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BY KRYSTLE CANTUStaff Writer
The Transportation Security Administration is implementing full body scans, swabs and pat-downs at all airports.
The full body scans peer through the subject’s clothes to create a detailed, nude image. Controversy has arisen over the practice, which some have considered intrusive. More than 20 airports have the full body scan systems installed and in use.
“It’s not mandatory,” said Andrea McCauley, a spokes-woman for the administration. “Passengers who do not want to go through the whole body imaging may have a pat-down instead.”
All full body scans are optional and will be conducted at airport checkpoints.
McCauley said the officers viewing the scans are in a room away from the checkpoint and are not able to view any of the passengers’ faces or a fully life-like representation.
“They do not see the person that goes into the technology,” she said. “On top of that, the face is blurred out and the image is never stored or trans-mitted. Once that person is cleared, within a matter of seconds, that image is gone forever.”
John Verdi, a senior counsel director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said that’s not the case.
The center filed a Freedom of Information Act request in April 2009 asking for the technical specifications for the machines.
“We worked with TSA to try to get those specifications released,” Verdi said. “TSA refused to release them, so we sued the agency last year. In December, as a result of the lawsuit, we acquired from TSA the detailed technical docu-ments that discuss what the capabilities of the body scan-ners are.”
Forty body scan units have been distributed, and over the next few years McCauley expects another 350 units to be deployed.
“It only pertains to if you’re standing in line for screening or at the checkpoint or beyond the checkpoint,” McCauley, said. “It is body scanning tech-nology or whole body imaging. However, we’ve put privacy filters in place. It’s a robotic image that the officer will see.”
Verdi said the documents contradict the representa-tions that TSA has made to the public.
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The European Chemical Industry Council and the International Life Sciences Institute are sponsoring a research study by Duane Huggett of the biology department.
Huggett is researching the toxicity levels of harmful chem-icals in fish. His purpose is to evaluate a fish’s ability to main-tain dangerous levels of unsafe chemicals within their tissue.
“The study is focused on deter-mining short-term methods for testing if certain chemicals will accelerate in the tissue of fish,” Huggett said.
The study has run for about two years as an independently funded research project. It recently hooked grants totaling $120,000 from the council and the institute, expanding the study’s possibilities, Huggett said.
“Fish is an upper-trophic species,” he said, meaning they’re just below carnivores because they are predators who hunt for food in their environment.
Humans are the ultimate predator, though, eating fish and other animals on a day-to-day basis.
T h e W o r l d H e a l t h Organization stated in a 2002 report titled “Global and regional food consumption patterns and trends” that “worldwide, about a billion people rely on fish as their main source of animal proteins.”
That means trouble for those at the top of the food chain, Huggett said.
“We’re concerned w ith humans eating contaminated fish and the human health risks associated with that, as well as the ecological problem of the matter,” he said.
Depending on the type of chemical contamination and
severity, food poisoning and death are possible outcomes humans could experience from tainted fish.
Chris Adams, a kinesiology junior, said fish food poisoning is nothing to take lightly.
“It was the worst feeling I’ve
ever experienced in my life. It’s terrible,” Adams said. “I spent a couple days bent over the toilet throwing up day and night.”
Christopher Henry, a UNT alumnus and associate attorney at the Denton-based firm, Minor & Jester P.C., said health risks and the possibility of death are not the only consequences.
The legal liability food compa-nies and restaurants bear also comes into play.
“Say you get E. coli from meat or chicken,” he said. “The powers that be responsible for that are also accountable for any and all medical bills and personal injury expenses, both financially and emotionally. In the case of a fatality, a wrongful death action is what would be filed.”
Huggett said that his research is based on avoiding all the prob-lems created by contaminated fish. Europe has been serious about eliminating harmful chemicals in consumer-grade fish in recent years, but time and money is a factor, he said.
His experiments are reduced-factor tests and simulations.
PHOTO BY KAITLYN PRICE/PHOTOGRAPHER
E-mails, letters, and memos, obtained through an open records request, show that during the months leading to UNT President Gretchen Bataille’s resignation, tensions between her and the UNT System erupted over an initiative to acquire a building in McKinney and the termination of the lease of the University Centers at Dallas, which were undertaken without the System’s knowledge.
UNT professor tests fish for toxins
They can, with a slight margin-of-error, offer the same predic-tions that studies involving more money and larger populations of fish produce.
“I expose fish for one to seven days and measure whether or not the drugs I introduce accelerate in their tissue. Then I compare my outcomes to more standard-ized results of studies done typi-cally during the course of 42 days,” he said.
Huggett said his research
benefits more than just those who eat fish.
“I think the pharmaceu-tical industry can benefit from this research, as well,” he said. “Medications incorporate a diverse set of chemicals. It is important to know the toxicity of these chemicals in an aquatic environment.”
Huggett’s research is funded through June 2011. He antici-pates great success with all of his experiments, he said.
Duane Huggett, an Enviromental Science professor at North Texas, is develop-ing a new screening process to detect hazardous chemicals in organisms.
PHOTO BY KAYTI EDWARDS/PHOTOGRAPHER
Airports to use full body scans
BY LISA GARZASenior Staff Writer
Public records show that during the months leading to UNT President Gretchen Bataille’s resignation, tensions between her and the UNT System erupted over an initia-tive to acquire a building in McKinney and termination of the lease of the University Centers at Da l las, wh ich were undertaken without the System’s knowledge.
E-mails, letters, and memos obtained through an open records request also demon-strate that Bataille proposed a 5 percent tuition increase to the students after Chancellor Lee Jackson said he was against it. The documents reveal that she privately discussed ways to oppose a plan to combine i n f or m a t i on t e c h n o l o g y depa r t ment s a nd hu ma n resource services.
“I prefer to hear what the academic needs are, discuss opt ions in a professiona l manner and then come to a consensus decision about the best options,” Jackson wrote to the Board of Regents in a Feb. 5 memorandum concerning Bataille’s actions.
Bataille said Thursday in a phone interview that she did not act beyond her authority as president and would not
Documents provide clues to Bataille’s resignation
participate “in a he said/she said kind of thing with the chancellor that really doesn’t have anything to do with the decisions he made about my position.”
“I did not do anything that was out of line for the presi-dent of a university who was expected to do what was best for the institution,” Bataille
said A national search for the
next president will begin soon, according to school officials. Interim President Phil Diebel will remain in office until the end of May, when he will be replaced with a yet-to-be-named interim president who will serve a one-year term.
McKinney ProjectBataille sent an e-mail to
Jackson on Jan. 8 informing him that a group of senior a d m i n i s t r at or s t r a v e le d to McKinney to consider a proposed gift of the former Collin County Courthouse — a 165,000-square-foot facility on six acres of land.
Bataille told Jackson that
she had spoken w it h t he McKinney mayor and City Council members before the winter holiday and was told that the city might contribute $10 million to the building’s renovation costs.
The offer was contingent on UNT using the building as a research and teaching facility to promote sustainability.
Bataille signed a letter of intent on Jan. 15 on behalf of UNT to the city of McKinney that established a coopera-tive effort in sustainability, including the possibility of acquiring the courthouse.
The university president does not have the authority to make purchasing decisions without approval from the Board of Regents.
Bataille told the Daily that she sent Jackson an e-mail informing him of what was happening but said she did not know if he saw the letter.
“The details of those discus-sions were w it hheld from System staff and our offer of assistance to analyze this project was declined,” Jackson said in an e-mail to the Daily on Thursday. “This has delayed by two months the gathering of the customary engineering and appraisal data that are necessary for any real estate decision.”
Bataille told the Daily she is aware that the System and UNT Board of Regents must address any issue regarding the purchase or receipt of prop-erty but “we were not close to proposing either accepting property or purchasing or renovating property.”
Provost Wendy Wilkins, who was among the administrators that helped draft the letter of intent, said the purpose was “to secure more time to consider what our options might be.”
Former president butted heads with System
See E-MAILS on Page 2
“We’re concerned with humans eating contaminated
fish.”—Duane Huggett
Biology faculty member
See TSA on Page 2
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Friday, April 2, 2010
BY SHEA YARBOROUGHSenior Staff Writer
Months after the earthquake hit Haiti, dead bodies still line the streets and remained in crumpled buildings.
After weeks of waiting, Kailash Gupta, a public administration graduate student, and Abdul-Akeem Sadiq of the public admin-istration faculty were granted permission to travel to Haiti using the Quick Response Research Grant, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Gupta and Sadiq’s skill set is researching the care of dead bodies. They are the only people in the world who are studying this topic.
“This is disgusting and very bad but is an excellent research opportunity, though I would never wish for this to happen,” Gupta said.
The 7.0-magnitude earth-quake, which hit Haiti on Jan. 12, left thousands dead.
Corpses — removed from collapsed buildings and placed on the side of the road — were piled in the streets of Port-au-Prince. Some were doused with gasoline and set on fire to rid the city of the stench of decomposing bodies, Gupta said.
“That never should have happened,” he said.
Because the Haiti earthquake was so catastrophic, the Science Foundation created the Rapid Response Grant.
Gupta and Sadiq submitted a proposal named the Rapid Cross-Cultural Analysis of Disposition of Identified Bodies in Haiti. They were awarded a $40,000 grant to go to Haiti in May, Gupta said.
Mass grave at TityanThirty miles outside Port-au-
Prince, an uninhabited, treeless patch of land is now home to Haiti’s unidentified dead.
Front-loading trucks, bull-dozers and dump trucks are used to scoop the bodies from the city streets and haul them to the mass grave at Titiyan, Gupta said.
“It’s degradation of human beings, treating them like dirt,” he said.
Trenches were dug and bodies were piled in by the dump-truck load. The trenches were filled with the white dirt and rock of the surrounding earth, Sadiq said. He couldn’t help but notice the clear blue lake at the foot of the mountain, which served as the backdrop for Titayan.
“It was beautiful,” he said. Gupta is no stranger to mass
amounts of dead bodies or natural disaster, but he said nothing on this scale or the lack of respect for
Wilkins said there was concern that the building would be demolished, after media reports surfaced saying city officials had deemed the prop-erty “unsalvageable,” and reno-vation estimates were about $36 million.
“There was one moment in time where we thought that somebody else would fund the renovations, but we’ve known for quite awhile that the city is not offering that, at least not at the moment,” Wilkins said.
Jackson said the System will continue to review the McKinney proposal. If it is determined to be a priority project that UNT can support and shows precedence over other campus needs, then the System will prepare to support that decision.
Diebel and a representative of the System will meet with the McKinney city manager later this month to discuss the project, said Deborah Leliaert, vice president for university relations, communications and marketing.
UCD leaseAfter nearly two weeks of
e-mail discussions, Bataille and Texas A&M University Commerce President Dan Jones presented a letter to Jackson on Dec. 21 informing him that the Universities Center at Dallas would not renew its lease, effec-tive Sept. 1.
“We recognize that the simul-taneous expansions of two institutions of higher learning in a single building may restrict both operations,” Jones and Bataille wrote. “Accordingly, the Universities Center at Dallas has decided that we need a home where we can pursue unlimited expansion.”
UNT a nd Texas A&M University-Commerce offer courses at the Universities Center at Dallas in the UNT System building.
Jackson responded two days later in a memo, saying that the letter was the first he was made aware of their intent and that there was no previous mention of a need for more space.
He requested more infor-mation, including the antici-pated educational space needs and financial plans. He also warned that “many agencies and individuals will have to be consulted” and suggested
the use of two empty floors for their expansion needs.
The move would contradict the terms of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which approved the System’s purchase of the building in 2006.
More than one month later, Jackson was still waiting.
“We have had several conver-sations about the UCD ... but the level of detail you have provided to date is insufficient to allow the UNT System to make a thorough and respon-sive proposal,” Jackson wrote in a memo addressed to Bataille.
Bataille told the Daily that because “UNT in Denton is already short on space, I was interested in exploring any options to accommodate the space needs for the campus.”
She also said she supported giving the System full use of the existing space in the building so additional money to reno-vate f loors would not “add to the debt level for the UNT System.”
Shared ServicesA firm was contracted by the
System in January 2009 to eval-uate the information technology and human resources functions and make a proposal.
The Board asked the System to find ways to consolidate the technology used so each insti-tution could use shared equip-ment, licenses, staffing and applications. The Board also wanted the System to consider ways to automate human resources services, such as payroll and benefits admin-istration.
The firm recommended that employees of both departments work for a team of officials across the System.
Bataille and Health Science Center President Scott Ransom sent a letter to Jackson expressing their objections to the recommendations after Bataille sent e-mail requests for support to several admin-istrators.
“We recommend that the efforts we have undertaken to reap the benefits of consol-idated shared services on our campuses be allowed to continue without the imposi-tion of a centralized-govern-ment model from the System,” Bataille and Ransom wrote.
In the November Board of Regents meeting, they approved a plan to seek consolidation
within the next few years.“At the time I left UNT,
we had established a Shared Services Council that was working its way through these issues to sort out these kinds of questions, and I believed that progress was being made,” Bataille told the Daily.
Tuition IncreaseIn a Dec. 22 memo to
Bataille, Ransom and John Price of UNT-Dallas, Jackson asked that the spending plans for the next two fiscal years limit tuition and fee increases to 3.5 percent.
At a Feb. 3 public tuition hearing, Bataille told students that she planned to propose a 5 percent increase in tuition and fees to the Board of Regents.
Two days later, Jackson wrote an e-mail to Bataille.
“I expressed my clear intent that we seek to hold our overall academic undergraduate cost increases to less than 3.95 percent, preferably to 3.5 percent, recognizing that other universities in the state face the same challenges we do and are not, so far as we can tell, planning increases above that level,” Jackson wrote. “This is a much less collaborative budget than we should have.”
Bataille said in an e-mail to the Daily that she thor-oughly considered her deci-sion to recommend the tuition increase but that it became clear that “if we were to achieve the goals we desired in a time, when it was likely that state funds would not meet our needs, we needed to make reasonable recommendations to continue to advance our agenda.”
According to Bataille and Jackson’s calendars, they met Feb. 7. E-mails show Bataille assumed the discus-sion would revolve around the tuition proposal that would be presented at the Board of Regents meeting later that week and offered to bring Jean Bush, acting senior associate vice president of finance, to help re-calculate the budget.
Jackson declined, saying “you and I need to discuss this first between us ... there are several other Board meeting issues that you and I need to discuss.”
Three days later, Bataille announced her resignation.
The Boa rd eventua l ly approved a 3.95 percent increase.
E-mails, memos reveal conflictsTSA implements new security
PHOTO BY CAREY WAGNER/SUN SENTINEL/MCTThe Transportation Security Administration is implementing full body scans, swabs, and pat-downs at all airports including the Dallas-Ft.Worth airport.
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UNT student, professor to study Haitian dead
PHOTO COURTESY OF ABDUL AKEEM SADIQ
A young Haitian carries her belongings in a wheelbarrow following the destruction of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck on Jan. 12
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“TSA has represented that the machines are not capable of storing traveler’s images,” he said. “They’ve represented to the public that these are not capable of transmitting travel-er’s images.”
“What the documents reveal is that these machines are designed and purpose-built to store, transmit and retain images. They are designed and purpose-built to disable any privacy rhythm that may be in place.”
Verdi said more information on the case and documents are available and posted publicly at www.epic.org.
The administration has employed pat-downs since the administration was started,.
McCauley said the adminis-tration also plans to implement random swabbing of passengers’ hands.
the bodies has been documented in modern times.
He said he is worried about the psychological ramifications it will have on the society as a whole.
“Unless there is proper closure — family members unable to see the body of their loved one — it will haunt them for the rest of their life,” Gupta said.
The Haitian people celebrate death with songs, celebration and bright colors, much likein New
Orleans, Sadiq said, in keeping with their shared Voodoo heri-tage. But many families of earth-quake victims will have no chance to do that.
Resilient peopleWhere buildings once stood,
tent cities have now taken over, a sign of the resilience of the Haitian people, Sadiq said. Every night they pack in, group together and share in each other’s grief, which
he said is like group therapy. In the morning, they file back out to their everyday lives.
Some go back to their houses to salvage what little they have or to take a bath if there’s water, then head to work, he said.
“People try to engage in normal activity during the day so they don’t think about the horrific memories they have,” Sadiq said.
After their trip in May, Gupta
said he will travel to India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to monitor how those coun-tries have bounced back after natural disasters. He and Sadiq will then compile an analysis to help create change in policies for the handling of unidentified dead bodies.
“There has to be a simple and effective way to make sure people don’t disappear ..., which is what happened in Haiti,” Sadiq said.
“We’ve been swabbing baggage for years at the checkpoint,” she said. “This is a real quick swab of the palm of your hand done at the checkpoint.
Swabbing is a process used to test for explosive or other chem-ical residue on the subject.
Katharine O’Brien, an inter-disciplinary studies senior, said
that the scanners should only be allowed if there is a prob-able cause.
“It’s not right. I would be mad and feel awkward if someone wanted to do a full body scan on me,” she said.
“I don’t think that they are bad, but they shouldn’t be used on every person.”
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MUSIC:Provocative R&B diva Erykah Badu
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Friday, April 2, 2010
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Astros third baseman Chris Johnson sat by his locker Thursday morning and started packing up his bags for a new destination.
Unlike the past three springs when he left camp for Class AAA Round Rock, Johnson will be heading for Houston later tonight to begin the season with the big league team for the first time in his career.
Johnson found out he made the team earlier in the week and hit his seventh home run Thursday in Houston’s 4-2 loss against a Detroit Tigers split squad that did not include any players on the 40-man roster.
“It was awesome, the hard work paid off,” Johnson said. “I was a little bit surprised. We’ve got a bunch of new staff and a new manager and my
goal coming in was to show them what I can do. You don’t get many chances for a first impression, so I just wanted to have the best spring I could.”
Eric Roof had a two-run si ng le du r i ng t he Tigers three-run seventh inning and finished 2-for-2. Hernan Perez added two hits and an RBI.
With All-Star first baseman Lance Berkman starting the season on the 15-day disabled l ist, ma nager Brad Mi l ls wanted another infielder and right-handed bat with pop on his bench.
The Astros will possibly face three left-handers (Barry Zito, Cole Hamels and Jamie Moyer) within the first five games of the season and Mills hinted that Johnson could get a start at third in those situations.
“The thing that I think he
showed me was his ability to make adjustments a little better than I had heard or seen in the past on tape,” Mills said of Johnson. “I thought his bat speed was really good. There are a lot of things that jump out from him: his makeup, how big he is and to have that bat speed is huge.”
W hen the Astros signed Pedro Feliz this offseason to be their every day third baseman, Johnson said he felt like he was going to be put on the back-burner. But his numbers this spring (.309 batting average and 19 RBI) and his potential were too much for the new coaching staff to ignore.
“Coming in I didn’t really think that I was going to be in the situation I’m in right now,” Johnson said. “So just keep grinding, keep working and anything can happen.”
By Eric JohnsonSenior Staff Writer
After earning its first national ranking in program history Tuesday, the No. 73 UNT tennis team (9-5) will be in search of two more firsts this weekend as it hosts the Denver Pioneers and Louisville Cardinals.
The Mean Green has never defeated either team, and the Pioneers (6-12) ended UNT’s dream of a conference cham-pionship in the Sun Belt Conference semi-finals last April.
“It crushed us when we lost last year, but we feel like we have taken a step past them now,” senior Catalina Cruz said. “This is a match we had circled, and we really want to beat them. We feel this is an opportunity for us to make a statement.”
Playing in its first match in nine days, the Mean Green will be at full strength for Friday’s match against Denver. Sophomore Irina Paraschiv used the time off to recover from a right-wrist injury and said she will be at 100 percent for UNT
during its stretch run.“This is a crucial point in
the season for us, and it is huge for us to have our top players healthy,” head coach Sujay Lama said. “Being ranked was one of our goals, but our real goal lies in the conference tour-nament, and this is an opportu-nity for us to really gain some momentum toward that.”
The Pioneers started the season ranked in the top 50 nationally, but the team has struggled this season and fell from the rankings after a 3-12 start. Denver does come into the weekend with some momentum after putting together a three-game winning streak.
“They are the established team in conference and we are the young puppies,” Lama said. “What makes us dangerous is that we are hungry for respect. We are not at the top yet, but we feel like we have the talent to beat anyone.”
The Mean Green will have another chance at redemption Sunday against Louisville. The Cardinals (10-7) made short
work of UNT last spring en route to a 6-0 shut out.
“We are not the same team as we were a year ago,” junior Narine Kazarova said. “Teams have to think twice about playing us now. They have been where we want to be, and now we are going to go out and prove that we want it more.”
It has taken more than 30 years for the Mean Green to earn its spot among the nation’s best, but the No. 73 ranking has not quenched the players’ thirst for respect.
“We were excited to earn that ranking, but it has been a long time coming,” junior Amy Joubert said. “I feel like it is only going to be a snowball effect from now on. We have a great opportunity this weekend, and this is just the beginning of our climb to the top.”
Friday’s match against Denver will begin at 3 p.m., and at noon Sunday the Mean Green will host the Cardinals. Both matches will be free to the public at the Waranch Tennis Center on Bonnie Brae.
UNT tennis team faces ‘statement’ weekend
Third baseman hits home run, earns major league job
Junior Mallory Cantler, up at bat during last Thursday’s Game against UT San Antonio. FIU is next up to face the Mean Green on Friday and Saturday this weekend.
Photo by Ryan bibb/Staff PhotogRaPheR
Softball team strives to regain momentum
Junior Narine Kazarova at practice on Tuesday getting ready for this weekend’s match up against Denver and Louisville. The Mean Green, named the No. 73 team in the nation, received its first national ranking this week.
Photo by Ryan bibb/Staff PhotogRaPheR
By FElicia alBaStaff Writer
The UNT softball team aims to get back on track with this weekend’s series against Florida International Golden Panthers.
The Mean Green (13-9, 3-3) will fly to Miami to take on FIU, who is ranked third in the Sun Belt Conference (21-11, 4-2 ) today a nd Saturday.
The teams w il l play a double header today at 4 p.m. and a single game tomorrow at 11 a.m.
The team is coming back from a disappointing series loss against Florida Atlantic, where it lost two of the three games.
In practice this weekend, the team has worked on elements that it did not e x e c ute l a st w e ekend, including hitting.
The team was out-hit last weekend and left 31 runners on base.
“We did a lot of hitting a nd we a lso worked on defense with some more spec i f ic d r i l l s ,” sen ior Rebecca Waters said.
All four pitchers will play t his weekend, including senior Kayla Lawson, who returned from an injury last weekend.
“I expect us to do pretty well. As a pitcher, I need to hit my spots and get ground balls,” Lawson said. “The infield was been doing well, so I have every confidence they’ll back me up.”
A f ter la st we ekend’s struggles, Hubbard said he doesn’t know what to expect from the Mean Green.
“It’s hard to say how we’ll do against FIU,” he said. “They lost a lot key players from last year, and we don’t get to see what kind of teams they have been playing, but
we will probably match pretty well against them.”
T h e G old e n P a nt h e r s have won 18 of the 22 games against the Mean Green, with FIU winning two of the three games last year.
UNT last won a three-game series against t he Golden Panthers in 2007, when in went 2-1.
“We feel good,” Waters said. “We got a lot of practice in to go in fresh.”
Sophomore Lisa Johnson is
nationally ranked No. 53 in home runs, No. 51 in batting average and No. 33 in walks.
Junior Mariza Martinez’s team leading eight doubles rank her No. 58 in the nation for doubles per game.
Despite blowing leads last weekend, the Mean Green players’ confidence remains high.
“I t hink we’l l do wel l,” Lawson said. “With a clean defense and good offense, no one can touch us.”
B a c k p a i n ?
ArtSCENE Friday 4.2.2010
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By Katie GrivnaSenior Staff Writer
Denton-based bands Record Hop and Strangelove will open for Cruiserweight on Saturday night at a benefit show and art auction hosted by the UNT Students for the Shropshire Music Foundation.
Doors will open at 8 p.m. at Andy’s Basement Bar and Grill on the Square at 122 N. Locust St.
Admission is $8 with a student ID and $10 for the general public.
“We are just beyond excited to be able to offer UNT students and the Denton community this opportunity to be a part of the Shropshire Music Foundation efforts,” said Lynette O’Keefe, a higher education doctoral student and treasurer for the UNT Students for the Shropshire Music Foundation.
The UNT organization works to raise money and awareness for the foundation, which gives children in the war-torn countries of Uganda, Kosova and Northern Ireland free music lessons and instruments in an effort to help them heal emotionally and promote peace.
By Christina MlynsKiStaff Writer
A silent auction, film screening and musical performance infuse an atmosphere of inspiration as The Spot for Art presents its third annual art auction.
The Spot for Art, a place for like-minded individuals to meet, sell and discover new artistic forms, will hold an auction at 10 tonight at the Green Space Arts Collective. The auction is to raise money for the program to establish a permanent residence for artists to showcase their work.
The cost is $5, which includes refreshments, and the first 50 guests will receive gift bags, said Jessica Griffith, owner and creator of The
Spot for Art.“I was enjoying the art and
surroundings of Denton so much,” Griffith said. “It seemed that there was so much energy through my everyday interaction. It seems that everyone has this crazy, artistic vibe here in Denton – I wanted to amplify that vibe.”
In 2007, The Spot for Art hosted its first art benefit party, which was created to raise money for studio and gallery space. The event was a success, and they bought their first location in 2008. The space closed down because it was not worth their investment and they wanted to establish a retail gallery instead of a residential one, Griffith said.
However, Griffith expects this auction will bring in the revenue they need for the program to establish a permanent and successful location.
“I’d like to not only open the community gallery space, but to also get our nonprofit certification and supply people with space to sell their art and get exposure,” Griffith said.
The auction will host a variety of local artists’ works. Brandi Desselle, an education senior, joined The Spot for Art in 2008.
As a photographer, she will auction off her black-and-white film photo-graphs from her light-and-bridge series. Desselle enjoys the program because it is a place where she can promote her artistic abilities with a
sense of security.“If you’re going to get your name out
there to promote yourself, you need a space where you can make it yours, make it nice and invite your guests out to look at your work,” Desselle said. “I think that The Spot for Art does that.”
For the first time, the auction will feature a film screening of the movie “Pickled.” The show will commence after the auction at midnight, Griffith said.
Another first for the Spot for Art is the performance by the Backside Pick, a nine-piece jazz-funk band, who contacted the program and agreed to play a show on behalf of the repre-sentation of oral art.
The band also wanted to give back to the community for all the help it has received, explained UNT alumnus Rocky Ottley, guitarist and lead singer for the Backside Pick.
This is the Backside Pick’s first time to be involved with The Spot for Art. Ottley and his bandmates are excited to play a show that will be relaxing and create a natural environment, which will hopefully promote the selling of different pieces.
“Anyone who is out there and really expressing themselves in any form of art, you get to see their true being and what they’re passionate about and it impacts you at some source to help you understand life in general,” Ottley said.
Spot for Art inspires a creative association
“By teaching children peace through music, which is what the Shropshire Music Foundation does, they’re better able to learn, they’re better able to discipline themselves to outside interests including academic interest,” O’Keefe said.
Before the bands start playing at 9 p.m., attendees will have the oppor-tunity to look and bid on art on the balcony overlooking the stage.
The six art pieces up for auction were created and donated by UNT students studying art and music.
Members of the UNT Students for the Shropshire Music Foundation group decided to raise money through a benefit show and art auction instead
of standing outside asking for money, she said.
“We felt like it’s not really fair to ask students who are often on limited budgets to just give us our money,” O’Keefe said. “We wanted to give them something in return.”
Brittney Balkcom, a music senior and president of the group, said she was surprised so many local busi-nesses, bands and artists were willing to help.
Headlining band Cruiserweight is driving from Austin to perform.
“I think it’s really inspiring and uplifting to see how many people care about things other than them-selves,” she said.
All proceeds collected from the show and auction are donated to the Shropshire Music Foundation.
“I think it’s a great idea for us to have a night of our own culture where we have our own popular
music genres and our own art work to display,” she said. “In a way, it’s using things that we enjoy daily to help the Shropshire Music Foundation continue helping these kids create that for themselves.”
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By Christina MlynskiStaff Writer
Two contestants made their way up to the stage at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios on Tuesday night and posit ioned t hem-selves on bicycles angled at one another.
A monitor displayed the racers’ names, and at the blow of a whistle, with game faces firmly in place, they immediately took off on the stationary bikes.
This was Denton’s first Gold Sprint event, which raised money for Querencia, the bike shop that is opening its new location next door to the music-making factory.
“It seemed like a lot of fun, and that, to me, is one of the most important things for advo-cating the sport,” said organizer Dylan Holt. “It’s something that is engaging. It gets the competi-tive spirit going.”
The back wheel was hooked to sensors that measured the speed of the bike. The sensors were connected to a laptop, which projected the results on a screen, Holt explained.
The crowd roared with words of encouragement as the riders
reached t he ha l f way poi nt, clocking in at 50 mph. Red and blue bars projected on the screen represented that the racers were neck-in-neck.
The race started to wind down as drinks f lew up in the air and attendees got closer to the stage, trying to push the riders into the home stretch. The first Gold Sprint had officially been inducted into the neighborhood.
The event took in a total of 51 participants and raised more than $400, making it the largest event Gold Sprint has seen in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, said Howard Draper, UNT alumnus owner of Querencia.
Draper stumbled upon Gold Sprint when he was in Dallas. He met other riders and was intro-duced to the sport. The produc-
tion of such an event caught Draper’s eye, and he has wanted to share this discovery with the community ever since.
“We always have people bike to Rubber Gloves to come see shows, but to have a bike shop there on the premises — it’s going to be that much more welcoming,” said Josh Baish, owner of Rubber Gloves. “With Howard coming to me and asking if they could do this, it just made all the sense in the world.”
Gold Sprint events have been around for more than 50 years. The name came from Amstel Gold, which was a beer the sport promoted.
The most intriguing twist at the Gold Sprint fundraising event was an activity called “grudge match,” which had a $2 admission fee for anyone to challenge a stranger, friend or foe to a cycling match. It was a chance to prove which rider reigns supreme, Draper explained.
“My friends were talking about it, and they invited me randomly,” said Br yan Frias, a business junior. “I’m excited to see my friends race and make fools out of themselves.”
Part icipants stood around the backroom of Rubber Gloves, stretching out their legs and exchanging their regular walking shoes with specialized spike shoes suitable for racing conditions.
The ambiance of musical tracks, conducted by a DJ who played well-known bands, engulfed the cyclists
in listening pleasure. “At the core of it all, one of the
reasons we were drawn to Gold Sprint was because it’s a cool way to get people on bikes who aren’t hardcore cyclists or nerds,” said Holt.
With the opening of the new art gallery on the same block as Rubber Gloves, Baish felt that a bike shop was the perfect entity to add to the appeal of Sycamore Street.
The space next to the rehearsal
studio was not occupied, so it seemed logical for Draper to take over the empty lot and move Querencia from his backyard to a permanent spot.
“How cool is it that you can see a show, get a beer, check out local art and pick up a bike or get it repaired?” Baish said. “I’m excited, as are a lot of people, to have the bike shop open next door and contribute to the whole scene around Rubber Gloves. It’s all coming together.”
Locals discover new ‘cycle’ of entertainment“How cool is it that you can see a show, get a beer, check out local art and pick up a
bike or get it repaired?”—Josh Baish
Owner of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios
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Howard Draper (left) volunteer of the Querencia Community Bike Shop and Web site founder of Bikedenton.org, assists residents in signing up for the competition and helps receive donations for a new shop.
Photo by Clinton lynCh/Visuals Editor
The Querencia Community Bike Shop, currently in a house in Denton, held a benefit show at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios to raise money for a new shop.
cheap. And le t ’s f a c e i t , t h o s e a r e t h e on l y t w o things a Fry Street busi-ness needs t o w i n the hearts of hungr y col lege students.
T h e r e s t a u r a n t h a s a n appealing menu that leaves the newcomer experiencing an indi-vidual take on the classic, typical dishes.
The choices of size, sauces, toppings and beverages swarm the menu while the quirky names of items such as “Ball Buster” and “Mean Green” attract the customer’s eye.
The pepperoni pizza did not have any wow-factor and made the restaurant seem like it was trying too hard to be different. The slices were a bit burned on the bottom and the crust was a little too crunchy.
The Lu-Wow! , on the other hand, is one of Crooked’s specialty pizzas and it tastes amazing.
The toppings include Canadian bacon and pineapple.
A lot of pizza joints are stingy with their fruit when it comes to toppings, but not the Crooked Crust. The oversized pieces of pizza were over-f lowing with sweet, juicy pineapple bits, and t he Canadian bacon was fresh and cooked just right. This Hawaiian delight is sure to tickle your taste buds and have you counting down the minutes until you get another one.
The Ita l ia n Two-Step is a hoagie sandwich toasted on an Italian roll that comes piled high with chicken, marinara sauce
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Crooked Crust is located on the corner of Fry and Hickory streets. Patrons can get two slices of pizza and a drink at Crooked Crust for only five dollars.
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By Christina Mlynski and Melissa BoughtonStaff Writer and Assigning Editor
The smell of f resh, ba k ing dough wafts through the air as you walk into Crooked Crust on Avenue A.
The anticipation of walking into a pizza joint across the street from campus is f inally over. Once inside, it’s up to the customer to take a gander at the variety of endless combinations available to create their personal, perfect pie.
With The Tomato to live up to, expectations for Crooked Crust are extremely high. Although it didn’t quite add up to the old favorite, the food was good and
and ricotta cheese, which oozes off the sides of the warm bread.
The banana peppers are not l isted on the menu, but they arrive hidden within the foiled-wrap sandwich.
The vibrant color contrast of green-against-red plus the spice appeal infuses a savory surprise on the palette. The chicken is
cooked to perfection, with the juices leaving the poultry moist and able to soak up the Italian seasonings.
Tasty food, unbeatable prices and an atmosphere that provides contemporary twists on classic cuisines proves that Crooked Crust is a straight shooter when it comes to satisfied appetites.
This weekend, break away from making bunny cupcakes and gelatin eggs and welcome spring by creating these delicious bird’s nest cookies. Courtesy of brightideas.com, this recipe is simple to make and yields about a dozen “nests,” depending on how large you make them. The result is so picturesque you might hesitate to eat it. Fill it with several different kinds of candy for variety.
Ingredients: -1 cup flaked coconut-3/4 cup soft butter-1/3 cup granulated sugar-1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract-1 egg-2 cups all-purpose flour
-3/4 teaspoon salt -1 1/2 cup of your favorite pastel-
colored egg-shaped candy
Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Spread the coconut onto a non-greased cookie sheet and place it in the oven for about 25 minutes. Stir occasionally until the coconut is toasted and golden brown.
3. Take the coconut out of the oven and set it aside to cool.
4. Mix the butter and sugar in a large bowl. Combine the two ingre-dients until it is fluffy.
5. Add the egg and vanilla to the bowl, stirring thoroughly.
6. Put the flour in a medium-sized bowl and add the salt. Mix the two together, then add to the fluffy cream mixture, creating dough.
7. Take the dough and roll it into balls about one-and-one-fourth inches thick.
8. Next, roll your dough balls in the toasted coconut and place them on a greased cookie sheet.
9. Press your thumb into the center of each cookie. Make sure the inden-tation is big enough for your candy.
10. Bake the cookies at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 to 14 minutes until golden brown.
11. Remove from the oven and cool completely before filling the “nest” with your candy. Enjoy! Creating bird’s nest cookies is a delicious way to welcome spring and celebrate Easter.
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drumming from Erick Slick.The band keeps their sound fresh
with ever-changing genres on nearly every song, such as the funk-heavy, nearly angry “Unbearable Why.” A simple yet interesting pairing of keyboards and drums in the introduc-tion catches the ear and intrigues as the song ends on a brighter melody.
Sleigh bells and dark piano start off Leaman’s best song on the album, “Later.” His raspy, nearly fanatical vocals yelp and toil along to Frank McElroy’s best jangling riffs, the most memorable on the album.
“Shame, Shame” keeps the listen-er’s interest with little surprises here and there. Old-fashioned background vocals and ultra-bluesy guitars round out the last songs of the album. But every song has something special and unforgettable about it.
The band’s newest effort seems to be a greater collaborative effort than its previous albums. All of the musi-cians do exceptional jobs of standing out on their own terms and contrib-uting equally to every song.
As if their first album, “Psychedelic Swamp,” hadn’t already proved Dr. Dog was a band bringing back classic music methods of past decades, “Shame, Shame” has certainly defined their future successes.
McMicken takes lead vocals on the album’s single “Shadow People,” a song with charming lyrics like “The streets are swimming with the sharks/It’s the right night for the wrong company.”
Keyboardist Zach Miller provides extra rhythm, making this one of the album’s standouts.
Deeper in, Dr. Dog gets bluesy with background “Ooo’s” and soft brush
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By Christina MlynskiStaff Writer
A mixture of rock-infused country takes over the musical empowerments of Envy on the Coast’s second album “Lowcountry,” as the introduction of pessimism sets the tone for a remarkable collection of songs.
“Lowcountry” is Envy on the Coast’s first album since 2006. Life-long friends Ryan Hunter and Brian Byrne, who both play guitar and sing, worked for the past four years to showcase their talents of v a r iou s musical styl-ings that came toget her in unison.
The band t r a n s f o r m s the genre of emo-rock into something that becomes a musical challenge of categorizing the multiple uses of genres throughout their album.
The album opener “Death March on Two, Ready?”, displays a strong preparation of their musical endeavor, as heavy drumbeats establish the foundation of melo-dious lyrics while Hunter shrieks his powerful vocals. The inter-twining of challenging innova-tion and repetitious guitar chords deliver a memorable introduc-tion.
“Lowcountry” is an impres-sive turn-around from the band’s first album, “Lucy Gray,” which produced a crumbling structure of tempo shifting alongside steady drumming. The album had good lyrics but no balance.
The next track, “The Devil’s Tongue,” finds Envy on the Coast transforming its first album’s musical attempt all into one
‘Lowcountry’ trip is a voyage worth taking
By GraCiela razoSenior Staff Writer
Kicking off with the rattle of a tambourine, Philadelphia rock group Dr. Dog takes a cue from late 1960s bands like the Band and Crosby, Stills and Nash, to shape up their sixth full-length album, “Shame, Shame.”
Although the band has only been together since 2001, Dr. Dog’s has a beyond-its-years sound that has garnered its fans from around the world and the momentum to release six albums and an EP.
Now the band is maturing even more on its newest release with smoother production, more elec-tric guitars and catchy lyrics.
Guitar and bass assist the higher-pitched Scott McMicken and the rougher Toby Leaman as they build different dimensions to “Shame, Shame” but keep it all characteristi-cally Dr. Dog.
Dr. Dog goes retro on latestsong. The chaotic contradiction of monstrous drum pulses and Hunter’s high-toned vocals produces a polar-opposite effect. Throughout this track, the band finds the right structure to produce combinations of paradoxes.
“Head First in the River” engulfs a hypnotizing guitar composition of catchy riffs, which establishes the flowing sensation of musical undertones, creating a peaceful, “one-love” environment.
It’s immediately followed by its complete opposite, “The Great American T-shirt Racket,” the most ener-getic song Envy on the Coast has created thus far. The poppy guitars that are accom-p a n i e d b y catchy piano chords suggest
a excitement, as the urge to tap one’s toes becomes undeniable.
But the standout here is “Southern Comfort,” where a contagious theme and musical influence of country engulf the track’s atmosphere. The song produces an anticipation of delivered beats and remarkable lyrics, while Hunter transforms the darker side of country with heavy, prevailing drums.
The closing track, “Clean of You,” carries a variety of deranged under-tones, as Hunter transforms his pleas of escaping reality to mocking the characteristics of a woman while sarcastic lyrics take over the tone. The prominent guitars, loud drum-beats and enthusiastic charisma that is noticeable in each musi-cian’s performance gives proof that “Lowcountry” was worth the four-year wait.
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BY RON JOHNSONContributing Writer
Eccentric R&B artist Erykah Badu made headlines when she bared it all for her new music v ideo, which hit the Internet earlier this week.
The clip for the first single, “Window Seat,” features t he si nger wa l k i ng t h roug h t he streets of downtown Dallas strip-ping until she is nude. When she finds her way to the infamous spot where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a rifle shot is heard and she collapses on the spot.
Though t he g uerr i l la-st yle video is quite shocking, there could not have been a better visual to represent her new body of music.
On “New A mer y k a h Pa r t Two,” the Dallas native bares the good, the bad and the ugly of the creative soul with no apol-ogies.
Producer 9t h Wonder uses stabbing chords and a Theremin to give off an uplifting but eerie backdrop on the intro track “20 Feet Tall,” as Badu croons meta-phorically about overcoming an obstacle set by an oppressive lover.
“Window Seat” is reminiscent of Badu during her “Baduizm” days. Producer James Poyser constructs a smooth, jazzy atmo-sphere as Badu’s signature vocals shun the judgmental public for its high expectations. By the second verse of the song, Badu ends up longing for the public eye she had just dismissed (“But I need you to want me/Need you to miss me/I need your attention/I need someone to clap for me”).
Badu displays her ugly side on “Agitation,” a vocal and elec-
Badu shows off creativity, vulnerability on new album
tronical expression of frustration from a day gone wrong.
The bohemia n singer a lso shows that she, too, can be mate-rialistic by covering the classic ’90s Junior Ma f ia song “Get Money” in “Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY).”
On one of the most memo-rable tracks, “Gone Baby, Don’t
Be Long,” Badu reminds a busy love interest to leave time for her against a bouncy and harmo-nizing background.
Legendary producer J-Dilla is resurrected from the dead once again to contribute to “Love.” The producer’s absence is felt during this lackluster effort that has Badu crooning off-key on some unremarkable production.
Badu makes up for it, though, on “Fall in Love (Your Funeral)” where she warns someone of the consequences of falling in love with her.
OpinionThe closing track “Out My
Mind, Just in Time” mashes two different songs to display “the analog girl” at her most honest and v ulnerable state. Over sobering keys and sorrowful strings, she bares her soul to a love lost.
The music changes into an exciting mood one could feel a f ter meet ing a new specia l someone.
On “New Amerykah Part Two,” Badu masterfully combines the vulnerability of her past efforts and the experimentation of her present to produce one of her most endearing works to date.
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Andrew Bird
2”Time to Die,”
The Dodos
3”Yonder is the Clock,” The Felice Brothers
4”Stop, I’m Already Dead,”
Deadboy and the
Elephantmen
5”How We Operate,” Gomez
6”Bees”
Animal Collective
7”Chick Habit,”
April March
8”The Ark,” Dr. Dog
9”Grandaddy’s Mouth,”
Dexateens
10”Contigo,” Federico Aubele
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FashionSCENEFriday 4.2.2010
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Flowers dominate spring fashion trendsWords and Photos by Jessica Paul
Staff WriterThis week, I asked people, again,
what they thought spring’s biggest trends will be, as well as how they implement their own style into their
college wardrobe. Floral patterns seemed to be the
dominant, with all kinds of gorgeous plants in bloom and, in keeping with college tradition, most of them are trying to find thrifty ways to bring their fashion ideas to life.
“Lots of flowers, tank-dresses. I shop at Target a lot since I’m
still on a college budget.”
Kacie HelmsRadio, television and film
sophomore
“Flowers and denim.”
Feyi OmodeleApplied arts and sciences
senior
“Florals, bright neon colors.”
Ashley TaylorElementary education
freshman
“Floral, high-waisted skirts, large belts. I just try to keep it comfortable, cheap and
stylish.”
Jenn SkeithEnglish sophomore
“Bandanas.”
Shawn Haworth
Marketing freshman
“Loose, light jewelry.”
Meagan Paparella
Merchandising junior
“Florals, bright colors. It’s more like a comfort thing than
anything else. I usually wear work-out clothes.”
Christine EirosiusCommunications junior