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Rocketeers blast off for competition Team’s rocket should reach 11,000 feet with new design, says president. BY JOHN HARDEN The Shorthorn senior staff
Maverick Rockets President Jason Brown hopes his team will get the lift it needs to bring home bragging rights Saturday. The team finished the final touches on its two rockets Tuesday with little time to spare before it departs Thursday for Culpeper, Va., to compete in the Battle of the Rockets, a competition for university and high school students
“I feel like this is what I was meant to do. My whole goal was to learn as much as possible and dive right in,” Paul Aslin, health care administration graduate student
across the U.S. “We’ve put a lot of time and sweat into building these rockets,” Brown said. “It’s all coming together, and we’re confident we’ll come in first.” Brown, Josh McGuire and Shawn Edwards, team co-founders and aerospace engineering seniors, began working on this year’s models immediately after the 2010 competition, in which they placed second. New, sleek rocket designs and hardware, like a GPS system for one of the rockets, will give the team an edge over the ROCKETS continues on page 3 The Shorthorn: Sandy Kurtzman
Graduate student Paul Aslin works at his dining room table Tuesday in north Fort Worth. Aslin wrote the winning essay for a $3,000 scholarship. He said his daughters, Gracie Claire, 6, and Sydney, 4, were sitting in his lap during most of the time he worked on it.
SCIENCE
Asst. professors develop nanochip to detect diseases The chip would test genes for predispositions to illnesses like cancer. BY VALLARI GUPTE The Shorthorn staff
Cancer detection might be as easy as a prick of the finger with a nanochip gene detection technology designed by UTA. Biology assistant professor Shawn Christensen and Samir Iqbal, electrical engineering assistant professor, came up with an idea to combine their expertises to use a nanochip to detect cancer genes using electrical signals.
“The electrical test allows us to test for certain spellings of genes that are known to predispose someone to a particular disease, for example cancer,” Christensen said. Using the nanochip, a blood drop test is interpreted by electrical signals that work to determine the genetic tendencies of an individual to contract certain diseases. Christensen said thousands of genes can be tested through the nanochip machine and someone at a health institute or private company can use the technology and create a device. NANOCHIP continues on page 3
DAD ON A MISSION
Paul Aslin returns to school and wins national essay competition BY EDNA HORTON The Shorthorn staff
Winning an essay competition about health-care leadership is just a part of Paul Aslin’s journey. The health care administration graduate student recently won an essay competition given by the American College of Healthcare Executives for his essay on new health-care policies. He said his determination has come from his family. For the 34 year old, the decision to return to school came when he was laid off from a management position at an investment firm. His wife was a stay-athome mom at the time, and Aslin said he and his wife made a deal. Whoever got a job first would work, and the other one would return to school. He said his wife got a job the same day he was accepted to UTA’s master of science in health care admin-
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Associate professor gets real with students in ‘last lecture’ Allan Saxe says ‘thought police’ on campuses suppress creativity. BY JOEL COOLEY The Shorthorn staff
Allan Saxe sat on the middle of the Lone Star Auditorium’s stage Tuesday night and jokingly referred to himself as a combination of Charlie Sheen and Cal Ripken Jr. The political science associate professor, who has never missed a class in his 46 years at the university, boldly addressed a crowd of about 100 students on his thoughts on life. The lecture was a part
of the Last Lecture Series, in which professors address the student body as if it’s their last speech ever. The series was started after Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pausch delivered his final lecture in 2007 titled “The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” Saxe said he did not want to give a watered down version of a so-called “inspirational” speech that would misinform students as to the ways of the world. “If the world was so wonderful, why do you need in-
spirational talks? Shouldn’t they already be inspired? I’m saying give up,” he said. Amanda Russell, Omicron Delta Kappa member, said the honor society invited Saxe to present the Last Lecture Series’ first lecture because they felt it would be a good start. “We wanted to bring in a prestigious member of the college to be the first speaker,” the history junior said. While existing in the academic realm for most of his life, Saxe feels education takes the guts out of learning. LECTURE continues on page 6
istration program. “I feel like this is what I was meant to do,” he said. “My whole goal was to learn as much as possible and dive right in.” With his bachelor’s degree in business management, Aslin chose healthcare administration because he felt it was an industry in which he could make the biggest difference by working directly with people and their lives. He said he knew if he wanted to help his wife and three daughters, he would have to network with professionals and make a name for himself. “I’m not just going to get my degree and expect employers to come knocking on my door,” he said. He heard about the Richard J. Stull Essay Competition, which invites health-care administration students from across the country to submit essays covering various health-care man-
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agement topics. Aslin said he thought someone at UTA could win this competition. “I thought students in our program are just as smart as the ones from the bigger schools,” he said. “I was really putting my money where my mouth was, I didn’t expect to win.” Aslin’s essay, “Unveiling the Unicorn: A Leader’s Guide to ACO Preparation,” won first place. He received a $3,000 scholarship and an all-expenses-paid trip to Chicago for the Congress on Healthcare Leadership held last week. This summer, the essay will be published in an issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. Aslin wrote the essay about how to prepare for a new leadership policy effective January 1, 2012 as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ASLIN continues on page 3
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SC approves computer lab for nursing students Student Congress votes to pass all of the resolutions at meeting.
ONLINE For a breakdown of other resolutions voted on at the meeting, visit theshorthorn.com.
BY BIANCA MONTES The Shorthorn senior staff
Graduated from: University of Oklahoma Years taught at UTA: 46 Teaches: political science courses Quoteworthy: “Academics make simple things complex and make complex things simple.”
Student Congress met Tuesday night for a generalbody meeting to vote on six resolutions, including nursing senator Caitlin Wright’s request for the University and the Office of Information Technology to find labs for nursing students to take computerbased exams. Wright, who currently serves as Nursing Constituency Council president, said since the closing of Ransom
Hall last year, nursing students have limited locations to take computer-based exams. Nursing students are able to take the exams anywhere, but because they need to be under the supervision of a proctor, she said finding adequate space is a challenge. “The issue we are facing is that there are computers on campus but they are not set up for testing,” she said. CONGRESS continues on page 6
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Mostly cloudy • High 62°F • Low 41°F
TODAY Exploring Majors, Yourself and MyPlan: Noon to 1 p.m. Ransom Hall Room 303. Free. For more information, contact the University Advising Center at 817272-3140.
Thursday Mostly sunny • High 75°F • Low 53°F
Exhibiting Artist Talk by Sedrick Huckaby: 12:30-1:30 p.m. The Gallery. Free. For more information, contact Patricia Healy at phealy@uta.edu or 817-272-5658.
Friday Mostly sunny • High 82°F • Low 59°F — National Weather Service at www.nws.noaa.gov
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.
MONDAY Disturbance Officers responded at 11:56 p.m. to a loud music report at Arbor Oaks apartments, 1008 Greek Row Drive.
Lecture by Ralph Roesling: 4 p.m. Architecture Building Room 204. Free. For more information, contact Robert Rummel-Hudson at rhudson@uta.edu or 817-272-2314. $2 Movie — Megamind: 5:30 p.m. Planetarium. $2. For more information, contact the Planetarium at planetarium@ uta.edu or 817-272-1183. Girl’s Night Out: 6:30 p.m. University
Minor Accident A minor accident occurred at 5:08 p.m. in Lot 47. There were no injuries.
Center Bluebonnet Ballroom. Free. For more information, contact Multicultural Affairs at multicultural_affairs@uta.edu or 817-272-2099.
p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For more information, contact Erin O’Malley at omalley@uta.edu. Art Exhibition in The Gallery: “Sedrick Huckaby & Barbra Riley:” 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery. Free. For more information, contact Patricia Healy at phealy@uta.edu or 817-272-5658.
Support The Big Event: Dorm Storm: 7-8 p.m. Residence halls. Free. For more information, contact UTA Volunteers at jonathan.lim@mavs.uta.edu or 817-272-2963.
THURSDAY Guest Bassoon Recital with Christin Schillinger: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Irons Recital Hall. Free. For more information, contact the Music Department at music@ uta.edu or 817-272-3471.
Exposure: Photos from the Second Battle of Fallujah: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For more information, contact Erin O’Malley at omalley@uta.edu. What You Wish the World Could Be: The Early Years of Six Flags Over Texas: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For more information, contact Erin O’Malley at omalley@uta.edu.
Student Art Competition: All day. The Gallery. Free. Student-submitted art will be judged in three categories. For more information, contact EXCEL Campus Activities at excel@uta.edu or 817-272-2963. Cities Discover Sustainability: 9:3010:30 a.m. Trimble Hall Room 115. Free. For more information, contact Jeff Howard at howardj@uta.edu or 817272-5119.
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Combat Narratives: Stories and Artifacts from UTA Veterans: 9 a.m. to 5
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Greek organizations will participate in a decade-themed fashion show noon today in the University Center Rio Grande Ballroom. During the fashion show, teams of four will showcase attire from the ’20s and ’50s through the ’90s. As a part of Greek Week, fraternities and sororities will compete the entire week earning points at various competitions. The teams with the most points will be recognized at the Greek Awards on Friday. Regina Lattimore, Greek Life assistant director, said a committee of students selected this year’s theme, “Making New Memories from Decades of History.” The event is open to the public, and officials from the Greek Life Office encourages students to bring canned goods to the event. All contributions will be donated to the Tarrant County Food Bank. — Bianca Montes
Psycholinguistics lab opens in Hammond Hall
Theft A staff member reported at 9 a.m. the theft of two bollards, short vertical posts used to prevent vehicles from driving on the grass, at 1100 Greek Row Drive between the Pi Kappa Phi and the Sigma Chi houses. Police suspect they were removed by using a vehicle to pull a chain around the bollards, which were bolted into the cement sidewalk. There is no physical evidence to show that a vehicle drove on the grass, but that is what the bollards are used to prevent said University Police Chief Robert Hayes. They are valued at $250 each and the case is still active.
Criminal Mischief or Vandalism At 5:37 a.m., a student reported that someone threw a rock through the right passenger side window of his vehicle while it was parked in Lot 49 at 1101 Cooper St. Someone witnessed a male suspect throw the rock through the window and a male was seen running from the lot. Nothing was taken from the vehicle, and the case is still active.
Greeks compete in 20th century fashion show
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Warrant Service Police arrested a non-student for multiple outstanding warrants at 5:47 p.m. following a routine traffic stop at 500 S. Pecan St. near Arlington Hall.
Theft An officer responded to a theft report at 8:38 a.m. at the Automated Robotics Research Institute at 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. in Fort Worth. Two suspects were caught on video taking a 10-foot stainless-steel pipe. They were driving a GMC pickup. The police identified the license number. The pipe was in a non-secured open storage area with a partial wall around it. It was valued at $200 several years ago, but the current value is unknown. The case is still active.
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
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History seniors Lindsay Shupala, left, and Adam Guerrero look over an interactive map of Six Flags Over Texas as it was in 1964 at the Six Flags Over Texas exhibit in Special Collections on the Central Library sixth floor. The exhibit displays the history of Six Flags using props, pictures and informational captions.
Six Flags exhibit extended until August The display was scheduled to end in May, but continued because of high demand. BY JOEL COOLEY The Shorthorn staff
An exhibit displaying Six Flags Over Texas memorabilia at the Central Library is getting a lot of attention. What You Wish the World Could Be: The Early Years of Six Flags Over Texas opened in the Special Collections section to the public on Feb. 14 and will remain until August 13. It was originally scheduled to end in May. The exhibit features photos and memorabilia submitted by former Six Flags employees, in-
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10 other schools competing, Brown said. “We’ve designed our altitude rocket the best way we know how,” he said. “We can’t think of any other way for it to go any higher that it already can.” In an altitude event, a rocket wins only if the altitude exceeds last year’s height of 9,064 feet and beats other schools’ rockets. Brown estimates the team’s rocket will soar to 11,000 feet with the new design, almost 4,000 feet higher than last year’s model. “As far as we know, our design is as good as it gets,” McGuire said. “Basically, nothing can go wrong.” This year’s altitude rocket is smaller and more aerodynamic compared to last year’s model. The new design is more wind resistant, allowing it to reach a greater height, McGuire said. Each of the team’s rockets are painted blue and orange. The rocket for the planetary rover event stands at 8-foot4-inches, and the altitude rocket stands at 22 inches. The team’s office is located on the third floor in Woolf Hall. The office, filled with rockets, design moldings and building materials, is where Brown and other team members have spent many nights sleeping on the office couch. “It’s been a lot of long nights,” Brown said. “I’ve also spent the night here. My record is three nights in a row, which was just last week.” Juggling his schedule
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Act. His essay suggests five steps administrators can take to prepare for the Act. “There is a need to address the leadership issues, the uncertainty of the rules and how it will play out,” he said. Aslin’s wife Amanda said when he told her he won, she was happy for him. “We both didn’t really know what his chances were, but when he was writing it, I
Program offers doctoral cohorts for summer, fall
• The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department sponsored $1,500 for parts and travel. • Student Congress gave $1,000 for parts. • Engineering Student Council gave $500 designated for travel. •Some parts were donated from faculty and students. Other parts were reused from previous semesters.
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around being team leader and going to class proved to be the most difficult challenge for Brown. “It’s definitely not easy sleeping for three hours a night,” he said. “School definitely comes first, but I’ve been putting in about the same amount of hours between the team and school.” Most of the responsibilities usually fall on Brown’s shoulders, aerospace engineering junior John Andrews said. “He does most of the work,” Andrews said. “He gets the team together and makes sure we’re doing what we said we were going to do.” The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Student Congress and the Engineering Student Council helped finance $3,000 for parts and travel for the team. Faculty and teammates also contributed by donating parts to help build the rockets and rover. “The team gave a presentation earlier this year to showcase their work to the college and to request fund-
ing,” Engineering Dean Bill Carroll said. “We’ve been very impressed with the team and Jason’s leadership.” Carroll said they have made college administrators proud, and he expects positive results from Saturday’s competition. The prize for first place is a plaque and prize money, which is estimated to be about $700 and is based on
collective application fees. The team will drive to Virginia with confidence they’ll place first. “It’ll be a 21-and-a-halfhour drive, but it’s all a part of the fun,” McGuire said. “I’m very confident that when we return, we can add first place to our resumes.”
definitely thought he had the ability to win it,” she said. Amanda Aslin said her husband takes every opportunity offered to students. She said he does research and goes to conferences so he can stay current on the issues affecting the health-care industry. She said she is proud of him, and even though at times things are stressful, she feels at peace with the decision they made. “I know that he is not doing this so he can get some big fancy job. Ultimately, he is doing this for his family,”
she said. Aslin plans to graduate in August and said his goal is to be the CEO of a hospital. Demetria Wilhite, masters of science in health care administration director and adviser, said she saw the passion in Aslin from day one. She said she interviews students before they are accepted into the program and noticed there was something different about Aslin. “Paul has been a student from day one,” she said. “There was an aura about him. I could see it in his eyes,
he had a passion in his heart.” She said when she read his essay, she was amazed at how it directly mirrored what was going on in the industry. Wilhite said he is not afraid to speak with people already working in the field. “There are quite a few young men who are torch carriers, and this is exactly what the industry needs right now. People who can say, ‘What can I do to change this?’” She said.
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Doctoral cohorts being offered in the summer and fall will help train educational leaders for the future of schools. Barbara Tobolowsky, cocoordinator for K-16 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, said the program will help to better the educational success of students and affect educational policy. The cohorts, a group of people similar in age and demographic who work together, are intended for students seeking to enter careers in educational leadership, policy analysis, research and institutional assessment. The deadline to apply is April 1 for the summer cohort in Fort Worth and June 1 for the fall. Rhonda McClellan, co-coordinator of the K-16 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, said the first cohort started in summer 2007, and this is the fifth cohort to be offered by the department. It’s the first time the cohort will be offered in Fort Worth, with plans on working with Lewisville representatives to open another. “Building new cohorts and asking students to attend national research conventions will help these students to be able to present their own research in their careers,” she said. “The Fort Worth cohort is a way for us to be able to have the program available to more diversity.” McClellan said she is looking forward to where the program is headed. “I think the exciting thing about the program is that a great administration puts it on,” she said. “We have a lot of new faculty members that bring great, fresh ideas from
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Aerospace engineering senior Josh McGuire demonstrates what the team’s main rocket, Sisyphus, looks like fully assembled Tuesday at Woolf Hall. The rocket will carry a rover that will eject from the rocket, will land safely with a parachute then drive as far as it can.
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cer treatment, might benefit from it as nurses have learned how to tailor treatment to genotype of the percontinued from page 1 son,” she said. Patricia Newcomb, GeMedical history of unconnomics Translational Rescious patients in emergency search Lab director, said the situations is necessary for nanochip might give the padoctors and nurses, and the tients information that they nanochip gene detection will Shawn ChrisSamir Iqbal, electriwouldn’t know what to do tensen, biology as- cal engineering as- help the first responders to about. respond better in an emersistant professor sistant professor The caregivers might not gency, Iqbal said. be able to use the nanochip Iqbal said the nanochip gene detection technology ing assistant professor said. technology is in its academic broadly at this time, the nurs“Specific areas, such as can- stage and they have filed a pat-
ent for it. He said they plan to use it for business ventures in the future. While the technology will not be used for cures, a person might be able to check off a potential disease he or she doesn’t have yet, Christensen said. “If someone already has cancer, it is beyond the gene level to cure it,” he said. There are many technologies to detect susceptibility of a person to a particular disease based on genes, but Chris-
tensen said the nanochip does it faster, better and cheaper. Gene detection generally takes 10 cents a base, and there are at least three million bases to check for sequencing, Christensen said. “Nanochip gets it done in less than 10 dollars,” Iqbal said. The professors want to make nanochip gene detection affordable for a common patient. “We want to make something like a glucometer, where
their experiences at other universities.” McClellan said she hopes students will gain knowledge in organizational leadership, policy and research to match their practical experience. Olga Martinez Hickman, a doctoral student who is currently enrolled in the program’s cohort this semester, said she joined the program because it allows her to work with different realms of the administrative spectrum. “As a transfer student from another doctoral program, I feel that I am at an advantage in the present cohort I am a part of,” she said. “I feel this way because I have some experience, and I feel wellversed.” Tobolowsky said with the cohorts, students are able to make a difference in their career of choice. “All of our students are working professionals, so they have day jobs as teachers, principals, superintendents, or in higher education administration for the most part,” she said. “The cohort model has been very successful for us. When we admit students, we do try to bring students in from different backgrounds.” Martinez Hickman said she feels the program is going to provide her with the knowledge and confidence to tackle the issues that those in the program are facing today and tomorrow. “Those interested in a doctoral program should seek one that fits their needs,” she said. “Being a part of a program will benefit them, because you learn that you are not alone in some of the most lonely times of your academic career.” Chris Bates news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
you don’t need any skill to run it,” Iqbal said. Eventually, the nanochip might be used even to detect certain predispositions to cancer even at the initial check up of a child at birth. The research paper received the best paper award at the National Institutes of Health campus and was also published in American Institute of Physics Journal. Vallari Gupte news-editor.shorthorn@uta.com
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UT-Aid UTA, Japan needs your help. Though it has been two weeks since the island nation suffered a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off its coast, the people still live with a completely devastated infrastructure and in terror while more than 16,000 people are missing. More than 300,000 people were displaced, and more than 10,000 are confirmed dead. And while families and friends rebuild, they’re met with Mother Nature’s wrath again and again. Aftershocks for the last couple TO DONATE of days, all greater than Visit the American Red Cross website to donate 5.0 magnito Japan earthquake and tude, rocked tsunami relief efforts. the region, Visit www.redcross.org. making many afraid to go back indoors. In addition to dismantled family and social structures, the people who remain, along with the rest of the world, also must deal with a nuclear crisis. Radioactivity will affect the earth in that region for thousands of years to come. The economy suffers, too. Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, has slowed down. After the first earthquake, Japan’s national bank put $325 billion into the country’s economy with hopes of jump starting it. However, damages range from $125 billion to $235 billion. In perspective, the damages equal up to about a quarter of Texas’ gross domestic product for 2010. But relief organizers don’t want you to fix Japan’s economy or donate an arm and a leg. They just want to get people off the streets, out of homeless shelters and back on their feet, so Japan can hopefully move on with life. Japan’s hardest hit regions have gone from thriving, to struggling, to just surviving. Help in any way that you can. Donate to the American Red Cross by going to the group’s website, www. redcross.org. Japan won’t be OK next month or the month after that. It will be a long-term effort to clean up this mess and help heal the hurt of a grieving nation. Send what you can. — The Shorthorn editorial board
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long with the majority of college students, I want to like my professors. I want them to like me, too. After a professor made a Facebook post talking about how I annoyed her, this might be an impossible task with her. ASHLEY The post read something like BRADLEY this: It’s annoying when students tell me they are short on time, because they are taking a huge load of classes and have a job. So what? I have a lot of things on my plate as well, and I don’t complain about it. This was Bradley is a paraphrased for journalism junior identity purposes. and reporter for The Because the post was made mere Shorthorn. minutes after we Join the discussion exchanged a set of by commenting at email messages, I know it’s about me. theshorthorn.com. She did not use my actual name, which was nice of her. I understand it is my responsibility to do the work. I understand it is my responsibility to turn things in on time. But it is her responsibility to respect and help her students. I wouldn’t have found this out, and I don’t normally stalk professors’ Facebook pages, but a classmate mentioned seeing the post after overhearing some frustrations I was having with the class. “Oh, then it was you she was talking about on Facebook,” he said. “Say what?” I said.
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At first I didn’t believe him. I couldn’t believe someone of higher authority and, supposedly, wiser than me was using the website in this manner. After I went to her class the next time, I walked out still not knowing how to feel. She was nice, but was it fake? She said, “Thank you” and, “I’m glad you were able to finish the assignment,” but was she really thinking, “Get out of my class you wretched, wretched student”? I hate feeling that small, especially over a over a Facebook post. Especially over a Facebook post made by a professor. I want to lay down some ground rules about using Facebook. No. 1: If a page is going to be used to flame someone, make sure that someone can’t view your page.
No. 2: Don’t become friends with past students on Facebook if this is how the profile will be used. No. 3: Don’t talk trash about students. No. 4: Don’t talk trash about anyone. This isn’t high school. No. 5: Don’t post a comment every hour if you are going to say you have a lot to do. If you have time to log on 200 times a day, then you have a lot more time than I have. Professors are supposed to be role models, not trash talkers. Professors are supposed to be mentors, not bullies. A good idea is to wait to become friends with students after they graduate. If this was her tactic, I might have never found out, and I would probably be sitting at the back of her class thinking a lot of different things than I am now.
YOUR VIEW
Power to those against nuclear energy History proves that nuclear accidents could cost a hefty price tag
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wrote the guest column below some 30 years ago for The Shorthorn just two months after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, when a nuclear meltdown occurred at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. At that time, a group of anti-nuclear activist UTA students joined together to form a group called Students Against Nuclear Energy. They especially worked against the operation of the nuclear energy plants at Glen Rose, some 60 miles south of the Metroplex. Those plants are still operating, and they pose some of the same dangers of the recently damaged nuclear plants in Japan. When anti-nuclear activists released air balloons from the vicinity of the Glen Rose plants in 1979, they claimed that it took about two hours for the balloons to get to the Metroplex and would take the same time for leaking radioactivity from a nuclear meltdown to get here. I fear that what happened in Japan could happen in the U.S. and Texas. History doesn’t really repeat itself, but as Mark Twain said, “Sometimes it rhymes.” If you ask nuclear energy companies whether nuclear plants are safe, they might logically answer: “We would bet your life on it.” I believe that Ralph Nader was right when he said that a nuclear accident is too big a price to pay for cheaper electricity. --
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Texas is in for another energy explosion, but this time it won’t be a Spindletop oil boom. Neither President Jimmy Carter’s lack of energy controls nor our
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oil-drilling governor’s zeal for free enterprise will find enough new oil. What will be found are new reasons to build more nuclear plants. Texans could soon be surrounded by Frankenstein monsters, affectionately nicknamed TESCO Towers, after Texas Electric Service Company’s nuclear power plants. There are ugly rumors that these “towers of power” are unhealthy during meltdown, but if cigarette companies can convince people that cancer is good for them, why can’t TESCO? I can envision the energy hints pamphlet that comes along with your monthly bill containing such gems as: “Special Fall Sale on Lead-Lined Jackets (Infants, children, and adult sizes).” Fortunately, there are forces at work that may save us from this scenario. Yes, Virginia, Texas has a growing anti-nuclear movement. The movement has, pardon the expression, “radiated” from its New England stronghold. The no-nuke people tell us that there are other choices besides freezing in the dark or glowing in the dark. I frankly don’t know whether soft energy can supply our energy needs, and I can’t understand many of the technical safety arguments for and against nuclear power. Yet, considering the immense present dangers and unknown long-term risks, asking people to forsake nuclear power is like asking them to come in out of the rain. These experts and engineers who promise us foolproof nuclear safety are the same people who design our cars. Indeed, the wealthier auto industry probably gets better technical people than
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JERRY RODNITZKY Rodnitzky is a history professor and guest columnist for The Shorthorn. Join the discussion by commenting at theshorthorn.com. the nuclear industry. Corporations themselves don’t believe in nuclear safety, because they consistently refuse to supply parts for reactors unless there is public liability insurance covering claims against them. In short, corporations refuse to put their money where their mouth is, but they expect citizens to put their bodies downwind of the radioactive materials and towers. The anti-nuclear protests bring back memories of the 1960s with slogans such as “HELL NO! I WON’T GLOW” and “MAKE LOVE, NOT MUTANTS,” but the anti-nuclear style and citizens base are really much different. The spectrum of nuclear protestors goes far beyond the 1960s’ new left. Mixed among left-wing activists are right-wing environmentalists and senior citizens. Thus, the consensus anti-nuclear message is not “Anti-nuclear power is gonna get your momma,” but “No-nuke power is gonna save your children.” Hopefully, scared citizens can shut off the nuclear options before a major accident does, for as we used to say in the 1950s: “If Einstein’s scared, baby, I’m scared!” As Eddie Bile of the Eastern Company might say: “Nuclear power is Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! And we ought to get rid of it in nineteen and eighty.” So carry it on, NoNukers. More power to you.
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Throwers give UTA shot to win Bobby Lane Casey Keeter and Ivan Storic’s field contributions take burden off sprinters. BY JOSH BOWE The Shorthorn senior staff
Among the prestigious sprinters that UTA has to offer this season, senior shot putter Casey Keeter stands above them all — literally. The six-foot-one-inch Keeter weighs in around 240 pounds — a giant compared to the relatively thin and nimble track stars such as senior All-American Cordero Gray. Keeter doesn’t do sprints, but he and sophomore Ivan Storic are looking to improve a UTA track team looking for a conference championship.
Casey Keeter, senior shot put thrower
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The duo competes in the field events, shot put and javelin throw, respectively. Running and sprints get all the attention, but Keeter and Storic know that they are just as important to the track team’s overall success. “Whenever I decided to transfer in, I knew they had a really strong running pro-
gram,” Keeter said. “They didn’t have much when it came to field events, so we really thought we could help them out, throwing-wise.” Both Storic and Keeter have performed well in the early stages of the outdoor season. Keeter has won the shot put at both the TCU Invitational and North Texas Spring Classic. Storic won the javelin throw at the TCU Invitational and was named the Southland Conference Athlete of the Week for his efforts. “At TCU, I didn’t prepare myself well but I wanted to come up with good results,” Storic said. “I did my best in competition. My goal is to win conference, of course, and go to the national meet.”
Head coach John Sauerhage has a history of cultivating talented sprinters in his program. The field events are something he’s putting time and development into, and Keeter and Storic are his best examples. “It looks like our investment in putting more emphasis on the throws is paying off,” Sauerhage said. “They’re incredibly dedicated and it is paying off for them.” Before any of them compete for the conference title, which Sauerhage said they have a good chance of competing well in both, this weekend’s Bobby Lane Invitational at Maverick Stadium looms. The only home outdoortrack event of the year for the
Mavericks is something both Keeter and Storic are taking very seriously. “It’s on our track and field. It’s our stadium. I want to win,” Storic said. “I want to show the competitors that this is our territory. I want to break our school record at that meet.” Storic said he didn’t want to make any promises, but he felt if the weather is right this weekend when the meet starts, he will feel confident. Keeter feels this is one of the top meets of the year for himself and his teammates. “If we want to dominate at a meet besides conference, it’s this one,” Keeter said. JOSH BOWE sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Natalia Mayuk named player of the week Junior Natalia Mayuk was named the Southland Conference women’s tennis player of the week Tuesday. The Belgorod, Russia, native went 2-0 in singles and doubles play against Texas State and UTSA last week to help the Mavericks improve their conference record to 6-0. Mayuk earned two straight wins in singles play to move her record to 10-5 overall, 9-4, playing in the number four position. In doubles play, Mayuk and freshman Giada D’ortona have gone 5-2 in the number two doubles position. The duo is undefeated in conference play with a record of 4-0. This is the second straight week that a Mavericks women’s tennis player has won SLC player of the week. Last week, sophomore Maria Martinez-Romero won the award. Mayuk and the UTA women’s tennis team will be back in action this Saturday as they travel to Huntsville to play Sam Houston State. They will finish up the weekend in Nacogdoches playing Stephen F. Austin on Sunday. — Travis Detherage
’ve had it with all this negative start, so worrying about Opening Day talk about Neftali Feliz and the roster decisions should only serve to rotation. I’m tired of hearing Julio gear us up for the long haul. Believe me, Feliz can be as domiBorbon bashers demand he sit on the nant a starter as they come, bench, and I’m okay with the chance. But I C.J. Wilson headlining the SAM MORTON given understand the Rangers’ Texas Rangers rotation in worry that a long season 2011. can be daunting for a I’m just ready to watch pitcher that only threw 69 meaningful baseball, which innings in 2010. Granted starts Friday when the they were high-stress inRangers debut along with nings, but he’s only 22 their new ultra-awesome, years old. high-definition video boards However, Borbon deagainst the Boston Red Sox. serves a fair chance to All the stress that we put prove himself as an evourselves through in spring eryday center fielder, contraining doesn’t matter. Morton is a trary to popular opinion. After the Rangers lost 19 journalism senior games last spring training, and sports editor for An effective Borbon can be a nightmare for catchScott Feldman opened the The Shorthorn. ers, which brings one more season as the Opening Day speed element to a powerstarter and Jarrod Saltal- Join the discussion ful lineup that added Mike amacchia was the hero of by commenting at Napoli (26 home runs in that game. Yet, neither of theshorthorn.com. 2010) and Adrian Beltre them even played a factor (28 home runs in 2010). into the team’s first-ever And as bearish as people seem reAmerican League Championship. I understand the worries, but the garding the rotation, remember the baseball season is a long season. It takes Rangers replaced a terrible defender six full months before the playoffs even at third base with Beltre, the best hot
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corner defender in the game. That means Elvis Andrus doesn’t need to pick up any slack and can play at his normal spot, which should allow him to reach those balls up the middle that got through last season. The Rangers are still the top dog in the AL West, even though the Oakland Athletics look daunting. I can see a stretch in June or July where the A’s lead the division by a few games, but this team is too good to lose the weakest division. If they don’t win the West, 2011 will be a disappointment.
But all of that playoff talk can wait until August. On Friday, let’s just enjoy the fact that the Rangers are the defending champions of the American League, and not the Red Sox, whose fans used to overflow Rangers Ballpark in Arlington with Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis shirts. Let’s dust off our claws and antlers and show the Red Sox how to be an AL champion, because we’ve got bragging rights — not that team that didn’t even make the playoffs.
Darin Thomas’ bid for his 100th win as UTA’s head coach had to wait another day. Tuesday’s baseball game against No. 6 Texas A&M was postponed until 6:30 tonight because of the steady rainfall TEXAS A&M and chance AT UTA of storms late Tuesday When: 6:30 evening. tonight Sports Where: Clay information Gould Park director Luke Brietzke said they didn’t feel the storms would hold off long enough to get the game in. The Mavericks will wear special orange jerseys for the first time in team history on Wednesday. They’re available for purchase at the game. — Sam Morton
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residents argue concerns about bike plan Local believes plan will commercialize Davis Street in years to come.
When AnD Where What: Hike and Bike Master Plan Subcommittee town hall meeting When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday Where: Bob Duncan Center, 2800 S. Center St.
By Ali Amir mustAnsir The Shorthorn senior staff
The Arlington City Council Hike and Bike Master Plan subcommittee hosted its first of two planned townhall meetings Tuesday night. The meeting was intended to allow residents to voice their opinions on the plan, which would create a series of bike lanes, trails and sidewalks throughout the city. About 100 people were in attendance, and the crowd was nearly split in support or opposition. Subcommittee member Katheryn Wilemon, district 3, said the meeting was a success. “i was impressed that this many people were interested and came out here to sit on their [Tuesday] night,” she said. “it’s good for our city.” Psychology assistant professor Shannon Scielzo said she was excited to see so many people get involved and that she supports the plan. “it’s something we’re going
to have to do in the long run,” she said. Scielzo said cities across the country are beginning to address the problem of safety for pedestrians and cyclists. She said much of the opposition comes from people disliking change. dave Mcelwee, Arlington resident and former davis Preservation organization president, said the city has a hidden agenda with the plan to change davis drive from a residential street to a commercial area. He said the city has been trying to do it for decades and the proposed plan is just the first phase of making that change. Mcelwee said the street is not able to accommodate bike lanes in addition to school busses and other trucks going through the neighborhood, and will eventually lead to a
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Arlington resident Dave McElwee argues with city council member Robert Shepard, not pictured, over not answering his questions about the city’s 30-year Hike and Bike Thoroughfare Development plans during the Town Hall meeting at the Arlington Fire Training Center on Tuesday.
call to widen the road. “As soon as someone gets hit, widening the street will be the solution,” he said, adding that it will lead to more commercial venues on davis. Arlington resident don damura said the plan is for the future and most of the people in the room, including himself, would not likely be alive when the plan is completed in 30 or more years. He said he does not support
Allan saxe, political science associate professor
“Academics make simple things complex and make complex things simple,” he said. He said there are ‘thought police’ that exist on college campuses suppressing creativity, and people are, at times, too sensitive to reality. Saxe said, while life and people are beautiful, at its best, life is still an absurdity and at its worst, it’s a nightmare. He feels humans are always seeking gratification and are too self-absorbed.
“i don’t believe in love. All we are, are chemical and electrical organisms. The brain is everything,” he said. defining himself as a libertarian-conservative, he said American culture is dissolving and conservative values are slipping away. He also said religion is a form of the political system that holds power, and with power comes control. He said freedom is something everyone on the planet should share, but it may not always be easy or fun.
“Freedom means you’re going to hurt. That’s what it means to live in a civilized society,” Saxe said. Nursing junior Chase Adams said he thought the speech was going to be inspirational. “it was a glimpse into his brain,” he said. The next lecture will take place in the fall and the speaker is yet to be determined. Joel cooley news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Nursing students are currently using the third floor lab in Pickard Hall, but because the math students have priority of the lab, Wright said the nursing students are still facing difficulties having the entire class test in one place. Following the resolution’s introduction, SC President Aaron resendez opened the floor for discussion. one of the concerns discussed was the office’s opposition to the resolution. At SC’s previous meeting, Maurice leatherbury, the office’s interim vice president, informed the senators that it was looking into eliminating computer stations and opening more space for laptops. “i really do understand the time and space issues,” Wright said. “everyone is suffering in some way, but we can’t take the test anywhere.” despite the office’s op-
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Arlington City Council voted in favor of a resolution opposing the Texas Legislature House Bill 1 Tuesday night. The proposed bill could reduce university funding by about $37 million in the 20122013 biennium. It could also reduce Arlington Independent School District funding by $18 to $45 million. The council held an emergency session at the beginning of the Hike and Bike town-hall meeting. Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said the city needs to continue the educational standards it has been working on for several years. “I personally believe they are cutting the wrong thing,” Cluck said.
BAGHDAD — Gunmen wearing military uniforms over explosives belts charged into a government building in Saddam Hussein’s hometown Tuesday in an attack that left 56 people dead, including 15 hostages who were shot execution-style. The five-hour standoff in Tikrit ended only when the attackers blew themselves up in one of the bloodiest days in Iraq this year. American troops who were nearby as part of an advising mission with Iraqi forces responded to the attack, and some U.S. soldiers received minor wounds, said military spokesman Col. Barry Johnson. The U.S. troops dropped back after Iraqi forces took control, Johnson said.
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position, the vote passed in SC with 29 votes in favor, 2 against and 6 abstains. Wright said she is hopeful the university will provide the nursing students space since the student body has said they support her resolution. “it feels good,” she said. “But at the same time it’s a space and money issue. Where’s the space and where’s the money going to come from for this?” resendez said he is unsure of the financial issues that it will face. “We cannot go all laptop based,” he said. “We need the space for testing.” Going forward, resendez said research on the resolution would be submitted to the Student Affairs president and vice president for comments. SC will meet for their last general body meeting April 19. Any resolutions left in the research stage will be pushed to the next session, she said. BiAncA montes news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Virginia Tech fined for response to shootings RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Tech will have to pay the maximum $55,000 fine for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage but will not lose any federal student aid, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. Department officials wrote in a letter to the school that the sanction should have been greater for the school’s slow response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, when student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 students and faculty, then himself. The $55,000 fine was the most the department could levy for Tech’s two violations of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely reporting of crimes on campus.
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Bill could lead to death sentence suspension The death sentence could be suspended in Texas while a proposed commission studies the use and effects of capital punishment in the state. A state House committee heard testimony Tuesday on a bill that would create the Texas Capital Punishment Commission and establish a moratorium on executions until the commission completes its study. The nine-member commission would propose legislation to fix any inequities in state capital punishment procedures based on findings of the study. This was just one of several bills the committee is considering to change the state death penalty and alter procedures in capital felony cases.
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