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BY ERIKA RIZOContributor to The Shorthorn

The symptoms and causes of dyslexia could be one and the same, a Harvard Graduate School of Education assistant professor told faculty and staff at the Planetarium Confer-ence Room on Thursday.

Jenny Thomson, a speech pathologist who works with children who have speech and reading problems, said dyslex-ia is a core phonological deficit that stems from difficulty pro-cessing sounds of speech.

“One question that re-searchers have been struggling to answer for the past few de-cades is ‘Why are these chil-dren struggling?’ ” she said.

Thomson reviewed and presented new research that

suggested certain music-re-lated skills, like early rhythm sensitivity, may help increase the ability to predict reading progress in children.

She said phonics, which uses sounds and correspond-ing letters to teach reading and writing, helps 70 percent of children, but the other 30 percent resist treatment. It’s a problem at an earlier level of phonological development. She also said dyslexic people

have trouble pronouncing words.

Thomson worked with groups of children with and without dyslexia and tested different ways to measure beats in sounds. The children played with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger toys with sounds that varied in strength. Chil-dren with dyslexia were slow to hear the sounds.

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BY ALI MUSTANSIRContributor to The Shorthorn

The university awarded students displaying ability in research and creativity Thurs-day in the University Center Carlisle Suite.

Every year, the university hosts the Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students. Par-ticipants give oral or poster

presentations that must ex-plain the topic to a general and well-educated audience, who are not experts in that field. Biology, psychology, engineer-ing, linguistics and, for the first time, music were among the

Students, professors get accolades

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The Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students showcases UTA research.

BY MARK BAUERThe Shorthorn assistant news editor

Melanie Goodwin en-joyed driving with the win-dows down, dancing and singing loudly to the radio. And if the smell of clean laundry was packaged in perfume form, she’d wear it.

She liked making people laugh, and laughing along with them until her stom-ach hurt. She loved God, her family and playing in the rain.

To put it plainly, Melanie loved life.

But the 19-year-old Uni-versity of North Texas radio, television and film major was murdered in fall 2007.

Ernesto Reyes received an automatic life sentence late last month for rap-ing and strangling Mela-nie. But, through Face-book groups and memorial funds, her short-lived life continues to impact people.

Saturday, proceeds from a benefit concert in the Rosebud Theatre will go to-ward a scholarship fund set up in her honor.

Melanie influenced al-most everyone she came in contact with, friends and family said. She was active-ly involved in her church choir, she participated in her high school plays, and to this day, fellow students remember her performance

in Arlington Bowie High School’s rendition of Seus-sical the Musical.

“Melanie was very in-volved in and had a passion for theater,” Melanie’s father Glenn Goodwin said. “She loved life and loved people.”

He said his daughter was “daddy’s girl,” and he enjoyed taking the family to her favorite destination spot in the Dominican Re-public.

“She was a popular per-son but grounded in her family, and she was ground-ed and strong in her faith,” he said.

The family vacation spot was always a place of laugh-ter, Candace Goodwin, Melanie’s older sister by six years, said.

“We were both laughing so hard,” Candace said of the time they were acting like walruses in the surf. “We weren’t using our arms.

Murder victim honored with benefi t concert

COMMUNITY EVENT

Melanie Goodwin was 19 years old when she was murdered in fall 2007.

BY JOHNATHAN SILVERContributor to The Shorthorn

No one told former Army Maj. William Deakyne how to assist in the Iraqi gov-ernment reconstruction.

Deakyne lectured about the Army’s humanitarian assistance operations dur-ing the ROTC lab “Civil Military Operations” Thursday. The lab prepares cadets for a service proj-ect at Mission Arlington on Saturday.

“What makes the differ-ence is you,” Deakyne said. “You’ve got to take the ini-tiative in Iraq, and no one’s going to hand you all the answers.”

In Iraq, Deakyne formed a civil affairs team, a group of military personnel that served Iraqis’ needs rang-ing from food to educa-tional structure.

Since Iraqi schools lacked funding, Deaky-ne’s team proposed a high school-based solution to the Ministry of Education.

The lecture included procedures for transport-

Cadets learn, prepare for service project ROTC

Former Army Major touches on the projects conducted while in Iraq.

ROTC continues on page 3

Springtime RhapsodyFrom local boys to the

big leagues, two groups will plug into the same sound system Saturday.

Student Affairs hosts Springfest 2009 on the Maverick Activities Cen-ter west lawn Saturday from 5 p.m. to when the

last chords ring out.

The con-cert kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with the Bran-

don Steadman Band, an all-student group that won the opening spot after winning EXCEL’s Battle of the Bands com-petition.

Later, after sunset, signed and nationally recognized Motion City Soundtrack takes the stage.

See what to expect and what the bands are about inside on page 4.

SPRINGFEST 2009Admission is free

5 p.m. - Springfest 2009 begins with intramural athletic tourna-ments6:30 p.m. - Brandon Steadman Band takes the stage7 p.m. - They Were Stars per-forms7:45 p.m. - The Last of the Ash-fords plays during Earth Hour9:30 p.m. - Motion City Soundtrack closes out the night

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The Brandon Steadman Band, from left, lead guitarist Jorge Rodriguez, lead singer and rhythm guitarist Brandon Steadman, bassist Kevin Corensen and drummer Bryan Morgan (not pictured) will open Springfest at 6:15 p.m. Saturday behind the Physical Education Building. The Brandon Steadman Band won Battle of the Bands this year.

Courtesy Photo: Dan Monick

From left, drummer and percussionist Tony Thaxton, synthesizer Jesse Johnson, bassist and pianist Mat-thew Taylor, vocalists and guitarist Justin Pierre and guitarist Josh Cain form Motion City Soundtrack. The band will headline Springfest 2009 this Saturday on the Maverick Activities Center west lawn.

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WHO WON?For a full list of winners, check www.uta.edu/aces/(not posted by press time)

Courtesy Photo: Peggy Goodwin

University of North Texas student Melanie Goodwin was raped and murdered September 2007. A benefit concert for the Melanie Goodwin Scholarship Fund will be held 7 p.m. Saturday at the Rosebud Theatre.

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WHEN AND WHEREWhat: A Life Well Loved-Melanie Goodwin Scholarship ConcertWhen: 7 p.m. SaturdayWhere: University Center Rosebud TheatrePerformers: DeDe Jones, OneWill and special guest Tim Miller.Cost: $15-$50Limited seating availableTo purchase tickets visit: www.showclix.com


Former Army Maj. William Deakyne addresses ROTC students on the impact of humanitarian operations Thursday at College Hall. Deakyne stressed the importance of such operations in countries at war to prepare the students for their service project at Mission Arlington on Saturday.

DYSLEXIA continues on page 4

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For profiles of each of the bands,

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ELIZABETH FLORESContributor to The Shorthorn

Jeff Crane said his book’s examples differ from the traditional narrative and history of American envi-ronmental protest.

Crane, Sam Houston State University assistant

history professor, will speak on the book Natural Protest: Essays on the His-tory of American Environ-mentalism, which he co-edited with Michael Egan. The Central Library will host Crane at 7:30 p.m. today in the Central Li-brary sixth floor parlor.

“I will explain what that traditional narrative of the history of American envi-ronmental protest is, point

out some historians who have recently tweaked and challenged that narrative, and then argue for how my book contributes to that process,” Crane said.

After touching on some of the book’s stronger points, Crane will end the program with his chapter on a proposed dam on the Maine’s Kennebec River in 1835 titled, “Fancy Fore-shadowed a Magnificent Destiny: The Market Rev-olution and the Kennebec River Dam Fight.”

In the chapter, Crane examines opposition to a proposed dam on the Ken-

nebec River. He said the opposition came in at a time considered by histori-ans as the Market Revolu-tion.

He notes this period as “a time of great economic expansion and growth and the beginning our indus-trial revolution.”

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WHEN AND WHEREWhen: 7:30 p.m. TodayWhere: Central Library sixth floor parlor

Carbon dioxide emissions in our air isn’t the only environ-mental worry — these harm-ful emissions are increasingly being absorbed in our oceans and posing a threat to marine life, Richard Zeebe said.

Zeebe, associate profes-sor from the Department of Oceanography at the Universi-ty of Hawaii at Manoa, speaks at noon today in 100 Geosci-ence Building about the nega-tive effects of carbon dioxide emissions on oceans.

He said about 40 percent of the air’s carbon dioxide gets absorbed in oceans, impact-ing organisms like coral reefs, shellfish and plankton, which

are in the low levels of the food chain.

Many focus on global warming and carbon dioxide’s effect on humans, but sea life is affected too, he said.

“What’s going to happen with coral reefs is that it’ll af-fect their ability to build their skeletons because they are made of calcium carbonate,” Zeebe said. “Eventually the acids dissolve the minerals in the coral reef, and it will be dif-ficult for them to survive.”

With shellfish, as with oys-ters, emissions reduce the rate at which they build their shell, he said.

“If the food chain is being

negatively affected in the lower levels, it could eventually prop-agate higher up to affect larger organisms,” Zeebe said.

He said the most impor-tant measure to preserve the oceans and the atmosphere is to reduce carbon dioxide emis-sions. Simple ways to do this can be riding a bike to school, not driving a truck and using energy-efficient bulbs, he said.

“Even though living here, the ocean seems to be very far away,” he said. “We should be aware that what we do here in our everyday life affects marine life.”

— Sohana Kutub

University of Hawaii professor to discuss ocean acidification

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Women’s Appreciation Flower Sale: noon-1 p.m., UC mall. For information, contact Multicul-tural Affairs at 817-272-2099 or [email protected].

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International Spouses Club: 1:30-3 p.m., Swift Center. Free. For information, contact Julie Holmer at 817-272-2355 or [email protected].

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Planetarium Show — “Ice Worlds”: 4-5 p.m., Chemistry and Physics Building. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni and $2 for UTA students. For informa-tion, call Levent Gurdemir at 817-272-0123 or [email protected].

Planetarium Show — “Bad Astronomy”: 5-6 p.m., Chem-istry and Physics Building. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni and $2 for UTA students. For informa-tion, call Levent Gurdemir at 817-272-0123 or [email protected].

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SCHOOLHOUSE BOXBiology freshman Hameed Bello, left, and nursing freshman Logan Malone paint cardboard houses for Hope for Honduras on Thursday in the Student Governance office. The houses will be placed out around campus April 6-10 to collect school supplies for Honduran school children.

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topics discussed by students, according to architecture assis-tant professor Douglas Klahr. Faculty members also received recognition for their contribu-tions.

Klahr is a member of the ACES Steering Committee. He said he is happy to see sustain-ablity and the arts included this year.

“Some people think ACES is just for science and engineers because they tend to dominate,” he said. “Every year, more non-science and engineering stu-dents come in.”

Klahr said he was ap-proached a few weeks ago to add a sustainability award and didn’t have time to solicit proj-ects specifically for it. He select-ed 19 of 141 participants who had relations to sustainability.

Music education sopho-more Jesus Martinez was the first student to give a musi-cal presentation, for which he earned honorable mention in the Undergraduate Afternoon category. He presented music as an expression of human emotion and based two of his compositions on the cardinal sins wrath and sloth. Martinez

spoke about composing while marimba players performed his pieces.

“Honestly, I didn’t intend on winning,” he said, “I told my performers it was about show-ing the audience a different musical perspective. Music is a completely different outlook. It is a language of its own.”

The ACES Steering Com-mittee and the Office of Gradu-ate Study plan and host the celebration every year, said Philip Cohen, Graduate School dean and Academic Affairs vice provost. The event used to be two separate, underfunded symposiums for graduate and undergraduate students but was combined to build it up, he said.

Cohen said ACES improves each year and can still get bet-ter. He said the attendance and funding was better than previ-ous ACES.

Students were not the only ones to receive awards. Elec-trical engineering professor Venkat Devarajan won the first Graduate Dean’s Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring, which will be presented in years to come, Cohen said. Alumni and students nominated him for the award.

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Acescontinued from page 1

ing goods, barricading roads and pursuing and killing enemies. Deakyne included audience involvement by playing a scene from the movie Predator, and split-ting them into three groups of 10 to form a plan to drop

food to civilians during wartime.

Major Jeannie Deakyne, military science assistant professor, said humanitar-ian assistance operations are about growing in terms of human compassion and developing social skills that can only be learned by doing.

“Although we can talk tactics, pay attention to how

experts deliver goods and apply it to everything you do,” she said.

Visual communication sophomore Aaron Renaud won’t be at Mission Arling-ton on Saturday but has vol-unteered in the past.

“The information we learned from the lecture is something you can never get from a reporter on TV,” he said. “Learning about

what’s actually going on Iraq is interesting.”

Cadets’ roles in the ser-vice project are determined when they show up. Mission Arlington services include, but aren’t limited to, fur-niture transporting, crisis intervention and youth ral-lies.

JohnAthAn [email protected]

ROTCcontinued from page 1

WASHINGTON — Con-cerned about the faltering war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama plans to dis-patch thousands more mili-tary and civilian trainers on top of the 17,000 fresh combat troops he’s already ordered, people familiar with the forth-coming plan said Thursday.

Obama also will call for increasing aid to neighboring Pakistan as long as its lead-ers confront militants in the border region. The president plans to lay out his revamped strategy for Afghanistan and

Pakistan on Friday.Several sources told The

Associated Press the strategy includes 20 recommendations for countering a persistent in-surgency that spans the two countries’ border, including sending 4,000 military train-ers to try to increase the size of the Afghan army.

“It is an integrated mili-tary-civilian strategy,” Secre-tary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters in Monterrey, Mexico.

— The Associated Press

Obama plans more troops for Afghan war

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Thomson said researchers are using event-related brain potentials to measure brain ac-tivity during cognitive process-ing and to monitor things that cause changes in the brain.

“ERPs are telling us things that the behavioral data alone can not demonstrate,” she said. “They raise exciting new pos-sibilities for examining brain plasticity and effects.”

ERPs help illustrate what takes place in the brain during this early age.

“There are still questions un-answered on how to help chil-dren,” she said. “Understanding dyslexia at the levels of mind, brain and education offer the brightest chances of offering ef-

fective help to those currently not benefiting from best prac-tice.”

Robin Mayhew, who works for Burleson ISD Dyslexia Ser-vices, said she was disappointed with the lecture.

“I was looking for more in-formation — something usable,” she said. “It was good to some extent as far as theory, research for the good, but I can read re-search all day long.”

Education professor Marc Schwarz, the Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education director, said he enjoyed the presentation.

“We put students through this [research], because I be-lieve we are helping students. It helps us to develop a better, clear picture,” he said.

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By Dustin L. DangLiThe Shorthorn staff

If the Brandon Steadman Band has its roots planted in Texas country and rock ‘n’ roll, the university is the soil.

The band members said they’re known as “UTA’s Band.” They have several gigs at uni-versity events under their belt, the title of EXCEL’s Battle of the Bands winner and several courses between the four of them — all are students.

The group prepares to play Saturday at this year’s Spring-fest 2009, opening for nation-ally signed artist Motion City Soundtrack.

Music became a larger part of the band members’ lives after being mesmerized by other performers.

“1992 — MTV Music Awards — Nirvana,” bass-ist Kevin Lorensen said. “I thought Kurt Cobain looked so cool.”

Lead guitarist Jorge Rodri-

guez said he was inspired after watching “Austin City Limits” episodes on PBS. He later en-rolled in a music theory class in high school and then picked up the guitar, playing three to four hours a day to teach himself the instrument.

After being childhood friends since second grade, Rodriguez’s passion for music soon infected Brandon Stead-man, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. After hearing his friend play and learning a bit from him, Steadman said he enrolled in a music theory class in high school for fun.

A few years later, with some time to improve, Brandon Steadman Band formed in 2004 with Steadman and Ro-driguez as the core. Steadman said the band has never had any set members other than the two.

“That goes with all music,” Steadman said. “People come and go.”

Steadman said 2006 is when the current lineup came into existence even though members have still been moved around.

Lorensen has worked with the band for four months, after running sound for them at the band’s usual gig, Monte Carlos in Arlington.

Steadman said he attributes the band’s success to friends within Sigma Chi fraternity, which he belongs to, and at the university. Student Con-gress President Travis Boren helped the group land gigs at various university events like the Wings, Wieners, and Water early last semester.

“They are such a great band,” Boren said. “They’re Texas country, but they have a rock feel.”

Boren said the band puts on great shows because even those who don’t like country music will enjoy themselves. He said the band is closely knitted to

the school.“They truly are a campus

band,” he said. “They are deeply rooted in UTA.”

Music helped shape Lo-rensen into the man he is today, from when he first aspired to be as cool as Cobain, he said.

“I have an identity in my town,” he said. “I’m Kevin the musician.”

Steadman said the band is heavily preparing for Satur-day’s show.

“This show has definitely been the main focus since we won at Battle of the Bands,” Steadman said.

The band wouldn’t reveal its set list, but said people who come out will have a good time.

“Whenever we play, even for new crowds, people feel com-fortable with us,” Steadman said. “We connect.”

Dustin L. [email protected]

After excelling performances on campus, the Brandon Steadman Band comes back for Springfest

By CaroLinE BasiLEThe Shorthorn staff

Think Motion City Soundtrack is an interesting band name? It might have been Yukon Cornelius, Jesus Butter or Belt Weather.

The band considered these alternate names, but the current moniker sounded better, said Matt Taylor, Mo-tion City Soundtrack bassist.

“Actually, the jury’s still out on Belt Weather,” Taylor said. “That name is pretty genius.”

Minneapolis group Mo-tion City Soundtrack will headline this year’s Spring-fest. Michael Taddesse, Greek Life and University Events assistant director said several members of organizations met to decide the performers for Springfest. Time and lo-cation played a crucial part in the decision to have the band headline the concert.

“We saw on their schedule they were playing in Tulsa before the date we wanted, and everything fell into place,” he said.

The band formed in 1997 after guitarist Josh Cain ap-proached fellow guitarist Justin Pierre about playing music together.

Taylor and drummer Tony Thaxton were members of Richmond, Va. based band Submerge and met Motion City Soundtrack at a concert in Milton, PA in 2000. The members kept in touch and Thaxton and Taylor joined the band in 2002, replac-ing bassist Austin Lindstrom and drummer Sidney Burg-dorf.

Taylor said he was encour-aged and fascinated by music from an early age, seeing his dad and grandfather play in bands.

“I loved going to see my

Granddad’s bands play,” Tay-lor said. “My parents always listened to music too. Any time we would go anywhere, my dad would sing harmo-nies to the songs on the radio, which blew my mind. I guess music always fascinated me.”

Taylor said different art-ists influence him musically, including Radiohead, The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails, The Zombies and The Kinks.

“Those are a few,” he said. “I’m all over the place. Musi-cally, we’re all different peo-ple and listen to completely different things, occasionally meeting on a few bands here and there.”

Motion City Soundtrack is busy writing songs for their next album. Taylor said the band have nearly 30 songs written so far and aren’t slowing down.

“We’re in a serious anti-slump right now,” he said.

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus produced the band’s most re-cent album; Even If It Kills Me. Taylor said the band has not decided who is produc-ing the new album, which will be released on Columbia Records.

Taylor said the band ma-tured over the past several years, being on the road and working as a group.

“We’re all the same people, but I think we’ve grown older and wiser together without realizing it,” he said. “We’ve learned each other inside and out and we’ve learned how to survive when things get rough. We know when to give one another space or when to pull someone aside and talk. The road is a great place to really get to know people.”

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Accomplished recording quintet Motion City Sondtrack brings

pop punk to Springfest

Harvard Graduate School of Education assistant professor Jenny Thomson discusses the links between rhythm sensitivity and dyslexia. The speaker series is part of the Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education.

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EDITORIAL/OUR VIEW

Just Say Nay to Sallie MaeUnless the monthly hit is

affordable, find another way

Students shouldn’t have to pick up a job that takes time away from studying to repay interest on a school loan — just so Sallie Mae can lessen its risk factor.

Sallie Mae wants to lend you money — and they want you to start paying it back immediately. Its new private loan process is going to charge students interest on the loan before graduation.

Students would start out paying $40 per month as freshmen and by the second half of sophomore year, payments go up four times that

amount to $160.An Associ-

ated Press article takes a rosy view of the subject, reporting that the company will have improved cash flow from the interest pay-ments. Also, the current default rate of 4.5 per-cent should de-crease.

The loans are also less risky since families

that can’t pay while in school are weeded out, the article states.

That statement isn’t attributed to anyone, so the assumption could be made that Sallie Mae wants to “weed out” low-income families from re-ceiving its loans.

To be fair, this provision only ap-plies to private loans, and starts for the 2009-2010 school year. Those who already have a private Sallie Mae loan don’t have to start paying the interest now.

Federal loans aren’t affected by this and changing that would take federal legislation, said Karen Krause, UTA Financial Aid Director. She said students shopping around for private loans have other options.

Most students rely on private funding because the federal loans are not enough to pay the full costs of tuition, housing and books.

Private loans are a necessity for those who can’t afford private colleg-es or universities, some of which can cost a year’s salary like our neigh-bor in Fort Worth, Texas Christian University. The estimated costs for the 2009-2010 school year at TCU is $38,930. This includes housing, a meal plan, and books — tuition alone is $14,125 per semester.

In comparison, UTA tuition costs $7,758 per year for in-state residents, according to the 2008-2009 reports. Adding in housing and a meal plan bumps the costs another $5,219-$8,164 per year, which would cost about the same as one semester of TCU tuition alone.

The conventional wisdom is that students will have less debt when they graduate, with only having to pay the principal of their loans after graduation. This is great for those who can afford to do so, but most students can barely afford living expenses, let alone throw down an extra $160 a month for an avoidable bill.

EDITORIALROUNDUPThe issue: Student loan provider Sallie Mae will require students to repay their loan interest on private loans while attending college, starting June 1.

We suggest:Find another lender — there are better deals from others without an-other monthly expense to worry about on top of courses, papers and exams.

Last year, 6,290 people died in Mexico’s war between drug cartels.

By comparison, the U.S. lost 4,193 soldiers in six years of war in Iraq.

The problem Mexico has faced over the past few months is so serious that the U.S. Joint Forces Command says it and Pakistan are on the verge of failure.

While this statement must be taken as an exag-geration, it reflects how bad the situation is.

Kidnappings, torture, be-headings and other atroci-ties continue, even with the recent arrest of two of the most-wanted cartel “big bosses.”

Meanwhile, we are look-ing for someone to blame — Mexico and the U.S. have traded accusations — and ideas to effectively cut the cartels’ power.

Who’s guilty? Is it Mexi-co’s rampant police corrup-

tion, as some in the U.S. say? If so, it’s not the cause of the current violence.

Is Mexican President Fe-lipe Calderon’s crackdown on the cartels causing the violence to spiral into a qua-si-civil war?

Is it the U.S., accused by Mexican authorities for availability of weapons and money, as well as for the failed “war on drugs” started by President Nixon three decades ago? Again, this helped the violence spread, but it didn’t create it in the first place.

Possible solutions include a stronger border defense between Mexico and the U.S.

