl with a white rabbit tattoo. It is still alluded to in many movies and books, even last week’s episode of ABC’s “Lost” referenced the tale. The character Jack Shephard references two cats from the story, and the book itself appeared in a scene. Agger said the story can be relatable to everyone. “We are increasingly all Alices,” Agger said, “trying to make sense of a shifting world in which the boundary between reality and fantasy blurs to the point of near identity.”
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Fall down the rabbit hole again in new film Visuals, characters and costumes bring the tale to life in this re-imagining
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Viewers will enjoy getting lost in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Burton shows viewers that his Wonderland isn’t all that wonderful, in a bizarrely gorgeous way, in the new re-imagining of the timeless books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Theater arts freshman Kali Casas, who stood in line to see Thursday’s midnight showing, said she loved how beautiful the film looked and how the film was derived from the original text but not verbatim. “It’s way different than Lewis Carroll’s,” Casas said. Instead of a young girl venturing into a dream, this time Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is a young adult trying to figure out if she wants to go down the path everyone has made for her. She decides to follow the white rabbit rather than answer a marriage proposal and winds up in the charred remains of Wonderland. The Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) terrorizes the land with her metallic card guards and the Knave of
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Mia Wasikowska stars as Alice in Walt Disney Pictures’ 3-D fantasy adventure Alice in Wonderland.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Director: Tim Burton Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Lucas Rated: PG for scary situations, scary images, fantasy violence and a smoking caterpillar. Rating: seven out of 10 stars
Hearts (Crispin Glover). But the surviving loyalists of the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) recruit Alice to slay the Red Queen’s pet monster, the Jabberwocky. “If you didn’t see the first film you are missing things,” painting/ceramics senior Lupe Zacarias said about the Disney cartoon film. “There is a lot of referencing.” Burton’s film is an eye feast, Zacarias said. Burton used the visuals, costumes and characters to his advantage. He even used the 3-D technol-
ogy to emphasize his Wonderland. When Alice falls down the rabbit hole, her limbs and debris came out of the screen. Burton’s visual style paints a desolate world in bright colors and uses little quirks from the book and Disney cartoon to show his knowledge of the tale. Rocking horseflies flutter around and a bandersnatch hunts while Alice stumbles across other fantastical things. And he took this understanding and brought new elements into the story, such as an older Alice and chic dresses, in a
Almost Alice is not a soundtrack. It seems Disney is trying a Twilight move by creating an indie compilation of songs inspired by Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland. But the CD is humdrum and not something anyone would hear on a Wonderland radio station. The only songs worth a listen are “Alice” by Avril Lavigne and “The Lobster Quadrille” by Franz Ferdinand. And out of those two, Franz Ferdinand’s has the same vibe — bizarre and slightly creepy — as the film. Almost Alice is a bland attempt to bring rock music into Wonderland and not worth the price.
respectful manner. Casas said the dresses were beautiful. And how the Mad Hatter was dressed made her smile. “I would like the Mad Hatter to do my eye makeup,” theater arts freshman Kristen Hodges said. The characters were expertly cast, even if most of them weren’t seen. Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Stephen Fry and Michael Sheen voice Wonderland creatures but hold the same presence as the human characters.
“The Cheshire Cat is a bad ass,” advertising junior Alison Cohn said about Fry’s character. Carter triumphs as the Red Queen and Glover fits snugly into the creepy henchmanguy role. Oddly enough, the least memorable character is Alice herself. Wasikowska does a great job giving Alice a whimsical maturity but can’t compete with the powerhouses, like Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. “It’s obvious that would be the best part,” Zacarias said about Depp’s Mad Hatter. “He is an awesome character actor. He brings certain things that other actors can’t.” Then there was Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Her performance seemed a bit off — like she was trying to impress the cool kids. It was like she was in her own world, anthropology freshman Kathy Bunch said. Hodgens said the film felt really short, but she still enjoyed it, especially in 3-D. The film has some annoyances, such as few heavyhanded references to the cartoon, but ultimately, Alice in Wonderland is a great escape from reality. “It’s bound to go down as a classic,” Bunch said.
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New equipment improves quality for utanews.com The new TriCaster means more real world training for students. alySia r. BrookS The Shorthorn staff
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Alumna Irene Lazarus participates in the annual Holi festival behind the Maverick Activities Center on Saturday afternoon. Holi is the celebration of life and color at the beginning of each spring.
