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Rayzor Ranch may acquire second wellBY MORGAN WALKERSenior Staff Writer

A second gas well could be in the making on the Rayzor Ranch development at the corner of Interstate Highway 35 and Highway 380.

Range Resources, the Fort Worth oil and gas company, took the next step in the drilling process to determine whether the company will construct another well.

“I believe things are going pretty smoothly,” said Rodney Wallace, senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Range

Resources. “I think it started off with a bumpy road, but once we laid out what we’re doing, every-one’s been very pleased.”

It began the hydraulic frac-turing process Monday on the drill site west of Bonnie Brae Street, and across from McKenna Park.

The drilling procedure begins with a drill rig. Once a site is drilled, because there are tight formations, it doesn’t produce gas, Wallace said.

The next step is to enter the site with high-pressure pumping equipment to pump water and

sand together and fracture the shale underneath the rock.

This creates permeability that will allow the gas that’s in place to find a way to the well so it can be produced, Wallace explained.

The controversial drilling began in October after many Denton residents and City Counci l members disap-proved.

Jim Engelbrecht, a City Council member, said his thoughts have not changed since the permit to drill was approved by the group.

“It’s still an industrial use that’s too close to a residential area,” Engelbrecht said.

After the fracturing process takes place, Range Resources will decide whether or not the company will begin a second well.

The company set up Baffles, walls around the drill site to shield out noise.

“It’s like if you had a gymna-sium and if there was an echo, you would hang those to soften the noise,” Wallace said.

The dri l l ing process is highly regulated with a lot of

blowout preventers and other technology so there’s no risk of high-pressure issues here, Wallace said.

“If you were out in West Texas and drilling conventional wells that have very deep high pres-sures, those need casing and blowout preventers,” he said.

Blowout preventers put a stop to pressure between the lower reservoir and the surface, he said.

“In Denton, it’s a very tight rock and all the gas is in place, so we have to artificially induce the permeability of the gas to

let the pressures work naturally on it,” Wallace said.

Greg Rowlett, 57, lives across the street from the drill site at the corner of Bonnie Brae Street and Panhandle Street, and he said he is one of the two prop-erty owners receiving royalties from the drilling.

“I don’t have a problem with it,” Rowlett said. “Unless you’re outside or coming and going, you don’t even notice it.”

Range Resources should have the hydraulic fracturing results within several days, Engelbrecht said.

Junior Amy Joubert � res a backhand in preparation for Saturday’s win against UT-San Antonio. PHOTO BY MARTINA TREVINO/PHOTOGRAPHER

Mean Green overcomes weather, Roadrunners

Fundraisers help launch new community market

Student veteran enrollmentincreases under new GI Bill

BY ERIC JOHNSONSenior Staff Writer

The frigid outdoor tempera-tures forced the Mean Green tennis team’s home opener indoors, but the cold could not extinguish UNT’s firepower as it blew through UT-San Antonio 7 to 0.

The Mean Green (2-1) took control of the match from the first point with the top three players dominating their compe-tition, and the rest of the team feeding on their momentum.

“We really want to be able to lead from the front and set the tone for the match,” junior Madura Ranganathan said. “That is the one of the advan-tages when you play first — you are able to help inspire your teammates. We got off to a hot start on Sunday and that was able to carry us through.”

Ranganathan, along with sophomores Irina Paraschiv and Paula Dinuta, made up the top of the Mean Green singles card, and the trio dropped a combined four games en route to their straight-set victories.

Paraschiv paired with junior Amy Joubert for a commanding

8 to 1 doubles victory, and Joubert carried that victory over to her singles match where she disposed of her opponent 6-3, 6-2.

“Irina and Amy are really clicking, and I think that our doubles play has the potential to be our biggest strength with them at the top of the lineup,” head coach Sujay Lama said.

UNT’s early success took the pressure off freshman Barbora Vykyladova, playing in her third match, and junior Narine Kazarova, who was returning from a shoulder injury.

Kazarova fell behind early from the No. 6 singles posi-tion, losing the first set before battling back and winning in the tiebreaking third set. Kazarova found herself in a hole in doubles as well, as she and Ranganathan were down 3 to 0 before earning an 8 to 6 victory.

“We expected Narine to be nervous and rusty, but she was able to fight through that,” Lama said. “Having her in the lineup gives us so much depth, and this was a great opportunity for her to get herself back into match shape before a difficult week.”

Vykaladova continued to build momentum as she moved into the No. 4 spot for singles, and she looked like a savvy veteran in her 6-3, 6-0 win.

