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Over the past five years, more than two African-American women have graduated for every one African-American man at UNT – the largest gap between

men and women of any ethnicity, according to the UNT 2010-2011 Fact Book.

More than 2,000 degrees have been given to African-American women since 2005, with fewer than 1,000 given to black men.

“The changing dynamics of families motivates females to provide for their family should they not have the typical husband-wife marriage,” said Uyen Tran, assis-tant director of the Multicultural Center.

According to unofficial data from the Office of Enrollment Management, current enrollment of African-American students is 4,540 students – 1,816 men and 2,724 women.

“I don’t think there is one issue

why the gap is so high; there are a lot of different reasons why,” said Brandon Johns, a policy analyst for the NAACP in Washington, D.C.

The large number of single-parent families, lack of emphasis on education and a lack of male

youth engagement are some of the reasons men in the black community struggle in compar-ison to their female counterparts, he said.

PAUL BOTTONISenior Staff Writer

A final challenge awaits the UNT football team before it draws the curtain on its 2011 campaign.

The Mean Green (4-7, 3-4) will try to close its 2011 season on a high note when it hosts Middle Tennessee (2-9, 1-6) at 3 p.m. Saturday at Apogee Stadium. UNT has not concluded a regular season with a win since 2004.

“In some places you go, ‘Big deal, five wins – wow,” head coach Dan McCarney said with a hint of sarcasm. “But it would be an

important win – it means fifth place in our conference; it’s more wins than we’ve had in a long time; it’s more wins than a first-year staff has had in 17 years.”

After finishing third in the Sun Belt Conference standings in 2010, Middle Tennessee has struggled this season and sits in eighth place.

However, a number of those losses were close calls.

“Middle Tennessee is a team which lost three games earlier in the season by a total of 9 points,” McCarney said. “I’m not misled

by their record.” The Blue Raiders excel in

protecting their quarterback, as they have allowed a Sun Belt-low nine quarterback sacks in 11 games this season.

Protecting redshirt sophomore quarterback Logan Kilgore has helped Middle Tennessee excel in the passing game. The Blue Raiders rank third in the Sun Belt in passing offense, aver-aging nearly 270 passing yards per game.

ISAAC WRIGHTSenior Staff Writer

A small, curious animal was to blame for the power outage that left part of campus without electricity for about 20 minutes Thursday morning.

At 11:15 a.m., much of the southwestern part of campus was left in the dark after a squirrel made its way onto the overhead power lines along Maple Street.

The squirrel touched the lines near an area where the underground power cables and the overhead cables connect and caused a short in the circuit.

Brian Daskam, a spokesman for Denton Municipal Electric, said the outage only lasted until 11:45 a.m.

“The outage occurred at 11:15 and 25 minutes later, we got it fixed,” Daskam said. “Our crews really got on it quick.”

Randy Fite, director of facili-ties at UNT, said the outage caused most of the buildings in the southwestern part of campus to lose power. Among the buildings affected were Kerr Hall and the Music Building.

Though the outage was quickly fixed, the squirrel did

not survive the ordeal.“The squirrel just touched

the overhead lines on Maple,” Fite said. “It was kind of just a freak occurrence.”

Because the power was only out for 25 minutes, some students said the blackout only proved to be an incon-venience.

Josh Stevens, a business freshman, lives in Kerr Hall and said the outage caused him to be late to class.

“It was frustrating,” Stevens said. “My alarm clock didn’t go off on time, so I ended up sleeping through my first class.”

Shay Boyd, a radio, television and film freshman and Kerr Hall resident, said the lights went out just as she was getting ready to go to class.

“I was in the middle of

putting on my makeup when the power died,” Boyd said. “I had to go over by the window and use my really small mirror.”

Both students said they were not told why t he outage happened, but said DME did a good job of responding quick ly a nd restoring power.

A squirrel was also the cause of a power outage earlier this year. In January, a squirrel chewed through a DME power cable, resulting in a campus-wide blackout.

Daskam said it doesn’t happen frequently, but squir-rels can be a problem for companies like DME.

“Unfortunately, squirrels are a common nuisance for any electric provider,” Daskam said.

ALEX MACONSenior Staff Writer

Occupy Denton activists occupied City Hall for about two hours Thursday night during an informal town hall meeting with several members of the Denton City Council and the city manager.

Mayor Pro Tem Pete Kamp,

Council members Da lton Gregory and Kevin Roden, City Manager George Campbell and about 35 students and Denton residents gathered to hear Occupy Denton activists present their views on mostly local issues, including natural gas drilling, the homeless of Denton and a citywide move

toward renewable energy.Roden said the meeting was

a “shot in the arm” for an open discussion that could help engage diverse members of the community.

“This is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to democracy,” Roden said. “This turn toward local issues

is precisely what this country needs.”

The town hall was conducted similarly to the general assembly style used by the Occupy move-ment, with individuals given about two minutes each to speak.

NICOLE BALDERASSenior Staff Writer

Women who drink coffee may be reducing their risk of depression, according to a recent Harvard study led by the School of Public Health.

Researchers found the risk of depression to be 20 percent lower among women who drank four or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day than those who drank little or no coffee.

“ C a f f e i n e t r a n q u i l -izes neurotransmitters like adenosine, keeping you calm and relaxed,” said Paul Balabuch, a nutrition expert at The Cupboard Natural Foods and Café.

The study consisted of more than 50,000 primarily middle-aged women and followed their use of both caffeinated and non-caffeinated beverages for 10 years.

The study used women exclu-sively because of their natu-rally greater risk of becoming depressed, though the same anti-depressive effects could potentially be seen in men, said Guenter Gross of the biology faculty.

“They would have an easy time sampling men as well because everyone has the same basic biochemical makeup,” Gross said.

The study found that over-

consumption of coffee can also have negative effects.

“Long-term caffeine use can cause anxiety,” Balabuch said. “However, some people can build tolerances to caffeine effects. They could drink a pot of coffee before bed and still fall asleep.”

Another common problem with overuse of coffee is devel-oping caffeine dependence.

“I would drink on average probably two cups a day or maybe more,” said Marlee Plummer, a merchandising senior. “If I didn’t have a cup I would get a headache and not be in a good mood.”

Tea, which is a common replacement for coffee, may not yield the same anti-depressive effects as the dark bean-based beverage.

“Specifically green tea, which contains L-Theanine, isn’t great for creating that peppiness factor which seems to be associated with helping relieve depression,” Balabuch said.

Despite results from the research, experts say there is still much analysis to be done before it can be deter-mined whether women should begin consuming more coffee, according to a September entry from the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Tara Linn Hunter, a UNT music senior, intro-duced Occupy Denton as an “ecosystem of ideas.”

“I am proud to live in a town where the City Council makes itself so accessible,” Hunter said.

The town hall did not qualify as an official City Council meeting or an offi-cial Occupy Denton meeting, but individuals from both camps spoke optimisti-cally and politely about the exchange of ideas.

Occupy Denton has been under fire in recent weeks from a student group, UNoccupy UNT, that says the Occupy campsite near the Art Building presents a poor image of the university and has become a haven of litter and drug use.

Gregory joked that activ-ists at the town hall did not smell as bad as he had been led to believe, and the Council members encour-aged Occ upy Denton members to vote in local elections and apply to join spots on city commissions.

“Thank you for asking all the right questions tonight,” Gregory said. “We will take some time to get the right answers, and I hope we can work together.”

Occupy Denton members praised the city’s efforts in developing a bike-lane plan and its use of renew-able energy sources – about 40 percent of Denton’s electricit y comes from the Muenster Wind Farm, according to the city’s website – but pushed for a complete shift away from any coal or gas energy.

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“There is some research that shows prior to coming to college that boys aren’t encour-aged as much to do well and succeed,” Tran said.

Student involvement may be one of the keys to reversing the trend, she said.

“T he socia l a spect is important to a lot of minority cultures,” she said.

Stacy Omogah, a pre-med sophomore a nd A f r ica n-American student at UNT, said the university could benefit from a better support system.

“The school needs more

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black organizations and moti-vational speakers to teach them that college is needed,” Omogah said.

Lance Greye, a business sophomore, said he thinks support from the family could make a difference.

“Lack of support is a definite factor, but it can be the student themselves,” he said.

Sarah Collins, the director of education management initia-tive, encourages students to treat their schoolwork like a job.

“Their job is to go to class, to do homework, to study, and that in itself is going to take care of these issues,” she said.

Collins also recommended students get involved and build

a new supportive community at UNT and use family to keep them accountable.

A number of campus orga-nizations are trying to make a difference in African-American student retention.

The Coa lit ion of Black Organizations, the Progressive Black Student Organization, UNT’s NAACP chapter and the UNT Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity all work together to create a two-day ret reat ca l led The Black Student Experience.

T he event, located at Bridgeport Conference Center and Camp, is focused on getting students connected to the school as soon as they arrive in an effort to retain students until graduation.

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Congressional decision could lead

to horses butchered for human consumption

Horses could soon be butch-ered for human consump-tion in the U.S. after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse-meat inspec-tions, and activists say slaughter-houses could be up and running in as little as a month.

The USDA issued a state-ment Tuesday saying there are no slaughterhouses in the U.S. that butcher horses for human consumption now, but if one were to open, it would conduct inspections to make sure federal laws were being followed. USDA spokesman Neil Gaffney declined to answer questions beyond what was in the state-ment.

Slaughter opponents pushed a measure cutting off funding for horse-meat inspections through Congress in 2006 after other efforts to pass outright bans on horse slaughter failed in previous years. Congress lifted the ban in a spending bill President Barack Obama signed into law Nov. 18 to keep the government afloat until mid-December.

Congress passes $662 billion defense bill

Ignoring a presidential veto threat, the Democrat-controlled Senate on Thursday overwhelm-ingly approved a massive $662 billion defense bill that would require the military to hold suspected terrorists linked to al-Qaida or its affiliates, even those captured on U.S. soil.

The vote was 93-7 for the bill authorizing money for military personnel, weapons systems, national security programs in the Department of Energy, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

The Senate’s version of the defense bill still must be recon-ciled with the House-passed measure in the final weeks of the congressional session.

Two sentenced to prison after

bragging about robbery on Facebook

A federal judge in Houston has issued prison sentences to two of four people who pleaded guilty to robbing a Houston bank and bragging about it on Facebook.

Prosecutors say Estefany D a n e l i a M a r t i n e z w a s sentenced Thursday to 15 mont hs in pr ison, whi le Arturo Solano drew a 10-month sentence. Both had pleaded guilty to bank robbery and em b e z z lement of b a n k funds.

Authorities say Martinez, who’s 18, and fellow bank teller Anna Margarita Rivera recruited Solano, Rivera’s brother, and Ricky Gonzalez, Martinez’s boyfriend, to steal more than $62,000 in the March 23 heist.

A n a nony mous t ip led investigators to Facebook posts Martinez posted on her boyfriend’s page, proclaiming “IM RICH.”

Rivera will be sentenced Dec. 8 and Gonzalez on Jan. 5.

demands were for more city funding to go toward helping Denton’s homeless population, as well as an end to park curfews and the city’s law restricting more than four unrelated persons from sharing a house, which Occupy members said were unfair to the homeless.

Kamp said the city’s ulti-mate goal is to one day use only renewable energy. Gregory said the city makes efforts to aid

the homeless, while acknowl-edging there isn’t much money available.

Occupiers also urged the city to adopt an ordinance condemning corporate person-hood.

“We’re talking about a lot of local things we can do to make the community better, but we need to look at the big picture,” said Garrett Graham, a radio, television and film senior and

member of Occupy Denton. “This is where the movement is heading.”

With Occupy camps in cities around the country being evicted and the temperature dropping and the number of tents on UNT campus near the Art Building dwindling, Graham said Occupy Denton will likely move off campus in an effort to include more members of the community.

Above: Ben Kessler and Payton Green talk to City Council mem-ber, Dalton Gregory after Occupy Denton held a meeting with City Council.

Right: Occupy Denton members met with City Council members on Thursday night to address several of their concerns. Discussion in-cluded the anxieties of hydraulic fracturing, the homeless popula-tion, bike lanes and public trans-portation. PHOTOS BY ANDREW WILLIAMS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Mean Green gears up for 3-game ClassicTYLER OWENSIntern

Three days after a tough 73-57 loss to the Texas Longhorns in Austin, the UNT men’s basketball team is headed to the Golden State for the first time since 2000.

This weekend the Mean Green (1-4) will finish up its seven-game road stretch with games against La Sierra, Columbia and Loyola Marymount in the Loyola Marymount Centennial Classic.

For junior guard Brandon Walton, the tournament will be a trip down memory lane, as he will head home to play for the first time since high school.

“I’m very excited to go play back in my hometown,” he said. “Hopefully we get better as a team; it’s just a plus that I get to go back and see my family and play in front of them again.”

La SierraUNT will face the Golden

Eagles of La Sierra University for the first time in school history at 4 p.m. this afternoon.

The Mean Green should be a tough test for La Sierra (0-5), which is coming off a loss to California Lutheran on Wednesday night.

ColumbiaThe Mean Green will take

on an Ivy League opponent in

Columbia University (2-4) at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Like La Sierra, this will be the first meeting of the teams. Columbia will be a formidable opponent for UNT.

T he L ion s t h r ot t le d Swarthmore College in their last game, winning by 62 points.

Loyola MarymountThe biggest challenge the

Mean Green will face this weekend will come at 3:30 p.m. Sunday against Loyola Marymount University (4-2). The Lions have upset two strong opponents already this season – previously ranked UCLA and No. 25 Saint Louis.

This will be the first meeting between the Mean Green and LMU since 1981, when UNT defeated the Lions 112-103.

“We want to make sure that we continue to get better,” head coach Johnny Jones said. “We like to see growth and we’ve been able to do that, and we hope that that will culminate into wins [this weekend].”

Once the classic is over, the Mean Green will return to Denton to prepare for a seven-game home stretch, the first game coming at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 against Sam Houston State at the Super Pit.

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The UNT women’s basket-ball team will try to match last year’s w in tota l and continue its strong sta rt when it t ravels to Rice’s Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston for t he Gene Hackerman Invitational.

The Mea n Green (4-2) will play Oregon State in the opening round on Friday and Rice or Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the consolation or championship game on Saturday.

“It’s really a one-game-at-a-t i me t h i n g ,” he a d coach Ka ren Aston sa id. “I thought we made some st r ides aga i nst t he la st game against Arizona.”

Undefeated Beavers will challenge Mean Green

In the first round of the Hackerman Invitational, UNT will take on Oregon State (5-0) for the first time in the team’s history, hoping to hand the Beavers their first loss of the season.

The Beavers possess a high-power offense and stout defense, as they rank in the top two in the Pac-12 Conference for points scored and points allowed.

OSU’s front court includes two players who will make it hard for the Mean Green to score in the paint.

6-foot-7 inch Thais Pinto and 6-foot-4-inch Patricia Bright lead the team in field goal percentage (min 20 attempts) and have accounted for 24 of the team’s 34 blocks.

“We need to put pressure on the basketball to stop them from throwing the ball inside so easily,” Aston said. “It’s going to be a team effort to handle their size.”

The Beavers’ leading scorer is freshman guard Ali Gibson, who ranks 10th in the Pac-12 with an average of 15 points a game.

The California native has a touch from beyond the arc, shooting 48 percent from 3-point range – good enough for second in the Pac-12.

Rice Owls/ Texas A&M Corpus Christie Islanders

After its first-round match, the Mean Green will play against either Rice or TAMCC, depending on the outcomes of the prelimi-nary matches.

The Owls (4-3) and Islanders (2-5) pose much more favor-

able matchups for UNT than the unbeaten Beavers.

“Coach has really got us playing harder,” senior forward Jasmine Godbolt said. “Our loss to Arizona only made us stronger, and we need to rebound and give it our best this weekend.”

The Mean Green has recently depended on senior guard Tamara Torru for scoring, as she led the team with 20 points per game in UNT’s last three contests.

Torru earned the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week last week for her efforts.

“I’m honored; there’s a lot of great players in our confer-ence and not to mention on our team,” Torru said. “I just want us to win.”

UNT begins tournament play at 5 p.m. today; games can be heard on KNTU 88.1 FM.

UNT heads to Houston for Gene Hackerman Invitational

Senior guard Alyssa Hankins passes the ball to her teammate. The women’s basketball team takes on Oregon State at 5 p.m. today. PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Senior running back James Hamilton scores during the Mean Green’s last home game. The football team takes on Middle Tennessee at 3 p.m. Saturday at Apogee Stadium.PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

U N T s en ior defen sive end Brandon Akpunku said maintaining composure is essential for the Mean Green to disrupt the Blue Raiders’ air assault.

“Patience is key with any pass rush,” he said. “You don’t want to be too anxious to get to the quarterback that you start inventing things; you want to stick with the game plan.”

The game will be senior r u n n i n g b a c k L a n c e Dunbar’s final chance to set a new all-time UNT rushing record. The senior is 140 yards away from surpassing 4,050c a r e e r r u s h i n g y a r d s , a re c ord set by for mer Mean Green running back Patrick Cobbs – who will be an honorar y team captain Saturday.

“I can’t wait to meet him [Cobbs]. I’ve never met him before,” Dunbar said. “For me to break the record, it would be a great honor.”

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Honorable Mention

Tristan Thompson – led the Sun Belt Conference with 17.2 points per game and became the first Mean Green men’s basketball player to make the All-Sun Belt First Team since 2003.

Catherine Johnson – Took first place in five straight 1-meter dive competitions, won Sun Belt Diver of the Week three times and qualified for the NCAA Zone Meet – the regional playoff for Division I diving.

BoBBy LewisSenior Staff Writer

While plenty of Mean Green athletes made a strong case, junior forward Michelle Young’s resumé made her the top choice for UNT Athlete of the Year.

Young was the Mean Green soccer team’s most dangerous offensive weapon all season and a key factor in UNT winning its first Sun Belt Conference regular season champi-onship in six years.

Young finished third in the confer-ence with 29 points and 13 goals, four of which were game-winners.

Young was the first Mean Green player since 2007 to score at least 12 goals in a season.

Her goal total vaulted her into the top 10 on the all-time UNT goals list,

PauL BottoniSenior Staff Writer

Sometimes, one man makes all the difference.

In just his first season as head coach, Dan McCarney and his staff have righted the ship and put the struggling UNT football program back on course by changing the status quo.

Hired in November 2010, McCarney inherited a team whose last winning season was in 2004 and had a record of 8-40 in the past four seasons.

“He took over a team that was losing, had no self-confidence and had no organization,” UNT athletic director Rick Villarreal said. “There wasn’t an area in the program that didn’t show marked improvement in his first year here.”

McCarney went to work over-hauling the way the program func-tioned, making changes aimed at molding UNT into a successful Division I-A program. These changes ranged from team practice habits to players keeping in shape and having a proper diet.

“Whether it’s in the classroom, being on time to meetings or in the weight room, he wants us to do it with a winning attitude,” senior defensive end Brandon

Photo by James Coreas/senior staff PhotograPher

where she settled in at No. 8 with 29 career goals. She is also tied for No. 10 on the Mean Green’s all-time points scored list with 67.

Young landed her first career hat trick in an early season 5-0 win over Texas Southern, but really made her presence felt when Sun Belt Conference play began.

In the first weekend of conference play, Young scored three goals in wins over Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee.

Young was awarded the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Soccer Player of the Week for her efforts against WKU and MTSU.

At the end of the regular season, Young received her second All-Sun Belt honor by being selected to the All-Sun Belt First Team.

Photo by James Coreas/senior staff PhotograPher

Akpunku said. One of McCarney’s main focal

points was re-establishing the importance of academics, the effect of which can be seen in this year’s senior class.

“They know that academics and getting their degree is important to me,” McCarney said. “Two of the 27 have already graduated, 11 will grad-uate in December, 13 will graduate in the spring and only one will finish

next summer.”UNT has a chance to finish with a

record of 5-7 if it wins its last game of the season Saturday against Middle Tennessee. .

The Mean Green is not where it wants to be – the team will extend its streak of losing seasons to seven after its final test against Middle Tennessee Saturday – but with McCarney leading the way, it might not take long to get there.

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Pablo arauzStaff Writer

Mind Spiders, a garage punk group based here in Denton, accomplished a lot over the past year. The group went from being a little-known side project to a recognizable headliner in just a matter of months.

The group played on its share of big stages since the debut, a self-titled full-length album that came out in January.

In October, the group played an excellent set, headlining at a show with the Birthday Suits at Rubber Gloves. In November, the group played at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, opening up for Public Enemy and Danzig Legacy.

Mind Spiders is the brain-child of guitarist and singer Ma rk Rya n, whose work in the Marked Men and the Reds connected him with Portland-ba sed Di r t nap Record s to r e le a s e t he ba nd’s debut album. The music is a mesh of swaying garage tunes of eerie, yet catchy, punk-pop.

“Even while the Marked Men was going on I was recording songs on my own, so when Jeff

[Burke, Marked Men guitarist] moved to Japa n, I had t his other stuff that I was working on and I just went from there. It started out from a recording project and I was just screwing around,” Ryan said during an interview in September.

As for t he g roup’s na me, Ryan said it was just some-thing that came off the top of his head when thinking of what to call the group.

The band is just a part of a c u l m i nat ion of mu lt iple Denton groups who share the same members. Other players in t he band include bassist Da n iel Fr ied, a .k .a . “T V ’S Daniel” of Bad Sports and the Wa x Museums and guitarist Stephen Svacina of the Strange Boys.

Fried said the group plans on put t i ng out it s second f u l l- le n g t h a l bu m , t i t le d “Meltdown,” during the early part of 2012. With quite a few positive reviews in music blogs a nd it s stel la r, fa st-paced performances, the band is just another example of the f ine talent found in Denton’s inde-pendent music scene.

Jesse sidlauskasArts & Life Editor

Shel ley Jackson, host of KNTU’s “Infrequent Exposure” – a student project and the brainchild of 2009 graduate Hollie Groos – has continued to bestow weekly exposure to local music culture by plug-ging the Denton area into a wealth of new musicians week after week.

For an in-depth view into one of t he state’s la rgest music scenes from the inside out, Jackson’s “Inf requent Exposure” is easily the best student-only production.

There’s rarely a lack of spot-light for Little D’s music scene, which regularly garners the favor of Dallas-Fort Worth’s top radio shows and news publications, but the loca l scene is something you have to be in town to truly under-stand.

Si nc e t a k i ng ov er t he reigns, Jackson has upheld the reputation of the show by airing the sounds of home-town favorites like Sarah Jaffe (who f irst appeared on the show in 2009) alongside bands that play the dark recesses of local house shows.

One mainstay in the show is that it’s open to all genres. Local bands submit music for considerat ion t hrough t he K NTU website. I f Jack son l ikes t he sound, t he ba nd gets a piece of the program’s week ly t wo-hour t imeslot. The show broadcasts from 7-9 p.m. each Saturday.

Earlier this year, program director at 102.1 the Edge Josh Venable stressed the impor-tance of the local coverage “ I n f r e q u e n t E x p o s u r e ” provides in an interview with the Daily about the show.

“People w i l l a lway s wa nt something local,” he said. “For people who actively care about records and actively care about music, t hey do wa nt a loca l

connection to something.”This fa l l, the program was

nominated for a Dallas Observer “Best Of” award for the region’s best radio program.

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Josh PherigoEditor-in-chief

For one local business, 2011 proved to be a yea r of resi l-ience.

A fter nearly ha lf a centur y of ser v i ng up ha i rc ut s a nd watching Fry Street’s beatnik-to-hippie-to-hipster transition, the Campus Barber Shop packed up and moved across town early this year.

And business is booming. L o n g t i m e o w n e r G e n e

Hartman passed the reins of the shop over to barber Jeremy Carroll in early spring as the business moved to its new loca-tion on East Hickory Street in the heart of Denton’s thriving Industrial District.

The 1920s-era building that housed the original shop was leveled in Febr ua r y to ma ke room for a mi xed reta i l a nd apa rtment complex on t he 4 acres surrounded by Hickor y, Fry, Oak and Welch streets.

While it was hard to see the old shop go, Hartman said in an interview earlier this year that the move gave the shop a breath of fresh air, adding space for addit ional customers and barber chairs.

The barbershop has been a staple in the Denton commu-nit y for generations, and has adapted to the changing land-scape of the city’s cultural and economic environment in a way that engrained it into the fabric

of many residents’ lives. Mor e t h a n 10 0 f r i e n d s ,

c u stomer s a nd c om mu n it y members t u r ned out in late February for a barbecue sendoff just before the Fry Street shop was set to be razed. Hartman, who estimated he’s given about 200,000 haircuts in his career, now rents a chair at the new locat ion, not nearly ready to give up seeing the customers he’s come to know as lifelong friends.

At a t ime when businesses are f locking to the city’s newest entertainment, retail and restau-rant center, the Campus Barber Shop has solidified its place as a permanent fixture in the Denton community.

Student Organization Green Brigade[ ]

Student Production Infrequent Exposure[ ]Local Band Mind Spiders[ ]

Local Business Campus Barber Shop[ ]

Jesse sidlauskasArts & Life Editor

It wasn’t hard to find a student group on campus that is, hands down, the best in the nation.

The difficult part was picking which of the College of Music’s groups had the best year.

The Green Brigade marching

band has the advantage of cherry-picking students from the nation’s largest enrol lment of music students.

Band Director Nicholas Williams wielded that asset to lead the band to a first-place ranking from the national website Bleacher Report.

The website honored the 25 top marching bands in the country, hailing our halftime heroes as the “Best Damn Band in the Land.”

“They may have an unfair advan-tage, but the Green Brigade is great

when it comes to musical acumen … Their rendition of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is a must see,” Bleacher Report said.

The 320-member band, led by alumnus Williams, practices three times per week for two hours each session.

“I’m extremely excited to see

this recognition,” Williams said. “The band kids work at a consis-tently high level year-round. As the students have said to me about this honor, ‘This is cool,’” Williams told the North Texan in June.

The band can be seen Saturday at Apogee Stadium for its halftime performance during the final home game of the season. The group also records CDs of its performances every two years. The 2010 CD can be found at the UNT Bookstore. The 2012 CD was recorded this fall and will be released in the spring.

“They may have an unfair advantage, but the Green Brigade is great when

it comes to musical acumen.”—Bleacher Report

Band website

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Student Leader Charles Vincent[ ] Civic Leader Kevin Roden[ ]Valerie GonzalezAssigning Editor

Through his work with the Student Government Association, Office of Sustainability and the We Mean Green Fund subcommittee, Charles Vincent, a computer education and cognitive systems graduate student, has proven he’s leading UNT on the way to a greener future.

One of Vincent’s accomplishments had a $360,000-per-year lasting effect on the UNT community. In spring 2010, Vincent brought forth the Mean Green Fund referendum in the student senate. Students passed the referendum in an 82 percent vote for a $5-per-student-per-semester “green fee” to help enact student-proposed projects that would make UNT more sustainable.

Once the referendum passed, Vincent headed the We Mean Green Subcommittee as the first-ever committee chair and began to lay the groundwork and recruit the

committee’s first numbers. With the We Mean Green

Committee up and running, Vincent relinquished his role as chair to another student this semester and became one of the newest grad-uate assistants at the Office of Sustainability.

amber arnoldManaging Editor

UNT alumnus and long-time Denton resident Kevin Roden beat out four other candidates to win the District 1 City Council seat this past summer.

Roden was the only non-incum-bent elected in the May election.

“It was a great campaign; one of the more fun aspects about it was seeing how many people got excited about it,” he said in a previous interview with the Daily. “What’s important to me are citizen involvement, envi-ronmental issues and neighborhood protection in Denton.”

He has been an active member of the community even before his election bid, inviting Denton resi-dents into his home to discuss city issues during “Drink and Think” meetings.

According to his website, Roden has hosted thousands of politi-cians, community activists, college

students, professors, the homeless, artists, musicians and even the occa-sional celebrity.

“I’ve learned that the only way to engage a city is to engage her citi-zens,” he wrote.

As an advocate for Denton’s youth, Roden has also worked with UNT’s TAMS program since 1997 and served as its assistant director of student life since 2000.

This fall, Roden started the District 1 Youth Advisory Council as a way to engage Denton’s young people.

As a member of the DCTA Citizen Advisory Team, Roden also played a role in a successful grassroots effort this year to extend weekday and weekend hours for Denton’s A-train, according to his website. He also serves as chair of the Historic Landmark Commission.

Roden earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from UNT in 1998 and a master’s in philosophy from the University of Dallas in 2007.

Vincent began working with the housing department to create and develop sustainability projects for the residence halls in 2008. Later that year, former UNT President Gretchen Bataille appointed him to her newly created Sustainability Council to advise her on issues of campus sustainability.

Since then, Vincent has continued to advocate sustain-ability because he cares about the issue and it reflects the universi-ty’s values, he said in an interview with the Daily.

Out of all his accomplishments, Vincent places the most impor-tance on being able to work with a wide variety of students and watch them grow.

“I’ve enjoyed the roles that I’ve been able to fill throughout the years, but I’m proud of students who have taken those roles after me and carried them forward,” Vincent said.

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JOSH PHERIGOEditor-in-chief

There are good years, and then there are years like the one David Chi just had.

The 17-year-old Texas Academy of Math and Science student has been racking up a trophy case of awards and accolades for his academic and entrepreneurial prowess.

Chi was a member of the winning team for the Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2011 New Venture Creation Contest. He headed administra-tion and management for the group, which won $30,000 to start a nonprofit tutoring service that accepts volunteer hours for

tutoring credits. Last month, Chi was named a

semifinalist in the nationwide 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Chi’s research paper, “Deficiency of Transcription factor Fox04,” was completed during a summer intern-ship at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

During that internship, Chi began collaborating on another research project that studied health care issues related to the homeless popu-lation. Chi and a colleague recently presented the results of their study at the North American Primary Care Research Group Conference in Alberta, Canada.

Set to graduate from TAMS in May,

Administrator Vish Prasad[ ]ISAAC WRIGHTSenior Staff Writer

Vishwanath “Vish” Prasad, the vice president of research at UNT, has been a key player in helping UNT move toward the status of a nationally recognized research university.

Prasad was hired as the vice presi-dent of research in October 2007. In July, Prasad received the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award, presented by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. The award recognized the interna-tional partnerships and alliances Prasad created between UNT and international research universities in Chile and India.

Prasad’s term as vice president for research at UNT has seen strides in both branching out to form inter-national partnerships and devel-oping programs to help UNT reach the status of a nationally recognized research university.

In 2008, UNT created seven research clusters to help improve its research endeavors and build its repu-tation as a top-tier research univer-sity. In 2010, UNT added four more research clusters composed of facul-ties from multiple disciplines working together to help UNT reach national research university status.

Prasad said the research clusters, along with greater partnerships with international institutions and private research firms, provide new opportu-nities and ideas that will help propel UNT toward becoming a Tier One research university.

He said UNT already has strong faculty members who are involved in

Student Scholar David Chi[ ]

Chi said he’s “crossing his fingers” for acceptance to Yale in the fall, but also has applications out to Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, among many others.

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research, and he is focused on both promoting their research and taking it to new heights.

“It’s about creating a niche for UNT at the national and international level,” Prasad said. “It’s about some-thing in place. We’re not creating something from nowhere. We already have faculty interested in this area. How do we strengthen them and make them better?”

In fiscal year 2010, UNT expe-rienced an 11 percent increase in research awards, totaling $36.4 million, and a 20 percent increase in federally reported research expen-ditures, totaling $37.5 million. Prasad said UNT is currently operating as a university with high research activity. Prasad said the goal is for UNT to become classified as a university with very high research activity, both to strengthen the university’s under-graduate program and the quality of education and research at UNT.

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in chemical education research. As moderator of the Mean Green Chemistry Demo Team, she has performed in more than 100 chem-istry experiment presentations. She is a regional director for the Associated Chemistry Teachers of Texas, a nonprofit that promotes chemistry education in Texas schools. Mason’s current chem-ical education research centers on high school preparation for freshman chemistry and ways to improve students’ success in general chemistry.

James MarshallMason was not alone in the

accompl i sh ment t h i s yea r ; fellow chemistry professor James Marshall also joined the program, bringing UNT’s total number of ACS fellows to four.

Marshall joined UNT’s chem-istry department in 1967, with

a six-year hiatus at Motorola in the ‘80s. His educational work extends beyond his classes; he has spoken on national ACS circuit tours for the past two decades. He specializes in materials research, chemical education and history of the elements. In an earlier inter-view with the Daily this year, Marshall said he has loved chem-istry from his childhood, a passion that induced him and his wife Virginia to complete a decade-long project on the history of the periodic table. Their DVD, “Rediscovery of the Elements,” documents the couple’s journeys to the different element discovery sites in 30 countries.

UNT now ranks third in the state for the number of ACS fellows. The nonprofit ACS is the world’s largest scientific society with more than 163,000 members. So far, 568 ACS members are fellows.

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Carolyn BrownCopy Chief

As a professor who frequently gives demonstrations of chem-

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istry experiments, Diana Mason is used to handling elements – but not necessarily the element of surprise.

So when she was accepted into the American Chemical Society Fellows Program this fall, Mason said she was caught off guard.

“I didn’t think I had a chance of getting this,” she said in an earlier interview with the Daily this year. “When I found out I actually got it, I was very pleased but blown away.”

The fellows program was started by the ACS in 2008 to recognize its members for great accomplish-ments in and contributions to the profession, science and society. During her time at UNT, Mason has demonstrated her passion for chemistry with a wide variety of research projects and outreach efforts beyond her classroom.

Mason joined UNT’s chemistry department in 2001 and specializes

Professors Diana Mason & James Marshall[ ]

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