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Poppin’ a Cap So Long Sun BeltForgotten time capsule finally opened
Arts & Life | Page 3Volleyball begins final year in conference
Sports | Page 4
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texasntdaily.com
Tuesday, September 25, 2012Volume 100 | Issue 12
Committee looks into extinguishing smokingNews | Page 2
Dance club takes first stepsArts & Life | Page 3
Too many colleges “manning up”Views | Page 5
Inside
TYLER OWENSSenior Sta� Writer
In its first Sun Belt Conference game of the season, the Mean Green fell to the Troy Trojans 14-7.
Going 0-2 in the red zone on offense, a 14 percent third down conversion rate and poor execu-tion from the kicking team were all factors in UNT dropping to 1-3 on the season.
“Before you start winning, you have to stop losing,” head coach Dan McCarney said. “Frustration is an understatement.”
In a postgame press confer-ence, McCarney said that the practice week prior to the Troy game was the best in two years, but the Mean Green could not translate that success to game day.
“I thought our meetings, our walk-throughs, our focus, our execution [and] our effort during practice this week was the best since I’ve been at North Texas,” McCarney said. “They key is to do it on game night.”
After an efficient performance last week against Kansas State (89 percent completion rate), redshirt junior Derek Thompson failed to come through in key situa-tions as he overthrew receivers and only completed 12 of his 29 passing attempts.
“I missed some throws this week,” Thompson said. “It starts with me as the captain of the offense, and those guys look to
Mean Green drops ball in Sun Belt opener
DANIEL BISSELLSta� Writer
UNT has been ranked the 9th best university in the nation for transfer students in the Princeton Review’s annual list of transfer-friendly schools.
UNT, which enrolled almost 4,000 transfer students in fall 2010 with a transfer acceptance rate of 78 percent, is one of four Texas schools – the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Houston, and Texas A&M-Commerce — on the list. The rankings are based on enrollment data starting in 2010.
UNT Transfer Center Coordinator Ashlea Coulter said 3,829 transfer students were admitted this semester. Although that marks a slight drop from the 3,891 admitted in fall 2010, it was still enough to make the top 10.
“I think it’s a true testament to how transfer-friendly the university is,” Coulter said. “It shows that we care about our transfer students.”
Coulter said she believes UNT is appealing because of
me and I’ve got to get better.”The special teams unit also
didn’t translate its practice success into the game. Junior
kicker Zach Olen and freshman kicker Zach Paul struggled in the game.
After making a 57-yard field
goal in practice last week, Olen, who missed an extra point and had a 45-yard field goal blocked against KSU, missed 40
and 47-yard field goals on back-to-back drives in the second quarter. After halftime, Paul came on as a replacement and
missed a 27-yard attempt.“He’s got to carry over what
he does in practice to the game field,” McCarney said of Olen’s execution. “I didn’t have any plans of going to the backup guy tonight, but how many times are we going to watch a missed field goal?”
The Mean Green defense shut down the Trojans for most of the first half, but the missed oppor-tunities on special teams allowed Troy back into the game. Troy quarterback Corey Robinson threw for a touchdown with a minute left in the second quarter and connected with Chip Reeves for a 76-yard touchdown early on in the third.
“They just came out and started passing the ball better than they did the first half, and we didn’t do what we needed to do,” junior defensive tackle Richard Abbe said. “We stopped the run well. It’s the big plays that killed us.”
The next two games for the Mean Green will take place on the road, as the team travels to face Florida Atlantic and Houston.
“It sickens me to lose that game the way we did tonight, but the good news is we do have two-thirds of a season in front of us,” McCarney said. “There are a lot of opportunities out there, and how we handle a setback like this will be a real measure of where we go with this football team.”
PHOTO BY ZAC SWITZER /SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior tight end Drew Miller almost made the � nishing catch on a trick pass play. Redshirt junior quarterback Derek Thompson handed the ball to senior running back Jeremy Brown who threw it back to Thompson, who then threw it to Miller . The Mean Green ultimately lost 14-7 to the Troy Trojans, but not before missing three � eld goals and numer-ous turnovers on both sides of the � eld, resulting in a 1-3 record for UNT.
UNT named 9th mosttransfer-friendly school
ASHLEY GRANTSenior Sta� Writer
The capstone log ist ics and supply chain manage-ment course in the College of Business is broadening the definition of “group project” by requiring its students to collaborate with colleagues at universities around the world.
Business seniors in the class, Advanced Logist ics
Problems, will work with more than 300 students from 18 universities in places as disparate as Alabama, France and Germany.
“No single group consists of members from the same school,” marketing professor Ted Farris said. “It helps students get a better under-standing of what it’s like in the real world and to work in
displaced work groups.” To w a r d t h e e n d o f
November, students enrolled in Farris’ class will receive the names and email addresses of other group members.
To crack the case study provided by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the four-person groups will have to determine the costs, risks and most effi-
cient routes to get products from various starting loca-tions to a distribution center at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth.
Students have two weeks to prepare a presentation and submit their findings and recommendations to faculty members.
Although case studies have been used in logistics classes since 1997, this is only the
third semester that groups have been expanded to include students globally, Farris said.
He said students aren’t usual ly cha l lenged with finding a solution for the case study. The real struggle is coordinating communica-tion and accommodating for time zone differences.
“We don’t tell students how to communicate, but we’ve
seen students use Skype, email, Facebook and even by phone, a method that can be very expensive,” he said.
Students also have the option to use Adobe Connect, a web conferencing software program managed by the University of the Andes in Peru.
Logistics students’ group projects go global
JASON YANGSenior Sta� Writer
It’s possible to turn flatulence into flames.
No, really.The hardworking skep-
tics of Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters” proved it in an unaired video shown Monday night at the UNT Coliseum.
“MythBusters” co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage spoke to about 5,500 students as part of UNT’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture consisted of brief speeches, videos and a question-and-answer session with the audi-ence, who filled more than 60 percent of the Coliseum’s 8,000 seats.
The popular show will enter its 10th season when it returns in January. Filming 45 weeks a year, earning four Emmy nomi-nations, setting off more than 2,800 explosions, conducting 850 experiments and going through more than 100 pounds of lubri-cant would take a toll on anyone, but Hyneman and Savage said the show’s integrity and commit-ment to busting myths kept them passionate about the job.
MythBusters speak at Coliseum
its transfer-friendly nature, close-knit community, academic repu-tation, prestige and proximity to Dallas and Fort Worth, where many of the university’s transfer students come from.
“I think that people appreciate the university because, although it’s a very large school with a large
number of students, it has a small-school feel,” she said. “The faculty and staff are very dedicated. They know students’ names and take a personal interest in them, so students don’t feel like small fish in a big pond.”
PHOTO BY MICHELLE HEATH/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage answer questions at the Distinguished Lec-ture Series in the Coliseum on Monday at 7 p.m. A crowd of 5,500 people gath-ered to listen to the lecture.
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PHOTO BY TYLER CLEVELAND/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Mechanical and energy engineering junior and transfer student David Janes looks through an apartment booklet Monday in the Union. James transferred from the University of Arizona.
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“‘MythBusters’ is science integrity to us, and that’s the key,” Savage said. “We’ll turn down a lot of money to conduct a laundry detergent experiment, because that’ll sell you some-thing impure and fluffy about the show.”
Despite the hazardous and often dangerous experiments required to bust or uphold myths, the duo said the worst injuries they’ve received are a few stitches and broken fingers from moving heavy safety equipment.
It’s not explosions that excite them. Hyneman and Savage said they love proving their hypotheses wrong or discov-ering something new through research.
It’s the process that drives them.
“We don’t want to start with a category and crank out myths because that’s for television,” Hyneman said. “We like to do things where we learn and enjoy.”
Savage said they never know what to expect.
“Nobody insists the story goes a certain way,” Savage added. “The experiment and content drive the story and the unexpected, and that’s part of the show’s success.”
T h e U N T Tr a n s f e r Center provides instru-mental support and assis-tance to transfer students. A subgroup of the Transfer Center is the Transfer Ambassadors, made up of transfer students who provide peer support to new arrivals and give a student’s perspective of the university.
M a r k e t i n g j u n i o r Anushka Singh, a Transfer Ambassador f rom t he cou nt r y of St . Luc ia, said she transferred to UNT from Georgetown University because she wanted a well-rounded school that gave her more personal attention.
“At Georgetown, every-thing was just about school
Business senior Mike Smith said the project is a win for everyone involved.
“Working with people from various geographical areas and cultures is always a plus in business,” he said. “It can give a different perspective, maybe some-thing others aren’t used to, in handling certain objec-
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POLICE BLOTTERBRYAN MANGANIntern
Mo nd a y, S e p t e m b e r 17, 2:34 a.m.: A UNT police officer contacted a 25-year-old male student at 1200 W. Hickory Street. The student was wanted by the Denton Police Department for driving without a license, failing to control speed, driving a vehicle with an expired inspection date, failing to maintain financial responsibility and failing to report a change of address. The student was arrested and taken to the City of Denton Jail.
12:03 p.m.: Two computer monitors were reported stolen from Sage Hall.
5:46 p.m.: A tip reported a suicidal person in Crumley Hall at 1621 West Highland Rd. UNT police officers, along with UNT counseling and testing staff, met with the person. Denton County MHMR Center deputies arrived after being requested, and the person in question was referred for medical assistance.
11:10 p.m.: The Denton Police Department reported gunshots near South Welch and Fannin streets. UNT police officers, including a K9 unit, responded and detained and arrested several suspects involved in an alleged robbery attempt. UNT police officers assisted with the on-scene investigation and handed the suspects over
to Denton police. Wednesday, September 19,
10:41 p.m.: A UNT police officer pulled over a vehicle at 900 Cleveland St. The 20-year-old non-student female driver was wanted by the Decatur Police Department and Fort Worth Police Department for a number of offenses. She was arrested and taken to the Denton County Jail.
Thursday, September 20, 8:31 p.m. : A UNT K9 unit led an officer to contact a 25-year-old male student at 1706 W. Sycamore St. in UNT Lot 7. The student was charged with possession of marijuana, promptly arrested and taken to the Denton County jail.
The show is an experimental program, not a demonstration of scientific processes, they stressed. The duo use unorth-odox and usually humorous methods to illustrate scientific concepts.
“The difference between science and screwing around is if you write it down,” Savage said.
Hyneman and Savage prom-ised the upcoming season would deliver the usual blend of creativity and excitement.
Myths they plan on inves-tigating include whether or not the movie “Titanic’s” Jack and Rose could really survive floating on a board in the Atlantic Ocean, if motorcycles can tread water and whether sitting between two overweight men in a vehicle is safer than sitting alone with a working airbag.
History graduate student Chris Menking said he usually records the show on DVR, and thought it was pretty impressive to see the co-hosts in person.
“The Q-and-A adds a nice perspective to the lecture,” Menking said. “It’s nice to hear the stories you see on television and hear their opinions on it.”
Although psychology senior Julia Garza isn’t a fan of the show, she attended the lecture to satisfy her curiosity. She even learned something new.
“I didn’t know farts can be lit on fire.”
and academics, and everyone was just a number,” Singh said. “UNT just seemed like a really well-rounded school, and just the fact that they had a transfer center was a plus, knowing that I could get help if I needed it.”
Coulter said the Transfer Center tries to recruit prospec-tive transfer students before they arrive at UNT. She said that reaching out to these students places UNT ahead of other schools and makes it that much more appealing to them.
“A lot of other schools put most of their focus on first-year students and their tran-sition needs,” Coulter said. “It’s not often that you’ll find places that have a specific transfer center. I think what the students and faculty do here is special and innova-tive.”
tives and tasks.” Farris said he hopes to one
day include more universi-ties in countries that pose even bigger time zone and communication challenges to the “laundry list” he has already created.
“Eventually I want to bring in schools in Australia and the Far East,” he said. “Then students will have a better opportunity to see just how logistics works in landed prod-ucts from various regions.”
BEN PEYTON Sta� Writer
A committee of Denton medical and health profes-sionals, business owners and residents will determine whether or not to recommend a new citywide smoking ordi-nance that could potentially go into effect at the beginning of next year.
The Denton city council approved the formation of the Smoking Ordinance Ad-Hoc Citizen Advisory Committee during a meeting last week.
The current ordinance gener-ally restricts smoking in city parks, retail establishments serving the general public and businesses designated as nonsmoking by their owners. Bars and restaurants are allowed at-will smoking policies if they meet certain regulations.
More than 30 Texas cities
have already banned smoking in closed workplaces, restau-rants and bars, but Texas does not have a statewide ordinance, giving cities the power to mold their own smoking policy specifics.
Some local bars and venues, including Dan’s Silver Leaf and Oak St. Drafthouse, have no smoking policies but offer outdoor accommodations for smokers.
Smoke-reliant businesses without outdoor settings, such as the Kush hookah bar near campus, would require tailored, particular rules in any new ordi-nance.
“The trick is to see if there isn’t creative approaches,” city councilman Kevin Roden said.
Following the path of other cities with “cookie-cutter” approaches to ordinances would cause problems that can
be avoided with preparation, Mayor Mark Burroughs said.
“If we went with a cookie-cutter approach, which several other cities have passed, it could put them [smoke-friendly businesses] out of business,” Burroughs said. “I think the important thing is to take the time to pay attention to each business that we know would be affected by an ordinance.”
Blueprints for any new ordi-nance will essentially be drawn on a blank canvas, Roden said.
“We can go any direction we want to,” he said.
Roden added that he hoped “a lot of other people get involved and chime in so that we have the benefit of hearing some of those ideas.”
Burroughs has put forth the idea of allowing certain busi-nesses to opt out of a potential smoking ban by applying for a
permit. “That allows a business owner
to keep that ability to say, ‘I want to have a smoking bar,’ or ‘I want to have a hookah bar’ or ‘I want to have a restaurant that allows smokers,’” Burroughs said. “I don’t believe it’s our job to tell them they can’t have that.”
Bill Brown, 42, a substi-tute teacher and patron at the Loophole Pub downtown, agrees.
“It should be up to the propri-etor whether to allow smokers in their establishment,” Brown said. “I think the government has enough stuff to worry about, and the guy who owns the place should be able to decide.”
For more information on how to get involved or voice an opinion to the committee, visit cityofdenton.com.
Staf f photographer Erika Lambreton contributed to this story.
City considers stamping out smoking
PHOTO BY ERIKA LAMBRETON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Billy Myatt and Caitlin Callen smoke inside of Cool Beans as they review a plumber’s manual Monday night. Callen and Myatt both � rmly believe that the option to smoke should remain within the rights of the property owner.
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NADIA HILLSenior Sta� Writer
At 12:01 a.m. Sept. 13, more than 40 Dentonites applauded musi-cian Glen Farris as he strolled up Hickory Street toward Locust.
He reached the intersection where the Wells Fargo building towered over a plaque that read: “First State Bank Time Capsule Buried September 12, 1992, To Be Opened September 12, 2012, Our 100th Anniversary.”
Some participants held “free the capsule” signs, and city coun-
City unearths forgotten time capsule
SUZY TOWNSENDIntern
Two steps back, two steps forward and then repeat.
This is commonly known as the “Texas two-step,” one of the various western-style dances taught by UNT’s Country Western Dance Club.
T he c lub st a r ted last semester when biology junior Kristen Eichler took Survey of Dance, taught by dance professor Lily Sloan.
During the class, Eicher, along with pre-visual arts studies sophomore Madison Paulette and business soph-omore Alexis Torres, did a project about social dance where they performed country dancing, or Texas swing.
The project inspired them to start UNT’s first Country Western Dance Club.
“Our goal is just to spread awareness about this facet of Texas culture with the campus,” said Eichler, the club’s president. “It’s kind of one of those stereotypical things people think all Texans know, but not very many do.”
The club meets every other Wednesday in Wooten Hall.
Some of the dances taught
include the two-step, half step, line dance and country waltz.
Many of the dances require spins, dips and even aerial components, which are consid-ered “stunts.”
All students are welcome, even those who have never done any country dancing.
The dances are taught at a steady pace, and the steps are broken down.
“There are people who have never danced in their whole lives to people who have been country dancing their whole lives,” Eichler said. “It’s a wide variety, and you get to learn a lot and meet a lot of different people.”
Sloan is the club’s adviser a nd i s or ig i n a l ly f rom Michigan.
“Being a northerner from Michigan, it’s fun getting a taste of the real Texas culture through this dance,” Sloan said. “There’s a real sense of community around something that’s positive and fun.”
After meetings, the group can often be found at Rockin’ Rodeo in Denton, where they take over the dance floor with their newly learned country dancing moves.
“It’s multigenerational,” Sloan said. “It’s not neces-sarily just bars, it’s all ages. I would encourage anyone to go, they are really welcoming and make it very accessible.”
The club’s next meeting will take place Wednesday in Wooten Hall, and the room number is to be announced.
Those interested are encour-aged to bring a good pair of dancing boots or shoes without traction.
“I think the club sounds like a nice way for students to connect.” mathematics junior Candace Clary said.
For more information on the club visit orgsync.com/49175/chapter.
Students put on their country dancing shoes
MARLENE GONZALEZSenior Sta� Writer
Students may not always agree with the decisions UNT Dining Services makes, which is where the UNT student-run Food Advisory Committee comes in.
The committee allows students to voice their opinions about the food that is served in the cafeterias, the service they receive and other food-related concerns.
Executive Director of Dining Services Bill McNeace said he suggested UNT start the
Students voice opinions on Dining Services
cilman Kevin Roden made a solemn speech commemorating the day Denton did not open its time capsule.
“Because of the level of which people are involved and present in the community, this doesn’t surprise me,” Farris said. “I’ve never seen people in other places come together like this. The absur-dity and theatrics that happen day to day in this town cracks me up.”
In the early morning, a week after the midnight celebration, a crew of workers from Floyd Smith Concrete Company, contracted by the city, jackhammered PVC tube out of the ground beneath the dated plaque.
An hour and a half later, the city’s street manager whisked the capsule to Assistant City Manager Howard Martin’s office for safe-keeping.
“The time capsule was not put in by the city of Denton,” Martin
said. “There are a lot of blogs and misinformation about the sequence of events, but there were only two people involved. The time capsule is the property of First State Bank.”
On Sept. 6, a former First State Bank employee contacted Martin about opening the capsule.
The employee, who chose not to be identified, asked Martin to hold out on excavating the capsule so that there would be time to plan a ceremony, Martin said.
Wells Fargo Inc., which bought First State Bank in 2001, now occu-pies the original building and is currently in possession of the capsule. Representatives from Wells Fargo declined to comment.
“The day after I was contacted by the former employee, someone from Wells Fargo called and asked why I was giving the capsule to someone else,” Martin said. “It was because no one else asked. I gave them the employee’s contact
information and let them work out their own deal.”
While former First State Bank employees are discussing a reunion to open the capsule and view the contents, there is no decided date.
Prior to the capsule being dug up, Farris and other participants who commemorated the day Denton “forgot” to open its time capsule planned to fight to allow the capsule to stay in the ground and celebrate the occasion each year.
“There was a wide spectrum of the community there to support the eternal entombment of the capsule,” Farris said. “If it’s not opened on the 12th, it should never be opened. But this is just a way for us to come together and be present in each other’s lives. I discovered this merciful, funny gift of comedy to come together over. This encap-sulates Denton.”
committee in 2009, when he first arrived.
“I think students sometimes are in a bad position,” McNeace said. “Especially resident students. They are stuck on campus, so we make sure they have a lot of variety of food to choose from and a schedule to accommodate them.”
Committee chair Yolanda Armstrong said 25 students attended the first meeting. She said she hopes to see a consis-tent number of students at the upcoming meetings.
“Food is a comfort for students away from home,” Armstrong said. “It’s an open floor for them to talk about their food. People are passionate about their food. Their voice makes a difference.”
She said anyone who goes to the meetings and voices their opinion is considered a part of the committee.
“It’s not just food,” she said. “It’s customer service.”
Mechanical engineering tech-nology junior Thomas Luepke has seen the impact of the committee
first-hand.Luepke said he collected 160
signatures of students who wanted West Hall to extend its hours.
Luepke’s philosophy class ends at 1:50 p.m., so he only had 10 minutes to get to West Hall and get his food before it closed to prepare for dinner.
“I had hoped it would extend congestion so students could have a relatively comfortable lunch,” Luepke said.
He printed out eight sheets of paper asking people to print
and sign their name if they wanted West Hall to stay open until 2:30 p.m. and checked it every day for two weeks.
Luepke presented h i s idea and signatures to the committee Tuesday.
As of Monday, West Hall will now serve lunch until 2:30 p.m. instead of 2.
“It was very fast, consid-ering UNT is a bureaucracy and runs on paperwork,” Luepke said. “I was surprised. I didn’t have a goal, I was just
hoping for as many students as possible.”
In addition to the committee, students can voice their opin-ions about Dining Services using the comment boards located in each of the dining halls.
T h e F o o d A d v i s o r y Committee meets every month at the Avesta Restaurant on the second floor of the Union at 5 p.m.
The next meeting will be Oct. 3.
PHOTOS BY TYLER CLEVELAND/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Left: Comment cards �lled with students’ opinions and suggestions are posted in Maple Hall’s Mean Greens dining hall. Comment boards are just one of the ways in which students can share their opinions on Dining Services.Right: Pierre Monticolombi, executive chef of the Bruce dining hall, reads comments posted by students Monday. “We want the students to eat well, good �avors,” said the chef of 32 years.
“...it’s fun getting a taste
of the real Texas culture through
this dance.”-Lily Sloan,
dance professor
Pre-psychology sophomore Abdullah Rohaizad dips Elise Raley, vice president of the Country Western Dance Club, at a club meeting in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building on Sept. 12.
PHOTO BY ASHLEY PADILLA/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO COURTESY GLEN FARRIS
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Joshua Friemel, Sports Editor [email protected]
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UNT played its first match as a SBC member. They lost 0-3 (1-15, 6-15, 2-15) to Baylor University.
UNT won the western division title for the first time and finished the historic season with 23 wins on the season and 14 conference wins.
In its second year in the conference, UNT was just one point away from defeating eventual champs FIU in the SBC championship game.
UNT experienced its second worst conference record of 4-14 since the
teamʼs inaugural season.
Opponent UNT’s Record Key Stat
Corina Marginas set the single match record with 38 kills
in 2003.
In 2001, the team had 30 block
assists in a 3-2 loss. The feat is good for third-most in
team history.
The only victory came in 2008 when
the team swept WKU 3-0.
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Louisiana-Lafayette
22-11 against
Louisiana-Monroe
1-12 against
Western Kentucky
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Sun Belt series part three: Mean Green volleyball
Freshman shines in � rst tennis tournament
BRETT MEDEIROS Sta� Writer
UNT has had a women’s volleyball team since 1976 and in that span totaled a 440-707-2 record. Since 2000, the Mean Green has been a member of the Sun Belt Conference, and that 12-year run will come to an end starting next fall.
Since joining the SBC, the Mean Green has had two coaches: Cassie Headrick (77-81 in Sun Belt) and Ken Murczek (20-14 in Sun Belt), who is in his third year with the team.
Up to this point, UNT has compiled a 97-95 record in the Sun Belt and only three seasons with a wi n n i ng conference record.
“The two years playing under coach Headrick were definitely rebuilding years,” sa id former l ibero Sarah Willey, UNT’s second all-time digs leader. “My freshman year we had a roster of 14 players, and 10 were new to the program. Conference USA is more competitive, and that team is ready to take it on.”
In a conference that has been dominated by Middle Te n ne s s e e a nd We ste r n Kentucky, the Mean Green has never won a SBC post-season title. When the team leaves for C-USA, it won’t be
able to win a conference title either.
A postseason volleyball tournament is absent from the C-USA structure, making regular season play more important.
Because there’s no post-season tournament, C-USA has no automatic bid into the NCAA tournament like the Sun Belt does, making a team’s Ratings Percentage Index, a system used to rate teams on their records and their opponent’s records, and the season’s total record vital to postseason appearances.
“Last year Conference USA had five teams with a top-100 RPI, but only one team made it into the NCAA tourney,” Mu r c z ek s a id. “Mov i ng forward a tough schedule is key, and as our program improves, hopefully we will be able to mirror exactly that to make it in ourselves.”
Because of the absence of a conference tournament, C-USA adopted a 20-game con ference schedule that includes each team playing nine of its conference’s foes in both home and away games. The other two games will be single matches against the remaining teams.
Since 2008, C-USA has sent seven teams to the NCAA
tournament, but in the last two years only one team represented the conference in preseason play.
“This will be the third con ference I have had a chance to play in, and in all of these conferences, going to the NCAA tournament is no rarity,” junior middle blocker Courtney Windham said. “It’s going to be inter-esting. If anything, the confer-ence move is going to make our program noticed nation-ally more and more.”
C-USA will fill in a void in Division I athletics, where for the first time since the 1950s, a conference will feature four teams from a single state (UNT, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Rice and the University of Texas at El Paso).
While the team has enjoyed some recent success in the Sun Belt, a move to C-USA will only benefit the team in the long run.
“Coach Murczek has used the Sun Belt’s competit ive nature to their advantage, and our time in the Sun Belt has been beneficial to the prog ram,” UNT Ath let ic Director Rick Villarreal said. “He has assembled one of the most talented teams we have ever had here. They are more than ready for C-USA.”
CAITLYN ALVARADOIntern
At the Longhorn Invitational at Texas’ Penick-Allison Tennis Center in Austin this weekend, head coach Sujay Lama said the team exceeded expectations for the first tournament of the season.
Freshman Dané Joubert and senior Ilona Serchenko started off the tournament by defeating Heidi Stewart and Holly Verner from Southern Methodist University, 8-3. This tournament was Joubert’s first collegiate tour-nament.
“For a freshman, I didn’t expect [winning] at all,” Joubert said. “I did better than I thought. I played each match, focused on each chal-lenge, one by one. I wasn’t looking in the future or at the big picture, just what was in front of me.”
In the “Fuchsia” singles flight, Joubert made it to the finals but fell short to Jacqui Katz from Tulane University, 6-1 and 6-2.
“In singles we had the oppor-tunity to finish matches,” Lama said about single matches. “We can’t let opponents stay alive when we can finish them off early.”
Sophomore Kseniya Bardabush made it to the semifinals in both doubles and singles, defeating Edyta Cieplucha from SMU, who is ranked 34th in the nation, in the quarterfinals in singles.
“It was a great [tournament,]” Bardabush said. “I think I was mentally prepared for each match. I kept fighting and didn’t give up, but I do have to keeping working on the tactical part of the game. like my stepping on the court.”
The team will only have two days of practice until it heads to San Diego for the Aztec Tournament. Lama said he will have the girls work on getting
physically stronger, mentally stronger and focusing on doubles.
“When you get a team with four in the semifinals and the fifth making it to [the] champi-onship, it’s amazing, and as a coach I could not be happier,” Lama said.
For her first year, Joubert said that some of the tournament experiences are overwhelming, nerve-wracking and slightly confusing. The opposite is true for Bardabush, who says she couldn’t be more excited to start the Aztec tournament and win.
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“Because I am a freshman, sometimes I don’t really know what’s going on. I just go with what the team says,” Joubert said. “The one thing the team reminds me, ‘We are in this together, we are a family.’”
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What do you think of the new iPhone 5?
“I don’t have an iPhone and don’t really care much about it. I think my phone is good
enough, and I’m not willing to upgrade.”
“It’s more useful and more upgraded. It serves the same
purpose as the previous models.”
“I’m going to get it eventually, I have an [iPhone] 3GS and
hoping to upgrade. I like how it’s expected to operate.”
“Not really different. It’s pretty much the same thing. Androids
are so much better.”
Last week, the College Board released their annual report on the state of the SAT, and faster than you can say “pencils down,” commentators across the political spectrum gasped in horror and promptly fainted headfirst into their Op-Ed pages.
The discovery that the average American SAT score is dropping, about three points on average for each section, certainly seems like excellent fodder for concern at first glance.
The 2012 scores have been proclaimed a harbinger of this country’s down-fall, yet another indication that brainy students overseas are already outpacing the United States as a powerhouse of innovation.
But grab your smelling salts, because
it’s time to quit panicking and come to your senses. Before you declare our nation’s education system fatally flawed and throw up your hands in dismay, you might want to consider the possibility that none of this news is particularly dire. In fact, these findings might be a sign of educational progress.
Here’s how: since 2007, the nation-wide participation rates for minorities taking the SAT have steadily risen across the board. This means that the 2012 test causing so much panic saw a turnout of more than 750,000 minority students total, not to mention about 460,000 partici-pants who reported that they didn’t speak English as their first language.
More important is the fact that 36
percent of SAT participants in 2012 didn’t even have a parent who attended a four-year university.
Compared to the average scores drop-ping about two points each, the rapidly growing participation rates among minorities are practically earth-shat-tering.
The fact that more students from less-educated backgrounds are entering higher education – and barely bringing the scores down despite their families lacking any college experience whatso-ever – shouldn’t just be brought to public attention, it should be celebrated.
By treating this report as simply another stock of ammunition in the country’s ongoing education debate,
we’re doing a massive injustice to these first-generation scholars.
In a tough economic climate, these new students are undoubtedly seeking both a college education and upward economic mobility once they enter the workforce – and some of them will make their way to the University of North Texas. If you’re a graduating senior, you may find yourself hiring them in a few years’ time, and if you’re a freshman, you’ll probably share a few classes with them.
Thankfully, human beings can’t be reduced to a number, and there’s no entrance exam for achieving the American dream – so let’s ignore the scores and just be glad that everyone gets a shot.
“You go, girl” is a phrase empow-ering women to aim for their dreams and surpass typical standards. Female college students now outnumber men nearly 60 to 40 percent at many public universities, and 20 percent more women achieve college degrees than men, according to “University Business” magazine. Now women face an even greater challenge caused by their success: universities across the country are enacting male affirmative action to compensate for the fewer numbers of men at colleges and universities.
The College of William and Mary in Virginia routinely accepts only 26 percent of female applicants. The dean of admissions eloquently explained this disparity by saying, “It’s not the College of Mary and Mary; it’s the College of William and Mary.” In an Op-Ed column in the New York Times entitled “To All the Girls I’ve Rejected,” a former admis-sions officer for Kenyon College in New York said the “standards for admission to today’s most selective colleges are stiffer for women than men.” Scott Jaschik, editor of “Inside Higher Education,” said while many universities would never admit male affirmative action exists, most engage in the behavior.
In a survey conducted by that publi-cation, public university admissions directors admit nearly 20 percent of men with below-average test scores and grades compared to only 5 percent of women with below-average credentials. The University of Richmond in Virginia specifically limits its admissions to have no more than a 10 percent gender difference, even though on average their male applicants have a lower GPA. Clark University in Massachusetts even started a support group for males to cope
with their minority status and “what it’s like to be a man in our culture.”
Thankfully, UNT does not seem to have implemented male affirma-tive action, as the undergraduates are about 52.5 to 47.5 percent female to male. Graduate studies are even more polar-ized, as women comprise 63 percent of master’s students and men only 37 percent, according to the 2011 UNT Factbook.
Women today are excelling. Seventy-two percent of high school vale-dictorians are female, and college enroll-ment rates for women are projected to increase 21 percent from 57 percent by 2019, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Gender shouldn’t be used for admissions purposes, and admissions directors need to be held accountable for turning away women in favor of men with poorer academic records. Women have overcome so many obstacles, and having to stand by as lesser-qualified men are gifted into schools shouldn’t be one of them.
Holly Harvey is a political science senior. She can be reached at [email protected].
In a particularly venomous and radical speech in New York on Monday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad echoed his previous message calling for the fiery destruction of the state of Israel.
He also alluded to Iran’s rumored massive bounty on British author Salman Rushdie, and denied claims that Iran has been sending arms to Syria. But what has Ahmadinejad so fired up?
It surely couldn’t be the threats that Israel has made against Iran. Hundreds of miles away, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was giving a speech in Lima, Ohio.
He made the comment that the Middle East looks like Tehran in 1979 and called for an increased U.S. presence in the region, coupled with continuing support for Israel.
He must have forgotten that it was both of those things that led to the 1979 American Embassy crisis in Iran – not to mention the deaths of eight American soldiers.
Let me predicate my statements with this: I am by no means anti-Israel. However, I am against Israel’s current foreign policy and I am against the idea that the United States must support Israel at any cost.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel will attack Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities before the end of the year. Why? Netanyahu would love for us to believe that Iran is manufacturing nukes, but the fact of the matter is that all of
our intelligence says their facilities are peaceful.
They signed the 1979 Treaty on Nuclear Proliferation, and so they get to enrich uranium.
It is Israel who refuses to sign the treaty or even admit to having nuclear weapons – conservative esti-mates are that they possess over 200 of them within their borders.
However, it is still political suicide to speak out openly against Israel in the United States government.
We need to call on Israel to cease its incessant warmongering. If Israel attacks Iran, we need to immedi-ately remove any American pres-ence in their country.
Failing to do so will only lead to American casualties. Israel only makes these threats because they have us to back them up. We are on the brink of World War III, and it’s time we took a few steps away from the edge and reconsidered our options.
Nicholas LaGrassa is an emergency administration and planning senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
ACROSS1 Spell starter5 Scours
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feature15 Muscat natives16 Blow away17 31/42-Across in a
1967 DustinHoffman film
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portrayerWasikowska
Monday’s Puzzle SolvedBy Kurt Mueller 9/25/12
(c)2012 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 9/25/12
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
ACROSS1 Collected5 Tilting tool
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63 Zombie’s sound
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