VIEWS: NEWS: SPORTS: Small signs you’re getting older Page 6 Texas law affecting immigrants is challenged Page 2 Student runs past competition Page 5 Arts & Life Extra loud earbuds can cause permanent damage Page 3 The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas ntdaily.com News 1, 2 Arts & Life 3,4 Sports 5,8 Views 6 Classifieds 7 Games 7 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Volume 95 | Issue 6 Cloudy 61° / 51° BY LISA GARZA Senior Staff Writer Having a tattoo or piercing doesn’t necessarily indicate an “edgy” lifestyle—it’s the number of them that counts, according to a study by a team of Texas Tech University researchers. Jerome Koch, sociology professor at Texas Tech, funded and led a group of researchers known as the Body Art Team to survey nearly 1,800 sociology students in four unnamed colleges in the Midwestern and Southern regions. “What we’ve been finding for the last 10 years or so is that at least a low level of body art is pretty common,” Koch said. “A lot of college students have a tattoo or two or a piercing here or there.” The results indicated that students surveyed who have four or more tattoos or seven or more body piercings were significantly more likely to report illegal drug use or a history of arrest. “At one point, 15 years ago, if you had a tattoo, everyone thought you were a low-life,” he said. “Now, that really isn’t an indicator of deviance.” The correlation of deviant behavior with body art came from about 4 percent of students surveyed, according to the Study says body art, deviance share link study. “People who have a high level of interest and experience with body art seem to be wanting to tell others that they want to live on the edge a little bit,” Koch said. Danielle Franki, a rehabil- itation studies sophomore at UNT, said she selected her three tattoos for inspirational reasons. She chose to have the word ‘fear- less,’ a puzzle piece and the Italian translation for ‘what- ever will be’ inked separately on parts of her body. “My tattoos are symbolic,” she said. “They help me get through difficult stages in my life.” Franki said she might get more tattoos in the future but is not concerned that they would change her behavior. “I don’t see that happening,” she said. Koch, who has no tattoos, said the results of the study are not meant to be representative of every person with body art and that the team has received a grant that will allow them to expand the study in the fall to six different regions of the country. “You can’t generalize this to anything beyond the students we surveyed, but we do think that we have a reasonable cross- section of American college students. But that’s different than simply Americans of the same age,” Koch said. Wes Papke, a 25-year-old tattoo artist at Aces Tattoos, said he disagrees with the conclusion of the study and is disappointed with what he considers a “broad state- ment.” “I know people who have a lot of tattoos and don’t have so much as a speeding ticket,” he said. “Tattoos don’t make you a criminal, your idiocy makes you a criminal.” Koch said the study is not meant to prove that body art inclusively equals deviant behavior. “We’re not saying that one causes the other,” he said. “They just seem to go together.” PHOTO BY CRISTY ANGULO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER 25-year-old tattoo artist Wes Papke works Monday night at Aces Tattoos at 1776 Teasley Lane. BY MORGAN WALKER Senior Staff Writer The Denton City Council held the second of two public hear- ings Jan. 19 regarding its plans to annex about 9,000 acres. The hearing opened with Mark Cunningham, city plan- ning and development director, who provided background infor- mation on the plan. If approved, the annexation would increase Denton’s size by about 16 percent. “I think it is a sound finan- cial move by the city of Denton,” said Abraham Benavides, Denton resident and associate professor of the department of public administration. “A way to increase the revenue that comes into the city is by expanding its tax base, which means there’s going to be more people within the city limits.” Cunningham said the annex- ation will cost more than $2 million. Residents’ concerns Several residents said they were upset with the first hearing about the annexation ordi- nances, claiming their requests were not heard. Kent Wolf, a Denton County resident, said his request was simple and basic — “to do what is right and look beyond what is legal.” Wolf’s first concern was that there was no clear communica- tion regarding the annexation ordinances. “You sent out notices the day before a major holiday, so as no one on the city staff was avail- able to answer questions or concerns,” Wolf said. “No one was able to organize any oppo- sition.” The Denton Plan Increasing the city’s size began as part of the Denton Plan, which was adopted in 1999. The plan was made in anticipation of city growth. Wolf also addressed the Denton Plan, which was set to last until 2020, and questioned the council on why the city is following an “outdated plan.” “We are in the middle of a recession, yet the city is wanting to extend control beyond what it can currently manage,” Wolf said. The city’s land area was 39,695 acres at the time the plan was created. The plan catered to a growth of 25,100 acres to accommo- date single-family, multi-family, industrial, commercial and insti- tutional developments. The current land area within the city is about 57,200 acres, which is 7, 538 acres less than that which is anticipated by the Denton Plan. The city council set annexa- tion goals to include the protec- tion of North Interstate Highway 35E and future West Loop 288 corridors, manage growth in the city’s utility service areas, manage land uses, provide future growth areas as recom- mended in the Denton Plan and create a logical city boundary or “make the city complete,” Cunningham said. Another thing the city has to consider is the amount of land covered by two major universi- ties, Texas Woman’s University and UNT, which are not taxed, Benavides said. After looking over the goals and factors to be considered for annexation, Cunningham said 48,000 acres were studied and 18 areas were identified for potential annexation. Four of the potential annex- ation areas are in the north- western quadrant of the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the other 14 areas are unincor- Residents show mixed reactions to city growth BY KATIE GRIVNA Senior Staff Writer On Hannah Ulbrich’s 23rd birthday, she couldn’t go out and celebrate with her friends until after 11 p.m., when room checks on all of her 22 residents were complete. Ulbrich, a psychology senior, works as a resident assistant for the Texas Academy of Math and Science, a program that allows junior and senior high school students to complete their first and second year of college when they receive their diploma. Many students work as RAs at UNT, but working as an RA at TAMS is different from other dorms. “You make certain sacrifices to work here, but if this is really want you want to then it’s more than worth it,” she said. Interacting with resi- dents When she came back from her first class one day, she found the door to her room covered in 22 hearts, one from each of her residents, which made for an amazing day, Ulbrich said. “I really know that I’m helping out and I’m making a difference,” she said. “I’m having an impact on these girls’ lives, and I really value that position that I have in their hearts.” Ulbrich has worked as an RA for the TAMS program since August 2009. She said after graduation she wants to work with adolescents in the counseling field, so she saw the job as a good opportu- nity to see if she could handle working with kids. Ulbrich said she interacts with the TAMS residents much more than RAs at other dorms because she sees them every day and every night to do room checks for the students’ 11 p.m. weeknight curfew. “Since they’re away from home, I need to be really involved in their lives to make sure they’re okay, that they’re acclimating themselves to the TAMS community and to college life and to offer support to them,” she said. “I think that is really my main goal,” On the weekends, TAMS RAs often drive their residents to their club activities, to volunteer work or to Wal-Mart since first- year students aren’t allowed to bring a car to campus. TAMS students volunteer often, which require RAs like Ulbrich to drive them where they need to go and sometimes stay and help, as the students are minors and need someone over 18 years old to stay with them. “I don’t really babysit them,” she said. “For the most part, if you treat them like they are adults and have that expecta- tion of them, … they will make that mark.” ‘I love my job’ As part of her requirements as an RA, Ulbrich must hold one program for her wing per semester. Every three weeks, McConnell Hall, home to the TAMS program, is closed so students and RAs can go home and spend time with their families. By the Numbers 39,695 size of Denton when original plan was adopted 57,200 current size 9,000 acres Denton plans to annex $2 million cost PHOTO BY KAITLYN PRICE/PHOTOGRAPHER Psychology senior Hannah Ulbrich says it is an adventure being a Texas Academy of Math and Science resident as- sistant at McConnell Hall. Student works with TAMS See RESIDENTS on Page 4 For more information about this issue, read the editorial on Page 6 porated pockets that are within the current city limits. The public hearing only focused on 15 areas, which are exempt from being placed in a three-year annexation. Police and fire protection, emergency medical services, and solid waste collection must be provided immediately on the date of annexation for all areas. Other services that must be provided are operation and main- tenance of roads, streets, parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and any other publicly owned facility, building or service. Once Cunningham finished his presentation, the audience was then able to ask questions regarding the annexation. There will be two readings of the annexation ordinances, the last of which will be held May 4, when the adoption of the ordi- nances will take place.
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Student runs past competitionPage 5
Arts & LifeExtra loud earbuds can cause permanent damage Page 3
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texasntdaily.com
News 1, 2Arts & Life 3,4Sports 5,8Views 6Classifieds 7Games 7
Wednesday, January 27, 2010Volume 95 | Issue 6
Cloudy61° / 51°
BY LISA GARZASenior Staff Writer
Having a tattoo or piercing doesn’t necessarily indicate an “edgy” lifestyle—it’s the number of them that counts, according to a study by a team of Texas Tech University researchers.
Jerome Koch, sociolog y professor at Texas Tech, funded and led a group of researchers known as the Body Art Team to survey nearly 1,800 sociology students in four unnamed colleges in the Midwestern and Southern regions.
“What we’ve been finding for the last 10 years or so is that at least a low level of body art is pretty common,” Koch said. “A lot of college students have a tattoo or two or a piercing here or there.”
The results indicated that students surveyed who have four or more tattoos or seven or more body piercings were significantly more likely to report illegal drug use or a history of arrest.
“At one point, 15 years ago, if you had a tattoo, everyone thought you were a low-life,” he said. “Now, that really isn’t an indicator of deviance.”
The correlation of deviant behavior with body art came from about 4 percent of students surveyed, according to the
Study says body art, deviance share link
study.“People who have a high level
of interest and experience with body art seem to be wanting to tell others that they want to live on the edge a little bit,”
Koch said.Danielle Franki, a rehabil-
itation studies sophomore at UNT, said she selected her three tattoos for inspirational reasons. She chose to have the word ‘fear-
less,’ a puzzle piece and the Italian translation for ‘what-ever will be’ inked separately on parts of her body.
“My tattoos are symbolic,” she said. “They help me get through
difficult stages in my life.”Franki said she might get
more tattoos in the future but is not concerned that they would change her behavior.
“I don’t see that happening,”
she said.Koch, who has no tattoos, said
the results of the study are not meant to be representative of every person with body art and that the team has received a grant that will allow them to expand the study in the fall to six different regions of the country.
“You can’t generalize this to anything beyond the students we surveyed, but we do think that we have a reasonable cross-section of American college students. But that’s different than simply Americans of the same age,” Koch said.
Wes Papke, a 25-year-old tattoo artist at Aces Tattoos, said he disagrees w ith the conclusion of the study and is disappointed w ith what he considers a “broad state-ment.”
“I know people who have a lot of tattoos and don’t have so much as a speeding ticket,” he said. “Tattoos don’t make you a criminal, your idiocy makes you a criminal.”
Koch said the study is not meant to prove that body art inclusively equa ls dev iant behavior.
“We’re not say i ng t hat one causes t he ot her,” he said. “They just seem to go together.”
PHOTO BY CRISTY ANGULO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
25-year-old tattoo artist Wes Papke works Monday night at Aces Tattoos at 1776 Teasley Lane.
BY MORGAN WALKERSenior Staff Writer
The Denton City Council held the second of two public hear-ings Jan. 19 regarding its plans to annex about 9,000 acres.
The hearing opened with Mark Cunningham, city plan-ning and development director, who provided background infor-mation on the plan.
If approved, the annexation would increase Denton’s size by about 16 percent.
“I think it is a sound finan-cial move by the city of Denton,” said Abraham Benavides, Denton resident and associate professor of the department of public administration. “A way to increase the revenue that comes into the city is by expanding its tax base, which means there’s going to be more people within the city limits.”
Cunningham said the annex-ation will cost more than $2 million.
Residents’ concernsSeveral residents said they
were upset with the first hearing about the annexation ordi-nances, claiming their requests were not heard.
Kent Wolf, a Denton County resident, said his request was simple and basic — “to do what is right and look beyond what is legal.”
Wolf’s first concern was that there was no clear communica-tion regarding the annexation ordinances.
“You sent out notices the day before a major holiday, so as no one on the city staff was avail-able to answer questions or concerns,” Wolf said. “No one was able to organize any oppo-sition.”
The Denton PlanIncreasing the city’s size
began as part of the Denton Plan,
which was adopted in 1999. The plan was made in anticipation of city growth.
Wolf also addressed the Denton Plan, which was set to last until 2020, and questioned the council on why the city is following an “outdated plan.”
“We are in the middle of a recession, yet the city is wanting to extend control beyond what it can currently manage,” Wolf said.
The city’s land area was 39,695 acres at the time the plan was created.
The plan catered to a growth of 25,100 acres to accommo-date single-family, multi-family, industrial, commercial and insti-tutional developments.
The current land area within the city is about 57,200 acres, which is 7, 538 acres less than that which is anticipated by the Denton Plan.
The city council set annexa-tion goals to include the protec-tion of North Interstate Highway 35E and future West Loop 288 corridors, manage growth in the city’s utility service areas, manage land uses, provide future growth areas as recom-mended in the Denton Plan and create a logical city boundary or “make the city complete,” Cunningham said.
Another thing the city has to consider is the amount of land covered by two major universi-ties, Texas Woman’s University and UNT, which are not taxed, Benavides said.
After looking over the goals and factors to be considered for annexation, Cunningham said 48,000 acres were studied and 18 areas were identified for potential annexation.
Four of the potential annex-ation areas are in the north-western quadrant of the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the other 14 areas are unincor-
Residents show mixed reactions to city growth
BY KATIE GRIVNASenior Staff Writer
On Hannah Ulbrich’s 23rd birthday, she couldn’t go out and celebrate with her friends until after 11 p.m., when room checks on all of her 22 residents were complete.
Ulbrich, a psychology senior, works as a resident assistant for the Texas Academy of Math and Science, a program that allows junior and senior high school students to complete their first and second year of college when they receive their diploma.
Many students work as RAs at UNT, but working as an RA at TAMS is different from other dorms.
“You make certain sacrifices to work here, but if this is really want you want to then it’s more than worth it,” she said.
Interacting with resi-dents
When she came back from her first class one day, she found the door to her room covered in 22 hearts, one from each of her residents, which made for an
amazing day, Ulbrich said. “I really know that I’m
helping out and I’m making a difference,” she said. “I’m having an impact on these girls’ lives, and I really value that position that I have in their hearts.”
Ulbrich has worked as an RA for the TAMS program since August 2009.
She said after graduation she wants to work with adolescents in the counseling field, so she saw the job as a good opportu-nity to see if she could handle working with kids.
Ulbrich said she interacts with the TAMS residents much more than RAs at other dorms because she sees them every day and every night to do room checks for the students’ 11 p.m. weeknight curfew.
“Since they’re away from home, I need to be really involved in their lives to make sure they’re okay, that they’re acclimating themselves to the TAMS community and to college life and to offer support to them,” she said. “I think that is really my main goal,”
On the weekends, TAMS RAs often drive their residents to their club activities, to volunteer work or to Wal-Mart since first-year students aren’t allowed to bring a car to campus.
TAMS students volunteer often, which require RAs like Ulbrich to drive them where they need to go and sometimes stay and help, as the students are minors and need someone over 18 years old to stay with them.
“I don’t really babysit them,” she said. “For the most part, if you treat them like they are adults and have that expecta-tion of them, … they will make that mark.”
‘I love my job’ As part of her requirements
as an RA, Ulbrich must hold one program for her wing per semester.
Every three weeks, McConnell Hall, home to the TAMS program, is closed so students and RAs can go home and spend time with their families.
By the Numbers
39,695size of Denton when
original plan was adopted
57,200current size
9,000 acresDenton plans to
annex
$2 millioncost
PHOTO BY KAITLYN PRICE/PHOTOGRAPHER
Psychology senior Hannah Ulbrich says it is an adventure being a Texas Academy of Math and Science resident as-sistant at McConnell Hall.
Student works with TAMS
See RESIDENTS on Page 4
For more information about this issue, read the
editorial on Page 6
porated pockets that are within the current city limits.
The public hearing only focused on 15 areas, which are exempt from being placed in a three-year annexation.
Police and fire protection, emergency medical services, and solid waste collection must be provided immediately on the date of annexation for all areas.
Other services that must be provided are operation and main-tenance of roads, streets, parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and any other publicly owned facility, building or service.
Once Cunningham finished his presentation, the audience was then able to ask questions regarding the annexation.
There will be two readings of the annexation ordinances, the last of which will be held May 4, when the adoption of the ordi-nances will take place.
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POLICE BLOTTER
Monday, Jan. 25
A UNT off icer arrested a 20-year-old female UNT student for possession of marijuana and dangerous drug at 6:37 a.m. at UNT lot 23 at 800 S. Ave. B. She was transported to Denton County Jail.
A 24-year-old man was a r rested for a n out side wa rra nt at 5 :11 p.m. for
failing to yield to right of way, possession of d r ug paraphernalia and speeding during a UNT police traffic stop at 2200 W. Hickory St. He was moved to the Denton County Jail.
A harassment complaint was made at 5:54 p.m. in West Hall at 320 North Texas Blvd.
Sunday, Jan. 24
At 12:50 a.m., a UNT police arrested a 30-year-old male UNT student for public intox-ication at 100 Fry St. He was transported to the Denton County Jail.
At 2:07 a.m., an offense report was made for theft and purchasing alcohol for a minor after a UNT officer made cont ac t w it h t he
suspects at 1009 S. Ave. C.At 6 : 55 p.m., a fema le
UNT student was arrested for possession of marijuana after a UNT officer found her with two ounces of mari-juana at UNT lot 80 on 1391 S. Bonnie Brae St. She was taken to the Denton County Jail.
Saturday, Jan. 23
Du r i ng a t ra f f ic stop, a 23-yea r-old ma le wa s arrested for driving while intoxicated at 1000 S. Ave. C in Denton at 2:00 a.m. He was ta ken to the Denton County Jail.
A UNT off icer arrested a 20 -y e a r- old m a n for consumption of alcohol by a minor and a 23-year-old man for public intoxication
at 4:15 a.m. at 500 S. Bell Ave. Both suspects were taken to the Denton County Jail.
At 11:54 p.m., a 22-year-old male student was arrested for tampering with evidence a nd fabr ic at ion a f ter a UN T of f icer cla i med he had ingested a controlled substance at 100 Denton St. He was transported to the Denton County Jail.
BY ALEX CHEATHAMStaff Writer
The Immigration Reform Coa l it ion a nd t he Texas Legal Foundation filed suit in December against the state of Texas for allowing illegal immigrants to pay for college tuition at the same price in-state students are charged.
There a re a l leged ly at least 8,000 i l lega l immi-g ra nt s receiv i ng h ig her education in Texas at the same or discounted tuition rates as local students, and t he Immigrat ion Reform Coalition says this isn’t fair.
The state of Texas and out-of-state students, however, feel differently.
“Receiving in-state tuition helps a lot. Financially, it’s amazing,” said Boram Park, a UNT International graduate student from Seoul, South Korea.
At UNT, undergraduate Texas residents pay about $3,500.65 for 12 credit hours, while non-residents pay a little more than $6,800, according to the department of student accounting.
According to the U.S. Department of Treasury Web site, federal law prohibits states from granting financial aid to those without U.S. citizenship. This law, called the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 states in section 505: “An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a state (or a political subdivi-sion) for any postsecondary education benefit.”
In 2001, Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill allowing illegal im m ig ra nts to receive in-state tuition, said David A. Rogers with the Texas Legal Foundation.
On Dec. 14, the Texas Legal Foundation, representing the
Immigration Reform Coalition, filed a lawsuit against Texas.
There are 10 states in the nation that allow il legal immigrants to be classified as residents for tuition and college financial aid purposes. Texas was the first to start the trend.
Rogers explained that the Texas law prohibits any college or university from enforcing federal law.
Professor Todd Jewell, the chairman of the economics department and a labor econ-omist, said the law as it stands is beneficial because it adds more growth opportunities for Texas.
“A better-educated work-force for Texas is a good idea, Jewell said. “It shouldn’t matter where they were born.”
If the students or their parents have established their home in Texas within the last year, or if they have gradu-ated from a Texas high school, they will meet the eligibility requirements of the state law to receive in-state tuition, explained Rogers.
“I think we have a huge illegal immigration problem in the first place. Texas provides tons of opportunities, but there are underlying problems,” said Dakota Carter, Student Government Association presi-dent and a native Texan.
The law, as it stands, punishes legal students and legal international students but rewards the lawbreakers, Rogers said.
Texas sued over immigrant lawBY KRYSTLE CANTU
Staff WriterOba ma’s onc e soa r i ng
popularity has decreased in the national polls, and some UNT students are among the numbers of Americans feeling disenchanted.
In a recent on l ine pol l from pollingreport.com, 54 percent of A merica ns a re still in favor of Obama and 44 percent aren’t in favor. His numbers had gone down from 64 percent favorability in a poll taken in November of 2008.
“I think he has good inten-tions for the nation and UNT students, but I feel he has failed to do what he has prom-ised,” Savannah Loftus, an international studies senior said.
Ma x Fu lton, a pol it ica l science junior, and Loftus, interned in Washington D.C. with the NTDC program.
“He had intended to get us out of debt, and I think he has done nothing but increase spending,” Loftus said.
Not on ly does she feel promises weren’t met on an economic level, but Loftus also feels that problems with national security still continue to surface, as seen with the potential Christmas bombing that almost took place.
“That was just a failure on all levels,” Loftus said.
She also mentioned that there still hasn‘t been an offi-cial closing of Guantanamo Bay, as promised.
Lof tus sa id she doesn’t think there have been any signif ica nt cha nges made toward education or health-care.
“Nothing has happened or
been passed yet,” she said. “I just don’t feel like there has been any improvement or change, which is what he really promised. I feel like it was all negative.”
Fulton and Loftus bot h disagreed with the govern-ment spending and the stim-ulus.
“It’s like they could just go and spend the money however they wanted,” Loftus said.
Fulton said the stimulus bill has little oversight and regulation for government spending.
“There is no timeline, no interest, and at the end of five years it’s up to Congress to pass any regulation to collect any funds that have not been returned,” he said.
However, both agreed with the decision not to freeze t he spending on defense, Medicaid and Medicare.
Glen Garber, an accounting and finance senior, said he doesn’t think things have gotten worse, and that he thinks that Obama has helped the economy, especially with unemployment.
“I think the economy is slowly showing some improve-ment … as far as unemploy-ment, numbers aren’t as great as they used to be,” Garber said.
However, he agrees that Oba ma’s popu la r it y ha s decreased because of t he healthcare debate.
“I think a lot of the health-care debate has dwindled his ratings,” Garber said. “UNT has always had a tendency to be rather liberal with its politics, but I think that even some of the moderate demo-crats may have grown frus-
Students debate Obama’s first term
trated with him.”Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha,
an assistant political science professor, thinks it will take t ime before we can rea l ly judge Obama’s accomplish-ments.
“I think Obama has had a mixed year overall, but that’s one reason why presidents have several years,” Eshbaugh-Soha said.
He also thinks it will take a while before the stimulus proves its full effect.
“The economic st imulus package, whether it’s good or bad, is a question that remains to be answered,” Eshbaugh-Soha sa id. “I’d leave t hat open for a year or so, to then see what the economy looks like.”
He also said that some of the money used in the stimulus
used for higher education and research. He also mentioned that the bank bailouts were helpful in terms of providing help for student loans.
“P resident s have l it t le control over the economy, and a lot of presidents can do some minor things,” Eshbaugh-Soha said. “They can provide incen-tives, but usually economic recoveries take a while to get going. People are certainly willing to blame the president, whether he can do something about it or not.”
D.J. Smith, a kinesiolog y senior, still tries to give Obama the benefit of the doubt.
“I think that there is defi-nitely a strong possibility ... that he is going to go through with everything that he said, but as of right now I haven’t really seen it, but I want to believe that he is going to do it,” Smith said. “I’m still trying to hold on, but everything I’ve seen is the opposite. Instead of pulling troops back, they’re sending troops in.”
Jamaal Sanders, Student Government Association vice president, said he continues to support Obama as a presi-dent.
“He’s done what he can do,” Sanders said. “I don’t neces-sarily agree with everything he has done, but he’s my pres-ident, so it’s going to happen one way or another, and I’ll support him.”
By the Numbers
8,000Immigrants receiving
in-state tuition
$3,500The cost of 12 hours for Texas residents
$6,800The cost of 12 hours
for non-residents
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BY TIM MONZINGO Staff Writer
The College of Music will begin streaming live perfor-mances by groups like the Symphony Orchestra and A Capella Choir.
The universit y ’s Wind Ensemble has streamed perfor-mances for some time, but this semester is the first time other performance groups will have the same opportunity.
“This semester we’ll do about 22 to 23 concerts of most of the major performance ensembles,” said Blair Liikala, the director of recording services for the College of Music.
Some musicians, like prin-cipal timpanist for the UNT Symphony Orchestra Chaz Robitaille, said they think the program is interesting, but Robitaille doesn’t feel it will have an impact on his career.
“It’s getting my playing out
into the world, but ultimately my own career is going to be depen-dent on auditions,” Robitaille said. “But it does look good on paper.”
UNT’s highly a c c l a i m e d C o l l e g e o f Music of ten sets standards f or p e r f or-mances of new compositions. With streaming capabi l it ies, the college’s musical groups can be watched i nter nat ion-ally.
“ W h e n a piece of music comes out and a high school wants to play it, they listen to a w i nd
symphony recording,” Liikala said. “They say ‘this is how it’s supposed to be played.’”
The number of challenging
performances for the orchestra this semester, many of which will be streamed, will be good for the orchestra’s image,
Robitaille said. “Between myself and the
other performers just talking, we’re really excited about how
p r o f e s s o r David Itkin is taking the program to a new level,” R o b i t a i l l e s a id . “It ’s really sort of escalated the program to an extra level of profession-alism.”
L i i k a l a sa id he is also excited about what s t r e a m i n g can do for families of t hose who are in the o r c h e s t r a .
Students don’t want to play when they go home on break. With the live chat feature included in the program, he can talk to a parent and zoom in on his or her child from the control room.
As energized as musicians and faculty are about the streaming feeds, some students said they feel that something is lost in watching shows this way.
“I think that watching a musical performance online is a crime,” said Max Unger, a theatre and radio, television and film junior. “It’s nothing like watching it live.”
Libby Harmon, a theatre sophomore said she agreed, but feels the school still has the right idea.
“I think anything that can make music more accessible is a good thing,” she said.
The performances can be viewed online at http://recording.music.unt.edu/.
BY GRACIELA RAZOSenior Staff Writer
Walking to class with head-phones on at full blast, UNT students may not realize listening to their favorite songs can cause irreversible hearing damage.
Loud volumes from movie theaters, television shows and especially music players may have negative effects on students’ abilities to hear high frequencies over a long period of time.
“What we were seeing in the past was middle-aged adults coming into the clinic, but now we are seeing more younger people come in with hearing problems because of high volumes they expose themselves to,” said Kamakshi Gopal of the audiology department.
Factors contributing to noise-induced hearing losses include working in loud envi-ronments, listening to music at high volumes, and using car audio systems at high levels and for long periods of time, Gopal said.
However, there are unknown factors, including some that may be biological.
The frequency of being around loud noises also contributes to the severity of the hearing loss, but Gopal said since students are getting used to popping in their earbuds every chance they
get, their probability of noise-induced hearing loss increases greatly.
“The problem is that the process is very slow,” Gopal said. “By the time it gets to be a severe problem, the damage is almost irreversible.”
Earbuds can speed up the hearing loss process because a great amount of volume is being fed directly into the ear canal, Gopal said.
“Because they are inserts and because students usually put them at high intensities, of course it will have more damaging effects in the long term,” Gopal said.
Since hair cells in the ear do not regenerate, there is no treatment for hearing loss, only preventative measures people can take.
The UNT Speech and Hearing Center helps individuals with impairments by counseling them to change their lifestyle to promote better hearing.
“The best thing to do is to not be in that situation in the first place, especially with iPods and mp3 players where it is really a choice that is made by the indi-vidual,” Gopal said.
Whitney Taylor, a fashion merchandising senior, said she listens to music on her iPhone two or three times a week. She
Students risk hearing loss with everyday practices
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Lauren Barker, a visual arts studies sophomore, said Monday afternoon that she enjoys listening to music at di� erent volumes based on her mood.
had never been concerned with the volume at which she listens to music, but Taylor said her mother shows worry about it.
“My mom always tells me ‘if you keep listening to your music that loudly, you won’t be able to
hear for much longer,’” Taylor said.
She said she likes to listen to her music at high volumes most of the time.
Laura Anderson, an anthro-pology senior, said she listens
to her iPod “whenever it’s not dead,” or about twice a day.
However, growing up with siblings who blared music made her think about what volumes she uses to listen to her own music, she said.
“I don’t want to blast my eardrums out, so I watch how loud my music is,” Anderson said. “A lot of people listen to music loudly, but it can really impair your hearing eventu-ally.”
Performing ensembles to come to students’ homes
BER L IN (A P) — Est her Bejarano says music helped keep her a live as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and in the years that followed.
Now, 65 years af ter t he liberation of the Nazi death camp, the 85-year-old has teamed up with a hip-hop ba nd to spread her a nt i-racism message to German youth.
“It ’s a cla sh of ever y-thing: age, culture, style,” Bejarano, a petite lady with an amiable chuckle, told The Associated Press ahead of Auschw itz Liberation Day. “But we all love music and share a common goal: we’re fighting against racism and discrimination.”
The daughter of a Jewish cantor from Saarbruecken in western Germany, Bejarano grew up in a musical home st udy i ng pia no u nt i l t he Nazis came to power and tore her family apart. Bejarano was deported to Auschwitz, where she became a member of the girls’ orchestra, playing t he accordion ever y t ime trains full of Jews from across Europe arrived at the death camp.
“We played with tears in our eyes,” Bejarano remem-bered. “The new arrivals came in waving and applauding
us, but we knew they would be taken directly to the gas chambers.”
Bejarano survived, but her parents and sister Ruth were killed by the Nazis.
For t he pa st 20 yea r s Bejarano has played music most ly f rom t he pa st — Yiddish melodies, tunes from the ghetto and Jewish resis-tance songs — with her chil-dren Edna and Yoram in a Hamburg-based band called Coincidence.
A bout t w o ye a r s a go, Kutlu Yurtseven, a Turkish immigrant rapper from the Cologne-based Microphone Mafia, got in touch with the band to see if they’d team up with them.
“O u r ba nd w a nte d to do somet hing against t he grow ing racism and ant i-S e m it i s m i n G e r m a n y,” Yurtseven, 36, said in a phone interview Tuesday.
“Yoram told me that first of all he had to ask his mother Est her what she t houg ht about a crossover project with a bunch of young rappers.”
Esther Bejarano, it turned out, thought hip-hop music “was really a bit too loud,” but also said she saw it as a good way to reach out to Germany’s youth.
“We wa nt to keep t he
memories of the Holocaust alive, but at the same time look i nto t he f ut u re a nd encourage young people to ta ke a sta nd aga inst new Nazis,” said Bejarano. “I know what racism can lead to and the members of Microphone Mafia are immigrants and have experienced their share of discrimination as well.”
Yurtseven, a Muslim, also sees a message of religious harmony.
“All religions ask to love a nd re spe c t ot her s a nd that’s what we do as well,” Yurtseven said.
The crossover of modern h ip-hop a nd t r ad it ion a l Jewish folk lore turned out to be quite a hit. The rappers have mixed Jewish songs with stomping hip-hop beats and also created new lyrics for some of the songs that are more accessible for a younger audience.
L a st su m mer, t he t wo bands released a CD called Per La Vita and a documen-tary about the band that was init ia l ly scheduled for the Auschwitz liberation anni-versary is now supposed to be ready later this year to be shown at high schools across Germany.
The CD was released on a small, independent label and
it was not clear how many copies were sold.
Current ly, t he troupe is touring through Germany. Their audiences range from t e e n a g e i m m i g r a n t s a t metropolitan youth centers to a more established, older crowd t hat usua l ly favors Bejarano’s classic approach to music.
“T hey a l l love it ,” sa id Bejarano. “Even some of the older guests sometimes climb on the chairs and dance.”
Beja ra no sa id it ca n be ex haust i ng at her age to per for m on stage w it h a bunch of youngsters but that she has found ways to adjust the shows to her needs.
“I’ve educated the boys,” Bejarano said with her trade-mark chuckle. “We’ve lowered the volume and I told them to stop jumping around on stage all the time.”
For Yu r t seven a nd h is fel low band members, the fact that they are performing with an Auschwitz survivor has been a unique experi-ence as well.
“I once asked Esther how she can still make music after Auschwitz,” he remembered. “And she said that if they had also taken away the music f rom her, she would have died.”
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BY CHRISTINA MLYNSKIStaff Writer
Poetry, inspirational stories, and runway models are the ingredients for Friday’s seventh annual “You’re Beautiful” luncheon to raise money for cancer research and awareness for the disease.
The luncheon will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday in the UNT Gateway Center.
Janet Mulroy and Lynn Davis, co-chairwomen and event coor-dinators for the past two years, will host the luncheon.
“The purpose of the event is to celebrate cancer survi-vors, remember those who have battled cancer and raise funds for cancer research,” Mulroy said.
“You’re Beautiful” began in 2004 and has raised $224,084 for the A merican Cancer Society, according to the soci-ety’s Web site.
This year, Mulroy expects more than 350 people to attend.
The luncheon will feature men and women, all cancer survivors, who will model
clothing from retail stores in Denton.
In 2009, the event raised $53,470, and both Davis and Mulroy expect to exceed that amount this year.
Davis said the most antic-ipated feature of the event is 2010 Texas Poet Laureate and Denton resident Karla Morton.
Morton is a cancer survivor of more than a year now and was chosen to be the speaker at the luncheon.
“So many other people are battling it on a daily basis
still. It’s time for a cure and for people to really understand what beauty truly means,” Morton said, as smile spread across her face.
Morton will read excerpts from her book, “Redefining Beauty,” during the recep-tion, in hopes of providing a voice for cancer survivors, she said.
“I hope that anyone who has been touched by cancer in any way, be it themselves, friends or family, can be left with a feeling of hope. The scariest thing about cancer is
the fear. I hope that my book gives people the mentality to get mad at cancer, not them-selves, and be able to fight back,” says Morton, as tears filled her eyes.
The UNT women’s volley-ball team is volunteering at the luncheon and helping out with the event in any way possible to make sure everything runs smoothly, said Madison Barr, a biology sophomore.
Barr said she hopes she and her teammates’ can grow together and help out in all aspects of the reception, she
said.“I think it is a really good
cause, because, being that we are a women’s team, it is extremely important to show our support to women and others who have overcome cancer since we have many team members who have been affected by the same thing,” she said.
Tickets are $50 a person and must be ordered in advance. To reserve a seat, contact Jeanne Stewart, head of the reserva-tions committee, at (940)-383-2272.
BY ASHLEY SIMPSONStaff Writer
January is a time when New Year’s resolutions prompt many to become more health conscious and to take a closer look at the foods they eat.
For students with UNT Dining Services meal plans, nutrition in dorm food may be a concern as well.
“I’m glad to say that UNT does not use processed foods at all this year, said Shohreh Sparks, associate director of purchasing for Dining Services. “We use whole foods and vegetables throughout all our meals. So we have students eating healthier without necessarily being aware of it.”
Dorm life is still a must for most incoming UNT freshmen, and, depending on which dorm they live in, they may be required to purchase a meal plan with housing fees.
Meal plans offered on campus range from 8s Enough, a meal plan that pays for eight meals a week, to a 5-Day plan to a 7-Day plan. Each plan caters to students whose appetites spread from either high to low or how often they are on campus to benefit from the dining services.
“The cooks are cooking,” Dining Services Associate Director Peter Balabuch said. “We have chefs on campus preparing meals from scratch with students having the option
of portion control.” People at the cafeterias on
campus can view nutrition cards and control the number of servings while at the same time managing their calorie intake.
Bruce Hall’s cafeteria, which boasts of being one of the busiest onsite dining spots, has a Nutritional Wall located adja-cent to its Sustainability Wall telling guests to not only mind what they are eating but also how much they are throwing away, therefore increasing the idea of sustainability throughout the UNT community.
The goal of the project is to educate students on what they are eating so they will be able to take those habits and carry it over into their adult lives.
The students’ favorite meals, such as pizza and chicken tenders, have been fixed with whole food ingredients.
Freshman 15The myth is that incoming
freshmen entering college gain 15 pounds because of diet changes.
While it’s partially true, Priscilla Connors, a nutrition science professor, said it’s not the only reason a student’s weight can either increase or decrease.
“There’s an issue of students reaching the curve of puberty around the same time they start
UNT offers healthy eating options to students
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Armon Raphiel, a merchandising junior, takes a bite out of a slice of pizza at Victory Hall.
college,” Connors said. “Unless they continued certain phys-ical activities from high school, then less exercise also becomes a factor.”
This, coupled with the fact that students have more freedom choosing meals and less activity, puts them at greater risk of gaining unwanted
pounds, she said. “Adolescents need to realize
that there is a bigger vegetable option than just choosing lettuce,” she said. “Cutting out fat, carbs and calories does not equate to a healthier meal. It’s about quality and quantity.”
Students on campus frequent the cafeterias and have mixed
reviews on the food they eat.International student Kristen
D’Abreo, a speech pathology and audiology sophomore, lives on campus and has a 5-Day meal plan. She said she believes that American cuisine, in rela-tion to that of her home city of Mumbai, India, took some time to get use to, but she also enjoys
the convenience of being able to eat whenever she wanted.
Business finance sopho-more Andrew Lee, who lives off campus, said that while he’s happy that UNT is making food healthier for students, it’s still on the expensive side and that he prefers to fix his own meals.
Cancer survivors promote disease awareness, beauty
Resident assistant teaches TAMS students life lessonsWhen the hall is open on
the weekend, the RAs are split into two teams and either work or are off duty. RAs that are off then work the next open weekend.
Ulbrich has a desk shift once every three weeks for six hours straight.
“I really love my job. My residents really motivate me,” she said. “I think a lot of times when it gets hard, especially the paperwork or sitting at a
desk from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. or staying in all weekend. The best thing to do for me is to go back and think of why I’m doing this and sort of give it back to them and realize that I’m here with these great kids and my job is really awesome.”
Ulbrich has weekend RA on-call responsibilities a few times a semester where she can’t leave the dorm all weekend.
In return, she gets free housing and a free 7-day meal plan as well as a $200 stipend each month.
Teaching ‘the ways of life’
Lauren Bohlin, student devel-opment specialist for TAMS, said they look for older, more estab-lished students to be TAMS RAs.
Many TAMS students are minors so parents sign paper-work saying the RAs might have to stand in as their guardian if they needed to go to the hospital, she said.
The average number of TAMS students in a wing is 23, so RAs are encouraged to get to know their residents.
“Our students are very intelli-gent,” Bohlin said. “A lot of them go off to Ivy League schools, MIT, Harvard. But they come in being so young they don’t have a lot of the social skills or don’t have sometimes the common sense that a typical college student would have, so our RAs, their main job is mentoring these students and teaching them the ways of life.”
The selection process for TAMS RAs is different from other halls.
TAMS RA applicants must have a 3.0 GPA and are asked to
have 60 hours of class, Bohlin said.
They are also asked to write an essay with their application and have individual interviews as opposed to group interviews.
A different kind of process
Alex Morgan, a music educa-tion sophomore and RA at Legends Hall, said the applica-tion process happens in several phases, beginning with an online application and submitting three letters of recommendation.
Next, the interviewers make sure that paper work is in order before beginning group inter-views with four to five appli-cants, she said.
The interviewer gives the group different scenarios and asks what they would do in certain situations.
If you make it to the next phase, you have two interviews with two hall directors before having one-on-one interviews, Morgan said.
Finally, the hall directors have a draft-like process where they choose which applicants they want for their hall.
The RA application process will be different in the fall, she said.
Responsibility and opportunity
Morgan’s responsibilities include maintaining a 2.5 GPA, conducting safety checks, holding four programs per semester and working the desk shift three hours a week.
She also is responsible for being on call during the weekend, which happens three times a semester and requires her to be in the building from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Morgan said she plans to be a high school choir director and her job has taught her to stay organized, work under dead-lines and to be professional.
“This is just a great place to live and it is a good job and it’s a job that is preparing me for my career, so I see it as an oppor-tunity,” she said.
She is in charge of 48 resi-dents, both men and women. Disciplining them is one of the hardest things about her job, Morgan said.
“I don’t really like having to discipline people I know, espe-cially,” she said. “They will look at me differently, and they’ll see me as the bad guy, but it’s part of my job, it’s what I’m getting paid to do, so I just have to do it.”
As part of her compensa-tion for her job, Morgan gets free housing and a free 7-day meal plan and $185 per month stipend.
It’s important that she is a resource for her residents so she can help or direct them to someone who can, she said.
One of the best things about her job is getting to know and hang out with people, Morgan said.
“Developing a community is really a lot of fun,” she said.
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Hannah Ulbrich, a psychology senior, works as a resident assistant at McConnell Hall, the dorm that houses students in the Academy of Math and Science.
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Justin Umberson, Sports Editor [email protected]
01.27.2010
BY SEAN GORMANSenior Staff Writer
If one thing can be said about men’s basketball in the Sun Belt Conference, it’s that this has been one of the most surprising and competitive seasons the conference has seen in years.
While preseason favorites UNT and Western Kentucky sit in fourth place in their respective divisions, annual bottom-feeder Arkansas State sits atop the Sun Belt with a 6-2 in conference record.
With these startling results going against early season predictions, the race to clinch the Sun Belt Conference regular season championship is as close as it ever has been, as 11 of the 13 teams have between four and six conference wins.
“When you play teams from
this conference, you’re going to get their best shot night in and night out,” UNT head coach Johnny Jones said.
This closeness comes as a blessing for the Mean Green, whose 5-4 in confer-ence record leaves it right in the thick of a race containing a myriad of teams g unning for t he championship.
If UNT is going to recover from early season injury woes and win the Sun Belt, there are a handful of things that must go its way during the stretch leading to the Conference Tournament in March.
Defense must improveW hen you look at t he
numbers, the strengths and weaknesses of this team are pretty clear. While ranking in the top three in the confer-
ence in scoring offense, free throw percentage and field goal percentage, the defen-
sive numbers don’t impress.
Out of the 13 Sun Belt teams, UNT ranks ninth in scoring defense, seventh in field goal percentage defense and dead last in the conference in steals. Simply put,
teams have their way with the Mean Green.
“There are times where we think we shouldn’t take too many chances and get over-aggressive, but our half-court defense needs to improve,” Jones said. “It’s important for us to get more turnovers because they almost always lead to fast-break opportunities.”
Not all is lost for this defense, which does rank third in three-point percentage defense. But
if Mean Green wants to come out on top going into the Sun Belt Tournament, the defense needs to pick up the intensity and force tougher shots.
Maintain Balance on Offense
It’s strange to see a team rank second in scoring offense in a conference but have only three players ranked in the top 30 for the conference’s top scorers.
This is exactly the case for UNT, which doesn’t necessarily have a “go-to guy” as much as a complete and balanced offense with capable scorers at every position.
The closest thing the Mean Green has to a top offensive player is junior guard Josh White, who leads the team with 14.8 points per game. This season, the Mean Green is 10-1 when White shoots 40 percent or better, but is 2-6 when he
shoots under 40 percent.There are simply too many
scorers for this team to depend on just one. Senior forward Eric Tramiel has been on a tear since returning from injury while juniors Tristan Thompson and George Odufuwa average more than 10 points per game.
UNT can score with the best of them and will continue to do so as long as the balance it has on offense is maintained. The Mean Green can depend on Josh White to lead it down the stretch, but it must make sure the other players stay involved as well.
Get off to fast startsIt may seem simple to talk
about, but one cannot stress enough how important it is for UNT to dictate its pace of the game from the start. The Mean Green hasn’t lost a halftime lead all year, but is 2-7 when tied or losing at the break.
All season long the Mean Green has shown it can compete in close games, defeating UT-Arlington in double over-time and making 10 of 11 free throws in the second half of last week’s close win over South Alabama.
Problems arise when UNT is outplayed early in the game and struggles to come back, as was the case against Arkansas State last week.
“We need to make sure we keep our composure early on and don’t get overwhelmed,” Tramiel said. “We always play our best in the second half so starting strong is important to us.”
Still in the hunt for the conference title, there is hope for the Mean Green during the final month of the regular season. However, it will take tighter defense, balance on offense and strong first halves in order to achieve that goal.
Script: Mean Green’s guide to winning Sun BeltOpinion
Sean Gorman
Athlete of the Week: Sprinter born to run
Sophomore Keyth Talley sets up for starting position Tuesday at Fouts Field. Talley has been named the conference’s performer of the week twice this season.PHOTO BY REBEKAH GOMEZ/PHOTOGRAPHER
BY ERIC JOHNSONSenior Staff Writer
Bang, a gun sounds, and Keyth Talley burns a hole in the track, leaving a trail of competitors in his wake on his way to being named Sun Belt Conference Performer of the Week for the second consecutive time.
After breaking the school record in the 60-meter dash last week, Keyth Talley put on a show in Lubbock.
The versat i le t rack sta r finished first in the 200-meter, tying the school record with his time of 21.27 seconds, the 12th-best time in the nation, and finished second in the 55-meter — a distance he has run just a handful of times in his track career.
“My background is as a 400-meter runner, and my dad always told me if you can run the 400 then you will be able to have success in any other race,” Keyth Talley said. “I want to keep progressing, keep challenging myself and build on what I started last year.”
The 19-yea r-old sopho-more has been spr i nt i ng past runners for more than a decade, and that is no surprise with the legacy he was born into. Keyth Talley’s grandfa-ther, father and sister were all standout track athletes, and he gravitated toward running from an early age.
“He is a pure and natural at hlete. He was just born into it,” said Keyth Talley’s’ father, Keith Talley. “My dad always said you have to let your children find what they love, and Keyth fell in love with running.”
Finding his nicheThe elder Keith Talley, who
spelled his son’s name with a y so that he would always be able to make his own mark, never pushed his son towards track, keeping him away from the sport as long as he could so Keyth would not feel pres-sured.
From an early age, Keyth Talley excelled at every sport that he tried: soccer, baseball, basketball and football, but he could not escape his family’s natural gift.
The younger Talley grew up hearing tales of his grandfa-ther’s success as a sprinter, long jumper and high jumper in high school.
Keith Talley had stories of his own from his time at Alabama in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, where he was a world-class athlete. He won two NCA A national championships in his college career, and set national records in the long jump and the 110-meter hurdles. The former All-American is now getting the sense of pride his parents felt during all his years of success.
“W hen I won my f i rst national championship, the best part of that moment for me was watching my parents get interviewed and how proud they were,” Keith Talley said. “Now I am getting my first call for a story about my son, and I could not be prouder of what he has accomplished.”
But it is Keirsten Talley, Key th Ta l ley’s sister, who he really admired as a kid. Keirsten earned a scholarship as a sprinter to the University of Cincinnati, and she was the biggest inf luence in Keyth’s
early days.“She is the one who first
got me into running,” Keyth Talley said. “We were very close, and she showed me the way that I needed to go and the kind of work ethic that I needed to succeed.”
Keyth Talley was a two-year letter winner in foot-ba l l as a cornerback and receiver and a three-year letter winner in track at Manor High School near Austin. He was a member of the state runne-up 4X400-meter relay and was
awarded the 2006 Top Sprinter Award.
He a lso excel led in the classroom, finishing in the top 10 percent of his class.
“We always pushed our kids to be academically and athlet-ically strong,” Keith Talley said.
Kansas, Tennessee, Texas A&M and many others courted the future star when he was coming out of high school, but it was a simple statement by UNT sprint coach Sammy Dabbs that brought him to the
Mean Green.“I told him that it did not
matter what school he laced up his spikes for, because we would all end up at the NCA A national champion-ships together,” Dabbs said.
Freshman yearThe sports-management
sophomore spent his freshman year setting numerous school records en route to winning t he Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year award for the indoor and outdoor
seasons — the only ma le athlete in school history to accomplish the feat.
Keyth Talley owns the top time in the 55-meter, 60-meter and the 200-meter.
“We recruited him to do one thing and it just turned out that his natural talents seem to spread into many different areas,” Dabbs said. “He is a focused and driven guy, and he will be successful no matter where we put him.
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ARLINGTON (AP) — Chuck Greenberg bought a red Texas Rangers pullover during a rainy late-season series when he was in town preparing a bid to buy the team.
“It sat on my chair for four months. I wouldn’t put it on,” Greenberg said Tuesday, sporting the pullover while watching the Rangers work out. “On Saturday night, I put it on. It felt pretty good.”
Greenberg’s excitement was still evident three days after his investment group reached a n ag reement to buy the Rangers from Tom Hicks in a deal that will make Greenberg the team’s new CEO and managing general partner — especial ly on a
sunny day at Rangers Ballpark with players taking batting practice during winter devel-opment camp.
“That is one of the best s o u n d s i n t h e w o r l d ,” Greenberg said. “It feels like opening day is around the corner. I’m excited to get going.”
The sa le st i l l has to be r e v ie w e d a nd a ppr ov e d by major leag ue of f icia ls. Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, the Hall of Fame pitcher who is part of Greenberg’s group and will remain team presi-dent, both believe the process can be completed by the April 5 season opener.
“My level of confidence is that it should be,” Ryan said
Tuesday.Ryan first met Greenberg
in May, when the Pittsburgh sports attorney who owns two minor league teams visited Texas. It soon became obvious to Ryan, whose oldest son knew Greenberg, that they would be a good f it. Now Ryan, the Rangers president the past two years, has an ownership stake in the team that will be governed by a board of directors.
“My perspective will be a little different because I do have some ownership interest in it and the fact that a lot of those people are going to look toward me for guidance on the baseball side of it,” Ryan said.
Hopeful Rangers owner excited watching team
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Now that President Obama has been in office for a year, how
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“Those of us who supported him have some level of dissatisfaction. We don’t have universal health care yet, and the troops are still in Iraq. But he still has the potential to be one of the greatest presidents.”
“Presidents make a lot of promises that’s not in their power to keep, so I
didn’t expect much except leadership, and I think he’s
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Denton city leaders held a final public hearing Jan. 19 to discuss their intention to annex 9,000 acres of unin-corporated land in and around the current city limits.
About 200 county residents showed up to ask ques-tions and some to voice opposition to an annexation that would affect four large areas of mostly rural land north-west of the city and 14 unaffiliated areas throughout the city.
The plan would cost Denton taxpayers about $2 million, increase the city size by more than 16 percent and bring municipal property taxes to hundreds of homeowners living just on the outskirts of current city limits.
The editorial board supports the council’s decision to expand borders and increase the tax base for a city that will continue to rapidly grow in the coming years. By expanding now, officials have taken steps to prepare for the future and protect much of the rural and agricultural land potentially affected by the envelopment.
For many of the affected landowners, however, the prospect of city encroachment is unappealing — an understandable sentiment considering some families have owned farms and ranches in the area for more than 100 years. Yet the annexation would bring little nega-tive impact to the agricultural and ranching communi-ties that have expressed the most resistance.
City officials have offered a non-annexation agree-ment in which homeowners with property on annexed land will be exempt property tax increases for the first five years. Additionally, land being used for agricul-ture, livestock and timber will be subject to tax breaks as well, and owners may even apply for re-exemption status at the conclusion of the initial term.
If the May 4 vote is confirmed, annexed areas will be absorbed by the city of Denton. All residents will begin receiving municipal services such as fire, police, ambulance and waste removal services.
The negative impact on property owners affected by the annexation falls drastically short of the great benefit residents stand to receive by the planned expansion.
Denton must increase in size to accommodate the projected population growth of coming decades. By increasing the amount of taxable land, Denton will be able to provide more money that can be used to provide higher quality services to all residents.
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John Eckerd English junior
Kyle Miller Undeclared sophomore
Other than the fact that every passing minute makes me older, I know I’m aging.
It’s the subtle changes making me cognizant of this, but the main one is my changing tastes. Yes, things do taste differently in the literal sense, but I like different clothes, movies, books, art, etc.
I’ve always heard your taste buds change every seven years. Mine have because I can eat vegetables without drowning them in cheese or ranch, I enjoy salads for lunch or dinner and just last week I started drinking my coffee black. I don’t like candy as much and am trying to steer clear of totally unhealthy foods. My tastes are changing.
I bought a red shower curtain to coordinate with our red bathmat, green walls, and green and red framed art. I have brown sheets that match my brown furniture. I think I’m two years away from folding and orga-nizing my underwear and sock drawers. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
My room is no longer completely adorned with posters
(in the fifth grade, I ran out of wall space and started using my ceiling). I have actual paint-ings, tasteful decorations and framed photos on my walls instead of scantily clad women or bands, though I still hold onto some adolescence with my “BioShock” and “The Office” posters. My decorative tastes are changing.
My bed is in the middle of the room instead of being nestled in a corner. My ex-wife always preferred this arrangement, and as a loving husband, I was not allowed to disagree. Now, I actu-ally favor this set up.
My friend Colin compli-mented me on it and said most women like it, too, because, “They can get in and out of the bed without crawling over you.” I don’t have a significant other, so it’s a moot point.
Two of my roommates have followed suit with the feng shui of their living spaces. The three of us are pressuring the two outcasts to conform to our ways with wails of, “Join us,” and, “It’s for the greater good — [in
unison] The greater good!” Looks like all of our tastes are changing.
I genuinely care about my appearance now, too.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still go to the grocery store in my pajamas, slippers and have curlers in my hair, but that’s usually on a Sunday. I attempt to get my hairs cut — I have more than one hair, so I get them all cut — every four weeks, if the money is available.
OK, I’ve only told one person this: I had my eyebrows waxed.
I used to make fun of the guys that did this, but I am now one of them. I even plucked unsightly nose hairs this weekend.
Nose hair plucking is a painful form of personal grooming.
I couldn’t do anything to prepare for the discomfort I experienced when doing so. My eyes constantly watered, I could not stop sneezing, and the inside of my nose itched the rest of the night. I’ve gotten seven tattoos, I’ve been hit by hockey pucks and I’ve been laid out in foot-
ball — flag football but there shouldn’t be any contact –— but evicting my nose hairs from my beak was next to unbearable. My tastes are changing, pains-takingly.
There is an array of other things I could mention in this column, but space is scarce. My mind, body and subcon-scious are evolving to make me an upstanding and model adult, and I don’t mind.
My tastes are changing for the better.
Ryan Feuerhelm is a journalism senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
President Barack Obama made the right decision by putting accused 9/11 terror-ists on trial in federal court.
Now he must show the same fortitude in pushing for a way to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.
W it h t he p a s s i n g on Friday of the president’s self-imposed deadline to close Gu a nt a n a mo, t he c lo c k is running in overtime on Obama’s pledge of one year ago.
Nearly 200 detainees —- more than half of them already approved to be sent home -— are awaiting a measure of justice long delayed.
For the American people, closing Guantanamo repre-sents a symbolic gesture as well as a strategic step.
Shutting the prison wil l signal to the rest of the world that this nation stil l holds dear its core values of democ-racy and freedom. At the same time, closing Guantanamo
deprives al-Qaida and other terrorist conspirators of a potent recruiting tool.
That’s why rights activists, as well as military leaders, legal and security experts, a nd for mer member s of Congress are urging the presi-dent to chart a course for the detainees that comports with constitutional principles.
Deta inees who may be guilty of terrorist acts should be tried as swiftly as possible in the federal courts. That’s the legal fate facing Khalid Shei k h Moha m me d, t he alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four codefendants.
Not only will those trials assure that justice is done, but they also represent the best means to repair America’s global image as a nation of laws.
America’s federal courts have proven t hem selves capable of handling these ty pes of cases and, where
ne c e s s a r y, s a fe g u a rd i ng secret information crit ical to national security.
There’s really no substitute for that approach.
The alternative of trying detainees before the discred-ited system of military tribu-nals fashioned by the previous administration won’t repair U.S. prestige, nor will that route secure a just outcome for defenda nt s i n t hese cases.
So, it’s unfortunate that a presidential task force last week recommended that as many as one quarter of the detainees at Guantanamo remain jailed without charge indefinitely.
The commission wrongly argues that prosecuting the men would be too difficult, while it’s a lso too risky to release them.
The task force’s cautious r e c o m m e n d a t i o n i s n ’ t surprising in the wa ke of the Christmas attempt by the
so-called Nigerian “under-wear bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to blow up a plane bound for Detroit after originating in Amsterdam.
A u t h o r i t i e s s a y t h e A bdu l mut a l lab plot w a s hatched in Yemen, a fact that also has snarled plans to return the many detainees who have Yemeni roots.
The Yemeni terror threat must be addressed, but the inevitable renewed attempts to attack U.S. targets cannot be allowed to dissuade the president from doing the right thing on Guantanamo.
Si nc e t he f i r st ter ror s u s p e c t s w e r e s e n t t o Guantanamo in 2002, their harsh treatment has been an affront to this nation’s concept of fair play under the law. It’s time to shut it down.
This editorial appeared Tuesday in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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After an impressive home victory and a week off, the UNT women’s basketball team travels to Bowling Green, Ky., to take on the Western Kentucky Lady Toppers at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at E.A. Diddle Arena.
UNT is facing a veteran Western Kentucky (11-8, 5-3) squad that boasts four seniors in its starting line-up that is led by senior forward Arnika Brow n. Brow n has been a dom i na nt post presence, averaging 10.3 points and 10.4 rebounds per game.
“I think if we quell their numbers, quell their touches, I t h in k we’l l be in much better shape,” head coach Shanice Stephens said. “On
the other side, they have to guard as well.”
The Mean Green (6-14, 3-6) w i l l t r y to str ing together back-to-back w ins for t he second time this season.
T he L ady Topper s a re coming of f a seven-point defeat to Middle Tennessee. Before t he loss, W K U had won four straight conference games.
UN T ha s been play i ng superbly on the offensive end, averaging 81 points a game during its last five contests. The team has converted on 46 percent of its shots in that t ime period, compared to the 40 percent for the entire season.
“I think turning it up a notch on defense has really helped us to score better,” Stephens said. “When we are able to turn the other team over, get steals and convert and get easy buckets, that’s enabled us to not only get the points we get from our
half-court sets, but also get those points off our defen-sive effort.”
Sophomore guard Tamara Torru has provided a spark off the bench for Stephens’ outfit. In her last four games, Torru has played her best basketba l l of t he season, averaging 12 points per game during that time period.
“She has to rea l ly go in with the mindset of being agg ressive, a nd when she does that, she can show you some good things any given night,” Stephens said.
With six double-doubles, freshman forward Jasmine Godbolt made her way into the school’s record books, breaking the single season record for double-doubles by a freshman.
“I thought she could be a dominant post presence in the Sun Belt Conference, and she’s proving to be just that,” Stephens said. “She still has room for growth, and that’s
where we’re trying to push her, to be a complete post player.”
Although the Mean Green defeated the Lady Toppers as recently as 2008, it has never won when playing in Bowling Green.
“I’m going in there with a lot of confidence,” Stephens said. “That’s a great chal-lenge — for someone to tell you that you’ve never done something, and to have an opportunity to do just that. I’m looking forward to the challenge.”
Mean Green looking for first win at Lady ToppersTeam returns
to court for first game in a week
“I think turning it up a notch
on defense has really helped us.”
—Shanice StephensHead coach
Sophomore guard Tamara Torru dribbles through South Alabama’s defense last week. The women will be taking on Western Kentucky tonight.
PHOTO BY RYAN BIBB/PHOTOGRAPHER
Talley influenced to join Mean Green by sprinting coachIn July, Keyth Talley trav-
eled to Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the Pan American Junior Cha mpionships, a showcase of the top interna-tional athletes between the ages of 16 and 19, where he took home the silver medal in the 200-meter and was a member of the 4X100-meter relay team that won the gold medal.
“I feel like I gained a lot of maturity after having success running internationally,” he said. “It proved to me that I
was ready to compete with the best, and it has given me a lot of experience and confi-dence.”
At 6-foot, 170-pou nds, Keyth Talley has never been the biggest or the strongest, but he has always been the fastest.
“I always told Keyth that the show starts in the dressing room and makes its way to the stage,” Keith Talley said. “He would say ‘What does that mean, Dad?’ and I told him that you have to put the hard work in during the week in order to be the best.”
Life away from trackThe quiet and reser ved
Keyth Talley spends most of his free time relaxing on his couch at home watching movies, mostly comedies, to help him get away from the grind of track season.
“He is a fun guy to be around, easy to get a long w ith and ver y la id-back,” Dabbs said. “He is an intense competitor, but he does not let it consume him.”
After he crosses the finish line for the final time, Keyth Talley wants to become an at h let ic d irector to help
younger athletes grow and mature.
For now, of of the fastest men in the Sun Belt will focus on his next challenge, the Texas Tech Open on Feb. 6. The future looks bright for one of the fastest men to ever step on the track at Fouts Field.
“I don’t like to have any expectations, because I feel l ike they set l imitations,” Keyth Talley said. “Me and coach Dabbs sat down and talked about our goals for this season, and I plan on standing on the podium at the NCAA National Championships.”
Sophomore Keyth Talley was the � rst athlete in the University of North Texas history to win gold at the national junior championships.
PHOTO BY REBEKAH GOMEZ/PHOTOGRAPHER
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