Lama rested his captain and only senior, Catalina Cruz, during singles play, but Cruz did earn an 8 to 2 doubles victory with Vykyladova. The duo has meshed well through the first two weeks.

“She is like my older sister,” Vykyladova said. “She has that same kind of character, and she has helped make me less nervous, and she helps me to be more self-confident.”

UNT gets a true measure of where it stands nationally over the next five days as the Mean Green challenges Oklahoma at 3 p.m. tomorrow and No. 74 Texas Tech at noon on Feb. 7.

“This week will be huge for our program mentally to see if we can get over that hump,” Lama said. “Every step for us has to be a positive one, and I feel like we have done that through our first three matches. We know we are as good as those teams and now we have a chance to prove it.”

BY TIM MONZINGOStaff Writer

Tw o w e e k end e v ent s raised money to help start a program aimed at bringing the community together.

Organizers of the Denton Communit y Ma rket held f u n d r a i s e r s F r i d a y a t Hanna h’s restaurant and Hailey’s Club to build a finan-cial basis for the Community Market that wil l begin in April.

“I’m a lmost speechless with the positive feedback and the generosity from local business and artists,” said Kati Trice, market coordi-nator for the organization. “It’s been overwhelmingly positive.”

Friday night’s event raised about $1,000 by silent auction. The restaurant owners also donated 10 percent of each person’s ticket.

The market, which wil l open April 20, will run every other Saturday from April through November, featuring food, art and music from the Denton area.

It will be on the corner of

Sycamore Street and Carol Boulevard.

“The point is just to get more people involved in our communit y and to bring more attention to our farm-er’s market,” said A l l ison Flannigan, a development and family studies junior.

The market is also intended to showcase what Denton citizens are capable of.

“There is so much energy and activity around art being created and music being created, a nd just people bei ng rea l ly pa ssionate about what they’re involved in,” Trice said. “I just want to bring it all together and showcase it in one place, and that’s really what the market is.”

The planners of the market are working with the existing farmers market to expand it and offer residents an array of goods.

“I think it’s great. It’s really hard to find good, local food around here,” said Claire Morales, a communication design sophomore.

Buy ing loca l products,

especially foods, is bene-f icia l for the community, Morales said.

Aside from things that can be bought, some members plan to offer instructional courses at the market.

Br yce Benton, a U N T alumnus, said he plans to teach people practical skills for living.

“We a lso pla n to have some work shops w here people can learn hands-on how to fix a bicycle, how to capture water and how to f i lter water,” Benton said. “Just different practical skills that are helpful for people of all ages.”

From teaching ski l ls to offering food, music and art, Trice said that the market will bring citizens together for something that she hopes will be a destination for the area.

“I see it as everyone giving a little piece of themselves to support something greater than themselves,” Trice said. “It’s an opportunity to show all the beauty that Denton is in one place.”

BY LISA GARZASenior Staff Writer

Despite a sha k y start in the fall, the number of student veterans increased this spring because of the faster processing time of money earned under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

“If the numbers hold, we will most likely see a jump of around 20 percent in the number of students certif ied under the new Post-9/11 GI Bill for spring f rom fa l l,” sa id Bobby Lothringer, associate regis-trar, in an e-mail.

About 70 percent of the 103,000 claims have been processed for spring enroll-ment, according to the U.S. Depa r t ment of Vetera n Affairs.

T he benef it prog ra m became effective on Aug. 1, and payments are based on the amount of service competed since Sept. 11, 20 01. Benef it s i nclude tuition and fees payments, a monthly housing allow-ance and a yearly textbook stipend of $1,000.

T he long processi ng period forced many student veterans to wait until long after the fall semester began

-739 Student received federal VA benefits-52 percent of those received money under the new Post-9/11 GI Bill.-More than $1 million in payments received from VA for students certified for fall 2009

GI Bill Facts for 2009

Courtesy of the Registrar’s Office & Student Accounting

for money to be available, offi-cials said.

Russell Serna, a 26-year-old sociology senior and Navy veteran, said he did not receive any payments until December. The cost of tuition and other related expenses came out of his pocket.

“I have a job, so I have income coming in, but there are veterans who are disabled or have just come out of the military and don’t have a job yet,” Serna said. “It hurt them pretty bad.”

The delays in disbursing money was likely because of an over whelming number of applicants who qualified for benefits under the bill, said Christina Pratt, trea-surer for the Student Veteran Association, art junior and an Army veteran.

“They started receiv ing applications early last year,

but they really didn’t start doing anything until August, which was probably their first bad move,” Pratt said. “They should have just started processing them as they were get t i ng t he appl ic at ion s because people were applying that early.”

Devin Townsend, a 27-year-old engineering junior and navy veteran, said he had to resort to covering his expenses from the money he receives f rom u nemploy ment a nd disability benefits. Townsend said he anxiously waited for his money, but it was not available until October.

“I called just about every week to check on the status of my application,” he said. “It was an inconvenience because I had to live off the money I had saved and credit cards.”

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College rebates process faster for U.S. veterans

Veteran Devin Townsend, an engineering sophomore, has bene� ted from the new G.I. Bill.PHOTO BY KAITLYN PRICE/PHOTOGRAPHER

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is attempting to distribute all certified funds by Monday, according to a press release. The official number

of veteran students receiving money was not available by press time because of the census date, Lothringer said.

The VA has made a tremen-dous improvement this semester by processing payments for

about 70 percent of students, Pratt said.

“Now it just moves like clock-work,” Serna said. “I get my deposit on the first of the month and keep going about my busi-ness.”

UNT holds eighth annual transfer student conference

Latino Interest Group to host UNT four-day event

BY ALEX CHEATHAMStaff Writer

ADDISON — The National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students met last week to discuss the president’s American

Graduation Initiative plan and other benefits for the nation’s transfer students.

The eighth annual confer-ence of the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students

hosted more than 350 educators from 35 states on Jan. 27 through 29 in Addison.

UNT is the founder of the institute and the fourth largest university in the nation in terms

of transfer students, with more than 50 community colleges within a 25-mile radius.

Community colleges are the front-runners of America’s higher-education system, enrolling more than 6 million students annually, said David Ximenez, district director of Financial Aid at Tarrant County College. “As more funding becomes avail-able, we will continue to increase our student popularity and enroll-ment at Tarrant County College,.” Ximenez said.

There was a 16-percent increase in enrollment this fall, and that will continue to grow, he said.

The plan was announced in July and President Barack Obama said it would pump $12 billion into the nation’s commu-nity college system, leading to a decrease in unemployment and a better economy. The purpose: a boost in degree earnings by 500 million in 2020.

The initiative will build on the power of community colleges with a goal of enhancing the American economy overall.

According to the White House Web site, this will include $9 billion

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BY BRIAN O’MARAContributing Writer

The UNT Latino Interest Group will celebrate the 162 anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo over the next four days.

The department of history and the University Union will help sponsor and host these events. The events are meant to encourage more collabora-tion with the community and the university.

“This is really an acknowl-edgement of civil rights,” said Lilyan Prado-Carillo, assis-tant director of UNT’s Emerald Eagle Scholar program and member of the Latino Interest Group.

All members of the North Texas community are encour-aged to come and celebrate the triumph of a culture over the barriers of discrimination.

The treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended La Intervencion Norteamerica, or “The War of North American Invasion” in 1848 and drew the boundary lines of Mexico as they stand today.

The events kick off today with a lecture by Brigham Young University’s Ignacio M. Garcia. He will discuss the impact of the Dec. 9, 1969, school walkout

in Crystal City, a protest orga-nized by high school students suffering from discrimination on campus. The students went to Washington and successfully negotiated for their rights to speak Spanish at the school and join student organizations.

On Wednesday, a reception will be held to honor Victor Rodriguez. Rodriguez was the first Hispanic student — he graduated in 1955 — to receive an athletic scholarship. He went on to letter three years in track and field, earn his master’s degree at UNT and become the first Hispanic superintendent of the San Antonio Independent School District.

Thursday and early Friday a host of artists, poets and performers will speak about the difficulties of growing up in a segregated environment, the need for community orga-nization and local commu-nity leaders’ contribution to the arts.

At 7 p.m. on Friday night, Dallas’ Cara Mia Theatre Group will perform “Crystal City 1969,” a dramatization of the high school walkout that took place in Crystal City. The play was written by Cara Mia, artistic director David Lozano and Raul Treviño, the nephew

of one of the three student leaders of the walkout. The play premiered in Dallas in December and was written for the 40th anniversary of the walkout.

Although the events finish with Cara Mia’s performance, the entire idea for the four day celebration started with the play in mind.

“The Latino Special Interest Group connected with the Cara Mia Theater group to discuss and support the ‘Crystal City 1969’ theater production. From these discussions, the group planned the symposium around the performance of the play,” said Gilda Garcia, vice president for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

Lorenzo Garcia, associate professor and member of UNT’s Latino Interest Group, said this discussion provided “great timing” for pulling together all of these events, and soon the schedule was full.

Gilda Garcia, along with the rest of the group, recom-mends the events to anyone interested in the history of education in Texas, educating the Hispanic community or student activism. The event is open and free to the UNT community.

“With more students in the pipeline, UNT will continue to have the opportunity to bring in gifted students.”

—Bonita Jacobs, executive director

toward funding innovative strat-egies to promote college comple-tion, $2.5 billion for modernizing college facilities and $500 million for creating easier access to many online courses.

“Ultimately, this plan will put more students in the pipe-line for receiving degrees,” said Bonita Jacobs, executive director of the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students Executive Director. “With more students in the pipeline, UNT will continue to have the opportu-nity to bring in gifted students.” Jacobs explained the insti-tute was initiated in January 2003 because of the steadily increasing number of transfer students.

Consisting of a group of profes-

sionals who study the transfer migration pattern of students and what culminates their success, the institute conducts research, writes articles and hosts confer-ences. The information it gathers is based on studies from all over the country.

There are built-in incentives for students who receive their two-year degree, and also for those looking to move on to four-year universities, and that affects UNT, Jacobs said.

Transfer students are offered many programs that allow the students and professionals to work together to provide a seam-less transfer as well as services while they’re here, she said.

“Growth in transfer rates will increase as well. Many students who continue to enroll at TCC aren’t just looking for a two-year degree,” Ximenez said. “Students come to community colleges because they’re local, cost effi-cient and the programs all transfer directly to universities in Texas.”

In the Jan. 29 edition of the Daily, the article “UNT sports hero dies at 92” incorrectly identified Carl Mason as Walt E. Parker in the picture. The photo is of Mason, who is not deceased. Also, the photo should have given credit to the UNT alumni magazine, The North Texan.

In the Jan. 27 edition of the Daily, the Campus Chat misquoted Rennah Dunavant. Her quote should read, “I want the troops to stay in Iraq until the job is done.”

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BY NICOLE LANDRYStaff Writer

UNT’s College of Music boasts a highly competitive program, as well as a Grammy-nominated jazz band, but many music students said they feel UNT is not holding its practice facilities to the same standards.

The college has two practice buildings on Avenue C, as well as the Music Annex Building and Bain Hall on Highland Street, where music students can go to hone their talents.

“The problem with them is that the acoustics in the rooms are very bad,” said Akeem Sylvester, a music performance sophomore. “I personally think the acoustics in the hallway are better than the acoustics in the rooms.”

Jay Raadt, a music theory freshman, is so fed up with the practice buildings that he created

a group on Facebook, “Revitalize the UNT Music Practice Rooms,” to express his discontent.

At press time, the group had 681 members.

Raadt said the group was created on a whim, and that he did not expect it to take off the way it did.

“I invited some of my friends and the next day, it had 200 people and I was in charge of this thing all of a sudden.”

According to the College of Music Web site, the North and South Music Practice buildings alone have 243 spaces to help meet the practice needs of UNT students.

However, members of the Facebook group complain of cockroach infestations, malfunc-tioning toilets and water foun-tains, and that the rooms are too small and not soundproof.

While some students place

the blame solely on UNT and the College of Music, Ashley Hamer feels that part of the blame should be directed inward.

“The insects, plumbing and A/C problems are one thing, but the graffiti, litter, dried gum and bodily fluids are plainly because of students,” she said.

Bouquet corresponded via e-mail with Raadt on behalf of UNT President Gretchen Bataille.

However, Raadt said he was not exactly comforted by the exchange.

“[The faculty wants] to have the 21st century décor, and that’s not what everybody wants. We just want it to be better than it is,” he said.

John Murphy, chair of the Division of Jazz Studies, joined the group after hearing from James Scott, the college’s dean, that students were contacting

the president.Murphy offered his support

and told the members that the person with the most direct role in the matter would be Rebeca Galindo, the facilities manager of the College of Music.

“I am confident that action will be taken soon to improve conditions in the practice build-ings,” Murphy said.

Jon Nelson, the dean of oper-ations and Galindo’s adviser, said the university has a plan to replace the buildings within the next few years.

Until then, he said he strongly urges students to contact Galindo or him with further problems that need addressing.

For more information and to view e-mails between Raadt and Bouquet, visit the group’s Facebook page by searching, “Revamp the UNT Music Practice Rooms,” in the search bar.

Facebook group encourages building revamp

Money mentors ease students’ financial stressBY GRACIELA RAZOSenior Staff Writer

As the semester progresses and UNT students think about moving out of the dorms or even purchasing their first home, money worries could get in the way.

To relieve students’ financially stressful situations, the Student Money Management Center provides student mentors in the Student-to-Student Financial Success Program.

“The mentoring program is to give students an opportunity to work with other students who are probably experiencing the same financial hardships,” said Rachel Grimes, program coor-dinator.

The program began in 2007 to help students become more comfortable with talking to an experienced consultant about their money issues, Grimes said.

Students have the choice to talk to an older financial consultant, but Grimes said many students go for the one-on-one peer mentoring approach because it helps them calm their nerves when talking about money, an often touchy subject.

Trained mentors are trained on the subjects of credit card debt, student loans, apartment leases and budgeting.

The upperclassmen consul-

tants are also trained to give weekly finance workshops, ranging in topics from creating an emergency fund to saving for a wedding to planning vaca-tions.

“Coming from a student’s perspective, it’s not like a lecture,” Grimes said. “It’s more like ‘This is my experience and let me show you what has worked and what hasn’t.’”

The mentoring program assists about three students a week, mostly on the topic of making a budget, student loans and study abroad programs in the spring, mentor Dandre Johnson said.

Johnson, a communications senior, has worked with the Student-to-Student Financial Success Program for two years, setting up appointments to talk about students’ present and future money situations.

“I wanted to learn about personal finance myself and be able to teach it to others,” Johnson said. “It’s something really important that our educa-tion system doesn’t teach in most places.”

Students are not forced to come back for follow up appoint-ments, but Johnson said mentors check up on them periodically to see if the plan they set up for students helped.

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money problems, Johnson stated. However, advisers are trained to make them feel at ease, and to keep their names and informa-tion confidential.

“We try not to make them feel overwhelmed, but we want to instill a sense of accountability in them as well,” Johnson said.

Mentor Latisha Stephenson said she believes the student approach works better than students getting money advice from one of the older advisers.

“Going to a staff member may seem like you’re talking to your parents,” Stephenson, a psychology senior, said. “The students feel more comfortable with us, and they’re more willing to open up about certain issues because they don’t want an adult to look down on them.”

Grimes said since students spend so much of their money at the university, the school should do something to help them spend wisely, and that is the exact goal of the Student-to-Student Financial Success Program.

The approach of workshops

and personal consultations has worked, giving students a stronger sense of financial independence and responsibility, Grimes said.

“Financial goals will be with you the rest of your life, so this is a great point to begin achieving them,” Grimes said.

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Jazz studies senior Rory Quinn takes a break from running rhythms in his prac-tice room. Quinn spends hours practicing in this space every week.

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Dandre Johnson, a communication studies senior, presents a workshop to stu-dents Monday evening in Terrill Hall. Johnson works as a senior peer mentor at the Student Money Management Center in Chestnut Hall.

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By Sean GormanSenior Staff Writer

Coming off a key road win against a conference rival, the UNT men’s basketball team failed to finish its road trip unscathed, falling to the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 69 to 64.

A late rally wasn’t enough for the Mean Green (13-8, 6-5), as the Blue Raiders’ (13-10, 8-3) fifth-straight win keeps them in a first-place tie in the Sun Belt Conference East Division.

“I thought that we came out and let them be the aggressor as opposed to last year when we were, and we just didn’t set the tone tonight,” coach Johnny Jones said. “They made a lot of tough plays late, and they are a great basketball team at home.”

Sitting in third place in the Sun Belt West Division with eight games left, the Mean Green needs to play its best basketball to contend for the division lead.

“We’re not out of it just yet,” senior forward Eric Tramiel said. “There’s still enough games left for us to make a run, and I think we’re starting to play our best basketball.”

Both teams started slow from the beginning, as MTSU held an 8-6 lead after the first five minutes.

“I think defensively we started off strong, but our guys need to do a better job on the offensive side of the basketball early on,” head coach Johnny Jones said.

Led by three-pointers from Desmond Yates and James Gallman, the Blue Raiders stormed ahead with a 14-4 run.

“Overall, our defense is improving, but we can’t let teams go on runs like that,” Tramiel said.

After UNT cut the deficit with an 11-4 run of its own, junior forward George Odufuwa made a three-point play with less than a second left to narrow the Blue Raider lead to 35-31 at half.

By Ben BaByStaff Writer

The UNT women’s basket-ball team hit an all-time low Saturday.

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders wiped the floor with the Mean Green, defeating it 119-51 in Murfreesburo, Tenn.

“I feel like we were just over-whelmed by the pressure,” head coach Shanice Stephens said.

Saturday’s output by MTSU (15-5, 10-1) was the most points surrendered by UNT (6-16, 3-8) in school history. The previous record was set in 1976, when Baylor racked up 115 points against the Mean Green in the school’s first women’s basket-ball game.

Middle Tennessee broke numerous records of its own, including scoring the most points in school history, while shooting 50 percent from the floor.

They also broke the school record for most three-pointers in the game, nailing 20 on their way to a staggering 58 percent from behind the three-point-line.

“We really didn’t follow our game plan, which was to make sure that they didn’t have any

daylight,” junior guard Niq’ky Hughes said. “Once you touch a stove, you know it’s hot and you don’t want to touch it again. With us, it’s kind of like we let them shoot it, but then we kept letting them go. We kept touching that stove.”

Turnovers once again led to the downfall of the Mean Green, coughing up the ball 34 times, which is four off its season high.

Middle Tennessee capital-ized on those opportunities, punishing the visitors with 53 points off those turnovers.

“I think when you’re intimi-dated of a team and the pressure, you’re more likely to be tentative, anxious, and in that type of situ-ation the consequences can be dire,” Stephens said.

The Mean Green jumped out to an early lead, but that soon dissipated. Middle Tennessee used a 30-0 run to take the lead, which they never relinquished. The Blue Raiders used another 21-0 run in the middle of the second half to reach the century mark in points.

“We weren’t really covering up the shooters like we were

supposed to,” freshman guard Raquel Cuffie said.

Hughes had 19 points to lead UNT, tying her career high while usual contributors, freshman forward Jasmine Godbolt and senior guard Brittany James, were did not factor in the contest.

James had just three points in the contest while Godbolt had six. James has been shut down in her last two games, averaging five points over that stretch, which equalsis 10 less than her season average per game.

Blue Raiders’ senior guard Jackie Pickel led the visitors to victory with an outstanding, all-around performance. Pickel had 28 points, six assists and seven steals in 29 minutes.

Pickel, who came into the game averaging 13.1 points per game, also went 6-of-8 from beyond the three-point-line.

“We don’t have outstanding leadership at this time, and it shows,” Stephens said.

The Mean Green will try to stop its losing skid at two-game at 7 p.m. Wednesday night, when the Florida Atlantic Owls come to Denton to face the Mean Green.

Mean Green falls short in comeback attempt

UNT suffers record loss

“We did a good job of keeping it close,” Odufuwa said.

MTSU stayed in control for most of the second half, leading by nine points with 3:15 left in the game.

Three-pointers by junior guards Collin Mangrum and Shannon Shorter and a three-point play by Cameron Spencer brought the Mean Green to within two with 1:35 remaining, but MTSU scored off a turnover with 40 seconds left to secure the win.

“It’s always tough to come back on the road when you play a team of this caliber,” Jones said. “I’m proud of my players for coming back the way they did and making it a lot closer than some people

thought.”UNT’s late efforts were the

closest it came, as it trailed the Blue Raiders the entire game.

Finishing with 11 points and 13 rebounds, Odufuwa recorded his eighth double-double this season, which is the most in a single season under Jones.

“I just want to continue doing everything I can to help my team win,” Odufuwa said. “This is the most important time of the year, and we have some things to work on going into the final stretch.”

The Mean Green will be tested at home at 7 p.m. on Thursday night when they host the Florida Atlantic Owls, co-leaders of the Sun Belt East and winners of five in a row.

Photo by Ryan bibb/FiLEFreshman guard Caitlin Hawkins dribbles. The Mean Green lost 119-51 to Middle Tennessee on Saturday.

Photo by Ryan bibb/FiLEJunior guard Shannon Shorter goes for a layup against South Alabama ear-lier this season. UNT lost 69-64 to Middle Tennessee on Saturday.

By eric JohnSonSenior Staff Writer

On Friday, 16 days after offen-sive coordinator Todd Ford left UNT to become the head coach at Ridge High School, the Mean Green found an offensive archi-tect in Mike Canales, who held the same position at South Florida.

Canales has 25 years of colle-giate coaching experience, all of them on the offensive side of the ball. His years of developing passing offenses should fit right in with UNT’s spread system.

UNT has gained more than 4,000 yards in each of the last

three seasons, and Canales should help improve a passing attack that ranked in the middle of the Sun Belt last season.

He has coached five different quarterbacks who earned the distinction of All-American, and he should help with the growth and maturity of Riley Dodge, who will be entering his second season as the starting quarterback.

All signs point toward success for the new Mean Green coor-dinator.

His career is highlighted by stints at North Carolina State, as the passing game coordi-nator and quarterbacks coach, Arizona and South Florida, as the offensive coordinator, and

the New York Jets, as the receivers coach.

During his two years at NC State the Wolfpack finished in the top 10 nationally in passing offense. He also helped develop future Pro-Bowl quarterback Phillip Rivers and Jets wide receiver Jericho Cotchery.

Canales then moved to the NFL as the receiver’s coach for the Jets who helped Santana Moss to a 1,100-yard season and a Pro-Bowl selection.

After one season in the NFL, he returned to the NCAA to be the offensive coordinator for Arizona, where he spent three seasons. During his time at Arizona, the Wildcats averaged more than 400

yards per game, an improvement of more than 60 yards.

The 47-year-old father of six has spent the last three seasons as the offensive coordinator at South Florida, where he engi-neered a passing attack that led to program records in total offense and yards per game.

With a deep receiving corps consisting of Jamaal Jackson, Mike Outlaw, Tyler Stradford, Will Cole and Darius Carey as well as first team All-Sun Belt running back Lance Dunbar at their disposal, Todd Dodge and his new offensive coordi-nator should make UNT the premiere offense in the Sun Belt Conference.

The Script: New coach improves staff Opinion

Monday, President Barack Obama unveiled a record-setting $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2011. This is roughly an $ 800 bil l ion increase from his previous budget proposal.

This is ta k ing place as Americans across the country are being forced to reduce their expenses in any way they can as a result of the poor economic conditions. However, the Obama admin-istration seems to have no problem with increasing the government’s expenditures dramatically.

Taxpayers have seen only marginal results from the tril-lion-plus dollars allocated by previous budgets to bailout the financial and auto indus-tries. It is irresponsible to continue to expand govern-ment spending so substan-tially in an effort to curtail the recession, when the outcomes of similar spending projects remain so dismally ineffec-tive.

One of t he more inter-esting components in this pr op os e d bud get s e em s to have the right idea — a three-year freeze on domestic

non-security discretionary spending. This “freeze” would prevent spending in these areas from being increased over the course of the next three years.

F e d e r a l d e p a r t m e n t s such as Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, are included within the secu-rity category of discretionary spending, so they w il l be unaffected.

Socia l prog ra ms such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, while included in the category of non-secu-rity discretionary spending, have been exempted from the freeze.

This proposal may initially seem like a major behavioral shift away from Washington’s monstrous spending habits toward a new era of f iscal responsibility, but it is not.

The portion of the budget being frozen is only about $447 billion or 17 percent of the budget, and the antici-pated savings from this freeze for the 2011 fiscal year is only $20 billion or 5 percent of the total budget proposal.

This time last year Obama projected a $94 billion deficit

for our current f iscal year, and the deficit is currently at a chart-topping $1.4 tril-lion and climbing with addi-tional spending proposals for this year still being consid-ered. This time he estimates the 2011 fiscal year deficit at $54 billion.

However, based on what happened t his yea r, it is unlikely the federal govern-ment will restrain itself from def icits fa r la rger in t he future.

O ne e x a mple of how this proposition will affect domestic spending is that it calls for a drastic overhaul in current NASA funding. It would effectively end NASA’s Constellation project, which has the goal of returning to the moon and would put 7,000 Florida jobs in serious danger of being lost.

While a so-called “freeze” might seem like a new concept for the federal government, it is not a new concept for everyday American families and students. Families have to make ends meet with a balanced budget year-to-year instead of simply preventing some small portion of their

budget f rom get t i ng a ny larger. Since this proposed budget is subject to congres-sional approval and changes, let us hope Congress wakes up and does what would be best for this country.

It is time for the federal government to start taking lessons from American fami-lies in these tough economic t i mes a nd ma ke ser ious efforts to balance the budget, lower deficits and reduce our national debt.

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

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Men must help prevent rape

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Campus ChatWhat would you like to see

included in the new Fry Street development?

“Good restaurants, preferably a pizza place.”

“Nearby coffee shops, places to study and

hangout.”

“A hockey rink since there are none in Denton.”

If Thursday’s $8 billion award in federal funding to begin building a nationwide grid of high-speed rail lines is any indi-cation of things to come, Texas proponents of fast rail will have to continue waiting.

The nation’s second most populous state received about 0.14 percent of the total allocation, a mere $11 million. When compared to the state’s request of $1.8 billion in grants, Texas taxpayers and potential intercity commuters are left to scratch their heads and wonder exactly what caused such a lump of coal to be left in their transportation stimulus stockings.

After all, California and Florida — two states with similar economic, population and geographical needs — received billions to construct high-speed rail lines that will travel at speeds surpassing 220 and 160 mph respectively.

With plans already drawn for a rail line that would travel along the Interstate Highway 35 corridor and link all four of the state’s largest metropolitan areas, supporters have anxiously awaited the project for years. This federal snubbing will surely dampen the hopes of supporters, and stall Texas’ assimilation into the streamline 21st-century world of high-speed, environmentally and economically efficient interstate travel. Texas is ready for high-speed rail ... Or are we?

Better to waitState leaders have been criticized for not aggressively lobbying

for a large chunk of the $8 billion allotted by the Obama admin-istration. Both Florida and California embraced the fight for money. In Florida, lawmakers passed a high-speed rail bill, while California voters passed $10 billion to finance rail projects.

Because of the historic popularity for transportation initia-tives among voters, it’s likely such an approval could have been achieved in Texas as well. However, it was wise for lawmakers to resist such an expensive and yet unproven undertaking at this early stage in development.

Aside from the fiscal strain of providing money for a high-speed rail line that will do little to unclog city-to-city traffic that rarely exists in the first place, a hurried attempt to put in place such rail lines will likely result in the construction of more conventional passenger trains.

The lines connecting Los Angeles to Sacramento and Tampa to Orlando are, so far, the only two projects that can be consid-ered “high-speed” under Obama’s plan, which classifies trains as such if they reach speeds of more than110 mph. All of the other projects funded by the stimulus, including lines in California, Washington and a line connecting Chicago to St. Louis, will travel at speeds reaching about 80 mph. They will be neither cheaper nor substantially faster than traditional highway road trips.

High-speed rail lines will eventually criss-cross the country, but there is no current need to rush for such a system in this state. Yes, it would be nice to get on a train in Denton and arrive in Austin two hours later, but reality negates that luxury. The greater necessities are providing for the 8.3 percent of Texans who are currently unemployed, and insuring that Texas continues to recover economically.

Now is not the time to look to high-speed rail as a viable alternative to the Texas highway system. A rush into such an undertaking would create serious financial stress on an already strained economy and alleviate little in environmental costs. On the distant horizon, in a much more robust economic climate, we look forward to the arrival of high-speed passenger rail.

Until then, we fill our tanks and drive on.

T here t hey a re, t hose messages that stalk as an attacker would.

Don’t leave your dr in k unattended. Don’t walk home alone. Don’t wear this. Don’t do that. Don’t go there.

It’s a system of guidelines t hat seems to leave rape victims culpable if they didn’t follow it.

According to t he Rape, Abuse and Incest National Net work, sex ua l assau lts occur every two minutes, and close to 99 percent of rapists are male.

So, among the echoing, incessant directives to poten-tial victims, where are the messages to men?

By fai l ing to imply that there is a responsibility for

men to prevent rape, we enable would-be attackers by placing the burden of preven-tion on potentia l v ict ims, male or female.

To put t his in context, consider drunken driving.

The overarching warnings about drinking and driving are aimed at the potential law-breaker: You could lose your license. You could be arrested. You could kill your-self or someone else.

There are few, if any, inane messages about staying home if you don’t want to be killed by a drunken driver.

And, unlike rape, if someone is hit by a drunken driver, no one looks at the victim and tries to place responsibility on him or her: “They went out

driving at 2 a.m. They were asking for it.”

Yet, time and time again, this rationale is applied to rape, absolving rapists of their own liability, while continuing on with the absurd sermons of warning — absurd because they shouldn’t be necessary.

Like these messages, found on a “preventing rape” Web site: if you say yes to one kind of sex, you should be prepared to have other kinds of sex your partner may want. The list goes on, essentially suggesting ways for poten-tial victims to curtail their freedom to prevent being attacked.

Obviously, the “no means no” campaign isn’t enough.

It ’s t ime to change t he

message. It ’s t ime to be clear.

It’s time men shared the responsibility in preventing rape.

Kerry Solan is a journalism senior. She can be reached at KerrySolan@my.unt.edu.

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