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Students consider-ing graduate school had a chance to get their questions answered during GradFest on Wednesday.

There were 41 universi-ties at the event that gave information on their gradu-ate programs and funding opportunities. Students sat in on roundtable discussions where they learned what to do to prepare for the Gradu-ate Record Examination, a timed test used by most universities for admission to graduate school, and how to apply for funding.

Alisa Johnson, graduate study recruiting director, said this is the third year the Office of Graduate Studies has sponsored the event. She

said they had 235 attendees last year and this year, 400 attended.

“We have had a steady flow of people all day,” she said. “There were students here the minute we set up this morning.”

Alumna Yvette Richard has her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from UTA. She is planning on returning to the university to complete her master’s in anthropol-ogy. Richard said she went to GradFest to find out about funding her graduate education and about taking the practice GRE. She said one of her biggest worries was being able to fund her education.

Heather Connor, UTA Graduate Studies finan-cial support coordinator, said students could fund graduate school in four ways. These are through

Fair sets tone for postgrads

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The event gave students information on grants, loans and testing.

GRADFEST continues on page 4

BY NATALIA CONTRERASThe Shorthorn staff

Emotions filled University Hall Room 115 on Wednesday, as a crowd

of about 50 students listened to Joel Burns’ plea to end bullying.

Burns, an openly gay Fort Worth City councilman made a call to Arlington, Fort Worth and Dallas officials to make sure schools are providing a safe environment to all students.

Joshua Little, Gay Straight Al-

liance president and international business junior, said the organiza-tion invited the councilman to speak about bullying in schools, being an openly gay advocate for community issues and to promote community leadership.

“Bullying in schools needs to stop,” Burns said. “There are a lot

of people, mainly students who go through coming out issues, and I can recall what that was like. They need to know it will get better.”

Burns shared a personal story about growing up in the small town of Crowley, Texas, coming out to his family and his encounter with middle school bullies. Burns said

he coped but wishes he could have helped those who took their own lives find an alternative route.

“I was bullied in middle school and high school so this message re-ally hits home. For him to share his story to this entire area and the

Burns to gay teens: ‘it gets better’

BY BRIANNA FITZGERALDThe Shorthorn staff

Mavericks were “backin’ that thang up” and seeing how low each could go to Ludacris at the Maver-ick Activities Center Wednesday.

The fourth annual Dancing with Mavericks competition was spon-sored by the Multicultural Affairs Hispanic Heritage Month com-mittee. Jackalyn Aquino, Dancing with Mavericks chairwoman, said it took eight people from two orga-nizations to form one team.

Multicultural Affairs director Leticia Martinez said the dance competition began in 2007 and quickly became a hit.

“This was the first program to become a tradition for people to expect as a finale for Hispanic Her-itage Month,” she said.

First place went to Pop, Lock and Drop It, a collaboration of Locks and the UTA Dance En-semble.

Second place went to Salsa Sol,

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

The Gay Straight Alliance invited the councilman to tell his story in light of bullying reported in media.

BURNS continues on page 3

BY NATALIA CONTRERASThe Shorthorn staff

The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee estimates Arlington’s revenues to be about $135,024,983 for the Super Bowl in February.

Previous host cities have seen similar or higher gains revenues after the event, giving the host committee a look at how the Super Bowl will effect the Metroplex.

Miami Gar-dens, Fla., host-ed the previous Super Bowl. Miami Gardens city manager Danny Crew said the city got recognition but saw little money and tourism.

“When the Super Bowl came here, everyone flocked to Miami or Fort

Lauderdale.” Crew said. “All we got was traffic, but Miami Gardens is only a residential community. Arling-ton might be at benefit being a higher populated area.”

The North Texas committee esti-mates Arlington will see better suc-cess than Miami Gardens despite

sitting between Dallas and Fort Worth.

Fort Worth’s revenue projection is $119,622,996 and Dallas’ is $298,740,193.

Most of Arling-ton’s sales revenues will come from res-

taurant, alcohol, entertainment and retail — resources Miami Gardens lacked, Crew said.

Miami Gardens’ total eco-

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The Super Bowl is expected to generate millions for the area

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Arlington’s revenue from Super Bowl XLV at Cowboy’s Stadium is estimated to be about $135,024,983 with most of the total coming from restaurants, alcohol, entertainment and retail. With the stadium only a few minutes away, UTA’s role in the event is still under consider-ation.

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SUPER BOWL TV WORLDWIDE VIEWERSPhoenix 2008 - 148.3 millionTampa 2009 - 151.6 millionMiami Gardens 2010 - 153.4 million

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BY JESSE DETIENNEThe Shorthorn staff

With the Texas Rangers coming off their first-ever playoff series victory, fans wanted to greet the players when they returned.

The Rangers announced after the game that they would land on the north side of Dallas-Fort Worth Air-port after 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Hundreds of fans waited for the plane to touch down, some arriving as early as 1 a.m., frantically waiting and cheering on the Texas Rang-ers players with the chant of, “beat the Yankees.”

The plane landed about 3:25 a.m., and UTA stu-dents cheered on the Rang-ers as they exited the plane.

“Staying out here until 3:30 was totally worth it,” communication senior Chris Stearns said. “I have wanted

to see this all 24 years of my life.”

The win marked the first time the Rangers advanced past the American League Division Series. In their past three postseason trips, the New York Yankees derailed them of any chance to ad-vance in postseason play.

One fan brought a Texas flag and ran along the line of fans numerous times as tears of joy ran down peo-ples’ faces.

Rangers fan Cody Har-ris decided to toss around a baseball while waiting for the team to come into town. He said he was too amped to just stand in one spot while waiting on the plane.

“This night to me was greater than any Cowboys victory,” he said. “I have waited a long time for this night.”

When the Rangers finally arrived, Nolan Ryan, Rang-ers co-owner and Hall of

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Students greet the series-winning players as they step off the plane.

RANGERS continues on page 3

Mavericks ‘drop it like it’s hot’STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Hispanic Heritage Month wraps up with fourth annual Dancing with Mavericks.

DANCE continues on page 4

The Shorthorn: Stephanie Goddard

Psychology junior Christopher Irvin dances at the Dancing with Mavericks competition Wednesday in the Maverick Activities Center.

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Wednesday’s story “Rangers overcome postseason woes” incorrectly reported the Rangers won a game in the 1999 ALDS against the New york yankees. The same story misidentified the American League Championship Series as the first series the team advanced to.

Wednesday’s front page tease “eat your fill” teased to a B section that didn’t print until today.

WEDNESDAyWarrant Service/MisdemeanorAt 12:28 a.m. during a traffic stop, at 201 Cooper St. a nonstudent was arrested for a warrant out of Dallas.

TuESDAyWarrant Service/MisdemeanorAt 11:32 p.m. during a traffic stop at 1500 Center St. a student was arrested in connection with outstanding traffic war-rants out of Arlington.

Suspicious PersonAt 10:15 p.m. officers responded to the report of a suspicious person looking in windows at the Centennial Court apart-ments at 824 Bering Drive. The suspect ran from the officers and was not lo-cated. DisturbanceAt 12:37 p.m. a disturbance was reported in Pickard Hall at 411 Nedderman Drive. A student was escorted out of class.

Pink Ribbon Run: All Day. UTA campus. Free. Find pink treadmills on campus. For every mile ran 10 cents will be donated to breast cancer research. For information, contact Campus Rec-reation 817-272-3277.

Private Collection, Part II: All Day. Fine Arts Building. For information, contact the College of Liberal Arts at 817-272-3291.

Jay Cantrell Exhibit: All day. Architec-ture Building Room 206. For informa-tion, contact Robert Rummel-Hudson at [email protected] or 817-272-2314.

Charting Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies, Maps 1600–1900: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Special Collections. Central Library sixth floor. Free and open to all. For information,

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New Maverick Orientation Leader Interest Session: 12:30-1:30 p.m. University Center Concho Room. Free. For information, contact Brian Joyce at [email protected] or 817-272-3213.

The Longoria Affair: 12:30–2 p.m. Nedderman Hall Room 106. Free. Presentation. For information, contact Alma Rick at 817-272-2933 or [email protected].

Powerful Proofreading Skills: 2-4 p.m. Wetsel Building Room 200. Free. Registration required. For information, contact Human Resources/employ-ment Services at 817-272-3461 or [email protected].

Department of English presents the Hermanns Lecture Series: 2:30 p.m. Central Library sixth floor atrium. Free. For information, contact Amy L. Tigner at [email protected].

GIS Workshop 3D: Flythroughs, Topo,

and CAD: 3-5 p.m. Central Library Classroom B20. Free. For information, contact Joshua Been, giS Librarian at [email protected] or 817-272-5826.

Biology Colloquium Series: 4-5 p.m. Life Science Building Room 124. Free. yan N. Li is guest speaker. For informa-tion, contact the Department of Biol-ogy at 817-272-2872.

Center for Mexican American Stud-ies Lecture: 4:30-6 p.m. Pickard Hall Room 549. Free. For information, con-tact the Center for Mexican American Studies at 817-272-2933.

Bill White Interview: 6-9 p.m. Univer-sity Center Rosebud Theatre. Free. Arrive early, no late admissions will be allowed during taping. For information, contact the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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There’s still time to register for the Parent and Family Weekend that starts oct. 22.

Parent and Family Weekend is a uni-versity tradition hosted by the Parent and Family Center and Student Affairs.

every october, students invite family and friends to UTA to see what it’s like to be a Maverick, said Cheyenne Hernan-dez, Parent and Family Center assistant director.

Children younger than 10 will be ad-mitted for free but all other registrants will have to pay $30. A T-shirt, breakfast and dinner are included with registration.

As enrollment increases, the organi-zation is preparing for larger numbers. As of September, there were 500 people registered to attend. Last year, the week-end hosted 602 people.

“We’re expecting to have 650 people attend this year,” Hernandez said. “We prefer students to register for the week-end ahead of time because it helps us determine the right amount of food and shirts to provide.”

oct. 20 is the last day students can sign up online on the Parent and Family Weekend website. However, walk-ins are always welcome and there are no late fees.

Anyone who walks in still pays the same cost, she said.

The weekend includes free tours of the campus and its amenities like an art exhibit, complementary bowling and bil-liards and a movie at the Planetarium. There are also special events like a live game show and the Fall Festival.

Business finance sophomore Chris-topher Cheek will also be attending the weekend with his family.

“it’s a good opportunity to see my family because i have studies and school-work that doesn’t give me a chance to go home,” he said. “it also gives the stu-dent body a reason to get together, and makes it personal. it sets a good mood on campus.”

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Bill White, Texas Democratic guberna-torial candidate, will be on campus today to talk about education, creating jobs and border security.

The former Houston mayor will be on campus at 6 p.m. in the University Center Rosebud Theatre, university spokes-woman Kristin Sullivan said.

The UTA League of United Latin Amer-ican Citizens Chapter and Telemundo-Dallas will co-sponsor the event.

Jennifer Cortez, philosophy and his-tory senior and LULAC member, said having the candidate on campus will be a great way to make the student voices heard.

“Bringing him on campus will actually encourage students to register and go out and vote, specially with early voting start-ing on campus next week,” Cortez said.

The event will be open to the public.Students can submit questions as

they walk in to the venue. Questions will be randomly drawn for White to answer, spokeswoman Katy Bacon said.

“it is important that students and all young people make their voice heard in this election,” she said.

White’s chief opponent for the No-vember election is gov. Rick Perry who also was invited to attend but had not

accepted. — Natalia Contreras

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Maverick families come to campus on Oct. 22

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Four social work students ad-vanced their Violence and Families class project by putting together an event with campus and com-munity resources for the first time.

The class project, which is done every year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, required stu-dents to design two posters each about domestic violence in differ-ent countries and what domestic violence means to them.

The posters from the 15 stu-dents in the class will be on display from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 20 in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge.

The event will consist of The Clothesline Project, in which sur-vivors of domestic violence write their stories in words or pictures on a shirt and hang them from

clotheslines. It will also include community and campus resources on the issue, student art and sto-ries from survivors.

Representatives that will be present include the Arlington Po-lice Department, the Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Pre-vention program, The Clothesline Project and the Purple Pledge pro-gram, in which students acknowl-edge domestic violence and the problems associated with it.

Erica Holden, social work grad-uate student, is one of the four stu-dents putting the event together.

Holden said she wants the cam-pus community to know that do-mestic violence is an issue that all cultures experience and there are resources in the area to help.

“Everyone views domestic vio-lence in a different way so having an event to provide information to the community helps,” she said.

Melissa Valdez, social work grad-uate student, also helped put the event together and said planning the event helped her get to know the

resources available and how to best treat domestic violence survivors.

“Knowing support is out there is important,” she said. “Some peo-ple may feel like they lead their batterer on or that they’re alone so it’s important to know what resources are on campus or in the community.”

Charity Stutzman, Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Pre-vention program coordinator, con-nected the students with resources for domestic violence and supplies like T-shirts for The Clothesline Project.

She said the event will be an op-portunity for students to see that domestic violence happens in the UTA community and affects fami-lies. Anyone in the UTA commu-nity can participate in the events.

“It raises awareness of domestic violence,” she said. “I like that they selected the Palo Duro Lounge be-cause you can’t ignore it.”

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Posters will be on display in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge oct. 20.

Biology senior Tabi Chu attempts to dress a Barbie doll while wearing “beer goggles” Wednesday in the Nedderman Hall atrium. Chu and many other student participated in a variety of activi-ties including beer goggle bowling and driving as part of an alcohol aware-ness display put on by Health Ser-vices.

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nomic-impact was $234,295,086, which was dispersed between Miami and Fort Lauder-dale.

Despite having the highest TV ratings to date with 153.4 million viewers worldwide, the city generated very little revenue compared to previous host cities.

Other cities, like Tampa, Fla., have hosted the event four times and each saw a great eco-nomic boost, said Santiago Corrada, Tampa tourism, recreation and cultural arts admin-istrator.

“The biggest benefit your city will get is the exposure,” Corrada said. “There will be media from all over the world – people watching are going to want to go visit your city and spend a lot of money, stay at your hotels and eat at your restaurants.”

Tampa’s total economic-impact was $300-400 million in 2009 with 151.6 million view-ers worldwide.

Phoenix hosted the event in 2008 and had

an economic-impact of $500.6 million with 148.3 million viewers worldwide.

With UTA only a few minutes away from the Cowboys Stadium, university officials ex-pect to help the committee with organizing the event.

UTA’s role in the event is still under con-sideration, said John Hall, administration and campus operations vice president.

“Currently, our understanding is that they will use Texas Hall for credentialing the half-time performers; however, I believe much is still under consideration by the planning com-mittees,” Hall said.

The university would definitely play a helping role for the event, said Tony Fay, communications vice president for the host committee.

“The university will help with some of the staging of the events during the Super Bowl but the NFL is still talking to the committee on what other roles the university will have during the event,” Fay said.

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By J.C. DerriCkThe Shorthorn staff

Friday the New York Yankees will face off with the Texas Rangers in the first-ever American League Championship Series to be played in Arlington.

After decades of futility, just four wins stand between the Rangers and a trip to the World Series.

“We feel like we can play baseball with anybody,” said Texas manager Ron Washing-ton. “It’s hard to predict what will happen, but we’ll show up and play our very best game.”

An argument could be made that the Rangers’ best game was on display Wednesday night, when Texas beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 5-1, in Game 5 of the American League Division Series. Rangers’ Cliff Lee, who threw 90 of his 120 pitches for strikes, logged his fourth playoff start of at least 10 strikeouts and no walks.

“I didn’t walk anybody and that was a huge part of it,” Lee said of his success.

With Game 1 set for Friday, the Rangers will have to wait until Game 3 in New York next week to get Lee back on the mound.

The Rangers announced Wednesday that C.J. Wilson will start the opener.

“The Yankees historically are the team you have to go through to get to the World Series,” Wilson told mlb.com. “We are on a good run now and we played good against them the second half this season, so we are really optimistic.”

Wilson and Game 2 starter Colby Lewis logged 11 1/3 scoreless innings in their two starts in the ALDS, helping Ranger starters combine for a 1.15 ERA. Tommy Hunter,

coming off a four-inning start Sunday, will take the ball for Game 4 in New York.

“They’ve thrown some tough ball games for us,” Washington said of his non-Cliff Lee starters. “They’re battle-tested. They’ve helped us get here and we have confidence in them to take us farther.”

Texas beat Tampa despite a quiet series from Michael Young, Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero. The trio finished 10-for-57 (.175 average) with 15 strikeouts in the series, allowing Nelson Cruz (.400 average, 3 HR, 5 R) and Ian Kinsler (.444, 3 HR, 5 R, 6 RBI) to carry the bulk of the offensive load.

“When it gets down to it, we can play some baseball,” Washington said. “Sometimes it’s

beautiful, sometimes it’s ugly.”

The season series between the Yankees and Rangers was split, 4-4. The Yankees swept the Rangers out of New York in three games in April, but Texas went 4-1 at home during two late season clashes in Arlington.

“The three games we played them here [in September] when we

were healthy proved that we can play with those guys,” Washington said.

While the Rangers have only made the postseason three times in the last 39 seasons, their matchup with the Yankees is nothing new. New York bounced Texas from the play-offs three times in the late 90s, going on to win the World Series each time.

“If you ever want to see a team that’s pro-fessional, watch the Yankees,” Washington said. “They’re a class act.”

Despite the reputation of the defending World Series champions, Washington’s team is not caught up in Yankee mystique.

“We’re not afraid,” he said.

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The Arlington team knows it’ll be challenging, but is prepared to bring its best against the Yankees Friday.

Fame pitcher, was the first to come off the plane and the crowd went wild, chanting, “Nolan, Nolan, Nolan!”

Once he came halfway down the steps, the crowd started to cheer, “We want Wash,” manager Ron Wash-ington stepped out right be-hind Ryan.

“Fans love winners. We’ve brought a winner to Texas

and as we move forward, they can continue to look for a winner,” Washington said. “Expectations don’t go down, they only go up.”

As the players exited the plane and walked through the open gate to their cars, a majority of them ran down the line of proud fans to shake hands. Rangers co-owner Chuck Greenberg joined in going down the line and greeted fans.

“This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and hopefully there is more to

come with this new own-ership,” advertising senior Ryan Ormes said.

Once the players left, the claw-and-antler na-tion continued chanting for the Rangers, letting them know they’re pumped for the upcoming Ameri-can League Champion-ship Series against New York that starts on Friday.

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council, that is a big step,” Little said. “I am happy he is able to take a stance on this issue and the fact that he is using his resources to help the community.”

Burns is one of a series of speakers the organization will host in celebration of Gay History Month in October. Next week the speaker will be CeCe Cox, Dallas Resource Center executive director. The group will meet at noon at the University Center Guadalupe Room.

The councilman shared a video of a speech he gave during Tuesday’s Fort Worth City Council meeting that brought him to tears. Dur-ing the speech he talked about eight deaths around the nation in the past three weeks due to anti-gay teen bullying. Following the speech the audience was in tears as well.

Zachary Murphy, GSA vice president and nursing sopho-more, said it’s nice to see a politician who supports gay rights.

“It was so nice to see that we have the support there and someone on our side in politics,” Murphy said. “I’m so

glad that this is being talked about in city council meetings and other councilmen get to hear his opinion — it’s very moving,” he said.

GSA adviser Stacey McK-endry said bullying is some-thing people overlook be-cause the issue isn’t taken seriously.

“This is something that needs to be addressed and it needs to stop,” she said. “It’s so nice to see a city councilman taking time out of a meeting to talk about this, it definitely makes an impact in our com-munity.”

Natalia [email protected]

Burnscontinued from page 1

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University studies senior Ashley Liggins wipes tears from her face as she watches the video on YouTube “Joel Burns tells gay teens ‘ it gets better’” during a presentation about the controversy regarding recent gay is-sues in the news, hosted by the Gay Straight Alliance. Forth Worth city councilman Joel Burns explains about his life in the video.

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grants and loans through the federal government, fellowships and assistant-ships. She said grants and loans are need based and students must fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Fel-lowships and assistantships are merit-based programs.

“We encourage students to speak with their department’s graduate adviser,” she said. “They are members of faculty who are geared toward graduate students and can direct them to the grants and loans that are right for them.”

Richard said she didn’t know about fellowships or the assistant programs before the event. She said she is a veteran and found out she could use the Hazle-wood Act, which provides veterans with up to 150 hours of tuition fee exemptions at state-supported colleges and universi-ties in Texas.

She said she would apply for everything.“I was wondering if I still owe money

to the federal government would I be able to get federal grants. Now I know that I

can,” she said.Ashly Cole, Kaplan University gradu-

ate marketing manager, gave informa-tion to students about the GRE and hosted the practice exam. She said the average score for a GRE was 560, but different schools have different stan-dards based on whether they are a Tier One university, or which programs they offer. After the exam, there was a strat-egy session for the students discussing tips to succeed.

“We will give them content review over the questions they just saw, we will also give strategies on how to take the question and think about it critically within time constraints,” she said.

Richard said the GRE is similar to a SAT test. She said she already took the GRE but wasn’t happy with her score. She decided to take the practice exam and attend the strategy session to see what areas in which she could improve and also because it was free.

“Kaplan has a practice test you can take, but it’s $600, they also have a lon-ger one that’s $1,000,” she said.

Edna [email protected]

Gradfestcontinued from page 1

and third place went to Pass-ing WIL, a collaboration of Promoting Academic Stu-dent Success and Women In Leadership. The top three teams won trophies.

The competition, which included eight teams, began with a marathon dance, and advanced to a soul train round, two salsa rounds, a game of musical chairs, and a reggaeton round.

Biomedical engineering sophomore Donald Green, from the Brazos House team Brazos: 2 Legit 2 Quit, placed first in the musical chairs contest.

”I’m a really competi-tive person,” Green said. “I just had to look for an open chair and be quick.”

Nursing freshman Rachel Kuntz came in second in the musical chairs contest.

“I went on dancing,” she said, “He sat in the chair and I couldn’t stop.”

Kuntz was on the team Illegal Flow, a collaboration of the International Student Organization and the dance team Fusion Flow.

Although musical chairs was the only event Kuntz represented her team in, she made an impression at the

end of the event by break dancing in the middle of the dance floor.

The DJ played a mixture of genres throughout the event, ranging from Pit Bull to Lady Gaga to keep participants.

Graphic design junior Ethan DeNolf and Aquino helped organize the event.

“The crowd and dancers were very energetic,” De-Nolf said. “It was awesome pumping everyone up and having a good time.”

Cheyenne Hernandez, Parent and Family Center assistant director, judged the event last year and was ex-cited to take part in the event again as a judge this year.

“There’s a different set of student leaders every year, so it’s fun to see a new group,” Hernandez said, “The dancers always have a lot of unique dance moves.”

Graphic design sopho-more Maria Miranda from the team Salsa Sol, a col-laboration of the NAACP and Association of Mexican American Students, did cartwheels down the aisle and landed in the splits.

“I was in the Dance En-semble last year,” Miranda said. “I love to dance, so I just come out here and do what I like to do.”

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Alumna Yvette Richardson works on a free practice GRE test hosted by Kaplan University Wednesday in the University Hall computer laboratory. A strategy session followed the free GRE test to help students to be successful.


Kinesiology junior Lauren Benson listens to information about Parker College of Chiro-practics during Gradfest 2010 Wednesday in the University Center Concho room. Benson said that she is looking for information about options on various schools.

Nursing junior Cassandra Iwuo-ha competes with groupd members at Dancing With Mavericks on Wednesday in the Maverick Ac-tivities Center.

The Shorthorn: Stephanie Goddard

The Associated Press

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — With remarkable speed — and flawless execution — one miner after another climbed into a slender cage deep be-neath the Chilean earth, was hoisted through 2,000 feet of rock and saw precious sun-light Wednesday after the longest underground entrap-ment in human history.

By midafternoon, 25 of the 33 miners, including all the weakest and sickest, had been pulled to freedom, and officials said they might even be able to bring everyone to the surface by the end of the night.

After 69 days under-ground, including more than two weeks during which they were feared dead, the men emerged to the cheers of exu-berant Chileans and before the eyes of a transfixed globe.

“Welcome to life,” Presi-dent Sebastian Pinera told Victor Segvia, the 15th miner out, and on a day of superla-tives, it seemed no overstate-ment.

The rescuers gained speed as the day went on. The 25th miner rescued, Renan Avalos, was brought up less than 25 minutes after the 24th as dusk was settling.

They rejoined a world in-tensely curious about their ordeal, and certain to offer fame, jobs and previously un-

imaginable riches.The men made the

smooth ascent inside a cap-sule called Phoenix — 13 feet tall, barely wider than their shoulders and painted in the white, red and blue of the Chilean flag. It had a door that stuck occasionally, and its wheels needed lubricating at least once, but it worked exactly as planned.

Beginning at midnight Tuesday, and sometimes as quickly as every 30 min-utes, the pod was lowered the nearly half-mile to where 700,000 tons of rock col-lapsed Aug. 5 and entombed the men.

Then a miner would strap himself in, make the journey upward and emerge from a manhole into the blinding sun.

The rescue was planned with extreme care. The min-ers were monitored by video on the way up for any sign of panic. They had oxygen masks, dark glasses to pro-tect their eyes from unfa-miliar light and sweaters for the jarring transition from subterranean swelter to chilly desert air.

As they neared the surface, a camera attached to the top of the capsule showed a bril-liant white piercing the dark-ness not unlike what accident survivors describe when they have near-death experiences.

The miners emerged look-ing healthier than many had expected and even clean-shaven, and at least one, Mario Sepulveda, the second to taste freedom, bounded out and thrust a fist upward like a prizefighter.

“We have prayed to San Lorenzo, the patron saint of miners, and to many other saints so that my brothers Florencio and Renan would

come out of the mine all right,” said Priscila Avalos. “It is as if they had been born again.”

As it traveled down and up, down and up, the res-cue capsule was not rotating as much inside the 2,041-foot escape shaft as officials expected, allowing for faster trips, and officials said the operation could be complete by sunrise Thursday, if not sooner.

The first man out was Flor-encio Avalos, who emerged from the missile-like cham-ber and hugged his sobbing 7-year-old son, his wife and the Chilean president.

The last out was slated to be shift foreman Luis Urzua, whose leadership was cred-ited with helping the men endure the first two and a half weeks without outside contact.

The men made 48 hours’ worth of rations last before rescuers reached them with a narrow bore hole to send down more food.

No one in recorded history has survived as long trapped underground. For the first 17 days, no one even knew whether they were alive. In the weeks that followed, the world was captivated by their endurance and unity.

Chile exploded in joy and relief at the first, break-through rescue just after mid-

night in the coastal Atacama desert. Car horns sounded in Santiago, the Chilean capital, and school was canceled in the nearby town of Copiapo, where 24 of the miners live.

The images beamed to the world were extraordinary: Grainy footage from beneath the earth showed each miner climbing into the capsule, then disappearing upward through an opening.

Then a camera showed the pod steadily rising through the dark, smooth-walled tun-nel.

Among the first rescued was the youngest miner, Jimmy Sanchez, at 19 the fa-ther of a months-old baby.

Two hours later came the oldest, Mario Gomez, 63, who suffers from a lung dis-ease common to miners and had been on antibiotics in-side the mine. He dropped to his knees after he emerged, bowed his head in prayer and clutched the Chilean flag.

Gomez’s wife, Liliane Ramirez, pulled him up from the ground and embraced him. The couple had talk-ed over video chat once a week, and she said that he had repeated the promise he made to her in his initial let-ter from inside the mine: He would marry her properly in a church wedding, followed by the honeymoon they never had.

LONDON — It wasn’t love. It could have been adventure. Or maybe she just got lost. It remains a mystery why a female humpback whale swam thousands of miles from the reefs of Brazil to the African island of Madagascar, which researchers believe is the longest single trip ever under-taken by a mammal — humans excluded. While humpbacks normally migrate along a north-to-south axis to feed and mate, this one — affec-tionately called AHWC No. 1363 — made the unusual decision to check out a new continent thousands of miles to the east.

WORLd VIEWThursday, October 14, 2010 The ShorThorn

Man accused of crushing son’s skull

texas

WEATHERFORD — A Parker County man with a history of arrests for family violence is back in jail, this time accused of crushing the skull of his 1-month-old son, killing him.

John Paul Webb, 35, was being held without bond on a charge of capital murder.

His son, Christian Webb, born Sept. 9, was pronounced dead 10:22 a.m. Monday at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, according to the Tarrant County medical exam-iner’s office.

“Blunt force trauma to the head and brain” were listed as the cause of death.

The beating reportedly hap-pened at the Webb family home in the 550 block of Wood Hollow Drive.

Hispanics outlive whites and blacks

NatioN

ATLANTA — U.S. Hispanics can expect to outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, govern-ment researchers say in a startling report that is the first to calculate Hispanic life expec-tancy in this country. The report released Wednesday is the strongest evidence yet of what some experts call the “Hispanic paradox” — longevity for a population with a large share of poor, undereducated members. A leading theory is that Hispan-ics who manage to immigrate to the U.S. are among the healthi-est from their countries.

— The Associated Press

Humpback makes record migration

world

Chile

AP Photo: Natacha Pisarenko

Roxana Gomez, daughter of rescued miner Mario Gomez, cries as she watches on a TV screen the rescue operation of her father at the relatives camp on Wednesday. Gomez was the ninth of 33 miners who were rescued from the San Jose mine after more than 2 months trapped underground.

Miners slowly twist out mine with help of slender cage

AP Images: Jorge Saenz

Rescued miner Mario Gomez salutes after emerging from the capsule at the San Jose Mine.

AP Images: Hugo Infante

In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Esteban Rojas embraces his wife on his knees.

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 14, 2009

ACROSS1 Made a

disapprovingsound

6 Witticism10 Highlander14 Cop __: bargain

in court15 Healing plant16 Oregon Treaty

president17 Trembling18 Having all one’s

marbles19 Word processing

reversal20 Big

Southwesterntrombones?

23 Ending for“ranch”

24 Neither Rep. norDem.

25 Thing27 Madame, in

Madrid30 Wide shoe size31 Geese flight

pattern32 Actress Greer

who received fiveconsecutiveOscarnominations

35 At the ready37 Refined

trombones?40 Made on a loom41 Imitation42 Med or law

lead-in43 Command ctrs.45 Musical beat49 Wells’s “The

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playingtrombones?

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60 Remark to theaudience

61 To __: perfectly62 Sporty sunroof63 Baseball card

brand64 Wall St.’s “Big

Board”

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honker of yore4 “__ mouse!”5 Weekly septet6 Argonauts’

leader7 Large antelope8 Tune9 Dainty laugh

10 Sudden gushing11 Conspires (with)12 Octogenarians,

e.g.13 Boxing ref’s

decision21 Whopper

creators22 Lord’s Prayer

words following“Thy will bedone”

26 Thus far28 Eye unsubtly29 Drizzly day

chapeau30 Some pass

catchers33 Women

34 Above, inpoems

36 Slow-moving, asa river

37 Penetrablequality of skin

38 Makes a clichéof, say

39 Exposed40 Typist’s stat.44 Crystalline

mineral46 More petite

47 Like eggs in anEaster hunt

48 Skinflints50 Big name in

perfumery51 Dramatist

Chekhov52 Tearful55 Letter after theta56 Drift, as an

aroma57 Shipwreck site58 Air mover

Tuesday’s Puzzle SolvedBy Charles Barasch 10/14/09

(c)2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 10/14/09

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 14,2009

ACROSS1 Made a

disapprovingsound

6 Witticism10 Highlander14 Cop __:bargain

in court15 Healing plant16 Oregon Treaty

president17 Trembling18 Having all one’s

marbles19 Word processing

reversal20 Big

Southwesterntrombones?

23 Ending for“ranch”

24 Neither Rep.norDem.

25 Thing27 Madame, in

Madrid30 Wide shoe size31 Geese flight

pattern32 Actress Greer

who received fiveconsecutiveOscarnominations

35 At the ready37 Refined

trombones?40 Made on a loom41 Imitation42 Med or law

lead-in43 Command ctrs.45 Musical beat49 Wells’s “The

Island of Dr.__”51 Fill with wonder53 Jr.’s son54 Continuously-

playingtrombones?

58 Clenchedweapon

59 Mechanicalmemorization

60 Remark to theaudience

61 To __:perfectly62 Sporty sunroof63 Baseball card

brand64 Wall St.’s “Big

Board”

65 Clownish66 Shore birds

DOWN1 Samples a bit of2 Ball3 Loud auto

honker of yore4 “__ mouse!”5 Weekly septet6 Argonauts’

leader7 Large antelope8 Tune9 Dainty laugh

10 Sudden gushing11 Conspires (with)12 Octogenarians,

e.g.13 Boxing ref’s

decision21 Whopper

creators22 Lord’s Prayer

words following“Thy will bedone”

26 Thus far28 Eye unsubtly29 Drizzly day

chapeau30 Some pass

catchers33 Women

34 Above, inpoems

36 Slow-moving, asa river

37 Penetrablequality of skin

38 Makes a clichéof, say

39 Exposed40 Typist’s stat.44 Crystalline

mineral46 More petite

47 Like eggs in anEaster hunt

48 Skinflints50 Big name in

perfumery51 Dramatist

Chekhov52 Tearful55 Letter after theta56 Drift, as an

aroma57 Shipwreck site58 Air mover

Tuesday’s Puzzle SolvedBy Charles Barasch10/14/09

(c)2009 Tribune Media Services,Inc.10/14/09

Dr. ruth Q: What are the keys to main-taining a healthy, long-term, sexually fulfilling relationship?

A: There really is only one key, and that is for the two partners to have good commu-nication. And not just about sex, but about ev-ery aspect of their life together. Now, I’m not saying that you have to tell each other every little thing, especially about your past -- too much information can be as destructive as too little. But there has to be at least a moderate level of communica-tion. Good communi-cation ensures that you remain close, and if your overall relationship is in ex-cellent shape, then your sex life is almost sure to follow. And if you run into any problems, you can communicate them to each other and take the necessary steps to overcome them. But if you’re not communicating, then small problems about sex and other issues start to grow into in-surmountable ones.

Q: When my partner massages my G spot to orgasm, it seems that my body has strange reac-tions to it: The day after, I feel as if I have to urinate often, I

am sore, and after one session I got a bladder infection. He’s not par-ticularly aggressive, and he never pokes or prods. We don’t engage in this activity any lon-ger, for obvious rea-sons, but what can you tell me about the prob-lems associated with this practice?

A: As I’ve said over and over, there is no scientific evidence that there is a G spot -- which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, but

it does mean that questions like yours can’t really be answered. You have done the right thing in stopping this activity. Maybe one day there will be more informa-tion, and questions like yours can be answered, but right now that’s not the case.

Dr. RuthSend your questions to Dr. Ruth Westheimer c/o King Features Syndicate235 E. 45th St., New York, NY 10017

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Marquez Haynes’ first battle in international basketball didn’t happen during a

game.It didn’t happen in the weight

room or on the court.His first battle was trying to digest

French cuisine.“I was having a lot of stomach

aches,” Haynes said. “the doctors told me it’s really common. I just have to get used to different ingredients and stuff like that.”

Haynes hasn’t even ventured to the more exotic side of the French menu.

“I haven’t even tried anything too off the wall yet. I’m scared,” Haynes said with a chuckle. “I haven’t had any escargot or snails or anything like that.”

His apprehension to French food might be the only thing that has rat-tled the former UtA basketball star. Haynes has been in France since Au-gust, when he signed with the French club Elan Chalon after graduating from UtA in May.

the club has been playing in France’s top league – pro A – since 1995 and constitutes as the next step in Haynes’ path to the NBA. Even though he’s only played one game, so far for Chalon, make no mistake – the NBA is his dream.

“I’m basically over here to have a good year and try to make it back to

the states as soon as possible,” Haynes said.

A dream to fulfillthe biggest step for Haynes’ NBA

journey may have been this past sum-mer playing in the NBA summer League, but the path started much earlier than that.

“Ever since Marquez was in maybe, first or second grade, in our family it’s been known that he was going to the NBA,” his mother, Angela Haynes said. “We were all very focused on that.”

As Marquez worked his way from junior high to Irving High school and then to college, Angela and the rest of the Haynes fam-ily accepted that the NBA was the only place Mar-

quez would ever be.“It was almost like an unspoken

thing with him,” Angela said. “to me, it was always just a given. I never even thought about it any other way because that was just his attitude about it.”

After earning his way as a top 150 recruit out of high school, according to rivals.com, Marquez went to Bos-ton College. there, he only started in three games and had a limited role in the offense.

Haynes transferred from Boston College to UtA in 2007, and the dream appeared to be in grasp again. over the course of two seasons, he

re-wrote almost every school record in the books. He totaled 661 points his senior year, the most in a single-season in school history.

His 22.8 scoring average that year was the third-best in the NCAA last season, and he picked up numerous collegiate awards including south-land Conference player of the Year and All-American Honorable Men-tion.

the Detroit pistons took note of all that was going on, and offered Marquez a chance to play with their NBA summer League team, a place where rookies and undrafted players get a chance to make their mark with a team.

“We were pretty good actually,” he said. “It was good experience. I proved to myself that I could defi-nitely play on that level.”

He scored in double figures in the last two games and averaged 8.3 points per game in the summer league with only 19 minutes played per game. He said what was impor-tant to him was that he proved him-self to the pistons.

“the Detroit pistons told me after summer league that there was no doubt in their minds that I will one day play in the NBA,” he said. “It was just a matter of timing.”

Without a guaranteed roster spot with the pistons, Haynes had a choice: go to training camp without a secure job or play overseas.

He received multiple offers from teams in Italy, Greece, turkey, Israel and France’s Elan Chalon. He decided to take Chalon’s offer after the team scouted him over the summer.

“Basically, if I would have waited, I

would of lost a lot of money,” he said. “I would have had to turn down some overseas offers to wait around. I took the guaranteed situation where I was on a European team that wanted me and knew my game well.”

New game, new faces, new country

Marquez not playing in the NBA was the last thing on Angela Haynes’ mind, let alone playing in a different country across the Atlantic.

“I didn’t like the fact that he was going to be so far away,” she said. “I

knew he would be able to play ball, which was always his dream, so I just kind of accepted the fact that he was going to play ball.”

More than 5,000 miles away and seven hours ahead in Chalon-sur-saône, France, Marquez had to adjust to multiple things: a new country, language, food, culture and even a different breed of basketball.

“It’s different,” he said. “I’ve been here almost two months. I’m pretty well-adjusted now. the language was probably the biggest thing.”

Haynes said he isn’t taking lessons

A Different Breed of Basketball

Alumnus Marquez Haynes still has his eye on the NBA, but for now he learns the intricacies of French basketball.


Marquez Haynes was the third-best scorer in NCAA basketball last season, averaging 22.3 points per game. He now plays for Elan Chalon in France’s Pro-A league.

HAyNes continues on page 8

“there is no reason for me to give up on my dream of the Nba. I’m 100 percent confident that I can play at that level,”

Marquez haynesformer Maverick basketball player

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10am-7:30pm check-in Campus Information Center, UC Check-in to receive your t-shirt, schedule of events,

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8am-8pm Art exhibit UC Art Gallery

10am-8pm Open time to explore the campus

1pm-6pm bowling & billiards University Center

3pm-5pm University college Open House Ransom Hall

5:30pm-7:30pm Planetarium Movie - the karate kid Chemistry/Physics Building

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8am-6pm check-in Campus Information Center, UC

8am-8pm Art exhibit UC Art Gallery

9-10am breakfast with Vice President of Student Affairs

Bluebonnet Ballroom

10am-11am An Hour with dr. Allan Saxe Carlisle, UC

10am-10:45am dance ensemble Performance Rosebud, UC

10am-12pm School of Architecture Open House & Gallery exhibit

Architecture Gallery, Second Floor Architecture Building

10am-12pm Smart Hospital tours Smart Hospital

10am-1pm library Open Houses (Various locations) Architecture & Fine Arts Library,

Architecture Building, Room 104

Central Library, 2nd Floor

Science & Engineering Library, Nedderman Hall, Room B03

Special Collections, Central Library, 6th Floor

11am-12pm Faculty Panel on Sustainability Guadalupe, UC

11am-1pm residence Hall tours

11am-1pm centennial court Parent reception Centennial Court Apartments

11am-1pm lunch on your own

12pm-2pm Off campus Mavericks Open House Off Campus Mavericks Center, MAC, first

floor lobby

1pm-2pm Planetarium Show - One World, One Sky

1pm-3pm Movin’ Mavs game MAC

1pm-4pm Glass blowing demonstration Studio Arts Center

1pm-5pm MAc tours Maverick Activities Center

1pm-6pm bowling & billiards UC

2:30pm-4:30pm Planetarium Movie - thekarate kid Chemistry/Physics Building

4pm-4:45pm the Future of Ut Arlington Guadalupe, UC

4pm-5pm Mind, brain and education eeG lab Hammond Hall, 4th Floor

4pm-6pm Odk initiation ceremony Lonestar, MAC

4:30pm-5pm Maverick Parent & Family Association Meeting & reception

Carlisle, UC

5:30pm Planetarium Show - timespace Chemistry/Physics Building

6:00pm-7:00pm dinner with the deans & Provost Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC

7:00pm-9:30pm Fall Festival & concert UC Mall

8:00pm theatre Arts presents “cabaret” Mainstage Theater, Fine Arts Building Tickets must be purchased separately at the box

office. $6

SUndAy, OctOber 24 (Optional programs on your own)

9am-5pm Movin’ Mavs Adapted Sport UStA – Up/down tennis tournament

UTA Tennis Courts, MAC Come watch or play in this up/down tennis tour-

nament. If you would like to play, please contact Doug Garner at [email protected] to register for the event. The cost is $15 per player.

10am-8pm Six Flags Over texas Fright Fest Six Flags, Arlington Tickets may be purchased online with the

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Students and their families could be a contestant in a real-life game show called Survey Says, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22 in the Rosebud Theatre. As part of Parent & Family Weekend, participants will have a chance to buzz in, answer questions, and maybe even win a cash prize. Up to $300 in cash will be given out throughout the show. The game show, which is based on the hit TV show, Family Feud, will feature a basic face-off format, including questions specific to UT Arlington.

Survey Says will be put on by Game Shows To Go. The company travels the country visiting schools and corporate offices where they put on shows like Beat the Banker, Spin the Wheel, Do You Remem-ber Being a 5th Grader and other games based on hit television shows. This is the second year that the Parent & Family Weekend committee has hired this company to participate in the weekend.

“Everyone who attended the game show last year had a great time. We had people in the audience stomping their feet, clapping their hands, and cheer-ing on their family members as they tried to answer the questions before the buzzer rang, said co-chair of the event committee, Cheyenne Hernandez.

The event is open to everyone and free of charge, but space is limited. According to Assistant Direc-tor, Vanessa Balderrama, “over 600 people were in attendance at Parent & Family Weekend in 2009, and the committee expects even more participants this year.”

— Jasmine Brazile

Fourth annual fall festival features free food and frivolity

For the fourth year in a row, the Division of Stu-dent Affairs and the Parent & Family Center will host a Fall Festival at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23. The Festival, which is part of Parent & Family Weekend, is open to all faculty, staff and students, and is free of charge. The event will feature activi-ties for all ages including a photo booth, pumpkin patch, bounce houses, bungee run, joust, live music, wax hands, caricature artists, magicians, jugglers, and a real life petting zoo.

“The festival is a great way for faculty and staff to interact with students, colleagues, and their fami-lies in a fun-filled environment. It’s one of the few opportunities we have to come together as an en-tire campus community and get to know each other better,” said Director of the Parent & Family Center, Casey Gonzales.

Throughout the evening, the popular Dallas area band, Hearsay, will entertain the crowd with a variety of music that spans decades. Free snacks like cotton candy and popcorn will be available for guests as well as free coffee and hot chocolate, pro-vided by Starbucks Coffee.

The coordinator of the Parent & Family Center said, “The festival is my favorite part of Parent & Family Weekend. It’s a great feeling to look around and see such a wide variety of people genuinely en-joying themselves at this event. It’s a tradition that I hope lasts a very long time at UT Arlington.”

Real life game show gives cash prizes in Rosebud Theatre

MOVin’ MAVSCheer on UT Arlington’s na-tionally ranked wheelchair basketball team as they take on the Dallas Mavericks wheelchair basketball team in the Maverick Activities Center (MAC). The Maverick Parent & Family Association Schol-arship winners will be an-nounced at half-time. Game time 1 p.m. Saturday, October 23, 2010.

“cAbAret”Set in 1929 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, Caba-ret focuses on the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with a young American writer.

Presented in the Mainstage Theatre in the Fine Arts Bldg, tickets cost $6 during Parent & Family Weekend, October 22-23, 2010. All Performanc-es begin at 8 p.m.

GlASS blOWinGWatch as graduate students in UT Arlington’s Glass program create a work of art before your eyes! The Glass pro-gram is under the direction of world-renowned artist and professor, David Keens, who was responsible for build-ing the art glass program at UTA. Glass Blowing demon-strations will take place in the Studio Arts Center between 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, Octo-ber 23, 2010.

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Ashley BrAdleyThe Shorthorn staff

Bioengineering professor Hanli Liu said if it’s possible to land on the moon, then it’s possible to create a detection system for prostate cancer that is effective and less evasive.

Liu received a $958,660 grant in July from the Na-tional Institutes of Health to be dispersed over the next three years for a new tool to be used in the detec-tion of prostate cancer. In addition to the grant, she was also awarded $110,000 in August from the Depart-ment of Defense Prostate Cancer Research program for her research.

Currently, prostate cancer is de-tected by three different methods. With digital rectal examinations, doctors use their fingers to check the prostate. Prostate-Specific Anti-gen tests check to see if the enzymes have liquefied to a high percentage. The third method, Transrectal Ul-trasound, is the most painful, using biopsy needles to pull tissue from the

prostate through the anal wall, Liu said. This method has shown a 30 percent success rate.

“It’s like shooting birds in the air, blindfolded,” Liu said.

Sometimes the doctor collects tis-sues from the prostate, completely missing the cancer, she said.

Liu’s plan is to create a Transrectal Optical Imaging Probe. The probe will enter the man’s anus and use near-infrared light to give several images of the prostate from differ-ent angles. These images will then be studied using a mathematical algorithm.

“If you took multiple pictures of a shadow of a person, you could use a mathematical equation to piece together what they look like,” Liu said.

After the collecting sev-eral images of a possibly infected prostate, the information is sent to a math expert who can analyze the images by using several equations to see if the prostate has cancerous cells.

Math professor Jianzhoug Su has worked with Liu for over five years. He said the math equation used in the research is called an inverse problem, which requires experts to work back-ward to find the solutions to a prob-lem using a trial and error method.

“We’ll make a guess. If it’s correct — great. If it’s not, we will try again,” he said.

Jean Gao, computer science en-gineering assistant professor, helps with the next step of research, which requires determining a proper di-agnosis. Using a machine-learning algorithm, Gao can tell if the person tested has prostate cancer.

Baohong Yuan, a new bioengi-neering assistant professor said he has worked with Liu for a number of years now and can contribute his background knowledge of ultrasound to the research.

When prostate cancer is diag-nosed, the patients then have two choices, Liu said. They can either have their prostate removed, or live with the cancer.

Prostate cancer grows slowly in most cases. Once outside of the pros-tate, the cancer then moves up the spinal cord, causing death.

The other option is to have the prostate removed, which can cause urine leakage or sexual dysfunction.

Early detection of prostate cancer is the best way to stop it from spread-ing, Liu said. The earlier people know they have it, the sooner they can pre-pare for treatment.

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Innovative ideas come to life with new prostate detection

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Maverick basketball makes its official return on Friday night with Maverick Madness.

The annual event celebrates the official opening of practices for the men’s and women basket-ball teams. The event starts at 10:30 p.m. in Texas Hall.

Samantha Morrow, women’s basketball head coach, and Scott Cross, men’s basketball head coach, will unveil their new teams to fans and students alike, with

both teams participating in a live scrimmage for fans to watch. The Movin’ Mavs will also scrimmage.

In addition to the scrimmages, there will be a three-point shoot-ing contest between the teams and fans. Fans need to register by 8 p.m. Friday and will need to try out for the contest.

The men’s team will hold a slam dunk contest to cap off the evening’s festivities.

Fans can look at the retooled

Maverick squads for both men and the women. Cross lost his entire starting five including Southland Conference Player of the Year Marquez Haynes to graduation last year. Morrow will be replacing Meghan Nelson who scored more than 1,000 points in her Maverick career.

Admission is free with free food and T-shirts for those in at-tendance.

— Josh Bowe

Coaches unveil teams along with fun, food, friendly competition

BASKETBALL

BY BRIAN NEPHEWThe Shorthorn staff

Fall is in the air, but UTA softball plays on.

The Maverick softball team has hit the ground run-ning this fall playing exhibi-tion games to tune up for the spring.

Last season, the Maver-icks finished third in the Southland Conference and lost five seniors to graduation. Head coach Debbie Hedrick signed 10 newcomers during the sum-mer, hoping to pick up where they left off.

“My newcomers are versa-tile and they have a mixture of speed and strong bats,” she said.

Sophomore pitcher Teri Lyles, last year’s Southland Conference Freshman of the Year, said having a year of experience has helped her mindset coming into this fall.

“With basically half of our team being new, we have come together very well so far,” she said.

After the fall season, the Mavericks will begin their true offseason. The pitchers and catchers will throw a few times a week at the field, and hitting groups will be assigned where four players will meet at the cage and hit.

Hedrick will also have a practice as a team during the week leading up to winter break.

“We’ve had great weath-er and my girls are working

hard,” she said. “We are using this time to evaluate ever yone to see who fits the best

role to serve our team in the spring.”

Senior first baseman Re-becca Collom said she is excit-ed about this year. And as the fall season comes to an end, she and the Mavs are focusing on the last few games.

“I feel like we are going to surprise a lot of people this year being an under the radar team,” she said.

The fall schedule continues Thursday with a doublehead-er against Navarro College.

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BY JESSE DETIENNEThe Shorthorn staff

With Breast Cancer Aware-ness month in full swing, Thursday’s volleyball game plans to bring campus groups together to “Dig Pink.”

For Thursday’s match against Stephen F. Austin (9-12, 2-4), the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, UTA Intercollegiate Athletics and the Campus Recreation Department have teamed up to help raise money for The Side-Out Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer through volleyball.

The Mavericks will be wear-ing pink jerseys and Texas Hall will be decorated with pink posters.

“UTA and Texas State were the first two teams to start here in the Southland Conference,” head coach Diane Seymour said. “This program started about six or seven years ago with UNC-Charlotte.”

Starting at 5:30 p.m., free food will be available and stu-dents are encouraged to walk on pink treadmills that donate

money for every mile recorded. The Side-Out Foundation

calls their drive, Dig Pink. It is a rally for gyms all across Amer-ica to raise money for breast cancer research and support individuals living with cancer.

“All the girls have a goal in mind, we are trying to get a certain amount to raise money for The Side-Out Foundation,” outside hitter Tara Frantz said.

During the game, the Mav-ericks will try to disrupt an SFA team that is 1-6 on the road. Even though three of the Lumberjacks have not played in Texas Hall, they still have a nine-game win streak against the Mavericks.

The game is the start of a road trip for SFA, who plays Texas State on Saturday. The Ladyjacks athletics website claims the Mavericks are con-sidered an “upstart” program and a few players have taken notice.

“I think it’s good that they think we are an upstart pro-gram,” senior setter Raegan Daniel said.

The game is at 7 p.m. in Texas Hall and admission to the game is free with a UTA ID.

JESSE [email protected]

Players dig pink for breast cancer

VOLLEYBALL

The team will wear the color to support breast cancer research.

7 p.m. | Texas Hall

UTA record: 9-11, 3-3 (3rd in SLC West)SFA record: 9-12, 2-4 (5th in SLC)

Why UTA will win: Reminding SFA that their road woes are worse than theirs. The Lumberjacks are 1-6 on the road, and the Mavericks are 7-2 in Texas Hall this season.

All-time record: UTA leads 28-25-1Last meeting: SFA 3-0 (14-25, 15-25, 22-25) | Oct. 31, 2009 Streak: SFA has won last nine meetings

Why SFA will win: By taking the ball out of Raegan Daniel’s hands. She is fourth in the SLC with a .323 hitting percentage, and fifth in assists with 8.91 per set.

but is picking up the language through his teammates and coaches. He said the language barrier so far hasn’t impeded any progress he’s trying to make with the team.

“I’m able to understand what people are saying to me, for the most part,” Haynes said. “But I just can’t talk back to them well. I’m still trying to get that down. I’ve done a pretty good job of un-derstanding what people are saying.”

The first couple of weeks were the toughest, Haynes said. The lack of familiar-ity with anything bothered Haynes right after he moved. He spends much of his free time playing video games and using the Internet. But now he’s grown more accustomed to the layout of the town and it’s people, and has even ven-tured out to Paris.

Marquez hasn’t been alone through it all, so to speak. He’s been in contact with his mother and father via phone and Skype video calls. For Angela, talking to her son al-most instantly helped her and Marquez transition into this stage of his life.

“We talk on the phone quite frequently,” she said. “Even though he’s so far away, I feel like he’s close, because I can still contact him when-ever I need to.”

Once Marquez adjusted to his new lifestyle and culture, he had to adjust to the one constant throughout his life: the game itself. Haynes said

international basketball has a different ebb and flow, mainly because of how the game is officiated.

“Out here you can get away with a lot more in the paint,” he said. “When you go to the rim, they don’t really call body contact fouls.”

Haynes said the contradic-tion is that the referees call the game much tighter out on the perimeter. Being a perim-eter player himself, he said he’s had to tweak his game.

“On the perimeter you can’t really touch anyone, but at the rim it’s really physical,” he said. “I’m still adjusting. We’ve only played eight pre-season games and one regular season game. I still have a lot to learn.”

Getting better to come back

While Haynes impressed NBA scouts and represen-tatives during his summer league stint, that doesn’t mean there weren’t any holes in his game that league of-ficials wanted to see Haynes improve upon before he re-turned.

Haynes said his main goal is to be able to run an of-fense and make pick-and-roll situations crisper. As a point guard at UTA, Haynes did almost all of the scoring him-self. The league knows he can score, but now they want to see if he can make his team-mates score too.

“I worked on my pick-and-roll and decision-mak-ing along,” he said. “The NBA has so much pick-and-roll. The NBA people want to see more of me with the ball in my hands, making decisions.”

UTA head basketball coach Scott Cross keeps up with Haynes through Face-book and the occasional phone call. He still believes

Haynes will get to the NBA.“He’s relentless in his work

ethic,” Cross said.Last season, when former

UTA forward Tommy Moffitt broke his foot less than half-way through the season, the team went away from a lot of pick-and-roll situations and just let Haynes create.

“I think what NBA scouts are going to look for is how he’s using the pick-and-roll,” Cross said. “He’s going to grow in that area with what the reads are. Once he learns all the finer points of the pick-and-roll, that’s when he’s going to make a push for the NBA.”

Food for thoughtHaynes’ early stomach

problems did not sit well with his mother. Unable to send any hot meals to Mar-quez, Angela did the next best thing.

“I’ve been sending him American foods,” she said. “A couple of weeks ago I sent him 60 pounds of food and about a week ago I sent him a little bit more.”

The list of food would make any dorm-bound col-lege student proud: Velveeta macaroni shells, pancake mix with syrup and Kool-Aid. But Marquez said his stomach might be adjusting to France.

“Their bread and cheeses are really good,” Haynes said with confidence. “That’s real popular here: the breads, cheeses and wine.”

He added he knows his game is soon to follow, and after that, he’ll be in the NBA.

“There is no reason for me to give up on my dream of the NBA,” he said. “I’m 100 percent confident that I can play at that level.”

JOSH [email protected]

Haynescontinued from page 6

UTA MAVERICKS VS STEPHEN F. AUSTIN LADYJACKS

UTA VS. NAVARRO COLLEGEGame 1: 4:30 | Game 2: 6:30Thursday at Allan Saxe Field

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