BY ALEX CALAMSStaff Writer

The UNT Professional Development Institute will introduce a new accelerated course program at its Dallas univeristy branch, as well as at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

The coursework aims to prepare students to receive a certificate in professional private investigations.

The new program was initially drafted a year and a half ago by c u r rent c h a i r m a n and executive director Scott Belshaw of the criminal justice faculty.

Belshaw was approached by Robert Taylor of the crim-inal justice faculty and Ken Robertson, assistant vice pres-ident for Lifelong Learning, to create a customized academy for UNT students to learn the intricacies of the perpetually changing and growing field of private investigations.

Before Belshaw's proposal a month and a half ago, the Texas Department of Public Safety required those seeking a P.I. license to have three years of field experience to qualify for the Private Security Board exam.

Licensed under the traditional method, Belshaw gained his field experience while working as the senior adviser to probation offi-cers in Harris County.

Belshaw explained that the three-year waiting period was often times an inconvenient speedbump for those already well-qualified.

“I had to learn it all on my own even though I met the require-ments,” he said.

Shortly after becoming licensed, Belshaw started his own investigations company in Houston that would eventually move him to Denton.

“It's a pretty interesting story, really,” Belshaw said, laughing. “I was a criminal defense inves-tigator assisting a capital murder case a couple years ago. I was hired at the last end of appeals — the case had already dragged on for two-and-a-half years — so it was a dead issue. The accused inmate was convicted

and had asked me to show up at his execution, so I did. That's where I met Dr. Trulson down the hall.”

When creating the program, Belshaw approached Karen Hewitt, a UNT criminal justice alumna and co-founder of Hewitt and Cowden Investigations, for assistance.

“As a resource, she's just incredibly invaluable,” said Belshaw.

With more than 20 years of experience in various degrees of related fields, as well as being the past president and chairman of the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators, Texas' largest professional associa-tion for licensed investigators, Belshaw explained his selection of Hewitt as “a natural fit” based on her being “well connected.”

Hewitt spoke of the mutual vision between herself and Belshaw when creating the program.

“Our program is developed by licensed private investiga-tors who actually created the curriculum based on what we wish we had known when we qualified for and obtained our P.I. license,” She said.

She went on to explain that about 80 percent of certified private investigators do not renew their licenses because of personal business failure. She has strong positivity toward UNT's program to reverse this effect, though.

“ U N T ’ s program is d e s i g n e d t o t r a i n someone to be a private i n v e s t i -gator and to run a small business — there isn’t

anything like this program in the U.S.A.,” Hewitt said.

The course material offers 220 hours of curriculum across 12 classes and is designed to appeal to more than just undergraduate students.

Tami Russell, manager of the institute's distance learning activities, said the program also aims to strenghthen the skills and training of related professionals, including already licensed P.I.s, as well as intro-duce P.I. education to police offi-cers and lawyers seeking a better understanding and knowledge of the skill.

“We plan to teach the students the technical skills needed, how to develop and handle clients — a skill most of us wish we had been taught before opening our businesses — minefields to avoid and that a fellow private inves-tigator is often your best friend for life, not your competition,” Hewitt said.

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Bataille says goodbye at Emerald Ball

Hispanic enrollment grows

UNT initiates private investigations program

Former UNT President Gretchen Bataille made a surprise appearance with her son on her arm at the Emerald Eagle Ball on her last day as UNT president. PHOTO BY MELISSA BOUGHTON/ASSIGNING EDITOR

BY MORGAN WALKERSenior Staff Writer

Over time, Texas has seen an increase in the Latino population, and the results are showing more in UNT’s enrollment.

The number of Hispanic students enrolled at UNT has increased since fall 2006 from 3,622 to 4,623 by fall 2009, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness.

“They will be our next large growth of enrollment throughout Texas,” said Allen Clark, assistant vice president of the organiza-tion. “I think that is also true for the university as well.”

Clark said many Hispanic students begin their career at community colleges, and UNT is No. 1 in the state for transfer students from community colleges with about 48 percent of UNT undergraduates coming from community colleges.

“I would expect a very long period of growth in the Latino enrollment for the university,” he said.

Because of growth in the Hispanic population, the rate of Hispanic enrollment is increasing

at a faster rate than Caucasian or other minority groups.

One reason for the increase in Latino enrollment is the growth of the population of young people, said Gilda Garcia, vice president of the Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity. There are more young Hispanics than there are older, so there are going to be more students, Garcia said.

“I think diversity is an asset,” she said. “The more people you meet who are different from you, the more you increase your learning.”

Felipe Morales, a kinesiology senior, came to UNT in 1998 from Columbia, where he lived with his grandmother.

Morales said he was drawn to UNT because two of his relatives pursued their education.

“It’s very different here than back home in Columbia,” Morales said. “It hasn’t been that hard because I’m a really outgoing person, but on the other hand, it was hard to leave my grand-mother who was pretty much like my second mom.”

Morales said he plans to be a coach and loves playing soccer at the Pohl Recreational Center.

He is also a member of G-Force, a group that visits area high schools to help students learn how to enroll in any college or university.

“I’ve met a lot of people and I have no doubt that I will defi-nitely go on to get my master’s,” Morales said.

Tanya Perez, a business freshman, said she came to Texas two years ago from Tabasco, Mexico, after her dad insisted that their family move to the U.S. for safety reasons.

“It was bad in Mexico at the time and there were kidnappings going on, so my dad said we need to get out of Mexico,” Perez said.

Since Perez began school at UNT, she said one of her favorite things to see is succeeding Hispanics.

“I just feel identified because I really want to succeed and do my best at everything I start, so when I see Latinos doing something good I feel so proud of them,” she said.

Perez said the hardest thing she’s had to deal with is using both Spanish and English.

“It’s just a whole new life you have to go through,” she said.

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Gilda Garcia, vice president of the Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity, said the growing population of young Hispanics in Texas has contributed to the increase in Hispanic student enrollment.

BY SHAINA ZUCKEREditor-in-Chief

GRAPEVINE — More than 500 attendees jumped to their feet and roared in excitement as former UNT President Gretchen Batai l le made a surprise entrance during the third annual Emerald Eagle Ball on Saturday night at the Gaylord Hotel.

Bataille, clad in a black ball gown, confidently approached the podium to give a bitter-sweet f inal address to the f ina ncia l suppor ters who had made the Emerald Eagle Scholars Program possible.

“W hen I announced my resignation on Feb. 10, I decided not to attend the Emerald Eagle Ball because the thought of leaving UNT was simply too difficult for me to consider celebrating on the eve of the last day of my appointment,” she said with a quivering voice and a tear in her eye. “But as the days went on, I realized I had to be here.”

The scholarsBataille founded the Emerald

Eagle Scholar Program in 2007 to award full scholarships for selected students who demon-strate dedication and finan-cial need.

The program has grown to help more than 1,200 students attend the university. There are presently about 800 scholars

in the program and 30 of them were invited to attend Saturday’s event.

A f ter her brief speech, Bataille briskly left the low-lit ballroom, clutching her son’s arm with one hand and waving to the crowd with the other. Outside the ballroom, she

expressed how poignant the experience was for her.

“It was emotional, but I was pretty excited that there were that many people there to support our students,” she said. “I didn’t want to take attention away from the students — it’s really about them.”

Emerald Super BallThe bal l was original ly

scheduled to be at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, but the venue was changed at the last minute because of scheduling issues. Even still, the theme “UNT Emerald Super Ball” remained, and the

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders came to welcome guests into the Grapevine Ballroom.

An annual silent auction and cocktail reception began the night, followed by a welcome from Cynthia Izaguirre, UNT alumna and news anchor for WFAA Channel 8.

“Many of you in this room tonight have helped make their dreams come true by contrib-uting thousands of dollars in scholarships,” Izaguirre said to the audience. “I can tell each and ever y one of you that I would not be standing here tonight were it not for the help of so many generous North Texans.”

Pre-biology freshman and Emerald Eagle Scholar Jorge Roman delivered a heartfelt speech about how he grew up in a single-parent home and how the program helped him to attain his dream of going to college.

“The program has given me everything I need to succeed — not only in college but in life,” he said. “It doesn’t matter where a person comes from or what they’ve been through. Anything is possible.”

UNT System Chancellor Lee Jackson said he was in awe of the fact that Roman was “only a freshman.”

“He’s a very articulate young man,” he said.

Bataille’s last day as pres-ident wa s T hu rsday, a nd her leav i ng st u n ned t he campus.

She and Jackson still have not publicly announced the exact reason for her resig-nation.

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Inter im President Phi l Diebel, who also attended the event, will take the helm in Bataille’s place until May, while the Board of Regents conducts a national search to find someone to fill the post.

Provost Wendy Wilkins sa id she t houg ht it was important to focus on the students during the evening rather than the publicized and controversial topic.

“I think we really need to keep our minds and our thoughts on the Emerald Eagle Scholars,” she said.

Wilkins said she was sad for the president’s leaving,

but her face lit up when she spoke of how many students the program has helped.

“It’s not as festive an occa-sion as I think it might have otherwise been,” she said. “This is really [Batail le’s] signature event. She created this with her inauguration, and the program really was her baby.”

T h e E m e r a l d E a g l e Orga nizat ion passed out green ribbons for lapels in support of Bataille.

Jessika Curry, a journalism junior, said she wore hers as a thank you to Bataille for the time she had dedicated to the program.

“I know we are all sorry to see her go, but on the other hand we are excited to see where the university goes from here,” she said.

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3rd annual event honors Emerald Eagle scholars

Greek Week 2010 kicks o�

Former UNT President Gretchen Bataille stopped in at the Emerald Eagle Ball to give a speech to the Emerald Eagle Scholars in the program that she created in 2007.

PHOTO BY MELISSA BOUGHTON/ASSIGNING EDITOR

“It’s not as festive

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Fashion merchandising sophomore Jordan Gillette talks to a fellow sorority sister at the Alpha Phi Red Dress Gala, held on Friday in the Eagle Suite at the University Union. The proceeds went to the Alpha Phi Foundation supporting cardiac care.

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BY KRYSTLE CANTUStaff Writer

UNT students kicked off Greek Week on Monday with banners and blood-drives. Students are participating in everything from banner compe-titions to greek games.

Greek students will partic-ipate in different contests throughout the week and earn points for their chapters. They will also attend different coor-dinated events and speeches throughout the week.

“Usually with fraternities and sororities there is a lot of compe-tition between us because we always want to strive to be the best,” said Johnny Villarreal, a Pi Kappa Greek Week Chairman and anthropology junior. “But Greek Week is a time where we also compete against each other, but we also unite. We come together. We have the same shirts. We are involved the entire week with each other.”

Bot h g re ek a nd non-greek students were invited to and participated in the CANstruction event Friday. All built different structures from canned goods to compete in the contest.

A f t er w a r d, t he go o d s were donated to the Denton Community Food Center. About 7,000 pounds of food were donated to the center.

“It took a different spin on doing community service,” said Jordie Hajec, a marketing sophomore and vice presi-dent of Delta Gamma. “We’re having fun, and we’re helping the community at the same time.”

In the Greek Week banner competition Monday, different chapters formed teams and constr ucted ba nners t hat represented the team name, all chapters involved and the theme for this Greek Week, “Mixing it up.”

“The banner event helps bring out different sides of people, and it’s a good way to promote and present to the rest of the school what Greek Week really is,” Hajec said.

The winners from the banner and CANstruction competi-tions will be announced at the Official Greek Week Kick-Off from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today on the Library Mall.

Greek Unity Night is at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium.

Students will hear from greek community speakers such as Lori Hart Ebert, who will be talking about how to improve greek life.

“A lot of the time greek life gets a lot of rap for some of the bad things they do,” said Megan Petter, a graduate assis-tant for the office of Greek Life. “She’s going to be talking about what we can do to make greek great, or make it better. Focus on the good.”

All greek students will wear Greek Week T-shirts that day. Non-greek students are also invited to attend the event.

“It is a great opportunity to learn about what it is that we do,” Petter said.

Thursday is letters day, in which all greek students will wear their letters to represent their sororities and fraterni-ties.

Eagle Escapades will be in the auditorium on Friday. Students from different chap-ters will compete through choreographing dances. The dances are themed to celebrate diversity in music.

All teams are given four different artists from different genres of music. Students are also given a diversity element such at polka, salsa or reggae.

All assigned elements and artists are picked at random. The teams must then incor-porate these elements into one dance routine. Non-greek students are invited to attend this event as well.

Greek games are Saturday, which is similar to a field day.

Students will participate in sporting events such as tug-of-war, football throws and relay races.

“It gets real ly intense,” Petter said. “Especially at Tug-o-war.”

Participating in the events is reinforced with incentives.

“T he y get p oi nt s for attempting to give blood,” Petter said. “We try to incor-porate a lot of service and a lot of fun into this as well. It’s a very programmed week, so we try to make sure they have fun.”

The greek award ceremony will be held on Sunday, which is a cocktail att ire event. Chapters will receive awards for the different events.

“Greek awards is more focused on celebrating the excellence in 2009,” Petter said. “We’ll find out who’s chapter of the year, who had the best program of the year, who is the most involved chapter on campus, president of the year, greek man of the year, greek women of the year and just different awards for that.”

Even w it h compet it ive events, Villarreal said, the real meaning behind Greek Week is to help bring all the chapters together.

“Basically the real meaning behind Greek Week is to unify all the chapters …,” he said. “For us to know at the end of the day we’re all greek and we’re all striving to the do the best we can, with academics, networking and leadership, and with brotherhood and sisterhood.”

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Cancer diagnosis leads to cross-country bike ride

Jonathan Triantafyllou, a music senior, lays out the 4,500 mile cross-country route he and his friend will undertake on their bicycles in June. Their ride will cover 15 states and raise funds for their newly created nonprofit, Bike Towards the Cure. The money will go toward cancer research.

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When Jonathan Triantafyllou received a phone call last semester and learned that his close friend Philip Bayliss had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he was shocked.

“He w a s 2 2 ,” s a id Triantafyllou, a music senior. “It shattered the idea of [invulner-ability] you have at 20 or so.”

In the years before, the two friends had talked about going on a large-scale bike ride for some kind of cause but never got around to it because of conflicting schedules, Bayliss said.

After his diagnosis, however, Bayliss and Triantafyllou felt that now was the time to bring this idea into fruition.

Thus, Bike Towards the Cure was born.

“We’re both very new to this, though we grew up in an area where mountain biking was really prevalent,” Bayliss said.

Bayliss has come to use the knowledge gained from his bachelor’s degree in busi-ness management — he is now pursuing his master’s in busi-ness administration at UNT — to help organize the official

nonprofit organization.However, he has had to learn

a lot in the process.“I’ve been lucky with the

people I’ve reached out to for help,” he said. “[The organiza-tion] will help me profession-ally.”

He said he wants to follow the example of some of his friends who organized a similar event for autism where they took boats up the east coast from Florida to the Jersey Shore.

“I’m following their model a bit. They got a lot of press and coverage while [biking] would be best.”

While Bayliss works on the bureaucratic side of things, Triantafyllou plans the day-to-day route and performs unoffi-cial public relation duties.

Combining two routes coordinated by the Advanced Cycling Association, the ride will tentatively begin on June 12 in San Diego, Calif., and will end about two months later in Avalon, N.J. — totaling about 4,500 miles.

“I plan on writing to larger cycling magazines,” Triantafyllou said. “There was already an article published [in the York Dispatch] back home

on the East Coast.”People who don’t want to try

and conquer the full ride can join in for smaller intervals as long as they donate $1 for every mile they ride.

The organization just nabbed its first corporate sponsor, Shaklee Sports Nutrition, and Triantafyllou said he looks forward to seeing more follow its lead.

A handful of events during the ride are in the works, including a kickoff day at the beginning of the ride and a possible day ride in Phoenix, Ariz.

“I have a friend in Phoenix who’s heavily involved in the athletic community,” Bayliss said. “We’re talking about doing a half or full century [a 100-mile ride] down there.”

Both men feel slightly out of their comfort zones in pursuit of this endeavor, but they remain passionate and said they hope to reach their goal of $30,000 by the time they reach Avalon.

“This is a bit extreme,” said Bayliss, “but extreme measures are required.”

For more information and opportunities to donate, visit the Bike Towards the Cure Facebook page.

By Graciela razoSenior Staff Writer

As UNT fashion students put finishing touches on their sketches, sew up last minute hems and learn their way around the business, an area organization is trying to give them an extra push into the fashion world.

The Fashionistas is a nonprofit group that puts together fashion events to benefit its student orga-nization, Fashionistas Two, which works with area college students through mentoring, internship programs and volunteering to give them real life practice at working in the fashion industry.

“Ultimately, we’re here for young emerging designers to support them and help get their business off the ground,” said Bri Crum, president of Fashionistas Two.

The group helps students of all majors, not just those working toward a fashion degree.

Committee members connect students with a local fashion professional for a year-long mentoring program, refer them for internships and get them familiar with the important parts of fashion, such as runway shows, for a yearly $30 member-ship fee.

“All of our students get the opportunity to work behind the scenes or front of house for these big shows we put on,” Crum said. “It’s important because it’s real-life experience, and they really get to see what happens in this industry first hand.”

Crum said Fashionistas Two is meant to ease students’ transi-tion from college to the real world because it is a difficult field to be

successful in.“I think that students go to

school, and then they graduate with this great degree in fashion, but a lot of them can’t make it to L.A. or New York City, so they end up working in retail and becoming frustrated,” Crum said.

With fashion events going on nearly every week in Dallas, Crum said, she wants students to realize they do not have to travel far from home to go to a great art school.

UNT fashion design alumna Khanh Nguyen became a part of the Fashionistas Two program her junior year. Now, she contrib-utes to scholarship programs

for the students as a part of the Fashionistas.

“They have great connections with producers and major players in fashion,” Nguyen said.

After creating her network of contacts, Nguyen is now preparing to launch her own label and beginning to piece together her debut fashion show in the fall.

Kristen Key, a fashion merchan-dising junior, joined the organi-zation a month and a half ago because she said she needed a way to get into the industry before she graduated.

Key said her membership in the

organization gives her chances to network with professionals through going to fashion events and gallery openings nearly every week.

“Fashion is really hard to be a part of,” Key said. “It’s a really competitive career field, espe-cially if you want to stay in Texas, so I’m trying to my hands into anything in Dallas.”

Although Key has been a

Fashionistas member for a short time, she said she has already seen its benefits.

“There are amazing people we get to meet,” Key said. “I just hope to meet all these people who can help me in the future and get a good networking system going.”

For more information, visit www.thefashionistas.org or e-mail Bri Crum at bri.crum@thefashionistas.org.

By alex cheathamStaff Writer

After 20 years of practice and countless injuries, Jordan Malone ended his first Olympic journey Friday with tangible evidence of his hard work: a bronze medal.

“To be standing on the podium with a medal around my neck was something I couldn’t imagine,” Malone said. “It was larger than life.”

After an ankle injury that hindered him from the last winter Olympics, Malone said the injury fueled him for four years. And now, the 25-year-old Denton speedskater helped the U.S. take third place along with teammates Apolo Ohno, J.R. Celski and Travis Jayner in the men’s short-track, a 5,000-meter relay.

“We freakin’ got bronze. That’s huge. That’s amazing,” Malone said. “I will never ever be disap-pointed in a medal.”

Despite a somewhat bumpy start to his first Olympics — including a disqualification in his opening heat of the 1,500 meters and a fall after hitting a block a few seconds before advancing in the 500 — Malone said he’s happy to be bringing home some hardware.

“I’m happy but not satisfied because I didn’t skate the best I possibly could,” he said. “People dream of winning medals and breaking records, but I don’t feel like I had that chance. I’ll have redemption in four years. I’m hungry for more.”

Malone said he couldn’t have won the medal without his mom’s support.

“When I got the medal I ran into the stands, found my mom and put it around her neck,” he said. “She deserved it, because she has given me 100 percent of everything she has for my entire life.”

Malone’s support system doesn’t end with his mom. He has 2,250 fans on Facebook and 1,499 followers on Twitter, each day leaving hundreds of good-

luck wishes.One of h is Facebook

fans, George Cruz, wrote, “Congratulations! You are indeed a part of history. I know I wasn’t the only one screaming at the TV last night. Amazing!”

Denton, Malone’s hometown and the place his skating career began, has offered its support as well. PourHouse Sports Grill hosted watch parties for nearly all of Malone’s races.

“There were probably about 70 people at each watch party,” said Nicholas Carlson, PourHouse General Manager. “It was great. Denton needs something like this to put us on the map.”

PourHouse held a fundraiser for Malone, raising close to $6,000 for his Olympic journey, Carlson said.

Malone said Denton holds a special place in his heart,

because it was here that he trained for 20 years.

He began his journey at Spinning Wheels when he was five years old, and skated down Mayhill and Shady Shores Road with his mom following closely behind on a Moped. Now, he said, he goes where the ice is. And ice isn’t cheap.

Over the years, Malone said he’s lost count of the amount of money it has cost him to succeed. Fees for the ice can cost up to $800 per month, boots are $3,000 each without blades, which cost $450 each. Blades have to be replaced up to five times a year. These expenses led to where he is now, Malone said.

“This is the pinnacle of my life. It’s one thing to say you’re an Olympian,” Malone said. “It’s another to win a medal.”

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The “Fluid Frontier” exhibition for the opening reception at the UNT Art Gallery in the Art Building on Friday.

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Exhibition showcases importance of water, environment

Project informs about philosophy of food, agriculture, eatingBY KATIE GRIVNASenior Staff Writer

Once a week, David Kaplan of the philosophy and religion studies faculty gets e-mails from

across the world thanking him for the information he provided as part of UNT’s Philosophy of Food Project.

The project is a Web site with

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WaterWays 2010, a biennial water conference, joined with the Fluid Frontier symposium and exhibition to show the impact the community has on the Trinity River Basin.

Fluid Frontier opens today and will run through March 27 with a reception from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. The exhibit is in the Gallery in the Art Building.

It will showcase the Trinity River and how the community affects the basin with everyday activities, Robertson said.

A symposium will be conducted March 4 and 5 that is comprised of five speakers, Dario Robleto, the keynote artist lecturer, John Frost, Emily Brady, Mary Mattingly and Ecoarttech, digital environmental artists.

The speakers will discuss their views about nature and the impor-

tant element of water, according to the College of Visual Arts and Design Web site.

“If your car leaks oil in the parking lot, the rain will carry that pollution to the river. We’re very connected through our daily activities in the water we drink,” Tracee Robertson, gallery director, said.

Fluid Frontier began in 2009 as a yearlong exploration of nature and experiences through cultural, personal and geographical expe-riences, Robertson said.

The Fluid Frontier symposium will raise awareness about the environment through philos-ophy, science, art and policy for the encouragement of inter-disciplinary advancements of water, said Irene Klaver, director of the Philosophy of Water Project and member of the philosophy faculty.

“It’s meant to push students to

learn about the concepts of mean-ings and to provide a vibrant plat-form for the local community and students on local issues such as the Trinity River Basin,” Klaver said.

The exhibition will also feature new and recent works by 2009 visiting artists EcoArtTech and their UNT student partners, according to the college’s Web site.

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Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir established EcoArtTech in 2005 as a platform for digital eco art that focuses on the environ-ment through culture, humans, and the relationship with nature and technology.

For the exhibition, EcoArtTech created “The Center for the

Wildness in the Everyday” interac-tive Web site and blog, according to the college’s Web site.

The Web site uses the Internet as a medium to show how tech-nology can function around nature.

It uses coding tricks to redirect the visitor so they never get the

same thing twice. This is symbolic of how nature works, Peppermint said.

Klaver said she hopes through Fluid Frontier people will under-stand how essential water is for life.

As time progresses, water is becoming scarce because it’s not being conserved properly, Klaver said, and she hopes that a different mentality will set in so that change can occur.

Matt Story, a philosophy senior and research assistant for the philosophy of Water Project, expresses his hopes for what indi-viduals will take out of visiting the exhibition.

“This is going to be a very unique opportunity at interdisci-plinary work and what it looks and feels like to get different people in a place discussing one topic,” he said. “That doesn’t happen every-where and often.”

BY ALEX CALAMSStaff Writer

A Denton resident is using his coffee shop and furniture store as an outlet for troubled young men to get back on the right track

Corey Adams, 35-year-old Denton resident and assis-tant home director of Denton Freedom House, employs resi-dents of the house at Zera coffee company and The Back Porch for no wages while they live there at no expense.

“It’s sort of their way of giving back to the ministry,” Adams said.

The home is a local ministry and guidance clinic that provides housing and spiritual assistance for troubled young men.

Those qualified to live at the home receive six months of housing and support at no expense on the 18-acre home — accommodations that are made

possible bythrough financial help from local churches.

“I came to the home in January of 2009 after living a life of crime and drugs and have taken a complete 180,” said Mark Roberts Jr., a 24-year-old intern at the Denton Freedom House.

Roberts graduated from the ministry’s basic rehabilitation course and is in “phase two,” a voluntary extension of the program that he and 12 other men are currently undergoing. Together he and his colleagues live in the home and serve full time to stand as a testimony for newcomers.

Nestled behind the Denton Square on the corner of McKinney Street and Bell Avenue, Zera first opened its doors November of last year along with neighboring furniture restoration showroom The Back Porch.

“It all happened simultane-

ously,” said Adams, owner of both establishments. “The Back Porch was a catalyst for Zera.”

Adams’ said his vision for The Back Porch was to create distinc-tive and quality home decor that his customers would normally pay higher prices for at other furniture showrooms.

“It’s a pretty unique business,” Adams said. “The furniture we sell is all donated. From there we decide if is its best to refinish it, alter it or create an entirely new piece altogether,” he continued.

Spending several years involved with independent coffee houses surrounding the Denton area has allowed Adams to estab-lish close ties with private coffee roasters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Because of this, he said, Zera’s drinks are derived from diverse recipes using superior ingredi-ents.

Adams said the company maintains a high standard and stays true to the traditional recipes of many Italian coffee drinks, such as the espresso and macchiato — something he said his competitors tend to loose sight of.

“Pound for pound, I think Zera is the nicest coffee shop in Denton,” said Adams. “Our coffee is always made from quality beans, and the atmo-sphere is really homey.”

Aside from its coffee, Zera a lso of fers ot her options for its customers, including the popular Mex ican Hot Chocolate, wh ich Ada ms described as “the best hot cocoa around.”

Travis Tucker, a kinesiology sophomore, comes to Zera specifically for the drink.

“The Mexican Hot Chocolate is really good,” said Tucker.

“There’s an almost apple pie, kind of cinnamon taste to it. I love it.”

Other drink choices include fresh fruit smoothies, hot and cold fine teas, fresh-squeezed lemonade, Italian sodas made with pure cane sugar, and root beer and Coke floats served in frosty mugs.

Zera ser ves t radit iona l coffee complement food, such as pastries and cookies, as well as a variety of soups and salads to please hungry customers.

Additional food items are on the horizon, too, as Adams is working to expand the menu to provide his customers more options.

programs at various universities and lists of nongovernmental organizations relevant to food studies.

“I just want to provide a venue for philosophers to think together and work together about a really important aspect of our lives,” he said.

The project is only a Web site now, but Kaplan said he plans to host activities such as community education work-shops, discussion groups and films.

“It’s a Web presence that I know is having some effect,” he said. “Now I would just like to translate it from just a Web presence out to the world to a campus presence that also affects students at UNT.”

Kaplan is the only person working on the project and said

he aims to help philosophers have a better sense of the phil-osophical importance of the subject and its contribution to our understanding of food.

Finding money to hold activi-ties has been difficult, so he said he plans to team with existing organizations, like the UNT chapter of Slow, to bring activi-ties to the UNT community.

Since there are metaphysical, political, aesthetic and ethical dimensions to food, the philos-ophy of food applies the areas and methods of philosophy to examine the dimensions of what we eat, Kaplan said.

“We use technologies to transform the natural world,” he said.

People’s eating activities affect not only themselves, but other people, animals, the

climate, plants and the land.K r i s t e n M it c he l l , a n

accounting sophomore, said she tries to watch what she eats but doesn’t put too much thought into it.

“If I knew everything and I studied a lot … I’d probably be really grossed out and never eat again,” she said.

Samantha Angel, a business junior, said she eats mainly organic foods.

If there were a discussion about the philosophy of food, she said she might attend to learn about it.

“Nobody pays attention to what they’re eating,” she said. “They just eat whatever is in front of their face or in the vending machines.”

For more information, visit food.unt.edu.

Senior guard Brittany James, who came into the contest aver-aging 14.5 points per game, was constricted by the Warhawks defense. The Mean Green’s leading scorer had four points in 31 minutes, misfiring on 13 of her 14 shot attempts.

The whole team was unable to net buckets in the second half, where the game slowly crept away from the Mean Green. UNT converted on

less than 32 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes, allowing the Warhawks to go up by as many 11.

“We went a little stagnant,” head coach Shanice Stephens said. “We didn’t attack as well as we usually do. We didn’t go from the inside out.”

Turnovers once again became an issue for Stephens’ squad, a problem that has plagued the Mean Green all season.

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Softball team turns in season’s best performance

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Sophomore Lisa Johnson waits for a pitch against McClennan Community College earlier this year. The Mean Green came home from the UTSA Tournament in San Antonio last weekend with three wins and two losses.

Turnovers, offensive struggles shackle UNT

BY FELICIA ALBAStaff Writer

The UNT sof tba l l tea m came back with a vengeance in the weekend’s UTSA tour-nament.

After losing four of its last five games, the Mean Green (5-6) put together its f irst back-to-back w ins of t he season on its way to a 3-2 record at the UTSA tourna-ment.

“I was glad that we won the three that we won,” head coach T.J. Hubbard said. “We definitely hit well. We could have won al l f ive, but I’m decently pleased.”

FridayT h e t e a m c a m e o u t

swinging, posting a single-game school record of f ive home runs in its 9-1 win over its f irst tournament oppo-nent, the California-Riverside Highlanders.

Junior Ma l lor y Ca nt ler, sophomore Lisa Johnson, senior Rebecca Waters, soph-omore A mber Mi l ler a nd junior Courtney Bradshaw hit home runs to break the old record.

“I think I did pretty well,” Johnson said. “My main goal was to make contact and put the ball into play.”

Senior Ashley Lail pitched the first three innings and allowed one run off of two hits and junior Jennifer Smith finished off the Highlanders, pitching two innings while surrendering no runs.

SaturdayThe Mean Green overcame

two UTSA Roadrunner come-back attempts, needing its final at bat to finish off the 5-4 win.

In the bottom of the seventh inning with the game tied at four, Mariza Martinez hit the game-winning walk-off home run.

“I had a rocky start, but finished strong and kept it going,” Martinez said.

Coming off the two wins and playing the Highlanders again, the Mean Green built a four-run lead, but it wouldn’t be enough to keep the winning streak going.

Unable to hold on to a lead, the Mean Green fell 8-5 to the Highlanders.

UNT was up 4-0 run after the top of the second inning, but UC-Riverside answered with three runs at the bottom of the second.

In the bottom of the seventh T he Hig h la nders’ Taylor Thomas ended the game with a three-run home run.

SundayThe Mean Green was able to

get a quick revenge against the Highlanders, defeating them 7-2 in the teams’ final head-to-head game.

Taking advantage of its half of the third inning, UNT built a lead that UC-Riverside would not be able to match.

Smith perhaps had the best game of her season, allowing two runs during the early part of the game and then continuing

to pitch a complete game while striking out six and hitting a solo home run at the bottom of the second.

The Roadrunners found an answer for the potent Mean Green offense, defeating it 2-1 in the final game of the tour-nament.

The game was scoreless until the top of the fifth when UNT’s sophomore Megan Rupp hit a home run and advanced the score 1-0.

UTSA then came back with two runs of its own at the top of the sixth, which the Mean Green could not answer.

“We had a better weekend,” Cantler said. “We can take a lot from the losses, which are mostly positive.”

Hubbard believes his team improved on the areas that needed to fix, he said.

“We took strides in the right direction and there were few pitching and defensive errors,” he said

Lisa Johnson, who is only one home run away from tying her record set last year while batting .429 in the tournament, said she believed her team did well despite losing the last game.

“As a team, we improved a whole lot more defensively,” she said. “We learned a lot more, and we can only get better from here.”

The Mean Green returns to action at 5 p.m. Friday, when it travels to Shreveport, La., to play two against the Centenary Gents.

PHOTO BY RYAN BIBB/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshman Caitlin Hawkins drives past Louisiana-Lafayette last Wednesday night. UNT ended its regular season with a 58- 63 loss against Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.

BY BEN BABYStaff Writer

The UNT women’s basketball team followed up its biggest win of the season with a let down.

In its final regular season game, the Mean Green (8-21, 5-13) couldn’t capitalize on its momentum, as UNT was narrowly defeated 63-58 by the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks (10-18, 4-14) on Saturday at the Fant-Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, La.

“We were just a little slow on everything,” senior guard Brittany James said. “We were always a step behind offen-sively and defensively.”

The Mean Green’s loss had serious postseason implica-tions.

The defeat, coupled with Troy’s victory, ensured UNT the No. 10 seed out of the 13 teams in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. The Mean Green will face Florida International on Saturday in the first round.

Junior guard Denetra Kellum led the way for UNT with her 17 points and eight rebounds. Kellum and freshman forward Jasmine Godbolt, who had 13 points to go along with seven boards, were the only two Mean Green players to reach double figures in scoring.

sophomore to be ready for the postseason.

The Mean Green will face the No. 7 seed Florida International Panthers in its first round game Saturday. If UNT wins that match-up, it will move on to face Middle Tennessee, who beat the Mean Green by 68 earlier this season.

“Everybody just has to be on the same page,” James said. “We need everybody to be on top of their game.”

UNT was unable to take care of the ball, commit-ting 22 turnovers. ULM capitalized on its opponent’s mistakes, scoring 21 points off of them.

“ M o n r o e wasn’t play ing well [Saturday],” Stephens sa id. “They were giving us every opportu-nity to win, and we needed to take care of that. We needed to take care of the ball, and we didn’t. We never should have let ourselves get in that hole initially.”

T h e M e a n Green did not have any prob-lems dispatching the Warhawks the first time the two teams met this season, beating ULM by 20 points.

After missing the entire month of February because of an illness, sophomore guard Tamara Torru practiced on Friday but was unable to make her return to game play. Torru practiced again Sunday, and Stephens said she expects the

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Bricklayer Orlando Zapata Tamayo didn’t commit murder. He didn’t plot an assassination or the violent overthrow of the government.

He was arrested on March 20, 2003, in Cuba, while taking part in a hunger strike to demand the release of political prisoners, and was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of showing contempt for Fidel Castro as well as public disorder and disobe-dience, according to Amnesty International.

Over the next six years, he is believed to have had eight more hearings and was convicted at least three more times, bringing his total sentence to about 36 years — a figure his friends say may be inexact because the proceedings were secret.

Now Zapata is dead after another hunger strike, this time for 85 days, to protest beatings and other prison conditions.

P resident Rau l Ca st ro should be ashamed. Instead, he is dismissive, asserting that Zapata’s death was the fault, somehow, of the United States — because in the Cuban government’s view, all critics are proxies for U.S. subver-sion.

Zapata was neither tortured nor executed, Castro report-edly said.

“T hat happen s at t he Guantanamo base.”

That’s right, Mr. President, serious human rights abuses were com m it ted aga i nst terrorism suspects held by the U.S. at the Guantanamo

Bay detention center in Cuba, and they were vociferously denounced by people in this country who felt betrayed and dishonored by our govern-ment.

But who in Cuba will be allowed to protest Zapata’s death? Who will be permitted to examine Cuban jails or challenge your assertion that torture does not take place there?

A m nest y I nter nat iona l had counted 55 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuban jails — make that 54 now.

A Human Rights Watch report on Cuban prisoners last year documented how those who crit icize the govern-ment or report violations are subjected to extended periods of solitary confinement and

beatings and denied medical treatment, family visits and telephone calls.

Human Rights Watch docu-mented dozens of cases in which prison officials physi-cally abused and humiliated polit ical prisoners. Prison authorities routinely subjected them to solitary confinement in cells described as cramped, squalid, without bedding — some in total darkness, others with permanent bright lights — and provided rotting, inad-equate food at irregular inter-vals.

That sounds like torture to us. And although Zapata may not have faced an executioner, he is dead for dissenting.

This editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on March 1.

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Dealing with drilling must be rewarded

Health care needs compromiseEditorial

Since 2000, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been at the epicenter of a gas-drilling boom that provide an estimated $5.2 billion annual boost for the area’s economy.

The surge has also brought an influx of the tall, noisy and sometimes dangerous rigs — once reserved for rural ranchland and open countryside.

The urban shift is pinned to a rise in the price of natural gas and the discovery of the potential wealth contained in a gas pocket in the Barnett Shale rock formation beneath North Texas.

With an estimated worth of close to $1 billion in gas reserves in Denton and Tarrant counties alone, it seems mineral rights owners have been able to look past the pleas of annoyed neighbors and help themselves to a piece of the pie.

Cities, churches and residents have cashed in on their mineral rights for signing bonuses and royalty checks. School districts have also hopped on the bandwagon.

The Birdville School District serves an area covering parts of seven cities in northeast Tarrant County and has leased property for the operation of three drilling wells. Now, they’re giving the proceeds from that drilling directly back to the students.

This year’s eligible graduates will receive a year of paid tuition to attend any of the Tarrant County College system campuses.

For a district that contains three large high schools, that gift constitutes a $750 investment in the future of the hundreds of students who will likely receive the scholar-ship.

Birdville’s offer is a precedent that should be followed as tax-funded entities continue to collect from the wealth contained beneath our feet.

Residents forced to put up with the nuisance of drilling deserve tangible rewards to offset the cost of living in the shadow and earshot of the towering, abrasive structures.

Birdville provides those concessions in the way of schol-arships.

Cities can do the same by constructing parks, updating infrastructure and building community centers.

In Denton, drilling companies regularly top the list of tax-paying businesses, and the millions in revenue is absorbed into the annual budget. Yet local opposition has been widespread and extremely vocal. City leaders should specifically set aside gas royalties and drill leasing revenue for community projects. Build the long-awaited bike lanes on city streets, fix pothole dotted roads, construct commu-nity gathering spaces, plant some trees — the options are limitless.

Residents should receive some level of direct and visible benefit from the natural resources in their neighborhoods.

As the drilling-trend continues, it’s no longer enough for cities to engulf the profits as they would any other business. They must show specific positive results to the taxpayers bearing the brunt of negative impact for the collection of those profits.

The long-awaited bipartisan health care summit took place last week. The televised event included health care discus-sion between congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle and important leaders within the executive branch. It lasted for seven hours.

During his campaign for the presidency, Obama pledged health care legislation would be debated and deliberated openly with complete C-SPAN coverage, and this did not occur until now.

Instead of a l low ing the American people to watch and giv ing Republicans a seat at the table when health care legislation was crafted, President Ba rack Oba ma, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote the legislation behind closed doors. They decided to wait until they had already passed their versions of the bill in both the House and the Senate ,and they had lost their super majority before they invited Republican input.

The controversial legisla-tion that was passed included sweetheart deals for elected officials that would otherwise

have difficulty supporting the bill.

These included a $ 300 million special deal facili-tated through Democratic Sen. Landrieu of Lousiana in which every dollar that Louisiana spends on Medicaid would then be matched with four dollars from the federal government. The deal has been informally known as the “Louisiana Purchase.”

A not he r s p e c i a l de a l included one for Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska that exchanged his vote for an inclusion in the legislation stipulating that Nebraska’s Medicaid will be paid exclu-sively by the federal govern-ment instead of the state government, as it is in every other state.

These pay-to-play deals have got to stop. They are e x p en si v e, c or r upt a nd marginalize the integrity of the legislative process.

Health care reform is a complex and critical task that has to be handled carefully and honestly. The industry makes up more than 17 percent of the nation’s economy, so major changes need to be conducted with the utmost candor.

Despite the controversial deals and outrage from the American public, health care reform seemed to be moving along until the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate in Massachusetts.

Since then Democrats have become much more open to ideas offered by Republicans and the general public. That is why the decision was made to host the health summit.

The summit was largely political theater, and it was qu ick ly made clea r t hat t he Democrats were not hosting the summit to genu-inely accept t he ideas of Republicans. No real prog-ress was made toward any sort of compromise.

Now Democratic leaders are considering and defending the use of reconciliation to pass health care legislation in the Senate. Reconciliation is a procedural tactic in the Senate whereby the number of votes necessary to get legisla-tion passed is reduced from 60 to 51. It was implemented to avoid filibusters to pass bills pertaining to the budget.

T he cha i r m a n of t he Senate’s budget committe, Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad

of North Dakota, has already stated that reconciliation is not made for passing legisla-tion like this.

The latest Gallup polling indicated that a plurality of Americans were against health care legislation similar to what was proposed by Obama and the Democrats in Congress, and a 52 percent majority of Americans opposed the use of reconciliation to pass health care reform in the Senate.

It is time to end the polit-ical charade and start fresh on health care reform. Health care is simply too important to rush legislation or use questionable methods to force its passage.

Trayton Oakes is a polit-ical science and economics junior. He can be reached at TraytonOakes@my.unt.edu.

Cuba tortures political dissenters

Goat leads Texas

police on chase

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — All over town ran a lone goat as Odessa police and animal control officers tried to catch the roaming animal. The report to police came in Saturday as a sheep on the loose. Officers then deter-mined it was a goat loping through a Taco Bell parking lot, a park and the dorm area

at the University of Texas-Permian Basin.

It took four police officers, two animal control officers and one off-duty police officer on motorcycle to corral the goat after about 30 minutes.

Animal control officers subdued the goat with a tran-quilizer gun and took custody of it.

SYDNEY (AP) — About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney’s iconic Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.

Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions.

“It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice

versa,” Tunick said. “So I was very happy that that last set up finally got done and everyone came together [in a] united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure.”

Nineteen-year-old student Art Rush said he was thrilled to participate.

“I’ll never get a chance to do this again. It’s not worth being inhibited,” Rush said. “It doesn’t feel sexual, it just feels tribal, a gathering of humanity.”

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Junior guard Josh White charges through Louisiana-Lafayette in last week’s game. UNT clinched first place in the Sun Belt Conference West Division on Saturday.

Mean Green clinches division, tournament byeBy Sean GormanSenior Staff Writer

The UNT men’s basketball team made school history Saturday by winning its first Sun Belt Conference West Division in a 74-71 win over the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks.

The Mean Green (21-8, 13-5) clinched the No. 2 seed in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, its highest position ever.

UNT waits to face the winner of the Louisiana-Lafayette and ULM first round game Sunday.

“I can’t tell you how much I have loved working with these kids,” head coach Johnny Jones said. “They have gotten along with each other, worked hard and played like champions all season.”

Winners of eight-straight games, strong road play could help the Mean Green during the tournament next weekend in Hot Springs, Ark., as UNT owned the Sun Belt’s best road record this season at 9-6.

“It’s never easy when you have to play away from your fans and the home team gives you its best shot,” junior guard Josh White said. “Our efforts are totally focused on taking it one play at a time and executing on both sides on the ball.”

While the defense kept the

Warhawks (11-18, 6-12) in check, the Mean Green offense couldn’t find its way early on and the teams were tied at 2-2 five minutes in.

“We had a somewhat slug-gish start, but I think we did an outstanding job at grinding this one out and doing enough to pull ahead as the game went on,” Jones said.

UNT went on a 13-5 run midway through the first half and a White three-point play with four seconds left in the half gave the Mean Green a 34-23 lead at the break.

Celebrating their senior night, the Warhawks refused to go away but two-straight three-pointers by freshman Alzee Williams and junior guard Tristan Thompson’s four-point play helped solidify the win.

“Al has gotten better all season and is a guy I am confi-dent about when looking to the Conference Tournament and next year,” White said. “As for Tristan, he’s a great scorer who always plays his best when it matters most.”

Junior for wa rd George Odufuwa made his presence felt down low, recording his 13th double-double with 10 points and 16 rebounds.

“With Eric out early because of

foul trouble, I thought Cameron Spencer and George did a great job on the post all game,” Jones said. “All year our big guys have been stepping up and making plays.”

Both teams got in their own way constantly, as the Warhawks lost 20 turnovers while UNT committed 22.

“There were some mistakes made by both teams today, but

it was just that type of game,” White said. “If you can’t win the ugly defensive struggles then it’s tough to win on the road.”

Continuing its success reaching the free-throw line, the

Mean Green took 40 attempts, while the Warhawks took 27.

The Mean Green begins postseason play at 8:45 p.m. on Sunday in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.

Finley released after five seasons in San AntonioNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The

San Antonio Spurs waived swingman Michael Finley after nearly five seasons Monday, giving the 15-year veteran a chance to finish the season with more playing time elsewhere.

The Spurs said they honored

Finley’s request to be released from his contract, which was in its final year after he exercised a $2.5 million option this season. Finley, who turns 37 this week, will be eligible to sign with a playoff contender.

“I was very surprised, but

we granted his request,” Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said before San Antonio played the Hornets.

Finley lost his starting job this season and missed several weeks with a sprained ankle. He appeared in only 25 games,

averaging 3.7 points and 1.5 rebounds.

The former All-Star joined the Spurs in 2005 in search of an NBA championship, and he finally got one in 2007. He started all but five games last season but became a bench player after the

Spurs signed Richard Jefferson last summer.

Although he seemed disap-pointed that Finley wanted to leave, Popovich had nothing negative to say about him and indicated that Finley main-tained his professionalism

even as he apparently grew more frustrated with his lack of playing time.

“On and off the court, he set a great example for everybody and he was a joy to have in the program the entire time he was here,” Popovich said.