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The dirt on UTA composting
Using organic waste, a compost production line produces rich soil each season
BY SARAH LUTZ
WHAT CAN I COMPOST?
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Most people might not appreciate a stack of dead flowers or mysterious barrels of hay showing up in their office, but for campus composter John Darling, it happens everyday. Starting as a volunteer “puttering around” about 10 years ago, Darling has turned UTA’s compost pile, located behind the Environmental Health & Safety Office, into a production line that supplies UTA with all the soil it needs. Darling said he’s collected 46 tons of food waste over the period of five years from UTA kitchens alone. “There’s a general upward trend as people change, as people get more used to it and as people become more serious about collecting,” he said. “Because I rely on them as people to get more serious about saving stuff.” The university demands for compost may grow with the addition of a community garden, which received funding approval in late October from Arlington City Council. Grounds maintenance supervisor Jan Hergert is looking at résumés to find Darling a work-study student. Recently, the compost pile received an upgrade from the plumbing department. The department added four drains so rain water can flow out instead of creating a thick layer of mud at the compost site, making the machinery nearly impossible to move, Hergert said. Darling started the compost pile in 2004 with the help of the Arlington Conservation Council. About two years later, the university received a grant from the city for more than $200,000, Facilities Management director Larry Harrison said. The grant paid for a Bobcat Skid Loader and an in-vessel rotary compost unit, which can rotate the compost once every 24 hours. Later, a screen was purchased by the Environmental Health and Safety office, which originally oversaw the compost pile until about a year ago. The screen is a machine used to sift out all the larger debris so compost can be taken to various campus locations. Trimmings, fallen leaves, grass clippings and food waste go to the compost pile. Darling maintains the compost through a system of smaller piles which he rotates on a regular basis, adding water with leaves or food waste. Then, large debris is sifted out, and the soil is used for campus plants. The department is looking for funding from the Sustainability Office to add a cement platform below the sifter to make it easier to manage the compost, Harrison said.
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platform for the screen, which is sinking into the mud.
Campus composter John Darling keeps track of how many pounds of food he gets from each location. Food waste comes from several locations besides the campus. Arlington Memorial Hospital gives more than 50 pounds on a regular basis and two nearby restaurants, Mi Tierra’s and the Tin Cup, give between 10 and 30 pounds. The Starbucks on Cooper Street also fluctuates between one and several buckets of coffee grounds, while the Starbucks in the University Center is approximately 50 pounds a day.
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It can take a couple of weeks to build up a pile. Each pile is equal parts kitchen waste — banana peels and coffee grounds — leaves, grass or other nitrogen-rich plants. Every year the university scalps the grass for winter rye. About a week ago, Darling received eight to nine hundred bags of grass.
Once a pile has decomposed and been screened, grounds keepers use it in various parts of the campus to fertilize the plant life, completing the cycle.
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Trees and shrubs pruning from around the campus are put into a wood chipper before being added to a compost pile.
Darling said compost needs exactly what we need: a balanced diet, carbon and nitrogen to make carbohydrates and proteins, water and air. Trillions of fungi and bacteria break down the organic material. Then insects and other organisms eat the fungi and bacteria creating a food web in the compost pile.
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Though composting dates back to before Biblical times, the in-vessel compost unit does exactly the same thing as a compost pile, Darling said. Inside a compostable Biobag made of corn oil plastic, kitchen waste, leaves and water are added to the machine, which can automatically rotate once every 24 hours.
It takes about four to six months for the organic material to decompose into a healthy pile of soil, though he does have a pile that’s about a year old. Darling said it can be done in six to eight weeks, but measures his success by the amount of soil the grounds keepers need. Within the last year, it has become so productive that UTA no longer purchases soil from outside sources.
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4. SKID LOADER Purchased with the grant that helped start the compost pile, the skid loader is used to turn the compost pile. If the pile is not turned on a regular basis the air will escape, release methane and contribute to global warming.
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10. FLAGS Darling marks each pile with a numbered flag to remind him when he started building the pile and when he finished building it. He keeps track on a clip board of each piles progress with a daily log tracking when he added leaves, when he turned it, etc.
11. DRAIN New drains were recently added to the compost area. After a heavy rain the land would hold water and turn swampy. Soil from the College Park Center site is added to grade the earth so water moves towards the new drains.
NOT ILLUSTRATED: OUTER EDGE OF A COMPOST PILE The smell of the compost attracts feral cats so a thick outer layer of leaves or hay is laid down to keep them from tearing into the compost.
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NOT ILLUSTRATED: INNER PART COMPOST PILE
In the last step of the process, Darling uses the skid loader to move the compost pile into the screen. The machine sifts out all the larger pieces of sticks and other debris so it can be taken to various locations of the campus. The university is working to get a cement
The inside of the compost pile is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit because the microorganisms are metabolizing and releasing heat. Darling checks the temperature to see how healthy the pile is. When it gets to about 100 degrees, he knows it requires his attention.
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ONEBOOK
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Author talks love, loss
New initiative brings UTA closer to Tier One
Dana Canedy spoke to a packed house on Monday night in the UC Bluebonnet. BY RACHEL SNYDER The Shorthorn senior staff
Dana Canedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for The New York Times, left students with the same advice she gives her 4-year-old son before sending him off to pre-school: “Go make a difference in the world today.” The presentation was part of OneBook, a program that highlights a book to be studied in English 1301 classes. It was held Monday in the University Center Bluebonnet Ballroom. About 1,000 students came to see Canedy speak about her book, A Journal For Jordan, which discusses her relationship with her late fiancé Charles King, a sergeant during the Iraq war who died in October 2006. Christopher Conway, OneBook program faculty co-chairman, said he expected 600 stu-
dents to attend. Some students were forced to sit on the floor and some were turned away. The audience broke into laughter when Canedy joked that her presentation was, “the closest I’ll ever come to feeling like Beyoncé.” “We’ve never had this many people come to one of our events ever,” Conway said. “I feel like the quality of interaction between the students and Dana was extraordinary.” She said she wrote the book, which was published in 2008, to honor her late fiancé and as a means of channeling her grief in a positive way. The book contains excerpts from the journal King kept while in Iraq, advising their son Jordan on how to be a good person. Canedy said writing the book was similar to reporting because both required her to engage the reader and remain true to the story. JOURNAL continues on page 6
UT System schools can transfer information faster by utilizing an intra-system connection. BY J.C. DERRICK The Shorthorn senior staff
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Author Dana Canedy discusses how much of herself was exposed as she wrote A Journal for Jordan, which helped her release the pain she was feeling over the death of her fiancé.
UTA’s Tier One efforts received a boost with the approval of a $23 million package for computing enhancements by the UT System. An initiative allowing all 15 UT System schools to utilize an intra-system connection which can transmit data at 10 gigabytes per second was approved by the UT System Board of Regents last week. This will allow institutions to transfer information in larger quantities than before, and facilitate the process of analyzing and reporting data, according to UT System spokesman Matt Flores. Flores said the improvements will aid the four UT System schools attempting to reach Tier One status. “Anything that you can do to improve or enhance your ability in research helps your ability to reach Tier One,” Flores said. “It could also be a good recruiting tool for bringing
faculty.” Suzanne Montague, Office of Information Technology vice president, said the new increased bandwidth is beneficial because it will allow university researchers to communicate on the same level with other UT System schools and data centers. “They have access to 10 gigs, but it’s not dedicated just to them. Other people get to join you on the highway,” she said. “The purpose is to provide everybody access to the highway.” The UT System’s three shared data centers, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Arlington Regional Data Center and the Houston Data Center, will all be enhanced to increase performance. “I think this is an absolutely wonderful thing they’ve done here,” she said. Kelsey Downum, senior associate vice president of research, said the enhancements will be particularly helpful for UTA researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for NucleCOMPUTING continues on page 6
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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.
SUNDAY Injured person medical assist At 8:02 p.m. a student was transported to Arlington Memorial Hospital after sustaining a head injury when she slipped in the parking lot of the Meadow Run apartments while on her way to the Maverick Activities Center along Nedderman Drive. The case was cleared. Hit and run Police responded at 2:00 p.m. to a student report that his parked and unattended vehicle had been struck and sustained damage in the right front panel at Faculty Lot 6 at 800 UTA Blvd. There were no injuries. The case is still active. Fire alarm At 6:47 a.m. police responded to a fire alarm at Arlington Hall on Pecan street. The Arlington Fire Department arrived and found the alarm was set off after a hole in the pressurized sprinkler system caused water to leak into a mechanical room on the third floor. The case was cleared. SATURDAY Injured person medical assist At 11:52 p.m. a student reported finding her roommate unconscious on the floor at Garden Club apartments at 312 UTA Blvd. Her roommate was taken to Medical Center of Arlington. The case was cleared.
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ROCK STAR DREAMING Library Assistant II Rene Tamez plays his guitar Monday afternoon in the Architecture courtyard. He said he has played since he was 16 with aspirations to become a rock star.
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A filmmaker will show how Mexican-American veterans have contributed to America’s military through a film that profiles three veterans and their journey through the Vietnam War at a screening Wednesday in the University Center. The documentary, As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos, is about the Vietnam War through the eyes of Chicano artist, producer and director Laura Varela said. The film deals with Chicano veterans in the Vietnam War and institutional racism at that time that led to the downplaying of MexicanAmerican military achievements. Chicanos constituted 20 percent of U.S. casualties in Vietnam while making up only 10 percent of the U.S. population as a whole, Varela said. “Chicanos have a warrior tradition,” Varela said. “We’ve contributed in every war in U.S. history including the Revolutionary War.” The film deals with post-traumatic stress disorder and how some veterans are coping with it. Varela said men are weary of treating invisible injuries because of a stereotypical machismo image imposed upon them by society. “In terms of culture, it is very hard for men to ask for help in general,” Varela said. “How do they ask for help with an invisible injury? It is an injury on their soul.” Susan Baker, Center for Mexican American Studies director, said the veterans in the film employed visual arts, literary arts and social activism in the community to combat PTSD after returning from the war. “It profiles several Latino veterans of the Vietnam War to illustrate how the arts have helped them cope with the aftermath of the war,” Baker said. The arts became a useful outlet for express-
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International Education Week Lecture Series: 1 p.m. University Center Red River Room. Free. Dolores Aguilar will present the second lecture of the series, “Personal Adjustment, Language Acquisition and Culture Learning in Short-term Cultural Immersion.” For more information, contact Lauren Cutcher at lcutcher@uta.edu.
Geographic Information Systems Day: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Library sixth floor atrium. Free. Faculty lectures, student project presenting and a workshop all introducing geographic information systems. For more information, contact Joshua Been at 817-272-5826.
Optional Practical Training seminar: 2-3:30 p.m. Swift Center Room 125. The workshop will inform international students about optional practical training. For more information, contact Satu Birch at international@uta.edu.
Passport Fair: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. University Center, near Starbucks. For more information, contact Lauren Cutcher at lcutcher@uta.edu. View more of the calendar at
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WHEN AND WHERE What: Screening of As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos and meet ing with the filmmaker, Laura Varela When: 7 p.m. today Where: University Center Rosebud Theatre Price: Free
Laura Varela, producer and director
ing their feelings, Baker said. She said the film would hopefully help veterans of current wars understand how previous generations dealt with PTSD. The film’s associate producer and editor, Anne Lewis, said the film was relevant today because of the wars currently going on. “When soldiers from Vietnam got back, there weren’t a lot of opportunities for them,” Lewis said. Lewis said the film goes further than most others, which try to soften the experiences of war. “It’s about particular people rather than generalities,” Lewis said. “It goes very deep into the issue.” Varela said it took her eight years to make this movie. “I don’t really care about the film festivals or the awards,” Varela said. “What makes those eight years worth it is the letters I get from veterans, thanking me for the movie, for understanding their plight.” The notion that she could contribute to the healing process was worth all the effort, Varela said. “It takes courage and creativity to survive conflict,” Baker said. “We need to be reminded that it takes courage and creativity to survive the aftermath.”
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“Flats and Rounds” exhibit: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Gallery 76102. Free. For more information, contact Corey Gossett at 817-272-0365. WEDNESDAY Charting Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies, Maps 1600–1900: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Special Collections, Central Library sixth floor. Free and open to all. For more information, contact Erin O’ Malley at 817-272-2179.
Documentary profiles Chicanos’ contributions in the U.S. military BY VIDWAN RAGHAVAN
International Education Week Lecture Series: 4 p.m. University Center Red River Room. Free. Carla Amaro-Jimenez will present the final lecture of the series, “It’s More than Sweeping Floors: Opportunities for Enhancing Student Learning in Service Learning.” For more information, contact Lauren Cutcher at lcutcher@uta. edu.
International Education Week Lecture Series: 10 a.m. University Center Red River Room. Free. Victoria Farrar-Myers will present the first lecture of the series, “Building a Community One Child at a Time.” For more information, contact Lauren Cutcher at lcutcher@uta.edu.
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The film illustrates how veterans of previous wars have dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Nedderman Hall Room 105. Free. For more information, contact Thanh Bui at tbui@uta.edu or 817-272-1536.
STUDENT ELECTIONS
Deadline to vote is 6 p.m. today Today is the last day to vote in the Student Congress, Homecoming and UTA Ambassadors elections. Carter Bedford, Student Governance and Organizations director, said he was unable to announce how many people voted so far, but the turnout at the Maverick Activities Center was relatively low compared to last spring Students can vote from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge or at the Maverick Activities Center. Students must bring their Mav Express cards to vote. Bedford said this is because of the high profile positions that are voted on during the spring. Voting reports will only be available after the polls close, because the computer system will not allow access to the results before then, Bedford said. He said results will be available at 6:15 p.m. today. Bedford said Reserve Officer Training Corps. battalion commanders verify the election results. “That way everyone can be sure we didn’t pick some candidate just because we liked them,” Bedford said. “The ROTC is disassociated with our office and makes the process transparent.” — Vidwan Raghavan
STUDENT GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATIONS
Carter Bedford named as director Carter Bedford is now the director of the Office of Student Governance and Organizations. He previously was the interim director, but a Student Affairs committee approved Bedford’s promotion and informed him of the decision last week. “This had been looming for a while,” Bedford said. “I was told it was going to go through the commitCarter Bedford, tee process.” Student An internal department e-mail Governance and was sent out early Monday announc- Organizations ing Bedford’s promotion. director Bedford said he has been busy with the elections for Student Congress, the UTA Ambassadors and Homecoming for the last few days and is excited about his new role. Bedford has been interim director since March.
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LULAC Mavericks ache for act UTA members fasted one to five days to support the DREAM Act while two LULAC members went to Washington, D.C.
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Former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is shown by the family boat in Dillingham, Alaska, in a scene from the reality series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” which premiered on TLC on Nov. 14.
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Palin’s series a stage for political future? ANCHORAGE, Alaska — “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” portrays the show’s heroine as an adventure-loving wife and mother enjoying a whirlwind of activities amid spectacular settings in her home state. There are no overt clues to her future political ambitions in the first episode of the eight-part TLC documentary series that began Sunday. However, Palin’s outdoorsy image against the stunning scenery often plays nicely with her familiar political message. There are scenes that are sure to suggest to some viewers that the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is positioning herself for a 2012 presidential run. There are contrary messages, too. In a promo for the show with a montage of outdoor scenes, she says would rather “be being doing this than in some stuffy old political office.”
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School district ends plan to ban textbook PLANO — A Texas school district has reversed its decision to ban a humanities textbook that contained photos of ancient nude sculptures. A spokeswoman with the Plano school district in suburban Dallas said Monday that teachers can continue to use the humanities textbook. Spokeswoman Lesley Range-Stanton told The Dallas Morning News that the district’s curriculum department had initially decided to replace the book “after a parent brought an issue to the staff’s attention.” The book — “Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Volume” — contains photos of nude statues from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, as well as the Italian Renaissance. The decision prompted complaints from students and parents that the district was censoring legitimate academic material.
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Scanners, pat downs upset flight passengers WASHINGTON — Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful. Across the country, passengers simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or probing pat-downs. Top federal security officials said Monday that the procedures were safe and necessary sacrifices to ward off terror attacks.
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Rolls-Royce replacing A380 engines LONDON — Rolls-Royce will temporarily replace entire engines that have oil leaks on the world’s largest jetliner after one motor suffered a frightening midair disintegration, an aviation regulator told The Associated Press on Monday. The official said the British engine-maker would take off faulty engines and replace them with new ones. It will then fix the leaking part and swap the engine back again. — The Associated Press
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Although their hunger is over, students still crave the reality of undocumented students’ rights. League of United Latin American Citizens Mavericks, along with other colleges and organizations across Texas, fasted last week to raise awareness about the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act aims to allow those under the age of 36 that were brought to the United States illegally by their parents before they were 16 to obtain citizenship by enlisting in the military or going to college for two years. The fasting ended at noon Sunday, but students still push for the act in Congress. Participants chose from a five-day fast from Wednesday to Sunday, a three-day fast from Wednesday to Friday or a one-day fast on Friday. Nicole Anonuevo, LULAC Mavericks vice president, said the fast was to gain attention and let Congress know how serious people are about the act. She said other students who fasted during the school week became frustrated and couldn’t focus on their schoolwork. “I had to last until Friday to let people know that we couldn’t stop — we had to keep going,” the criminal justice sophomore said. Luis Oseguera, computer science sophomore and LULAC Mavericks treasurer, fasted for three days. He said although he had trouble refraining from food, he had more time to study for schoolwork. The students consumed water and Gatorade to revitalize their electrolytes, Anonuevo said. Two LULAC state representatives, Emmanuel Faz, from Mountain View College, and Ramiro Luna, from Texas Tech University, went to Washington, D.C. on Monday with hopes of hand delivering the requests for passing the act on to a congressman by Friday. Students who push for the act to pass have turned in postcards and handwritten letters to the North Texas Dream Team. Faz is taking a petition signed by 921 students at Mountainview College along with the handwritten letters. He said the undocumented students feel like they can’t contribute more to the country that supplied them with an education. “The student deserves a chance to give back,” Faz said. Faz and Luna said they hope to reach out to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who has supported the act in the past. “Only two more Republican senators are needed to support the act,” he said. “Texas can make sure the DREAM Act passes.” This is the fourth time students have traveled to Washington, D.C. to promote the act, Luna said. “This is not a political decision for us,” he said. “This is life. We want to make sure every student has an opportunity.”
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lunchtime tunes Music performance sophomore Benson Lee plays the violin Monday afternoon at the FIrst Baptist Church of Arlington. He and other students performed during Music Mondays, by the church and the UTA Music Department. They performances every first Monday of the month.
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Volunteers spend the night homeless lo Ayala said he hopes attendees will remain dedicated throughout the night. He said it will be a good way to spread awareness of homelessness in the community. Ayala said he plans to bring his biggest and warmest comforter. “If it is really cold that night, I won’t mind,” the nursing sophomore said. “I will stay all night and bundle up.” Lylette Pharr, homeless coordinator for the City of Fort Worth, and J.C. Christian, Tarrant County Homeless Coalition representative, will speak at the start of the event about the homeless in Tarrant County and how students can get involved. She said there are 700,000 people around the country who don’t have a place to live. Pharr said 2,181 people are homeless in Tarrant County. She said homelessness is a complex issue with a simple solution. “There is not enough affordable housing,” she said. “It’s that simple, we need more affordable housing.”
Up to 40 students will sleep outside from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on the Central Library mall. By edna hOrtOn The Shorthorn staff
Students will trade in their beds for cardboard boxes tonight. The UTA Volunteers will host One Night Without a Home at 7 p.m. on the Central Library mall. The volunteers will host discussions on homelessness and have scavenger hunts representing homeless scenarios. Every year, The National Coalition for the Homeless sponsors National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week to bring awareness to their cause the week before Thanksgiving. Accounting sophomore Keithlin Garrett, UTA Volunteers health and homelessness director, said the event lets students know how they can make a difference about homelessness. Twenty to 40 students will camp outside in cardboard boxes until 7 a.m. Each student can bring his or her own pillows and blankets and a cell phone, but can’t bring laptops or iPods. UTA Volunteer Michael Ange-
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‘127 HOURS’
When you’re counting the hours until death, you might find yourself reminiscing on the strangest memories and considering the most gruesome of acts. This is where we find Aron Ralston (James Franco), the antihero of director Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, with his right arm pinned beneath a boulder and stuck deep in Utah’s Blue John Canyon. Based on Ralston’s memoir, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, the film synchronizes brilliant work throughout production. Along with Franco’s understated performance, the guitar driven score and lush cinematography rip the brakes off a film that barrels into audiences’ hearts like a runaway train. Ralston is a rebel without a care, telling no one of his whereabouts and leaving his Swiss Army Knife at home (which will come back to painfully haunt him, literally.) Boyle has proven to be deft at helming films of various genres. 127 Hours is his most idiosyncratic film since Trainspotting. Boyle seems to be having a hell of a time directing the film. Especially evident during the hallucinatory scenes, where he employs psychedelic cross cutting and a thick haze of ambient lighting. Overzealous passion can sometimes breed missteps, and Boyle’s hand often jabs too empirically during scenes of Ralston’s mental decay. Like last year’s Slumdog Millionaire, the director can’t decide if his film is a drama or comedy. Goofy oneliners and cocky camera angles are failed attempts at lightening the mood of a story that’s about stumbling in the dark before finding illumination. With Ralston, Franco finds the method to his madness and descends delicately into territory that surpasses actors his age. Carrying most of the film alone, Franco did what Boyle asked him to do, find the right amount of empathy within a character whose situation volleys between physical endurance and mental frailty. Along with his gear, Ralston brings his camcorder — which after the accident — proves to be a lens into the mind’s eye. As his mind begins to crack, he hosts his own game show starring as host, contestant and audience. No matter how much you ready yourself, there is no preparing for the amputation scene. Boyle eases us in slowly, showing us the depths that Ralston goes to survive. We are stuck with him as he succumbs to drinking his own urine, admits on camera to a failed personal manifesto, and contemplates masturbating to feel pleasure one last time. With films like Saw and Hostel amputating audience empathy, the sickening aftertaste of the severing scene refreshingly reminds us that we haven’t devolved into detached depravity yet. — Lee Escobedo
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Nursing senior Rachael Williamson and roommate nursing junior Elena Moore proclaim themselves Harry Potter fans as they adorn their apartment with memorabilia from the series. Among the items are replicas of wands, the Sorting Hat and recreated items such as scarves and snitches.
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Feeling the magic all over again Longtime ‘Harry Potter’ fans await the latest and next to last installment of the nearly 10-year series with nostalgia BY ALANNA QUILLEN The Shorthorn staff
The end is near. For Harry Potter and friends, at least. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, set to release this Friday, is the first part of the final movie in the seven-part series based on the world-renown fantasy books written by J.K. Rowling. With the final days of Potter magic counting down, are the die-hard fans feeling the effects? Nursing senior Rachael Williamson said she doesn’t think so. “I feel like it’s been over since the last book came out,” she said. “I think most of the people who’ve read the books know what happens by now.” Williamson, a self-proclaimed Harry Potter fan, has read the books since she was a little girl. In fifth grade, she read a rare uncorrected copy of the first book that her mother’s friend received from a conference. During that time, no one had even heard of what she was reading. She has read all of the books and seen all of the movies so far, adding that she and her roommates even play the movies in the background while studying at their apartment. “It’s kind of like Star Wars for our time period,” Williamson said. “It’s a pretty epic movie series just because it’s been going on for so many years.” When it comes to defining a die-hard Harry Potter fan, Williamson said it’s pretty basic. “They just had to have read the books though, because you miss so much in the movies and you don’t know what’s going on,” she said. Ben Agger, sociology and humanities professor and Center for Theory director, said he picks up a theme of disappointment among fans that the end is near. “People want the author to continue the life and times of Harry Potter and his friends,” he said. “It’s really an interesting literary decision to stop the series. But at some level, it’s a labor of love.” Agger said he believes the movie is a supplement to the book, which is the real vehicle in the craze. “The movies are just a Hollywoodization of Harry Potter,” he said. “Interesting in their own right, but they don’t substitute for the real thing, which is the book.” Williamson said even after the last film releases, she won’t stop being a fan. She said she’s even more of a fan now than when she was younger. “I think I need to tone it down, but it’s such a great story,” she said. “My roommate and I, who’s another Harry Potter fan, have lived with each other for the past four years. I think we just feed off of each other’s nerdiness.” Her roommate, nursing junior Elena Moore, didn’t jump into the series until the seventh book came out in 2007. She overheard friends gabbing about the series and decided to pick up the first book and crack it open. Within one summer, Moore completed five of the seven books and soon after finished the last two books of the series. Moore said the way Rowling comes up with the content makes her imagination go crazy and thinks of herself as a true Harry Potter fan. “A Harry Potter nerd, I would call it,” she added. “It’s really huge to read the books. The movies don’t really do them justice.” Agger said there are three reasons why young people like Harry Potter. “The protagonists are smart, they have their own world that is somewhat off limits to adults and they have efficacy, or power,” he said. Williamson and Moore have accumulated an above-average amount of Harry Potter memorabilia such as wands, T-shirts and even the Sorting Hat, which, upon wearing in the first book, sorts young wizards and witches into the houses at Hogwarts. “We’ve gone a little over the top,” Moore said, adding that she has even named their pet snake Nagini, after main antagonist Lord Voldermort’s own snake. Williamson’s friends threw her a Harry Potterthemed birthday party last year where they played
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Nursing senior Rachael Williamson stands in front of a collection of Harry Potter memorabilia she and roommate nursing junior Elena Moore have accumulated since becoming fans of the world-renown series.
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Harry Potter Clue and decorated the place with scarlet and yellow streamers, the pride colors of Gryffindor. Hand-made snitches, the winged golden ball chased in the fantasy game of Quidditch, were even hung from the ceiling to add to the atmosphere. Surprisingly, neither Williamson nor Moore have waited in line for the book or opening night of the movie. That will change this year with the release of the seventh film - the two friends plan on throwing a Potter-inspired get-together complete with garb. Afterward, the group will wait in line for the midnight release Thursday. “I consider Harry Potter being like all the Star Wars movies that came out, where the fans went to all the showings and dressed up,” Moore said. “Then they continue to be Star Wars fans, and people continue to watch them for the first time.” English senior Emily Yaquinto waited in line for the seventh book and the past two movies. She, along with Moore and Williamson, already purchased their advance tickets. Yaquinto waited almost two hours in line before the midnight release of the book. She said the bookstore had a costume party, an area with a live reading of previous books and face painting. “It was more of a party than just standing in line,” she said. “Once the hype started building, they started opening the store up late so that the people didn’t have to wait outside.” For the films, Yaquinto said getting there a couple of hours early is the norm, but it just depends on which theater seat is desired. When it comes to waiting in lines, she said people go for the experience. Yaquinto has read every book in the series and said reading the books makes people more of a fan than the movies. “Having already read the books and experiencing the end of that, it makes me really excited for the movie because it’s continuing,” Yaquinto said. “Even though it’s split into two movies, it’s good to know that there’s one more coming out.” Agger said there’s a child in all of us, and even though the films are coming to an end, readers will still come to discover or rediscover Harry Potter. “What gripped you in your child and teenage years,
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The Marauder’s Map sits on top of a bookshelf in nursing senior Rachael Williamson’s apartment.
stays with you. And you’re never [too] old for fantasy,” he said. “It’s really important to kids and young adults that they imagine a world in which they are efficacious and not under the thumb of adults.” Williamson said the series is a fun read, especially for a college student when the last thing they want to do is add on to their serious to-do list. “I think all age levels can connect with it,” she said. “Especially for our age group right now, it’s like we’ve grown up as they’ve grown up.” Moore re-read the seventh book this past summer in time for the release of the final movie. “It’s an easy read and very exciting, that’s what drew me to it,” Moore said. “There’s so much to it, so many twists and turns. I just feel like a kid again.” ALANNA QUILLEN features-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Arlington Hall fire alarms cry wolf over leak Dorm residents say the alarms sounded five times over nine days. By AmAndA GonzAlez The Shorthorn staff
As the Arlington Hall fire alarm blared at 6:47 a.m. on Sunday, kinesiology junior Michael Romero rolled out of bed, slugged across the room, grabbed his phone and jacket and dragged his feet down the nearest stairwell. Romero said he was in no rush to evacuate the building after being woken by the fire alarms three days in a row. Arlington Hall residents said five fire alarms have went off within the last nine days. “I was so tempted to stay in my bed, but I know I should just go because you really don’t know when it’s going to be real,” he said. “You don’t want that one day that you stay in to be the day there is a fire.” Assistant Police Chief Rick Gomez said the fire alarm went off because of water leakage from a sprinkler pipe. Gomez said the Environmental Health and Safety Department would take care of the problem. He said he had no information about the cause of previous alarms from last week. Apartment Life director Molly Albart said Arlington Hall residents will be informed about the
cause of Sunday’s fire alarm. Albart said when alarms continuously go off, students don’t take them seriously, so they need to know that there was actually a problem with the system. She said students need to make sure they evacuate every time. Romero said all of the fire alarms are diminishing the value of the system, which could cause problems in the future. “It’s more like the boy who cried wolf effect because one day it is going to be real and we are going to be taking our sweet time getting out,” he said. Robert Smith, Fire and Life Safety associate director, said work is being done to access the situation. He said more information about the water leakage and the fire alarms would be available today. Romero said many residents are angry because they have had to get up and stand in the cold for up to 30 minutes because of the repeated fire alarms. “A lot of people are getting really fed up with it,” he said. “We ask the RAs all the time what is going on with it and they just say they can’t tell us.” He said it has been frustrating not knowing what is going on. AmAndA GonzAlez news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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About 1,000 people attended author Dana Canedy’s lecture on Monday in the University Center Bluebonnet Ballroom about this year’s OneBook selection, A Journal for Jordan. Attendees where denied entry as the ballroom reached capacity at about 7 p.m. and an overflow crowd gathered outside to listen to Canedy’s talk through the open doors.
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She said the book is a way to connect students to the impact of the war on military families. Canedy said her son hopes to be a police officer to serve his country’s people like his father did. She said she’ll support Jordan no matter what does, but would be reluctant to let him
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go into the dangerous career. “I also hope that I’m making a statement about how life goes on,” she said. “I’m still struggling with the loss greatly, but the healing has begun.” Canedy is working on a sequel to the book about how she and her son have overcome their loss and a movie deal is also in the works. “I’m overwhelmed, honored and humbled,” she said. “I’ve been to a lot of universities, but this was the biggest, most enthusiastic crowd.”
Psychology freshman Janay Parchman, who read the book, said it helped her learn to deal with the loss of an aunt, who died of heart problems. She said she used the support of her family to get her through her loss. “It was really honest,” Parchman said. “When these things happen to you, you have to find a way to deal with it.”
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One day, architecture junior Nathan Barnes wants to design smart buildings that automatically adjust temperatures or window shades based on surrounding environments. He said he hopes that a growing demand for environmental jobs and the university’s newest minor will get him there. Barnes joined nine other students, studying everything from nursing to sociology, in the Environmental and Sustainability Studies minor, which was added to the curriculum at the end of the spring semester. Career Center coordinator Cliff Garinn said he has seen several architecture students come in asking about jobs that have a sustainability
focus. Environmentally-focused jobs are a growing career field that is projected to grow by $1.5 trillion in the next 10 years, he said. Environmental educators, heating and cooling installation, agriculture, manufacturing, architecture, as well as chemical, civil and environmental engineering are all fields that will require more environmental understanding, he said. “All kinds of fields are out there to help restore, preserve and improve our environmental quality,” Garinn said. “If someone here at UTA is getting a minor in sustainable or sustainability studies, I think they’re going to do well as they’re going out to find these kinds of jobs.” He said sometimes it’s after the fact that a student realizes how to use his or her major and minor in conjunction to finding the perfect job. Barnes said the minor relates to his interests in architecture that address intelligent design. He said he’d like to study the concept of gray water, which is water from a sink or bathtub that is recycled to flush the toilet. But he would like to take it a step further, creating a building or an array of buildings that actually cleans its water after contaminating it. Anthropology junior Laura Jack is minoring in both French and the envi-
ronmental studies, but she doesn’t yet know what she’ll do with her environmental degree. This semester she enrolled in a literature class that discusses environmental justice, which refers to the uneven environmental benefits versus environmental harms distributed to minorities, lower socioeconomic classes or developing nations. She said the class is helping her set up an ethical argument that’s easy to understand in a way that she can apply to whatever work she ends up doing later in life. She said it’s also expanding her ideas of how to see things in a way that considers environmental impact. Sociology professor Raymond Eve has taught a class called Collective Behavior, which he will divide into a course that focuses on social movements like the environmental one. “When I first started teaching, about the time they invented the electric light bulb, which was in 1973, I would ask students what they thought were the 10 biggest problems in society and nobody ever mentioned the environment,” he said. “One of the really interesting things is why over time do people change their minds about which ones to panic about and get involved with.” sARAh lutz news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu