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The UNT men’s basketball team starting backcourt tandem of freshmen Chris Jones and Jordan Williams have been ruled academically ineligible and will miss the rest of the 2011-2012 season.

Jones and Williams, who did not meet academic eligibility requirements last semester, will remain with the team this week. The requirements they failed to meet were not released.

Jones leads the team in assists with 4.5 per game and is tied for the team-lead in scoring with 14.1 points per game, while Williams was second on the team at 10.9 points per contest.

Head coach Johnny Jones and the two players were not imme-diately available for comment.

“This is disappointing for all of us, especially Chris and Jordan,” said coach Jones in a press release. “They both under-stand that they have fallen short of their academic responsibili-ties, and our immediate atten-tion will be to get them back on track toward earning their degrees.”

Before the season started, the team found out that Grambling

transfer Justin Patton was inel-igible because of academic circumstances prior to his transfer to UNT.

Chris Jones is the only member of the team to start every game for the Mean Green this season. Before fellow freshman Tony Mitchell scored 34 points in an overtime victory over South Alabama on Jan. 5, Jones scored

the most points by a freshman (31) during Johnny Jones’ tenure as head coach. His scoring onslaught came in a loss to Texas Tech in his second start.

Williams has started all but six games alongside Jones. He led the team in scoring in his first college action, an 81-52 season-opening win over St. Gregory’s in November.

Without Williams and Jones, the team will rely on guards Trey Norris, Brandan Walton, Alzee Williams and Tyler Hall.

Walton and Williams have both started this season and are averaging more than 20 minutes per game.

“This is unfortunate, and it is inconsistent with the excel-lent academic track record that coach Jones has established and the mission of the University of North Texas and its athletics department,” said UNT Director of Athletics Rick Villarreal in a statement. “We provide our student-athletes with all of the tools they need to be successful in the classroom, and it is incum-bent upon them to use these tools to their advantage.”

UNT is in action today at noon in an exhibition game against Huston-Tillotson in the Super Pit.

Jones, Williams ruled ineligible for season

CHRISJONES

JORDANWILLIAMS

“This is disappointing for all of us...”

—Johnny Jones Head coach, men’s basketball

CAYDEE ENSEYIntern

Veterans attending UNT now have a n a lternat ive to waiting more than two months to pay for books at the start of the semester.

T h e S t u d e n t M o n e y Management Center, part-nering w ith the Veterans Center, est abl i shed t he B o o t s - t o - B o o k s L o a n Program (B2B) last semester. T h e pr o g r a m pr ov id e s

a short-term loa n at t he UNT Student Bookstore to veterans waiting for while some wait for a the book stipend from the Post-9/11 GI Bill –legislation providing e d u c a t i o n b e n e f i t s t o veterans – to arrive.

Many veterans currently rely on the Post-9/11 GI Bill – which provides education benefits to veterans – offers an allowance for textbooks. However, the process can

be slow.“For st udents sta r t i ng

their f irst semester, they don’t get t he money for t heir books unt i l t wo or two and a half months into the semester,” saidys Kris Khastehdel, a peer mentor at the UNT Veterans Center. “So if you didn’t have any money set aside for books, you’re screwed.”

Bruce Cafeteria reopensStudents wait in line at salad bar in the newly-renovated “Bruceteria.” The cafeteria reopened last week after seven months of renovation.

PHOTO BY CALLIE ASHLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Program o� ers veterans loans for textbooks

Journalism freshman Joey Zahn smokes with friends Monday outside of Bruce Hall. Zahn, who has smoked since the 6th grade, said he doesn’t think there should be a campus smoking ban.

PHOTO BY TYLER CLEVELAND/VISUALS EDITOR

City, UNT to further examine smoking ban

See VETERANS on Page 2

ISAAC WRIGHTSenior Staff Writer

To tackle a proposed smoking ban in Denton bars and restau-rants, Denton city officials are working to create a citizen committee charged with deter-mining if such a ban is right for the city.

City of Denton staff members presented their preliminary report concerning a smoking ban in Denton bars and restaurants at last week’s city council meeting. Lindsay Baker, assistant to the city manager, said the issue first came to the council on Sept. 6.

Citizens presented reports encouraging Denton to follow suit with other Texas cities, such as Dallas and Austin, who have already passed no smoking ordi-nances.

Baker said the council tasked city staff members with exploring

a ban and creating a committee of residents following the reports presented last year.

“Council finally decided they did want to put the issue on the agenda for a work session [in September,]” Baker said. “Council did say they were in favor of a comprehensive ban. The committee’s job is to deter-mine how far they want to take it and provide recommendations to the council.”

Baker said the committee has not been formed yet and no appointments have been made. She said the issue would return to the city council in February or March.

Denton resident David Guest, 32, smokes cigarettes and said a smoking ban wouldn’t bother him, but believed it is not an issue government should decide.

“It’s a question of if it really

makes a difference one way or the other,” Guest said. “A lot of restaurants just say ‘please, smoke outside.’ I don’t have a problem with feeling ostracized, but people already unofficially make the decision for their busi-nesses as to how they’re going to handle something, so what is the point of having an ordinance?”

The UNT Student Government Administration has also taken notice of the smoking issue. Legislation proposing a smoking ban on the UNT campus was considered by the student senate last semester, but the bill failed. SGA President Blake Windham said the issue remains a priority for his administration and began circulating a petition on Tuesday to allow students to vote on the ban.

See SMOKING on Page 2

NICOLE BALDERAS &NADIA HILLSenior Staff Writer Intern

After seven months of renova-tions, Bruce Cafeteria reopened its doors last Monday to reveal a completely new design and some major menu changes.

Renovation costs were just less than the $1 million budgeted for the project, the first of a three-phase plan.

“Basically the place was falling apart,” said Bill McNeace, Executive Director of Dining Services. “The ventilation, the plumbing and electrical system all needed to be replaced.”

The renovations are the first for the cafeteria since it opened in 1946.

“Bruce has become the busiest lunchtime cafeteria on campus,” McNeace said. “It went from about 250 students to around 2,000.”

The original opening date of the cafeteria was set for last August, but progress slowed because of a blueprint mix-up.

“A contractor that was hired to do the job made [renovation plans] based on old blueprints,” McNeace said. “Because of this, there were sequencing issues and they had to resubmit their proposal.”

Another setback occurred Monday night when an elec-trical burn in the basement was started by old wiring in the elevator of the dish return system. The system was part of the cafeteria’s renovation.

Bruce’s recent renova-tions

In order to combat the rapid influx of students during lunch time, the cafeteria expanded

from three lines to five.The phrase “too many

cooks in the kitchen” became a reality for Bruce Cafeteria staff, who often found them-selves just as crammed in as students bumping elbows at lunch tables.

To create space for dining sta f f, t he k itchen was expanded and the dish room was moved downstairs into an unused portion of the Bruce basement.

To reduce dirty tray clutter, a four-level stacking system with conveyor belt and lift was custom designed and built by the company Airwork for UNT.

“This is a system that no other college or university has,” said Shohreh Sparks, Director of Resident Dining.

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To combat this problem, the Student Money Management Center partnered with the Veterans Center to create the Boots-to-Books Loan Program (B2B). The program provides a short-term loan at the UNT Student Bookstore while some wait for the book stipend to arrive.

The program began with a pilot program last semester, including David Samaniego, an Army veteran attending UNT.

“I was in desperate need for book money at the time and I was on my way home

VeteransContinued from Page 1

Smoking“We are collecting signa-

tures in order to bring the issue directly to students,” W i n d h a m s a i d . “ We’r e focusing on this because it comes up so often as an issue. We feel the pulse on campus is that students want to vote, one way or another.”

Windham said the petition proposes a complete smoking ban on the Denton campus and does not consider estab-lishing designated smoking areas anywhere on campus. S ome s t udent s at U N T

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In Tuesday’s edition of the North Texas Daily - in the story “DCTA releases new schedules” - the start time of Denton Connect’s Route 9 was misidentified.

The correct start time is 7:22 a.m.

The Daily regrets this error.

Correction

Accelerator relocated to labUNT is home to one of the top ion beam labs at any university in the country and recently moved the Ion Beam Modi� cation and Analysis Laboratory from Hickory Hall to the Physics Building over the break. The IMBAL’s three million volt particle accelerator has previously been used to analyze the composition of cancer cells.

PHOTO BY STEPHANIE MULCIHY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

RYAN SCHAEFERIntern

Over winter break, a 15,000-pound, 3 million-volt, positive-ion accelerator was relocated from Hickory Ha l l to t he Ion Bea m Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL).

Usi ng a 50-foot-ta l l

Brief crane, the accelerator was lowered into the basement of the Physics Building, where IBMAL is located. The labo-ratory uses ion accelerators to perform basic and applied research in various fields of study.

“[IMBAL] is one of the most versatile research facilities on campus,” Dr. Gary Glass, a physics professor, said.

The accelerator was moved

in sections beginning on Dec. 2 and is currently being rebuilt in the IBMAL facility. The accelerator, which can generate an ion beam with velocities reaching close to 10 percent of the speed of light, is expected to be operational by March.

There are three other accel-erators already in use, which can reach higher ion veloci-ties for additional research

purposes. Dr. Glass said there will be

four fully functional accel-erators by the end of spring. Together, these accelerators will allow researchers to make ion beams from nearly every element in the periodic table.

Research performed in the lab ranges from basic physics to testing for contamination in tree rings to studying cancer cells.

to ask my parents for money, I stumbled upon this great program,” Samaniego said.

Vetera ns ca n v isit t he Student Money Management Center located in Chestnut Ha l l to apply. Applica nts must be students at the UNT Denton campus, be at least 18 years of age and be free of any financial obligations to the university.

“We offer student veterans who qualify up to $500 for the fall and spring semesters and $197 in the summer,” Paul Goebel, senior director of the Student Money Management Center Paul Goebel, said.

Goebel said the goal of the Student Money Management Center is to shorten the wait time.

“We want to process them from application to approval while they are here in our office,” Goebel said. “We can then immediately notify the bookstore, and in the amount of t ime it takes for you to walk from here to the book-store, your line of credit will be set up.”

Few students have signed up for the loan, but Goebel said the program can help more.

“As of [Monday] afternoon, we only have two veterans signed up for this loan, but ou r prog ra m i s c apable of taking care of 50 to 100 this semester,” Goebel said. “Students just need to know this is a resource at their disposal.”

consider this to be the best option because of the health issues smoking and second-hand smoke raise.

Vincent Osawe, a business administration junior, said he has never smoked and is often irritated by being around smokers on campus. He sa id he suppor ts t he proposed bans by both the city and UNT because the health concerns outweigh a person’s right to smoke.

“They shou ld just step in and ban it,” Osawe said. “There are a lot of people around here with allergies and stuff like that, and they can get sick just by smelling the stuff.”

PHOTO BY TYLER CLEVELAND/VISUALS EDITOR

Cigarette butts lay in an ash tray Monday outside Bruce Hall.

(MCT) CHICAGO – How do Internet companies stage a protest? By turning off their websites, of course.

Wikipedia, Boing Boing, reddit and dozens of other lesser-k now n websites pla n ne d to go da rk Wednesday in protest of proposed anti-piracy legisla-tion in Congress that Internet companies maintain will encourage censorship of web content and harm techno-logical innovation.

The bills in Congress, pushed by Hol ly wood studios and other big media companies, target websites that let users download pirated movies, TV shows, music and other material – a violation of U.S. copyright law. Most of these sites are outside the United States, but the legislation would give the Justice Department and private companies tools to block them from American consumers.

For example, Google could be forced to drop an offending site from its search engine results. Or the government could go to court to stop a U.S. company that facilitates online payments

Internet companies to go dark in protest of privacy bill

to a suspected infringing site. Internet companies say they have neither the time nor the resources to monitor every link on a website or post by a user.

Google, Facebook, eBay and other new media companies also object to rogue sites but they have repeatedly said the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, in the House of Representatives goes too far, hurting invest-ment, innovation and the open nature of the Internet. (They also are against the counter-part in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, or PIPA.) Some of the Web giants have run advertisements in major newspapers urging Washington lawmakers to rethink their approach.

Other websites are taking their opposition a step further by censoring themselves, which will vastly alter the Internet for some online users. Wikipedia, one of the Internet’s largest sites for information and trivia, planned to shut down its English content for 24 hours. Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, warned students Tuesday by tweeting, “Do your homework early.”

“Sites like Wikipedia and reddit going dark is a pretty dramatic step, and it will

certainly raise awareness of the issue among a large Internet population that may not have been paying attention to SOPA,” said Stanford University law professor Mark Lemley. “One of the reasons it is such a powerful statement is that it means lost traffic and therefore lost money for large commercial sites. That may be why sites like Twitter haven’t signed on.”

G o o g l e w o n ’ t j o i n Wednesday’s blackout either. The search engine said Tuesday that it will post a statement on its home page explaining its opposition to SOPA.

It’s too early to say whether Wednesday’s protest will kill the legislation, but the growing opposition has had some effect. The bill’s chief sponsor in the House, Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, removed on Friday a controversial provi-sion that would require Internet service providers to block foreign websites accused of selling illegal content to American consumers.

Meanwhile, a group of Senate Republicans have sought to delay votes on PIPA scheduled to start Jan. 24.

SOPA is still needed, Smith said in a statement Friday.

“Congress must address the widespread problem of online theft of America’s technology and products from foreign thieves,” he said.

Proponents of the legisla-tion, such as the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say online piracy hurts American companies and destroys jobs. The MPAA esti-mates the U.S. loses more than 300,000 jobs, $16 billion in earn-ings and $58 billion in economic output each year because of pirated movies, music, software and video games.

Supporters of SOPA say the bill also would protect compa-nies like Pfizer Inc. that aim to prevent counterfeiters of their drugs.

MPAA Chairman Christopher Dodd, the former senator from Connecticut, called out Wednesday’s protest as a “stunt” that will hurt consumers.

“It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services,” Dodd said in a statement. “It is also an abuse of power given the free-doms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today.”

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ASHLEY GRANTStaff Writer

The a roma of clea ning products fills the air of a spot-less tattoo parlor.

Professional artists focus on guiding tattoo machines across the bodies of motion-less patrons who sit or lie on black leather chairs and beds, enduring the temporary pain of the needle and ink.

Lucas Eagleton, a tall young man with long dreadlocks and tattoo sleeves covering both arms, eagerly greets two young people who walk through the door and set foot on the shop’s black and white checkered f loor.

Eagleton, 23, graduated from UNT in December with a degree in printmaking and has been working at Aces Tattoos on Teasley Lane for a year and a half as an appren-tice tattoo artist.

“I decided to start tattooing because it was the only way I could see art st i l l being fun and being used after my school experience,” Eagleton said. “And I could still make money doing it.”

Eag leton sa id t he road to becoming a professional tattoo art ist was not easy or glamorous. As a student, Eagleton would spend the day going to classes and would

head straight from campus to the shop, staying until the parlor closed at midnight.

He would repeat the process the next day.

“I come in and make sure there’s no trash and every-thing is spotless,” Eagleton said of his duties. “I talk to the artists, get their schedule for the day, and figure out who would be open for walk-ins.”

Eagleton spends the little downtime he has practicing his art and free drawing.

On ly i n t he pa st t wo months has Eagleton been able to tattoo patrons.

A p p r e n t i c e s h i p s a r e genera l ly unpaid and if a patron wants to tip or not, it’s completely up to them, Eagleton said.

Rich Sessions, a 33-year-old artist at Denton Tattoo Company, said that in order to be considered for an appren-ticeship, potential candidates need to bring in a portfolio of sketches and drawings show-casing their art skills.

Sessions sa id h is ow n apprenticeship lasted f ive years. He’s been tattooing professionally for the last eight years and at Denton Tattoo Company for two.

“You also need to be willing to g ive up ever y t h i ng ,”

HOLLY HARVEYSenior Staff Writer

After designing everything from the UNT holiday card to striking evening gowns, fashion design senior Kim Pham’s latest creation has landed her in the international fashion spot-light. The Emerald Eagle schol-ar’s coat design was selected as one of three garments to represent the United States in the International Fur REMIX competition, facing designs from 21 countries worldwide.

Pham both designed and sewed the coat herself.

“It’s been one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done,” Pham said. “But it’s really exciting.”

The coat was shipped to Milan, Italy, where the compet-itors will be narrowed down to eight, with the top designs selected for a fashion show.

Three winners will be selected and will receive a cash prize.

Pham had one week to create the initial design of the coat and two weeks to sew a pattern, drape the material, and make the finishing touches.

Adding to the pressure was the strict deadline: she had to work to finish the coat during finals week last December.

“You don’t realize how hard it is when you’re starting,” she said. “All of my design projects for classes were due the same

week.”Assistant design professor

Li-Fen Anny Chang has advised Pham on several of Pham’s design projects.

Chang said because compe-titions take so much time away from class projects, it’s more diffi-cult for students to find time for them, but that wasn’t the case for Pham.

“She’s very driven, and she’s

an overachiever,” Chang said. “She worked day and night on her coat design.”

The result is a sophisticated gray fur coat trimmed with fox fur and a matching handbag, which was also created by Pham to enhance the look.

Pham said she strived for intri-cacy and sophistication in her coat, but also wanted to make it marketable. The coat will be judged on how marketable, sale-

able, and wearable it is.Robert Milnes, dean of the

College of Visual Arts and Design, described Pham’s design as “stun-ning”.

“The coat and the handbag – they’re really beautifully made,” he said.

Pham described her design style as feminine but strong, and said she enjoys making evenin-gwear. Eventually she hopes to start her own clothing line.

She is also the event coordi-nator for Members of Designing Art at UNT and coordinates their fashion shows, Dr. Milnes said.

She started designing clothes in high school after taking home economics, and began competing in fashion shows in high school.

Pham’s talents have drawn attention outside of the fashion world: Her design was selected for last year’s UNT holiday card.

“It was really cool how I started getting all these calls that I was winning,” she said. “It was actu-ally 11-11 of 2011 when I got the call about the card and the fur competition so it was unbeliev-able.”

Pham said that her sense of creativity has always driven her to excel.

“I love being an artist. I love drawing,” she said. “Even when I was younger I knew that when I grew up I wanted to do some-thing creative with art.”

UNT grad strives to become pro tattoo artist

Fashion student’s workto compete in Italy

Sessions said. “There are no days off, and you’re literally in the shop all day.”

C h r i s t i a n S a v a g e , a n

apprentice at Denton Tattoo Company, is one year into his apprenticeship.

“I’m lucky to have two days

off,” Savage said. Now that Eagleton has grad-

uated, he’s at Aces from open to close, noon to midnight, six

days a week. “T h i s i s probably t he

hardest thing that I’ve ever had to do,” Eagleton said.

Fashion design student Kim Pham’s fur coat was selected as one of the top three designs from the U.S. for an interna-tional fur competition. The competition will be judged in Italy.

PHOTO COURTESY OF STERLING STEVES

“It’s been one of the most

difficult things I’ve ever done.”

—Kim Pham Fashion design senior

Lucas Eagleton, a tattoo apprentice and print-making graduate, draws a skull and bones for a friend Tuesday at Aces Tattoos. Eagleton makes $10 a night work-ing 12 hours a day, six days a week. “It’s this or � ling papers in a square o� ce,” said Eagleton, who wants to open a small shop in California or a di� erent country.

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Brittni BarnettSenior Staff Writer

As 2012 begins, the prospect of sticking with new year’s resolu-tions is looming large for many students.

This is the first year that Axell Nieto, a history junior, has set a number of resolutions for herself, including eating healthy and making better grades.

“I am beginning to feel the pressure to get started, especially now that school has started,” Nieto said. “It’s a lot easier to keep your resolution, I think, if you have a set schedule.”

Many departments and offices across campus are seeing an influx of students like Nieto, looking for help in achieving their goals.

Students have been coming to the Learning Center since Jan. 2, said Shannon Sawyer, coor-dinator for academic success programs.

“There are students coming in trying to set up volunteer tutoring, and getting help and getting prepared ahead of time,

which has been nice,” Sawyer said. “The tutoring is free, so if there is a subject that the student knows will be difficult for them it is better for them to be proactive and get the tutor now than it is to wait until after the first exam.”

In addition to tutors, the Learning Center also offers work-shops twice a week that provide tips on note taking, test taking, time management and learning styles, Sawyer said.

“One of my resolutions is to stop procrastinating with my classes so much and manage my time better,” Nieto said. “I want to see how far I can get along with it [keeping my resolutions].”

Rachel Grimes, program coordinator for the Student Money Management Center, said that most of the students she encounters at the beginning of the new year are looking for help in managing their finan-cial aid refund and making their money last through the spring semester.

“Knowing about money and personal finances will follow you

throughout your life,” Grimes said. “Whether you are learning to save more or spend less, it can affect you for the rest of your life.”

T h e St u d e nt Mon e y Management Center also offers advice on managing debt and offers free consultations.

“We also have several online resources,” Grimes said. “We want to work with the way you like to think.”

Nieto is already making plans to keep her resolution of having a healthier lifestyle.

“I want to eat a piece of fruit or a vegetable every day,” she said. “I thought that was a healthy way of trying to better myself.”

To assist students with getting healthy this semester the Pohl Recreation Center is offering free group exercise classes until Jan. 21.

“I have definitely been thinking about getting a group exercise pass from the rec center,” Nieto said. “You’re going to invest your money in it so you almost have to go.”

Kaylin DurmicKStaff Writer

Last week, Denton square newcomer “Scrap” opened its doors and shelves to the Denton community.

“To know that something I believed would happen is actually happening, it’s a good feeling,” said Donna Gregory, a retired elementary school teacher and manager of Scrap in Denton.

Scrap is a nonprofit “creative reuse center“ where people can buy or donate a wide variety of lightly used materials: naming every item in the shop would take about 1,000 words.

In its first day alone, the shop received 340 pounds of donated material, according to Gregory.

Most of it though, is “stuff that a lot of people would have just trashed,” said Martha Coburn, the shop’s volunteer coordinator and Gregory’s best friend.

The idea came to Gregory when she visited her daughter, Heather, in Portland, OR, last summer. Heather was a volun-teer at the original Scrap, which was started by a group of teachers in Portland in 1999.

New year, new resolutions

New shop opens, turns scrap into treasureGregory, a crafter of all sorts

and a regular garage-sale sifter, immediately fell in love with the shop’s concept. She emailed the executive director, Kelley Casey, about her idea to bring Scrap to Denton.

Soon after, Casey’s husband decided to quit his job and follow his passion for music. He applied for a position at the University of North Texas as a jazz professor and got the job.

W hen one of Gregor y’s friends, UNT environmental science professor Ba rney Venables, decided to rent out some property he owned on the square, it seemed like opening the shop was meant to be.

“The stars aligned,” Gregory said.

Denton seemed like a great fit for Scrap’s new location, and Venables was happy to rent his space to the eco-friendly orga-nization.

“I’m a biology professor so really anything that has to do with recycling and conserving the earth’s resources, I’m a fan of,” Venables said. “It’s a great addition to Denton and the Denton community and the perfect place for it to be.”

Judith Halaszyn, a retired staff developer, is already quite the regular, judging from a used Hot Box pizza T-shirt turned shopping sack she bought at Scrap last week.

“Judith’s been in here…I don’t know how many times,” Cobur n sa id. “Donat ing, buying, donating, buying. She’s very enthusiastic about it.”

Halaszyn will start training with Coburn next week to become a Scrap volunteer. Volunteers are t y pica l ly charged with taking in and weighing new items.

“We keep track [of the dona-tions] in pounds because we want to know by the end of the day how much we keep out of

the landfill,” Coburn said. Gregory plans to stay focused

on the retail side of things right now but hopes to offer a variety of crafting programs to the Denton community, including knitting, crochet, embroidery and sewing.

Encouraged by the support

they’ve already received here in North Texas, both Gregory and Coburn are optimistic about the store’s future.

“We are just starting out,, but I can’t imagine we will be anything but successful from how well things have been going,” Gregory said.

Scrap is a non-profit orga-nization that is run by vol-unteers. Everything in the shop was donated.A list of what you can and cannot donate can be found in the shop at 215 W. Oak Street or at the shop’s website, scrapdenton.org.

“We should reduce what we buy and reduce what we use, but if we do buy it we should figure out a way to reuse it.” -- manager Donna Gregory

SCRAP

Photo by Kaylin DurmicK/Staff Writter

Photo by Kaylin DurmicK/Staff Writter

Martha Coburn, Scrap’s volunteer coordinator, speaks with Judith Halaszyn, a future Scrap volunteer. Halasyn has been to the shop numerous times since it opened last week. “Crafts excite me,” Halasyn said. Halasyn will train with Coburn next week so that she can begin volunteering.

Next door to Banter and across the street from Denton Square Donuts, recent addition Scrap is open for business. The store accepts a variety of donations, which are re-sold to the community.

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Students run in the Pohl Recreation Center Tuesday. Exercising more and losing weight is a popular new year’s resolu-tion.

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The Bruce cafeteria shed some light on a new and improved way to put up your dirty dishes called the conveyor belt.

“We want to know by the end of the day how much we

keep out of the landfill.”

—Martha Coburn Volunteer coordinator at Scrap

Menu overhaul I n a dd it ion t o i t s newly designed digs, the “”Bruceteria” also boasts a new selection of grub, including a constant supply of rotisserie chicken with f lavors that change daily and an expanded salad bar.

Some food options once found in the vegetarian line are now located on an island salad bar with choices like protein-rich quinoa.

“ T h e n u m b e r o n e compla i nt about ca fe-teria food is [students] want variety,” McNeace said. “But they also want the same thing.”

Old patrons of the café, fear not: the unlimited ice cream cone stat ion and large cereal selection remain.

Food service manager J.R. Ca l lder sa id Br uce Cafeteria will now operate on a three-week menu, with recipes swapped out about once a month.

What’s nextCallder said 99 percent

of the food in the Bruce Cafeteria is homemade, and a recently bolstered staff includes a fine dining chef who spent 30 years in

London.“Employees ta ke pr ide

i n w hat t he y ’re put t i ng out,” Callder said. “They’re concerned w ith presenta-tion.”

St udent s have a l ready noticed the difference.

Phase Two of the renova-tions will consist of finishing

the basement area and is set to begin sometime this month with a tentative completion date of spring break 2012.

Phase Three will provide an extension of dining space for students and will begin construction this summer, pending approval from the Board of Regents.

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The UNT men’s basket-ball team found itself with a 4-5 record after the LMU Centennial Classic in early December, a far cry from last season’s 7-2 start. Now the Mean Green is sitting pretty after winning eight of its last 11 games, with its only losses to LSU, Sun Belt Conference West Division leader UALR, and Arkansas State.

The team will head into the stretch run today with a home exhibition game against Huston-Tillotson, followed by its final 10 conference games of the season.

“We’ve got some young guys who have got a little more accli-mated to the game and the speed of it,” said head coach Johnny Jones. “We’ve come together as a team and we’ve worked on our chemistry.”

Unlike the recent season where UNT has rested the scoring duties on veteran players, the three leading scorers are a trio of freshmen: forward Tony Mitchell and guards Jordan Williams and Chris Jones.

“It’s a different team. We got new guys and a new system somewhat so now we’ve got a different look,” said junior

guard Roger Franklin. “We have kids coming from different programs, high schools and transfers that all played a big part for us. We started off this season very slow as you can see, and over time we got better because the chemistry got better and we now feed off each other.”

On Tuesday, Williams and Jordan, the team’s starting guards, were ruled academi-cally ineligible. The two will sit out the remainder of the season, which may put more of a burden on Mitchell.

Mitchell has brought new life to the Super Pit, with Mean Green fans and a flock of NBA scouts now marveling at the 6-foot-8-inch forward from Pinkston High.

On Monday, Mitchell was named Sun Belt Player of the Week for the second consecu-tive week, and since his addi-tion to the team mid-De-cember, he has become a focal point for the team, producing double-double performances nearly every night, on his way

UNT team preparing for conclusion of rocky season

Members of the Mean Green basketball team vie for position during practice Tuesday. The Mean Green returns to action against Huston-Tillotson at noon today.

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Men’s Basketball

RY NE GANNOESports Intern

This t ime last year, t he Mean Green women’s basket-ball team was 5-14 and sitting in last place in the Sun Belt Conference with a 2-4 confer-ence record.

Bet ween sea son s U N T c h a n g e d c o a c h e s , w i t h Karen Aston hired to replace Shanice Stephens as head coach.

A ston has coached t he tea m to a n 11-8 record, putting UNT at the top of the Sun Belt West Division with a 4-2 conference record.

“We’re continuing to grow, we’ve got a long way to finish where we a re r ight now,” Aston said. “I’m proud of the fact we’ve competed well in this league and put ourselves in a position to do well.”

UNT has played wel l at home, going 6-2 at the Super Pit, but the team has strug-gled on the road with a 3-6 record w ith two w ins at a neutral site.“

Aston leads experienced Mean Green to � nal stretchWomen’s Basketball

Anytime you’re in confer-ence play you have to try to steal a couple some games on the road, “ Aston said. “Teams that win leagues and do well in league play find a way to win games on the road, a nd we just haven’t been able to do that.”

Moving ForwardEvery game from now until

the Sun Belt Tournament is an important game for the Mean Green, but two teams pose the biggest challenge for UNT.

Denver, who trai ls the Mean Green by a half game in the West Division stand-

ings, comes to Denton on Saturday.

Coach Aston highlighted Denver’s offensive capabili-ties, specifically the scoring of senior for ward Kaetlyn Murdoch, who ranks second in the Sun Belt with 17.5 points per game.

The second big challenge for UNT is Middle Tennessee (15-5, 6-0) comes to the Super Pit Feb. 2. Middle Tennessee is undefeated in conference play and has posed a problem for UNT in the past.

“They’re tradit ional ly a team that will press you and

The women’s basketball team practices Monday in the Super Pit. The Mean Green will face the Denver Pioneers at 5 p.m. Saturday in the coliseum.PHOTO BY TYLER CLEVLAND/VISUALS EDITOR

turn you over,” Aston said. “Until somebody knocks them off, then that’s the team that everybody points to.”

The Mean Green haven’t beaten the Blue Raiders since 2006.

“I’m looking for ward to playing Middle [Tennessee],” senior guard Tamara Torru said. “We haven’t beaten them since I got here.”

Torru, along with senior for wa rd Jasmine Godbolt and sophomore guard Laura McCoy have been important parts of the Mean Green’s turnaround.

Godbolt leads the team in points per game (14.3) and rebounds per game (8.0).Tamara Torru is the team’s second leading scorer with 11.6 points per game and leads the team in assists with 1.9 per game.

McCoy runs the offense and will be important in fixing the team’s problem of turning the ball over 20.9 times per game.

The team is back on the floor Saturday at 5 p.m. against Denver in the Super Pit.

to averaging 14.1 points and 8.6 rebounds a game.

“When I came in I was just trying to fit in and do what I needed to do,” Mitchell said. “We’re a tight knit group, and we’re playing to our capabili-ties.”

The Mean Green next will take on Huston-Tillotson in

an exhibition match. In recent years, UNT has not had an exhibition game in the middle of the conference schedule, but because of the addition of Mitchell in the middle of the season, the schedule was set up to provide a chance for the young forward to get as much NCAA experience under his belt.

“Luckily our routine this week will be very much the same,” coach Jones said. “We’ll treat the exhibition game as regular game for us. We’ll do our prep and scouting report that we do on a regular basis.”

Tip-off for the Mean Green will be today at noon in the Super Pit.

“We’re a tight knit group, and we’re playing to our capabilities.”

—Tony Mitchell,Freshman forward

MIAMI (AP) — First half, all San Antonio.

Second half, all Miami — and then some.

LeBron James had 33 points and 10 assists, Chris Bosh scored 30 points and the Heat used a historic third-quarter turnaround to erase what was a 17-point deficit and beat the Spurs 120-98 on Tuesday night, snapping a three-game slide in a most unpredictable manner.

“We have a great luxur y with three players who can do special things when you need it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

San Antonio connected on 12 of its f irst 15 shots, led 52-35 with 3 minutes to go in the first half, and had Danny Green hit a pair of buzzer-beaters to take a 63-49 lead into intermission.

What happened next left both sides befuddled.

“Can’t explain it,” Bosh said.

Offered Spurs guard Tony Parker: “That’s basketball.”

M i a m i out s c or e d S a n Antonio 39-12 in the third qua r ter — match i ng t he second-largest differential for any quarter in Heat history, and matching the second-

worst differential for a period in Spurs history, according to STATS LLC.

“Hopefully I can get over this in the next couple days where I ca n get back to myself,” James said. “I just tried to push through it in the third quarter. My teammates did a great job of finding me and stepping up defensively. We all did that.”

Green scored 20 points for the Spurs, who got 18 from Tony Parker, 13 from DeJuan Bla ir a nd 12 f rom Kawhi L eona rd a nd Ga r y Nea l. Mario Chalmers scored 13 for Miami.

San Antonio just attacked the basket with little resis-tance in the early going, eight of its first 12 makes coming from no more than 11 feet and most of them directly at the rim.

Everything was going San Antonio’s way.

And then, well, nothing went the Spurs’ way — espe-cially after James found his stride.

“There’s not much you can do,” Parker said. “He was on fire in the third quarter. He’s coming in fast breaks and he’s shooting threes. There is no defense against that.”

Miami dominates Spurs late

ence title in three years. “Our number one goal is to win the conference and number two is to make a run in the NCAA tournament,” head tennis coach Sujay Lama said. “You always need to look at the day- to- day goals, and that is to put in a great effort every single day; to be a team, to be a family, to enjoy the process and to grow and improve.” The Mean Green finished its final tournament match Monday

by going 21-12 in the Florida Gulf Coast Invitational. The spring season will consist solely of dual match play– head to head compe-tition between two teams that includes singles and doubles play.The team needs to improve its strength, fitness and consistency to thrive in the spring, Lama said. “We have eight great players that are all pushing each other so we’re going to force improvement out of each other,” senior Nadia Lee said.

UNT enters dual match play with experienced but fresh faces. The Mean Green will turn to four newcomers – junior trans-fers Valentina Starkova, and senior transfer Ilona Serchenko , sophomore and freshmen Franziska Sprinkmeyer and freshman Kseniya Barbadush. The newcomers held their own in their first semester during the fall, earning a 39-24 record in singles play.“Some of the new people on

the team have never expe-rienced a dual match before, so it will be interesting to see how we come together,” Lee added. “The transfer of energy between players and the court is crucial, so we’re going to really focus on that.”UNT will open Sun Belt Conference play when its hosts Louisiana-Lafayette on Feb. 12. The team will host conference foes South Alabama, Florida.International and Denver

and finish Sun Belt play with road matches against Middle Tennessee and Troy on April 14 and 15.

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TYLER OWENSStaff Writer

The UNT tennis team’s schedule will be far from a pushover t his spring. Slated for road matches against ranked opponents No. 22 Tulsa, No. 24 Arkansas, and No. 25 Oklahoma, the Mean Green’s main focus will be winning its second confer-

Mean Green strives for fruitful spring season

Last week, UNT sophomore guard Laura McCoy caught fire, going six-of-nine from the three-point line in a 50-42 win over Western Kentucky in the Super Pit. Who is the only UNT women’s player to hit more three-pointers in a single game?

Hint: She hit the third-most three point field goals in a single season in school history.

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Karen Aston has improved the women’s basketball team. That’s no surprise consid-ering what UNT’s team did last year is difficult to call basketball.

T h e p r o of i s i n t h e numbers.

In the 2010-11 season North Texas gave up an average of 73.3 points per game, which was not only the worst in the Sun Belt, but ranked the team 320th out of 333 Division I NCAA teams.

T he te a m aver a ge d a rebound differential of minus 1.2, which was good for 215th place in the NCAA, and aver-aged 20.1 personal fouls per game, which ranked them 319th.

W hat head coach Karen Aston has done over the last nine months is nothing short of a miracle.This season the team gives up an average of 57.8 points per game (ranked 83rd out of 336 teams) and is out-rebounding opponents by an average of 6.4 per game (36th of 336).

UNT is in first place in the West Division, a far stretch from the fifth place finish Sun Belt coaches predicted for the Mean Green in a preseason

Aston bringswinning attitude

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(Associated Press) –Derek Fisher spent the last

year wearing more suits than sweats while negotiating the union’s labor deal, and he real-izes his peak playing days are probably past.

But Kobe Bryant borrows a term from former coach Phil Jackson to describe anybody who doubts what the Lakers’ veteran point guard can do in the clutch.

“That’s inherently idiotic,” he said.

Fisher hit a t iebreaking 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds to play and Los Angeles emerged from a dismal offensive game by both teams with a 73-70 victory over the Mavericks on Monday night, snapping Dallas’ f ive-game winning streak.

Vince Ca r ter missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer for t he defend i ng cha mpion Mavericks, who swept Los Angeles out of the second round of the postseason last spring, ending the Lakers’ bid for a three-peat.

Neither team looked much like a championship contender in their first meeting since, with 3.5 miserable offensive quarters before the exciting finish keyed by Fisher, who added another l ine to an overf lowing list of late-game heroics.

“This is what I do,” Fisher said. “W hen opportunities like that present themselves, I’m confident in my ability to step up and make the right play. I’ve been fortunate in my career to come up with some of those big plays.”

Fisher scored nine of his 13 points in the fourth quarter, leading a 10-0 run midway through the period before the Mavericks rallied to tie it on Jason Terry’s running jumper at the top of the key with 9.9 seconds left.

“We made the decision to get the ball out of Bryant’s hands, and we just didn’t get to (Fisher) in time,” Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. “Our full intention was to rotate to him, but he got the shot off quick and he shot it high, so we couldn’t get to it. But he made a great shot. In that situation, you’ve got to live with that decision. And it’s tough.”

Carter’s desperation try was far off, and the Lakers cele-brated their ninth consec-ut ive home v ictor y since

Fishers’ game winner beats Mavs

Lakers forward Pau Gasol attempts to block a shot by Mavericks guard Jason Kidd. The Lakers defeated the Mavericks 73-70 after guard Derek Fisher hit a game winning three-pointer with 3.1 seconds left.

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Christmas.Dirk Nowitzki scored 21

points for the Mavericks, but committed a crucial traveling violation with 38 seconds left in their first loss since Jan. 5. Lamar Odom scored 10 points in his return to Staples Center, where he won two championships before the Lakers abruptly traded him to Dallas last month.

Andrew Bynum had 17 points and 15 rebounds for the Lakers, who have won six of seven overall despite barely scoring 70 points — the fran-chise low in the shot-clock

era, set in November 2002.Bryant had scored at least

40 points in each of his past four games, but the NBA’s leading scorer didn’t even score until midway through the second quarter.

Airballs, turnovers and missed assignments domi-nated play, which included a seven-point third quarter by the Lakers and 35 percent shooting by the Mavericks, who extended their string of exceptional defensive perfor-mances.

Odom said it was “surreal” to be in the visitors’ locker

room at Staples Center, his home for the past seven seasons. He got a lengthy standing ovation when he entered the game midway through the first quarter, and the Lakers played a video tribute on the scoreboard.

“Act ua l ly, it gave me energy,” Odom said. “I’m still trying to get my rhythm back. I’m still getting in shape, and once I get there, then I’ll be able to help this team. In order for me to succeed, you have to move on, no matter what, and I plan on succeeding in this next chapter of my life.”

Tennis

poll.Although the team still struggles with fouls and turn-overs, 18.6 fouls and 20.9 turnovers average per game, UNT head coach Karen Aston has said that the team wins games through hustle.

“Winning games on hustle plays, rebounding, running the f loor, when we lose that piece of our identity we’re not really very good. We have to keep remembering that about ourselves,” Aston said.

This is a team that’s still learning to win, and Ashton is teaching them to do it.

It m ay not be U N T’s yea r to w in t he Sun Belt Championship against the he a v i l y f a v or e d M idd le Te n n e s s e e , b u t t h e y ’ l l surprise anyone who thinks it’s anything like last year’s team.

It’s clear from the team’s play this year that Aston is leading the Mean Green in the right direction.

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Do you think the online protests of

SOPA will be effective?

“I think it will be effective. These are huge sites and everyone uses them. The government will get

the message.”

“As far as the blackout goes, it depends on how active people

are tomorrow. It should be effective. Who’s to say that all

of the senators are going to be on Wikipedia tomorrow? It

depends on how serious they are.”

“I guess the blackout thing is a good idea as a protest, but

the bill they are trying to pass is kind of stupid, because as Americans we should have

more rights. Sites like Google and Wikipedia I’m sure get some sort of compensation

for those sites, and the government telling them they are not allowed to do that is an infringement on their rights to

make money and become more powerful. “

Nod: Reddit’s online protestThe first nod of the semester goes

out to reddit.com for their innovative means of protesting both the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act by blacking out their site for 12 hours along with other high traffic sites such as Mozilla, Google and ICanHasCheezburger.

Many regard the House of Representatives’ SOPA and the Senate’s PIPA as legislative knee-jerk reactions to the problem of online piracy. The inten-tion of the acts is to keep websites from allowing users to stream copyrighted material by making those websites unavailable and punishing those who stream content illegally with a felony charge. However, D.C. based think-tank The Brookings Institute claims

that it would discourage trust of service providers and send a signal to other countries that censoring the global Internet is acceptable practice.

Bravo to these sites for a fresh means of protest in the face of potentially harmful legislation.

Shake: Pinkberry beatdownLos Angeles-based frozen yogurt

chain Pinkberry has made headlines in the worst and most surprising way in the past 24 hours.

A shake goes out to the founder of the company, Young Lee, for his recent arrest on a charge of beating a home-less man last June in LA.

Lee, a native of South Korea, was a former kick-boxer in Korea, making the assault especially despicable.

Lt. Paul Vernon of the LAPD summed it up best in his statement to the press.

“This case is emblematic of how the homeless are among the most vulnerable in our society,” Vernon said. “Despite the challenges in the case, the detectives never gave up, and eventu-ally found the victim after leads took them to Skid Row and the local jail.”

It’s good to see justice being brought to all socioeconomic levels, and hope-fully this kind of abuse of the underpriv-ileged won’t happen in the future.

Nod: The shops at TargetA nod for Target, who introduced

a new business endeavor this week in which small businesses will be franchised into walk in sections at

all targets. The project is being called “The Shops at Target” and at first will include five separate businesses ranging from upscale dog treats at Polka Dog Bakery to home furnishings from Privet House.

While the businesses themselves will have lower prices for their products in the Target shops than they would at their private boutiques, the expanded business and production should mean much more exposure for the “shops.” Furthermore, customers that wouldn’t normally pay boutique pricing will have more affordable access to their products. Everyone wins.

Target, a pioneer in retail partner-ships, should be lauded for encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit amongst retailers everywhere.

As we begin to return to the usual monotony of university life, I’d like to remind everyone about one of the single most important issues to come up recently, the campus-wide smoking ban. Those for it have begun their petition drive and I’m all but certain a vote will appear on the ballot for the spring elections. Fear not, smokers, for there are those of us who still have your interests at heart and are fighting for your liberties!

Changing the smoking policy is something I don’t feel we should do, certainly not for an extremely vocal minority. However, I am willing to concede a bit of territory if it means that the university is better overall. After all, that’s why I became a senator. If the tide changes and more students want to change the current public smoking policy, then I would be willing to present what I call “The LaGrassa Compromise”.

In my quest to protect individual rights on this campus, I have been presented with three main argu-ments against public smoking: health risks, public dislike of secondhand smoke, and littering. While nobody would even think about arguing against the health risks of smoking, I’ll instead spend the next several columns addressing the other argu-ments.

First up: public disl ike of smoking.

Yes, cigarette smoke smells rather awful. As a former smoker, there’s nothing more I hate than getting a whiff of burning tobacco. So I feel for those who claim to dislike the smell. To correct this, a significant portion of students have asked me why SGA doesn’t just create desig-

nated smoking areas. This is part one of the LaGrassa Compromise: 3 to 6 designated smoking areas on campus, all easily accessible while also separated from main walkways. If you concentrate the smoking in these areas, then smokers are allowed to maintain their habit, while non-smokers can simply avoid these areas. Everyone wins.

I know this isn’t 100% perfect, and it’s not my favorite solution, but it’s a start and it’s better than imposing an unenforceable ban on a legal substance.

The important thing to remember about this is that SGA is student-fed and student-led. SGA consists of ideas from students (student-fed), and those issues are refined and implemented by students as well (student-led). SGA cannot exist without students, and regardless of where you stand on this issue, we want to know your opinions.

Nicholas LaGrassa is an Emergency Administration and Planning junior. He can be reached through email, nicholasgrassa@my.unt.edu.

As the spring semester of my first year of college gets under way, I’m still in the process of taking core classes to satisfy the UNT requirements. When I think back to my thought process in my early high school years, this isn’t what I imagined my second semester of college to be like. You see, to my former high school classmates and me, college appeared to be a place where you took whatever classes you wanted. No more of t hat nonsense like geometry, physics, history, etc. After all, that’s what a major is for, right?

However, after beginning the process of college searching, I soon realized that college wasn’t a place where everyone just took whatever classes pleased them. Every college I looked into had a general core curriculum that required a variety of courses in different subjects such as political science, math, natural sciences and so on. After choosing UNT and registering for classes at orienta-tion, it perplexed me that only one of my classes for my first semester (Mass Communication & Society) was even remotely related to my major, journalism.

Despite not understanding why I had to take these classes at first, I came to realize their value as the semester wore on. My geography class opened my eyes to what was going on in the world, region by region. Geolog y allowed me to understand the earth and all the processes that shape it. I learned that statistics could actually come in handy someday as I pursue my dream of becoming a sports-

writer, where statistics are found everywhere.

The core classes help us to become more well-rounded indi-viduals. Although most of us aren’t going into politics, it’s good to be educated on government and poli-tics, since we vote. I understand that many aren’t fans of English, including myself, but writing is an important skill to have. And history may seem like a bore to some, but we should al l know how our country got to where it is today.

I advise everyone who’s in the same stage as me to find value in their core classes. The university requires them for a reason. If we hope to be responsible citizens in the future, we must have knowl-edge in a variety of areas. Sure, college isn’t a place where we get to just take wherever we want. But, the core classes have the value of making us complete students.

Austin Schubert is a pre-jour-nalism major freshman. He can be reached through email, sportsfreak105@msn.com.

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7 1 8 9 6 4 3 2 55 3 6 2 8 7 4 1 94 2 9 3 1 5 8 6 72 7 5 1 4 6 9 8 38 9 1 5 7 3 2 4 63 6 4 8 2 9 7 5 19 8 7 6 5 2 1 3 46 4 2 7 3 1 5 9 81 5 3 4 9 8 6 7 2

# 4

V. EASY # 4

6 1 9 2 58 7 1

5 6 3 46 4 7 2

9 7 6 34 3 9 8

3 9 6 58 6 12 7 1 9 6

6 1 9 7 2 4 8 3 54 3 2 9 5 8 7 6 17 5 8 6 3 1 9 2 45 6 3 4 8 7 2 1 99 8 7 5 1 2 6 4 31 2 4 3 6 9 5 8 73 7 1 2 9 6 4 5 88 9 6 1 4 5 3 7 22 4 5 8 7 3 1 9 6

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# 1

V. EASY # 1

2 6 7 16 8 7 91 9 4 58 2 1 4

4 6 2 95 3 2 8

9 3 7 44 5 3 6

7 3 1 8

4 3 5 2 6 9 7 8 16 8 2 5 7 1 4 9 31 9 7 8 3 4 5 6 28 2 6 1 9 5 3 4 73 7 4 6 8 2 9 1 59 5 1 7 4 3 6 2 85 1 9 3 2 6 8 7 42 4 8 9 5 7 1 3 67 6 3 4 1 8 2 5 9

# 2

V. EASY # 2

6 4 7 29 2 4 5 12 3 8 67 5 8

1 6 5 49 3 2

5 8 6 74 7 5 8 9

2 3 1 8

5 6 4 8 1 7 2 9 39 8 3 2 4 6 5 7 12 7 1 5 3 9 8 6 47 2 5 4 8 3 9 1 63 1 9 6 2 5 7 4 88 4 6 7 9 1 3 5 21 5 8 9 6 2 4 3 74 3 7 1 5 8 6 2 96 9 2 3 7 4 1 8 5

# 3

V. EASY # 3

6 4 3 25 2 7 44 2 9 82 7 4 88 5 3 6

6 2 5 17 1 3 42 7 1 8

5 3 4 9

7 1 8 9 6 4 3 2 55 3 6 2 8 7 4 1 94 2 9 3 1 5 8 6 72 7 5 1 4 6 9 8 38 9 1 5 7 3 2 4 63 6 4 8 2 9 7 5 19 8 7 6 5 2 1 3 46 4 2 7 3 1 5 9 81 5 3 4 9 8 6 7 2

# 4

V. EASY # 4

6 1 9 2 58 7 1

5 6 3 46 4 7 2

9 7 6 34 3 9 8

3 9 6 58 6 12 7 1 9 6

6 1 9 7 2 4 8 3 54 3 2 9 5 8 7 6 17 5 8 6 3 1 9 2 45 6 3 4 8 7 2 1 99 8 7 5 1 2 6 4 31 2 4 3 6 9 5 8 73 7 1 2 9 6 4 5 88 9 6 1 4 5 3 7 22 4 5 8 7 3 1 9 6

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# 1

V. EASY # 1

2 6 7 16 8 7 91 9 4 58 2 1 4

4 6 2 95 3 2 8

9 3 7 44 5 3 6

7 3 1 8

4 3 5 2 6 9 7 8 16 8 2 5 7 1 4 9 31 9 7 8 3 4 5 6 28 2 6 1 9 5 3 4 73 7 4 6 8 2 9 1 59 5 1 7 4 3 6 2 85 1 9 3 2 6 8 7 42 4 8 9 5 7 1 3 67 6 3 4 1 8 2 5 9

# 2

V. EASY # 2

6 4 7 29 2 4 5 12 3 8 67 5 8

1 6 5 49 3 2

5 8 6 74 7 5 8 9

2 3 1 8

5 6 4 8 1 7 2 9 39 8 3 2 4 6 5 7 12 7 1 5 3 9 8 6 47 2 5 4 8 3 9 1 63 1 9 6 2 5 7 4 88 4 6 7 9 1 3 5 21 5 8 9 6 2 4 3 74 3 7 1 5 8 6 2 96 9 2 3 7 4 1 8 5

# 3

V. EASY # 3

6 4 3 25 2 7 44 2 9 82 7 4 88 5 3 6

6 2 5 17 1 3 42 7 1 8

5 3 4 9

7 1 8 9 6 4 3 2 55 3 6 2 8 7 4 1 94 2 9 3 1 5 8 6 72 7 5 1 4 6 9 8 38 9 1 5 7 3 2 4 63 6 4 8 2 9 7 5 19 8 7 6 5 2 1 3 46 4 2 7 3 1 5 9 81 5 3 4 9 8 6 7 2

# 4

V. EASY # 4

6 1 9 2 58 7 1

5 6 3 46 4 7 2

9 7 6 34 3 9 8

3 9 6 58 6 12 7 1 9 6

6 1 9 7 2 4 8 3 54 3 2 9 5 8 7 6 17 5 8 6 3 1 9 2 45 6 3 4 8 7 2 1 99 8 7 5 1 2 6 4 31 2 4 3 6 9 5 8 73 7 1 2 9 6 4 5 88 9 6 1 4 5 3 7 22 4 5 8 7 3 1 9 6

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# 1

V. EASY # 1

2 6 7 16 8 7 91 9 4 58 2 1 4

4 6 2 95 3 2 8

9 3 7 44 5 3 6

7 3 1 8

4 3 5 2 6 9 7 8 16 8 2 5 7 1 4 9 31 9 7 8 3 4 5 6 28 2 6 1 9 5 3 4 73 7 4 6 8 2 9 1 59 5 1 7 4 3 6 2 85 1 9 3 2 6 8 7 42 4 8 9 5 7 1 3 67 6 3 4 1 8 2 5 9

# 2

V. EASY # 2

6 4 7 29 2 4 5 12 3 8 67 5 8

1 6 5 49 3 2

5 8 6 74 7 5 8 9

2 3 1 8

5 6 4 8 1 7 2 9 39 8 3 2 4 6 5 7 12 7 1 5 3 9 8 6 47 2 5 4 8 3 9 1 63 1 9 6 2 5 7 4 88 4 6 7 9 1 3 5 21 5 8 9 6 2 4 3 74 3 7 1 5 8 6 2 96 9 2 3 7 4 1 8 5

# 3

V. EASY # 3

6 4 3 25 2 7 44 2 9 82 7 4 88 5 3 6

6 2 5 17 1 3 42 7 1 8

5 3 4 9

7 1 8 9 6 4 3 2 55 3 6 2 8 7 4 1 94 2 9 3 1 5 8 6 72 7 5 1 4 6 9 8 38 9 1 5 7 3 2 4 63 6 4 8 2 9 7 5 19 8 7 6 5 2 1 3 46 4 2 7 3 1 5 9 81 5 3 4 9 8 6 7 2

# 4

V. EASY # 4

6 1 9 2 58 7 1

5 6 3 46 4 7 2

9 7 6 34 3 9 8

3 9 6 58 6 12 7 1 9 6

6 1 9 7 2 4 8 3 54 3 2 9 5 8 7 6 17 5 8 6 3 1 9 2 45 6 3 4 8 7 2 1 99 8 7 5 1 2 6 4 31 2 4 3 6 9 5 8 73 7 1 2 9 6 4 5 88 9 6 1 4 5 3 7 22 4 5 8 7 3 1 9 6

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FOR RELEASE JANUARY 18, 2012

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“for”5 Skedaddle9 Travolta facial

feature14 Symphony

member15 Okla., from 1890

to 190716 Pick up17 Carnival sight18 Slight advantage19 Plus20 Redundant

position?23 “The Time

Machine” people24 Low in a lea25 Redundant

alert?32 Traffic stopper33 Beauties34 South American

vacation spot35 IRS employee36 Pay38 Pizzeria fixture39 Poetic time of

day40 View from Toledo41 Sitcom set at

Mel’s Diner42 Redundant

habit?46 Nothing but __:

perfect hoopsshot

47 Kiss and cuddle,British-style

48 Redundantguesses?

55 Trunks56 Prefix with stat57 All-night party58 Oscar night VIP59 Detective Peter

of old TV60 Canadian tribe61 Hamlet in

“Hamlet” andothers

62 Auto pioneer63 Driven drove

DOWN1 VMI program2 Victim in Genesis

3 Taboo4 Settles a score5 Apply, as a brake6 Comedian __ the

Entertainer7 Golden Fleece

vessel8 “Jurassic Park”

menace, briefly9 Dins

10 Tissueabnormality

11 Houston-to-Tampa direction

12 Glenn of TheEagles

13 Explosive letters21 Stylish vigor22 Mosque officials25 Anouk of “La

Dolce Vita”26 Sturm und __27 Halloween

vandal, perhaps28 Teeny29 “The Empire

Strikes Back”director Kershner

30 Reunionattendee

31 Departed

32 Silver finenessmeas.

36 Ire37 __ Jordan: Nike

brand38 Member of a

small ruling class40 Poetic laments41 Speck43 New44 Belgian seaport45 Marriages

48 1960 Olympicscity

49 Sea predator50 Consequently51 Rabbi’s house of

worship52 Container weight53 Penultimate fairy

tale word54 Future flower55 Address bk.

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V. EASY # 1

2 6 7 16 8 7 91 9 4 58 2 1 4

4 6 2 95 3 2 8

9 3 7 44 5 3 6

7 3 1 8

4 3 5 2 6 9 7 8 16 8 2 5 7 1 4 9 31 9 7 8 3 4 5 6 28 2 6 1 9 5 3 4 73 7 4 6 8 2 9 1 59 5 1 7 4 3 6 2 85 1 9 3 2 6 8 7 42 4 8 9 5 7 1 3 67 6 3 4 1 8 2 5 9

# 2

V. EASY # 2

6 4 7 29 2 4 5 12 3 8 67 5 8

1 6 5 49 3 2

5 8 6 74 7 5 8 9

2 3 1 8

5 6 4 8 1 7 2 9 39 8 3 2 4 6 5 7 12 7 1 5 3 9 8 6 47 2 5 4 8 3 9 1 63 1 9 6 2 5 7 4 88 4 6 7 9 1 3 5 21 5 8 9 6 2 4 3 74 3 7 1 5 8 6 2 96 9 2 3 7 4 1 8 5

# 3

V. EASY # 3

6 4 3 25 2 7 44 2 9 82 7 4 88 5 3 6

6 2 5 17 1 3 42 7 1 8

5 3 4 9

7 1 8 9 6 4 3 2 55 3 6 2 8 7 4 1 94 2 9 3 1 5 8 6 72 7 5 1 4 6 9 8 38 9 1 5 7 3 2 4 63 6 4 8 2 9 7 5 19 8 7 6 5 2 1 3 46 4 2 7 3 1 5 9 81 5 3 4 9 8 6 7 2

# 4

V. EASY # 4

6 1 9 2 58 7 1

5 6 3 46 4 7 2

9 7 6 34 3 9 8

3 9 6 58 6 12 7 1 9 6

6 1 9 7 2 4 8 3 54 3 2 9 5 8 7 6 17 5 8 6 3 1 9 2 45 6 3 4 8 7 2 1 99 8 7 5 1 2 6 4 31 2 4 3 6 9 5 8 73 7 1 2 9 6 4 5 88 9 6 1 4 5 3 7 22 4 5 8 7 3 1 9 6

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# 49

V. EASY # 49

7 6 3 82 5 9

5 3 1 9 79 3 2 4 8

1 63 2 7 6 58 9 4 3 2

5 7 14 2 8 6

7 4 9 6 2 3 8 5 16 8 2 5 7 1 3 9 45 3 1 9 8 4 6 2 79 6 5 3 1 2 7 4 84 1 7 8 9 5 2 6 33 2 8 7 4 6 9 1 58 7 6 1 5 9 4 3 22 5 3 4 6 7 1 8 91 9 4 2 3 8 5 7 6

# 50

V. EASY # 50

4 9 2 68 7 3 6 1 2

1 73 2 4 8

4 2 6 3 59 5 4 3

5 91 3 5 2 7 99 3 8 5

4 9 1 7 8 2 5 3 65 8 7 4 3 6 9 1 22 6 3 1 9 5 4 7 83 2 5 9 4 1 8 6 77 4 8 2 6 3 1 5 96 1 9 8 5 7 2 4 38 5 4 6 7 9 3 2 11 3 6 5 2 8 7 9 49 7 2 3 1 4 6 8 5

# 51

V. EASY # 51

4 2 9 3 55 1

6 7 9 1 8 22 8 7 6

5 97 2 4 1

1 5 4 6 9 73 85 7 6 1 2

4 1 2 6 9 3 8 7 58 5 3 2 4 7 9 6 16 7 9 1 8 5 2 4 39 2 8 4 7 1 3 5 61 4 6 5 3 9 7 2 87 3 5 8 2 6 4 1 92 8 1 3 5 4 6 9 73 6 7 9 1 2 5 8 45 9 4 7 6 8 1 3 2

# 52

V. EASY # 52

6 3 53 5 7

6 7 5 2 3 81 6 4 9

6 3 7 15 2 9 6

5 9 1 2 8 74 9 1

1 9 5

8 2 4 6 7 3 5 9 19 3 5 8 4 1 6 7 26 1 7 5 2 9 3 8 41 7 3 2 6 8 4 5 94 9 6 3 5 7 1 2 85 8 2 1 9 4 7 3 63 5 9 4 1 2 8 6 72 4 8 7 3 6 9 1 57 6 1 9 8 5 2 4 3

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# 49

V. EASY # 49

7 6 3 82 5 9

5 3 1 9 79 3 2 4 8

1 63 2 7 6 58 9 4 3 2

5 7 14 2 8 6

7 4 9 6 2 3 8 5 16 8 2 5 7 1 3 9 45 3 1 9 8 4 6 2 79 6 5 3 1 2 7 4 84 1 7 8 9 5 2 6 33 2 8 7 4 6 9 1 58 7 6 1 5 9 4 3 22 5 3 4 6 7 1 8 91 9 4 2 3 8 5 7 6

# 50

V. EASY # 50

4 9 2 68 7 3 6 1 2

1 73 2 4 8

4 2 6 3 59 5 4 3

5 91 3 5 2 7 99 3 8 5

4 9 1 7 8 2 5 3 65 8 7 4 3 6 9 1 22 6 3 1 9 5 4 7 83 2 5 9 4 1 8 6 77 4 8 2 6 3 1 5 96 1 9 8 5 7 2 4 38 5 4 6 7 9 3 2 11 3 6 5 2 8 7 9 49 7 2 3 1 4 6 8 5

# 51

V. EASY # 51

4 2 9 3 55 1

6 7 9 1 8 22 8 7 6

5 97 2 4 1

1 5 4 6 9 73 85 7 6 1 2

4 1 2 6 9 3 8 7 58 5 3 2 4 7 9 6 16 7 9 1 8 5 2 4 39 2 8 4 7 1 3 5 61 4 6 5 3 9 7 2 87 3 5 8 2 6 4 1 92 8 1 3 5 4 6 9 73 6 7 9 1 2 5 8 45 9 4 7 6 8 1 3 2

# 52

V. EASY # 52

6 3 53 5 7

6 7 5 2 3 81 6 4 9

6 3 7 15 2 9 6

5 9 1 2 8 74 9 1

1 9 5

8 2 4 6 7 3 5 9 19 3 5 8 4 1 6 7 26 1 7 5 2 9 3 8 41 7 3 2 6 8 4 5 94 9 6 3 5 7 1 2 85 8 2 1 9 4 7 3 63 5 9 4 1 2 8 6 72 4 8 7 3 6 9 1 57 6 1 9 8 5 2 4 3

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