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hose, buckets of water and handfuls of colored powder. “It wasn’t that bad,” he said. “It’s a completely different, cultural kind of thing that I’ve never witnessed. You just have to open up and get used to it.” An hour into the event, the overcast sky turned into sunshine, fueling the jovial dance and chants wishing each other a “Happy Holi.” The crowd grew loudest when gathered into a Raas dance, a traditional Indian dance where
people form a circle and move to the music with their arms and legs. Vaishnavi Kapadia, University of North Texas psychology senior, arrived in a pure white, Indian dress. At the end of the afternoon, she left in a soaked, colorful outfit. “Within a minute, I was totally drenched in colors, all over from head to toe,” she said. “I’ve been waiting all week for this — it’s a great way to relax and get away.” Medical technology junior Sanju Bhattarai kicked and screamed with laughter as she was dragged into a muddy pit of colorful hands and smiling
faces. “It felt like I was celebrating in Nepal again,” she said. “Whoever comes and plays, nobody cares about getting muddy. That’s the point of Holi – getting dirty.” Chemistry graduate student Subhash Chand said UTA’s Holi festival reminds him of playing with his friends and family in India. “It’s so exciting to be here,” he said. “We are so far away from our home but are still enjoying the same ambience here.” alanna Quillen news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Mervyn Pinto, biomedical engineering graduate student, partakes in the celebration of life and color.
Thanks to a new piece of equipment, news delivery from the broadcast department is quicker, more high-tech, and closer to career-world broadcasting. Starting this semester, the Communications Department uses a TriCaster, a machine that stores and plays video files and enables real-time newscasts. This means improved quality for the people who visit utanews.com and a better learning experience in the classroom for broadcast students. “It means everything right now, the ability to put a broadcast together in real-time,” broadcast professor Julian Rodriguez said. Jasmine Brazile, broadcast and public relations junior, is in the TV production class. She said there will be better graphics, which will be more interesting visually for the students. “It’s good to have hands-on equipment like this for the students to use,” Brazile said. “It gives us experience for the work world.” Broadcast engineer Joe Carter called the machine the crown jewel. “It’s like having an entire production truck inside something the size of a computer,” he
said. “We can now do anything you would see ordinarily on a nightly news broadcast.” The TriCaster has cut down on the time necessary for piecing together broadcasts and created the need for broadcast students to adjust their work habits. Before, students were able to correct audio problems or double check facts during the long editing process. Rodriguez said now the pressure is on for the broadcasting students. Broadcasting assistant professor Andrew Clark said the students benefit from this added pressure. “They now get to work in an environment that mirrors what they would find in the career world,” he said. While the TriCaster has brought a number of improvements, Carter said the broadcast studio still has some higher aspirations. He said acquiring the TriCaster is a step up technologically, but the department is hoping to expand the studio into a better venue. Rodriguez said broadcasts from utanews.com will soon be available live on channel 99 in Arlington, another benefit of the TriCaster. Two 11 to 12 minute broadcasts, one focusing on news and the other on sports and entertainment, will air on the channel. alySia r. BrookS news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Luncheon awards help dreams come true 48 scholarships, based on GPA, were given out for nursing students. By Monica S. nagy The Shorthorn staff
Standing on a podium in the Bluebonnet Ballroom, Jennifer Weibel-McKee spoke to attendees at the Ninth Annual Dream Makers Luncheon about the sacrifices she and her family made for her to pursue a nursing degree. “I am proud to be representing my classmates and grateful for every one of the donors here today who believes in the power of nursing and believes in UTA students,” the nursing senior said. Weibel-McKee said she quit her job making $50,000 to $60,000 a year to pursue a nursing degree. After naturally giving birth to her first child with the help of a certified nurse midwife, Weibel-McKee
realized she was in the wrong field of English literature. With the support of her husband, she went on to pursue her new dream of being a nurse. She received a scholarship at last year’s luncheon and was invited by Nursing Dean Elizabeth Poster to speak Monday. The event was open to second semester nursing juniors and first semester seniors who received a letter informing them they had received a scholarship. Scholarship recipients were placed at tables with their donors. Forty-eight nursing students received scholarships this year, worth about $1,000. With sponsorships and donations totaling $76,000 this year, Poster expressed her gratitude toward the contributors. “Thank you for your continued support of the $1,000 annual Dream Maker Scholarships and support of endowed scholarships,” she said. “They have a significant impact on the
