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Bill simplifies student loan process Law lets students loan from federal government, easing degree earning route. BY SHARAYAH SHERROD The Shorthorn staff
President Barack Obama and UTA President James Spaniolo have similar hopes for the United
said at Northern Virginia Community College, where he signed the bill into law. “Today, we’re finally making our student loan system work for students and all of our families.” Beth Reid, Financial Aid associate director, said those students include UTA Mavericks. “That really is the reason we are
States and the university respectively. They both want more people to graduate with college degrees. Tuesday, Obama signed legislation that he says will make that hope a more likely and frequent reality for Americans. “For a long time, our student loan system has worked for banks and financial institutions,” Obama
here, is to see that students come through and earn their degrees and then go on to be productive citizens of the United States,” Reid said. The legislation, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, bolsters the Federal Pell Grant program, supports community colleges, offers help to minority colleges and caps student loan
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repayments at 10 percent of a student’s discretionary income upon graduation. “Mainly, instead of the students using a bank to borrow their money from, they’re going to borrow from the federal government,” Reid said. With students borrowing LOANS continues on page 3
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Hadron collider shatters record The high-energy particle collision occurred at a pace nearing light speed. BY JUSTIN SHARP Shorthorn staff
Scientists achieved a record breaking high-energy particle collision Tuesday at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
night, blasting a double, triple and a single in his first three at-bats. “I had a good feel for the pitcher and I was pumped up,” Beck said. “I saw the ball really well out of his hands.” He would fall a home run
The collision occurred at an energy level of 7TeV, or tera-electron volts, which is 3 1/2 times greater than any previous collision energy level. Research being done at the LHC is expected by many in the physics world to open up new avenues of understanding as to how matter and the universe work. Currently, questions abound in a WHAT IS THE LARGE u n i HADRON COLLIDER? vwehre sr ee The collider, which is the one sysworld’s most powerful tem of particle accelerator, physics measures the particle is reenergies created when quired protons collide. to explain things on a large scale and another system for very small-scale occurrences. One answer hoped for is where most of the stuff in the universe is. “These guys have lost 90 percent of the universe – I don’t know what they’ve done with it,” physics chair Alexander Weiss said. He said astronomers who study the movements of stars and planets in the universe expect, based on observations, more mass to exist than is currently seen. This has been dubbed dark matter, and the LHC may help us to better understand it. “It’s unusual – in my lifetime peo-
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Freshman outfielder Jake Pinchback dives for a fly ball on Tuesday at Lupton Baseball Stadium in Fort Worth as the Mavericks look to avenge their 15-2 loss last season to TCU. The Mavericks will begin a three-game series at home against Nicholls State at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Mavs fall to No. 11 Horned Frogs Freshman Preston Beck blasted a double, triple and single in his first 3 at-bats.
“It’s disappointing, because I feel like we had a chance to win,”
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Michael Choice junior outfielder
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The Texas Christian drought continues. The baseball team fell to the Horned Frogs 10-3 on Tuesday night at Lupton Baseball Stadium, losing its 14th straight game against its Metroplex rival. “It’s disappointing, because I feel like we had a chance to win,” junior outfielder Michael Choice
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said. The Horned Frogs tagged relievers Garrett Laird and Calan Pritchard for three runs each in the sixth and seventh innings, allowing the Horned Frogs to
put the game away. “Until we start pitching better on Tuesday, we’re going to have a long stretch,” head coach Darin Thomas said. “You can’t give up double digit runs and expect to win many games.” Freshman outfielder Preston Beck was the offensive spark plug for the Mavericks on the
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Phi Gamma Delta incident leads to investigation The fraternity will not participate in university-sponsored events for the rest of the semester. BY JOAN KHALAF The Shorthorn senior staff
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity’s UTA chapter, also known as Fiji, is under investigation for a misconduct incident. The incident occurred at the beginning of March at Centennial Court apartments, said Seth Ressl, Greek Life and University Events director. “The incident was severe enough to where we were concerned for the safety and security of the students involved,” Ressl said. Ressl said he could not comment on the details of the incident.
The Student Conduct Office is handling the investigation and has asked the fraternity to cease and desist — meaning exclusion from all officially sponsored events, including Greek Week and intramural sports, for the remainder of the semester, Ressl said. Fraternity member Matthew McLemore said Phi Gamma Delta would not comment until the investigation is complete. The investigation is an organizational issue, said Heather Snow, Student Conduct Office director. The office tries to complete investigations within 45 days, but because so many people were involved, she couldn’t determine when it would end. “Typically it takes quite some time to complete an investigation,
especially within an organization,” she said. The Interfraternity Council does not deal with issues involving student conduct, IFC president Marc Barger said. “With situations like this, it goes straight to the university,” Barger said. Bill Martin, Phi Gamma Delta national fraternity executive director, said he was unaware of the incident and didn’t have enough information to comment as of press time Tuesday. Among the fraternity’s 132 chapters nationwide, it also has chapters at Texas Christian University, Southern Methodist University and University of North Texas.
Education graduate Kirti Amin takes advantage of the nice weather to read Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden for Literacy 5354 – Multicultural Literature for Children. “The weather is perfect to sit outside and enjoy the peacefulness”, Amin said.
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Group tumbles into town next week The Kenya Safari Acrobat’s have performed at Disney World and the White House. By HannaH doCkray The Shorthorn staff
Experiencing authentic Kenyan culture isn’t something college students do every day, but the Kenya Safari Acrobats will give UTA a chance to immerse itself in something new. The Kenya Safari Acrobats are an entertainment troupe that travels the globe to perform. The acrobats will breathe fire and limbo several inches off the ground at 7 p.m. on April 8 in Texas Hall. The troupe plans on performing “Lost in Africa,” a 90-minute show following a lost tourist through his mishaps and discoveries while meeting interesting people along the way. EXCEL Campus Activities is sponsoring the show. They chose the Kenya Safari Acrobats from a list of different entertainment groups, including The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats. The Shorthorn: eXCeL Campus Activities Lauren Almand, EXCEL Kenya Safari Acrobats committee chair, Kenyan Safari acrobats will perform “Lost in Africa” at 7 p.m. on April 8 at Texas Hall. Tickets are available online. said the troupe’s reputation had a lot to do with the decision. “The Kenya Safari Acrobats ment and arts director said she en- for faculty and staff, $10 for gen- fari Acrobats were expensive to have performed at Disney World courages everyone to see the show eral admission and $3 for children book.” and at the White EXCEL has sold because of the ex- under 12. They House, so they about 60 tickets. will be on sale at perience. are pretty big,” Mathematics junior “ S t u d e n t s utatickets.com wHen and wHere “lost in afriCa” she said. Anna Solis said she should come out or at Texas Hall Who: Kenya Safari Acrobats The acrobats already bought her and see this, not on the day of the Admission: $5 for students, $7 for What: Performance of acrobatic faculty, staff and alumni, $10 for use traditional ticket and can’t wait only because it’s show. feats general admission and $3 for chilSwahili phrases to attend. Agwu said unique and enWhen: 7 p.m. April 8 dren under 12. in their act to “It just sounded tertaining, but it is difficult to Where: Texas Hall Where to buy: www.utatickets.com/ educate the aulike a lot of fun,” on because you can speculate or Texas Hall ticket window at time dience on Keshe said. “It’s somelearn from it as how many peoof performance. nyan culture. thing new and exwell,” she said. ple they expect The act includes “They use a lot of at the show because it’s not a free citing that you don’t usually get to magic, a show of see.” audience inter- event. strength, a contortionist and fire action to get the crowd involved, “We can’t do free events all the ring jumping. time, because our budget does not which makes the show fun.” HannaH doCkray news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu Judy Agwu, EXCEL entertainTickets are $5 for students, $7 allow it,” she said. “The Kenya Sa-
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Jansma said she is looking Science Dean Pamela Jansma will be a guest on radio station forward to it. “I have never done this sort of KERA FM 90.1, the DFW-area thing before, but NPR affiliate, I think it will be today from fun,” she said. noon to 1 p.m. eartHquake talk The program Jansma will also air on recently gave Catch the show on nPR 90.1, local PBS Tv station and online at kera. the KERA PBS a talk on the org television station new research Radio: noon to 1 p.m. today on nPR on Friday at 7:30 being con90.1 p.m., with repeat ducted on TV: 7:30 p.m. friday on PBS airings at 11:30 the EnriquilOnline: Download the MP3 at www. a.m. Sunday, at lo-Plantain kera.org/audio/think.php 10:30 p.m. MonGarden fault day and at 1:30 line that runs a.m. Wednesday. through Haiti The radio version will be reand the Dominican Republic. As a guest on the program broadcast at 5 p.m. Sunday. MP3 downloads of the pro“Think,” Jansma will broadly discuss earthquakes and spe- gram “Think”, and other incifically the quakes in Chile and formation about the show, are Haiti, as well as earthquake sci- available at www.kera.org/think. ence and whether such study can help the U.S. prepare for such — Justin Sharp events in the future.
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MoNday Criminal Mischief or Vandalism An officer investigated at 9:52 a.m. to the report of a possible vehicle burglary at Lot 50, which is located on the southern point of campus, on 1200 West St. A staff member advised that an unknown suspect threw a brick through the window of a student’s vehicle. The case is active. Theft An officer met with a student at 3:59 p.m. regarding a laptop theft at University Hall on 601 nedderman Drive. He left his computer unsecured in the lounge, and when he returned, it was missing. The case is active. Misdemeanor Warrant Service An officer investigated at 4:08 p.m. the report of a suspicious person at Lot 49 on 1101 Cooper St. The nonstudent was arrested for an outstanding warrant and transported to Arlington Police Department Jail. The case was cleared by an
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from the government, subsidies to private lenders will no longer exist. The legislation Obama signed into law will mean few changes for current students as they prepare for next semester, Reid said. “They will have to go and do entrance loan counseling at the Department of Education Web site and they will have to sign a new promissory note,” she said. In the past, promissory notes have been good for 10 years, but now new notes must be signed with the government. New students will have even less to do, Reid said. “It will make it easier, definitely, for our new students because they will have only one lender,” she said. “So many of the lenders have gotten out of the student lending business that we have students now who have multiple lenders.” Under the legislation, more than $40 billion will be invested into Pell Grants,
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short of the cycle, flying out in the sixth and grounding into an inningending double play in the eighth. Sophomore first baseman Jordan Vaughn gave the Mavericks their only lead of the night in the fourth inning, when he laced a bases-loaded single through the left side to drive in freshman second baseman Cody Dyvig. Choice couldn’t capitalize on the loaded bases opportunity, as he struck out to end the inning. The lead didn’t last long, however, as junior start-
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which when combined with other recent measures, doubles Pell Grant funding, according to the White House press release. Students who keep up with repaying their loan after graduation at a 10 percent rate of their discretionary income will have their loans forgiven after 20 years. Ending what the White House calls wasteful subsidies to private banks will save taxpayers almost $68 billion, which will be spent on improving the affordability of college, according to a statement about the Congressional Budget Office in the White House press release. The education changes were approved alongside amendments to the health care reform bill that Obama signed into law last week. “With this legislation, we’re putting that money to use achieving a goal I set for America: by the end of this decade, we will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world,” Obama said in his weekly address March 27. Sharayah Sherrod news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
Coordinator shares tips on recycling Things like dumping excess weight in cars could save gas, coordinator says. By ShamBhu Sharan The Shorthorn staff
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International business senior David Baray stops by the Financial Aid Office to confirm they received his financial aid on Tuesday afternoon in Davis Hall.
StatS TCU 10, UTA 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------UTA................. 000 201 000 - 3 13 3 (12-13) TCU................. 100 303 30X - 10 11 2 (18-5) ---------------------------------------------------------------------Pitchers: UT Arlington - Picca, Mark; Laird, Garrett(5); Pritchard, Calan(7); Hansen, Sam(8) and Guest, Steffan. TCU - Gerrish, Paul; Lockwood, Tyler(5); KELLY, Walker(8); Miller, Erik(9) and Holaday, Bryan. Win-Lockwood, Tyler(2-2) Loss-Picca, Mark(1-2) T-2:50 A-2651 Weather: 78 degrees/20 MPH, In from RF
er Mark Picca hit Texas Christian third baseman Matt Curry on a 2-2 pitch, which would open the door for the Horned Frogs. Two batters later, Beck dropped a sacrifice fly ball with runners on second and third, allowing Texas Christian to
reclaim the lead. “Every time we got a run, we gave them first base the next inning,” Thomas said. “You’re just inviting a rally when you do that.” Choice, who extended his streak of reaching base to 37 games with his third-
inning walk, thinks the Mavericks had the wrong mindset once they took the 2-1 lead in the fourth. “We didn’t play like we wanted it,” Choice said. “That’s where you’re supposed to come in and take care of business. Instead we walked batters and made errors, it was just a lack of concentration.” Thomas praised freshman pitcher Sam Hansen, who came on in the ninth and retired the side in order. Hansen hadn’t pitched since March 14. The Mavericks haven’t beaten TCU since 2003.
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Faculty and staff learned the do’s and dont’s of going green in a recycling training program held Tuesday. Becky Valentich, Environmental Health and Safety recycling coordinator, gave a one-hour presentation on recycling in the University Center San Saba Room. As an effort by the Office of Sustainability, the training program will continue into the summer and fall. Valentich gave training on the recylcling process to support and promote the President’s Sustainability Committee. Valentich explained how and what the university community can recycle on campus, lawns, cars, UTA residence halls and apartments. Valentich said recycling means taking a product or material at the end of its useful life and turning it into usable raw materials to make another product. A typical family consumes 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. “Two thousand pounds of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,0000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water,” Valentich said. “This represents a 64 percentage energy, 58 percent water and 60 pounds less of air pollution.” When recycling and on campus, people can throw paper in blue containers, aluminum cans and plastic bottles in gray hexagonal containers. The university’s recycling stream doesn’t include computer monitors, CPU units,
mice, keyboards and cords. Valentich said people could also save the environment by going green in the kitchen. “When filling a kettle, fill with only the amount you will need,” Valentich said. “Filling a kettle to the brim will waste electricity. If you did this for one week it would save enough energy to light up a house for a day, or run your TV set every evening for a week.” She said people can save gas by dumping the excess weight in their cars. “Go through the trunk and see if there is anything you can leave out,” Valentich said. “You can probably dump up to 100 pounds of unnecessary stuff. This will increase your car mileage considerably over time and could save up to $10 a week on fuel costs.” Loretta Jo Doty, Graduate Studies support specialist II, said she enjoyed the session. “I liked the trivia,” Doty said. “I learned one aluminum can can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours ,and five two liters bottles can produce a cotton shirt.” Doty said people should be more conscious about throwing recyclable papers away because it saves trees and helps the environment. Valentich said a map of recycling bin locations on campus will be added soon to the Sustainability’s Web site. Larry Harrison, Facilities Management associate director, said he’s aggressive with the recycling program. Last year, 535.55 tons of materials were recycled, he said. University groundskeeper Eli Quinon said the training was informative. “I do see a lot of things that are not recycled,” Quinon said. “It takes a little extra time to recycle.” ShamBhu Sharan news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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The Shorthorn editorial board is responsible for acting as the institutional voice of the publication. We exist to look after the interests of the community and provide clarity to issues that matter to our readers. Last Friday, though, we missed the mark and muddied the water. The intent was to challenge the Student Alumni Association to do exactly what we failed to do — be above reproach and don’t give anyone reason to question your integrity. Instead, we included information and verbage that ultimately distracted from our objective. The Student Alumni Association hosts an annual tuition raffle that gives students the opportunity — through the luck of the draw — to win a semester’s worth of tuition. This year’s prize was $5,000 for tuition. The cost of entering is based on the cost of each raffle ticket, with no cap on the number of tickets students are allowed to purchase. While odds of winning are theoretically increased by the number of tickets purchased, former winners have claimed the prize with one. In previous years, the organization’s board members were not allowed to participate in the raffle. This year, after considering the fairness of limiting member involvement, they were. While the sentiments are justified, the decision to include board members and officers should be re-evaluated, if for no other reason than to prevent distraction from the good the raffle provides. If a student doles out a fair amount of cash to increase the chances of his name being drawn only later to find out the prize was claimed by the very person who sold him the tickets, that student might question the validity of the raffle — warranted or not. A board member won this year’s raffle. What if a board member wins next year? And the year after? The chances may be slim, but it could cast doubt on a raffle that has the potential to change people’s lives. Requiring an organization as large as the Student Alumni Association to limit its board members’ and officers’ involvement may be — as previously cited — unfair. But it could, at the very least, prevent anyone from questioning the raffle’s validity. — The Shorthorn editorial board
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months. People may start liking him again now that a great deal of health care reform has passed. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. As college students, the passing of health care legislation means that we will be paying for it on some level. Tax brackets are changing, and the government is taking more money from “top earners” — those who make $250,000 or more — in order to fund new policy. It’s a funny paradox, if you make $250,000 a year, then you might as well work less and make $200,000 because the government won’t take as much from you.
According to Accountingweb.com, “If you want to lower your taxes, your only choices are to make less money or choose to defer more compensation.” Who cares, right? I’d guess that very few students have this income level and most likely won’t for a few years to come, but we need to consider the repercussions for allowing such standards to be set. Many fear that the government is becoming too big. There’s a reason America has done so well for the last few hundred years. If you take away the spoils of success, people might see it as less of a reason to work harder. According to Accountingweb.com, “The Congressional Budget Office estimates the health care overhaul will cost
$940 billion over 10 years and will cover 32 million uninsured individuals.” This money has to come from somewhere, and the obvious choices for payment were raising taxes or borrowing. They chose to raise taxes, which takes some of the burden off future generations. This sounds great, except that our generation is not “future,” our generation is now. We need to be paying more attention to what is happening in our country. It is not enough to watch CNN a couple of times a week and do nothing. The future is uncertain, but as we enter the work force, we can be a source of change. Sooner than it seems, we will be filling government offices and dealing with the choices made by those before us.
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awn, Saturday at noon, I roll out of my single bachelor bed, and immediately I realize that my throat is parched and I am hungry. Should I cook? The answer is simple: no, not now and not me. Why should I cook when a pizza is only a dial away? I grab my cell phone and I don’t even have to spin the dial to make the phone call; pizza delivery is on my speed dial, only a button away. A few steps and I am into the bathroom for a quick shower. Who needs a proper bath when there is deodorant, antiperspirant and perfume? Next, as I wait for my pizza to be delivered, I remember the events of last night. I was out with the married boys, and after a hard and long night of drinking, I was the only one who had a pretty lady to go home with, or at least she appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and darkness. I chuckle to myself as the delivery man rings the doorbell. So, it seems I had another cavalier one night stand and spent heavily on it, yet I broke out of several “potential” relationships because they were expensive, and I wasn’t ready for commitment and expenses. I console myself with the good pizza and a late afternoon nap, why should I count my losses? It is not fun to cook, and being in a relationship just smothers me to death. Despite my conveniences of bachelorhood, I still find myself relapsing into a bag of emotions, always rationalizing as to whether or not my lifestyle is correct. Eventually, I convince myself to face my fears and confront the truth. Compared to my “loser friends” who cook at
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and if they invite me, it is out of pity and necessity. I pretend not to care, yet it hurts me to be left out of the events, Nelson is a biology and to be left in when they go out. freshman and former That was a few years back, before I columnist for The realized how my love for “convenience” had almost ruined my life. Instead of Shorthorn. eating healthy, I ate conveniently and got unhealthily fat; instead of being Join the discussion hygienic, I took advantage of the conby commenting at venient smells from perfumes and detheshorthorn.com. odorants. Instead of being in a stable relationship, I was an easy lover, always available and always giving. home, I save the least amount of money. Eventually I succumbed to the counThat hit me as I went through my sel of my conscience and societal presbank statements and realized my sav- sure and decided to get married and live ings account had nothing in it to save. like a “normal” man. But even then, I Every weekend I pay for sex, indirectly, had to depend on convenience to find a yet my married boys enjoy the warmth wife, I met her over the Internet. Now of pretty wives and I take long baths, and not the giggles of litalone anymore, and I have YOUR VIEW tle kids every day. my weight and drinking I end up thinking in check. As I wrote this, Why do you think we rely so my married friends I realized that it was for heavily, as a people, on the ease are better off than “convenience” that I was of convience? I am; but as far as a bachelor too long, and getting laid goes, I it was for the same convestill think bachelornience that I got married. Comment at hood wins. Wasn’t Back to reality. Even TheShorthorn.com it a bachelor who though I am still in college said, “The big difand nowhere near marference between sex riage, the thought of havfor money and sex ing limited responsibility, for free is that sex food on my doorstep and for money usually costs less”? movies at my beck and call is very exMy flow of thoughts continue: I am citing. However, at the same time, the not embarrassed being 35 and single, at thought of losing shape, losing relationtimes I feel left out during my friends’ ships and losing hard-earned money is anniversaries and their children’s birth- still at the back of my mind. Only time day parties. Some have subtly dropped will tell where my battle with conveme from their family and friends lists, nience will end.
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12 vendors confirmed for today’s job fair The annual School of Architecture Job Fair lets landscape, interior design and architecture students meet with firms and companies to find a job. The fair takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Architecture Building’s second floor lobby. “12 vendors are confirmed,” said Ana Peredo-Manor, School of Architecture the details administrative What: The School assistant. of Architecture “I believe Job Fair the job fair Where: will give Architecture insights on Building second interviewfloor lobby When: 10 a.m. – 4 ing.” p.m. A l e x Wednesday D a h m , American In s t i t u t e of Architecture Students UTA chapter president, said students looking for an internship or job can network with professional firms. “Two years ago, the architecture job fair had 60 firms, and the last year we had 19 vendors,” he said. “We contacted 300 firms, only 12 are able to attend.” Dahm said this is because a lot of firms are not hiring. “The recent economic downturn could be a reason,” he said. “Some firms might not have representatives.” Students are encouraged to bring their résumés and portfolios. “If students want to get real world experience, they should attend the job fair,” Dahm said. “It gives an opportunity for students to find employment in the architecture field. I will set up a booth to give information about AIAS and recruit members.” The Beck Group and HKS Inc. are some organizations confirmed to attend the fair.
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Chalk it up for Greek Week
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Top left: The points from the chalk competition add to a team’s total from all Greek Week competitions. The winner will be declared and awarded a plaque Friday. Above: Nursing freshman Kaitlyn Potts fills in her team’s name, The Black Eyed Peas, on Tuesday outside the University Center. Potts’ team and eight others competed for points during the Greek Week Chalk Drawing Competition.
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olorful pastels break across tiny bumps of concrete Tuesday morning as Greek chapter members participate in the Chalk Drawing Competitions in front of the University Center and on the Central Library mall. The contest is part of Greek Week’s “Now That’s What I Call Greek,” where nine teams compete throughout the week for bragging rights and a plaque to be awarded Friday. In addition to the chalk drawings, the Greek Week Philanthropy Food Sale raised $500 Tuesday on the University Center mall. All proceeds go toward the Student Life Fund, which benefits programs and initiatives in the Division of Student Affairs like bringing concerts and speakers to campus. Teams were also pitted against each other in intramural basketball and dodgeball games Tuesday at the Maverick Activities Center. “The purpose of the week was to bring the Greek community together,” Greek Week director Gladys Kouadio said. “I think that the unity is actually going well.”
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Left: Business management freshman Clint Manning, right, sells Monster Energy drinks during the Greek Week Philanthropy Food Sale on Tuesday on the University Center mall. All proceeds from the sales go to the Student Life Fund, which benefits programs and initiatives in the Division of Student Affairs like bringing concerts and speakers to campus.
Today — Quiz Bowl, noon, University Center Rio Grande Friday — Mavericks vs. Nicholls State, 6:30 p.m., Allan Saxe Field (tailgating before)
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SC announces revisions to constitution and bylaws Impeachment rules were “expel” and “will be.” SC adviser Jeff Sorensen addressed, and some said the changes were made phrases were clarified. to address those errors. By Johnathan silver The Shorthorn senior staff
Student Congress Parliamentarian Marcia Vasquez announced on Tuesday five revisions to the bylaws and the constitution that governs all student governance entities. Changes made during the general body meeting addressed impeachment rules and offered more clarity and unity in the phrasing of words. SC Rules and Appropriations Committee members drafted the changes. Senators will discuss and possibly debate the revisions during an April 13 meeting. Revisions to the Constitution for the Student Community of the University of Texas at Arlington and its bylaws were announced toward the end of the meeting. Terms like “remove” and “can be” were replaced with
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ple thought they understood matter pretty well at normal energy levels,” Weiss said. There’s potentially a lot to discover about the universe, he said. The collider works by sending protons through a series of wider and wider acceleration rings, using magnets to give them a “kick” of energy. Eventually, the protons enter the ATLAS detector, where they impact each other at high speed and emit a shower of smaller particles. The impact speeds reached Tuesday approached the speed of light. It is the highest energy collision made in the LHC, physics professor Andrew Brandt
“Many of them were to make the constitution speak with one voice,” he said. Before being updated, Article 3-2 referred to the College of Nursing as a school. Article 4–4 now states that all senators be obligated to complete no more than six participation hours per session, as determined by the SC Executive Committee. This clause explains to sitting senators what they are required to do to maintain their seats. A session and a term of office are defined in a revision to Article 5–1. An SC session is classified as one semester, not including the summer. A term is the composition of the fall and spring semesters. The change was made to stress what terms of office and sessions of Congress mean. A revision to Article 5–3 offers more assurance by
changing the words “may be removed” to “will be removed,” when referring to a senator who does not comply with membership rules, as determined by the bylaws. Under the revisions to Article VIII of the bylaws, the SC president and vice president will be expelled from office after 25 percent of the Congress’ voting members sign a petition and after twothirds of the voting members back up that action. Throughout the meeting, SC president Kent Long acknowledged the efforts of the Rules and Appropriations committee. He reaffirmed the same sentiment after Vasquez read all the revisions before the general body. “I think you all see now the hard work that the Rules and Appropriations committee did to get this work in order,” he said.
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said, and that several scien- very small level,” De said, addtific papers’ worth of infor- ing that the only way to know mation has likely come from if mathematically deduced the event, but scientists won’t laws are correct is through obknow what they have until the servation. “This will allow us to make measurements and data has been analyzed. compare them to “It’s exciting known, fundamenbecause you don’t tal theories.” know what you’re The LHC will going to find,” continue with the Brandt said. “It can current energy levels change our underfor approximately standing of the unithe next 18 months verse.” to collect data before Kaushik De, increasing, accordphysics professor ing to De, who said and ATLAS Com- Andrew Brandt, that the collider is puter operations co- physics professor capable of achieving ordinator, has been twice the quantity of part of the ATLAS project for 15 years and energy in Tuesday’s event. “This is a huge milestone echoed Brandt’s sentiment, saying that it’s anybody’s guess for us,” De said. “It’s the beginning of a new journey.” what they might discover. Justin sharp “This is putting the laws of news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu physics to the test, even at a