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High-scoring students consider Maverick life Excellence Day offered an inside look to high school students who excelled on the SATs and ACTs. BY AMANDA GONZALEZ The Shorthorn staff
Cameron Potts of Decatur, Texas, previously attended a campus tour but wasn’t sure if UTA was the right place for him, so
he came back to give the university another look. The Decatur High School student was one of 22 high school seniors with an SAT score of at least 1,200 or an ACT score of at least a 27 who attended Senior Academic Excellence Day Monday. The day was to give students a more personalized experience of the campus. University admissions counselor Cassie
Kimbrough said the students in attendance are eligible for scholarships based on their test scores. “In the race for Tier One, these are kids that we want,” she said. Dale Wasson, student enrollment services associate vice president, said students should enroll at UTA if it is the best place SENIOR continues on page 5
Transient Artists
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Marketing sophomore Teresa Fernandez greets other students during an icebreaker on Monday in College Hall. League of United Latin American Citizens held a meeting to inform its members about upcoming events including a fast to support the DREAM Act.
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Students fast for DREAM LULAC Mavericks forgo eating to raise awareness for the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act. BY BRIANNA FITZGERALD The Shorthorn staff
Summit International Preparatory students Lily Ngaruiya, right, and Mikah Peterson practice watercolor monoprinting Monday at the Studio Arts Center. Ngaruiya plans to continue taking art classes in college and said, “It’s really interesting to experience new techniques and find out what it’s like to be a college art student, if only for a few hours.”
Students from local preparatory stop by a UTA painting class High school art students immersed themselves in a university painting class and learned a new painting technique while gaining a new perspective on art. Painting associate professor Marilyn Jolly coordinated with Alan Tolleson, a former student and current art teacher at Summit International Preparatory, to allow for Tolleson’s advanced placement studio art class to work with Jolly’s water media class on Monday afternoon at the Studio Arts Center. The opportunity exposed the advanced placement studio art students to a college art environment and specifically to new mediums and techniques like watercolor mono printing, which Tolleson expects will be helpful for the students’ portfolios for college credit. Jolly said her water media students gained the opportunity to participate in a service-learning project in which they interacted with the community in a positive way by acting as mentors and teachers for the Summit International Preparatory students. “Visiting a university is eye opening, yes, but also gives them something to look forward to,” painting senior Wayne Cornwell said.
Painting seniors Aspen Polvi, left, and Alyssa Hawkins create a watercolor monoprint during their water media class on Monday at the Studio Arts Center. Polvi, Hawkins and the rest of their water media class mentored an advanced placement studio art class from Summit International Preparatory, through a typical day in a university art class.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MICHAEL MINASI
Volunteers brawl for local charity BY ALYSIA R. BROOKS The Shorthorn staff
It’s a fight for kids. Not a custody battle or a schoolyard throw-down — a charity boxing event. Fight Night 2010, the 23rd annual event hosted by Sigma Chi fraternity, is a one-night amateur boxing event with all proceeds going to the Boys and Girls Club of Arlington.
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The Sigma Chi fraternity will host its 23rd annual Fight Night on Thursday, sponsored in part by ‘The Shorthorn.’
By the end of the week, the League of United Latin American Citizens at UTA will be hungry for more than just the passing of the DREAM Act. The students, known as the LULAC Mavericks, will fast throughout the week in effort to bring attention to the act that will allow a citizenship pathway for undocumented citizens. If passed, the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act enables those under the age of 36 who were moved to the states illegally by their parents before they were 16, to obtain citizenship by enlisting in the military or going to college for two years. LULAC is challenging students to fast for DREAM Act awareness with the option of fasting from Wednesday to Sunday, Friday to Sunday or a one-day fast all day on Friday. About 20 LULAC representatives from 10 Texas colleges met in Dallas on Saturday to decide on what statewide actions to take gain media attention. Nicole Anonuevo, LULAC Mavericks vice president, said this marks the second time this year students have fasted to bring awareness to the act. “Students are desperate and are willing to work for a cause,” the criminal justice sophomore said.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cowboys Dancehall. Ryan Hicks, Sigma Chi’s Fight Night chairman and The Shorthorn marketing assistant, said that in the 22 years they have been hosting the event, they have raised more than $117,000 to donate directly to the Boys and Girls Club of Arlington. About 2,000 people turn out each year for the event. “Our goal this year is $20,000,” the marketing junior said. There will be 12 matches in this FIGHT continues on page 6
FIGHT NIGHT 2010 Event: Amateur boxing tournament Time: Doors open at 6 p.m., fights start at 7 p.m. Date: Thursday Location: Cowboys Dancehall, 2540 E. Abram St. Admission: Pre-sale tickets $12, General admission $17 Host: Sigma Chi fraternity Benefitting: The Boys and Girls Club of Arlington Search Fight Night 2010 on Facebook or visit www.fightnight2010.eventbrite.com Source: Ryan Hicks, Sigma Chi’s Fight Night chairman
Stage is set for budget reductions The Theatre Arts Department reduced its budget by reducing travel and set design expenses for the 2010-11 fiscal year. BY VIDWAN RAGHAVAN The Shorthorn staff
The Theatre Arts Department is considering doing plays on a smaller scale because of cutbacks in its budget, which already have affected set designs and travel. According to the 2010-11 Fiscal Year Budget, the department cut its maintenance and operational budget by 46.6 percent. It was reduced from $14,666 to $7,834. The budget cuts have affected the design more than the production of the plays, said Brandi Andrade, theater arts lecturer and director of Tragedy: A Tragedy. “We had an elaborate set design planned but couldn’t afford it, so we cut back on it,” she said. The cut was to comply with the state’s mandate to cut expenditures. The university required each school and college to cut its budget by 3 percent. Michelle Harvey, theater arts faculty specialist, is involved in the design of the play Tragedy: A Tragedy. She said the original design idea included green screens, but the department couldn’t afford it. THEATRE continues on page 6
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SUNDAY Demented Person At 12:58 a.m., officers were sent to the center bridge located at 600 Cooper St. on a welfare check for a female student. The student was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital for an emergency psychiatric evaluation. The case was cleared. SATURDAY Suspicious Circumstances A student reported hearing possible gun shots at 11:50 p.m. while in his room at Trinity House on 800 Greek Row Drive. When questioned, other students denied hearing a noise resembling gun shots and there were no other reports of shots being fired. The case was cleared. Minor Accident Officers responded at 1 p.m. to 300 First St. to a minor vehicle accident report. A staff member in a universityowned vehicle was involved in the accident. There were no injuries. The case was cleared. Vehicle Tow At 12:34 p.m., a student’s vehicle parked in a reserve space in Lot 33, which is located on 800 UTA Blvd., was towed. The case was cleared. Disturbance Officers were dispatched at 12:20 a.m. at Meadow Run apartments, 507 Summit Ave., to investigate a noise disturbance report. The case was cleared. Injured Person Medical Assist At 12:19 a.m., officers responded to a report that an unconscious female had been found outside a room at Forest Glen apartments, 412 S. Cooper St. When the officers arrived, they found the student conscious and inside her apartment. She refused Emergency Medical Service assistance. The case was cleared.
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION
A little more than 1,430 tickets have been obtained for Open Heart, Open Mind, featuring Lisa Ling. The journalist, activist and host of “National Geographic Explorer” will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 23 in Texas Hall for the third lecture in the 2010-11 Maverick Speakers Series. University spokeswoman Kristin Sullivan said a little more than half the seats in Texas Hall have been reserved as of Thursday afternoon. For about two decades, Ling has worked in television and has reported from more than 24 countries. Ling, a former co-host of “The View,” produced eight PBS documentaries, is a contributing editor for USA Weekend, reports for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and has co-written the books Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood and Somewhere Inside. Free tickets are available at utatickets.com and are open to the public.
Psychology sophomore Andrew Soueid, right, and freshman Angel Vargas recite French lines during an outdoor reading of a play Monday on the University Center mall. The French club, La Société Francophone, hosted the event.
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GRADUATE STUDIES
Hefty stipend awarded to graduate students The $30,000 grant will go toward funding living expenses and research. BY EDNA HORTON The Shorthorn staff
Marianna Vallejo, mechanical engineering graduate student, will begin her doctoral studies this spring. She said her financial aid has helped cover her school expenses but to obtain a doctorate she will need extra funding. Twelve graduate students from science, technology, engineering and math fields earned a $30,000 stipend from the Louis Stokes Alliance for the next two years to finish their doctorate without having to find a job. Vallejo said her coursework and research is a full-time job for her. She said she spends 60 or more hours on both. When she completes her doctorate, she plans on continuing her research and staying in academia to teach. She said the support system at UTA has been very good for her. She said she’s doing undergraduate research focusing on thermal dynamics. “It will cover my living expenses. It means that I can actually pursue a doctoral degree,” she said.
“Without it, it would be really difficult because I would have to work.” The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge-toDoctorate fellowship was awarded to UTA this spring semester, a first for the university. The grant, totaling $987,000, was given to students who work toward a doctorate degree in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. To be eligible, students had to apply for the grant, they had to already be doing undergraduate research in STEM fields and be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. The students receive $30,000 for two years, health care benefits through UTA, funding for tuition and a $1,000 budget for travel to conferences and developmental workshops in their field of research. Mathematics professor Tuncay Aktosun said to become a Tier One research facility, UTA needs to increase the number of students who complete their doctoral research. Tier One universities have annual research expenditures of $100 million and offer more than 50 doctoral degree programs. UTA has 996 students studying for their doctoral degree. He said through this program the univer-
sity can compete with other Tier One schools. Aktosun said the students are supported through their mentors, and they hold a class every Friday. He said if there is a problem, students address it in that class, and the mentors handle it quickly. “For them to succeed academically we do everything we can to help them,” he said. “Our goal is 100 percent retention. We do this by providing them with good mentorship.” Betsegaw Gebrehiwot, mechanical engineering graduate student, will also start his graduate work under the grant this spring. He said he did research this summer on electronic cooling systems through giving him insight to the research process. He said he is using financial aid to fund college, and it is a relief to know he can use the grant to cover living expenses this spring. “The grant will help out a whole lot. Definitely no question about that,” he said. “I used to work in the industry at an internship. When I found out about the grant, I quit my internship to focus on my research.” Gebrehiwot said when he is done with his doctoral studies, he plans to teach. He said UTA is
STIPEND DETAILS The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Each fellow receives a $30,000 stipend per year for two years as long as the program goals are met. The program provides funding for tuition and fees, student health insurance, research supplies and travel to professional conferences to present research results. The program also provides intensive mentoring and academic support for fellows to be successful in their graduate studies and after obtaining their Ph.D.s. After the initial two-year funding, fellows are supported by other funding mechanisms to ensure their timely graduation. Source: http://grad.uta.edu/programs/ lsamp/bridge/
great, and he would like to teach here, but he still has a while to go before he decides. Right now he is focused on his research. “I haven’t really thought about where I want to be, or where I want to go and teach,” he said. “Those things will have to wait.”
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Toastmasters chapter in works for next semester The organization seeks to teach the arts of public speaking and leadership. By Rachel SnydeR The Shorthorn senior staff
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Monique Rezaida, center, the mother of Bobby Tillman, 18, is helped away from the Douglas County Courthouse after a hearing regarding the four men charged in her son’s death.
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4 arrested in teen’s death at Ga. party DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — Bobby Tillman was stomped, kicked and punched to death at a weekend house party after police say he walked by a group who decided to pounce on the next person who passed by. Four have been charged with murder. The fatal beating happened after a fight broke out between two females and two males at a house party, and one of the females hit a male, said Douglas County Maj. Tommy Wheeler. He said the man said he wouldn’t retaliate against a girl, but he would hit the next man that walked by. Tillman happened to be the unlucky person, and Wheeler said multiple attackers beat and stomped him. Deputies arriving at the scene tried to administer CPR to the teen, but he didn’t survive. Douglas County Coroner Randy Daniel said Monday that Tillman died of blunt force trauma to the head and chest.
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Cowboys fire coach Wade Phillips IRVING — Wade Phillips was fired Monday as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, with offensive coordinator Jason Garrett promoted to take his place. Team owner Jerry Jones decided enough was enough following a 45-7 loss to the Green Bay Packers the night before. It was the Cowboys’ fifth straight loss, dropping them to 1-7.
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At least 70 injured in W. Sahara dispute RABAT, Morocco — At least three Moroccan security officials were killed and 70 injured Monday in a raid on a protest camp in the disputed territory of Western Sahara and unrest that then spread to a nearby city, where several buildings were set on fire. Laayoune, a city of some 270,000 people, many with Saharawi roots, is the main city in the disputed Western Sahara, where a local independence movement is locked in a long conflict with Morocco, which claims the territory. Monday’s unrest came after weeks of tension in the vast desert territory, and hours before the scheduled reopening of informal U.N.-sponsored talks Monday in Manhasset, New York, between Morocco and the Polisario Front group on the fate of Western Sahara. Morocco seeks autonomy for the territory it annexed in 1975, but the Polisario Front wants independence for the Western Sahara and its Saharawi population.
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Yemeni cleric calls for killing Americans CAIRO — U.S.-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, linked to attacks by al-Qaida in Yemen on U.S. targets, called for Muslims around the world to kill Americans in a new video posted on extremist websites Monday. Al-Awlaki, 39, is one of the most prominent English-language radical clerics. In his 23-minute message in Arabic, al-Awlaki said because all Americans are the enemy, clerics don’t need to issue any special fatwas or religious rulings allowing them to be killed. Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, has used his website and Englishlanguage sermons to encourage Muslims around the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and has been tied by U.S. intelligence to the 9/11 hijackers. and to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas last year with explosives hidden in his underwear. He was also in contact with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in November at the Fort Hood, Texas military base. — The Associated Press
Students hoping to assist in establishing a new organization that helps students with public speaking received a preview on how future meetings may operate. Toastmasters is an international organization that seeks to help members become better public speakers and leaders. The organization has about 260,000 members, according to the Toastmasters website. The organization is open for students, faculty and staff to join but can’t have another meeting until next semester after they’ve been chartered as an official student organization. Attendees of the Toastmasters informational meeting on Monday in the University Center Red River Room learned to give better speeches from seasoned speech masters. Attendees learned about what makes a good presentation such as having logical organization for your speech and using gestures effectively. Accounting junior Ziad Syed is organizing a UTA chapter and said 29 people went to the informational meeting. The organization needs 20 paying members to be chartered with a total of $47 due from members. Syed said the group still needs $125 to be funded. Part of this will come from
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Students from LULAC will begin efforts to raise awareness Wednesday with a union ceremony in front of the Central Library mall. Throughout the week they will participate in a candlelight vigil at Southern Methodist University and hope to drop a support banner over Mockingbird Bridge in Dallas. Biology sophomore Maribel Macias said she has family members in other states that can’t go to school because they are undocumented. “The DREAM Act tells me we can do it,” she said. Marketing sophomore Teresa Fernandez said it’s important to support the act
the dues members pay. “I found that there was interest for a Toastmasters chapter at UTA and started contacting departments to help me advertise,” he said. English senior Jessica Urban heard about the meeting from Syed who said the meeting provided students with a comfortable environment to practice public speaking. “It’s a good opportunity to improve speech-making skills since you don’t always get to in classes,” she said. The speeches were timed and an evaluation was given after all the speeches were over based on vocal variance, use of gestures and organization of the speech. Biochemistry junior Houda El Fakir said she found out about the Toastmasters meeting in an announcement from the Honors College Council, where she serves as president. El Fakir said she learned to channel nervousness while speaking into gestures that help the speech make its point instead of nervous gestures. She said preparing speeches on the spot help students learn to think quickly under pressure and feel comfortable giving presentations. “This meeting was a good representation of how the other meetings will go,” she said. Career Services director Barbara Peet was contacted by Syed to serve as an adviser to the group. Peet said her role in organizing the group has been recruiting possible mem-
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Guest speaker Robi Ley presented her speech, “The Entertaining Speaker,” at the first informational meeting of Toastmasters on Monday afternoon in the University Center Red River Room. Toastmasters is an organization that helps improve its members’ public speaking and leadership skills through interaction and participation.
toaStmaSteRS uta chapteR contact inFoRmation Ziad Syed e-mail: ziad.syed@mavs.uta.edu For a list of meeting locations in your area, visit www.toastmasters.org or e-mail Toastmasters at tminfo@toastmasters.org.
because a lot of people who are going to school can’t have a positive future without citizenship. “The passing of the DREAM Act can inspire them to go to college instead of having a negative influence on their future,” she said. Macias and Fernandez will participate in the one-day fast on Friday. Lizette Olmos, LULAC national communications director, said other schools from across the nation are raising awareness, but not all are participating in a fast. Anonuevo has come in contact with LULAC students from other states and considers it a national movement. “Each state is doing their own thing,” she said. About five to 10 students from each school have com-
bers. “Communication and leadership skills are some of the most important skills
employers look for,” she said.
mitted to the five-day fast, Anonuevo said. The fast will end with a meeting of participants on Sunday at noon at the Guada-
lupe Cathedral in downtown Dallas.
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dReam act timeline 2001 - Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) introduces the DREAM Act to the Senate, and Representatives Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Chris Cannon (R-Utah) to the House. 2002 - The act has 18 Senate cosponsors and 152 members of the house in support. 2004 - It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee by a 16-3 vote and was the only major immigration reform proposed in the senate. 2006 - It passes the full Senate as part of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. 2007 - The act falls 8 votes short of the 60 votes necessary to avoid a filibuster on the bill. 2009 - Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) introduces a portion of the DREAM Act in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform American Security and Prosperity Act. 2010 - Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) reintroduces the bill to the senate with two cosponsors Sources: http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/dream-act, http://www. communitychange.org/our-projects/firm/our-work/the-dream-act/what-is-the-dreamact, http://www.usstudents.org/our-work/legislative/federal-dream-act-details
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alumnus Mykale roys, right, explains the rules of a battle game Saturday at Veterans Park in Arlington. The group of LARPers, or Live Action Role Players, meets every Saturday to role play in a variety of combat scenarios.
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‘For Colored Girls’ Starring: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson and Whoopi Goldberg Director: Tyler Perry ranking: 2 out of 10 When Spike Lee, a brilliant director whose films comment on race without being confined by it, compared watching Tyler Perry’s films to “going back to the idiot box,” he openly challenged minority audiences to demand more from cinema. Today, Lee’s call still remains unheeded. When it came out, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, was an experimental play that fused poetry and choreographed dance, demanding that the Afro-American voice be viewed as more than “otherness.” Left in the hands of Perry, his film adaptation manipulates the audience’s emotions. A schmuck for soap opera theatrics, Perry covers up his inadequacies at handling a foreign script with close up shots of teary eyes, snotty noses and a tacky score. The film follows nine black women who each examine race, gender, sexuality, identity and spousal abuse. The cast, a collection of stage and screen actresses, all have bright and dull moments on screen. Kimberly Elise is haunting as a mother who loses everything except her spirit. Whoopi Goldberg and Thandie Newton have done some amazing work, The Color Purple and Beloved, respectively, but without deliberate directorial guidance, they both swing for the fences and overact when they strike out. It’s easy to spot Perry’s hand in this modern retelling of the original ’70s setting. Perry’s writing prompts laughter, not self-reflection, during the scenes of rape, abuse and violence. This makes Shange’s poetic soliloquies feel awkward and obtuse to the scene. There are so many story lines to give attention to that each narrative is hastened. With the film bordering on misandry, it’s up to the uneven ensemble to transcend the material. Shange’s writing was so raw, her vision so individual, that the play allowed the audience to figure out the character’s obsession with control and violence themselves. As much as he probably wants her to, Madea can’t sweep in to save the day, so he simplifies scenes with images of drawn curtains, cigarette smoke and mood lighting that are taken out of a Film 101 textbook. Fortunately, people are more complex than the clowns of “Meet the Browns” and so is cinema. Perry is too detached from the mystery of either to direct the subtlety of both. —Lee Esobedo
Live Action Role Players battle every Saturday in medieval reality By William Johnson
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rving resident Joshua Herron yelled over the sounds of war. “Fireball, Fireball, Fireball!” he said. He raised his voice to make sure his enchantments were heard over those of others. For them, this is a battleground in the world of Amtgard and he attempts to slay the oncoming attackers. Herron’s men eventually pushed through as the day’s battle at Veterans Park came to a close. Herron is only one of the thousands of global participants in the game of Amtgard, a medieval roleplaying game where players choose between traits and abilities for their own characters. equipped with foam weaponry and medieval garb, the group gathers in Arlington every week to form story lines and games within the community of 30 players.
certain number of lives are given, usually five. Upon death, players must either leave the field to respawn or wait for a player to revive them.
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Amtgard originated in 1983 in el Paso, Texas. The game then spread across the country and beyond by forming international parks. Although Veterans Park is the closest community to the university, parks exist in Denton, Garland and Wichita Falls and in more than a hundred locations in the U.S. and The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley around the world — including croatia, Germany, canada and Korea. Burkburnett resident Justin Watson defends himself from The group based in Arlington is called the barony an attacker during a ditch battle at Veterans Park on of Mourningwood Glen, which is a part of the larger Saturday. Watson created his unique shield by using his Kingdom of emerald Hills and spans across the sister’s baby blanket and said that he has never heard a tri-state area. Alumnus Mykale Roys, also known as bad comment about it. “Virgil,” began playing last fall and is the baron of the site, placing him as the leader of the park. How to play “Anything that needs taking care of, I do,” Roys I make a high table for one of the events we do at one of our specialty parks,” Baccus said. “And that was my The people of Mourningwood Glen gather every said. As the baron, Roys selects and sets up the day’s introduction into Amtgard. Within three months, I Saturday in their kingdom, or Veterans Park, bebattle games and checks the stability of the equip- signed up and stayed with it ever since.” tween noon and 1 p.m. Players use handcrafted foam-layered shields, ment brought to the park. Over time, the foam can wear away and the core can become exswords, throwing weapons, spears and posed. Although they are rare, accidents Why they play arrows. Unique weapons are crafted by happen. players but must meet specific guideeveryone who participates in the Live Action When and With weekly attendance and con- Role Play has a different reason. community memlines. tributions to the park, players can level bers, as well as university faculty and students, are The rules of fighting in Amtgard are Where up their characters in certain honor-based. each person has to agree among the visitors. Where: Veterans classes. each week awards that a hit makes contact. each limb can Roys’ mother has small vessels disPark, 3600 W. Ara character one experience normally take one hit of damage before ease and arterial atherosclerosis, which online kansas Lane point and event weekends it is rendered useless by game rules. Two caused him to take a break in his studWhen: Noon to 4 exClusive offer two or three points. severed limbs or one stab to the torso ies from the university. p.m. Saturdays These points accumulate counts as a death. “For me, it’s an escape from reality,” Go to theshorthorn. after 17 weeks and a player “Always be throwing to kill the opRoys said. “Reality is hard. everyone com for a video is promoted to the next level. ponent, not knock the sword out of the knows that. You have stuff to pay and and first-person Knights are the most decorated way,” said Alvarado resident Will curtis, also known account from the things to do. But when you come out rank of player. Knighthood is achieved as “Siegfried Wulfe.” Amtgard world. here, you meet people and go crazy. Magic is also played in a few forms — healing, through combat, holding office, craftsAlso, it’s a heck of a workout.” defense and offense. Offensive magic is normally manship or service to the park. Knights Forrest Harden, also known as “Sir identified by uniquely colored sacs. “Buffing” and have squires under them who are training for knight- Kenta Redhawk,” chose his name based off of Iro“debuffing” spells, which increase and decrease a hood. Squires can have men at arms or players who quois word for forest, “Kenta.” train under them. targets attributes, are normally long incantations. Harden, a former UTA student, spent six years Herron, also known as “eniad,” is a magical charas a military policeman before going to college. Duracter. Players like him carry a satchel with spell balls ing his 16 years in Amtgard, he held the positions of inside. For example, when it’s time for them to cast garb/equipment baron, duke and lord of Mourningwood Glen many an offensive spell, they cry, “Lightning bolt!” and toss Members come dressed in colorful outfits, called times. spells at opponents. “After college, Amtgard was pretty much all I garb, and armed with shields, swords and other Rules state that children younger than 14 must weapons constructed mainly of foam with cores of knew,” Harden said. have special permission to play, but the park is open PVc piping or golf club shafts. Harden’s wife and children take part each week. to all who want to participate. Weapon and armor choice are limited by class Outside of his family at home, his brother has also “We just want to make sure they have a basic un- and have particular restrictions on type and size of been knighted and his nephew is close to being derstanding of the rules before we throw them out each weapon and piece of armor. Armor gives ad- knighted within the community. In all, Harden has there,” Arlington resident Forrest Harden said. ditional resistance to damage. Some members bring 12 family members who are regular LARPers. Players spend the day sparring, ditching or par- iron plated or leather armor for maximum protecHe said Amtgard is also a history lesson for his ticipating in battle games created by the baron, the tion. children. He said they’ve learned about honor and leader of the group. Sparring is the combat most Fort Worth resident Dave Baccus, also known chivalry in the medieval period, along with facts players participate in and is normally done individu- as “elder Galen,” is a craftsman and merchant in about how armor was worn and fights were done. ally or in groups. Though each park acts independent of each other, Amtgard and Mourningwood Glen. He often goes Ditching is a game type where players divide into to major gatherings with his woodwork, chain mail Harden said he has found a sense of community two teams on opposite sides of the field and converge and leather work to sell his equipment to players. through international groups such as The Saracens. in group battle. The fighting lasts until one side is His start in Amtgard began with his daughter, who “no matter where I go in Amtgard, I know that eliminated with the first fallen combatant going to started playing in the Denton park while at the I’ll find a Saracen company to welcome me like a the opposing side. University of north Texas. He became further intro- brother,” he said. Battle games have specific rules and are set up duced to the game when the King of emerald Hills with scenarios and objectives dependent on a current asked a favor of him. William Johnson story line. Death in these games is temporary and a features-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu “One of the monarchs in the kingdom asked that
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Department hopes to expand linguistics The faculty wants to expand the program from four students to about 15. By Allen BAldwin The Shorthorn staff
Lovers of languages can earn an undergraduate degree in linguistics. This semester, the Linguistics and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Department began offering an undergraduate degree in linguistics. There are currently four students in the program, a number that the department would like to increase. Linguistics chair Colleen Fitzgerald said she hopes they’ll have 10 to 15 students by the end of the year. “I’ve gotten e-mails from high school students who have heard about the major and are intrigued,� she said. “They are thinking of coming here for the major.� Fitzgerald said the process of establishing a linguistics major began in fall 2009 when the faculty began talking about the necessary curriculum to start the major. Fitzgerald said she then wrote the bachelor’s proposal and sent it through the proper channels. “We’re all committed to undergraduate education,� she said. “This is something we’ve wanted for quite
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year’s event. Each match will consist of no more than three one-minute rounds. The 24 participants were chosen from a number of applicants according to weight class, amateur status and ties to UTA or other organizations. Fighters have been matched according to their weight class, and this is the first year they learned who their opponents would be before the actual match. Accounting sophomore Chris Eamiguel will be going toe to toe with finance senior Eric Zielinski for his first year in the event.
He’s a Sigma Chi pledge, and when his fraternity brothers saw him fighting in an amateur match they talked him into signing up for Fight Night. “I’m ready to see what I’m capable of and see what my opponent is capable of,” he said. New participant Chas Gillinger heard about the event when he was at Cowboys Dancehall two weekends ago. “I’m glad the event came up, because I want to get some in-ring practice before Golden Gloves in the spring,” he said. The Golden Gloves amateur tournament for the Metroplex is held in Fort Worth every year.
Biology senior Joel Palacios is returning for his second year of Fight Night. The Pi Kappa Alpha member said he wanted to represent his fraternity in any way he could. He’s also gone from 120 to 145 pounds and had physical therapy for back problems related to a childhood injury. “When I was five I had a head injury and was temporarily blinded and paralyzed for a couple of weeks,” he said. “Now I’ve been training, running, trying to get in shape. I’m really excited.” Hicks pointed out that while Sigma Chi is happy to raise funds for the Boys and Girls Club, what they really value is participating in events with the children. In October, Sigma Chi members participated in a pumpkin carving event with children from the club. “At the end of the day what we are concerned with is one-on-one interaction with the kids more than any check we can cut them,” Hicks said.
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students cAn tAke A swing foR fight night To promote the Fight Night event on Thursday, Sigma Chi fraternity, the men’s basketball team and Maverick cheerleaders will be enticing students to buy tickets by encouraging them to punch their peers with inflatable gloves in a bounce house Wednesday on the Central Library mall 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All proceeds from the event are donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Arlington. “We are doing a lot of promoting because we want to raise $20,000 this year,” said Ben Kliever, business management junior and Sigma Chi member. “Last year we raised $12,000.” Members of Sigma Chi also will be on the mall Thursday selling food along with Fight Night tickets. – Ashley Bradley
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“If you’re familiar with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, you’ve seen how they use green screens on their shows to make it look like their correspondents are all over the world,” Harvey said. “We were wanting to do something like that but couldn’t afford it.” Andrade said they also are considering doing future shows on a smaller scale. The department is considering building a unit set, which could be used by different plays with minimal adjustments. Another item that was cut was travel expenditure, Theatre Arts chair Kim LaFontaine said. He said the department sent delegates to three or four theater conferences in the past, but the number is reduced to one. Dramaturg associate professor Dennis Maher said most traveling was done for recruitment purposes. “We listen to auditions and see students that might be interested in our program and let them know what we’re about,” he said. Attending these conferences
makes UTA visible and helps recruit students, LaFontaine said. UTA’s presence at a conference helps bolster the university’s image as a good school for theater arts. The United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference is one such expo, Harvey said. “When I first got here in the fall of 2006, I was mostly reimbursed by the department,” she said. “But the amount from the department has been declining ever since.” LaFontaine said the most important thing was how the budget cuts directly affected students and the quality of their education. “The provost and the president have decided that students need excellent faculty, and they’re not sacrificing on that due to budget cuts,” she said. Maher said he worries about the effect of continued budget reductions coupled with increasing student enrolment. “Everybody is trying to do the most with very little,” Maher said. “And there’s going to come a time when you reach critical mass.” VidwAn RAghAVAn news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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