This is not going to help curtail the Mexican cartels in any way, and there’s no guarantee it will protect the U.S. from Mexican gang ac-tivity.

The cartels will always find a way to slip under such defense systems. Bet-

ter weapons for the military will not do much either — the cartels can easily ac-quire similar weap-ons.

On the other end of the spectrum, le-galization of certain drugs — marijuana in particular — has been proposed.

The real root of the drug violence is not cor-ruption, weapons availabil-ity or money.

It is drug use that’s to blame.

The violence is due in part to the struggle to con-trol supply routes to the U.S. between the gangs.

It is the demand here that is feeding the drug war there.

Legalization may sound like an easy idea, but it is certainly the worst option.

Taking drugs is noth-ing but inflicting a form of

violence upon one-self. Violence can-not and must not be legalized in any circumstance.

Legalizing drug use would simply be substituting one form of violence for another.

We must first take action at home and work on the

factors that lead people to use drugs. It will require considerable effort from our society, but we should be aware that we’re all respon-sible for it.

Meanwhile, drug users should be ashamed — their dependency is killing thou-sands of people.

This is the cost of our demand for an unnecessary thing like drugs.

— Sylvain Rey is an an-thropology senior and a col-umnist for The Shorthorn

We have only ourselves to blame

Major PainDeciding what to do with your life isn’t dictated

by your major

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” We’ve been asked this since childhood, and with age, the answer has

begun to present itself.Throughout adolescence, we

tried to determine the following: what we liked or didn’t like, what we were good at and what we never wanted to do again. Settling on a major is in that cat-egory.

When it comes to de-claring a major, some of us knew what

field of study we wanted to go into before setting foot on a college campus. If you are one of those

people, consider yourself lucky.I believe they call it a major

because it’s a major decision. It’s understood that what we decide to study leads to how we make a living. And the university’s job is to make sure we acquire the skills necessary to perform the tasks that come after graduation.

We shouldn’t take choosing a major lightly, it should be a per-sonal decision based on likes and strengths.

When choosing a major, find-ing out what your passions are: teaching others, being artistic and creative, or perhaps simply liking to argue.

So instead of “What do you want to be when you grow up?” maybe people should ask “What do you want to major in when you get into college?”

While your major will be your certified area of knowledge and

expertise, that doesn’t mean it will limit what you do after gradua-tion. Medical schools accept stu-dents with diverse majors and degrees. English majors are not only teachers anymore, but are also speech therapists and, well, columnists for newspapers. Even chief executive officers and heads of major corporations majored in things like medieval history like Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina did. Michael Eisner, Walt Disney’s CEO, double majored in English and theater.

Remember that your choice of major is a significant decision but in all reality, it’s simply a minor part of the life that will follow you after you graduate with your degree.

— Macy Galvan is an English senior and a columnist for The Shorthorn

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up a job that takes time away from studying to repay interest on a school loan — just so Sallie Mae can lessen its risk factor.

money — and they want you to start paying it back immediately. Its new private loan process is going to charge students interest on the loan before graduation.

$40 per month as freshmen and by the second half of sophomore year, payments go up four times that

EDITORIALROUNDUPThe issue:Student loan provider Sallie Mae will require students to repay their loan interest on private loans while attending college, starting June 1.

We suggest:Find another lender — there are better deals

Major PainDeciding what to do with your life isn’t dictated

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We were just using our legs.“She just liked to have

a good time. She was just an amazing person,” Can-dace said. “She glowed. She brightened up the room.”

Her Final HoursHundreds of Halo 3 fans

convened at various gaming stores Sept. 24, 2007, for the release parties held through-out Dallas-Fort Worth. Melanie was among those hundreds, but she wasn’t there for the games — she worked as a Red Bull spon-sor handing out free bever-ages at local events, along with short-time modeling gigs.

Later that night, she led coworkers in prayer in the middle of a crowded restau-rant where she and the other girls from work went to eat.

After the late dinner, Melanie Goodwin stopped at a convenience store where she met Reyes, who asked her for a ride. Video footage showed the two leaving the

store together.Later that morning, po-

lice responded to a report of a body in a field outside a business build-ing in Carrollton. Video surveillance showed Reyes dragging a mo-tionless body out of Melanie’s red, two-door Saturn. He then attempted to burn the body.

Reyes fled the country, and inves-tigators traced him to Mexico where he was arrested outside a rela-tive’s home Oct. 9, 2007. Reyes was expedited back to the U.S. and processed into the Dal-las County Jail on May 21, 2008.

Finding the Good in the Bad

Though it’s hard to imag-ine anything good coming out of such a violent death, her family is trying to do just that, Melanie’s mother Peggy Goodwin said.

To date, the family has

raised and awarded thou-sands of dollars worth of scholarships to local stu-dents who knew Melanie,

including a student in Chicago who exudes Melanie’s values.

Peggy Goodwin said her daughter would be humbled by everything done in her memory.

“She said in her senior book that she wanted to leave an impact on peo-ple, and she has,” Peggy Goodwin said.

Melanie’s fam-ily is helping her

make more of an impact by awarding scholarships for as long as they have the funds. Proceeds from Saturday’s benefit concert will go to-ward that.

But the concert isn’t a memorial service so much as it is a celebration of Mela-nie’s life. A life that, friends and family contend, was well loved.

Mark [email protected]

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Nursing freshmen Alicia Ortiz, left, and Victoria Jimenez construct a roof for cardboard houses for Hope for Honduras, a project benefiting Honduran school children, Thursday in the Student Governance office. The houses will be used to collect school supplies April 6-10.

CRAFT FOR A CAUSe

AUSTIN — Texas science teachers will no longer be re-quired to teach weaknesses of scientific theory, including evo-lution, under new curriculum standards tentatively adopted by the State Board of educa-tion on Thursday.

If given final approval, the new standards will drop a 20-year-old rule that requires both “strengths and weakness-

es” of all scientific theories be taught. Critics say the require-ment is used to undermine the theory of evolution in favor of religious teachings.

A final vote on the standards is expected Friday.

But even as evolution advo-cates hailed the vote, the board adopted a string of amend-ments that would cast a shad-ow over natural selection and common ancestry, key tenets of the theory of evolution.

The new standards, which will be in place for the next de-

cade, also govern what appears on standardized tests and ma-terial published in textbooks.

As one of the largest text-book purchasers in the nation, Texas has significant influence over the content of books mar-keted across the country. Pub-lishers compete to have their books approved by the state board, which has authority to review all books and recom-mend approval to local school districts.

— The Associated Press

Ed board approves science standards

“She said in her senior book that she wanted to leave an impact on people, and she has.”

Peggy Goodwin,Melanie Goodwin’s mother


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33rd Annual Bobby Lane Track & Field InvitationalMARCH 27-28THMAVERICKSTADIUM

UNIVERSITY EVENTSSaturday, March 28TH

Field Events start at 9AMRunning Events start at 1PM

FREE Admission for UTA Students!

Don’t miss Olympians Darvis Patton, Anson Henry and former UTA sprinter Jared Connaughton!

For complete meet schedule, please visit www.utamavs.com

Come out and support the Mavericks in their only home meet of the season!

When the Mavericks’ bas-ketball season came to an end March 12, it also

brought an end to the career of per-haps the greatest to ever wear the UtA uniform.

Now the program should bestow him with the highest honor any team can.

Anthony Vereen left the playing court for the last time for the Mavs that evening at the Mer-rell Center in Katy.

It should also become the last time anyone wore No. 32 for the Mavs — ever.

By the time the 2010 season ends, Vereen’s number should be retired and hanging from the texas Hall rafters along with Wil-lie Brand.

For four years, Vereen wore No. 32 for the Mavericks, and few,

if any, did more for the program while wearing that jersey.

Vereen’s on-court accomplish-ments speak for themselves.

He played more games than anyone else in a Mavericks uniform, scored more points than anyone but Brand — and that record might never be touched — finished in the top ten in rebounding in school history and was the southland Confer-ence tournament MVp for the first UtA squad to ever make the NCAA tournament.

Very few players could be as dominating as Vereen. When he got the ball in the post, there was almost no one in the south-land who could stop him.

Heck, I heard some people sug-gest that Blake Griffin, a candi-date for the 2009 Naismith Men’s

College player of the Year Award, would have problems against Ver-een.

But what defined Vereen more than anything else was his drive and desire. And that stood out when the ball was dead, even more than when it was in play. He would huddle his teammates together be-fore going to the foul line.

When heading to the bench, he would wave for the texas Hall crowd to get louder. During time-outs, he could sometimes be more fired up and vocal than the coaches.

While UtA’s first trip to “the Dance” last year was a team effort — it always is — it’s not hard to see who stood out when it counted, especially during that sensational run in the southland tournament.

Jermaine Griffin may have had the most talent, and Larry posey was a lightning rod of emotion.

But Anthony Vereen put it all together and carried the Mavs on

his back to the championship.Brand was UtA’s greatest scor-

er. Mack Callier was the best re-bounder. Donald Harris won a sLC tournament MVp award. Bill Washington played with all-out guts and heart.

Mix all those together, and you would get Anthony Vereen.

Vereen was more than a player — he was a winner. And that can never be defined by stats alone.

starting next year, the Maver-icks must move forward and focus on a new team that will try to du-plicate what happened in 2008.

But for one game, they should take the time to recognize the past – by raising number 32 to the raf-ters in honor of Anthony Vereen.

— Chris Lee Moore is 2002 a alumnus and former shorthorn

staff member. He is also best known as “superfan” at Maverick

athletic events

Crediting Prowessteam should honor southland Conference tournament MVp

By Cody MCClendonContributor to The Shorthorn

As the transition from winter to spring continues, the track teams’ focus shifts from indoor meets to the out-doors.

the university will host the 33rd annual UtA Bobby Lane Invitational, beginning all day Friday with the high school events at sMU, running through saturday with university events at Mav-erick stadium.

saturday’s activities begin at 9 a.m. with field events. running events are scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

Cordero Gray, a sophomore sprinter, says the team must pull together if they want a shot at being No. 1 at the end of the season.

“It is nice to have that record,” he said. “But we haven’t done anything yet, we’re just starting. We have to keep get-ting faster.”

schools featured for the event are texas Christian, southern Methodist, oklahoma, Missouri state, tulsa, North texas and Depaul.

Head coach John sauerhage said this meet is an opportunity for both the men’s and women’s teams to qualify for nationals.

“We’re just trying to get faster,” he said. “Each week we’re trying to get a little bit more work done, so we can be running fast at the end of the season.”

the men’s track team has the nation’s fastest posted time in the 4x100. the team registered an NCAA regional qual-ifying mark of 40.05 last weekend at the

Horned Frog Invitational in Fort Worth.the women’s track and field team

looks to progress past its qualifying times posted at tCU last weekend.

Junior sprinter Jasmine Walls posted a NCAA qualifying mark in the 200 meters with a time of 23.75. Walls also placed third in the 100 meters at tCU with a 11.60 time.

Junior sprinter Antonia Hopkins said she has to keep her mind right compet-ing against other sprinters and combat-ting the weather.

Mental preparation will be key for UtA, as the forecast calls for high winds and a temperature in the low 50’s.

“I don’t do good in cold weather,” Hopkins said.

Eighteen teams compete saturday, and Maverick stadium will host sev-eral international olympians, includ-ing three-time gold medalist Jeremy Wariner.

Wariner is scheduled to run in the 200 scheduled for 6 p.m. saturday.

other members of the 2008 United states olympic team will also be pres-ent.

scheduled to compete are Darold Williamson and reggie Witherspoon. Williamson and Wariner teamed up in the 2004 olympics, winning gold in the 4x400.

Witherspoon ran the third leg of the 4x400 in the 2008 olympics, ultimately securing a gold medal for UsA.

Cody [email protected]

Best Foot Forwardtrack teams prepare for weekend invitationalUTA SporTS CAlendAr

TodayMen’s tennis vs. Texas A&M-Corpus ChristiTime: 2 p.m.Place: Corpus Christi

Baseball vs. Nicholls StateTime: 6 p.m.Place: Thibodaux, La.

Track at UTA/Bobby Lane Invitational Time: All dayPlace: Maverick Stadium

SaturdaySoftball vs. Stephen F. Austin Time: 1 p.m.Place: Nacogdoches

Women’s tennis vs. Sam Houston State Time: 2 p.m. Place: Huntsville

Softball vs. Stephen F. AustinTime: 3 p.m.Place: Nacogdoches

Track at UTA Bobby Lane Invitational Time: All dayPlace: Maverick Stadium

SundayMen’s tennis vs. UT-Pan AmericanTime: 10 a.m.Place: UTA Tennis Center

Women’s tennis vs. Stephen F. Austin Time: 10 a.m. Place: Nacogdoches

Softball vs. Stephen F. AustinTime: noonPlace: Nacogdoches

Baseball vs. Nicholls StateTime: 1 p.m.Place: Thibodaux, La.

VolleyBAll

Mavs to begin spring exhibition schedule

The volleyball team announced its spring exhibition schedule, which be-gins Saturday.

UTA faces Texas State, Baylor, UTSA and Blinn College — all in San Marcos.

Texas State hosts the weekend scrimmages, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at Strahan Coliseum.

Other scrimmages include match-es against Southern Methodist on April 18 and Texas Christian on April 25.

Nine players return to the Mav-ericks’ roster, seven of whom are freshmen.

During the offseason, head coach Diane Seymour inked two frehsmen to National Letters of Intent for 2009.

UTA signed Charae Grosser (Wharton, Texas) and Jessica Jiles (Plano, Texas) — both middle block-ers.

— Stephen Peters


Freshman high jumper Blake Usrey attempts to jump a six-foot-high bar Thursday during the track team’s practice at Maverick Stadium in prepa-ration for this weekend’s meet. UTA will host the annual Bobby Lane Invita-tional track meet this weekend featuring a high school track meet at SMU today and events at Maverick Stadium starting at 9 a.m. Saturday.

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