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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON Friday November 21, 2008 Volume 90, No. 50 www.theshorthorn.com INDEX OPINION | PAGE 5 Since 1919 2Day 2 News 3, 6 World View 4 Opinion 5 Sports 8 SPORTS | PAGE 8 Hooked on Reading Books are underused and unappreciated but still relevant and necessary. Big Man on Campus Men’s basketball team’s Rogér Guignard talks to The Shorthorn. BY JASON BOYD The Shorthorn staff President James Spaniolo ranks 11th in total salary among Texas public university presidents, according to a recent Chronicle of Higher Education survey. Nationally, university presi- dents make a median salary of $427,400, and Spaniolo earns $405,100. He made $389,000 last year and started the job in 2004 with a $275,000 salary. Before him, President Robert Witt made $243,501. Communications Vice Presi- dent Jerry Lewis said the compe- tition in the job market for col- lege presidents dictates salaries. Spaniolo gets $65,945 from public funds (state money) and $323,055 from private funds, which includes tuition. He also gets $16,100 in retirement pay. He ranks fourth in the state for private funds allocated. The university chooses the private to public ratio, and there’s no formula, said Rusty Ward, business affairs Vice President. Ward said the allocated funds for each salary are decided case by case. “We could pay it all from any source available to us,” he said. Education survey examines salaries FACULTY/STAFF Spaniolo’s pay ranks 11th among presidents at Texas public universities. SALARY continues on page 6 BY JASON JOYCE Contributor to The Shorthorn Confusion over a holding reservoir at the gas well site at Division and Davis streets has caused concern among surrounding neighbors about possible health risks. The worry stemmed from an e-mail sent by Arlington resident Kim Feil to city officials expressing concerns to the university about her family’s exposure to contaminants in the reservoir. “Natural gas drilling company created a lined reservoir to hold contaminated water at Davis and Division streets,” she wrote. “ In the holding process, evaporation is taking place, and toxins may be in our air.” Darren Groth, a planner with the Arlington Community Development & Planning department, said concerns about the holding pond have no merit. “That water in the holding reservoir is just water out of a fire hydrant that Chesapeake purchased for the fracking process,” he said. “It’s just regular, potable water.” Chesapeake Energy spokeswoman Jerri Robbins also said the concerns are unfounded. “That pond only contains clean water,” she said. “We’d never pump reclaimed material back into it. It’s illegal, for one thing.” She also said Chesapeake has only recently started the fracking process on the well. The storage tanks at the site Residents express gas well concerns DRILLING An e-mail sent to UTA says a gas well reservoir nearby could pose health risks. SARAH LUTZ The Shorthorn staff In case someone starts shoot- ing on campus, duck and cover. Assistant police chief Rick Gomez told a room full of faculty, staff and students Thursday that the best response to a random campus shooting may be to stay on the defensive and hide. “People on a rampage like this — they are not going to take the time to stop and try to break down the door. Their objective is to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time as possible,” he said. “That’s why Police present school shooting information SAFETY University Police explain how to react to potential campus shootings. LUNCH continues on page 6 BY ANNA KATZKOVA The Shorthorn Staff The Central Library wants to update its Web site with student, faculty and staff help via an online sur- vey seeking input through the end of finals week. The survey is three pages long and takes about 10 minutes. It includes ques- tions about the site’s use- fulness, readability, naviga- tion and look, along with its research potential and whether it reflects the uni- versity’s spirit. Participants can check off the options they think should be imple- mented and add their own comments. Digital Library Services received about 100 respons- es since the survey started last week. Karen Horsfall, Digital Library Services coordina- tor, said the feedback rate is good, but more responses are needed. “Until we know what the people want, it’s hard to say what will change,” she said. Users have indicated that they would like a personal space on the site and the ability to bookmark pages, Horsfall said. “We’ll focus on content, navigation, look and feel,” she said. “It’s really about delivering library services to users and enabling them to find what they’re looking for.” The library’s page will still be consistent with the university’s Web site. The refurbishing idea came as part of the library strategic plan. “It was raised that the site was four years old, and Library to redo Web site, input wanted COMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGY Digital Library Services is utilizing a 10-minute online survey to get suggestions. LIBRARY continues on page 3 BY BRYAN BASTIBLE The Shorthorn staff Students walking north to Nedderman Hall can become acquainted with a new mon- ument built to honor an en- gineering organization today. Located on the Engineer- ing Mall, the monument will be introduced with an official ceremony at 5:30 p.m. by Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honor society. Although it has been in place since October, the Chapter Key’s unveiling cer- emony will open to the pub- lic. The Chapter Key is com- prised of a transit, a sur- veying tool used to measure angles, and the Greek letters Chi and Epsilon. It was made with a composite of metals resembling bronze. The project’s total cost, which was started by Chi Ep- silon president Steven Meier three years ago, was about $2,749 from fundraisers and donations. Richard Nichols, former Chi Epsilon president, said he was proud of the statue and the three years of work put into it. “It gets our message out and our organization seen,” he said. Chi Epsilon president Kyle Hockersmith said the transit was chosen because it was a tool used for many years to aid engineers in seeing great distances. “It is our objective, as a society, to promote civil en- gineers to look far into the future during their careers to advance the profession,” he said. The key was made with a metal fabricator using die- cast methods. “As a chapter, we would like to erect our key in honor of all of our fellow members’ achievements both academi- cally and professionally,” he said. “It is our understand- ing and belief that with this A Key Interest Honor society set to introduce an engineering monument to the public CARRY A BIG STICK The Shorthorn: Stephanie Goddard Habitat for Humanity volunteer David Helmke gets kinesiology science junior Kelsey McPherson to sign a 2-by-4 foot plank Thursday in front of the Central Library. The plank will be used in the construction of a house built by Habitat. Helmke and UTA Volunteers are trying to raise money for construction costs. The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig University Police Sgt. John King gives a presentation on campus safety Thursday in the University Center Guadalupe Room. King spoke about how the campus police department reacts to an active shooter situation, and what students and faculty can do to protect themselves. WHEN AND WHERE When: 5:30 p.m. Where: Engineering mall area between Woolf Hall and Nedderman Hall GAS continues on page 3 KEY continues on page 3
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President James Spaniolo ranks 11th in total salary among Texas public university presidents, according to a recent Chronicle of Higher Education survey.
Nationally, university presi-dents make a median salary of
$427,400, and Spaniolo earns $405,100. He made $389,000 last year and started the job in 2004 with a $275,000 salary. Before him, President Robert Witt made $243,501.
Communications Vice Presi-dent Jerry Lewis said the compe-tition in the job market for col-lege presidents dictates salaries.
Spaniolo gets $65,945 from public funds (state money) and $323,055 from private funds, which includes tuition. He also
gets $16,100 in retirement pay. He ranks fourth in the state for private funds allocated.
The university chooses the private to public ratio, and there’s no formula, said Rusty Ward, business affairs Vice President. Ward said the allocated funds for each salary are decided case by case.
“We could pay it all from any source available to us,” he said.
Education survey examines salaries
FACULTY/STAFF
Spaniolo’s pay ranks 11th among presidents at Texas public universities.
SALARY continues on page 6
BY JASON JOYCEContributor to The Shorthorn
Confusion over a holding reservoir at the gas well site at Division and Davis streets has caused concern among surrounding neighbors about possible health risks.
The worry stemmed from an e-mail sent by Arlington resident Kim Feil to city officials expressing concerns to the university about her family’s exposure
to contaminants in the reservoir.
“Natural gas drilling company created a lined reservoir to hold contaminated water at Davis and Division streets,” she wrote. “ In the holding process, evaporation is taking place, and toxins may be in our air.”
Darren Groth, a planner with the Arlington Community Development & Planning department, said concerns about the holding pond have no merit.
“That water in the holding reservoir is just water out of a
fire hydrant that Chesapeake purchased for the fracking process,” he said. “It’s just regular, potable water.”
Chesapeake Energy spokeswoman Jerri Robbins also said the concerns are unfounded.
“That pond only contains clean water,” she said. “We’d never pump reclaimed material back into it. It’s illegal, for one thing.”
She also said Chesapeake has only recently started the fracking process on the well. The storage tanks at the site
Residents express gas well concerns
DRILLING
An e-mail sent to UTA says a gas well reservoir nearby could pose health risks.
SARAH LUTZThe Shorthorn staff
In case someone starts shoot-ing on campus, duck and cover.
Assistant police chief Rick Gomez told a room full of faculty, staff and students Thursday that
the best response to a random campus shooting may be to stay on the defensive and hide.
“People on a rampage like this — they are not going to take the time to stop and try to break down the door. Their objective is to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time as possible,” he said. “That’s why
Police present school shooting information
SAFETY
University Police explain how to react to potential campus shootings.
LUNCH continues on page 6
BY ANNA KATZKOVAThe Shorthorn Staff
The Central Library wants to update its Web site with student, faculty and staff help via an online sur-vey seeking input through the end of finals week.
The survey is three pages
long and takes about 10 minutes. It includes ques-tions about the site’s use-fulness, readability, naviga-tion and look, along with its research potential and whether it reflects the uni-versity’s spirit. Participants can check off the options they think should be imple-mented and add their own comments.
Digital Library Services received about 100 respons-es since the survey started
last week. Karen Horsfall, Digital
Library Services coordina-tor, said the feedback rate is good, but more responses are needed.
“Until we know what the people want, it’s hard to say what will change,” she said.
Users have indicated that they would like a personal space on the site and the ability to bookmark pages, Horsfall said.
“We’ll focus on content,
navigation, look and feel,” she said. “It’s really about delivering library services to users and enabling them to find what they’re looking for.”
The library’s page will still be consistent with the university’s Web site. The refurbishing idea came as part of the library strategic plan.
“It was raised that the site was four years old, and
Library to redo Web site, input wantedCOMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGY
Digital Library Services is utilizing a 10-minute online survey to get suggestions.
LIBRARY continues on page 3
BY BRYAN BASTIBLEThe Shorthorn staff
Students walking north to Nedderman Hall can become acquainted with a new mon-ument built to honor an en-gineering organization today.
Located on the Engineer-ing Mall, the monument will be introduced with an official ceremony at 5:30 p.m. by Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honor society.
Although it has been in place since October, the Chapter Key’s unveiling cer-emony will open to the pub-lic.
The Chapter Key is com-prised of a transit, a sur-veying tool used to measure angles, and the Greek letters Chi and Epsilon. It was made with a composite of metals resembling bronze.
The project’s total cost, which was started by Chi Ep-silon president Steven Meier three years ago, was about $2,749 from fundraisers and donations.
Richard Nichols, former Chi Epsilon president, said he was proud of the statue and the three years of work put into it.
“It gets our message out and our organization seen,” he said.
Chi Epsilon president Kyle Hockersmith said the transit was chosen because it was a tool used for many years to aid engineers in seeing great distances.
“It is our objective, as a society, to promote civil en-gineers to look far into the future during their careers to advance the profession,” he said.
The key was made with a metal fabricator using die-cast methods.
“As a chapter, we would like to erect our key in honor of all of our fellow members’ achievements both academi-cally and professionally,” he said. “It is our understand-ing and belief that with this
A Key InterestHonor society set to introduce an engineering monument to the public
CARRY A BIG STICK
The Shorthorn: Stephanie Goddard
Habitat for Humanity volunteer David Helmke gets kinesiology science junior Kelsey McPherson to sign a 2-by-4 foot plank Thursday in front of the Central Library. The plank will be used in the construction of a house built by Habitat. Helmke and UTA Volunteers are trying to raise money for construction costs.
The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig
University Police Sgt. John King gives a presentation on campus safety Thursday in the University Center Guadalupe Room. King spoke about how the campus police department reacts to an active shooter situation, and what students and faculty can do to protect themselves.
WHEN AND WHEREWhen: 5:30 p.m.
Where: Engineering mall area between Woolf Hall and Nedderman Hall
November 21, 2008
2Day 2News 3, 6World View 4Opinion 5Sports 8
Hooked on ReadingBooks are underused and unappreciated but still relevant and necessary.
GAS continues on page 3
KEY continues on page 3
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Student Art Association hosts art sale fundraiser
The Student Art Association is holding an art sale 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at Gallery West in the Studio Art Center, 810 S. Davis St.
Fine Arts senior Kate Stipp said the event happens every semester, and though non-art students may enter a piece, the work is primarily from art students.
Stipp said 20 percent of the profits will go to the Student Art Association, the other 80 percent going to the artists.
Stipp said students will bring in work throughout the week, and estimates between 100 and 150 pieces, ranging in value from $10 to $300, during the three days. She said work ranges from paintings and prints to sculptures and glass work.
— Sarah Lutz
Arlington Holiday Lights Parade held Dec. 6
The Downtown Arlington Parade Committee presents the Annual Star-Telegram’s Holiday Lights Parade at 6 p.m. Dec. 6.
Festivities include a parade, tree-lighting ceremony, marching units, holiday music, floats antique cars, riding units and a visit from and pictures with Santa Clause.
Preceding the parade, there will be addi-tional entertainment at 4 p.m. at the Levitt Pavil-ion. The parade will go 6-9 p.m., when there will be a tree-lighting ceremony and pictures with Santa Clause. The tree lighting will be located in front of City Hall, and pictures with Santa Clause will be at the pavilion.
The parade starts at the corner of Main and Center streets, travels west on Main Street, south on West Street, east on Abram Street and ends at the corner of Abram and Mesquite streets. Handicap parking is available in the parking lot behind Worthington National Bank.
Lauren Tatum, Downtown Arlington Parade Committee co-chair, said association member Frances Foster began the first Arlington Christ-mas Parade in 2002 with the help of members of the Fourth of July Parade Association and the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.
— Michelle Leverett
Today
Special Collections — Revisualizing Westward Expansion: Mondays 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Tuesday-Saturday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Central Library sixth floor. Free. For informa-
tion, contact 817-272-3393 or [email protected].
International Crime: An Intro-duction to the MS-13 Street Gang: noon, Central Library sixth floor. Free. For informa-tion, contact Lindsey Zaleski at 817-272-6107 or [email protected].
International Spouses Club: 1:30-3 p.m., Swift Center.
Free. For information, contact Julie Holmer at 817-272-2355 or [email protected].
Monolithic Aerogels of +2 Transition Metals: 2:30-3:30 p.m., 114 Chemistry Research Building. Free. For informa-tion, call 817-272-3171.
Planetarium Shows: 7 and 8 p.m., Chemistry and Physics Building. “Seven Wonders” at 7 p.m., “Rock Hall of Fame” at 8 p.m. Tick-ets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni and $2 for students. For informa-tion, call Marc Rouleau at 817-272-0123 or [email protected].
University of Illinois Faculty Brass Quintet Concert: 7:30 p.m., Irons Recital Hall. Free. For information, contact 817-272-3471 or [email protected].
SaTurday
Holiday Extravaganza: 10 a.m.-noon, Uni-versity Center Palo Duro Lounge. Free. For information, contact Jennifer Dawn Fox at 817-
272-2293 or [email protected].
Planetarium Shows: Chem-istry and Physics Building. “TimeSpace” at 1 p.m., “Seven Wonders” at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4
for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni and $2 for UTA students. For information, contact Marc Rouleau at 817-272-0123 or [email protected].
UTA Wind Symphony and Jazz Orchestra Concert: 7:30 p.m., Irons Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 the general public and $3 for students and seniors. For information, contact Douglas Stotter at 817-272-2533 or [email protected].
Sunday
Planetarium Shows: Chem-istry and Phys-ics Building. “TimeSpace” at
1 p.m., “Seven Wonders” at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and se-niors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni and $2 for students. For information, contact Marc Rouleau at 817-272-0123 or [email protected].
Monday
EXCEL Campus Ac-tivities General Body Meeting: 2-3 p.m., UC Student Con-gress Chambers. For information, contact Maggie
Garza at 817-272-6052 or [email protected].
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yCalendar submissions must be made by 4 p.m. two days prior to run date. To enter your event, call 817-272-3661 or log on to www.theshorthorn.com/calendar
FridayNovember 21, 2008
Campus Notebook
This is a part of the daily activity log produced by the university’s Police Department. To report a criminal incident on campus, call 817-272-3381.
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An officer was dispatched to the Registrar’s office for a student causing a disturbance Wednesday.
A student reported his bicycle stolen Wednesday from the UTA Bookstore.
A nonstudent was issued a criminal trespass warning for the entire campus Wednesday at Centennial Court apartments.
An officer investigated a theft Thursday at 600 Center St.
Bring factual errors to The Shorthorn’s at-tention via e-mail to [email protected] or call 817-272-3188. A correction or clarification will be printed in this space.
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“That’s why we recommend
that … if there is ever an
active shooter situation
on campus, just close the door, lock it, barricade it, turn off the
lights and then get out of sight
and look for any type of cover or concealment.”
Rick Gomez, Assistant Police Chief on how
students should react in the event of a school shooting.
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by mark bauerContributor to The Shorthorn
It’s no secret — smoking and good health aren’t on the same plane.
But Campus Recreation played its part yesterday by asking smokers to kick the habit and participate in the Great american Smokeout — a national event that challenges smokers to smoke less throughout the day or quit altogether.
The message from the Surgeon General’s office states on most tobacco products: “Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and may complicate Pregnancy.” In 2006, 21 percent of individuals over 18 identified themselves as smokers, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Despite warnings, many students, like Spanish senior Jona O’Brien, continue lighting up. She said she is trying to quit after picking up the habit four years ago.
“It’s nasty,” she said. “and I don’t want to look 50 when I’m 25.”
O’Brien originally started smoking when her then-boyfriend smoked two packs a day. She said she just picked it up. She has since tried quitting — once with the patch and once with gum. Neither worked.
“Now I’m trying to stop on my own,” she said.It’s that personal commitment that Health Services physician
Rodger Mitchell said helps.“If you don’t want to, you’re probably not going to,” he said.If hurting one’s health isn’t enough reason to quit, perhaps the
chance of missing out on a job or the fact that it is increasingly unacceptable in public circles, will help make the final decision. Mitchell said if a potential employer discovers that an applicant smokes, the applicant might get overlooked. He said they can be cited as an insurance risk.
“It hurts your chances of getting a job,” he said. “In terms of your economic success in the job world, it’s a negative in most cases.”
Campus Recreation hosted the event as a support system for the second year in a row. Fitness assistant director Kala Markovich said they had a pretty good flow of participants in the
“obstacle course of quitting.”University biological curator Carl Franklin said he participated
last year and said he returned to beat his previous record.“It’s cool sort of just seeing what you’re able to do,” he said
about his older age.although he said he likes tobacco, he said his choice came
down to that he liked breathing better.“I have an active lifestyle,” he said. “That doesn’t really fit in
with it.”He broke his previous record of 56 seconds on the obstacle
course by 11 seconds. He attributes his new record to not smoking.
“The old man got the record,” he said.
mark [email protected]
The Shorthorn: Stephanie Goddard
Interdisciplinary Studies senior Robby Aranguren jumps at the Great American Smokeout relay race Thursday night in the Maverick Activi-ties Center. The event encourages students to make a pledge not to smoke.
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By Dustin DangliContributor to The Shorthorn
The University Center’s Palo Duro Lounge will be filled with “ho ho ho’s” Saturday when Saint Nick visits — only Saint Nick will be Greek Life and University Events director Seth Ressl’s father.
Bob Ressl’s appearance as Santa Claus has been a part of Freshmen Leaders on Cam-pus’s Holiday Extravaganza for seven years, said Amanda Gonzalez, FLOC Community Service committee co-chair. Children will take pictures with Santa and place them in handmade picture frames they created that morning.
FLOC plans to treat the children to many events and activities including letters to Santa, Thanksgiving cookie decorating, face painting and more.
With 18 total festivities, FLOC attempts to keep the event nondenominational, aside from the Santa Claus ap-
pearance, FLOC adviser Bess Alvarez said.
“We’re trying to keep a holi-day base — snowmen, pen-guins — just holiday things,” Gonzalez said.
The activities have a Thanksgiving and winter motif and music will play in the background. While most of it will be celebration music, the last 30 minutes will fea-ture a number of dance songs, including the chicken dance to encourage children activity, FLOC Adviser Jennifer Fox said.
Rather than focus on stu-dents, FLOC gears this event toward building a community between faculty and staff.
“This shows our professors that they’re not just our teach-ers,” FLOC member Emma Whinnery said. “It shows that we care.”
Whinnery said the one ac-tivity she’s most excited about is making candy cane mice.
“I made them and it was my
favorite in elementary school,” she said. “Hopefully it’ll be their favorite too.”
Students must bring a child or young relative to the event in order to participate, Gon-zalez said.
“This event was one of my favorites last year, and I’m hop-ing that we can make it just as successful this year,” Fox said. “The faculty and staff really look forward to this event, and it’s really a great way for the FLOCers to show how great this organization is and that we do care about our campus and our community.”
Dustin [email protected]
Come all Ye Faculty, StaffFreshmen Leaders on Campus plan 18 holiday
activities for the kids
when anD whereWhen: Holiday Extravaganza at 10 a.m. Where: University Center Palo Duro Lounge
it was time to look at it and see what works and what doesn’t work,” Hors-fall said.
Web specialist Candy McCormick created the sur-vey’s advertising. She said her approach was, “What do you want your library Web site to be?” Student input is vital because students uti-lize the site the most, she said.
Marketing junior David Stark, who works in the li-brary basement and helps students with Web prob-lems, said the Web site nav-igation seems complicated.
“There are a lot of people who come down here and ask us how to use it,” he said.
He said the site shouldn’t
be changed entirely but needs improvements.
Survey participants can sign up for an e-mail list to help the library with future user tests, which will add them to a prize drawing.
Results will be analyzed in December and January and prioritized for spring. Survey organizers will set up a table in the Central Library foyer next to Java City the week after Thanks-giving.
They chose to have the survey online to reach a larger audience, Horsfall said.
“We have a wide range of customers, so we can’t depend on just people com-ing through our doors,” she said.
Survey can be found at http://library.uta.edu/.
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sitting anD surfingAerospace engineering freshman Ronak Patel reads comics online while waiting for his English group to arrive for a class project Thursday at the Central Library.
are empty, so contamination from chemicals in the reclaimed water isn’t possible.
Renee Salzman, a Magnolia Street resident, said she believes that either
the drilling or exhaust from truck traffic at the site has contributed to her and her family’s recent health problems.
“I find that after I’m outside for an hour, I have a horrendous headache,” she said. “Most people don’t think much of a headache, but I don’t get them. When I’m not around the reservoir, I don’t have them.”
Whether the site presents a risk is only part of the problem — lack of city planning is the bigger issue, Salzman said.
“The city has put the cart before the horse with urban drilling,” she said. “They didn’t take the time to put regulations in place. They just signed off on the leases.”
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chapter key proudly on dis-play, student awareness of Chi Epsilon will increase and thereby an increase in aca-demic levels will be realized.”
The Chapter Key’s base was created to try and look similar to the Tau Beta Pi monument’s base, said An-drew Kruzic, Chi Epsilon fac-ulty adviser.
“I think it was a nice way to place a key,” he said.
There was some thought on how other societies could have symbols arranged in the semi-circle, he said.
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Joe the Plumber scrutiny improper
Detective cuffed to Oswald can’t escape photo
Politics
History
tHe AssociAted PressTOLEDO, Ohio — An agency
director improperly used state computers to find personal in-formation on “Joe the Plumber,” a government watchdog said in a report released Thursday.
There was no legitimate business purpose for the head of
Ohio’s Department of Job and Family Services to order staff to look up the records, Inspector General Tom Charles said.
“All these searches were done in the midst of a national politi-cal campaign,” the report said. “But we did not find any evi-dence that shows the data was
accessed or information released in response to media requests in an effort to support any political activity or agenda.”
Gov. Ted Strickland suspend-ed the agency director, Helen Jones-Kelley, for a month with-out pay after reviewing the find-ings. He rejected a request to
fire her.Earlier this month, Strick-
land placed Jones-Kelley on paid leave over separate alle-gations that a state computer or e-mail account was used to assist in political fundraising for Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign.
tHe AssociAted PressDALLAS — Retired
Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle still gets letters from strangers because of that 1963 photo of him standing next to Lee Har-vey Oswald.
You know — THAT photo.
“Most just want au-tographs,” Leavelle said. “One asked what affect the Kennedy assassina-tion had on my life. The usual.”
As the nation marks the 45th anniversary Sat-urday of the Kennedy as-sassination, the 88-year-old Leavelle remains one of the investigation’s most famous figures.
Standing out in his tan
suit and matching Resis-tol cowboy hat on Nov. 24, 1963, Leavelle was handcuffed to Oswald when Jack Ruby fired his .38-caliber pistol in an at-tack immortalized in the famous photo from the basement of Dallas police headquarters.
Leavelle leans back, his eyebrows furrowed and face stunned. Oswald gri-maces. To the right, Ruby leans in and is still point-ing his gun at Kennedy’s assassin.
The photo made Leavelle’s face known worldwide, and began a lifetime of explaining how he ended up handcuffed to Oswald more times than he can count.
“How many hairs are on a dog’s back?” Leavelle said this week after anoth-er retelling at The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas.
The story begins the same each time: Leavelle didn’t even have an as-signment when Kennedy’s motorcade came through Dallas.
But once word reached
police headquarters that Kennedy had been shot, Leavelle made his way to the Texas School Book De-pository to collect state-ments. He wasn’t there long before hearing on a police radio that an offi-cer had been shot in the nearby neighborhood of Oak Cliff.
The detective volun-
teered immediately to investigate. The death of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit — who Oswald shot after fleeing downtown following the assassina-tion — later put Oswald in an interrogation room with Leavelle.
The two didn’t get much time together. At least not until two days later, when Leavelle es-corted Oswald out of Dal-las police headquarters to be taken to the county jail.
AP Photo: Tony Gutierrez
Retired Dallas Police Department Detective Jim Leavelle poses in the former book depository build-ing, now known as The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Wednesday. Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots that killed President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas November 22, 1963, from the building.
AP Photo: Dallas Times-Herald, Bob Jackson
Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy, reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquarters, Nov. 24, 1963. At left is Detective Jim Leavelle.
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Style over SubstancePeople should consider the negative impact of the new Cowboys stadium
Before getting too excited about the NBA All-Star Game coming to Arlington in 2010, let’s remember the possible negative impact these events could have on the city and university students.
After residents approved the new $1 billion Cowboys stadium in 2004 — 55 percent to 45 percent — the city must live up to that cost, booking mega-events to bring in as many visitors as possible. While it aims to generate income and jobs, other cities have seen little success from it.
Former UT-Arlington economics associate professor Craig Depken,
now working at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, co-authored a study examining
4,500 sporting events in Texas and their economic impact. Rather than increasing spending, money simply gets moved around. All-Star Games do not correspond with a net increase in spending or sales tax revenue. The stadium may not bring in as much money in as projected.
The university has agreed to provide parking for the February 2010 All-Star Game, which will negatively affect students and residents near the stadium who won’t be enjoying those expensive seats. On-campus parking is hard to come by already, and students will have to find alternatives during these events. It may seem exciting to have such high-profile events like the All-Star Game and the 2011 Super Bowl, but it’s unlikely that university students could attend them — they’ll probably be on the sidelines watching the traffic pile up on Randoll Mill Road and Collins Street.
The new stadium is also scheduled to host college football’s Big 12 Conference Championship in 2009 and 2010 and the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic in 2010. Other possible events include the NCAA Final Four and the NCAA Bowl Championship Series game.
These events may deter regular visitors and actually cost the city money. The idea is that hotels will fill up, and restaurants and bars will see more business. It sounds good in theory, but those visitors will simply replace guests who would have normally stayed in hotels or gone out to eat, increasing spending some, but not enough.
Arlington was not the first choice for the new Cowboys Stadium. Fair Park in Dallas was originally considered, but the city couldn’t justify raising taxes for it. With no public transportation or solutions to the current traffic problem, Arlington is not equipped to host such big events.
People should consider who would actually benefit from things like the 2010 NBA All-Star Game before getting too starry-eyed about high-profile events.
— The Shorthorn editorial board
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The new Cowboys stadium under con-struction in Arlington is set to host big events like the NBA All-Star Game in 2010. We suggest:
These events could have a negative impact on the city and university students.
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Home Sweet Where?
Bad information, poor communication costs students time, money, stress
As students go back to school this week, campus security will again be an issue.
Recently, The Shorthorn reported that crime had risen from last year’s data.
So it will not be surprising that campus security will again come to the fore, especially when it comes to guns.
Most of us remember the incident involving a student allegedly carrying a gun in his car last semester, which revived talks of gun-friendly policies on our own campus. The memory of Virginia Tech is still fresh in our
minds.It is to avoid such violence that the Harrold
school district, a small district near Wichita Falls, has, with Gov. Rick Perry’s support, passed a decision that makes Harrold the first school district in the nation to pass such a measure.
The resolution, passed last week, allows teachers to carry guns at school if they have a state permit and district authorization.
The logic behind the decision is simple: If licensed teachers carry weapons, defense against a potential murderer will be made easier and quicker.
But, the very fact that guns are now allowed in schools, where our children theoretically receive the education they need to be a part of society, is worrying — even scary.
Only Thailand and Israel have policies allowing armed protection in schools.
In Thailand, it is to defend students and faculty against Muslim separatists who have been waging a bloody war since 2004. In
Israel, armed guards are employed to potentially fend off terrorists from Israeli schools. In both countries, the necessity of these measures is imposed by a state of war that involves potentially serious attacks on civilians.
If the U.S. now also resorts to such extreme defense measures, should we then understand that the nation is at war? I mean, at war with itself.
If this is the case, then guns will not solve the
war, and only deep reflections on society will help. If it is not the case, then arming everybody may backfire.
A professor trained to shoot and licensed to carry a gun may himself become a weapon if he turns mad.
The fact that citizens have to provide for their own defense points to a failure of the law to do it. The problem now becomes to create better laws. If
not, every one will enforce his own law, and the Constitution itself will be the final victim — it will become useless.
Possessing a weapon is not in itself deadly, neither is shooting it for fun. But when guns are associated with madness and lack of self-control, they become deadly and no one can predict madness.
The question to ask should be: Why are there school shootings in America?
In Switzerland, where every single household owns a weapon — every person is a citizen-soldier, no such shootings are reported. The problem then lies in the heart of American society.
If schools, which were founded to make better citizens, are themselves victims of social violence, then they have failed in their role. School shootings and violence are the most dramatic symptoms of a deeper illness. And guns are not the cure.
Only a deeper analysis of the roots and conditions of social violence will provide an explanation and shape better, long-term policies.
And America will avoid an undeclared, underground civil war.
— Sylvain Rey is an anthropology senior and columnist for The Shorthorn
SYLVAIN REY
The Wrong AnswerArming teachers fails to address the deeper problem
Nontraditional students attest to the value of post-secondary education. A degree
can mean the difference between retirement or pushing the tea cart at Luby’s Cafeteria. Younger people with degrees are far more likely to get three or four jobs in their careers that
include annual vacation time and health care, rather than two or three job changes per year with no paid vacation while enduring fixable health problems that worsen from neglect.
A degree is a profound benefit in America. Sadly, formal education is primarily found in academia — an
institution that has a venerable and deserved reputation for incompetence.
One example is the ridiculous UTA financial aid system.
Students typically plan their semesters far in advance. Many are required to get advising before registering, then they must do so well in advance of the start of the semester. Students decide if they can afford to be full or part time, then make job decisions accordingly.
Before financial aid decisions are made,
students sign up for a certain number of class hours, and the result is posted in the university system.
Financial aid, however, does not consult the documented plan of the student and base disbursement decisions on this information. Rather, the system assumes a full course load and awards grants, scholarships and loans to cover the maximum possible expenditure of a full-time student. The most likely logic for this is to make certain that the full-time student has every centime available to get his or her semester rolling.
If a student has chosen not to attend full time and made the decision clear by registering for less-than-full-time hours, he or she is still issued the full-time funds, and when financial aid decides to do its homework after the fact, it discovers that it has fully funded a part-time student and snaps the money back again.
Financial Aid Office notifies the Bursar’s office of the award amount, and the Bursar withholds owed tuition and fees and only disburses the remaining amount to the student. When a pupil gets that lovely, life-saving check, he or she can reasonably assume that tuition and fees are covered, and must budget the check received for a semester’s worth of books, rent, ramen soup, etc.
Regretfully, the financial aid process is
slower than most students are, and the Bursar’s office is less than diligent about skimming off the university’s percentage before sending the leftovers to the eager student.
Standing in line at the start of a semester at the Bursar’s office, or sitting with a “now serving” number slip in hand at the Financial Aid office, reveals that this flawed concept frustrates the best plans of the most-prepared and forward-thinking student.
Nontraditional students often have much more experience in the private sector than in academia and other government bureaucracies. For many, it’s quite a culture shock to see how lenient university administration is toward mediocre, and worse, performance.
One of the most important lessons a student can get at a university is the collateral education of example, poor and good. Before launching into the private sector, be certain to know that this management style is only effective in the specialized bubble of academia.
And if you want a career where incompetence is not grounds for dismissal, steer clear of the private sector and get a cushy position in an institution of higher education.
— Cliff Hale is a film junior and a copy editor for The Shorthorn
Heaps of HypocrisyStudents must be diligent and forward-thinking to succeed, but the
favor isn’t always returned
CLIFF HALE
Students who applied for on-campus housing ran into problems this semes-ter — there wasn’t enough to go around. University Housing should be more or-ganized and accountable for its mistakes.
More than 4,000 students live in campus residence halls or apartments. With enrollment increasing, housing will remain an issue.
The reported waiting list numbers weren’t concise — some students took apartments off-campus and didn’t in-form housing so the list was incorrect, said Matthew Hendricks, Housing Op-erations assistant director.
He said the list now comprises fewer than 100 students, and housing is still available at Centennial Court and John-son Creek apartments.
Hendricks said his department “will continue to monitor demand for hous-ing and make decisions about building more housing based on the number of
students inter-ested in living on campus.”
Some stu-dents felt the department gave them the run-around. At ori-entation in July, one freshman, who asked not to be named, was told by a receptionist that no wait list ex-isted at all.
She was given a letter that said to show up on
the first day of classes to attempt to grab a dorm room from no-show stu-dents on a first-come first-serve basis. This seems like a chaotic situation — show up, wait around and get assigned to a room if someone doesn’t show up.
She settled for an off-campus apart-ment, living alone, which is more expensive. She said she feels less safe than she would on campus. But at least she found a definitive solution instead of just showing up the first day and hoping she got a spot.
Some students who decided to stay at home and commute are suffering from gas prices, and the inconvenience of a commute.
Confusion like this could have been avoided if housing communicated with students more efficiently.
The lack of communication creates a negative experience for incoming freshmen and other students living on campus. Accountability for mistakes made will give the University Housing more credibility when trying to diffuse the situation.
Better communication and more proactive measures in anticipation of such a scenario will make the back-to-school transition much easier.
— The Shorthorn editorial board
EDITORIALROUNDUPThe issue: Students on wait-ing lists weren’t in-formed of housing availability and had to find other places to live.We suggest:University Housing should commu-nicate better with students to prevent confusion in the future.
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Well it’s over. The most historic election of our time came and went with Dem-
ocratic nominee Barack Obama becoming the next man to occupy the White House.
Across the country, supporters and news-papers highlighted Obama’s pro-posed theme of a “Change We Can Believe In.”
In the midst of the euphoria, the country as a whole seemed to forget about all the problems it faces. The war on terror moved to the back burner. The economic crisis and credit crunch seemed forgotten.
This cannot be the case. Our nation must remain focused on the problems at hand, on the is-sues that could divide the nation.
The responsibility for this falls directly into the lap of the outgoing Bush administration as much as it falls on the incoming Obama administration.
In the past, outgoing administrations
would take parting shots at the incom-ing party by unnecessarily issuing pardons, passing bills and generally thumbing their nose at their replacements.
It seemed it was their way of saying, “screw you if you’re not one of us.”
This cannot happen this time around.
The Bush administration must include Obama and his advisers into its thought processes dur-ing its final days. As January ap-proaches, the opportunity for a smooth hand off decreases. It has to begin now, and will take coop-eration from both sides.
That’s right — Obama needs to put forth the effort as well. The time for partisanship, the red state versus blue state battle, has come
and gone, ending when the polls closed on Election Day. Now, Obama must follow up on his promises to reach across aisles and bring change not only to the country, but
also to the way the country does politics.Both groups have a rare opportunity star-
ing them directly in the face, and it’s impor-tant that they both seize it. They can unite a divided nation. Obama and his advisers can put an early stamp on what could become a great administration.
For the Bush clan, they can look over their misgivings and bring a new light to the way they’ve done politics. They can change a country’s perception about their ideas, their ethics and their standards.
They can salvage a legacy.It’s a win-win situation. The incoming
administration is included and can hit the ground running on Jan. 20, while the out-going administration can save face in what has been an abomination of a last term.
Most importantly, both can save a na-tion.
That is change to believe in.
— Justin Rains is a journalism senior and The Shorthorn sports editor
A Common GoalIncoming and outgoing administrations should work together for the nation’s good
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Raiders of the Lost TechnologyThere is a science above and beyond electronics
Today, there exists a re-markable yet dying tech-nology with miraculous
power. The system is older than your grandparents, but many never really try it or give it thought.
Opponents say it’s out of date. Pr o p o n e n t s are increas-ingly seen as t h r o w b a c k s to primitive ways. But this process has been proven to en-hance mental capabi l i t ies to the point of near-te-
lepathy and is known to allow limited time travel.
That ancient practice, some-times legally restricted for fear of its power, is reading.
Books are not just the bane of students’ existence as home-work transports. They store and present sensory stimula-tion in the most economical fashion ever conceived. Analog rather than digital, they do not require batteries or Internet connections, are durable with reasonable care and have few installation or use restrictions.
They can project images as wide as your peripheral vision and have a frequency response greater than the most expen-sive speakers — you can use one right next to a companion without disturbing his or her activity.
Here’s what’s miraculous about books: They endow the user with the ability to read
more than the words and ac-tions of others, but also visit their thought processes, memo-ries and fantasies.
Books can transmit data far into the future. Many books have also transported readers to long-gone times and far-flung places.
When I meet a man and he tells me his name … how little I know about him, really. I may think he is a student by his backpack and clothes, but he may also be a professor. Meet-ing a man in a book can reveal so much more, as the reader is informed of the man’s inner turmoil and that the name he gave is not the one he w a s born with, but one he uses to hide the fact that he was once a felon.
Some years ago, I met famed actor Humphrey Bogart and his lovely wife Lauren Bacall. We were in Bacall’s a u t o b i o g r a p h y at the time, and I spent s e v e r a l days with them.
You may have met the president-elect in a similar fashion.
Modern informa-tion technology features expensive computers to launch satellites and cheap ones to keep your favorite mp3 files on your hip. Reading has a similarly di-verse array of applications.
Reading a newspaper or Web site is a valuable way to discov-er what people are saying about events, issues and themselves. Sometimes a blog may supply similar information to a book, but on a limited scale.
Books provide a depth of ex-perience that otherwise would require many times the hours to actually encounter and often at great risk. Other forms of reading have their values, but not one carries the intellectual clout of a significant volume of poetry, history or fiction.
Reading demands a set of muscles that weaken with pro-longed rest. With disciplined
practice, the
stamina and skill for critical, intelligent reading can swell to heroic proportions and lever-age an average mentality into higher states of efficiency and creativity.
When you see a friend ha-bitually with a book, consider that he or she may be gaining an advantage over you — unless you obtain and conquer this system for yourself.
— Cliff Hale is a film junior and copy editor for
The Shorthorn
CANNON FODDER by Isaac Erickson
CLIFF HALE
JUSTIN RAINS
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No48%
Yes52%
possible. While it aims to generate income and jobs, other cities have seen little success from it.
Former UT-Arlington economics associate professor Craig Depken,
now working at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, co-authored a study examining
4,500 sporting events in Texas and their economic impact. Rather than increasing spending, money simply gets moved around. All-Star Games do not correspond with a net increase in spending or sales tax revenue. The stadium may not bring in as much money in as projected.
The university has agreed to provide parking for the February 2010 All-Star Game, which will negatively affect students and residents near the stadium who won’t be enjoying those expensive seats. On-campus parking is hard to come by already, and students will have to find alternatives during these events. It may seem exciting to have such high-profile events like the All-Star Game and the 2011 Super Bowl, but it’s unlikely that university students could attend them — they’ll probably be on the
backpack and clothes, but he may also be a professor. Meet-ing a man in a book can reveal so much more, as the reader is informed of the man’s inner turmoil and that the name he gave is not the one he w a s born with, but one he uses to hide the fact that he was once a felon.
Some years ago, I met famed actor Humphrey Bogart and his lovely wife Lauren Bacall. We were in Bacall’s a u t o b i o g r a p h y at the time, and I spent s e v e r a l days with
You may have met the president-elect in a similar fashion.
Modern informa-tion technology features expensive computers to launch satellites and cheap ones to keep your favorite mp3 files on your hip. Reading has a similarly di-verse array of applications.
not one carries the intellectual clout of a significant volume of poetry, history or fiction.
Reading demands a set of muscles that weaken with pro-longed rest. With disciplined
practice, the
— Cliff Hale is a film junior and copy editor for
The Shorthorn
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The presentation was part of
several monthly events the police department holds on campus to raise safety awareness. This pre-sentation was previously avail-able only to resident assistants and faculty.
The University Center Gua-dalupe Room was filled to the occupancy level of 50 — pri-marily staff — until a false fire alarm sounded midway through the presentation, trimming the number to about 20.
University Police Sgt. John King defined a hostile intruder as a suspect or assailant whose ac-tivities immediately cause death and serious injury. He suggested using a textbook for body armor.
King said the presentation would prepare viewers for a situ-ation like those at Virginia Tech in 2007, Columbine in 1999 or the UT-Austin Tower in 1966.
King said police would likely come in two teams
— the first team’s goal is to only take out the shooter. He said people should show their hands and not run toward law enforcement officers.
He said to remember as many details as possible.
Gomez said the second team would pull people out of the building and treat the injured.
“Prior to Columbine, police were trying to set up a perim-eter and wait for SWAT, but in
the meantime, lives were taken. People were being killed and outraged as to why the police reacted the way they reacted because kids were being killed — well that’s the way we were trained,” he said. “But since Col-umbine, that changed the way we respond to active shooters from that point-on.”
University housekeeper Crys-tal Gilbert said she came to the presentation because if the situa-
tion arose on campus, she would be right there at the door.
“I learned a lot. I liked the way they invited the employees to come listen to them and show them how to help themselves,” she said. “But I’m still scared at the weight room. They need to put another door in there so I can get out.”
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can he fix it?3M Co. field service technician Lee Sly tests a security scanner Thursday at the Central Library. The system required repairs due to malfunctions.
“We choose to pay it this way.”Ward said the $64,945 has
stayed the same for several years and that the private al-location has gone up to pay the total salary.
“This is our choice and could just as easily be the re-verse,” he said.
Ward said the UT Sys-tem tells him how much the president will make, and Ward chooses how to allocate funds. Therefore, Lewis said, tuition changes don’t drive presiden-tial salaries. A Nov. 19 Dallas Morning News article made comparisons, with a headline stating, “As college costs grow, so do leaders’ paychecks.”
In comparison, Univer-sity of North Texas President Gretchen Bataille makes $532,634, Texas Tech Univer-sity President Jon Whitmore makes $467,166 and UT-Aus-tin President William Powers Jr. makes $676,912. Former UT System Chancellor Mark Yudof made $786,045 before he resigned in June, accord-ing to the Chronicle of Higher Education survey.
“In the past, when UT presidents had car allowances and housing allowances, those items had to be paid from local sources,” Ward said. “When those were eliminated, we chose to alter the local piece of [Spaniolo’s] funding when his salary changed.”
Ward said revenue from Carrizo Oil and Gas drilling into the Barnett Shale will be
counted as private funds.The Chronicle of Higher
Education survey also covered faculty salaries.
The average professor at UTA receives $97,600, an in-crease of $3,100 from 2006-2007, according to the survey. The average male professor makes $98,500, the average female $91,500. Nationally, the average public university professor makes $80,408.
The average UTA associ-ate professor makes $71,500 and the average instructor $69,200.
The school has to raise fac-ulty salaries to stay competi-tive, said Antoinette Sol, Facul-ty Senate secretary and French associate professor.
JaSon [email protected]
Salarycontinued from page 1
rankingUTA President James Spaniolo$405,100National median$427,400
At UTA:Average professor$97,600Associate professor$71,500Instructor$69,200
National:Average baccalaureate institu-tion professor$80,408Associate professor$65,431Instructor$47,699
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Page 8 Friday, November 21, 2008The ShorThorn
BASELINEthe
SportS talk
“there are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or you’re out. there is no such thing as life in-between.”
pat riley, Miami Heat president and former NBa head coach
By tHe NuMBer: woMeN’S BaSketBall
25Number of points scored by seniors Erin
Dixon (13) and Candice Champion (12)
20Number of points scored by the other six Mavericks who played
42-8Run pulled off by TCU to turn a four-point
Maverick lead into a 30-point deficit
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Mavericks sign recruit from Louisville, Ky.
Head men’s basketball coach Scott Cross announced the signing of a top recruit out of Kentucky on Thursday.
Jordan Reeves, a 6-foot-10-inch senior from Louisville, Ky., signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Mavericks for the 2009-2010 season.
After averaging 11 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots a game during his junior season, the Rick Bolus Recruiting Service named Reeves its top sleeper in the state of Kentucky.
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Mavericks snag eight recruits for ’09-’10
The baseball team announced its early signing class for the 2009-2010 on Thursday, with eight recruits pledg-ing to come play for the Mavericks with National Letters of Intent.
Among the eight were two Arling-ton products, both from Martin High School.
Brian Nephew, who may play either infield or outfield, finished the 2008 collegiate season with six home runs and 35 RBIs for the McLennan Com-munity College Highlanders in Waco.
Catcher Daniel Garcia, who will finish his career at Martin this season, hit .444 for the Warriors during his ju-nior season. His performance earned him All-District honors as well as the Defensive Player of the Year award.
Overall, the Mavs signed six play-ers with infield experience, three players with outfield experience, one catcher and one left-handed pitcher.
— Justin Rains
By StepHeN peterSThe Shorthorn staff
the men’s basketball team improved to 2-0 for just the third time in 15 seasons, but for the sec-ond consecutive season. Al-though his scoring numbers are down to start the year, junior sharpshooter rogér Guignard is a key component to the Mavs’ success this year and was last year too.
G u i g n a r d , prior to the texas Wesleyan game, sat down with the short-horn to talk about video games, inspira-tions and initial thoughts about playing at texas Hall.
The Shorthorn: Talk about your life outside of school and basketball.
Rogér Guignard: I just chill with my cousins or go home on weekends when I can. When we’re not in season I try to see my family as much as I can.
TS: What’s tougher, being a student or being an ath-lete?
RG: probably a student. I’ve been an athlete all my life, it kinda comes natural. You got to work to be a student.
TS: If your iPod could only play one song over and over, what would it be?
RG: “say Yes Girl” [by Lil’ Corey].
TS: What is celebrity life like now on campus after getting to the NCAA’s?
RG: It’s cool. I like it. there’s a lot more people
that’ll come up and say that they come to the games. It gives you a little more mo-tivation to do good.
TS: Have you ever seen or taken a shot that you didn’t think you could make?
RG: Nah. I think I can make every shot I take.
TS: Favorite video game growing up?
RG: Mad-den and NBA Live.
TS: Who’s been the big-gest inspira-tion to you t h r o u g h o u t your life?
RG: My mom, because she’s been there all my life.
TS: First t h o u g h t s
when you were being re-cruited and they said you’d play your home games on a stage?
RG: I didn’t know what to think. I was like, ‘How is that possible?’ then, when I came and saw it, I was
like, ‘oK.’TS: Were you
shocked more when they told you or more when you saw it?
RG: When I saw it.
TS: A place you’d love to travel to that
you haven’t been?RG: A few, probably
like the Bahamas … puerto rico.
TS: If you didn’t play basketball, what would you be doing instead?
RG: I would try to get into business, something like that. Invest in stuff.
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Getting to know...rogér Guignard as he
deep threats his way to the NCAAs for the second time
GettiNG tHe factS— Set a school record with 99 3-pointers last year— Has average 11.9 points per game at UTA— A career 74 percent free-throw shooter.— Scored 47 points dur-ing the SLC tournament last year
By BeN HauSSContributor to The Shorthorn
the women’s basketball team failed to win back-to-back games against Metroplex foes, falling to texas Christian 70-45 thursday night.
After a back and forth first half, the Mavericks let up in the second, allowing the Frogs (3-0) to turn a close game into a blowout.
“I’m not happy with our performance,” head coach sa-mantha Morrow said. “I know we’re a lot better than that.”
At the end of a hard fought first half by both teams, the Mavericks (1-1) trailed the Horned Frogs 29-21. Neither team shot well from the field in the half, with the Mavericks shooting 25.7 percent to the Horned Frogs 24.3 percent.
the Mavs played a very good defensive game in the first half and kept the game within reach, Morrow said.
“We played hard for about 30 minutes,” she said. “After the girls realized we were going to lose, they let up a little bit.”
senior forward Erin Dixon led the Mavericks with her second double-double of the
season, scoring 13 points and pulling in 11 rebounds.
Also in double figures was senior forward Candice Champion, scoring 12 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.
Champion said she wasn’t able to find her groove until later on in the game due to tough tCU pressure.
“they switched up their defense,” she said. “they knew from the get-go they weren’t going to be able to play us man to man.”
Champion finished the game perfect from the free-throw line, making all eight of her attempts.
tCU started the second half on a 6-0 run — after ending the first half on a similar 12-0 run — forcing Mor-row to call her first time out of the half. the Horned Frogs continued to build on their lead from the first half and there was no looking back.
the Mavericks had a hard time all night driving the lane against a bigger tCU team. the Mavs found themselves shooting beyond the arc 21 times, and only three of those shots fell through.
the Mavs shot 24.1 per-cent from the field for the overall game, while tCU shot 33.8 percent.
“our shooting percentage
was horrendous,” Morrow said. “We shot 20-something percent. that’s ridiculous, we’re a better shooting team then that.”
the Mavs only sent eight players into the game, while the Horned Frogs used 12 players. Morrow said the lack of depth played a role in the loss.
UtA started the game with a lot of excitement going against a good team like tCU, who defeated then-No. 3 Maryland by 12 early in the season.
“We were really excited to get out there and play against a team like tCU,” Dixon said.
Morrow said the Mavs are pre-paring for con-ference games by playing against ‘tough teams’ like texas Christian.
Champion and Dixon both agreed that the team has a lot to work on but know what the team is capable of.
“We need to say focused on what our main goal is,” Dixon said.
the Mavericks travel to Lubbock this weekend to play against the texas tech red raiders. tip-off is sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Mavs fall to No. 24 tCU in 25-point blowout
woMeN’S BaSketBall
The Horned Frogs use a long scoring run to pull away from the Mavericks.
The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley
Antoinette Thompson (left) of TCU blocks the lane of Maverick junior guard Meghan Nelson during the Mavericks’ 70-45 loss to TCU on Thursday at Daniel Meyer Coliseum in Fort Worth. The Mavericks’ next competition will be Sunday against Texas Tech in Lubbock.
coMiNG upSaturdayAt Eastern WashingtonTime: 9:05 p.m.Place: Cheney, Wash
coMiNG upSundayat Texas TechTime: 2 p.m.
Place: Lubbock
The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig
Rogér Guignard, junior guard
Horned Frogs 70 Mavericks 45
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