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Turkey Day breakdown
Vegan students find alternative ways to celebrate and deal with family who disapprove of their lifestyles.
With campus closed on Thanksgiving, residents prepare to celebrate with potlucks.
International students find other ways to celebrate the holiday.
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SUSTAINABILITY
New project seeks Budget cuts to come from to cut energy costs UTA and Siemens look to upgrade old systems to save over a million dollars. BY AMANDA GONZALEZ The Shorthorn staff
The university hopes a new conservation project will save more
than $1 million annually in energy costs by upgrading and replacing campus equipment. UTA is working with TDIndustries, a mechanical construction and facility service company, to replace two thermal plant chillers and heating and air conditioning systems.
The project, which is funded through a low-interest loan of $9.9 million by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is scheduled to be completed in December 2011 and is expected to have an energy savings of $1,133,488 annually. ENERGY continues on page 6
reserve funds The university won’t know the full amount to be returned to the state until the month’s end. BY J.C. DERRICK The Shorthorn senior staff
RESEARCH
Team hooks up veterans with free brain scans The researchers look at cerebral blood flow to test functionality. BY ALLEN BALDWIN
The latest cuts for state agencies will not impact daily operations at UTA, Provost Donald Bobbitt said Monday. “It’s really not a budget reduction, just a funds return,” Bobbitt said. Last week Texas House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst announced a 2-3 percent cut for the current fiscal year. Although UTA has not been informed of the exact amount it will have to return, Bobbitt said it should be between $2.5 million and $4 million and will come from reserve funds. “You try not to spend every-
thing when you put together the budget. We have reserves built in,” Bobbitt said. “We didn’t want to use them, but we have held off on making some purchases just in case.” He said some purchases will be put on hold in response to the payment to the state. State agencies will be officially notified of the 2-3 percent reduction via letter, which is scheduled to arrive by the end of the month. Bobbitt said UTA will not know the exact amount it will owe until that time. The cut is two to three percent of the state’s contribution to 2011 budgets, not the overall operating budget of each agency, Bobbitt said. The current fiscal year started Sept. 1. Bobbitt pointed to President BUDGET continues on page 6
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Student veterans in a certain project can get an inside look at their brain. Alexa Smith-Osborne, social work assistant professor, teamed up with two Bioengineering Department members to offer free brain scans to members of the Student Veteran Project, a university program aiming to ease the transition from duty to college life. “They may have had a blast exposure, which led to a concussion,” SmithOsborne said. “There can be after effects that affect learning even later on in life.” The veterans are scanned by a functional near-infrared spectroscopy machine. Bioengineering professor Hanli Liu said the machine’s portable and generates images by measuring blood flow to the brain. The Shorthorn: Alese Morales The researchers look at colors on the machine’s Fenghua Tian, bioengineering post doctoral associate, demonstrates how the functional screen to see how much near-infrared spectroscopy machine works Monday afternoon in the Engineering Laborablood goes to certain tory Building. parts of the brain. the scans began this Alexa SmithAfter researchers fig- month and two veterans Osborne, ure out which blood goes participated. She said social work where, they are able to she hopes to scan one assistant discern which parts of veteran a week. professor, the brain are functionpartnered For veterans that ing properly. The prob- might not need help with Bioenlem lies in the areas that from the Office for Stugineering do not see enough blood dents With Disabilities, Department flow. members to the brain scans can still Smith-Osborne said help them learn strateoffer free brain scans the purpose of the scans gies for studying based through a is to help veterans iden- on their brain’s processfunctional tify any learning dis- ing speed, Smith-Osnear-infrared abilities they may have borne said. spectroscoand to help them get ac“Some people really py machine commodations from the don’t do well with disto members Office for Students With tance education if they of the StuDisabilities. have a learning differdent Veteran Smith-Osborne said BRAIN continues on page 6
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LEGISLATION
Commandents bill sparks debate Students talk about public classrooms donning articles with religious sentiments. BY J.C. DERRICK The Shorthorn senior staff
The state Legislature will have a lot more than budget issues to argue about when the body meets in January. Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Van, prefiled a bill which would allow prominent display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms around the state. Flynn is quick to point out that the law is not forcing anything. “The bill gives them an opportunity to display it if they want to,” Flynn said. “It’s sad that we have to do it, but the teachers deserve that kind of protection. They shouldn’t be worried about being taken to task.”
Flynn cited the battle involving prayer at high school football games as one of the reasons the bill is needed. He said teachers and administrators should be able to display the Ten Commandments like the U.S. Supreme Court does. “If you walk up to the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C., you’ll see the Ten Commandments are displayed on about 50 locations around the building,” Flynn said. “Then when you go inside, Moses with the Ten Commandments is displayed right above the justices. We’re not doing anything but allowing freedom of the teachers.” Electrical engineering freshman Marcos Duran disagreed with the bill’s sentiments. “A teacher having that in the classroom is like her pushing her ideology on students,” he said. RELIGION continues on page 6
STUDENTS’ REACTION TO THE QUESTION: What do you think about teachers being allowed to hang religious articles in the classroom? “I don’t mind. I believe there is something. I’m religious, but any religion is fine. I believe everything is the same.” Aashish Ranjit,
medical technology junior
“I don’t really mind. It’s their room, they can do whatever they want with it. I can’t really think of any religions that are specifically offensive to anyone.” Brittany Robbins,
accounting sophomore
RESEARCH
Grant awarded for coral study A biology assistant professor will use $409,537 for coral reef research in Puerto Rico. BY ASHLEY BRADLEY The Shorthorn staff
“Save the rainforest” is a popular phrase heard by many worldwide,
but the ecosystems in the ocean are facing similar issues. For the past 10 years, coral has been dying off because of diseases they contract. Biology assistant professor Laura Mydlarz is working with two other professors from different parts of North America to save the coral reefs of Puerto Rico. They have re-
ceived a three-part, three-year grant of $693,861 from the OrganismEnvironment Interactions Program of the National Science Foundation to move along their research. The research focuses on the effects of temperature changes on the coral’s immune system and the GRANT continues on page 6
“I think teachers have an authority position and using their authority position and views on religion to show religion in either a good or bad way is an abuse of their authority.”
“As long as they’re not enforcing their religious beliefs on me, I don’t think it really matters. I think that’s why they have offices. But in the context of the classroom, it should be fine, too.”
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EYES ON THE BALL Psychology freshman Transon Nguyen plays table tennis Monday evening in the Maverick Activities Center. Nguyen plays the sport for fun and to meet new people.
MAVERICK SPEAKERS SERIES
329 tickets sold during the weekend for Lisa Ling Tickets for tonight’s Maverick Speakers Series with American journalist Lisa Ling saw a spike in sales during the weekend. The event sold 329 tickets during the weekend and less than 300 tickets were left as of Monday night. Ling will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Texas Hall and will encourage students to travel outside their comfort zones by sharing about her experiences. She said she hopes her lecture, “Open Heart, Open Mind,” will raise consciousness about issues that
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ica in early August and doesn’t plan to visit her home until the summer. The duo has looked for information on Thanksgiving celebrations on campus and wants to explore the BY BRIANNA FITZGERALD foundations of the holiday, she said. The Shorthorn staff “If any celebrations are happenAs students head home for ing on the vicinity we definitely want Thanksgiving to be with family, in- to be active in them.” Mohan said, ternational students living on cam- since this is their first opportunity to pus are reminded of similar tradi- celebrate the event. Some organizations on campus tions from their home countries. The university has 3,254 inter- are helping students feel at home national students enrolled this se- by including them in Thanksgiving mester. Some of those students will celebrations. The Baptist Student Ministry spend the holidays away from their held a Thanksgiving dinner for infamilies. Bahareh Bakhtiari, an interna- ternational students Saturday night. The celebration included the telltional student from Iran, said this ing of the origin of time of year isn’t traThanksgiving, along ditional for Iranians For a story about with a feast of tradito spend time with family, but she will vegan Thanksgivings tional holiday foods including turkey and feel lonely when the see page 4 stuffing, said biomediU.S. holidays arrive cal engineering sophoand other students more Elester Williams, BSM group are gone. “I hate it,” the civil engineering leader. Mechanical engineering senior graduate student said. “On campus it’s really quiet and nobody is Salman Abdul Sattar emigrated with his family from Pakistan to Canada around.” The Iranian celebration called in 2000. Sattar said he would like to celNorooz, meaning “new day,” occurs at the beginning of spring and lasts ebrate Thanksgiving, but he’s never been invited and has no plans for two weeks, she said. She said she talks to her family the break. Some of the students hope to take regularly and is sad she will miss out on the family celebration, but plans advantage of American festivities. Pragya Batra, an industrial ento spend time with friends over the gineering graduate student from break. Suganya Chandrasekaran, com- India, said Thanksgiving Day will be puter science graduate student, and a normal day for her while her family Monisha Mohan, electrical engineer- is at home in India. Typically a family time of year, ing graduate student, are both from India and celebrate Diwali, the festi- Batra is leaving for India at the beval of lights. This event is a five-day ginning of December on a 45-day celebration with family that includes trip to visit family, she said. “I’ll wait for the Black Friday music, food and dancing. “We miss our family members,” sales, “ she laughed, ”It’s the only Chandrasekaran said, “We talk to plan I have.” them everyday either by phone or on Skype.” BRIANNA FITZGERALD Chandrasekaran moved to Amernews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
Though many students can’t travel home to be with family, they find other things to do.
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often go ignored by the public. Ling said her work revolves around creating conversations people sometimes ignore. Her most recent work includes starting a website titled secretsocietyofwomen.com. It’s a website Ling said she hopes will create a place where women can go and share their thoughts and problems. Ling’s new show will premiere on The Oprah Winfrey Network in February and will be titled “Our America with Lisa Ling.” — John Harden
“flats and rounds” exhibit: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Gallery 76102. Free. For information, contact Corey Gossett at gallery76102@uta.edu or 817-272-0365. Wonders of the Universe: 6 to 7 p.m. Planetarium. $6 for adults, $4 for children. For information, contact the Planetarium at planetarium@uta.edu or 817-272-1183. Spacepark 360: 7 to 8 p.m. Planetarium. $6 for adults, $4 for children. For information, contact the Planetarium at planetarium@uta. edu or 817-272-1183. Maverick Speakers Series: Lisa Ling: 7:30 p.m. Texas Hall. Free, but ticket required.
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Stampede leaves 330 dead Associated Press
PHNoM PeNH, Cambodia — Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital Monday night, leaving more than 330 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer rouge. Some in the panicky crowd — who were celebrating the end of the rainy season on a sliver of land in a river — tried to flee over a bridge and were crushed underfoot or fell over its sides into the water. A witness who arrived shortly after the stampede described “bodies stacked on bodies” on the bridge as rescuers swarmed the area. Ambulances raced back and forth between the river and the hospitals for several hours after the stampede. Calmette Hospital, the capital’s main medical facility, was filled to capacity with bodies and patients, some of whom had to be treated in hallways. Many of the injured appeared to be badly hurt, raising the prospect that the death toll could rise as local hospitals became overwhelmed. Hours after the chaos, the dead and injured were still being taken away from the scene, while searchers looked for bodies of anyone who might have drowned. An Associated Press reporter saw one body floating in the river, and hundreds of shoes left behind on and around the bridge. Prime Minister Hun Sen, in his third post-midnight live television broadcast, said that 339 people had been killed and 329 injured. He described the chaos as the biggest tragedy to strike his country since the communist rule of the Khmer rouge, whose radical policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people during the 1970s. He ordered an investigation into the cause of the stampede and declared Thursday as a national day of mourning. Government ministries
were ordered to fly the flag at halfstaff. Authorities had estimated that upward of 2 million people would descend on Phnom Penh for the three-day water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season and whose main attraction is traditional boat races along the river. The last race ended early Monday evening, the last night of the holiday, and the panic started later on Koh Pich — diamond island — a long spit of land wedged in a fork in the river where a concert was being held. it was unclear how many people were on the island to celebrate the holiday, though the area appeared to be packed with people, as were the banks. Soft drink vendor So Cheata said the trouble began when about 10 people fell unconscious in the press of the crowd. She said that set off a panic, which then turned into a stampede with many people caught underfoot. information Minister Khieu Kanharith gave a similar account of the cause. Seeking to escape the island, part of the crowd pushed onto a bridge, which also jammed up, with people falling under others and into the water. So Cheata said hundreds of hurt people lay on the ground afterward. Many appeared to be unconscious. Philip Heijmans, a 27-year-old photographer from Brooklyn, N.Y., arrived at the scene half-an-hour after the stampede, and walked up the bridge to see hundreds of shoes and pieces of clothing, then a body, then more “bodies stacked on bodies.” He counted about 40 in all, with about 200 rescuers in the area. Some Australian firefighters were on the scene — it wasn’t clear why they were in town — who were checking pulses before loading bodies into vans. Cambodia is one of the region’s poorer countries, and has an under-
Houston man rape conviction dropped HOUSTON — Prosecutors have dropped the aggravated sexual assault charge that sent a Houston man to prison for 27 years before DNA evidence exonerated him. In a statement issued Monday, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced the formal dismissal of the charge against 44-year-old Michael Anthony Green. The move comes a month after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals formally ruled Green innocent. Green was released from prison in July after Harris County prosecutors reopened his case and new DNA tests commissioned cleared him of the 1983 rape of a woman.
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Man in past jogger attacks guilty WASHINGTON — A man imprisoned for attacking two female joggers was found guilty Monday of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy, wrapping up a murder mystery that took down a congressman and captured the nation’s attention a decade ago. Ingmar Guandique was convicted of first-degree murder for attacking Levy while she exercised in Washington’s Rock Creek Park in May 2001. Her disappearance made headlines when she was romantically linked to then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. Condit was once a suspect, but police no longer believe he was involved in her disappearance.
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An injured Cambodian is carried by a another visitor after a stampede onto a bridge at an accident site during the last day of celebrations of the water festival on Monday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thousands of people celebrating the festival on a small island in a river stampeded, killing many people, a hospital official said. Hundreds more were hurt as the crowd panicked and pushed over the bridge to the mainland.
community, but in recent years the poor have been evicted to make way for high-rise and commercial development, most yet to be realized.
developed health system, with hospitals barely able to cope with daily medical demands. Koh Pich used to host a slum
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI sought to “kick-start a debate” when he said some condom use may be justified, Vatican insiders say, raising hopes the church may be starting to back away from a complete ban and allow condoms to play a role in the battle against AIDS. Just a year after he said condoms could be making the AIDS crisis worse, Benedict said that for some people, such as male prostitutes, using them could be a step in assuming moral responsibility because the intent is to “reduce the risk of infection.”
Video shows shirtless boy searched at Utah airport Associated Press
SAlT lAKe CiTY — A YouTube video showing a shirtless young boy resisting a pat-down at Salt lake City’s airport is renewing criticism of search methods for travelers. Utah Valley University student luke Tait shot the video Friday while waiting in a security line. it has been viewed on YouTube more than 765,000 times. Tait said the boy appeared so shy he couldn’t keep his arms raised for a pat-down, and the father removed his son’s shirt out of frustration to speed
up the search. “i was shocked and realized something crazy was going on, so i took my BlackBerry off the conveyor belt and started recording,” Tait told The Associated Press on Monday from oxford, Miss., where he traveled for Thanksgiving. “A couple of times the father raised the arms of the boy,” Tait said. “That ended up not being enough, so the father got frustrated and tore his boy’s shirt off.” That prompted a security officer to protest, “Sir, sir!”
TSA Blog Team. dwayne Baird, a regional public affairs manager for TSA, referred the AP to the blog posting and offered no additional comment. Another message was left at the public-affairs unit of TSA headquarters in Washington. U.S. rep. Jason Chaffetz, an outspoken critic of TSA screening methods who has refused to submit to full-body scans, demanded an investigation. “Surely it is possible to secure an airplane without sacrificing individual liberties or privacy,” Chaffetz said.
The Transportation Security Administration said in a blog posting that nobody has to disrobe at an airport checkpoint. Passengers need to only remove shoes, coats and jackets for a screening. The boy was searched because he sounded an alarm inside a metal detector, the TSA said. The boy’s father removed his son’s shirt to expedite the screening. “That’s it. No complaints were filed and the father was standing by his son for the entire procedure,” said the posting by “Blogger Bob” of the
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The Magnetic Fields – “The Desperate Things You Made Me Do” “It’s [a] good [song] to write to. It sounds good but not overbearing.”
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Many students switched to meat-free lifestyles after years of eating meat
Troop 41 – “Do the John Wall” “I am getting ready to go to a basketball game and this song gets me in the basketball spirit. It’s Hunter Brown a great song.” biology sophomore
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‘THE NEXT THREE DAYS’ Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy and Liam Neeson Director: Paul Haggis Rated: R Rating: 1 1/2 out of 5 stars The Next Three Days’ premise is classic in its cinematic simplicity. Man is wronged by the system; man takes on the system to right the wrong. Director Paul Haggis pushes the limits of plausibility by making the man a community college literature professor, and the system, America’s legal industrial complex. The sheer ambitiousness of the scope forms the first link in the shackles that imprison the movie’s potential. Unlike Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, which also dealt with a family torn apart by power structures, The Next Three Days lacks anything resembling honesty in character portrayal, dialogue and direction. Here’s what we’re supposed to believe: Professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe) and his wife, Lara, (Elizabeth Banks in one of the worst performances of the year) Russell Crowe are a mildmannered couple who still sex it up like teenagers. Their yuppie lifestyle is swiftly broken apart when cops break in and arrest Lara on charges that she murdered her boss. Brennan then transforms into the superman that baby boomers consistently pay to see on screen. He hatches a plan to break Lara out of prison. Haggis establishes the rationality of an absurd transformation by showing Brennan delivering a classroom diatribe on righteousness and its shaky subjectivity. In a short cameo role as the Brennan family’s legal counsel, Daniel Stern sums up Lara’s legal situation that better suits the movie itself, “It sucks.” Not even Liam Neeson can save the film in his brief cameo as a felon with a background in prison escape. It doesn’t help that Crowe and Banks have no on-screen chemistry. The leads deserve blame for accepting such a farce script on the basis of Haggis’ past Oscar accolades. The real culprit here is Haggis, who insults the audience with gratuitous tension instead of a nourished plot. Audiences can’t expect better cinema until they make their voices heard by leaving The Next Three Days with empty theaters. — Lee Escobedo
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fat and caffeine consumption. Being vegan, I have learned how to nourish or some students, not having a turkey on Thanksgiving is just myself and improve my health without compromising the lives of others, as traditional as having one. less my own.” Ann Mai, Vegan Club president and environmental en- much Before 2006, alumna Aubrey Tate gineering sophomore, was raised lacto-vegetarian since she was said she used to sit down at Thankstwo years old and went vegan in high school. She said she remem- giving with a plate full of mashed pobers the first time she was grateful that she wasn’t eating meat on tatoes, green beans, sausage stuffing, canned cranberry sauce and turkey. Thanksgiving. “Once I learned the facts about a “When I was little, my cousin was eating ham or something and it smelled quite unattractive to me,” Mai said. “But my cousin was diet with animal products, the harms and the cruelty, I was quickly off of it like, ‘Ann I wish you could eat this!’ and I was like ‘uh ... I don’t!’“ and didn’t care to look back,” Tate said. “Now I either don’t celebrate ThanksShe said the smell of cooked meat Thanksgiving with family members giving or eat a plant-based diet. It makes her gag and has learned how that are respectful of her and her hus- simply depends on how I feel that to cook by spending time creating band’s vegan lifestyle. year. This year we’ll be having mashed “Since then I have learned who I potatoes, fresh cranberry sauce, green alternative dishes during the holidays. Mai said the majority of her fam- really enjoy and respect in my fam- beans, vegetable gravy, a delicious ily members are vegan and include ily and extended family and whom is stuffing with vegan sausage and as a traditional Vietnamese dishes during worth spending qualturkey substitute, we ity time with,” Beasley Thanksgiving. use Field Roast.” “My family is serious about food,” said. “This year my “Once I learned the facts Elementary eduMai said. “It’s what we like to do to- mother and stepfa- about a diet with animal cation freshman gether — cook and eat. The omnivores ther ordered vegan Avery Richards said products, the harms and her mother went in the family usually appreciate the Thanksgiving dinners plant-based cuisine as well, except for from Cafe Elite for us. the cruelty, I was quickly vegan a year after In years past I would off of it and didn’t care a couple of sour grapes.” she did and now they Not all students’ meat-free Thanks- either make it with enjoy the time they givings go as smoothly as Mai’s. Social my mom or we would to look back.” spend together in the work sophomore Lorna Beasley has pre-order from Whole kitchen. Aubrey Tate been vegan for seven years after she Foods.” “I’ve been vegan Alumna and vegan The reasons for viewed undercover footage at factory for four years and farms. She said she has dealt with rude being vegan or vegwasn’t big on cookfamily members since her diet change. etarian vary for students. Some like ing until my mom switched, too, and “My grandfather has been very Beasley lose their appetite after learn- now I love it,” Richards said. She’s rude to my husband because he ab- ing processing methods for meat. Oth- also heard her fair share of negative stains from eating meat,” Beasley said. ers like nursing freshman Michelle commentary from almost everyone “[My cousin] verbally attacked me a Nguyen became vegan three years ago who learns about her dietary lifestyle. few years ago, but he has masculinity after she experienced health problems. “Family members, coworkers, friends, “Family members simply do not significant others — after four years problems and lashes out often. I had just sat down to eat, and he started have faith in my lifestyle, as they be- I’ve heard just about every joke there talking about how my food was not lieve I need more. More as in meat is. And none of them are funny.” pleasing to him. He let me know he and animal products,” Nguyen said. would rather eat dog excrement. The “Before I went vegan I was 35 pounds whole table was quiet for a long time.” heavier and inching toward complicaLEE ESCOBEDO Beasley said she only spends tions in my health because of sodium, features-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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VEGAN SWEET POTATO PIE James Johnson of Vegan restaurant Spiral Diner, 1314 West Magnolia Avenue in Fort Worth, has offered their sweet potato pie recipe for Shorthorn readers. • 2 cups mashed sweet potato (directions below) • 1 teaspoon molasses • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt • 1/4 tablespoon ground ginger • 1/2 tablespoon baking powder • 1 tablespoon margarine • 3/4 cup evaporated cane juice (sugar) • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg • 1/8 teaspoon cardamom • 3/4 cup soy milk • Bake the sweet potatoes (about 2 large) at 400 degrees Fahrenheit until soft, about an hour. • Once cool to the touch, peel the skins off and mash. Measure out two cups. • In a large mixing bowl add all ingredients, except soy milk and blend on low until everything is well mixed. • Once everything is blended, mix on high until there are very few lumps. • Add soy milk and mix thoroughly. • Fill pre-baked pie shell and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. When the edges start to brown and the top loses its shine you’ll know it’s done. • The longer you let the pie cool the better it will set. * This recipe converts easily to pumpkin pie. Just substitute pumpkin evenly for mashed sweet potatoes and use only 1/2 cup of soy milk.
Thanksgiving, dorm style HOLIDAY HOURS Today Plaza closes at 3 p.m. Starbucks closes at 8 p.m. Connection Cafe closes at 7 p.m.(Thanksgiving theme lunch will be served) Wednesday Plaza closes at 3 p.m. Starbucks and Mav Market closes at 5 p.m. Connection Cafe closes at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday Mav Market, Connection Cafe, Starbucks, The Plaza and Einstein are closed. Sunday Only The Connection Cafe is open at 5:30 p.m. for dinner
BY ALANNA QUILLEN The Shorthorn senior staff
Staying on campus this week for Thanksgiving break doesn’t mean students should miss out on the age-old American tradition of a Thanksgiving feast, and the feast doesn’t have to be prepared in the traditional setting of stove tops and hours-long recipes. Rebekah Karth, Residence Hall Association president and public relations senior, said her advice for hosting a potluck would be to plan ahead and assign everyone with what they should bring or prepare. All of the residence halls have cooking facilities and equipment that students can use during the break. Karth added that microwavable or easy-to-cook food would be ideal in preparing a meal on campus. “My recommendations would be familiar dishes that can be made with a microwavable recipe, such as macaroni and cheese and green bean casserole or peanut butter pie, which does not
need to be baked at all,” Karth said. “If students really want to eat with others, they can start a Facebook event and let their RA know that they will be staying on campus.” Karth, who plans on staying on campus during the break, also stayed on campus during spring break this year, and planned ahead by buying soup, macaroni and cheese, and frozen meals from the Mav Market in the University Center. She said Walgreens is close enough for students to walk to if they don’t have a car. Jerome Kirby, Kalpana Chawla Hall lead resident adviser and biology senior, said kitchens in each hall are available 24 hours, but if students need to check out cooking equipment, they will need to do so during the office hours. He suggested Easy Mac macaroni and cheese since it’s easy to cook in the residence hall microwaves. “The best advice is to make sure you put in enough water so you don’t
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set off the fire alarm for burning your pasta,” he said. “You can also heat up turkey soup if you really crave turkey for Thanksgiving, or even a turkey sandwich.” For those who want to jump the gun and chow down on a feast before leaving for home or retreating to the residence halls, the Connection Cafe in the University Center will serve Thanksgiving-style dishes for the lunch rush only today. The courses include a split Cornish hen, stuffed pork loin, fruit salad, pasta primavera, roasted new potatoes and broccoli with Hollandaise sauce. The halls’ offices will be open throughout the Thanksgiving break with all kitchen equipment available to prepare a traditional feast, be it as grand as a casserole and pies, or as simple as a bowl of Mac n’ Cheese.
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Cowgirls’ scoring too much for Mavericks in 30-point loss
It didn’t settle in immediately, but UTA recovered from an early 20-11 deficit to beat Hardin-Simmons 88-71 on Monday at Texas Hall. Head coach Scott Cross wasn’t pleased his team had to battle back from an early hole, but was impressed by the Division-III Cowboys. “We gave them the feeling that they could beat us,� Cross said. “You never want to do that on your home floor.� Freshman guard Bryant Smith energized UTA with his fearlessness in getting to the rim. Smith scored eight points in the first half, getting to the rim at will as he shot the most free throws of any Maverick in the first half. UTA recovered and led at the half 38-33. “When you’re playing a non Division-I school you can be lackadaisical,� Smith said. “I harped on that during halftime that we need to play hard every game.� — Josh Bowe Read the full story and the game breakdown at
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UTA 88, HARDIN-SIMMONS 71 SCORE BY HALF HSU 33 38 UTA 38 50
Hardin-Simmons Cowboys Player FG-FGA REB Thornton 4-7 2 Lockridge 0-1 0 Addison 8-17 2 Jefferson 2-6 4 Booker 1-8 2 Derr 1-4 0 Riddle 3-6 3 Massey 4-12 2 Walter 3-3 5 Others 0-2 4 Totals 27-68 30
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GAME BALLER Bryant Smith: UTA looked lifeless in the first 10 minutes, and then Smith came into the game. The freshman guard picked up the pace and attacked the basket. Smith finished with 14 points and was perfect from the foul line, going 6-for-6.
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The women’s basketball team fell to the Oklahoma State Cowgirls 82-52 on Monday at Gallagher-Iba Arena. Senior guard Tamara Simmons led all scorers once again with a season-high 30 points. Simmons is now averaging 21 points per game, and the only other player in double-figures is fellow senior Shalyn Martin. The Cowgirls came out strong early in the game with good starts from Toni Young and Lakyn Garrison. Never once losing the lead in the game, the Cowgirls went into the locker room up by 10. Young ended up with 20 points to lead the Cowgirls while Garrison had 17. They combined to keep the Mavs from making a push in the second half. “Young is extremely athletic and her elevation helped her knock down big shots,� head coach Samantha Morrow said. — Brian Nephew
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Students use posters in OneBook contest The competition’s themes included this year’s book, ‘A Journal for Jordan,’ wars, love and Remembrance. by Rachel SnydeR The Shorthorn senior staff
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play ball From left to right: civil engineering sophomore Maria Zavala, computer science engineering freshman Michael Blake, aerospace engineering freshman Ryan Burch and mechanical engineering sophomore David Busch work on a project for their introductory engineering course on Monday in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge. The students created an invention based on of a pitching machine and attempted to get the table tennis ball to shoot a specific distance.
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stress it causes. One of the more detectable symptoms is bleaching, when coral turns white and dies. Mydlarz received $409,537 from the grant to study and analyze the coral. She looks to see how it fights diseases like Yellow-Band, the disease affecting the Montastraea coral most. She received the grant because of her expertise on the certain types of coral and the diseases affecting them. “The techniques are unique to my lab, specific to me,” she said. She said the diseases have been present since the ’80s, and it can be related to global warming. The temperature changes may cause certain bacteria to grow on the coral which can cause shifts in how the immune system reacts, she said.
“Climate records show that’s when it started getting much warmer,” Mydlarz said. “Water temperature increases cause the coral to stress. The temperature changes cause pathogenic bacteria to over grow the good bacteria.” John Bruno, marine science associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received $140,978 of the grant and will be assisting with field experiments and analyzing data obtained. He said hundreds of millions of people are affected by the coral dying. The Caribbean relies largely on tourism and fishing, but because the reefs are becoming sparse, he said the area has been affected economically. “If there is no reef, there is no fish. If there is no fish, there is no fishing,” he said. “It’s affecting the most important species of coral.” Ernesto Weil, marine sciences professor at the University of Puerto Rico, is the
third collaborator for the project. Weil, who received his doctoral degree in zoology from UT-Austin, received $143,346 for his collaboration. Weil conducts all the field research because he lives near the Montastraea coral. “I collected small tissue samples from bleached and unbleached colonies of the star coral at the beginning of the bleaching event, at the peak of the event and then while the colonies are recovering,” Weil said. He then stores them in an ultra freezer, set to -80 degrees Celsius — household freezers are set at -20 degrees Celsius — and ships them overnight in dry ice to Texas. The grant money will be used to hire graduate students to help with the research, pay for trips to Puerto Rico and to cover certain expenses needed while studying the coral. aShley bRadley news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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“The bruises will go away but the pain will stay” was the caption on a poster with children dancing in a circle. Interior design senior Audrey Golden designed the poster as part of the OneBook poster competition to raise awareness for abused children. Golden said the quote was repeated in the poster to represent the lasting impact of abuse on children. She said she chose this topic for her assignment after remembering a childhood friend who had been abused by his adoptive parents. They remain close friends today. “How you speak to or treat a child has a big impact on how they act in the future,” she said. The posters were displayed Friday in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge. There were 17 posters submitted for consideration. The winners for best poster in the categories of creativity, research and audience favorite received certificates. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges including OneBook program faculty co-chairman Christopher Conway, University College executive director Dawn Remmers and Senior Vice Provost Michael Moore. Creativity, quality of research and representation of the theme were factors in judging. The posters are based on this year’s OneBook, A Journal For Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor, and the theme of Remembrance. The OneBook program selects a book and theme for discussion in English 1301 classes. Conway said this year’s theme allowed the students to personalize their posters and take some creative license in putting it together.
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From May 2009 through April 2010, the university saved $2,754,103 in energy costs through a similar energy conservation project geared toward creating a more sustainable campus. “The $3 million in savings represents a reduction of more than 19 million kilowatt hours and are expected to continue at a similar or greater rate,” said Bridgett Lewis, UTA senior media relations officer. Siemens Industry Inc., a group that provides production, transportation and building technology solutions, worked with the university to evaluate and implement improvements for energy savings between 2006-2008. Kelly Baxley, the UTA account manager for Siemens, said Siemens implemented a detailed energy audit and found about 25 facility improvement measures. He said the university decided to improve 18 of the measures, which included re-
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“For younger kids, what they see in the classroom is an influence.” In 2005 Thomas Van Orden sued the state for its state-sponsored display of the Ten Commandments at the Capitol. Current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott argued successfully in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the state to maintain the display. “In line with that decision, the bill is probably not necessary,” said Allan Saxe, political science associate professor. “It’s
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ence,” she said. “They really do much better with face-to-face instruction. It’s knowing the choice and how you fit in a particular learning environment.” Liu said she has three portable machines, each costing a quarter of a mil-
“There’s a lot of diversity of topics,” he said. Conway said he’s happy with the quality of the posters submitted and the discussions on topics such as the war in Iraq of people viewing the posters. He said a poster calling for awareness of the damage caused by the Iraq war to soldiers’ friends and families particularly sparked discussion among students. The poster featured a soldier in tears amid statistics, like the telling 4,427 U.S. deaths from the war since March 2003. University studies junior Erie Washington pondered that poster in particular for about two minutes. Washington said having the information presented in a poster helped him realize the scope of the losses from the war. He said the poster touched on issues he’d heard about from friends who came back from the war, such as military injuries, casualties and the impact of the war on American families. “It’s wasted lives,” Washington said. “I think it needs to be discussed.” Rachel SnydeR news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
wInneRS First Place: Ashley Johnson — “Forever Alive” Second Place: Timothy Ballard – “Lost Ones” Third Place: Audrey Golden – “Impact of Abuse: The bruises will go away but the pain will stay”
awaRdS of dISTIncTIon Julie Berkes – “Save Your Memories” Keaton Parker – “Life After Death” Ashley Cummings – “Unseen Wounds Samantha Leiner – “Think Twice Before It Happens Again
placing old energy efficient motors, pumps and other mechanical devices. “The university has a concentrated focus on improving true energy reduction measures that give you true energy dollars saved,” he said. Lewis said the goal of the project was to reduce energy use and be cost effective. Some of the energy improvements included a savings of $919,339 in retrofitting inefficient lighting systems and a savings of $346,572 in re-commissioning of the campus’ energy management system. “It is a great benefit to students, faculty and staff,” she said. “Anytime you can implement these programs, it is better for the university and environment.” Jeff Howard, Urban and Public Affairs assistant professor, said the financial savings is beneficial but the reduction of green house gases matters more. “I am even more happy about the carbon admissions that are reduced by the initiatives,” he said. Lewis said the energy conservation project was funded
more of a symbolic move than anything else.” Saxe said he does not believe the Ten Commandments are an establishment of religion. “The Ten Commandments are not even religious anymore,” Saxe said. “It’s more of a secular creed.” Saxe and Flynn both said they expect the bill to pass without issue. “It’s been overwhelming. It seems like everybody I’ve talked to wants to be a co-author on the bill,” Flynn said. “I’ve been inundated with calls from my constituents in support of the bill.”
through a UT System loan of $18 million, and the university will repay the money to the UT System. In November, the UT System announced a total energy savings of $196 million over the last nine years after the start of the Energy Utility Task Force. The EUTF began in February 2001, to get institutions to work together to reduce energy consumption on each campus, said Michael O’Donnell, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction, during the Nov. 10 Board of Regents meeting in Austin, Texas. He said the Board of Regents endorsed a goal of 10 to 15 percent reduction savings by fiscal year 2011. “[The institutions] have met the stretch goal. In fact, the institutions have received a 16 percent reduction in energy uses per square foot,” he said. O’Donnell said the next step is for the institutions to further improve energy savings. amanda Gonzalez news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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James Spaniolo’s leadership as the reason for the university’s strong financial position. The 82nd Legislature will convene in January facing a shortfall of about $20 billion, which is about 11 percent of its $182 billion budget for the 2010-2011 biennium. Bobbitt said UTA is taking a wait-and-see approach to the shortfall. “The main thing is not to become alarmists,” he said. “By the first of the year, we should have some preliminary information.”
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lion dollars. Smith-Osborne said veterans are tested twice with a day between tests. Mary Kate Kenworthy, project intern and social work graduate student, said veterans are paired with interns working for the Student Veteran Project to help veterans gain access to resources, including counseling and financial aid help.
Kenworthy said her partner had tests in the past, but she hasn’t been able to track down the documents from his high school. “This test will help the Office for Students With Disabilities do something for him in the meantime,” she said. allen baldwIn news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu