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BY JOEL COOLEY The Shorthorn staff
Two alumni were killed in Afghanistan within the past week as a result of wounds sustained from artillery. Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith was killed on Wednesday in Afghanistan. The cause is currently under investigation. Smith was a criminal justice student who was serving in the Marine Reserves. He had served with the Marine Corps before joining the reserves. Army 1st Lt. Robert F. Welch III of Wylie, Texas, was killed April 3 while patrolling the perimeter of the base where he was stationed in the Khost province. An incoming mortar round landed near where Welch was patrolling, ultimately causing him to lose large amounts of blood, which led to his death. Welch graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in military science. Ricardo Diaz, military science assistant professor, spoke highly of Welch.
Jeremy Smith, Marine Staff Sgt.
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“He was a really nice guy that everybody liked to be around,” Diaz said. A memorial service was held in Fort Knox, Ky., where Welch was deployed from. He was stationed with the 201st Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Knox, Ky. Welch was serving his first tourof-duty in Afghanistan. Funeral services are currently pending. Diaz said the ROTC is planning to play taps in honor of Welch this Thursday. JOEL COOLEY news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1,050 volunteers to pitch in for The Big Event UTA Volunteers use methods, such as 35-second trailers, to recruit for Saturday’s event. BY BIANCA MONTES The Shorthorn senior staff
For the third year, Joel Palacios will roll up his sleeves for the university’s largest community-driven project, The Big Event. His first year, the biology junior raked leaves at Doug Russell Park in
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ABOVE: Speech therapy junior Jaime-Li Brown dances to Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” Friday evening in the University Center Bluebonnet Ballroom. International Week was organized by the International Student Organization and displayed the different international students.
Arlington with the Freshmen Leaders on Campus, and as a sophomore he and his fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, participated in an Easter egg hunt with a local church. Palacios said a lot of people may not be able to see the impact they will make at the event, but if enough people help out, the community will see the difference. Saturday, he and his fraternity
LEFT: Members of the Saudi Students Association perform a dance during the event. The organization had Saudi Arabian music to accompany their dance.
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ARLINGTON ARCHOSAUR SITE
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Volunteers dig for new dinosaur species Visitors will be able to dig and tour the site during several planned fundraising events. BY ASHLEY BRADLEY The Shorthorn staff
The Arlington Archosaur site crew is working to find one specific thing — a dinosaur skull that may
belong to a new dinosaur species. Derek Main, Arlington Archosaur site director, said finding the skull would prove if recent discoveries belong to a new species. Main opened up the “Dinosaur Quarry,” an arched area of the digging area, in hopes to find the skull. FOSSIL continues on page 6
Student Organization adviser. Students represented their cultures Groups ranging from the Nepalese Stuthrough music and dance at the Global Exdents’ Association to the Russian Culture travaganza Friday. Society participated in activities The Global Extravaganza is a throughout the week, such as a food showcase of talent by international ONLINE fair and fashion show. groups on campus to mark the end Cutcher said about 20 student of International Week. The Univer- Watch video coverage at groups at UTA represent countries sity Center’s Bluebonnet Ballroom theshorthorn.com. widely distributed throughout the was packed as attendees cheered for world. groups ranging from the Fine Arts The theme for I-Week this year was CulSociety of India to the Asian Students Asture Shock, marking the 34th anniversary sociation. of the event. “It’s a way to end the week, but it’s also a way for students to show where they are from,” said Lauren Cutcher, International – Monica S. Nagy
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Exposure: Photos from the Second Battle of Fallujah: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For information contact Erin O’Malley at omalley@uta. edu.
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UTA Baseball vs. Baylor: 6:30 p.m. Clay Could Ballpark. Free for students, $5 for public. For information, contact Jason Chaput at 817-272-7167.
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Combat Narratives: Stories and Artifacts from UT Arlington Veterans: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For information contact Erin O’Malley at omalley@uta.edu.
Exploring Majors for Pre-Nursing Majors: 2-3 p.m. University Center Rio Grande. Free. For information, contact the University Advising Center at uac@ uta.edu or 817-272-3140.
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Tailgate Tuesday!: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Clay Gould Ballpark. Free. For information, contact Travis Boren at tjboren@uta. edu or 817-272-0694.
Music Honors Recital: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Irons Recital Hall. Free. For information, contact the Music Department at music@uta.edu or 817-272-3471.
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POLICE REPORT This is a part of the daily activity log produced by the university’s Police Department. To report a criminal incident on campus, call 817-272-3381.
THURSDAY Warrant Service - Misdemeanor Officers responded 1:20 a.m. to a report of a nonstudent and nonresident sleeping at the Centennial Court apartments’ club house on 700 Mitchell Circle. Officers arrested the nonstudent on outstanding warrants and issued a criminal trespass warning. WEDNESDAY Theft At 10 p.m. officers responded to a call at the Arlington Hall turnaround on 500 S. Pecan St. A student reported that his iPhone and wallet were stolen from the Maverick Activities Center. The case is active. Vehicle Burglary Officers responded to a report at 6 p.m. from a student who said someone took property from his vehicle on 819 Bering Drive. No damage was reported. The case is active. Suspicious Person A student contacted police at 6 p.m. regarding an unknown person yelling inappropriate comments at Lipscomb Hall on 700 Oak St. Minor Accident At 5:01 p.m., a student and nonstudent were involved in a minor accident on 700 Mitchell St. There were no injuries and both exchanged insurance information. Suspicious Circumstances Officers responded at 1:15 p.m. to a report of a faculty member being threatened at the Maverick Parking Garage on 700 Davis Drive. Minor Accident At 10:20 a.m. officers responded to the report of a minor vehicle accident in Lot 52, which is located north of Doug Russell Road, on 1101 West St. A student was issued a campus citation.
CORRECTIONS The March 28 story, “Family, UTA celebrate life of professor,” should have read that James Kopp taught a class that centered positive reinforcement instead of coercion. It should have also read that Jon Kopp also remembered former psychology professor Jim Baerwaldt’s house, instead of former psychology professor Ira Bernstein’s house.
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Alumni and students mingle at picnic, participate in activities Former students speak of past experiences and change. BY VALLARI GUPTE The Shorthorn staff
Blake and Dorothy Brown met their freshman year at UTA in 1941. The alumni couple shared their experiences with current students and other alumni at the fifth annual Alumni Association Picnic in the Park Saturday at Doug Russell Park. “I don’t think there is anybody here who is as old as we are,” Dorothy said. The Alumni Association hosts the picnic every year to give alumni a chance to return and interact with current students. Children and students played games and ate lunch together. About 60 students and alumni shared their Maverick experiences with games and music. Alumni played games with water balloons, musical chairs, jump rope and face-painting. Attendees dressed in UTA attire and consumed burgers and soda. Blake showed blackand-white photos of his time at UTA to different generations of students. “Almost everything has changed,” he said of the university. He said when he was a student, tuition cost $25 a semester. International business senior Cody Early hosted
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Mikayla Cathcart, daughter of alumna Jennifer Cathcart, painted accounting sophomore Yunjeong Kim’s arm at the fifth annual Alumni Association Picnic in the Park. Alumni visited the campus with family to spend time with current students.
games for the picnic. “A picnic is a nice way to bring the alumni, children and current students together,” he said. Early said alumni might get to relive their college days at a picnic. Psychology sophomore Bri Hossain said a lot of alumni came out.
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“It’s a great experience to see, bond and ask them about past life experiences, since we are going through it now,” she said. Jennifer Cathcart, UTA Alumni Association board member, graduated in 1999. She said she visits the campus often with her 4-year-old daughter,
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Mikayla. Cathcart said she hopes to instill the love she has for UTA in Mikayla. “I love the way the campus is growing,” Cathcart said. “It’s beautiful.” Public relations sophomore Karen Blair said her entire family graduated from UTA.
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“I grew up on campus,” she said. “Now I am at home.” The Browns said they want to continue to visit the campus every year because of the connection they feel upon return. VALLARI GUPTE news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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industry leaders to come speak for Business Week All majors can attend and learn about real-life issues in business.
ONLINE For a link to the schedule, visit theshorthorn.com.
By EDNA hORTON The Shorthorn staff
ethics, leadership and sustainability among businesses will be the topic of discussion during this week’s Business Week. From today through Friday, a series of lectures will be presented to different classes in the College of Business. david Gray, College of Business associate dean, said each year the week’s theme is based on a current interest in the United States. in past years, the themes have included development and technology. This year’s theme is Corporate Social responsibility and ethical leadership. He said the lectures are part of class time for business students, but they are open to everyone as long as seats are available. Gray said the purpose of the week is to bring in speakers who are successful in their fields to share their experiences. He said it’s a way for
students to see how effective business decisions are made. “it is a tremendous opportunity to meet, see and hear people who are extremely successful in their career,” he said. Craig eppling, General Motors Co. regional communications manager, said he will give a lecture titled “The Future of the Automobile and What is Going to Power it.” He said he will cover hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and the challenges that come with the cost of building them and how buyers will fuel them. Some of the challenges are where to charge electric vehicles and how to make hybrids and electric vehicles more affordable. He will ask students to think about what they’ll be driving 20 to 25 years from now. “How do we create a more sustainable product on the automotive side?” eppling
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Japan homeless move into houses
plans to ask lecture attendees. eppling will speak at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Business Building room 241, and at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Business Building room 349. Mayra Castillo, Student Congress business senator, said she is attending two lectures. one will be over investment and the other will be over ethics. She said she chose these particular topics because she knows they will be useful in her career. She especially is looking forward to the lecture over ethics, because she said people should be prepared to handle uncomfortable situations ethically. She said she wants to share what she learns with her classmates who are not going to attend the lectures, and she encourages everyone to go to at least one. “You never know what you are going to learn,” the marketing freshman said. “There is always something to learn and it is going to be useful.”
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A NEW mASTER Former champion Phil Mickelson, back, helps Charl Schwartzel of South Africa with his green Masters jacket after winning the Masters golf tournament Sunday, April 10, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.
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WASHiNGToN — one budget deal down, President Barack obama and Congress began to pivot Sunday from the painful standoff over this year’s spending to a pair of defining debates over the nation’s borrowing limit and the election-year budget. Much will be revealed at midweek, when the House and Senate are expected to vote on a budget for the remainder of this fiscal year and obama reveals his plan to reduce the deficit, in part by scaling back programs for seniors and the poor. Across the dial on Sunday, messengers from both parties framed the series of spending fights as debates over cuts — a thematic victory for House republicans swept to power by a populist mandate for smaller, more austere government. “We’ve had to bring this president kicking and screaming to the table to cut spending,” said House Majority leader eric Cantor, r-Va., on “Fox News Sunday.” Presidential adviser david Plouffe said obama has long been committed to finding ways for the nation to spend within its means. He confirmed that the president would unveil more specifics for deficit reduction with a speech Wednesday that would reveal plans to reduce the government’s chief health programs for seniors and the poor. “You’re going to have to look at Medicare and Medicaid and see what kind of savings you can get,” obama adviser david Plouffe said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top republican on the Senate Budget Commit-
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Voter registration ends Thursday REgISTER TO vOTE
By ALI AmIR muSTANSIR The Shorthorn senior staff
Voter registration for local elections in Arlington ends Thursday. According to the Tarrant County website, during last May’s election, 6,417 of the 185,168 registered voters participated, less than 3.5 percent. robert rivera, district 3 councilman and candidate, said so few people voted because of voter apathy. rivera said people have other obligations that pull their attention and tend to not worry unless their needs aren’t met. He said people are content if things like trash and safety are addressed. rivera said another contributor to the low turnout is the shift in population age. He said senior citizens are more likely to vote and Arlington is shifting to a younger population. “Age is not important,” he said. “What is important is that you have a desire to have a positive hand in the direc-
In addition to registering in the University Center, Arlington residents can also register by getting the forms online. • Voter registration forms are available online at the Tarrant County website, tarrantcounty.com. • Turn in the completed form to the Tarrant County Elections Center or mail it. • Forms must be returned or postmarked at least 30 days before the election date. Source: tarrantcounty.com.
tion of the city.” Student Congress President Aaron resendez said SC is working to get people registered. He said it’s hard to get people registered to vote other than in mid-term and presidential elections, because they aren’t as publicized as national elections. “These are people who make decisions that affect everyday life,” he said. “The city council and mayor make decisions that affect UTA and will eventually affect you.” economics graduate stu-
African Union: Libya accepts cease-fire
White House: obama to lay out spending plan
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Arlington residents can register in the UC lower level until then.
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — One month after a devastating tsunami flattened their homes, some families took a step toward normalcy and moved into temporary housing, while Japan’s prime minister promised Sunday to help fishermen along the devastated coast get back to their boats. Rows of 36 boxy, gray houses line a junior high school parking lot in this port city pulverized by the March 11 wave, and, after a lottery, the first lucky few families moved in this weekend.
dent Christopher Coffman said he voted in his district, district 2, and for the three at-large districts last year. He said the biggest issue facing local elections is visibility. “in the past few years, people have been focused on national issues,” he said. “it makes the city seem like small fries.” Coffman said people pay federal sales tax, state sales tax and city sales tax, which all goes to some services that we use. He said public officials at any level face decisions on how to spend the money. “They hope the council is doing things to make the city livable,” Coffman said. Arlington residents can register to vote for local elections in the Student Congress office located at the University Center’s lower level until Thursday. Coffman said council members, the mayor and candidates are responsible for making sure citizens know what they do and encourage them to vote.
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TRIPOLI, Libya — A delegation of African leaders said Sunday that their Libyan counterpart, Moammar Gadhafi, accepted their “road map” for a ceasefire with rebels, whom they will meet Monday. They met hours after NATO airstrikes battered Gadhafi’s tanks, helping Libyan rebels push back government troops who had been advancing quickly toward the opposition’s eastern stronghold. The terms of the African Union’s road map were unclear — such as whether it would require Gadhafi to pull his troops out of cities as rebels have demanded.
tee, called obama’s planned speech “an apparent recognition that the budget plan he submitted to Congress ... fails to address our dire fiscal challenges.” in a press release Sunday, Sessions said any revision to the 2012 budget submitted by obama in February “must be presented in a detailed, concrete form” for scrutiny by the House and Senate budget committees and the Congressional Budget office. The presidential speech on Wednesday is part of official Washington’s shift from the standoff over spending through September to next year’s budget and beyond. Alone and together, the prospects of raising the debt ceiling and passing a 2012 spending plan are politically perilous, a knot that lawmakers will spend the coming months trying to unravel. That means competing plans to shore up the nation’s long-term fiscal health in a debate many predict will make Friday’s nail-biter look minor. For all the forward focus Sunday, congressional officials still were analyzing Friday’s 348-70 vote to fund the government through the week. operating under it, aides were putting to paper the longer-term bipartisan accord to fund the government through September. it wasn’t clear that the vote would remain the same on the spending bill for the next six months. The late hour of Friday’s handshake left lawmakers little time to react. House members of both parties who voted for the funding through the week could not say on Sunday that they’d vote for the plan to fund the government through September.
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Small plane crashes into house in Maine BIDDEFORD, Maine — Authorities say a small plane has crashed into a house in Maine and burst into flames, injuring one person inside the house. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland says the single-engine plane crashed into a house near Biddeford Municipal Airport at around 6:10 p.m. Sunday. McCausland says one injured person has been pulled from the home. He says it’s unknown whether the pilot was injured, and firefighters are trying to determine whether anyone else is inside the house. There’s no immediate word on what caused the crash.
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Hot weather stokes raging wildfires FORT WORTH — Firefighters from 25 states were battling more than a dozen blazes across much of West Texas on Sunday in what state forest service officials called the single worst fire day the state has ever seen. A fastmoving wildfire had spread to more than 60,000 acres Sunday in Presidio County and Jeff Davis County, where it destroyed about 20 homes in Fort Davis, about 200 miles southeast of El Paso. Widespread electricity outages were reported after numerous power poles burned.
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Better marketing should precede women’s studies name change The Women’s Studies program is headed in the wrong direction. Liberal Arts faculty and leaders in the college have fixated on changing the program’s name to Women’s and Gender Studies. The college should keep the current name and help the program reach a bigger audience. The program’s interim chairwoman Desiree Henderson said the new name would broaden its reach in terms of subject matter and might draw in more students. She added that the name change even might attract more male students. But, that sentiment could lead to two problems. The change might get males to enroll in classes, but it also could alienate students who think women’s studies is a subject in its own right. And if the line of thinking is that the current name or subject matter deters male students, then it should have removed “women” from the title altogether. If the goal is to get men, and if men refrain from the program’s classes because of the name and subject matter, then retaining “women” in the program’s title still would leave male students reluctant to take these courses. Program faculty have been asked if male students are allowed to enroll in women’s studies courses. Of course they are. That shouldn’t have been a question. Good marketing and promotion of the program would have deflected such misconceptions and prevented that question being raised. The program is interesting and important because it highlights a demographic that isn’t represented in traditional academic settings. But many students might not know about the program’s existence. A name change shouldn’t put the program in headlines. Its latest events, exhibits and speakers should draw in students. Women’s studies hasn’t become less interesting. But a name change indicates that there is a perceived lack of interest in the program in its current form. The problem isn’t the program. It’s people. If students aren’t showing interest in this program, then it’s time to create a new approach. The Women’s Studies program is most visible and sought during Women’s History Month. That’s an opportunity to market the program to current and prospective UTA students. But it shouldn’t stop there. More women’s studiesrelated functions in partnership with other departments should be organized throughout the year to maintain interest and relevance. This program is special because it highlights something nontraditional, the study of women. That warrants a stand-alone name and program. — The Shorthorn editorial board
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recent column in The Shorthorn reproduced, in part, a column from about 30 years ago, right after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania. It supported the cause of opponents of nuclear energy, and suggested a shift to environmentally cleaner and safer energy sources such as solar and wind, so-called soft energy. Yet, what has really changed in 30 years? This country currently derives approximately 85 percent of its energy needs from fossil fuels – oil, natural gas and coal. We all know, or should know, the increasing unreliability of the sources of these materials, particularly oil, and the negative environmental impacts of mining, transporting around the globe and consuming these products. Current predictions are that the requirements for fossil fuels will increase by perhaps 50 percent in the next 20 to 25 years. Solar and wind power each provide well less than 1 percent of our energy today, and most experts predict the percentage will not increase rapidly any time soon, in part because of the present economic climate. These problems should have been addressed 30 years ago. So what are we to do now? If we flip a light switch on, we expect to get light. What provides that light right here in Arlington? A percentage of that energy we use comes from nuclear fission, at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant southwest of the Metroplex. If we shut it down because of concerns about the safety of nuclear power, as well illustrated by the current disaster in Japan, what will take its place? Right now, not in the distant and uncertain future? As we know, it is very easy, and popular, to criticize something, but if what it provides is essential to our standard of living, then what will replace it? Nuclear power provides about 20
percent of our electricity and significantly higher percentages in a number of other countries. We could burn more coal, to the widespread detriment of the environment, from strip mining large regions to adding yet more noxious gases to the atmosphere. Clean coal is a long way from being available at a reasonable cost; the coal we are now burning is dirty stuff and will be for some time. Natural gas offers some hope, because of improved methods of extracting gas from shale, a technology largely developed in north Texas. But what else? Solar and wind power, in any noticeable quantity, are years away, and really, how clean are they? What exactly goes into manufacturing a solar panel or a wind turbine? These things need to be considered in comparing energy sources in the long run, not to mention the economics of the various sources, which can change rapidly. The increasing reliance on natural gas makes sense today, whereas only a few years ago it was thought to be declining quickly in abundance. Given the current attention focused on the possible dangers of nuclear power, what should be the future of this energy source? No one I have ever met has said that he or she would like to have a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood, or, for that matter, an oil or gas well, or an open pit coal mine or a coal burning power plant. Obtaining energy from the Earth is not pretty or benign. We have to get it where we can. Drilling a well in the Gulf of Mexico is not anyone’s first choice, but that’s where oil is. It is often said we’re not running out of oil but running out of cheap oil. Can we afford to scrap nuclear energy now – right now – not when there are wind turbines and solar fields covering the countryside? Can we flip the light switch and wait 50 years for it to come on?
L. A. STANDLEE Standlee is an earth and environmental sciences adjunct professor and a guest columnist for The Shorthorn. Join the discussion by commenting at theshorthorn.com. We are caught between a rock and a hard place. We have no completely acceptable sources of energy, either now or in the next few decades. We should have started with soft energy sources 30 years ago. Now what? Nuclear energy is fraught with problems, but in surveying the results of operating hundreds of nuclear power plants around the world, some for more than 40 years, the number of significant accidents and reactor failures has been remarkably low. These facilities are unbelievably complex, expensive and, when they fail, as the Japanese are finding out, a massive challenge to overcome. But what’s the alternative? We can learn from our failures in utilizing nuclear energy. The reactors designed today are several generations removed from the reactors designed and built decades ago, most of which are still operating today. Earth scientists know that building a nuclear power plant near a tectonic plate margin that is prone to large earthquakes and resulting tsunamis is not a good idea. That is a situation that can be easily avoided in most countries. This country, for instance, has large regions with very low seismic risk. The problem of obtaining affordable and reasonably safe energy is huge. What we need to do today – right now – is use every available source, not one at the exclusion of another. We don’t have the luxury of choosing right now. When I flip that switch, like most people, I want light now. I can’t honestly say I like nuclear energy, but I sure do need it.
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The university should have put more thought into the butterfly release Editor’s note: The university officially opened The Green at College Park with the release of butterflies because it will double as a butterfly garden. On Tuesday, I witnessed the official opening of The Green at College Park. I witnessed the butterfly release and was deeply saddened by the way it was conducted. The people from 13-0 Country Butterflies did not seem to be trained enough for such releases, although their organization is a member of the International Butterfly Breeders Association. The 200 butterflies, mostly Painted Ladies and a couple of Monarchs, were contained in very small boxes. Organizers didn’t show urgency in releasing the butterflies. Because Painted Ladies are fast flyers, they hurt each other with their fast wing flapping. The initial speech by the invited
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guests took about 30 minutes. By that time, some of the Painted Ladies were dead and others were too exhausted from trying to escape. Many of the Monarchs had their wings broken by then. That was why most of the butterflies did not fly when the boxes were opened. Also, the ones that were forcefully tossed in the air by the president landed haplessly on the ground. Just 10 minutes after the butterfly release, there were at least 50 Painted Ladies on the ground, and many others fell on the table. In their natural habitat, Painted Ladies hardly sit at the same place for more than 15 seconds except when they are basking or puddling. Most of the Painted Ladies that landed on the ground got crushed by the gathering and the rest were already dead by the time they were released. Very few survived the ordeal. I don’t understand the joy of releasing
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dead butterflies at this special occasion. The act of butterfly release is disapproved by many of the scientific organizations, including the North American Butterfly Association. Genetic makeup of farm butterflies will be different from the natural populations, hence their release can badly affect local populations. Some amount of thought process should have been used before deciding on a butterfly release. Assuming that the butterflies were bred in a natural environment, at least if the butterflies were released before the inaugural speeches, more of them would have survived. I hope better senses prevail at future programs of UTA.
— Kishen Das, computer science graduate student, former consultant to two Indian butterfly parks and butterfly scholar for 10 years
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By sarah lutz and Vidwan raghaVan The Shorthorn staff
The university is approaching completion of a $9.9 million energy upgrade project that will pay for itself in about eight years. This is the second project of this scale in the last five years. In 2006, the university completed an $18 million package of upgrades that took eight years to pay back, said Larry Harrison, mechanical operations and grounds director. This round of upgrades won’t pay back as quickly, because the first round of enhancements included faster and cheaper items. “As we do more of these projects, it gets harder and harder to find things that pay back sooner,” he said. Items like small water pumps in the basement of some buildings to a large water chiller that supplies the entire campus with cool water, have been upgraded to more efficient units that are computer controlled. Four cooling towers at the university’s Thermal Energy Plant had two speeds — high and low, Harrison said. The new variable frequency drive allows the towers to work at lower speeds. He said when the university pays about $1.50 per hour per horsepower, savings on something like these towers, could mean “big time savings.”
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Ever since a fire in 2002 almost led to a campus closure, Jeff Johnson, maintenance operations and special projects director, has worked toward ensuring sufficient power backup for every building. Although he was expecting the campus to close for two weeks, he was able to get power restored during the weekend following a Friday fire. New generators were added to various buildings, including Pickard Hall, Life Science Building, Central Library and the Business Building. “The old one was a small one that just handled exit lights. With the newer system, there will be lights in every classroom, every 30 feet in the hallway and all the elevators will have power,” Johnson said. The generator is diesel powered and can hold enough fuel to power the building for 24 hours. “We wanted to try natural gas, but those are more expensive and you lose power,” Johnson said. “Since this is a backup, we couldn’t justify the cost.” Newer buildings like the Engineering Research Building and Kalpana Chawla Hall came with generators factored into their cost.
University Hall’s roof is being upgraded to a foam roof, which would improve insulation, Johnson said. He said the project began during spring break, but it has been difficult to complete because the wind interfered with spraying the foam. Johnson hopes to complete the project by Sunday. “Most of the work is done on Saturday and Sunday to not disrupt students,” he said. “If the weather permits, we should have it done by next Saturday or Sunday.” The process involves cleaning the roof, priming it, spraying on a two-to four-inch layer of foam and putting in roofing granules into the final foam layer. Roofing granules are added to give texture to the roof and ensure people don’t slip on it, Johnson said. Johnson said University Hall is the only building getting the new roof as of now. However, if there is any money left over from that, the Trimble Hall and Hammond Hall roofs are under considerations to be revamped.
The Facilities Management Office has already begun to phase out old water pumps in the basements of four campus buildings for new ones that will last longer, have a more energy-efficient motors and automatically change speeds to respond to the necessary load, Johnson said. Buildings taller than three stories require the pumps to move water upward, because the city’s water pressure is only good for three floors. The varying speed allows the pumps to work slower, or use less energy, when the demand does not require it, Plumbing Shop supervisor Ruben Grant said. “See how quiet it is, you can’t even tell that this pump is running,” Grant said while pointing to a new water pump in Davis Hall. “It’s running at 53 percent capacity and you can’t even hear it. That’s how efficient it is.” Each building has two water pumps, which run one at a time for two to three days allowing the pumps to last longer, he said. The pumps have been added to Davis Hall, Texas Hall, Fine Arts Building and Business Building. Pickard Hall is scheduled to receive one on April 30. Carlisle Hall, Maverick Stadium and the Chemistry Research Building will receive new water pumps as funding is available.
A 3,000-ton addition to campus operations will come in the form of two water chillers that supply cool water to the entire campus. One has already been installed and the other installation will begin this week, Johnson said. The chiller works like an air conditioning unit or a refrigerator, said Joe Solis, second shift supervisor. Instead of using Freon, water goes through an evaporator coil. The air blows across the coil making cool air to chill the water and be pumped out to the campus. He said everything from oil and water temperature to flow is controlled by a computer program. “Once you turn it on, it just does its own thing,” he said. “It’s programed to do the job the most efficient way with no human intervention unless something goes wrong.” Solis said there is only one other water chiller like this one, at Baylor University. The equipment is so new, some small problems are still popping up, like difficulty communicating with other equipment on campus and compressors not going down when they are supposed to. “But they’ll get it ironed out,” Solis said. “It’s all new-new stuff, but all-in-all they’re a lot more efficient, I’d say at least twice if not more.”
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Volunteers rinse and sift through buckets of rock sediments to find microfossils Saturday at a creek near the Arlington Archosaur site. The small fossils help researchers study what kind of climate conditions the area experienced during the Cretaceous period.
rock sediments and carry them to the creek, a few football fields away. There, she would rinse them off and continued from page 1 sift through them. She said the reason they Nothing was found Satur- do this is to find microfosday, but he still has high sils that can aid in finding hopes. out climate conditions of the “Over here is the edge of area. the Quarry,� he said point“On Wednesday nights ing to a jagged edge of rock in the lab, [students] look formation. “My hypothesis is through them using microthat the skull is here, maybe, scopes to find those tiny fosbut even if it isn’t, I want to sils,� she said. “It’s a tedious dig here to see what is.� task.� Saturday hosted a pubMain named the event lic event named “Thun- “Thunderstruck,� after the derstruck,� which ACDC song, beallowed people to cause the crew take tours of the has been finding a site and dig for foslot of evidence of sils. wildfires, which are Ronnie Colvin, usually caused by Earth and envilightening, which ronmental sciences usually includes graduate student, thunder. So far, the is a regular at the Arlington Archodig site. When the saur site has dissite opens up for Derek Main, site covered a new spethe public events director cies of lungfish and once a month, Colcrocodile. vin leads tours and This is the first helps those who of many events that will be have never been there be- named after rock songs, fore. Main said. This summer, “I was once a newbie my- Main is planning to name self, so I always try and help all of the events after rock them out,� she said. “Every- songs and call it the “Sumbody has a niche out here, mer of Rock.� and everybody shares their “We’ve already been knowledge.� thinking of calling them Colvin said her favorite things like ‘Smoke on the way to learn and teach is by Water’ or ‘Purple Haze’,� he using the hands-on method, said laughing. because it’s easier to underHe said on Saturday the stand and a much more in- diggers found things includdepth experience. ing crocodile vertebrae and “This is an outdoor class- turtle fossils. room,� she said about the “The usual suspects,� he site. “Science is a verb in my said. “We pretty much found opinion. You do science.� what we always find out Undeclared junior An- here.� gela Maxwell spent her day at the site screen washing. Ashley BrAdley She would take buckets of news.editor-shorthorn@uta.edu
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brothers will return ready to serve for the university’s largest The Big Event. Prior to the April 8 deadline to sign up for The Big Event, event recruitment chair Mandy Boxill told The Shorthorn, an estimated 1,000 students, faculty and staff would participate. “We actually went over our goal,� event director Tiffany Kaminski said. Kaminski said the number of applicants was more than she imagined. This year 1,050 volunteers signed up to participate for the event. “Signing up is an excellent choice,� Boxill said. “But showing up is even more powerful.� Since spring 2005, UTA Volunteers has coordinated the service project that has continued to grow every year. Last year, more than 800 volunteers provided 3,600 community service hours to the community. “In the past, we did not do
a lot of promotion,� she said. “This year, the promotion was extremely successful because it gained a lot of interest and gave us an opportunity to have face time with the students.� The UTA Volunteers used green methods to spread the word around campus, such as 35-second movie trailers to tell students about The Big Event during EXCEL Campus Activities’ free movie screenings on campus. “As UTA moves towards a green campus, we wanted to participate in that movement,� she said. Boxill also said the volunteers spent a lot of time faceto-face with students and organizations. UTA Volunteers used several forms of fundraising for The Big Event this year, including raising $300 by selling hot dogs. Wells Fargo donated $5,000 toward The Big Event as a sponsorship donation. “It was a big help,� Kaminski said. “Dr. Lamas, [vice president of Student Affairs,] was a big push for it to go towards us this year.� The money will go toward
Public welcome to celebrate extension In celebration of getting a lease extension on the land, the Arlington Archosaur site will host an event inviting the public to come and see what’s going on. “Archosaur Park IVFossil Fest I� will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 30 at the dig site. Three tours will be conducted, but reservations must be made in advance. Because they have been finding many important fossils, the owner of the land, the Huffines Group, has extended the lease on the land for another yearuntil May 2012. “We’re still finding things,� site director Derek Main said. “The more we look, the more we find, so it’s good that we have more time to do that.� The outdoor festival will include digging for fossils, events for children, free coffee donated from Starbucks and free pizza donated from New York Pizza and Deli. “Kids get to be honorary paleontologists for the day,� said Kristi Argenbright, event organizer and Tarrant County College geology professor. “They’ll get a little paleontologist kit.� Because this is a fundraiser event, tickets are being sold for $10 so the site can purchase supplies they need for the next year. To buy tickets and make reservations for the tour, contact Argenbright at 817807-7742, 817-515-4536 or kristi.argenbright@tccd. edu. — Ashley Bradley
supplies and food for the volunteers, she said. For the first time, The Big Event will cohost a global project with Freshmen Leaders on Campus. Kaminski said there will be three project sites for Uganda’s The Koi Koi House. The volunteers will paint shirts and donate them to orphans in Uganda. The project site will be set up from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday on the University Center mall. Biomedical engineering junior Neil Hall said after participating last year, he learned that volunteering was not only an opportunity to help the community but also to bond with other students on campus. Hall said one of his fondest memories of last year’s event was the opportunity he and his fraternity members had to make a new friend. “Some girl signed up late and was stuck at a project site with us,� he said. “At first she was really shy, but by the end of the day we were all friends. I won’t forget that.� BiAncA Montes news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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Students receive training for handling emergency situations Groups had to counteract dramatic events based on a week’s training. By Vallari Gupte The Shorthorn staff
Emily Marshall was one of 100 nursing seniors who witnessed a 400-pound emergency helicopter landing as a part of the College of Nursing’s disaster preparedness drill. Marshall gazed at the helicopter excitedly as it touched the ground Friday at the Campus Recreation Fields Complex — this was something she couldn’t experience in the classroom. “It’s really cool, because you usually get to see these things on TV,” she said. The nursing seniors received training to operate with limited resources and time. The helicopter was one of the few stations the nurses visited during their once-a-semester disaster preparedness drill. Caitlin Wright, Nursing Constituency Council president, said simulation practice in the Smart Hospital was exciting enough, but the disaster preparedness drill exposed her to new disas-
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man appeared. Students were asked how they would respond to a person with a gun looking for his son and threatening to fire if he didn’t find him. “We had to make sure he was OK and get the police involved and also make sure that everybody was OK,” nursing senior Huong Pham said. Marshall said she was excited to learn how specific departments work together. Flight nurse Brian Morton hopped out of a PHI Air Medical helicopter along with a flight paramedic and a pilot. Morton shared his experiences of hopping onto a helicopter
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Noticing red flags brings people closer to getting help Red flags and blue life-size wooden mannequins fill the Central Library mall lawn to symbolize the warning signs one might see in a relationship. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention program is on a weeklong campaign, from April 7 to 15, to encourage the UTA community to speak up against sexual assault. Volunteers from the program placed red flags in the lawn during the weekend to motivate conversation across campus. Charity Stutzman, violence prevention and student intervention coordinator, said the campaign is passive, in that volunteers will not verbally explain the meaning behind the flags. “You can’t ignore red flags in the grass,” she said. “It’s a passive campaign but there is a very active conversation around it.” The campaign is intended to inform students about seven unhealthy behaviors to look out for in a relationship that could be considered sexual assault. The behaviors will be explained on posters that will go up beginning today. The idea of the campaign is to encourage students to be proactive so that help can be given, Stutzman said.
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Today, the College of Engineering will hold the first of four forums in which engineering dean candidates will give self-presentations to the campus community. Engineering Dean Bill Carroll is stepping down from his position in August. He has served as dean since 2000 and is the longest-tenured engineering dean in the university’s history. David Peters, a Washington University engineering professor, is scheduled to go first Monday, when he will present David Peters, information about himself and Washington Unihis experiences in engineering. versity engineering The presentation will begin at 2 professor and UTA p.m. in Nedderman Hall Room engineering dean candidate 100. The forum is open to everyone and a Q-and-A will follow Peters’ presentation where audience members can participate. After the forum students, faculty and staff can take an online survey where they can rate Peters’ leadership, communication, commitment and collaborative efforts. University administration will review the survey following the forums and make the final selection. The next three forums are scheduled for April 18, 21 and 25. The College of Engineering has yet to release the names of the other three candidates. Carroll said his personal goals center on teaching and research in the computer-engineering area. “I have a faculty office and a small research lab in the ERB that I plan to begin using in the not-too-distant future,” Carroll said in a previous interview. The survey can be accessed at – https://www. surveymonkey.com/s/Peters1
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remember Wes Worster leads the Jim West Intercollegiate after shooting a 68, but UTA is in eighth place. Find out more at theshorthorn.com. Monday, April 11, 2011
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men’S tenniS
BaSeBall
Team wins early, but loses to Baylor
Lions’ pitching plagues Mavericks
The men’s tennis team went 1-1 on Saturday with a win over UC-Santa Barbara and a loss to No. 13 Baylor. Even though his team came out of Saturday with only one win, head coach Diego Benitez said he was satisfied with the way the team played. “I’m happy with the level of tennis we are playing right now,” Benitez said. Against UC-Santa Barbara, the Mavericks won two of the three doubles matches and went on to win 4-1. The only loss occurred when the doubles team of junior Mindaugas Celedinas and junior David Subirats lost to Alex Konigsfeldt and Taylor ChavezGoggin 8-7. Senior Brieuc Hamon and freshman Lucas Leppin won against Mathieu Forget and Philip Therp 8-2, and freshman Nicolas Moreno and sophomore Yauheni Yakauleu beat Benjamin Recknagel and Evan Jurgensen 9-8. Leppin and Moreno’s matches went unfinished because the Mavericks had to make the trip to Waco to face Baylor at 6 p.m. The trip didn’t bring the same results however, as the Mavericks were shut out 7-0. In doubles, Roberto Maytin and Sergio Ramirez defeated Celedinas and Subirats with a final score of 8-1, while Hamon and Leppin dropped an 8-2 decision against Kike Grangeiro and Robert Verzaal in the No. 2 flight. Julian Bley and Dennis Lengsfeld handed Moreno and Yakauleu an 8-5 loss. With three games left, the Mavericks have an overall record of 10-8. The Mavericks return to Southland Conference play on Friday when they travel to Thibodaux, La. to face Nicholls at 1:30 p.m. — Travis Detherage
Sophomore outfielder Preston Beck’s big day prevents a series sweep.
Baseball adds game with Mary Hardin-Baylor
By Sam morton
After playing Baylor on Tuesday, UTA will host Mary Hardin-Baylor 4 p.m. Wednesday at Clay Gould Ballpark. Teams are allowed to play 56 games, and UTA only had 55 games scheduled before the addition. The Mavericks haven’t faced Mary Hardin-Baylor since 1987.
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After losing the first two games of this weekend’s series against southeastern Louisiana, UtA could have just mailed it in on sunday. But the two disappointing losses didn’t sit well with sophomore outfielder preston Beck, who almost singlehandedly lifted UtA to a 4-3 win on sunday. “We don’t want to look back and not make the conference tournament because we gave up sunday,” Beck said. “It was a hot day, but it was good to get the win.” Beck went 3-for-4 with a home run and three rBIs to carry the Mavericks past a Lions team looking to sweep and send UtA toward the bottom of the standings. “We’re not going to put any pressure on him, but that’s what we need out of him,” head coach Darin thomas said. “He’s our guy right now with [Michael] Guerra out. these other guys have to step up and help us score runs until we get Mike back.” thomas said southeastern Louisiana is one of the bettercoached teams in the southland Conference, so he wasn’t surprised when his team dropped the first two games. “It was the first time we’ve been faced with an 0-2 start to the weekend where we had to come back and salvage a game to not get swept,” thomas said. “It’s easy, when you’re
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playing a good team that’s on a roll, to go in and lay down. I’m proud of our guys for not doing that.” the Mavericks fell into a hole after losing two close games on Friday and saturday. Junior starter Lance Day got a three-run cushion to work with after the first four Mavericks collected hits to start the game on Friday but faltered down the stretch. He gave up three runs in the sixth and a couple more in the late innings that allowed southeastern Louisiana to win 5-3.
the Lions took the lead in the eighth off a controversial balk call on Day that ultimately doomed UtA. With runners on the corners and two outs, Day’s fake to third and throw to first was called a balk, bringing the game-winning run home. After a shaky first inning, Lions pitcher Brandon Efferson shut UtA down. Efferson only surrendered three hits for the rest of his night. UtA had a chance to win in the ninth on saturday when it loaded the bases with only one out.
After sophomore first baseman Cody Dyvig brought home the first run on a fielder’s choice, sophomore outfielder Jake pinchback struck out to end the game, clinching the series win for southeastern Louisiana. sophomore reliever sam Hansen threw three scoreless innings of relief on saturday, to hold the Lions at bay, and junior pitcher Calan pritchard did the same on sunday to bail the Mavericks out of another rough start. pritchard, who started earlier in the season, has seam-
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lessly transitioned to the UtA bullpen. “I come into the ballpark not really knowing what to expect,” pritchard said. “But I come to the field prepared and give the team what they need from me.” But Beck drove a two-run double down the right-field line before coming around on a pair of sacrifices to give UtA its first lead in 19 innings. He later homered in the bottom of the eighth to pad the lead. Sam morton sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
women’S tenniS
SoftBall
Mavericks remain undefeated in SLC
Lady Demons push UtA to second place
The No. 69 women’s tennis team continued their domination of the Southland Conference with a 7-0 victory against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Sunday afternoon at the UTA Tennis Center. The Mavericks are still undefeated in conference play with a record of 9-0 and an overall record of 15-4. This is the sixth straight victory for the Mavericks to give them the longest winning streak of the season. With two games left in the season, both against conference teams, head coach Diego Benitez said the team is excited at the chance to finish the season undefeated in conference play. “We are playing some of the best tennis we have played the entire season right now, so it would be a huge disappointment if we didn’t finish undefeated in conference play,” Benitez said. The Mavericks will finish up the season with two games next weekend on the road against Southeastern Louisiana and Nicholls State. — Travis Detherage
Mavericks drop two games to lose series for first time this season. By randy mcVay The Shorthorn staff
the softball team struggled offensively in two losses against Northwestern state this weekend, dropping to second place in the southland Conference behind texas A&M-Corpus Christi. the Mavericks left 13 runners on base and scored only one run in two losses. Head coach Debbie Hedrick said the Mavericks didn’t play up to their potential this weekend. “they wanted it more than us,” Hedrick said. “I felt like our intensity wasn’t where it needed to be. We can’t take anybody for granted, and we need to come out and play hard against everybody, or else this happens.” Following a midweek defeat to North texas, the Maver-
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icks came out strong on saturday and recorded a 3-0 victory over the Lady Demons. Freshman Callie Collins recorded her fourth shutout of the season on a five-hit performance. she threw eight strikeouts and allowed only two walks in her 16th win of the year. But despite the early success, UtA dropped a 3-0 decision in game two of the doubleheader. the Lady Demons took a
top maVerickS Kersti Rowan Rowan hit .600 during the series, recorded a triple and scored a run. Callie Collins/Teri Lyles The duo allowed six runs in 21 innings on the mound, and combined to throw 17 strikeouts to only three walks.
1-0 lead in the third inning with a squeeze bunt, and the Mavericks were unable to answer back. they had two on with one out in the fourth inning but failed to capitalize. sophomore pitcher teri Lyles, now 10-9 on the year, allowed two earned runs on six hits. she struck out five batters and allowed zero walks in her 13th complete game of the season. the Mavs (27-15, 14-4 sLC) entered sunday’s game
with a 9-0 record in conference finales, but Northwestern state ended that streak with a 3-1 victory. Collins allowed three runs in less than three innings on the mound, and the loss dropped her to 16-5 on the season. Her struggles prompted Hedrick to bring in Lyles, who allowed only one hit and zero runs in just less than five innings on the mound. But the Mavs struggled to put runs on the board and left seven runners stranded. senior first baseman rebecca Collom provided the only run when she blasted a double that scored junior outfielder Kersti rowan from first base. rowan, who is now hitting .305 on the season, had her best conference series of the season. she went 6-for-10 against the Lady Demons and recorded one run and a triple. rowan said the Mavericks’ recent success played a part in the strong performances by
Northwestern state. “they knew who they were playing,” rowan said. “We were first in the conference going into the weekend, and they came out and played a good series.” they have scored one run combined in the three losses and have been shut out twice, dropping their home record to 10-4 on the year. rebecca Collom said the intensity wasn’t where it needed to be, but she believes they can win next weekend. “We were too flat this weekend,” Collom said. “We just have to work hard in practice this week, fix our mistakes, and show up to play next weekend.” Next weekend the Mavericks travel to Nacogdoches to play a conference series against stephen F. Austin. the Lumberjacks are currently 10th in the sLC with a 5-13 record. randy mcVay sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
track
Martin, Gray stand out in Austin Martin gets second in decathlon, Gray places fourth in 100-meter dash. By JoSh Bowe The Shorthorn senior staff
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senior Cordero Gray and sophomore romain Martin highlighted a solid performance at the texas relays in Austin this weekend. Gray placed fourth in the 100-meter dash and Martin grabbed second place in the decathlon, setting personal bests in the 110-meter hurdles and the 100-meter dash. Martin’s final score of 7,867 was another personal best and another UtA school record. Martin could have won first place if he improved his long jump and shot put, field coach Brandon Berger said. “In the long jump, [Martin] fouled on the first two attempts and just had to put
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a safe jump out there to avoid getting shut out,” Berger said in a press release. “It shows that no matter how well he is performing — and he is performing very well — that there is room for improvement.” Head coach John sauerhage loves how Martin steps his game up when competing against the country’s best. “Every time he competes at a national meet, he produces a personal best,” sauerhage said. “He’s a true competitor.” Gray finished with a time of 10.24 seconds in the 100-
meter dash. He was also part of a 4x100 meter relay team that finished eighth. the team includes sophomores Lionel Mungwari and Andrew pettis and freshman Clayton Vaughn. “We’ve always wanted to do well in the sprint, and we made the final,” sauerhage said. “But we want to run faster. We were having a hard time getting three really good handoffs.” the women’s distance medley team featuring junior Lindsey putman and sophomore DeAndrea smith, senior Esther Abuto and senior Amanda McMahon placed third with a time of 11:48.37. the men’s and women’s track teams compete next at the Mount sac Invitational starting thursday. JoSh Bowe sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu