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Pancakes past midnight, a convenience store and more vegetarian o!erings are only some of the new food choices stu-dents can look forward to in 2014 and 2015.

Early morning commuters looking for a cup of joe and a quick bite next semes-

ter can look to the new parking garage opening this fall.

"e new structure, located on the corner of Loop Road and Rutford Road across from Res Hall South, will house an Einstein Bros. Bagel shop.

Bob Fishbein, assistant vice president of auxiliary service, said it will have a 45-seat capacity with catering abilities, but it will mostly be a grab-and-go service.

"ere are also plans to place an IHOP restaurant on the southwest side of the parking structure, facing Rutford Road.

"e contract is still in negotiation and no concrete date of arrival has been ap-proved, but students can expect the res-taurant to hit campus in late February or early March, Fishbein said.

"e planned pancake venue will seat about 160 people, and it will have a simi-

lar structure as the Pub where customers order and take a number. "e restaurant will be open until 1 a.m.

"e largest addition to dining services on campus will be Dining Hall West, lo-cated adjacent to Residence Hall West, and slated to open in the beginning of the fall semester.

“It’s like our existing dining hall on steroids,” Fishbein said. “It’s gorgeous

and it has a lot more opportunities to do custom food.”

With a 720-seat capacity, the new din-ing hall will be open to all students, fac-ulty and sta!.

"e existing dining hall will still o!er meal plan lunches as they exist currently, but it will o!er more retail choices down

IHOP, bagel chain coming soon

Robots charm onlookers at 'Transformers' premiere

Community's e!ort keeps Art Barn open

Late-night eateries, decked out dining halls among new options coming to UTD throughout new academic year

Electrical engineering students, faculty show off robotic creationsAfter two months of conjecture and debating, UTD has decided to keep its Visual Arts Building open for now.

"e decision was conveyed to Greg Metz, senior lecturer in arts and humani-ties, during a meeting with Dean of Arts and Humanities Dennis Kratz on July 1.

In late April, Facilities Management boarded up the mezzanine without prior noti#cation to students and faculty using the studio and o$ce space there, and stu-dents speculated that the building would be torn down, or at least shut down to be used as storage.

"e administration cited the lack of safety provisions in the building as the primary reason behind the decision to board up the mezzanine.

"e mezzanine will remain closed and some of the more pressing safety issues will be addressed as soon as possible. "e building will be available to students and faculty for their art season in the fall, and the 3D fabrication lab will be moved to the building, Metz said. However, it is unclear how long this decision will stay in e!ect.

“We’re excited about hanging on for the meantime and seeing how we can re-ally make use of this space,” he said. “It’s exciting, but it’s not a done deal.”

When the news of the impending clo-sure of the building, commonly known as the Art Barn was #rst made public, stu-dents, faculty and alumni from UTD's art community were enraged at the sudden announcement.

“When I heard it #rst, I was very emo-tional,” said Lori Robertson-Snyder, a master of #ne arts alumna. “I thought

‘they can’t do that.’ It was like taking a home away from me. I thought about the new facility and how much character it didn’t have and how much character this place has, how long it’s been here.”

Soon after, Cynthia Saatho!, a master of #ne arts student, spearheaded the cam-paign with Arms around the Barn, a visual installation using sweaters to convey the message loud and clear to administrators: Artists wanted the building saved.

"e project was inspired by Carol Zou’s Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, or YBLA, movement. Zou, a Los Angeles-based art-ist, has been encouraging artists to take up yarn bombing as a method of activism by “putting a ring” on any loved object by crocheting or knitting the yarn together.

Saatho!, Metz, Robertson-Snyder and others involved with saving the build-ing decided to use Zou’s concept for the cause and started asking students, faculty and alumni for sweaters with the donor's name printed on them to be hung in a ring around the Art Barn.

"e cause drew a positive response from the campus community and has re-ceived 119 sweaters that have been knit cu!-to-cu! with red yarn hung around the Art Barn.

"e #rst attempt to host an opening for Arms around the Barn in June was cancelled because the administration per-ceived the launch, that would also feature a band, as a show and less like an art open-ing, Saatho! and Robertson-Snyder said. According to university rules only o$cial student organizations can host a show in any building. It was a setback, Saatho! said.

Moviegoers were treated to a dis-play of mechanical savvy on June 27 as the premier of “Transformers: Age of Extincition” at Alamo Drafthouse dou-bled as an exhibition for UTD robotics.

Hosted by the Jonsson School of En-gineering and Computer Science, the event featured students and their me-chanical creations, including robotic chess pieces, a mechanized mini-arm that mimics movement and two ma-chines designed to follow individuals.

It also featured a discussion by pro-fessors Nick Gans and Robert Gregg on the advancement of robotics and the research being done at UTD.

Taking place in the packed theater just minutes before the start of the movie, the lecture gave the students an opportunity to demonstrate their ro-bots with some help from enthusiatic volunteers in the audience.

One of the demonstrations featured a %ying robot composed of four pro-pellers that tracked the movement of individuals holding a bright orange football as they moved back and forth across the front of the theater. "e other had a wheeled machine operated with a modi#ed camera linked up to a laptop, allowing the machine to follow individuals around.

Students programmed and built the devices in labs. Electrical engineering

senior Adrian Green explained how they worked.

“What I do speci#cally is I have a robot that will follow you based on visions from a hacked Xbox Kinect,” Green said. “It runs a little vision al-gorithm to tell the motors to stop, go, whatever. And then we have a drone that will kind of do the same thing, but %y.”

Gregg, whose research focuses on robotic lower limb prosthetics and exoskeletons, saw the event as an op-portunity to bridge the work he does with the more fantastic events depicted in the #lm.

“A lot of Transformers are walking, mobile robots, so in that sense, being legged, it de#nitely has a connection,” Gregg said. “"ere’s a whole #eld of walking robots, like humanoid robots and so forth, and that’s technology that I’m using for the exoskeleton prosthet-ics that I’m doing, so stu! that we’re going to see in this movie, with all the walking, running and jumping robots, you can kind of imagine all these ro-bot principals being used in those ma-chines.”

Gregg said that Hollywood has played an important role in the percep-tion of robots among the general pub-lic, in both a positive and negative way. He said popular characters like Wall-E have made people more familiar with robots now than ever before, allowing many people to have access to basic ar-

eas of the #eld. On the other hand, movies like

“Transformers” have also skewered per-ceptions about the reality of robots, Gregg said. People may believe that robots have capacities past what their actual limitations are due to the in%u-ence of big-time media.

Despite these misconceptions, Gans predicted some major changes in the #eld in the near future.

“It’s constantly evolving, constantly changing,” Gans said. “"e one thing that’s going to happen is autonomous cars. In 10 years, certainly, you will be able to have an autonomous car; that won’t be surprising at all.”

Gans, who focuses on control and how robots actually see what’s around them, went on to say that personal ro-bots will also become more common in the future.

"e movie o!ered a chance for the team from UTD to dispel some of the myths that plague their #eld according to Robert Gregg.

“Transformers is all about robotic systems and them being alive,” Gregg said. “"is kind of shows the realis-tic capabilities of robots and that one day we’ll get there, but not right now. "ey’re not going to be humanoid; they’re going to be drone like. I don’t think your #rst robots are going to look like humans. "ey’re going to be cars; they’re going to be the nurse's cart that carries the medication.”

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Master of Fine Arts student Cynthia Saatho! positions donated sweaters around the Visual Arts Building in preparation for Arms around the Barn on July 11.

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Doctoral candidate Jingfu Jin demonstrates how a mechanized mini-arm works to moviegoers on June 27. Stu-dents and faculty from the School of Engineering and Computer Science hosted the event at Alamo Drafthouse.

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Cometsand Craters

World Cup Fever: Every four years it seems like the United States replaces football with fútbol, and UTD is no exception. It’s great to see the Student Union cater to the demand for the beautiful game by play-ing most of the major matches on projector screens in the Galaxy Rooms, including a packed house for the heartwrenching U.S. loss to Belgium.

Lot J: Summer is the ideal time for renovating the parking lots with fewer students coming and going throughout the day. Unfortunately, for students at-tending summer courses or working on campus, that means dealing with a large portion of yellow and or-ange parking being completely cut o! for construc-tion and a large storage crate taking up at least four green spaces.

Summer Activities: "e dog days of summer can drive anyone crazy with a lack of activities, especially if you live on campus. It’s good to know UTD has events like the Cool Pool Party and the Juneteenth celebration to keep people busy with something fun to do over the break.

Dining Hours: Although the number of students on campus over the summer months diminishes con-siderably, students who are stuck on campus have to schedule their meals around the shorter operating hours for both the dining hall and the Comet Café. You’ll just have to ignore those late-night pangs of hunger.

!e Pub: "e new tablecloths that suddenly popped up are a great addition to the space. Using simple white sheets of paper with cups of crayons, you can eat and create the next Mona Lisa at the same time. Kudos to "e Pub for using creativity rather than just being bland.

Activity Center: With numerous summer camps and student orientations happening simultaneously, the Activity Center can quickly feel like a sardine can on certain days. "is really speaks to a bigger issue the university should address in new facilities for student use. Just because the Activity Center is multipurpose doesn’t mean it should serve every purpose.

Bus schedule goes awryShuttles on route 883 deviate from summer schedule for unknown reasons

In the world of business, clients and pro#ts are lost when deadlines and time schedules are unmet.

For NASA, a delay in a shuttle launch can cost millions of dollars.

Yet, for all this talk of time being money, UTD’s 883 Comet Cruiser runs with a mind of its own. Time for this shuttle isn’t of the essence, doesn’t cost a million dollars a second and leads to no losses which might be why, with the new summer schedule in place, the Comet Cruiser doesn’t seem to be running on any schedule at all.

"e ine$ciency is unusual, because decisions on bus routes on campus are usually made by Parking and Transportation based on tra$c sta-tistics and demand.

In the regular semesters, the 883 runs once every 20 minutes from the Berkner, McCal-lum and Bush Turnpike bus stops, with a total of three buses an hour. "e operation has been vastly successful, even handling peak hour traf-#c well.

Every summer, the schedule reverts back to a less frequent service: two buses an hour every

30 minutes, scheduled to depart from Berkner both ways at 15 and 45 past the hour toward McCallum and Bush Turnpike. "e downsizing is justi#ed, since the summer months are very slow in tra$c.

"is summer, that didn’t happen. "ere’s a UTD Express that runs only be-

tween McCallum and Berkner. "ere are two other buses that run on the old summer sched-ule.

What this means for passengers is that if they’re headed to Bush Turnpike, they have only two buses an hour, but if they’re going toward McCallum, they have four buses, every 15 min-utes, departing from Berkner. But, if they’re go-ing to the Waterview Science and Technology Center, they have only two buses an hour.

Or at least, that is what the Comet Cruiser website states.

In reality, none of this is happening. Drivers are having a hard time sticking to the sched-ule, particularly on days when the bus goes to Walmart, running almost 10 minutes late on occasion.

"e UTD Express is never on time, some-times whizzing past stops #ve minutes ahead of schedule, making the rounds like a crazed hon-eybee in a pollen dance. On multiple occasions, I’ve seen two buses moving together, because one of them covered its rounds way too soon, leaving the other one empty.

For a university that cares about sustainability

enough to have a sustainability manager, this is a great way not to be fuel e$cient.

Cris Aquino, Director for Parking and Trans-portation, said he wasn’t aware that this year’s schedule was any di!erent from last year’s sum-mer schedule, and the department has not yet o!ered an explanation for the discrepancy.

"e question that remains unanswered is why the schedule was changed at all. We are still running three buses an hour with the summer schedule, which is better than before, but the purpose is defeated if none of the buses can keep time.

If we had to run three buses, we could have easily stuck to the spring schedule. Since the campus doesn’t have as many students, perhaps it would have been prudent to just have two buses running, using the downtime to maintain the remaining buses.

Hopefully, someone in Parking and Transpor-tation is recording the demand data this summer to ensure that things run smoothly in the future.

Meanwhile, students can wait around in the sweltering Texas sun, hoping the bus will show up at a certain time, only to either see it zooming past a few minutes ahead of time or not show up until 10 minutes past the scheduled time.

"ere is only one tiny silver lining: "ere’s a GPS tracker for the 883 that will warn you that no Express is running and that it’s a waste to go to the stop because the next bus won’t be there for another 25 minutes.

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Following a record-breaking year and overall career, the American Southwest Conference named men’s basketball player Kyle Schleigh their male Athlete of the Year on June 11.

Schleigh becomes the first athlete in the history of UTD to win the award and only the third basketball player in the history of the conference to do so.

The award, which is given to the best athlete out of all the sports, caps off a tremendous senior season that saw Schleigh lead the Comets to a conference championship and an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen. This season he scored in double figures in 28 out of 31 regular season games and ringed in the first tri-ple-double in the history of the program.

Along with his solid statistics, he also earned All-American honors and played in the Reese’s All-Star game, which fea-tures the best players from across the country at the Division III level.

Despite all of his success, the award still came as a surprise to Schleigh.

“To be honest, I wasn’t expecting it,” he said. “There’s a ton of great athletes in the conference. It’s a prestigious award; I’m pretty honored.”

Those who knew him best were not as taken aback by the announcement.

“It didn’t surprise me,” said Matt Medell, senior guard for the basketball team. “I don’t really keep up with too many of the other sports, but he was by far the best player in the ASC as far as men’s basketball is concerned.”

The award also acts as the bookend to a stellar career for Schleigh. He leaves UTD as the all-time leader in points, field goals, rebounds, steals, blocked shots, and minutes played, among other stats. He also finished as sixth all-time in points scored in the ASC and third in rebounds.

That type of success, however, was not always foreseen, especially in the early stages of Kyle’s career.

“Honestly, when I first saw Kyle play in high school, I was sort of lukewarm about him, and that might be gener-ous,” said head men’s basketball coach Terry Butterfield. “My assistant coach, Travis Carruthers, was really the driv-ing force and kept telling me ‘no, no, no, this is a guy we need to try go and get.’ Obviously he turned out to be a lot smarter than I was when he said that.”

Butterfield’s doubts had to quickly be put to the side when a senior on the team suffered a major injury that forced Schleigh to be thrown into the starting lineup as a freshman.

From there it became clear there was a bright future ahead for the rookie, as Schleigh went on to start 23 out of 28 games and rack in three double-doubles and scored in double figures twelve times. That year, he was named the ASC East Division Freshman of the Year for his performance.

That trial by fire proved to be not only important for Schleigh’s career as an ath-lete, but also as a leader.

“One of the things that I was always frustrated by was that Kyle just wanted to fit in and be one of the guys,” Butterfield said. “He didn’t want to really go out on a limb and be a take-charge guy at the beginning, but as time went on it became very clear that he had the ability to do that.”

His leadership blossomed over the years as Schleigh went on to be named to the All-ASC team his sophomore year and averaged 15.9 points per game.

“I was very impressed, actually,” Medell, who was a freshman that year, said. “He was our best overall player offensively and defensively. He guarded the best player from the other team every game and he was definitely our go-to player on the offensive end and outside

of that he’s our best rebounder, so he could do it all.”

Medell, who often roomed with Schleigh when the team went on the road, was able to see a side of him that few got to see. He said that off the court, Schleigh often cracked jokes with his teammates and had a good time.

Their relationship created a level of trust between the two off the floor that translated to their performance on the court.

“This last year, he had a hand in vot-ing Nolan Harvey and I to be team captains over a couple of other seniors,” Medell said. “As soon as that happened, we had a talk, the four captains and the coaches, and Kyle was the first to say ‘Hey, my senior year, I want it to be the best year for me, and in order for that to happen, you need to play well too.’”

His teammates kept their end of the deal, with Medell and Harvey averaging 15.2 and 13.9 points per game, respec-tively. Even through that individual success, Schleigh’s teammates continued to look to him for leadership, which was often more laid back than what one would expect from somebody of his caliber.

“He’s definitely more of the mellow type than the vocal type,” Medell said. “But when things are going bad and he needs to step in and be vocal, he definitely does. He’s more of a leader by example, and he’s going to do everything the right way.”

Now that Schleigh has graduated, his production on the floor and leadership will be something that will surely be missed by the Comets as they look for-ward to next season.

“He was all things to our program so obviously it’s going to leave a huge void,” Butterfield said. “He could take you inside; he could knock it down from the outside; he had size; he had quickness; he had a lot of skills.”

As he looked back on his career, Schleigh noted that he always sought to do the best for others around him rather than simply put up the most points.

“Coming in, I wanted to be the guy who was going to work hard on the court and work hard off the court,” he said. “When people think of Kyle Schleigh at UTD, they’ll think he got all these records and everything, but I want them to also think he treated everyone with respect, he worked incredibly hard, he was a great leader, things like that, as opposed to all the points and getting all the rebounds.”

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Kyle Schleigh is the first Comet to be named the ASC Male Athlete of the year. He leaves UTD as the all-time leader in scor-ing, rebounds, games played, steals and blocked shots. He also was named the MVP of the ASC tournament this past season.

Two professors in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences are delving into some of the most perplexing puzzles in the field of public medicine: chronic pain and migraines.

Associate professor Ted Price, who focuses his research on pain in general, has seen the way perceptions of pain have changed over the last few years.

“Right now, if you go to the doctor because you have a chronic pain problem, the doc-tor is going to prescribe you drugs, and you will probably take those drugs for the rest of your life because none of them have disease modifying proper-ties,” Price said. “What we have learned in the last ten years in the field is that chronic pain is not a sign that something else is wrong; it’s a disease in and of itself.”

Most people suffering from chronic pain have nothing specifically trigerring that pain. That indicates something in the nervous system itself has changed to cause pain to still linger, Price said.

His work aims to understand what causes those changes and

what keeps the nervous system from reverting back to normal.

From there, Price can specifi-cally target those mechanisms to reverse the state of pain and try to change those molecular mech-anisms with drugs.

“We want to modify the dis-ease so that it goes away,” Price said. “What I like to tell students that are coming into the lab and learning about this is that we are basically doing chemotherapy for pain. If you have a tumor, you’re going to target it with something that’s going to kill the tumor, and then the person doesn’t have can-cer anymore. We want to do the same thing.”

Jamie Moy, a third year gradu-ate student who works in Price’s lab, said one of the things they do is look for proteins that play a major part in the pain pathway to see if they can manipulate them to get rid of the pain behavior.

Associate professor Greg Dussor focuses specifically on where migraines come from and how they can be treated.

“Migraine is the most common neurological disorder. There are 36 million people in the U.S. that have migraine. It’s the third most prevalent disease on Earth. It’s just a huge problem,” Dussor said. “The surprising thing about

it, given that all the people that have it, is that we know almost nothing about where they come from.”

Dussor, who is one of only a handful of researchers in the United States studying migraines, said the field is often overlooked because migraines are not as deadly as other diseases.

Solutions essentially depend on labs getting lucky and finding a cure for migraines in a treatment for another disease, he said.

Carolina Burgos Vega, a fourth year graduate student in Dussor’s lab, said one of the ways the lab tries to understand migraines is by inducing the affliction onto a rat and then trying to give it drugs to see how they affect its pain. She said a problem that comes with migraine research is a lack of new methods of combat-ing it.

“There hasn’t been an effective treatment in 20 years,” she said. “The most recent one is Triptans, and they’re only 30 percent effec-tive in the population.”

Price said that his research in pain had its own unique set of problems.

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Fireworks on the Fourth of July are meant to bring joy to Americans every year, but for soldiers who have returned from active combat duty, the experience can trigger reminders of war.

Veterans of Dallas, a student group comprised of veterans, aims to address challenges like these along with other obstacles former soldiers face upon returning home.

Originally formed three years ago, the organization is undergo-ing an overhaul to attract more members.

“We want to completely revamp the whole thing starting in August when the fall semester starts so it’s more appealing for students to join,” said Malicka Modgil, vice president of the club and an accounting and finance junior. “A lot of veterans, when they’re com-ing back home, they don’t really want to get involved. They want

to spend time with their families because they haven’t been able to for so many years.”

Veterans of Dallas organizes a variety of events targeted toward vets including networking events with employers interested in hiring servicemen and women.

Others activities include com-munity service projects. Last year, several community volunteers worked with former President George W. Bush.

Modgil, who served four years in the Navy, said keeping members active is one of the main goals for the organization.

A major problem veterans face on their return home is the strug-gle to readjust to civilian life after spending an extended amount of time in the armed services. For many former members of the mili-tary, something as simple as choos-ing clothes to wear or deciding what to eat can have its challenges.

“In the service, everything is

provided for you,” said Nicholas Jones, president of Veterans of Dallas. “You know where you’re going to work; you know where you’re going to go; you know who’s in charge. When you get out of the military, it’s all on you.”

Jones, who served in the Army for three and a half years, said veterans often come out of their time in the armed services still used to having a mission-ori-ented mindset. Once they’re no longer involved with the military, it can be difficult for soldiers to make decisions on their own.

The process involved in leav-ing the military can take six to eight months, and it involves courses focused on teaching soldiers the important aspects of post-service life like making a budget or searching for a job.

Despite their best efforts,

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TOP SERIES: The Juneteenth Summer Breeze, sponsored by the Multicultural Center, blew onto the mall on the evening of June 19 to celebrate freedom for all with activities, including a cook-out, bakeo!, carnival games and a live band.SECOND SERIES: SUAAB brought the Cool Pool Party to the University Village Phase 8 pool on the evening of June 26 in an e!ort to beat the heat with snow cones, food, music and fun in the pool.

DIRECTLY ABOVE SERIES: Students and professors involved in ro-botics research delighted the audience of “Transformers: Age of Extinction” with a presentation and interactive demonstrations before the movie premier at Alamo Dra"house Cinema on June 27.LOWER SERIES: At noon on July 3, the lower level of the SU be-came filled with students and sta! alike at the Stars and Stripes Celebration in honor of Independence Day. Sponsored by SUAAB, this event brought attendees together with food, snow cones and rounds of bingo.

Alumnus revitalizes lit mag

UTD hosts week-long camp for underprivileged children

Post-apocalyptic flicko!ers cautionary tale

College students search high and low for a job after graduating. Few find one so quickly and in an area they love.

For Matthew Limpede, who graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in art and per-formance, working for a small literary fiction magazine was his calling, but not as a writer. He went straight to the top as editor-in-chief of Carve Magazine soon after college.

Carve Magazine publishes short stories and poetry for lovers of contemporary literature. Melvin Sterne created the magazine in 2000 and named it in honor of the literary great Raymond Carver. But in 2006, Sterne left Carve Magazine to start his doctoral degree.

As Limpede reached the end of his college journey and Carve Magazine faced termina-tion, Limpede’s creative writing professor and mentor, Kristin vanNamen, stepped in to bring them together.

Limpede’s friendship with vanNamen started when he returned to his home state of Texas af-ter leaving for college in New York.

“It was a really crucial time in my life when I took her class,” Limpede said. “I had just trans-ferred from NYU’s dramatic reading program. I was miserable there, and I was sort of lost when I came back.”

Soon, the pair began spending time outside of class editing Limpede’s writing.

“We had a good working relationship going, and it just progressed from there,” Limpede said. “She’s always been very nurturing of my writing and of pursuing writing in literary arts as a career and not just a hobby.”

As a TA at the time, vanNamen used to in-vite her students for study groups. Once, as she graded papers and her students studied and read short stories aloud, vanNamen said she heard Limpede say something that would prove pro-phetic.

“He just randomly said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could just do this for a living? If we could

own a magazine like Carve Magazine and this could be our lives, and I remembered him saying that, so when Carve became available about a year later, I contacted Matthew,” she said.

vanNamen also thought of Limpede as a good fit for Carve because of his respect and under-standing of Raymond Carver’s work. She said writing was innate to Matthew, who was sought after as a peer editor at UTD.

“There was a core group of students who were writing and publishing, and he was very quickly accepted because of the quality of his work as a writer and editor,” vanNamen said.

Taking over an online literary journal was no easy task for Limpede, but he managed to do it mostly by himself for the first three years.

“I quickly became overwhelmed with each progressive year,” he said.

After putting the magazine on hiatus for sev-eral months, Limpede teamed up with vanNa-men and recruited her as managing editor of the magazine in order to bring Carve back to life in 2010.

The publication has recently grown to pro-vide more than just good stories. Carve Liter-ary Services provides a place where writers are matched with consultants in order to work on editing or MFA applications.

Another branch is Carve in the Classroom, where lesson plans correspond to short stories in Carve Magazine in order to aid teachers in bringing contemporary literature into their high school classrooms.

Limpede and vanNamen run Carve Magazine full-time out of their homes to keep costs low and meet via FaceTime or Skype every morning.

A typical day can consist of completing agen-das, thinking up new services to provide or brainstorming how to increase product circula-tion.

“Some days I’m reading submissions and de-ciding which get published and some days I’m actually putting the issue together,” he said.

Carve Magazine’s audience consists of avid

Former arts and performance student finds success as editor-in-chief of literary fiction magazine soon a!er college

SARAH LARSONMercury Sta"

It’s 2031 and Earth’s sole survivors are struggling to maintain a social balance aboard Snowpiercer, a self-sustaining bullet train that must keep its engine running to keep its passen-gers alive.

Based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the film fo-cuses on the microcosmic class system that’s quickly formed on a self-sus-taining train.

The poor inhabit the back end and wealth rises moving toward the front. The elusive and deified creator of the

locomotive, Wilford, resides in the front coach with the equally glorified mother engine.

Director Joon-ho Bong, whose past films such as “Host” have also melded together movie tropes, takes the ever-growing genre of climate fiction and wraps it in an exciting, sleek and sub-tly styled film.

“Snowpiercer” moves at the same bullet speed as the train within the film, and viewers are pulled into the scenario almost immediately. It’s not hard to suspend disbelief consider-ing the environmental circumstances within the film are not too far dis-placed from real-life anxieties over climate change.

The movie starts with a black screen

A crowd of kids, chattering and giggling, hold on to white balloons with the words “Let Go” scrawled on them. They wait for the go-ahead and, then, release the fear and self-doubt filling the balloon. From June 24 to June 27, they spent their time on campus instead of at the shelters they call home.

Sonia Denice de La Torre, chil-dren’s book author and public speaker, led the children through the symbolic ceremony.

“Because of the circumstances and where they come from, some of these kids are facing violent situations in the home, yet, look at the smile and joy that’s in their hearts,” de La Torre said. “They’re excited; they’re not considering their circumstances. They’re look-ing at their future and what it could be.”

Organized by Rainbow Days, a Dallas non profit and child sup-port group, Kid’s University invit-ed children from homeless shelters in Dallas and Collin Counties to experience college for a week.

They participated in classes fo-cusing on computer skills and en-gineering, among other subjects.

The Perot Museum presented a science class and Michele Hanlon, associate professor and assistant director of the arts, treated the kids to a dance presentation.

The children also attended a one-on-one pre-algebra class taught by Dean of Interdisciplin-ary Studies George Fair, as well as volunteering undergraduate stu-dents.

Interdisciplinary studies senior Valeria Sainz taught at the day camp two years ago and returned this year to help the children learn essential math skills.

Originally from Mexico, Sainz

hopes to become a teacher one day, possibly working with underprivi-leged children.

“Where I come from, education is really hard to get,” Sainz said. “I know how hard it is for some kids to get an education, so it’s definitely something I think about. If I were to go in that route, it would be really rewarding.”

Kid’s University started in 1996 when Rainbow Days partnered with Fair, and he said rising homeless rates, especially among women and children in Dallas, were a main factor in creat-

ing the camp. “At that time, I’d still been work-

ing with school districts and shelters where homeless children resided,” Fair said. “As I worked with shelters, I began to understand that during the summertime, because there is no school, the students are pretty much idle at the shelters with not much space and not much for them to do.”

Eighteen years later and homeless populations in Dallas are on the rise

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Mason (Tilda Swinton) reprimands the lower class in a scene from “Snowpierc-er.” The sci-fi film explores class structures and environmental catastrophes.

MIGUEL PEREZCOMMENTARY

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MIGUEL PEREZ | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Children participating in the Kid’s University program await the green light to let go of their white balloons in an exercise meant to build confidence and trust.

Kids from local shelters experience college life in educational programMIGUEL PEREZ

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and crackling audio, presumably from modern times. A man is hailing the discovery of a chemi-cal that will undo the damage global warming has caused to the atmosphere. It’s considered a success, until the Earth freezes over.

Seventeen years later, the !lm closes in on Curtis (Chris Evans), a brooding, dark horse !gure who lives among the poor in the back car of the train where resources are scarce. Passengers must eat a ge-latinous, brown bar, referred to as protein blocks, to survive. Have a barf bag ready for when the main ingredient is revealed halfway through the !lm.

Along with Edgar (Jamie Bell) and wizened top cat Gilliam (John Hurt), Curtis plans an escape from the back car with the intent to overthrow Wil-ford and take control of the engine.

"e !lm works on a thinly veiled allegory, and tinges of class struggle and wealth disparity ring true throughout.

A wicked scene where Tilda Swinton’s character, Mason, a loyal and slimy crony to the !rst class,

coldly orders guards to torture a man stresses the unjust gap between the front and back-end pas-sengers.

“Snowpiercer” is almost comical, if dark, con-sidering viewers must entertain the nonsensical idea of sustaining a population on a train that never stops. But, the !lm o#ers biting commen-tary on the ideas of natural balance and con!ned space.

"e !lm is violent at times, but Bong never in-dulges in violence for violence’s sake. Everything feels purposeful and justi!ed.

It’s hard not to connect with this !lm almost immediately; the foundation of the narrative is something anyone can relate to, whether it’s the messages of class struggle or the dangers of cli-mate change.

In a rare !lmmaking feat, “Snowpiercer” bal-ances substance and style to deliver one of the best science !ction !lms of the year.

again. Kid’s University had its largest turnout this year with 135 children attending the !rst week camp and 165 children attending the second week.

Kelly Wierzbinski, director of children, youth and family services for Rainbow Days, said the demographic of the homeless population has changed in recent years with families with children being the fastest growing group.

“What I’m seeing now, more and more, because of economic times is that these are people with college degrees,” Wierzbinski said. “"ey’re losing income and they really need help. "e times are falling hard on just about everybody.”

Having been with Rainbow Days for 23 years, Wierzbinski sees !rsthand the positive impact the camp can have on the children participating.

“One child was in the program, and (she was)

living in a shelter where a family member was living with AIDS,” Wierzbinski said. “She was a participant in the camp when she was seven years old. We saw her for maybe !ve years, but she moved out of the shelter. She’s actually go-ing to college now, and came back to teach one of the science classes.”

Wierzbinski said Rainbow Days is always looking for students to volunteer.

As leaders and role models, college students can help give kids the positive feedback they need while coping with highly stressful situa-tions, she said.

“We wanted it to be on a college campus, es-pecially because a lot of the parents here today get tears in their eyes because they didn’t even graduate high school,” Wierzbinski said. “To see their children in cap and gowns and to see the possibility of them stopping that cycle of homelessness is so important.”

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Temoc entertains at Signature Summer Event on June 19. Held at the Dallas Arboretum, the alum-ni summer celebration featured a performance by A Hard Night’s Day, a Beatles tribute band.

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readers who take pleasure in reading contempo-rary short stories and poetry.

“We have this image of people reading our stories at their cubicle during lunchtime and kind of being sucked into our magazine and the different stories that we have,” Limpede said. “We try to choose stories with strong openings

to really draw people in because it’s hard to keep people’s attention online, so we’re really cogni-zant of that.”

From a survey Carve conducted a couple years ago, Limpede discovered that the magazine’s audience skews towards older, more educated people from all over the world including Aus-tralia, India and Africa. Carve’s premium print circulation is currently just over 3,000.

As for submissions, Carve Magazine is always

looking for a good story, regardless of age, edu-cation level or background.

“We’re really fortunate that our submissions come from all over the world and all ages and backgrounds,” Limpede said. “We love a good story.”

Stories are more often character-driven fic-tion and tackle topics that include, but are not limited to, grief, natural disasters, family rela-tionships, as well as the odd, bizarre and quirky,

Limpede said.Carve Magazine’s tagline, “honest fiction,” is

indicative of the values the magazine strives for.“Honest fiction is what we like to think of as

fiction where the power of ordinary language re-ally comes through,” said Limpede. “Raymond Carver’s writing was honest. He wasn’t afraid to peer into the lives of his characters in a way that was simple and direct, yet very powerful. And those are the types of stories we go for.”

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the line, Fishbein said.Lunch and meal plan opportunities will be available in both dining

hall locations, but breakfast and dinner will only be available in Dining Hall West.

Papa John’s Pizza and a convenience store will be located adjacent to the new dining hall. ! ey will act as late-night options for students as both will stay open until 1 a.m.

Relocated from its original location in the Comet Café, the new Papa John’s will have increased capacity, o" ering full-size pizzas as well as the smaller, individual sizes.

Carrie Chutes, assistant director of food and retail services, said the pizza franchise hopes to o" er call-ahead service for on-campus locations, but it has not been determined if the venue will be able to deliver to dorms when it opens in the fall.

! e convenience store will stock healthy snacks, vegan selections, fro-zen food items and basic toiletries.

Auxiliary services will be making changes to food options in the Stu-

dent Union as well. ! e Comet Café, which used to house the smaller Papa John’s quick

service station and the Chef ’s Table station, will now feature the new Create station starting in the fall.

Create will primarily serve salads with a variety of protein options, as well as a baked potato bar and a selection of soups.

“One of the things that student government has been very vocal about is making sure we have more vegetarian options on campus,” Fishbein said. “We hear them loud and clear.”

Gauging student opinion through polling and questionnaires, SG de-termined that students would like to see more international and vegetar-ian options, con# rmed Zach Stokes, SG senator and electrical engineer-ing senior.

“! e idea we pitched was a pita bar,” Stokes said. “! e reason behind this was we wanted to provide more vegetarian options to account for our international students who happen to be vegetarian for cultural, re-ligious or personal reasons.”

SG will submit an o$ cial proposal within the next month to add a pita bar to the Create station in the Comet Café, Stokes con# rmed.

Additionally, Fishbein said both dining halls will o" er pita and related dishes like hummus and tabbouleh.

! e Outtakes station will upgrade its vegetarian options and adopt new color-coded packaging to mark vegetarian and gluten-free choices.

servicemen and women can be sub-jected to babying with everything taken care of during the process, ulti-mately hurting their decision-making skills outside of the military, Jones said.

Working with the Veteran Service Center, the organization hopes to be heavily involved in a new mentorship program the center is slated to start in the fall. It will connect new veterans with ones who have reintegrated back into civilian life.

Veterans of Dallas also wants to address soldier’s who suffer from post-

traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. They have worked closely with the

Center for Brain Health, who has started a study on the effects of PTSD on vet-erans here at UTD, to get help for any former service members who suffer from the disease.

“A lot of times guys come back with some things they haven’t dealt with,” said Cedric Jones, recruitment coordinator for the PTSD study. “Obviously if you spend any amount of time in a combat zone there may be some issues that you need to address. At the Center for Brain Health, we’re trying to get soldiers back to a new normal.”

With the student body growing each

year, the veteran student population is only expected to grow. Organizations catering to their needs will be vital to their health, Jones said.

“It’s extremely important when you consider the number of veterans returning to the Dallas area,” he said. “Especially with the drawback in combat opera-tions, there’s going to be a lot of student veterans coming from area colleges going to UTD. Knowing that the Veterans of Dallas is going to grow even larger, it’s extremely important for collaborations to be m ade to address issues that aren’t always being talked about.”

Additional reporting by Miguel Perez

reported last year that, on average, medical students got two hours of basic training on pain,” he said. “A third of the population has chronic pain. Most people over 60 have some form of chronic pain; most of them have lower back pain. Chronic pain is way more common than we think.”

Dussor said he is focused on moving treatments into humans quickly. He said the time between when a treatment is discovered and when approved for use in humans is usually a very long time. His focus has been taking drugs that are

already given to people, find out whether they work for pain as well, and then use them to treat those problems as well as what they were originally prescribed for.

Price points to the duo’s recent appear-ance on KERA as a method for helping patients who are affected by pain through outreach.

“I have learned that education can be just as beneficial as any research that we do,” he said. “If we can let people know that, yes, there is something real happen-ing to you, you’re not losing your mind, and we may not be able to cure you, but there are ways that you can deal with this disease, you can get better.”

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After exploring several avenues, including registering Arms around the Barn as an of-# cial organization, Saatho" and her team decided to approach RadioUTD to spon-sor the show.

“I don’t think anyone ever thought of giving up,” Robertson-Snyder said.

Arms around the Barn will open on July 11, featuring Dallas-based band To-tally Butchered, Denton’s Nite and DJ Colly T. Several alumni and students will contribute their art for the opening in-cluding Robertson-Snyder, Saatho" and Steph Hargrove, whose art uses statistical information on social matters displayed in a unique manner.

! ere will be free food and drinks served at the event and Arms around the Barn T-shirts will also be printed on spot. Hargrove will also sell handmade necklac-es made out of bottle-caps, which can be customized at $15 a piece including ship-ping. Saatho" herself will have a henna booth.

! e e" orts behind Arms around the Barn have paid o" , and the sweaters hang-ing around the building have made a strong impact in convincing President Da-vid Daniel and others in the administra-tion of the students’ serious intent to save the building from destruction, Metz said.

Moving forward, they are considering plans to draw in monetary donations from alumni to the university for the speci# c purpose of renovating and upgrading the

Art Barn, Robertson-Snyder said. One of the # rst steps toward perma-

nency would be to renovate the mezzanine and equip it with # re escapes and reopen it, said Jennifer Burrhus, a Bachelor of Arts student.

! e space needs to be used to its full potential, with more musical events, art openings and promoting it as a hub simi-lar to ! e Plinth, only closer to on-cam-pus housing, she said.

All options are open, including develop-ing the lawns as a sculpture garden where students can sit and study or socialize, as well as searching for possible donors who might want naming rights to the building, Saatho" said.

While Saatho" agreed that the build-ing de# nitely needed massive renovations

and modernization, she cautioned that it could be done without necessarily tearing the building down.

“We need to have some sort of a touch with our past,” she said.

! ey are hoping to ensure that no matter which way they choose to use the space, it will need to be inclusive of stu-dents in all majors, and not just as an art hub alone, Saatho" said.

However, with no time frame on how long the building will continue to remain open, Saatho" , Robertson-Snyder, Metz and their team views the news as tempo-rary respite.

“I think we’ll remain forever vigilant,” Robertson-Snyder said.

As long as the building remains, there is hope for an alternative to keep it open

permanently, although students will have to actively come forth to ensure that the building remains available to them, Metz said.

! e building remains an integral part of UTD’s art culture, and for many alumni, it is the focal point where ideas are created and exchanged, even after they’ve gradu-ated, Robertson-Snyder said.

“I thought if I ever come back to UTD or donate any money to UTD I want to be able to return to the building that meant the most to me” she said. “If I couldn’t come back to some of the places that meant so much to me there wouldn’t be any impetus for me to return and I wanted to be able to come back and see (the Art Barn) thriving and % ourishing and pro-gressing into the future.”

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A rendering of Residence Hall West and the new dining hall highlighted.