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important. It doesn’t mean you have to stick to that one field, you can change your mind. I majored in electrical engineering and now I’m a comedian.” Love used the audience to aid her routine. She held a mock competition to see who had the best pickup lines, then made the competitors dance and sing on stage. Sociology junior Toni Barefield said Love’s performance encouraged her to check out
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other university events. “This was really funny and I am going to have to start going to other events,” Barefield said. Love said the most important thing for students to understand is that education, and the people who help you get it, are key. “I understood from a young age that education was the road to a better life,” she said. “So many people influenced me on my road that I can’t thank just one. People are in your life for a reason or for a season.” HannaH Dockray news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
step in achieving that.” Senior basketball guard Marquez Haynes spoke during the ceremony and afterwards said he agrees the facility will help both in recruitment of more top-notch athletes and in continuing to better UTA athletics. “I think it’s definitely a sign that the university is taking steps in the right direction to become a premiere university,” he said. Haynes said buildings and facilities are some of the first things people notice when they visit a school, and having the center will be easy on the eyes to prospective students. “I think this facility will definitely help UTA pass the eye test more easily as well,” he said. It may pass another test, too — designed with the city of Arlington in mind. “What we see is that the university is a big part of our community, our economy and our fabric,” Arlington City Manager Jim Holgersson said. “I think the vision that the city and the university have is that our downtown and our university will one day run together.” Mayor Robert Cluck said the center will do just that.
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Mistress of ceremonies, Mary Ann Van Siclen, said because the event has touched so many lives, she foresees it becoming much larger in the future. The luncheon was made up of 57 donors like Texas Health Resources, Gaston Episcopal Hospital Foundation and Arlington Civic League. There were also 17 supporters in attendance, like HKS Inc. HKS Inc., an architectural firm in Dallas, designed the Smart Hospital. Tom Harvey, health care principal at HKS Inc., said the speeches at the luncheon this year were the best he’s heard. Weibel-McKee’s speech conveyed the excitement felt by the attendees of the luncheon. “Nurses can change the world, one small decision at a time,” she said.
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lives of countless students.” The scholarships are awarded based on the student’s grade point average. Some recipients were surprised when the scholarship letters came in the mail. Nursing senior Kristen Butler said she was unaware that she would be receiving a scholarship. She said when she received a letter saying that she was getting a $1,000 scholarship through Methodist Dallas Medical Center, she was excited. She said the scholarship allows her to spend more time and effort focusing on studies instead of worrying about money. Nursing senior Julie Hatfield said she was also surprised when she got a letter stating she was receiving a $1,000 scholarship from Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. “The money will help lighten the load on my family. I have two kids,” she said.
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The special events center, conception above, is planned to be finished in December 2012.
“For too long there has been a rigid line between the city of Arlington and UTA, and now we are softening that line with the special events center,” he said. In January, the city voted to pay $18 million toward the College Park project, which will sit just north of the center and include a parking garage to be used by the city and the university, as a residence hall and retail space. “Today, we are putting our money where our mouth is,” Cluck said. Students have done the same, voting to help pay for the center’s operating costs in a 2005 student-approved referendum which adds $2 per semester credit hour to students’ tuition beginning in fall 2011. At the groundbreaking, so-
cial work junior Maggie Garza said the university’s coming feature excites her. “It makes us put our athletics, our events, on a pedestal where they should be,” she said. “We’re really excited because in a few years, we’ll be graduating in this.” The building, designed by HKS Inc., will hold future commencements, instead of students graduating in cities that start with ‘G’ or a ‘F,’ as Cluck referred to Grand Prairie and Fort Worth, where he said commencements have been held in the past. Hunt Construction Group, Inc. will serve as construction manager for the 218,000-square-foot events center. After years of dreaming and planning, President James
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Spaniolo said the building is now becoming a reality — one he said people told him they’d believe when they saw the dirt turned. “Well today we’re going to dig the first shovel of dirt,” he said. And they did, officially beginning the process, expected to end by December 2011 — the birth of the center. “Today we’re breaking ground on more than a building,” Spaniolo said. “We’re really breaking ground on the next chapter of the history of UT Arlington and the city of Arlington.” SHarayaH SHerroD news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu