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By Sarah LutzThe Shorthorn staff

The university’s prelimi-nary parking expansion plans

consider the long-term envi-ronmental issues, but some local residents and student environmentalists are con-cerned about the short-term plans.

The plan consists of lot ex-pansions and a new parking lot, both in the southern part

of campus, to give students a place to park when the uni-versity eliminates some lots on the east side of campus, said John Hall, Administra-tion and Campus Operations vice president. The university will eliminate the Arlington Hall parking lot, lots 45 and

42 and some of Lot 40 to add the special events center and parking garages. The ex-pansions in the southern part of campus will accommodate parking until the last garage opens in 2012.

Hall said the temporary parking expansion will allow

for parking needs during the special events center’s con-struction, and green spaces can be added afterward.

He said 26.5 percent of the university is designated for surface parking, and ac-

Parking changes may reduce green spaceConStruCtion

Some locals oppose UTA’s proposal to add spaces on top of greenery.

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By Bryan BaStiBLeThe Shorthorn staff

The university is look-ing into collaboration with Jordanian universi-ties after the Provost and the Office of International Education executive direc-tor visited the Middle East country last month.

The university signed an agreement with Yar-mouk University similar to

existing agreements with Hashemite University and Tafila Technical Univer-sity.

The agreement covers a variety of possible collabo-rations, including student and faculty exchange and research collaboration, Judy Young, OIE execu-tive director, said. Under that general exchange, the schools can establish program agreements spe-cific to what they want, she said.

UTA, Middle East universities to collaborate their programs

internationaL eduCation

The university may also establish a Jordanian study abroad program.

By duStin L. dangLiThe Shorthorn staff

The Office of Infor-mation Technology said it has completely fixed errors that left visitors unable to access the uni-versity’s Web site, and related sites like MyMav, for several hours on Monday and Tuesday.

OIT only partially corrected problems with the Domain Name Server on Monday and while working on it

Tuesday, the servers malfunctioned again, said Suzanne Montague, OIT vice president and chief information offi-cer. From 4:30 to 8 p.m. Monday and 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, students in residence halls and those trying to access the Internet wirelessly on campus lost all service.

“We do not expect further difficulties,” she said. “Even though it ap-peared to be two sepa-rate incidents, it was a single problem that oc-curred over two days.”

Ineffective server causes ‘Net, Web site to fail twice

Computing and teChnoLogy

OIT fixed the glitch that caused students to lose access to UTA URLs.

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By Johnathan SiLverContributor to The Shorthorn

The Classics Club re-visited wars, blood lust, infidelity and petty gods in Homer’s The Odyssey for more than 15 hours Wednesday.

The club hosted its an-nual Homerathon 7 a.m.-10:30 p.m. on the Univer-sity Center mall and sold Classics Club T-shirts and mugs. Nearly 60 spots of 15-minute recitations were filled by more than 25 peo-

ple from the club, Texas Christian University clas-sics students and faculty and students from nearby grade schools.

Americans could learn from the way ancient Greeks acted, classical studies program director Charles Chiasson said.

“In these hard economic times, people are running around like chickens with their heads cut off,” he said. “The Greeks experienced drought, relatively few natural resources, lived on rocky land, and poor peas-ants had to scratch a living

Homerathon journeys back to ancient Greece

CampuS Life

The event included readings of the epic poem, “The Odyssey.”

By CaroLine BaSiLeThe Shorthorn staff

The annual glass sale and auction on Wednesday gave a clear view of work and dedication to art.

The sale, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., featured works by glass art profes-sor David Keens, students and vis-iting glass artists. During the sale, students performed four glass demonstrations for the public. A silent auction was open until 1 p.m.

Items and prices at the sale varied from $2 small glass flowers to $150 vases. Works at the silent auction went up into the thousands in price. Proceeds from the sale and auction are divided so the artist re-ceives half the money, and the rest goes to the glass studio, Keens said.

He said more than 30 students participated in the annual show, which drew a steady crowd of students, faculty, staff and local residents.

“It’s a hard thing to learn and practice. There’s a pretty steep learn-ing curve,” he said. “Our students have worked so hard to do so well and it shows in their work here.”

Keens said participation was optional but many jumped at the

The Shorthorn: Chris Hudson

Liberal arts associate dean kimberly van noort recites part of a French translation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” for a small crowd Wednesday on the University Center mall. The University Clas-sics Club presented the daylong recitation.

Connection Café evacu-ated diners at 12:30 p.m. due to flooding, but opened an hour later Wednesday.

Water began seeping from floor drains at noon due to food backing up in the drainage system, said David Albart, University Center operations director. It was the first time this kind of flooding happened in three to four years, he said.

Dining Services Director Elizabeth Cheong said staff evacuated the cafeteria be-cause it was slippery and, therefore, unsafe. She said diners who paid received re-funds and diners already in the cafeteria received to-go

boxes for their food.The cafeteria continued

service at first because the flooding seemed minor, Connection Café service manager Michael Holloman said. Visitors had to watch their step as they walked to get food because the flood-ing was uneven. Mainte-nance began working on the issue at about 12:20 p.m.

Anthropology senior An-drea Russell said she had finished eating when she was, along with her friends, rudely evacuated.

“They said, ‘Get up and get out,’ ” she said.

— Dustin L. Dangli

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A ‘Clear’ View of Glass Art

Glass sale and auction showcases the works of glass art students, faculty

The Shorthorn: Meghan Williams

Marsha Baylor and her husband, UTa alumnus Mike, make their final bids at a silent auction Tuesday in the Studio Arts Center. The auction was part of the annual glass sale.


art graduate teaching assistant Matthew patterson smoothes a glass piece on a mar-ver table Tuesday in the Studio Arts Center. Patterson and others demonstrated glass blowing techniques at the annual glass sale.

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CANNON FODDER by Isaac Erickson

This is a part of the daily activity log produced by the university’s Police Department. To report a criminal inci-dent on campus, call 817-272-3381.

POLICE REPORT

TUESDAYVehicle tow

Police were called at 10:32 a.m. to investigate a report of a vehicle parked in a reserved space in Faculty Lot 8, 801 Greek Row Drive. A faculty member told the responding officer that someone had parked in his space without authorization. The offending vehicle was towed.

Vehicle burglaryPolice responded at

3:35 p.m. to investigate a vehicle burglary report at

1107 Greek Row Drive. A stu-dent told the responding of-ficer that an unknown person had broken in to his vehicle at some point after the student arrived that morning.

Vehicle towPolice responded at 3:57

p.m. to a report of an unau-thorized vehicle parked in a reserved space in Faculty Lot 12, 400 UTA Blvd. A faculty member told the responding officer that someone had parked in his space without authorization. The offending vehicle was towed.

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BY JOHNATHAN SILVERContributor to The Shorthorn

After a year of reading as-signments and speakers dis-cussing her novel’s theme of connectedness, students in freshman English classes can hear OneBook 2008-09 author, Nicole Krauss, speak about her book.

Krauss will talk about sub-jects surrounding her best seller History of Love in “A Conversa-tion with Nicole Krauss” from 7 to 8 tonight in the University Center Rosebud Theatre.

Guest speakers are invited to talk about this year’s OneBook selection from different angles and themes.

Since fall 2006, one certain book was required reading for every freshman English class, as part of the OneBook program.

Jarrod Stringer, English graduate teaching assistant, said he liked the novel and that his students responded well in discussions.

“It delves into the inadequa-

cies that human beings experi-ence in their daily lives and cre-ates a tapestry in and through, which individuals choose cour-age in order to move through their fears,” Stringer said.

The book has varying mes-sages readers are likely to en-counter.

“As illustrated in the novel, even when human beings feel alone, they are connected in ways that they may not be able to see, or of which they may not be aware,” he said.

OneBook and Conversa-tions Program co-chair Dawn Remmers, also enjoyed History of Love and looks forward to Krauss’ visit.

“I enjoyed the book from the perspective that it covered so many substantive topics: the challenges of growing up, the challenges of growing old, the unconditional love of others, writing, plagiarism, all of the glimpses into other countries and cultures,” Remmers said. “Then the notion that all of that comes together in a neat pack-age is beautiful and fascinating to me.”

Remmers found aspects of the book relatable.

“It really is all about the con-nections, and seeing that we are connected to each other, maybe more than we know, is valu-able,” she said.

Previous OneBook novels were The Kite Runner in 2006-07 and Maus: A Survivor’s Talein 2007-08. Next year’s book is the nonfiction book Deep Econ-omy: The Wealth of Communi-ties and the Durable Future.

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Nicole Krauss’ speech to touch on various subjects and themes in the book.

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OUT WITH THE OLDRafael Camacho, left, and Estevan Dias clean the dirt and rocks out of a milling machine behind the University Center on W. 1st St. Wednesday af-ternoon. The milling machine was used to tear up the old concrete in preparation for resurfacing.

TODAY

Art Exhibition — Rimer Cardillo and Darryl Lauster: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., The Gal-lery at UTA. Free. For informa-tion, contact Patricia Healy at 817-272-5658 or [email protected].

Drop-In Study Abroad Advis-ing: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., University Center between Starbucks and Freshens. Free. For information, contact Blake Hart at 817-272-1120 or [email protected].

Devotional and Food: noon, 311 UTA Blvd. Free. For information, contact 817-274-6282.

Exhibiting Artist Talk — Rimer Cardillo: 12:30-1:30 p.m., 148 Fine Arts Building. Free. For information, contact Patricia Healy at 817-272-5658 or [email protected].

Improving Your Study Skills: 1-2 p.m., 216 Davis Hall. Free. For information, call Counseling Services at 817-272-3671.

Planetarium Show — “Secret of the Cardboard Rocket”: 1:30-2:30 p.m., Planetarium. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for fac-ulty, staff and alumni and $2 for UTA students. For information, contact Levent Gurdemir at 817-272-0123 or [email protected].

TechnoScholar — Let’s Get Down to Basics — Video for the Web: 2-4 p.m., Central Library Digital Media Studio.

Global Grounds International Coffee Hour: 4-5 p.m., UC Palo Duro Lounge. Free. For informa-tion, contact Julie Holmer at 817-272-2355 or [email protected].

Biology Department Spring 2009 Colloquium Series: 4-5 p.m., 124 Life Science Building. Free. For information, contact Andre Pires da Silva at 817-272-1383 or [email protected].

The Admiral: 4:30-7 p.m., 200 Trimble Hall. Free. For informa-tion, contact Lonny Harrison at 817-272-2388 or [email protected].

WHEN AND WHEREWhen: 7 p.m. tonightWhere: University Center Rosebud Theatre

Nicole Krauss, Best-selling author of History of Love

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cording to the Master Plan, it will reduce to 19.7 percent in 2020 and 12.2 percent in 2060. Green space, which is 35.2 percent of the uni-versity, will increase to 41.7 in 2020 but is projected to remain the same for 2060.

Hall said the university is still surveying the area and could not give estimates on the amount of green space that will be lost between now and 2020. But, much like with Lot 50, the university will save most, if not all, of the trees on the land.

“The material that we’re looking to use is a pervious material that actually allows rainwater to soak through the surface,” he said. “We haven’t completed the de-sign of the lot, and certainly going to a sustainable design should allow us to save most, if not all, of the trees.”

The Environmental Soci-ety, a student organization devoted to promote environ-mental interests, asked stu-dents if they would prefer a green space or the new park-ing lot during a bake sale Wednesday.

Vinodh Valluri, society member and environmental science graduate student, said the society could not understand justifying the loss of a healthy, well-devel-oped green space for parking even if the university would later attempt to regrow the area.“We want to get an idea

of what the students are ask-ing for and whether that’s sustainable as well as what the university is asking for and whether that’s sustain-able,” he said. “In 2020, what are those decisions, which you do not want to regret, and do you want to make those decisions right now?”

Valluri said of the 104 students buying food at the sale, one student wanted the parking lot built, and 103 others said they would pre-fer to keep the green space. None were fully informed of the situation.

History graduate stu-dent Monica Drake said the university owns property both north and south of her house. The proposed Lot 54 will sit south of her home.

“Why tear up one of the last green spaces on cam-pus for 74 parking spaces?” she said. “It’s so far from the central campus that I don’t

understand the argument that people who are wanting to park over by Center Street on the east side are going to park down there almost to Park Row and walk.”

Drake said she fought a similar battle in 2005 when the university made plans to add Lot 54 that May.

“A lot of people from the Arlington Conservation Council and local residents and people who were con-cerned about nesting birds, green spaces and old trees all got together,” she said.

Hall said the university delayed its 2005 plans for the parking lot because after looking at what kind of ex-cess capacity the university had, administrators realized there was enough space and didn’t need to go ahead with the parking plan.

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Student Governance and Organizations administra-tors are investigating the un-authorized distribution of an independent publication on campus on Wednesday.

Staff of The Morning Hangover, a satirical, tabloid-style newspaper, distributed 500 copies of its first issue to students on the Central Li-brary and University Center malls.

Jeff Sorensen, Student Governance and Organiza-tions assistant vice president, said he and his staff would look into the distribution be-fore taking further action.

“We’ll contact the people re-sponsible for the paper — we’ll have some conversations with them to determine who they are,” Sorensen said. “Whether they’re on-campus people or off-campus — then we’d apply

the appropriate policy.”He said the policy for off-

campus publications states they can only be distributed at three places on campus: the north side of the Mitch-ell Street bridge, outside the Campus Center across from the Maverick Activities Center and on the west side of the University Center.

As of press time, Student Governance and Organiza-tions made no decision re-garding action on the unau-thorized distribution, said Jamie Williams, Student Gov-ernance and Organizations director.

Matt Keyser, print journal-ism sophomore and editor-in-chief of The Morning Hang-over, said the paper’s goal is strictly fun.

“All the news reported now is how the economy is going

down, the stocks are in the crapper,” he said. “Our goal is to make people laugh and forget that we’re in a recession and all the negative stuff.”

He said The Morning Hangover will be distributed every Wednesday to major universities around the Me-troplex area. Keyser said he borrowed money from a friend to finance the operation.

Keyser is also the editor-in-chief of the News Register, the Northlake Community Col-lege student newspaper, but he said the two publications are not connected.

“I’m in no way affili-ated with the News Register as it regards to The Morn-ing Hangover,” he said. “This newspaper is completely on my own time.”

— Justin Rains

Satirical paper circulated at UTA without approvalCAMPUS LIFE

UP IN SMOKEArlington Fire Depart-ment firefighter Pete Martinez extinguishes flames from a car fire Wednesday at Mitchell and Cooper streets. Andria Turner escaped with two other passen-gers with no serious injuries after seeing smoke emit from her steering wheel.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSLONDON — Dog-

gedly optimistic in the face of doubts, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pre-dicted Thursday’s emergency G-20 economic summit would produce a significant global deal to tackle the deep-ening worldwide recession.

Others weren’t so sure. France warned on Wednes-day that neither it nor Ger-many would agree to “false compromises” that soft-pedal a need for tougher financial regulation to curb abuses that contributed to the chaos. And outside the carefully scripted meetings, protesters smashed bank windows and pelted po-

lice with eggs and fruit.Thousands surged into

London’s financial district, blockading the Bank of Eng-land and breaking into a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Elsewhere, however, inside the meetings, Obama said differences among the presidents and prime minis-ters of the Group of 20 rich

and emerging countries, were “vastly overstated.”

“I am absolutely confident that this meeting will reflect enormous consensus about the need to work in concert to deal with these problems,” said Obama, who is under pres-sure to make a good showing in his first major international appearance.

Obama, Brown predict G20 deal

ECONOMY

AP Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis

British police with dogs face protesters in central London’s financial district during minor clashes late Wednesday. Some 4,000 anarchists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists and others clogged the streets of London’s financial district ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit in London Thursday. While most of the protests were peaceful, some protesters clashed with riot police during the day-long protests.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSISLAMABAD — The son

of a poor potato farmer who once worked as a fitness in-structor has grown into one of the most powerful mili-tant leaders along the Paki-stan-Afghan border, his rise fueled by alliances with al-Qaida and fellow Pakistani militants.

A day after Pakistani Tal-iban chief Baitullah Mehsud threatened to attack the White House, a U.S. drone fired two missiles at the al-leged hide-out of one of his commanders Wednesday in a remote area of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing 14 people, in-telligence and local officials said.

Mehsud is now seen as

posing one of the greatest threats to President Barack Obama’s push to stem Paki-stan’s slide toward instability and turn around the war in Afghanistan, analysts and of-ficials said.

For years, the U.S. had considered him a lesser threat than some of the other Paki-stani Taliban, their Afghan counterparts and al-Qaida, because most of his attacks were focused inside Pakistan, not against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Pakistani officials said the U.S. has changed its view in recent months as Mehsud’s power has grown and con-cerns mounted that increas-ing violence in Pakistan could destabilize the nucle-ar-armed ally.

Pakistani militant poses growing threat

SECURITY

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A ROYAL WELCOMEUS President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, talk with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during an audience at Buckingham Palace in London, Wednesday April 1, 2009.

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sportsabout sports

Stephen Peters, [email protected]

Sports publishes Tuesday through Friday.

rememberFriday’s page features the two aces of the Mavericks’ softball team and a preview of

the team’s weekend series.

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By Stephen peterSThe Shorthorn sports editor

Fort WortH — play-ers and coaches say they’re concentrating mainly on the weekend conference series as the season progresses.

that wasn’t the case Wednesday night, as the Mavericks went down swinging to texas Christian 2-1 at Lupton stadium — literally.

Using a deep pitching ro-tation for the game, UtA held the potent Horned Frog offense to just one earned run on seven hits.

In the bottom of the ninth, with a runner on first, third baseman Evan raley fielded a bunt from tCU’s third baseman Matt Carpen-ter.

the throw sailed over second baseman Justin Mcpherson’s glove into cen-ter field, advancing the run-ner to third.

“It was just one of those plays,” head coach Darin thomas said. “that’s just a play [raley] will make next time.”

right-handed pitcher Jason Mitchell, the fourth of the night, intentionally walked the next batter to load the bases.

tCU catcher Jimmie pharr, in for ejected start-ing catcher Bryan Holaday, sent a fly ball to mid-center field, allowing the runner at third to tag up and score the game-winning run.

the highlight of the night came at the conclusion of the Mavs’ half of the eighth inning when shortstop tim steggall rounded third base on a Michael Choice single.

steggall was caught too far-off third base during the relay throw. He then contin-ued to home plate and col-lided with Holaday.

Holaday then retaliated by punching steggall in the face, which led to both teams leaving the dugouts and running on to the field behind home plate.

“that’s just baseball,” steggall said with a bloody nose. “I was too far out to slide, so I just tried to make a play at the plate.”

After conferring in the middle of the inning, the umpires ejected steggall and Holaday.

the Mavericks mustered only four hits against tCU pitching and struck out four times. three of the team’s hits came from the bat of Choice.

“our hitting wasn’t there tonight,” thomas said. “I didn’t think having Andrew [Kainer] out of the lineup would hurt that much, but it did.”

UtA has a day off be-fore beginning a three-game series with southeastern Louisiana on Friday at Clay Gould Ballpark.

the loss marks the 13th straight time UtA has lost to the Horned Frogs. It also snaps a three-game win streak for UtA.

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Mavs fight to end, fall short to tCUBaSeBall

The team can’t find a way to come up with a win against the Horned Frogs.

By Caroline BaSileThe Shorthorn staff

the scoreboards at Allan saxe Field and Clay Gould Ballpark are receiving face-lifts.

pepsi, Aquafina, Blue Cross Blue shield of texas, texas Health resources and AUI Con-tractors join Wells Fargo and spring Creek Barbeque as advertisers for the two teams.

the advertising panels will go on the front and back of each board, said Jason Chaput, assistant athletic director for facilities and events management. Also, Clay Gould Ball-park will get a new video board.

“these are continuing upgrades and com-mitment to our baseball and softball pro-grams,” he said.

the video board replaces the old one, which was used from 1997 until 2004, when it became inoperable.

the new video board is a 16 feet tall and 9 feet wide prostar LED display with full video capabilities.

tony Burkin, associate athletic director for business and operations, said the scoreboard should be up and running by this weekend for the series against southeastern Louisiana. He also said the video board will be fully op-erational within the next two weeks.

“It’s great to finally have this,” he said. “We’ve been working on this for almost five years, and we’re really fortunate that pepsi and the other sponsors came in and we could do this.”

UtA baseball head coach Darin thomas said the scoreboard repairs and the video board caught him off guard.

“It kind of surprised me,” he said. “I knew we were getting something but didn’t know when. It was all a matter of when it hap-pened, and it looks great.”

Kevin Fralicks, associate athletic director for external affairs, said advertising with AUI Contractors is an exchange deal. the ad the Fort Worth-based architecture company has at the ballparks for two years would normally cost $20,000, but instead AUI will provide UtA artist renderings and other services to use as the university plans further changes to the fields, including locker rooms at the base-ball and softball fields, Fralicks said.

“We’re very pleased to work with AUI on this,” he said.

Currently, the baseball and softball teams suit up at Maverick stadium.

Clay Gould Ballpark’s last renovation was in 2003, when seating capacity was increased from 1,200 to 1,600, and a new entrance way was built.

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UtA ballparks to get new advertising, technology

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A new video display at Clay Gould Ballpark will be ready in two weeks, new scoreboards will be up this weekend.

The Shorthorn: Jacob Adkisson

A construction crew works on the Clay Gould Ballpark’s new scoreboard, featuring LED video board and more sponsors on Wednesday.

Above: A fight breaks out between shortstop Tim Steggall, 3, and TCU catcher Bryan Holaday as both dugouts pour on to the field during Wednes-day’s loss to TCU. The fight stemmed from a colli-sion as Stegall attempted to score a run.

Left: Senior first baseman Ryan Davis tags out TCU’s Brance Rivera at first base Wednesday during the Mavericks’ 2-1 loss to TCU at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth. This loss brings the Maver-icks’ record to 15-12 for the season.

The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

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Q: I've lost my sex drive. I don'tknow where it went or why. I love myhusband, and I think he is desirable, butI'm never in the mood. I'm 31, and he's27. We just got married in June. I neverinitiate sex, and he wishes I would. Iused to have a sex drive,when I was younger, but inthe past three years it's dwin-dled down to nothing. I'mconcerned that it's gone andI won't get it back. He's triedcandles, soft music, bubblebaths. The one complaint Ihave, though, is that he goesright for the goods withoutcuddling or foreplay. Howcan I make him understandthat this is very important forme? That if we've bothworked 50-60 hours thatweek, I'd like to cuddle andtalk for a while before wejust dive right into a quickie?

A: Since he'sbeen trying candles, etc., itseems that he's willing to dowhat it takes to please you,so is it possible he just doesn't knowwhat you want? Have you told him? Ifyou've never discussed this, then how ishe supposed to guess what you need? Ifyou have had a talk about this and hestill doesn't get it, then write back to me,but if you've been leaving him in thedark as to what's going on inside yourhead, then what you need to do isenlighten him.

Q: My girlfriend has just startedtaking medication for depression. Shehas little sex drive right now. Can youtell me how having her take this med-ication might affect our sex life?

A: People who aredepressed generally do nothave much of a sex drive.And the medications thathelp with depression oftenlower a person's sex drive,so that even as the personfeels less depressed, his orher sex drive might notcome back. However, anyparticular medication willaffect each person differ-ently. So if your girlfriendis taking one medicationand it's having a negativeeffect on her sex drive, haveher ask her doctor foranother one. Obviously, themost important aspect ofher medication is that ithelps with her depression,but if another medicationwill be just as effective as

this one while not lowering her libido,then that would be fine. You will haveto be patient, however, because it maytake some time for the medication sheis on to take effect, so you might notknow whether this medication is hav-ing a negative effect on her sex drivefor a few months.

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“The next language probably that is going to be added to the curricu-lum will be Arabic. We were discussing ways in which students studying Arabic could spend time in Jordan practicing the language,” she said.

Jordan is between Iraq and Israel and north of Saudi Arabia and is the only Middle East country the university has signed agree-ments with, Young said.

Donald Bobbitt, Provost and Academic Affairs vice president, said the univer-sity engages in these type of agreements to provide cultural opportunities for students.

“It gives faculty mem-bers sort of permission to have conversations with colleagues at these foreign institutions and to inves-tigate what might be pos-sible,” he said.

The agreements signed are a pledge for the two in-stitutions to work together, he said.

“The thing that I like about the contacts in Jor-dan is that every one of the presidents ... told me that they weren’t interested in just the paper ... they wanted an interactive rela-tionship with The Univer-sity of Texas at Arlington,” he said. “And I think that’s great. They’re not looking for something to just put

on a résumé, they’re for an institution that could be a real partner with them, and that’s exactly our view also.”

Bobbitt called Jordan a country of tremendous op-portunity.

“It’s a growing economy with some very interesting problems related to water issues, the environment — their problems are not too dissimilar from the state of Texas,” he said. “There are parts of Texas where water and the environment are key issues. The only differ-ence is that Jordan doesn’t seem to have oil below.”

He said Jordan has many ethnicities and cultures liv-ing together. Individuals who have emigrated from Palestine, other Arab states and Westerners.

“It’s like a living labo-ratory for world history,” he said. “I think from that point of view the experience for our students would be unique and truly profound.”

Young said Jordan is a country that UTA would feel comfortable to send its students.

“It’s a very diverse en-vironment and safe,” Bob-bitt said. “It is literally ground central for the his-tory in that area. The Ro-mans went through there, the Byzantine Empire had its influence there, the He-brews came through there, it was a stopping point for the Crusades.”

Bryan BastiBle

[email protected]

Jordancontinued from page 1A

Montague said the DNS converts Web addresses like www.uta.edu into IP addresses, which comput-ers use to relay informa-tion.

“Since the DNS was not working, even though the Web pages and the net-work were functioning per-fectly, there was nothing to translate our usual web addresses into a working IP address that publishes the Web page,” she said.

The occurrences on both days were part of the same issue, which took two days for technicians to correct.

“Even though it ap-

peared OK to the general public, we were still ex-periencing difficulty with the software,” M o n t a g u e said. “We were well on our way to com-plete resolu-tion when the servers mal-functioned the second time.”

She said she thinks the loss of con-nectivity on both days was due to volume p r o c e s s i n g because it oc-curred around the same time both days.

“The volume by 4:30 p.m. may have maxed at the

same time of day,” she said.The issue was fully re-

solved, and the servers were restored to full power at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

S t u d e n t s living on cam-pus could not log into RESnet, the UTA residen-tial network, so they had no Internet access during the times the university had problems with the DNS.

Undeclared f r e s h m a n

Kimberlin To said she spent an hour trying to fix the problem by tinkering with

her computer and checking her Ethernet cable before finding out other people couldn’t connect.

“I wanted to find out how much I had to pay for housing,” she said.

To said she was sur-prised when she couldn’t log on to the Internet for the second time Tuesday.

Undeclared freshman Emily Ramirez said the lack of Internet turned out to be a positive for her.

“It actually helped,” she said. “Since I had a paper to finish for English dur-ing that time, I couldn’t distract myself with the In-ternet.”

Dustin l. Dangli

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OITcontinued from page 1A

from an unforgiving earth. They were a tough people — more than many in America in the 21st century.”

“The Odyssey”, com-posed in eighth century B.C., is about the human condition and represents the beginning of Western culture.

Odysseus, the main char-acter, attempts to return home from war but faces many obstacles planned by the gods. Odysseus gets set back years and deals with loss caused by his reckless actions. This provides a window into what it means to be human, Chiasson said.

“Part of being human is suffering,” he said.

The epic poem is deemed a classic because its subject matter transcends its own time, Chiasson said.

Classics Club secretary Emily Clark said she recited lines from the poem be-cause she liked being part of

Greek tradition and wants to be a professor.

“Ever since I was a little kid, I was always interested in ancient cultures,” Clark said. “This is the most natu-ral thing for me to go into.”

Speaking Wednesday re-minded Karl Petruso, Hon-ors College dean and an-thropology professor, of his ancient Greek undergradu-ate studies.

“It gives students the op-portunity to experience The Odyssey and Homer in an unusual way,” Petruso said.

Former student Rob-ert Keyes was an audience member in 2006 but was too afraid to volunteer. This year, he came back to pitch in, conquering his fear.

“It made me glad to think that part of the very basis of Western culture was still alive at UTA,” he said.

The epic was originally sung and acted out. Writ-ing came several centu-ries later, Petruso said.

Johnathan [email protected]

Homercontinued from page 1A

An accident earlier today in the 700 block of S. Davis St. left one driver hospitalized and his ve-hicle totaled.

Around 1:30 p.m., wit-nesses in the parking lot of the university police building at 700 S. Davis St. said they saw a white Plymouth strike a silver Saturn Ion and swerve across the opposing lane of traffic.

Education junior Kris-ten Sittig was behind the wheel of the Ion when her car was hit.

She said the Plymouth struck the driver’s side of her vehicle, causing minor body damage and break-ing off the side view mir-ror.

The other car’s driver appeared to be passed out behind the wheel, Sittig said.

After striking Sittig’s vehicle, the car continued into the front yard of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, stopping after it

struck a tree.Music performance

sophomore Drew Talley said he was in the frater-nity house at the time but didn’t hear the crash in the front yard.

An ambulance trans-ported the driver, who’s car had an alumni parking sticker, to Arlington Me-morial Hospital. An emer-gency room nurse said the Plymouth driver is in sta-ble condition, undergoing a series of medical tests and was unavailable for comment at press time.

While the car was sig-nificantly damaged, with the hood crumpled and engine compartment crushed, little damage was visible to the Phi Delta Theta lawn or the tree the car struck.

“There aren’t even skid marks,” Talley said. “You couldn’t tell it had hap-pened if you hadn’t seen it.”

— Jason Joyce

Person in stable condition after Davis Street crash

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The driver of the white Plymouth Acclaim struck the side of educa-tion junior Kristen Sittig’s car, before hitting a tree of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house front yard Wednesday. The Plymouth’s driver had to be hospitalized after appearing passed out at the accident while Sittig made away without serious injuries.

opportunity to show their art, allowing them to earn money for more supplies, tuition and bills.

Art graduate student Shannon Brunskill said she sold items in the auction and sale to help fund a sum-mer course at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle and also to support the studio.

Mickey Teeters, Tarrant County College learning lab manager and UTA glass student, said she’s always been enthusiastic about color and that’s why she chose to work with glass.

“Glass is the best way to express color — just to see the light shine through it and see the vivid colors,” she said.

Teeters joined the pro-gram because of how com-prehensive it is and the equipment she can work with.

“It’s an outstanding facil-

ity, and it’s a great place to learn glass,” she said.

Fort Worth resident Janet Stuffmann came to the show because she col-lects art glass.

“I’m very excited by what the students can do,” she said. “There are some in-credible pieces for sale.”

At the time of her inter-view she had not purchased any pieces yet but said she was leaving with something.

“It’s hard to pick and nar-row down,” she said. “There are really beautiful pieces.”

Keens, who sold several of his items in the auction, said now that the sale is over, students will begin working on pieces and plan-ning for next year.

“We try to make each sale our best one yet,” he said. “This year’s was very suc-cessful.”

caroline [email protected]

Glasscontinued from page 1A

The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig

Astronomy senior Phyllis Whittlesey points out stars to students during an astronomy lab Wednesday night behind the Life Science Building. Students used a Celestron-8 telescope to view the pleiades, a clusters of stars near the constellation of Taurus.

RIght: Glass art professor David Keens auc-tions off works created by students, visiting

artists and faculty during the annual glass art sale Wednesday at the Studio Arts Center.

The sale funds the glass program’s repair and maintenance studio costs.

Below: Karen Ginsberg checks out glasswork Tuesday in the Studio Arts Center. Ginsberg

came out to support her son, Justin, who works under glass art professor David Keens.

“We try to make each sale our best one yet. This year’s was very successful.”

David Keens, glass art professor

the stars at night

The Shorthorn: Laura Sliva

“It actually helped. Since I had a paper to finish for English during that time, I couldn’t distract myself with the Internet.”

emily ramirez,undeclared freshman



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