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BY MELISSA BOUGHTONStaff Writer
Students who live in Mozart Square, Honors, Kerr, Maple and Clark halls waited in the dark on Tuesday to have power restored to the buildings.
The southeast portion of campus lost power around 6 a.m. and the outage affected buildings used for classes and dorms.
Stephen Harper, one of the hall directors at Kerr Hall, said some blown fuses at a substation down the street from the dorm caused the power outage.
“We had an equipment failure in one of the underground cedar lines — probably had a short,” Charlie Jackson, the executive director for facilities, said.
Power was restored to all the buildings except Matthews, Scoular and Stovall Halls a little before noon, Jackson said.
Troy Choate, a communica-tion design freshman, lives at Kerr Hall and was working on a design project when the power went out.
“I just kind of went about my business and went to class,” he said.
Choate lives on the seventh floor at Kerr Hall and said the stairwells were dark and hard to navigate during the black out.
Harper said the hall staff let students know about the outage as soon as they were made aware.
“We call the hall directors and the RA’s, and they go and knock on every door to let students know that there is a
power outage,” Harper said of the procedures taken after outages.
Classes in the buildings with restored power resumed at 1 p.m.
“We apologize for the outage, but equipment failures happen sometimes,” Jackson said.
Students can stay updated about power outages by checking www.unt.edu.
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BY AMBER ARNOLDSenior Staff Writer
Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, the sounds of children laughing, balls bouncing and little feet pattering on concrete fill the Physical Education Building.
But it’s not just playtime. The children are part of a UNT
class called Movement for Special Populations, a required course created for kinesiology majors to gain hands-on training to teach students with disabilities.
The class is in its fourth year and isn’t limited to offering help to children with mental and physical disabilities, said Simon Driver, the class professor.
Siblings of children with disabilities are also encouraged to attend, Driver said.
Kimberly Williams, a mother and special needs advocate, said bringing both of her children has not only helped her son, who is severely mentally disabled, but has also helped her daughter to be more sensitive to other chil-dren with special needs.
Williams’ 11-year-old son, Colin, is severely mentally disabled, and her daughter,
Peyton, 9, has no physical or mental disabilities. The children have attended for three years.
“I do this program because it helps the students here learn to work with [special] needs kids,” Williams said. “I want good phys-ical education teachers coming into our schools, and this is a good way to help.”
Most physical education teachers in the public school district do not put kids with special needs high on their list, Driver said.
This leads to most of them being left out of activities or P.E. class altogether, because teachers don’t know how to integrate chil-dren with disabilities into normal activities, he said.
Driver said he hopes the class and program will help kinesi-ology students involve kids with special needs when they become teachers or coaches.
The class also differs from traditional classes in that the students’ complete attention is required, said Kelley Irwin, a kinesiology graduate student and teaching assistant.
“It’s a huge deal for the univer-
sity students here because they have to apply everything they’ve been learning for they past few years. They don’t just take a test,” she said. “They have to be able to befriend these kids to work with them.”
For the first hour of class, students learn about different teaching approaches and methods of learning.
Afterward, they pair up with their teaching assistant and professor, who guide them while they teach the children.
Students are also required to create a lesson plan for each class that incorporates different activi-ties meant to improve certain skills, Driver said.
Lauren Goudie, a kinesiology junior, works with three other UNT students to teach their group of three children.
Goudie said she hopes to become a coach and a teacher
in the future and is aware chil-dren with special needs could be in any or all of her classes, so she sees this program as training for the future.
“Children work at different paces whether or not they’re special needs kids or just have motor skill problems,” she said. “This program teaches us how to use the same game and teach different levels of kids to involve everyone.”
When the program began four years ago, it involved roughly 10 children. But through word-of-mouth, it now includes 50 chil-dren, ages 3- to 12-years old.
“I love doing this. I think it’s a great experience for my students,” Driver said. “Any time faculty can include service learning, it really enhances the educational component of any class and provides a much more rounded learning experience.”
Students work toward inclusionPHOTO BY RYAN BIBB / INTERN
Kinesiology senior Daniel Montgomery and Joy Sullivan, 4 , of Lewisville ISD, practice stretching during a class that teaches kinesiology students how to work with children with disabilities. Joy has sensory issues and hides from large groups.
BY CHRIS SPEIGHTSenior Staff Writer
Every day, Denton resi-dents walk down Fry Street and see bars, fast food venues and empty lots. For now and the near future, those lots will remain vacant.
Other than the newly estab-lished Public House at 125 Ave. A, development on Fry Street is at a standstill.
In 2008, a drive-thru CVS Pharmacy was proposed for the space.
However, the city council did not approve a special-use permit required for the drive-thru because of community disapproval, said Linda Ratliff, the director of economic devel-opment for Denton.
“There was a lot of commu-nity input to the council of not wanting to drive through there and it not being safe,” Ratliff said.
The property The Tomato occupied is owned by United Equities.
United Equities is a real-estate, development and leasing firm that owns at least 300 million square feet of prop-erty in Texas. The properties are offices, office warehouses and retail shopping centers, said Tim Sandifer of the acqui-sitions, development and retail leasing departments at United Equities.
Sandifer said CVS pulled out of the development deal because it requires all of its stores to have a drive-thru pharmacy.
To make its money, Sandifer said Equities leases out the square footage it owns.
“We had a development that we thought would be in demand,” he said. “It’s all contingent on having leases with tenants.”
Sandifer said that leasers are more cautious now and not expanding as aggressively as they had.
“It’s just not the r ight climate,” he said.
Sandifer said he would love to see people start leasing more on Fry Street to accommodate an ever-expanding student population.
Mike Sutton, owner of Big Mike’s Coffee House at 1306 W. Hickory St., said he’d like to see more student-friendly social places developed and fewer fast food places.
“I’d like to see a lot more independents come back down to Fry Street and get the air revi-talized,” Sutton said. “You don’t see it happening because the landlord down here wants a lot of money for the rent.”
Because of rent prices, Sutton said he feels it is prac-tically impossible to have small retail stores come back to Fry Street.
“They would just have to have so much money,” he said.
Sutton said he hopes to have his coffee shop open in several weeks.
Rick Reid, owner of the Garage, said he has not heard
Fry Street lot remains untouched by developer
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Danh Nguyen, a design junior, walks past the empty lot on the corner of Fry and Hickory streets.
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of any businesses moving onto vacant properties.
“I know with the way the economy is right now, it’s not going to happen anytime soon,” he said. “I mean nobody is going
to loan for something like that. I don’t see anybody with the next three to five years getting what they want done.”
“They have to be able to befriend these kids to work with them.”
-Kelley IrwinKinesiology graduate student and teaching assistant
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Correction
Alfonso Quinones, a marketing junior and a UNT parking employee, writes a ticket for a parked car at an expired meter.
PHOTO BY DREW GAINES / PHOTOGRAPHER
New parking regulation targets meter violatorsBY JORDAN FOSTERStaff Writer
Beginning this school year, parking violators may start to see more yellow envelopes on their windshields.
New regulations on campus were put in place for people who cont inue to pa rk in metered spaces w it hout paying or reloading.
Those who park illegally are subject to a $20 to $35 fine for each hour they are parked in a space with an expired meter.
Scott Kangas, associate director of student parking, said the department only issues one citation per day to violating vehicles.
“Unfortunately, we have a number of violators that are aware of this past practice and chose to remain in a metered space for the remainder of the day, thus depriving those requiring short-term parking the ability to use that meter,” Kangas said.
He said the department hopes this will make students more mindful and considerate of others.
The thought behind the new regulations was to give those who require short-term parking the ability to use the meters by encouraging appro-priate turnover.
Kangas said the new rule would closely align UNT’s parking regulations with other state universities.
Madely n A nderson, a n English language freshman, said she is mixed about the issue.
She said she thinks it’s great that the new regulation stimu-lates a much-needed turnover for parking spaces. However, she said she worries it may be more trouble in the long run.
“If you’re going to park in the meter parking, you need to know that you only have a certain amount of t ime to do what you need to do,” Anderson said. “At the same time, I do disagree with meter parking. I just don’t think that parking meters should be on campus in the f irst place. It’s a college town. We need to make more parking
spaces accessible to college students.”
Amber Wilson, an education senior, said she thinks the rule could become problematic for those who have to leave his or her car overnight.
“During the day I could see the regulation helping,” Wilson said. “But I could just see my car breaking down and not being able to get it towed or get it jumped off, and not being able to get it out. It’s going to cause more issues. There are going to be more people driving around looking at meters ever y hour, and there’s going to be more little yellow pieces of paper stacked on peoples’ windows.”
Kangas said the depart-ment of student parking hopes this new regulation would encourage students, faculty and staff to use the meters for short-term parking only.
Also, he hopes users pay the meter for the time they require, or otherwise move to a more appropriate parking location, such as the parking garage i f t hey need more
time. Kangas added the depart-
ment encourages students to take advantage of the pre-paid and reloadable meter cards, which can be purchased at the parking office.
Students can load the cards with a desired amount.
They can use this card at parking lots 38, 51 and 52 where they swipe their card for the amount of time they need.
If they return to the car earlier than expected, they can swipe the card and have the money credited back to the card.
In a Sept. 15 article titled “UNT athletes endure rain-soaked triathlon,” the UNT Triathlon Club presi-dent Amanda Poland can be contacted at [email protected].
BY MONICA DRAPERIntern
Elaborate posters, extrava-gant costumes, colorful deco-rations and upbeat music filled the One O’Clock Lounge on Tuesday as 15 student organi-zations celebrated the begin-ning of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Each of the organizations at Carnaval 2009 represented a different Latin American country by setting up a booth with interesting facts about their histor y, government, social tradit ions and reli-gion.
“This program is used to promote diversity and show a diverse atmosphere at UNT,” sa id Mont rea l W i l l ia m s, a representative from the Multicultural Center.
The organizations ranged from fraternities and sororities to dance groups and general united culture clubs.
Some groups dressed up to make their information more interesting to the students walking through the event.
“Fuego is representing Peru and we are using very visual things to get people interested in our table,” said Arnoldo Hurtado, vice president of the salsa club Fuego. “We are all about getting people involved and aware of the Hispanic culture.”
With eye-catching costumes and decorations, the partic-
Carnaval comes to UNTCharlton Rodriguez, a painting and drawing senior, twirls Jennifer Daniels, an international studies senior, to salsa music during the UNT Multicultural Center’s Carnaval event Tuesday in the One O’ Clock Lounge.
PHOTO BY CRISTY ANGULO / PHOTOGRAPHER
ipants attempted to spread knowledge of the different cultures that make up the UNT community to students passing by.
“It is cool that they are here doing this,” Paula Arciniega, a business sophomore, said. “They are showing another part of UNT by showing all of the different cultures.”
In the midst of the festiv-it ies, dancers from a local company performed a Mayan ritual dance in the center of the lounge, complete with Mayan music, costumes and props.
“The performance was inter-esting and entertaining,” Sarah El l is, an interdiscipl inar y studies freshman, said. “The costumes were so real and it made me want to learn more about the information the groups had to offer.”
Marita Griffith, member of the United Caribbean Cultures Club said she was passionate about spreading the awareness of cultural groups.
“This is for global awareness in the world because we are a global community,” Griffith said. ”We are all human, we all have something to share and this is a great way to share our ideas.”
Students like Fry Street as is
Hispanic culture fills University
Union
“You need to know that you
only have a certain amount
of time.”-Madelyn Anderson
English language freshman
Ideally, Reid said he would like to see more city support for the area.
“We’ve got all these estab-lishments, and look at the street,” he said. “They don’t run a street sweeper down here. The only thing they
can consistently do is write tickets. We have a dump-ster that doesn’t get emptied enough. We’ve got all these great establishments down here, but no support.”
Two UNT students, who also live in Denton said they like Fry Street just the way it is.
“I don’t really think it needs to be developed as much as most people think,” Garrett Benson, a marketing senior, said. “It serves its purpose.”
Ma r lene Z a mor a , a marketing senior, agreed with Benson and said more develop-ment might cause unnecessary traffic on Hickory Street.
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computer sc ience major, admits to having some strug-gles with the course, partic-ularly adapting to the new technology.
“It seems that every class period there is some problem
o r i s s u e w i t h clickers, emails, and small groups, etc.,” she said. “It’s a lot to deal with for only a three-hour basic course.”
Mallory Scottow, a f r e s h m a n a r t major, f i nd s t he class engaging.
“I find this course interesting and challenging and am learning a lot,” she said. “The way this program is designed is different than all my other course and far more appealing to me.”
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BY CHELSEA CLOSEIntern
Sof t chat ter a nd shu f-f ling feet often f i l l lecture halls designed for 500-plus students.
But at the start of several o f K i m i K i n g ’s “Nex t-G en” pol it-ical science courses, L i l’ Way ne’s song “ P o l i t i c s” g r e e t s students as they enter the classroom.
Next Generat ion c o u r s e s a i m t o “ t r a n s f o r m t h e s t u d e n t- l e a r n i n g experience in large-enrol lment undergraduate courses,” according to the program’s Web site.
The program started five years ago and features blended courses combining in-class work with online assignments and small group activities.
King, a polit ical science professor, knows how droning some of the larger classes can be.
“Having lots of students in large classes is making students removed, because as interesting as I think I can be I don’t delude myself that anyone can be that inter-esting.” she said. “I want to find different ways to engage the material.”
She saw students fa l l ing asleep in lecture halls and larger classes and wanted to do something about it.
She sees t he way she’s teaching as “taking a large public university class and giving students a small liberal arts college experience.”
Ryan Hansen, a freshman
Teaching for the next generation
Kimi King
BY KHAI HA
Photographer
Name: Coby NormileMajor: Computer Science
Status: Junior
Q:How many hours do you work a week?
A:I work about 20-30. I do about 20 hours at
Victoria’s Secret and 7-9 hours at Cinemark. I’m also working on getting a third job.
Q:How do you pay for school?
A:I get $7000 a year in financial aid and the
rest is paid out of pocket.
Q:How do you make ends meet?
A: I’m living from paycheck to paycheck. I’m trying,
but I can’t do too much right now.
Q: How do you balance school and
work?
A:Very carefully. Days that I have off I just sleep. I
do homework in class or in between classes.
JIBBERJABBER
Coby Normile
Q:What are your commute times
like?
A: It takes me 15 minutes to drive to school, 20
minutes to Victoria’s Secret, and 7 minutes to Cinemark, if I hit all green lights along the way.
Q: What do you do outside of school
and work?
A: I hang out with friends. I also work out. I try to
stay in shape. I’ve only been getting 1-2 hours a week, but I’m trying to increase it to 4-5.
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BY CLAIRE WEBERIntern
Denny Taylor can’t wait to step into the ring.
College is simply a backup plan for the radio, television and film sophomore whose real passion is becoming a professional wrestler.
Taylor, who grew up in McKinney, said he decided to attend college just in case his plan to wrestle does not pan out.
“I don’t legitimately see myself doing anything other than wrestling,” he said, “But the only thing more important to me than wrestling is having a family, and I want to be able to support them.”
Last year, Taylor came close to quitting school and going after his dream.
“I got really scared that I was going down the path to a desk job that I didn’t want,” he said.
He later changed his mind, much at the urging of his mother, who wants Taylor to get a degree before he pursues wrestling.
“I thought about it, and I decided I wanted to be able to tell my … family that when I was nineteen I was thinking of them and doing something that I didn’t want to do for their sake, for their financial stability,” Taylor said.
But he still places value on starting a family later.
“Being a husband and a father are things that will last longer than wrestling does in
the long run,” he said. Though his family and
friends are supportive of his dream, Taylor said he doubts they take him very seriously.
“It ’s f unny when we’re talking and Denny tells people about his dream, because they don’t realize that he’s not kidding,” David Martinez, Taylor’s roommate and a radio, television and film sopho-more, said,
Taylor said he thinks most people assume it’s a phase that will eventually pass.
“They’re like, ‘Sure, be a wrestler,’ but they’re really thinking ‘It’s okay. He’ll get over this and start being normal eventually,’” he said.
But Taylor insists he will train and give wrestling a shot.
“I don’t want to be 40 years old and watching wrestling on TV and think, ‘Yeah that’s what I wanted to do, but I didn’t try,’” he said.
Taylor said his favorite wres-tler is the Undertaker, who is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment.
A n act ion-f igure of the famous wrestler, clad in all black, is displayed on a side table in Taylor’s room amidst others.
“When I was little I would introduce myself to people as the Undertaker,” Taylor said, “And I would draw pictures of myself doing things the Undertaker would do.”
Taylor said he has a while to go before he’ll be in shape
enough to start seriously trying to get wrestling jobs.
For now, he works out, watches his diet and exer-cises in the meantime.
He said, “I try to do cardio every day and lift weights every other day. I go in there and guys are like, ‘look I can bench press five hundred,’ and I’m like, ‘well I can curl twelve and a half!”
Because he recently had surgery and will need another soon, Taylor will only be able to lift lightly until after he has recovered.
Then, he said, he’ll start t raining and l i f t ing seri-ously.
He has a lso looked at several professional wrestling schools.
These schools train wres-tlers and hone their skills, helping them get ready to w rest le for professiona l o r g a n i z a t i o n s , m a y b e one day working with big names like World Wrestling Entertainment.
Rick Steel, owner and head trainer of the Old School Federat ion i n L a mpa sa s said, “We teach them agility, timing, muscle tone, dieting; any professional skills that they need to become profes-sional wrestlers.”
Steel is t ra i n i ng eig ht students ranging in age from 21 to 42.
Taylor said, “The one I really want to go to is the Storm Wrestling Academy in Canada.”
Student sets sights on wrestling superstardom
Taylor said if he doesn’t end up actually wrestling, he still wants to be involved in the industry somehow.
Steel said, “It’s not hard to be successful in this industry.”
Though Taylor’s ambition may seem unconventional, he said, “I truly believe that
people should chase their dreams, and that’s exactly what I’m doing.”
to communicate the material in ways that will reinvigorate their own teaching.”
Fourteen other instructors are revamping their courses with Next Generation Course Redesign this semester.
King said that this new way of teaching is worth the work but calls it “the hardest thing that I’ve ever done as a teacher.”
For more information, visit www.qep.unt.edu.
PHOTO BY KHAI HA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Denny Taylor, a radio, television and � lm sophomore, is training to become a professional wrestler.
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Ken Garland meet excites cross-country teams BY SEAN SWINNEYContributing Writer
The Mean Green cross-country team is set to continue its early season preparations Saturday as it hosts the first of two straight home meets.
The Ken Garland Invitational,
named in honor of the long-time Mean Green coach, will begin at 8 a.m. at the Eagle Point Golf Course across from Fouts Field.
Head coach Robert Vaughan said that while the meet is mainly about getting ready for
the conference and regional meets at the end of the season, the team is looking forward to taking advantage of a home course the runners know well.
“No one’s going to get lost, that’s for sure,” Vaughan said. “It’s very familiar, but it’s
familiar to other teams, too, because they’ve run our course in past years.”
The men will run an 8K race, while the women will run a 4K, the same distance that both teams will run at the confer-ence meet in late October. The
meet doubles the distance each team ran at the last meet.
Sara Dietz, a business soph-omore who placed highest for the women at the TCU Invitational on Sept. 5, said running on a familiar course should give the Mean Green an
The Script: Sensitive quarterback deserves betterBY JUSTIN UMBERSONSports Editor
While the Dallas Cowboys spent their offseason making their offense “Romo-friendly,” the Philadelphia Eagles signed players who want to steal their starting quarterback’s job.
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb wanted his team to show him the love this past offseason.
He wanted the team to go out and get more offensive weapons and give him a new contract.
Donovan was rewarded with a new contract, while the Eagles used their two first round draft picks to give him what he wanted.
It traded one to the Buffalo Bills for former pro-bowl left tackle Jason Peters and used the other to draft speedy wide receiver Jeremy Maclin.
Then, the team went back to the usual and gave him more reasons to think that he will not be back next year, which is the trend of the last several years.
The Eagles already had
controversy brewing with McNabb and former second round draft pick Kevin Kolb, who replaced McNabb w hen he w a s benched against t he Ba lt i more R a v e n s l a s t season.
Even t houg h McNabb returned the next week and eventually led the Eagles to the postseason, Kolb was drafted to take over as the starter at some point.
Then, the team signed Michael Vick to run the Wildcat
formation. Vick, just removed
from an 18-month prison stay, thinks he is good enough to be a starter.
Vick took first-team snaps away from McNabb in the preseason, which the incumbent said disrupted the rhythm
of the offense.McNabb was going to have
two games without distractions
before Vick was completely rein-stated, but left with a broken rib after a touchdown in the third quarter of the first game.
To top it off, the Eagles signed veteran Jeff Garcia, who took the team to the playoffs in 2006 after McNabb’s season ended when he tore his anterior cruciate liga-ment.
McNabb, who has never felt completely welcome in Philly, has played in all 16 regular season games only three of his 10 profes-sional seasons.
A broken rib is just the newest of the starter’s ailments that will
insert another player as the team’s starter.
Donovan McNabb is still a top-10 quarterback in the NFL, but his insecurities tend to get the best of him.
The Philadelphia Eagles orga-nization knows this, but it doesn’t affect the way it does business.
Winning at all costs is what is important.
None of these quarterbacks will tear apart the locker room like Terrell Owens did in 2005, but it will be enough of a distraction to keep the Eagles from reaching their potential.
Athlete of the Week: For Youman, it’s naturalBY ERIC JOHNSONSenior Staff Writer
Outside hitter Britta ny Youman’s father is former Nationa l Footba l l League running back Larry Centers, so she inherited an athlete’s DNA.
Her natural athleticism is what originally drew volleyball head coach Cassie Headrick to recruit her.
Headr ick bel ieves t hat Brittany Youman is one of the best she has ever seen.
“Athletically, she is one of the most dynamic on our team,” Headrick said. “I think that we have only seen the tip of her potential and I expect her to continue to be a leader on this team.”
Brittany Youman, a commu-nications studies junior, played a crucial role in helping the Mean Green win its first two games of the season as she led the Mean Green attack with 37 kills over the weekend, earning
all-tournament honors. She led the team to victo-
ries over Jacksonville State University and the University of Arkansas, which was the team’s first victory against a Southeastern Conference team since 1994.
“Those victories meant the world to us,” Brittany Youman said. “It gives us a fresh start and a new attitude. I think we have the potential to do some-thing great.”
In her early years, she was a three-sport athlete playing basketball and softball in addi-tion to volleyball.
Her mother, Nikki Youman, has always known she would be great.
“She excelled so far beyond everyone else,” Nikki Youman said. “I could tell from the time she was five years old that she was going to excel as an athlete.”
Brittany Youman and the ot her tea m leaders have
brought about a change of atti-tude. Their experiences have helped the team members show great maturit y and growth, which is due in large part to the strengthened team chemistry.
“We are always together,” Brittany Youman said. “We have developed this sisterhood and I think that it is really translating to what we do on the court.”
Leadership is one of the key aspects to her success, and she has come a long way in getting her teammates to believe in what she is doing.
Athlet icism might have been what originally caught Headrick’s eye, but she has come to appreciate her as an overall athlete and person.
“She is so well rounded,” coach Headrick said. “She has such a deep faith in everyone and has great character. She is the definition of what I would call a good person.”
Her teammates and coaches say that she is one of the nicest and most dedicated people that you will ever meet and is always there to lift her teammates up, something her mother says makes her special.
“She is a very motivated person,” Nikki Youman said. “She really cares about her teammates and wants to make herself and them better. She has the power to inspire people.”
Youman has high expec-tations for herself and from the team, and expects to earn some respect for the remainder of the season.
“Some people think this was a fluke,” Brittany Youman said. “We will be a force to be reck-oned with this season, but we will be in the conference tour-nament.”
The next test for UNT will be this weekend at the Comfort Suites Bearkat Invitational in Houston.
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advantage on Saturday.“We run around the course
everyday, so we know the hills and we know when to work and when to use an extra burst of energy to leave the other people behind,” Dietz said. “We just want to focus. It’s okay to be good now, but it’s more impor-tant to be good later.”
Vaughan echoed those senti-ments, emphasizing that the early part of the season is all about training and building endurance, with results being a secondary concern.
Saturday’s meet will be signif-icant though, as it will be the first time the women’s team will be at full strength this year.
“You never want to do poorly, but you have to realize you just can’t peak for every meet,” Vaughan said. “We’ll see how they do in relation to the first meet and if they’re making prog-ress. We’ll see where their weak-nesses are, and then we’ll have eight weeks to address them.”
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Assistant coach Harvey Sanders speaks with Brittani Youman, a junior outside hitter, at practice Monday. She had 37 kills at the University of Arkansas Razor-back Invitational last weekend.
In the seventh grade, I was ostracized and mocked because I was what the other kids called an “Oreo.” I looked black, but I spoke white, and therefore I was white.
I remember feeling out of place because all the black kids would ask me the same question, “Why do you talk like that?”
At my old school, no one ever questioned my dialect, but here I was a sell-out who spoke another language.
Years later when I moved to Texas, I was still the “Oreo,” but I wasn’t an outcast any more, or so I thought. The majority of my peers were white, and they praised me for being different. They told me that I was “smart, pretty and respectful for a black person.”
For the first time in my life I felt like I was accepted for being intelligible, instead of being ridiculed for my deco-rous upbringing.
It wasn’t until college that I realized that my white friends had slyly insulted me.
Like my African American peers, they had misconcep-
tions of how a particular group of people should act based on society’s standard and this ulti-mately led me to question, “what is acting white?”
I feel as though people have defective images about the mannerisms that a particular race should portray.
I assume because I was kind, benevolent and well-spoken that this is what made me white.
But if that is the case, should I be considered Asian because I get good grades in math, since we have been taught that all Asians are good in math?
Or am I acting Hispanic because I have a large family that resides with me? We all know that stereotypes are invalid and futile, yet I see them used everyday to judge others.
I guess I’m still baff led because I don’t comprehend why I or any other black person can’t speak with eloquence, come from an affluent house-hold, have an education and be black.
It’s as if people can’t assim-ilate a combination quite like that, because blacks are supposed to be high-school
dropouts or living off welfare.I can’t have designer bags
or long, beautiful hair without someone criticizing me. I’ve even had black friends tell me that when they first met me they thought I was an impostor.
It’s agitating because I’m not trying to act like anyone other than myself.
I have always been raised to be strong and independent, but it suddenly seems that the more I try to convey self-reliance, the more I’m teased for it. I know that I am not the only person who faces these problems, and I often hear the same stories from some of my other friends.
Being of another race might have a few disadvantages, but we should not rob ourselves of our full potential. We should think about our actions and think of being bright and successful as an accomplishment instead of labeling it as a race attribute.
Earlier, I asked what exactly acting white is. Well, there is no such thing.
An individual should not be labeled abnormal because they don’t possess the “proper” char-acteristics of a certain race. We
should be wiser and more judi-cious about how we perceive people. There is no law that states that blacks have to act one way and whites have to act another.
If our oblivion continues, then we will never reach peace, and will ultimately isolate ourselves from others because of fallacious perceptions.
Be wiser than your one-minded friends and don’t become a victim of society’s stereotypes. Intelligence, charisma and good qualities are within every race, but it will never be seen if we continue to be the prey of igno-rance.
Amber Jones is an undeclared junior. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Should class attendance be mandatory?
“I figure, why would you spend all that money
on tuition and not go to class? I think not going is
very stupid.”
“I mean, at certain levels professors should encourage attendance,
but everyone’s levels are different. There was a history class where I
knew everything already but I had to attend.”
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to learn then you’ll go to class, if you don’t go then you don’t go. There are some classes you don’t need to attend to get an
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Race assumptions still abound
The carbon trade bill, in essence, is a bill that stipulates carbon emissions of businesses be capped at a given limit — a fixed “carbon-credit.”
A business can decide to use fewer “carbon credits” than what they are allowed and sell the extra credits, or use cash to buy carbon-credits from other busi-nesses.
In other words, the carbon trade bill is an attempt to utilize a market system to manage our environment. The bill becomes relevant to us because on June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives passed such a bill.
Critics and lobbyists were quick to react against this bill.
They cited the inefficiency of such a bill in dealing with envi-ronmental issues by pointing towards the European Union’s carbon trade program.
They also pointed at the required budget to implement such a massive project, and of course they were hitting on how the credits will be distributed:
will it be auctioned off or will it be given away?
As you can tell by now, supporters of the bill are envi-ronmentalists and democrats, citing countering facts to the critics.
But pushing aside politicking, there is substantial evidence that the bill is necessary.
Firstly, let us dispel the myth that the EU’s carbon trade program is not working.
They were right in pointing toward “carbon market” crashes, whereby businesses refused to buy additional credits, thus dropping the price.
However, they were wrong in stating it was a failure to reduce overall carbon emissions. The truth is the EU’s program started out with the goal of reducing carbon emissions, not avoiding market “crashes.”
As such, the program is successful in achieving what it has set out to achieve.
Refer to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s article titled “Carbon emissions trading
in Europe: Lessons to be learned,” to view the price chart of EU’s carbon market for 2005-2007.
In fact, if anything at all, the market crash should be seen as a supportive factor for such a program.
Businesses refused to buy additional credits because they did not need it: They are polluting the environment less than they were “allowed.”
Adding to the EU’s successful program are John Carey’s words in BusinessWeek that read other nations will not take the envi-ronment seriously until the U.S. shows real initiative.
The global environment is suffering. Saving it requires a global initiative.
The United States is not the only polluter today. Other devel-oping nations such as India and China have joined the ranks.
In fact, the United States today has “exported” most of its pollu-tion to other nations with mass outsourcing.
The fact still remains however: Without the U.S. leading the way,
nations such as China and India would not even think of imple-menting such a policy.
Indeed, Australia just rejected such a system, and so they should, seeing that 80 percent of Australia’s electricity still comes from coal-burning plants.
How can we expect other nations to clean up when one of the most developed nations in the world cannot lead the way?
The EU took its step in 2003. Now it is our turn.
Jamie Chin Han Khoo is a psychology senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
A global take on carbon trade bill
Colleges across the nation have taken measures to prepa re for a possible epidemic of H1N1, more commonly known as swine flu. This begs the question: What measures has UNT taken to alert and protect its own students?
Cornell University, where one student death has already occurred, has established a 24-hour f lu hotline that allows students to receive medical advice any time they need it.
The hotline allows students to speak with a nurse and decide whether they should treat themselves for the virus or seek medical attention. If a student calls the hotline with severe symptoms or a wors-ening condition, the univer-sity provides him or her with transportation to a hospital or health care facility.
W a s h i n g t o n S t a t e University has also responded to the threat by setting up a blog with frequent updates of the number of students who have reported flu-like symptoms. It has addition-ally posted color-coded flu phase charts so students know the status and severity of swine flu on campus.
As swine flu deaths have been reported in surrounding areas, UNT should also be preparing for a possible emergency situation. The only thing in place at the moment is an update on the main UNT Web site with a list of flu symptoms and the requisite “wash your hands/cover your mouth” sugges-
tions. Other than that, the site only offers the advice that any student who has f lu symptoms should seek medical attention and stay at home.
The problem is that most students do not check the UNT Web site daily. Of course, UNT also offers Eagle Alert, which notifies students if an emergency occurs. But this does not reach all students because not all students are signed up for it.
UNT cannot be blamed for students who don’t make use of these services. However, these services alone are not sufficient in preparing students or quieting their fears.
Considering the severity of the situation, the univer-sity needs to be thinking ahead, perhaps by setting up a flu hotline of its own. Also, it would be effective and inexpensive to post flu updates around campus so students know the severity of the situation.
The school should also notify students of what it plans to do if an outbreak does happen. Is UN T prepa red to of fer sick students online lectures, Power Points, etc. so they can continue their studies, or will the school have to shut down? How do they intend to keep the illness from spreading should it reach our campus?
Students deser ve t he answers to these questions, as well as the security of knowing how the university plans to address an emer-gency situation should one arise.
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