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BY BIANCA MONTESThe Shorthorn senior staff

For the third year, Joel Palacios will roll up his sleeves for the uni-versity’s largest community-driven project, The Big Event.

His first year, the biology junior raked leaves at Doug Russell Park in

Arlington with the Freshmen Lead-ers on Campus, and as a sopho-more 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

Two alumni killed in Afghanistan

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UTA Volunteers use methods, such as 35-second trailers, to recruit for Saturday’s event.

BY JOEL COOLEYThe Shorthorn staff

Two alumni were killed in Af-ghanistan within the past week as a result of wounds sustained from artillery.

Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith was killed on Wednesday in Af-ghanistan. The cause is currently under investigation.

Smith was a criminal justice stu-dent who was serving in the Ma-rine 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 pa-trolling, 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 sci-ence.

Ricardo Diaz, military science assistant professor, spoke highly of Welch.

“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 tour-of-duty in Afghanistan. Funeral services are currently pending.

Diaz said the ROTC is planning to play taps in honor of Welch this Thursday.

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1,050 volunteers to pitch in for The Big Event

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BY ASHLEY BRADLEYThe 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 Archo-

saur site director, said finding the skull would prove if recent discover-ies belong to a new species.

Main opened up the “Dinosaur Quarry,” an arched area of the dig-ging area, in hopes to find the skull.

Volunteers dig for new dinosaur species

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Students represented their cultures through music and dance at the Global Ex-travaganza Friday.

The Global Extravaganza is a showcase of talent by international groups on campus to mark the end of International Week. The Univer-sity Center’s Bluebonnet Ballroom was packed as attendees cheered for groups ranging from the Fine Arts Society of India to the Asian Students As-sociation.

“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

Student Organization adviser.Groups ranging from the Nepalese Stu-

dents’ Association to the Russian Culture Society participated in activities throughout the week, such as a food fair and fashion show.

Cutcher said about 20 student groups at UTA represent countries widely distributed throughout the world.

The theme for I-Week this year was Cul-ture Shock, marking the 34th anniversary of the event.

– Monica S. Nagy

Jeremy Smith, Marine Staff Sgt.

Robert F. Welch III, Army 1st Lt.

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ABOVE: Speech ther-apy 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 dis-played the different international students.

LEFT: Members of the Saudi Students Associ-ation perform a dance during the event. The organization had Saudi Arabian music to ac-company their dance.

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CORRECTIONSThe March 28 story, “Family, UTA cel-ebrate 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 psy-chology professor Jim Baerwaldt’s house, instead of former psychology professor Ira Bernstein’s house.

THURSDAYWarrant Service - MisdemeanorOfficers responded 1:20 a.m. to a report of a nonstudent and nonresident sleep-ing at the Centennial Court apartments’ club house on 700 Mitchell Circle. Officers arrested the nonstudent on outstanding warrants and issued a criminal trespass warning.

WEDNESDAYTheftAt 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 Activi-ties 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 PersonA student contacted police at 6 p.m. regarding an unknown person yelling inap-propriate 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 CircumstancesOfficers 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.

Exposure: Photos from the Second Bat-tle of Fallujah: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For information contact Erin O’Malley at [email protected].

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 [email protected].

What You Wish the World Could Be: Early Years of 6 Flags Over Texas: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. For information contact Erin O’Malley at

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Art Exhibition in The Gallery at UTA: Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: Mas-ter of fine arts students display their artwork. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery at UTA. Free. For information, contact Patricia Healy at [email protected] or 817-272-5658.

TUESDAY

Exploring Majors for Pre-Nursing Ma-jors: 2-3 p.m. University Center Rio Grande. Free. For information, contact the University Advising Center at [email protected] or 817-272-3140.

Tailgate Tuesday!: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Clay Gould Ballpark. Free. For information, contact Travis Boren at [email protected] or 817-272-0694.

Violent Universe: 6 p.m. Planetarium. $6 for adults, $4 for children. For informa-tion, contact the Planetarium at [email protected] or 817-272-1183.

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.

Music Honors Recital: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Irons Recital Hall. Free. For informa-tion, contact the Music Department at [email protected] or 817-272-3471.

BY VALLARI GUPTEThe Shorthorn staff

Blake and Dorothy Brown met their fresh-man year at UTA in 1941.

The alumni couple shared their experiences with current students and other alumni at the fifth annual Alumni Associa-tion 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 Asso-ciation hosts the picnic every year to give alumni a chance to return and interact with current stu-dents. Children and stu-dents played games and ate lunch together.

About 60 students and alumni shared their Mav-erick experiences with games and music. Alumni played games with water balloons, musical chairs, jump rope and face-paint-ing. Attendees dressed in UTA attire and consumed burgers and soda.

Blake showed black-and-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

games for the picnic. “A picnic is a nice way

to bring the alumni, chil-dren 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.

“It’s a great experience to see, bond and ask them about past life experi-ences, since we are going through it now,” she said.

Jennifer Cathcart, UTA Alumni Association board member, graduated in 1999. She said she vis-its the campus often with her 4-year-old daughter,

Mikayla. Cathcart said she hopes to instill the love she has for UTA in Mikayla.

“I love the way the campus is growing,” Cath-cart said. “It’s beautiful.”

Public relations sopho-more Karen Blair said her entire family graduated from UTA.

“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 be-cause of the connection they feel upon return.

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Mikayla Cathcart, daughter of alumna Jennifer Cathcart, painted accounting sophomore Yunjeong Kim’s arm at the fifth annual Alumni As-sociation Picnic in the Park. Alumni visited the campus with family to spend time with current students.

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We take a look at student

Chowgene Koay’s construction of an

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Dr. ruthQ: I went out once with a man who was very young and very hand-some. We work together, so we finally got together at his house, and he was acting weird with me. I didn’t understand why until he was telling me he likes panties, at which point I started getting very uncomfortable, and he could not get erect. And now I have to work with him every day, and I feel very weird to have to look at him. And I really did like him a lot, and I thought we were going to hit it off. Now how do I handle this?

A: There’s always a risk when you date someone with whom you work, be-cause if it doesn’t work out for whatever reason, you still have to see the person on a regular basis. Considering that you didn’t get past a first date, I would tell you to just forget about what hap-pened. I also would advise you not to speak about what occurred with your co-workers, as they will not let you forget it. If the relation-ship had become more serious, then you would have had a bigger problem. A place of work often is a good place to meet people, but there also is a potential downside that you must bear in mind.

Q: I had a boyfriend five years back. We had a lovemaking session once that he recorded. I didn’t know about it. Now, five years later, I hear that he has

passed it on to his friends. I am very hurt and upset. Every guy I look at, I think to myself, “He’s heard that record-ing.” I haven’t heard it, but my colleagues have, and they say it’s me. What should I do?

A: I’m glad for your sake that it was an audio recording and not a video. I would assume that you do not want to tell your parents about this, but do you have some other older rela-tive, preferably a male

but perhaps a female, in whom you could confide? If so, I would have that person call this man and tell him in no uncertain terms that he must destroy that tape and never mention it again. This shouldn’t be done in a threaten-ing manner, but in a very firm and adult way so that he understands the message that he must stop. My guess is that this will work and then you can move on.

Dr. RuthSend your questions to Dr. Ruth Westheimer c/o King Features Syndicate235 E. 45th St., New York, NY 10017

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Japan homeless move into housesRIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — One month after a devastating tsu-nami flattened their homes, some families took a step toward nor-malcy 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.

African Union: Libya accepts cease-fireTRIPOLI, Libya — A delegation of African leaders said Sunday that their Libyan counterpart, Moammar Gadhafi, accepted their “road map” for a cease-fire 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.

NATION

Small plane crashes into house in MaineBIDDEFORD, Maine — Authorities say a small plane has crashed into a house in Maine and burst into flames, injuring one person inside the house. Maine Depart-ment of Public Safety spokes-man Steve McCausland says the single-engine plane crashed into a house near Biddeford Municipal Airport at around 6:10 p.m. Sun-day. 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 wildfiresFORT 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 fast-moving 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.

ThE ASSOcIATED pRESSWASHiNGToN — 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 na-tion’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 re-mainder 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 par-ties framed the series of spending fights as debates over cuts — a thematic vic-tory 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 Ma-jority leader eric Cantor, r-Va., on “Fox News Sun-day.”

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 presi-dent would unveil more spe-cifics for deficit reduction with a speech Wednesday that would reveal plans to re-duce the government’s chief health programs for seniors and the poor.

“You’re going to have to look at Medicare and Med-icaid and see what kind of savings you can get,” obama adviser david Plouffe said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Alabama Sen. Jeff Ses-sions, the top republican on the Senate Budget Commit-

tee, called obama’s planned speech “an apparent recog-nition 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 offi-cial Washington’s shift from the standoff over spend-ing through September to next year’s budget and be-yond. Alone and together, the prospects of raising the debt ceiling and passing a 2012 spending plan are po-litically perilous, a knot that lawmakers will spend the coming months trying to un-ravel. That means competing plans to shore up the na-tion’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 offi-cials still were analyzing Fri-day’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 govern-ment 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 Sep-tember.

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ethics, leadership and sustainability among busi-nesses will be the topic of discussion during this week’s Business Week.

From today through Fri-day, 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 inter-est in the United States. in past years, the themes have included development and technology. This year’s theme is Corporate Social respon-sibility and ethical leader-ship.

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 speak-ers who are successful in their fields to share their experi-ences. He said it’s a way for

students to see how effective business decisions are made.

“it is a tremendous oppor-tunity to meet, see and hear people who are extremely successful in their career,” he said.

Craig eppling, General Motors Co. regional com-munications manager, said he will give a lecture titled “The Future of the Automo-bile and What is Going to Power it.”

He said he will cover hy-brid 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

plans to ask lecture attend-ees.

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 lec-tures. one will be over in-vestment 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 lec-ture over ethics, because she said people should be pre-pared to handle uncomfort-able 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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By ALI AmIR muSTANSIRThe Shorthorn senior staff

Voter registration for local elections in Arlington ends Thursday.

According to the Tar-rant County website, during last May’s election, 6,417 of the 185,168 registered vot-ers participated, less than 3.5 percent. robert rivera, district 3 councilman and candidate, said so few people voted because of voter apa-thy.

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 con-tributor to the low turnout is the shift in population age. He said senior citizens are more likely to vote and Ar-lington is shifting to a young-er population.

“Age is not important,” he said. “What is important is that you have a desire to have a positive hand in the direc-

tion of the city.”Student Congress Presi-

dent 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 pub-licized as national elections.

“These are people who make decisions that affect ev-eryday life,” he said. “The city council and mayor make de-cisions that affect UTA and will eventually affect you.”

economics graduate stu-

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 of-ficials at any level face deci-sions 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 elec-tions in the Student Congress office located at the Univer-sity 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 en-courage them to vote.

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DISCOMBOBULATION by Houston Hardaway

A 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 sug-gested 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 approxi-mately 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 ma-terials, particularly oil, and the negative environmental impacts of mining, trans-porting 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 avail-able 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 extract-ing 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 consid-ered 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 cover-ing the countryside? Can we flip the light switch and wait 50 years for it to come on?

We are caught between a rock and a hard place. We have no completely ac-ceptable 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 un-believably 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 genera-tions 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 en-ergy, but I sure do need it.

Nuclear energy is so integral to our society that it can’t just be halted

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The name is not the problem

Better marketing should precede women’s studies

name changeThe 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 pro-gram 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 class-es, 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 stu-dents are allowed to enroll in women’s studies courses. Of course they are. That shouldn’t have been a question. Good marketing and promo-tion 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 interest-ing. 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 pro-gram, 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 studies-related functions in partnership with other de-partments 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 pro-gram.

— The Shorthorn editorial boardEditor’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 Coun-try Butterflies did not seem to be trained enough for such releases, although their organization is a member of the Interna-tional 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 but-terflies.

Because Painted Ladies are fast flyers, they hurt each other with their fast wing flapping. The initial speech by the invited

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

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 speech-es, 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

LETTER

The university should have put more thought into the butterfly release

L. A. STANDLEE

Standlee is an earth and environmental sciences adjunct professor and a guest columnist for The Shorthorn.

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By sarah lutz and Vidwan raghaVanThe Shorthorn staff

The university is approaching completion of a $9.9 million en-ergy 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 complet-ed an $18 million package of upgrades that took eight years to pay back, said Larry Harri-son, 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 proj-ects, it gets harder and harder to find things that pay back sooner,” he said.

Items like small water pumps in the basement of some build-ings 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 uni-versity’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 some-thing like these towers, could mean “big time savings.”

uniVersity hall rooFUniversity Hall’s roof is being up-

graded 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 inter-fered 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 re-vamped.

— Vidwan Raghavan

$257,000Total renovation cost

april 17Expected project completion date

the generators 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 dur-ing the weekend following a Friday fire.

New generators were added to various buildings, including Pickard Hall, Life Science Building, Central Li-brary 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 Engineer-ing Research Building and Kalpana Chawla Hall came with generators factored into their cost.

— Vidwan Raghavan

$1 millionTotal package cost, each generator is a

different size and cost

water PumPsThe 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-effi-cient 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 pres-sure 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, Plumb-ing 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.

— Sarah Lutz

50%New water pumps cut 50% more ener-gy than the old ones by pumping water

based on the building’s demands.

water chillersA 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, John-son said.

The chiller works like an air con-ditioning 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 pro-gramed to do the job the most effi-cient 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 pop-ping 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.”

— Sarah Lutz

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Nothing was found Satur-day, but he still has high hopes.

“Over here is the edge of the Quarry,” he said point-ing to a jagged edge of rock formation. “My hypothesis is that the skull is here, maybe, but even if it isn’t, I want to dig here to see what is.”

Saturday hosted a pub-lic event named “Thun-derstruck,” which allowed people to take tours of the site and dig for fos-sils.

Ronnie Colvin, Earth and envi-ronmental sciences graduate student, is a regular at the dig site. When the site opens up for the public events once a month, Col-vin leads tours and helps those who have never been there be-fore.

“I was once a newbie my-self, so I always try and help them out,” she said. “Every-body has a niche out here, and everybody shares their knowledge.”

Colvin said her favorite way to learn and teach is by using the hands-on method, because it’s easier to under-stand and a much more in-depth experience.

“This is an outdoor class-room,” she said about the site. “Science is a verb in my opinion. You do science.”

Undeclared junior An-gela Maxwell spent her day at the site screen washing. She would take buckets of

rock sediments and carry them to the creek, a few football fields away. There, she would rinse them off and sift through them.

She said the reason they do this is to find microfos-sils that can aid in finding out climate conditions of the area.

“On Wednesday nights in the lab, [students] look through them using micro-scopes to find those tiny fos-sils,” she said. “It’s a tedious task.”

Main named the event “Thunderstruck,” after the

ACDC song, be-cause the crew has been finding a lot of evidence of wildfires, which are usually caused by lightening, which usually includes thunder. So far, the Arlington Archo-saur site has dis-covered a new spe-cies of lungfish and crocodile.

This is the first of many events that will be named after rock songs, Main said. This summer, Main is planning to name all of the events after rock songs and call it the “Sum-mer of Rock.”

“We’ve already been thinking of calling them things like ‘Smoke on the Water’ or ‘Purple Haze’,” he said laughing.

He said on Saturday the diggers found things includ-ing crocodile vertebrae and turtle fossils.

“The usual suspects,” he said. “We pretty much found what we always find out here.”

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Public welcome to celebrate extension

In celebration of getting a lease extension on the land, the Arlington Archo-saur site will host an event inviting the public to come and see what’s going on.

“Archosaur Park IV-Fossil Fest I” will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 30 at the dig site. Three tours will be conducted, but res-ervations 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 year- until 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 cof-fee 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 Tar-rant County College geol-ogy professor. “They’ll get a little paleontologist kit.”

Because this is a fund-raiser 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 817-807-7742, 817-515-4536 or [email protected].

— Ashley Bradley

brothers will return ready to serve for the university’s larg-est The Big Event.

Prior to the April 8 dead-line 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 excel-lent 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 vol-unteers provided 3,600 com-munity 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 stu-dents.”

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 move-ment,” she said.

Boxill also said the volun-teers spent a lot of time face-to-face with students and or-ganizations.

UTA Volunteers used sev-eral forms of fundraising for The Big Event this year, in-cluding raising $300 by sell-ing hot dogs.

Wells Fargo donated $5,000 toward The Big Event as a sponsorship donation.

“It was a big help,” Kamin-ski 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

supplies and food for the vol-unteers, she said.

For the first time, The Big Event will cohost a global project with Freshmen Lead-ers 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 or-phans 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 fond-est 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.”

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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.

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By Vallari GupteThe Shorthorn staff

Emily Marshall was one of 100 nursing seniors who wit-nessed a 400-pound emergency helicopter landing as a part of the College of Nursing’s disaster preparedness drill.

Marshall gazed at the heli-copter 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 heli-copter was one of the few sta-tions the nurses visited during their once-a-semester disaster preparedness drill.

Caitlin Wright, Nursing Con-stituency Council president, said simulation practice in the Smart Hospital was exciting enough, but the disaster preparedness drill exposed her to new disas-

ter-type situations. Students took rounds be-

tween a helicopter, a SWAT ve-hicle, a firetruck and an ambu-lance to learn how each team operates. Groups of students stood around the vehicles while professionals shared their expe-riences and answered student questions.

The groups handled different equipment medical profession-als might use in an emergency.

“It’s really neat because we get to see different aspects of what would happen in emer-gency situations,” she said.

Clinical instructor Susan Cherry said the disaster pre-paredness drill was an attempt to paint a big picture of on-the-job situations for graduating students.

One of the stations was a de-contamination tent where stu-dents had to categorize patients as requiring first-aid or critical care. Instructors also taught students how to decontaminate patients.

“They are going to be tested on what they learned in a week’s time,” Cherry said.

New to the decontamination tent was a scenario where a gun-

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 every-body was OK,” nursing senior Huong Pham said.

Marshall said she was excited to learn how specific depart-ments work together.

Flight nurse Brian Morton hopped out of a PHI Air Medi-cal helicopter along with a flight paramedic and a pilot.

Morton shared his experienc-es of hopping onto a helicopter

in an emergency and, at times, even having to operate in the helicopter.

“It is challenging to operate in a closed setting like a helicop-ter,” he said.

Morton said one has to adapt to any kind of situation on the job.

Nursing senior Dustin Pham said he had witnessed emergen-cy helicopter landings before.

“I was a medic in the army, so I have played with this before,” he said.

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Students receive training for handling emergency situations

NursiNG

Groups had to counteract dramatic events based on a week’s training.

Today, the College of Engineering will hold the first of four forums in which engineering dean can-didates will give self-presentations to the campus community.

Engineering Dean Bill Car-roll is stepping down from his position in August. He has served as dean since 2000 and is the longest-tenured engineer-ing dean in the university’s his-tory.

David Peters, a Washington University engineering pro-fessor, is scheduled to go first Monday, when he will present information about himself and his experiences in engineering. The presentation will begin at 2 p.m. in Nedderman Hall Room 100.

The forum is open to every-one 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 col-laborative 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 teach-ing 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

– John Harden

Red flags and blue life-size wooden manne-quins fill the Central Library mall lawn to symbol-ize the warning signs one might see in a relation-ship.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Pre-vention 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 conver-sation across campus.

Charity Stutzman, violence prevention and stu-dent intervention coordinator, said the campaign is passive, in that volunteers will not verbally ex-plain 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 stu-dents to be proactive so that help can be given, Stutzman said.

– Vallari Gupte

ABOVE: Nursing seniors learn about triaging pa-tients and how to handle big disasters at the recreational fields on Friday. Dummies were used to show some of the common ways to handle critical patients.

LEFT: Nursing students stand by watching as the helicopter lands. Careflite flies in for a demonstration on how the helicopter works Fri-day at the recreational fields.

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Noticing red flags brings people closer to getting help

David Peters, Washington Uni-versity engineering professor and UTA engineering dean candidate

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Dean candidates present in forums

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sportsabout sportsSam Morton, editor

[email protected] publishes Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

rememberWes Worster leads the Jim West Intercollegiate after shooting a 68, but UTA is in eighth place.

Find out more at theshorthorn.com.

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By Sam mortonThe Shorthorn sports editor

After losing the first two games of this weekend’s series against southeastern Loui-siana, UtA could have just mailed it in on sunday.

But the two disappoint-ing losses didn’t sit well with sophomore outfielder pres-ton Beck, who almost single-handedly lifted UtA to a 4-3 win on sunday.

“We don’t want to look back and not make the confer-ence 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 bot-tom 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 better-coached teams in the south-land 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,” thom-as said. “It’s easy, when you’re

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 ultimate-ly doomed UtA. With run-ners 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 Effer-son 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 base-man 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 ear-lier in the season, has seam-

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.

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Sophomore outfielder Preston Beck’s big day prevents a series sweep.

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Junior closer Adam Boydston gets the final out in the Mavericks’ 4-3 win over Southeastern Louisiana on Sunday at Clay Gould Ballpark. The Mavericks rallied from an early deficit by scoring three runs in the sixth inning.

men’S tenniS

Team wins early, but loses to Baylor

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 Chavez-Goggin 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 Reckna-gel 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 Maver-icks 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 deci-sion against Kike Grangeiro and Robert Verzaal in the No. 2 flight.

Julian Bley and Dennis Lengs-feld handed Moreno and Yakau-leu 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

women’S tenniS

Mavericks remain undefeated in SLC

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 unde-feated in conference play with a record of 9-0 and an overall record of 15-4. This is the sixth straight victory for the Maver-icks to give them the longest winning streak of the season.

With two games left in the season, both against confer-ence teams, head coach Diego Benitez said the team is excited at the chance to finish the sea-son 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

Baseball adds game with Mary Hardin-Baylor

After playing Baylor on Tuesday, UTA will host Mary Hardin-Baylor 4 p.m. Wednes-day 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.

— Sam Morton

By JoSh BoweThe Shorthorn senior staff

senior Cordero Gray and sophomore romain Martin highlighted a solid perfor-mance 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, [Mar-tin] fouled on the first two attempts and just had to put

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 per-forming very well — that there is room for improvement.”

Head coach John sauer-hage 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 pet-tis 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 sopho-more DeAndrea smith, se-nior 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.

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By randy mcVayThe Shorthorn staff

the softball team struggled offensively in two losses against Northwestern state this week-end, dropping to second place in the southland Conference behind texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

the Mavericks left 13 run-ners 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 de-feat to North texas, the Maver-

icks came out strong on satur-day and recorded a 3-0 victory over the Lady Demons.

Freshman Callie Collins re-corded her fourth shutout of the season on a five-hit per-formance. she threw eight strikeouts and allowed only two walks in her 16th win of the year.

But despite the early suc-cess, UtA dropped a 3-0 deci-sion in game two of the dou-bleheader.

the Lady Demons took a

1-0 lead in the third inning with a squeeze bunt, and the Mavericks were unable to an-swer back. they had two on with one out in the fourth in-ning 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 bat-ters 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 confer-ence 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 prompt-ed 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 hit-ting .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 need-ed to be, but she believes they can win next weekend.

“We were too flat this week-end,” 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 Maver-icks travel to Nacogdoches to play a conference series against stephen F. Austin. the Lum-berjacks are currently 10th in the sLC with a 5-13 record.

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Martin, Gray stand out in Austin

Lady Demons push UtA to second place

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