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Mean Green meets MissouriSoftball team hosts charity eventPage 3

ARTS & LIFE:Student has lifelong love for Mean GreenPage 4

ARTS & LIFE:Jazz pianist’s music echoes throughout the worldPage 4

VIEWS:Student opposes smoking banPage 5

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Coaching changes kick off spring ball

PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Mean Green football team’s spring season is under way. For a closer look at how coaching changes are a� ect-ing the team’s plans in 2011, see page 3.

BY JOSH PHERIGO & MATTHEW CARDENAS Managing Editor & Staff Writer

More than two dozen UNT faculty members have applied for the voluntary separation program that began accepting applications March 8, Provost Warren Burggren said.

The prog ra m, mea nt to trim the university’s budget, offers senior faculty members lump sum buyouts equal to a

year’s base salary if they quit and relinquish their tenure.

Burggren said university officials are looking to free up money that can be rein-vested in UNT’s growth.

So far, 28 faculty members have applied for the program, Burggren said.

“We didn’t know what to expect,” he said. “We were surprised about the enthu-siasm in the first few days.”

Tenured faculty, adminis-trators with tenured faculty a pp oi nt ment s , pr i nc ipa l

le c t u rer s a nd l ibr a r ia n s qua lif y for the program if they have served 15 consecu-tive years at UNT.

Will McKee of the public service faculty came to UNT in 1978.

After a 36-year teaching career and with a grandson on the way, McKee said the prog ra m was too good to pass up.

“For me, it ’s t ime,” said McKee, 64, who looks forward to a f lex ible schedule that would allow him to travel. “I want to spend more time with my family.”

He s a id t he pr o g r a m

provides an opportunity for facult y members to create their own academic paths.

“I’m goi ng to cont i nue being engaged academically,” McKee sa id. “T he d i f fer-ence is where you show up to work.”

The Division of Academic Affairs is accepting applica-tions until April 22.

Fac u lt y member s have s e v e n d a y s t o r e v o k e t heir applicat ion af ter it ’s submitted and should receive payment by Sept. 15.

Voluntary separation program trims faculty

“We didn’t know what to expect. We were surprised about the enthusiasm in

the first few days.”—Warren Burggren,

Provost

Program available for

senior faculty

Blake Windham, a Student Government Association presidential candidate, talks to students after the debate. The debate took place Tuesday night at the Silver Eagle Suite in the University Union.

PHOTO BY BERENICE QUIRINO/VISUALS EDITOR

Presidential candidates debate issues

BY ISAAC WRIGHTSenior Staff Writer

Student candidates squared off to discuss key issues facing UNT students as voting for the Student Government Association presidential election approaches next week.

Four presidential candidates and their running mates spoke to a crowd of more than 100 students Tuesday night in the University Union Silver Eagle Suite. Each candidate opened with an explanation of his or her platform and goals.

They then responded to four topics posed by the debate’s moderator Brian Lain of the communications faculty and UNT’s debate team director.

Lain said the four catego-ries were chosen by gauging st udent opin ion t h roug h research and feedback from a YouTube channel created prior to the debate.

Homecoming reformPending SGA legislation would

create a court of homecoming nobles in which candidates would run as individuals. Lain asked candidates to explain their stance on the issue.

Presidential Candidate Sarah Fox, a development and family studies junior, and running mate Sean Smallwood, a polit-ical science sophomore, are co-authors of the bill.

Fox said she supports the concept of homecoming candi-

dates as individuals.“Even completely taking the

whole point of GLBTQ out of it, people want to see individuals running, not couples,” Fox said.

Candidate Valerie Gonzalez, a journalism junior, said she was also in favor of the proposed reform. She said she would create a homecoming committee to address the issue in the future.

“We need to have both sides,

open communication and dialogue,” Gonzalez said.

Presidential candidates Blake Windham, a biology senior, and Kellie Hill, a marketing junior, both said they disagree with the current proposal, but for different reasons.

Windham said he opposes the homecoming reform because he believes couples should still run as one man and one woman for

homecoming king and queen. “If we want to open the debate

again, it shouldn’t be a situa-tion where only 40-plus people decide. We should open it back up to students,” Windham said.

Hill said she opposes the idea of individuals running for the homecoming court because she said she wants to remain true to the couples

tradition. Instead, Hill said she is in support of allowing same-sex couples to run for the homecoming court.

“Homecoming is a time of cooperation, spirit and pride for our university,” Hill said. “The more we isolate students, the less of a community we promote.”

Homecoming reform, parking top discussion

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

BY CORRISA JACKSONStaff Writer

Sexual Assault Awareness Month begins on Friday.

To com memorate a nd publici ze t he event, The Turning Point Rape Crisis Center in Plano is hosting an art contest.

Gayle Smith, the executive development director for the center, said the idea came from new sta f f members who wanted the North Texas community to become more knowledgeable about sexual assault.

“It takes a community to reduce and heal it,” Smith said.

A person is four times more likely to be sexual assaulted in college than any other time in his or her life, she said.

The contestSmit h said t he organi-

zation wanted something that would resonate w ith college students and decided that could be a permanent exhibit.

St udent s f rom C ol l i n

College, University of Texas at Dallas and UNT can enter the contest, Smith said.

All art media is allowed, and the only criterion is that the entries must be appro-priate for all ages and public areas, she said.

The deadline to register for the contest is April 5, and the last day to place entries is April 15.

Art and AwarenessSamantha Wy man, the

community education coor-dinator for The Turning Point, said an art contest was a great way to get the North Texas community involved, because art is often used to counsel sexual assault survi-vors

“People from all different types of backgrounds can understand whatever t he artist is trying to say,” she said. “It’s helpful to get the message out.”

W hen the contest ends, Turning Point will place the art work in hospita ls and other public areas.

Entries from UNTAdriana Martinez, a studio

arts graduate student, said she heard about the contest t h roug h t he a r t depa r t-ment.

She decided to enter it because she work s w it h i m a ge s of w omen a nd thought it would t ie into gender. She plans to submit a drawing and ceramic piece for the contest.

Maria Pizzarello, a visuals arts senior, said she heard about t he contest wh i le looking for scholarships and grants.

“It sounded like an inter-e s t i n g ide a to de v elop conceptually,” she said.

Pizzarello hasn’t decided if she will create a water-color or acrylic painting.

F o r m o r e i n f o r m a -tion, contact Gayle Smith at 972-985-0951, or v isit theturningpoint.org.

BY JENNIFER MCELROYIntern

“G odspel l,” a rel ig ious musical, will open at 8 p.m. Thursday in the University Theatre.

B a s e d on t he G o s p e l according to St. Matt hew, the musical is made up of a cast of actors who repre-sent different disciples and characters in the Bible, said Bob Hess, the director of the show.

The fresh cast of students acting in the musical will put a different spin on “Godspell,” sa id Dust in Sim ing ton, a theater arts sophomore who plays the lead role of Jesus.

At first, Hess said he wasn’t very excited about working on the show because he felt t he 1970s-dated slapst ick humor and topics wouldn’t relate to 2011.

“I k ne w my cha l lenge would be to make it funny, fresh and relatable to now. I feel we have succeeded in making the musical brand new and different, especially for people who have already seen it before,” he said.

Preconceived notions that the musical’s purpose is to

persuade t he audience to convert to Christianity are not true, said Simington.

Instead, t he cast repre-sents humans with real-life problems who students can relate to, he said.

“T he message of each parable is forgiveness. It f lips back and forth from serious-ness to humor,” Hess said.

E ach cha r ac ter i n t he play learns their lesson of forgiving and loving others one by one.

Matt Ransdell, a theatre junior and member of the play, said “Godspell” relates to people walking on different paths in life.

“[Hess] casted us because we are all so different, but we work toget her. We’re showing that these lessons

and lectures are universal…like learning to care about each other,” Ransdell said.

Robert Petry, a freshman aff i l iated w ith the Baptist St udent M i n ist r ies orga-nization and who has seen “Godspell” previously, said the message is to persuade people to be lov i ng a nd ca r i ng as hu ma n bei ngs,

which is a lso the message that BSM sends out to college students.

Hess encourages anyone to go see the musical because he is “certain they will laugh a lot, be extremely enter-tained, and at the same time be touched and moved by the cast.”

Tickets are $10 for students a nd sta f f a nd $15 for t he general public.

POLICE BLOTTER

“Godspell” musical to open Thursday in University Theatre

“We’re showing that these lessons and lectures are universal ... like

learning to care about each other.”—Matt Ransdell,

Theatre junior and member of “Godspell”

Art contest raises awareness

Registration Deadline: April 5Entry Deadline: April 15

Contact: theturn-ingpoint.org

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Artwork to be placed in hospitals,

public areas

Sunday, March 27Shortly before 1 a.m., a

23-year-old UNT student was pulled over by a UNT police officer at 200 S. Welch St. The woman was intoxicated. She was arrested and sent to the Denton County Jail.

Saturday, March 26At 2 p.m., a UNT officer

saw a fight taking place at the intersection of Mulberry Street and Ave A. The officer arrested a 23-year-old man who was intoxicated and physically resisting.

A UNT police officer saw a suspicious man at UNT Lot 55, 950 W. Sycamore St. The man f led on foot, but the officer caught him. In an on-scene investiga-tion, officers found that the

19-year-old man had exposed himself to a group of people in the 100 block of Ave A. The man was arrested and transported to the Denton County Jail.

Friday, March 25Someone called the police

at 7:30 p.m. about a little girl left alone and unattended for 30 minutes at Clark Hall. A UNT police officer talked to the 4-year-old girl. The child was returned to her custodial parent. The case report was for warded to Child Protective Services.

Thursday, March 24At 1:30 a.m., a UNT officer

stopped a 26-year-old man in the 1400 block of West Hickor y Street. The man was intoxicated. The officer

arrested him and trans-ported him to the Denton City Jail.

Tuesday, March 22A UNT off icer stopped

a car around 11:30 p.m. at 1011 North Texas Blvd. The passenger in the car, a 47-year-old man, had a meth-amphetamine pipe on him. He was issued a citation and released from the scene.

A UN T pol ice of f icer

recognized a 51-year-old man outside the UNT Willis Library at 1:40 p.m. The man had previously been tres-passed from all UNT prop-erty. The off icer arrested him and transported him to the Denton County Jail.

SustainabilityThe second topic of discussion

was sustainability. Lain asked candidates how they would strive to make UNT a greener institu-tion.

Gonzalez proposed increased communication between envi-ronmental student groups and university administrators, as well as greater student involvement with the city’s sustainability proj-ects.

Windham proposed three specific solutions.

He called for the installation of more waterless toilets on campus, the SGA to become more reliant on electronic resources to reduce paper waste, and an ad campaign stressing power conservation at residence halls.

Hill said she has spoken with members of the Beyond Coal campaign, a campus group advo-cating that UNT should move away from electricity created by coal by 2015, and said she thinks their goal is obtainable.

Fox, like Windham, said she would work to reduce the amount of paper used by the SGA.

Spending and budgetsWhen asked about budget and

spending accountability, all the candidates said they supported greater transparency within the

SGA presidential hopefuls square offContinued from Page 1 organization.

Windham said he would push for programs such as tax-free textbooks to lessen the financial burden on students. He said he supports the Board of Regents’ recent decision to increase tuition because he feels it’s necessary for UNT to continue making strides toward becoming a Tier One research institution.

Hill said she was also in support of UNT reaching Tier One status. She also said, as a marketing major, she wants to look for cost-effective ways to promote the SGA in the future.

“We want to come up with more innovative ways to promote the organization, and not just T-shirts, which are not sustainable, can be costly and are per use.”

Fox said her administration would hold the Board of Regents accountable, using a student advi-sory board she proposes in her platform.

Gonzalez said she would work to inform students about key financial issues, at the university and state levels. She also said her administration would try to work with other organizations, such as the University Program Council, to help fund events.

Parking and transportationThe final issue debated by

the candidates was transporta-

tion and parking at UNT. All the candidates acknowledged that while students consider the issue a problem, there is little the SGA can actually do to shape UNT’s transportation policies.

Hill said UNT students face a better parking situation than other large universities in the state. She said one solution to the parking problem would be to offer more parking at Discovery Park and more shuttles going from there to the main campus.

Fox said she spoke to the director of transportation and said there has been talk of raising rates for parking, something her administration would oppose.

“Even though we do have some of the lowest rates in Texas, we want to make sure that it stays that way, and that it stays available and accessible to all students,” Fox said.

Gonzalez said her adminis-tration would advocate for more DCTA shuttles and longer hours for the shuttles because of slow turnaround during certain hours of the day. Windham focused on the high rates of parking in the campus parking garage and said he supports lowering those rates to allow more students to park there.

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SportsWednesday, March 30, 2011 Page 3

Sean Gorman, Sports Editor sgorman@ntdaily.com

Senior out� elder Mariza Martinez hits the ball in a game against Florida Inter-national Saturday at Lovelace Stadium.

PHOTO BY STACY POWERS/SENIOR STAFFER

PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Assistant coach Mike Nelson yells at sophomore defensive tackle Richard Abbe (left) and junior defensive end Ryan Long during Friday’s practice.

Coaching sta� adds attitude to Mean Green

UNT to host Wounded Warrior charity game against Missouri

BY BEN BABYSenior Staff Writer

Coaches and players are sc rea m i ng , ju mpi ng a nd yel l ing, a nd it ’s not even April.

A s t he f o ot b a l l t e a m conducted its third practice of the spring Monday, it wasn’t difficult to see the intensity head coach Dan McCarney has instilled in his first year in Denton.

McCarney called Saturday’s practice a “pillow fight.” On Monday, hard hits were dished out and the team was lively in its preparation for the season opener Sept. 1 against Florida International.

“I don’t have to tel l you what’s going on out here,” said senior l inebacker Brandon Akpunku. “This sounds like Mean Green football. It doesn’t sound like ‘green’ football. It’s Mean Green football now.”

Akpunku said he expected a clean slate for a squad that f inished last season with a 3-9 record.

Since the Mean Green was crowned Sun Belt Conference Champions in 2004, UNT has amassed a dismal record of 13-58.

“As I’ve said before, there’s not one player on this team that’s been part of a college, winning football team, and we have to teach them how,” McCarney said.

McCarney, who was previ-

TCU canceled againBY BRETT MEDEIROSIntern

The UNT tennis match aga inst Texas Christ ia n Universit y was canceled because of bad weat her conditions for the second time Tuesday.

Brief

BY DONNIE PIPESIntern

The Mean Green will play in its second charity double-header of the season when it hosts the Missouri Tigers today at 4 p.m. at Lovelace Stadium.

UNT will face out-of-confer-ence competition after going 2-7 in its last nine conference games.

“Our focus is always going to be on conference,” said senior first baseman Mallory Cantler. “Anything we can do to get us momentum going into the weekend, that’s what we need right now.”

The matchupUNT (14-17) will face argu-

ably its stiffest competition of the year when the Tigers (26-3) come to town.

M i s s ou r i h a s w on 2 3 straight games, and hasn’t lost in almost a month after a close defeat to the nation’s top-ranked team, Alabama.

The Mean Green has never faced Missouri, but is familiar w it h play ing Big 12 foes. UNT defeated 18th-ranked Baylor Ma rch 17, but has

ously t he defensive l i ne coach at Florida, has brought together a fiery and passionate group of 11 coaches. Mike Canales is the offensive coor-dinator a nd Cl int Bowen now acts as defensive coor-

dinator.McCarney said he knew his

new coaches and worked with most of them.

“If you don’t have a lot of energ y and ent husiasm, I don’t want you on this staff,”

McCarney said. “I’m not going to hire mannequins to coach. If they’re going to be statues or mannequins, they’re not going to coach for me.”

Canales, who was interim head coach for f ive games

last season, has tweaked the offense. One change comes at quarterback, as the team will be spending less time in the shotgun formation.

Senior running back Lance Dunbar said he believes the

offensive changes will benefit him.

Dunbar finished last season ranking eighth in the Football Bowl Subdivision in rushing with 1,553 yards.

UNT’s MVP of last season

sa id he enjoy s t he level of intensity so far this off-season.

“Before we put the pads on, we’ve been competing in ever y thing we do — in warm-ups, sprints, and the weight room and all,” Dunbar said. “We come out here and compete. Everybody gives it everything they’ve got.”

McCarney said he is having open competition for every spot on the roster.

He said each player wil l earn their spot, and he is looking for productive and consistent players that won’t commit mental errors.

“I think [the players] know it’s a very competitive prac-tice field, and may the best man win each job,” McCarney said.

“Before we put the pads on, we’re

competing in everything we do,”

—Lance Dunbar,Senior running back

dropped six of seven games since the upset.

The Mean Green also has a win over nationally-ranked conference foe Louisiana-Lafayette this year.

“If we can come out and have a good day, regardless of the outcome, it’ll be a good push going into the weekend,” said head coach T.J. Hubbard. The Mean Green’s biggest weakness has been its inability to maintain consistent pitching a nd h it t i n g t h r ou g hout the season, Hubbard said. UNT has given up twice as many runs as it scored during its current sl ide, a l low ing 46 runs to only 23 scored.

Wounded Warrior ProjectT he Wou nde d Wa r r ior

Project is a nonprofit organi-zation that aims to honor and empower wounded soldiers.

The organization provides programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members as wel l as helps soldiers aid and assist each other.

T he f i r st ga me of t he doubleheader begins at 4 p.m. with the second following at 6 p.m.

Admission will be waived for those who donate cash to the Wounded Warrior Project at the gates.

To learn more about the organization, visit wounded-warriorproject.org.

“Anything we can do to get us momentum going into the weekend, that’s what

we need right now.”—Mallory Cantler,

Senior first baseman/pitcher

Team hosts doubleheader

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UNT led t he match 2-1 before the coaches agreed the conditions were too rainy.

The t wo teams w i l l not reschedule the match, but a new match against a different opponent for the Mean Green may be added to replace the game.

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BY MARLENE GONZALEZIntern

China, Europe, Italy and the United States are just a few of the many coun-t r ie s t h at h av e he a rd Robert Verastegui, a jazz studies senior, play t he piano.

“He is a very unique and or ig ina l indiv idua l. His music is really personal,” said Stefan Karlsson of the jazz studies faculty.

Karlsson said Verastegui’s passion and drive for music can be seen through his travels to various places to play.

“I don’t have any other pianist that really sounds the way Roberto does. His music has a lot of classical inf luences in regards to ha rmony a nd tex tures,” Karlsson said. “I have no doubt he will do just fine as a musician. He’s going to impress a lot of people in the scene.”

Verastegui, who was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico first laid hands on a piano when he was seven, and began playing at his father’s gigs when he was 10.

Musicians like Keith Jared and Prokofiev, and YouTube

videos inspired him to write his own music, he said.

J a z z f i r s t c a u g h t Verastegui’s attention when he saw Rene Sa ndova l’s Q u a r t e t p e r f o r m i n McAllen.

“I don’t remember, but my parents say I would just stare at the guy playing the piano,” he said.

Ve r a s t e g u i s a i d h i s

Senior’s music heard worldwide

Robert Verastegui, a jazz studies senior, has played the piano since age 7. Ver-astegui has performed in tours all over the world, including Europe, Japan and Mexico.

PHOTO BY TARYN WALKER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

BY BOBBY LEWISSenior Staff Writer

Business graduate student Matt Furay does not like to be called a “super fan.”

“I don’t consider myself any more special than anyone else,” he said. “But, by other people, I’m usually considered [a super fan].”

The 22-year-old has only missed attending five UNT home football games in his entire life. He does not miss UNT basketball games. He said he tries to attend every University of North Texas home sporting event.

“I guess I was kind of born with UNT in my blood,” Furay said. “Absolutely.”

Furay’s roots to UNT can be traced all the way back to the early 1970s. That’s when his father Robert Furay attended UNT, then known as North Texas State University.

“Matt really never had a chance,” Robert Furay said. “My wife and I would go up there for football games and he was in

the womb.”After growing up attending

countless football games at Fouts Field, there was never any consideration of attending any other university.

Matt Furay said he remem-bers almost every game he attended, including a 38-27 victory over New Mexico State in 2002 that clinched the Sun Belt Conference championship.

“I honestly don’t know [how I remember games so vividly,]” he said. “I can remember scores from, man, the ‘90s.”

He hopes to help bring back that same type of enthusiasm for the current football team, which will be aided by the new football stadium, he said.

“A lot of that changed when [UNT Athletic Director] Rick Villarreal got here,” he said of the sparse student attendance in the 1990s. “He’s done an unbeliev-able job. Our program is leaps and bounds above where we’ve ever been before. People before him have tried to get the new stadium, but they couldn’t get

it done. I just wish the students here got excited.”

Robert Furay showed similar admiration for Villarreal, citing the changes the university has gone through since he gradu-ated in 1975.

“It’s incredible. The differ-ence is amazing,” he said. “The whole atmosphere and climate’s changed. Rick started from scratch and just slowly built the programs up.”

Matt Furay said he plans to attend the 2011 Spring Football Game at C.H. Collins Stadium on April 16 and the Mean Green’s first football game in the new stadium on Sept. 10. He’s not doing anything special, just what he’s done his entire life — show up and support UNT.

“I was raised in a way that not a whole lot of people are,” Matt Furay said. “I knew a few other people just going to foot-ball games and everything, and they’re the same way. You fall in love with this school and you just have to open yourself up to it.”

Matt Furay, a business graduate student, has only missed � ve UNT home football games in w22 years. Furay said he can remember almost every game he has attended, including scores from the ‘90s.

PHOTO BY JAMES COREAS/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Student shows support for UNT

parents were skeptical about him playing jazz and wanting to be a musician, but after he was admitted to UNT and left Mexico, their point of view changed.

“I learned a lot from being

there [Mexico], and I got out of there at the right time, musi-cally speaking. I came to the States in a really good time for my musical development,” he said.

The first time he went to Hong Kong was with Xiaochuan’s Quartet, a classmate’s group.

“He’s one of the most talented piano players at school. [His music has] really high energy

a nd is emot iona l,” sa id Xiaochuan Li, a jazz studies master student. “His music has a presence.”

Verastegui said he encour-ages students to get a head start of their career while they are

still in school. He said working at a young age has helped his career, and now venues call him to book shows.

When Verastegui isn’t busy juggling school and gigs, he teaches piano lessons an hour a week.

A nc a Mor c ov e s c u , a teacher at K r um Middle School, takes piano lessons from him. “Roberto is a great teacher.

He’s very patient and dedi-cated,” Morcovescu said. “He takes time to explain all the steps to me, and gives me a lot of background information about the history of music.”

Jimmy Meredith, the owner of Sweetwater Grill & Tavern, said he was excited to have Verastegui play in his restau-rant a couple weeks ago.

“He’s absolutely amazing. Hopefully, we’l l have him back,” Meredith said.

Meredith and his wife first saw Verastegui perform at a concert with Law Maz last fall.

“He had a small keyboard, but made a big sou nd,” Meredith said. “I was very impressed.”

Verastegui plans to stay in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for a year after he graduates, hoping he can get an artist visa.

“I’m in the kind of thinking of whatever comes in the moment w i l l happen,” Vera steg u i said.

Jazz studies student’s sound will

‘impress’ others

“I don’t have any other pianist that really sounds the way

Roberto does ... He’s going to impress a lot of people ...”

—Stefan Karlsson,Jazz studies faculty member

Currently, Texas lawmakers are pushing for a statewide ban toward smoking in public places, such as bars and restau-rants, because of the increased number of Americans exposed to secondhand smoke.

The basis of the State Senate Bill 355 from Sen. Rodney Ellis revolves around health concerns, but they could be subjective.

I’m not a fan of smoking, but I’m not in favor of the ban either.

There are reasons why certain public places allow smoking and some don’t. It should be up to those businesses to imple-ment a nonsmoking policy because, in any case, admit-ting smokers to smoke or not in bars and restaurants does affect the number of guests who come and go. Local bar owners are aware of how their businesses operate, not the state government.

Smoking can be a habit for some, but it can be a casual time for others who want to enjoy an evening of leisure.

I ca n u ndersta nd t he state Legislature is looking

out for the best interest of Texans’ health — 126 million nonsmoking Americans are exposed to secondhand smoke and that is probably an intim-idating number to the state Legislature. But placing a smoking ban in public places strips away smokers’ rights.

People aren’t forced to surround themselves in a smoky environment. If you’re at a bar that permits smoking and you’re not a smoker, you’re obviously OK with being around it and putting your own health in jeopardy.

That’s the person’s decision and responsibility, not the state government’s.

Not to mention, if people are restrained from smoking in public places, that only leaves their home where they do have the freedom to smoke — a home that could be filled with small children and family members or friends who aren’t fans of smoking.

At least in a bar, you’re around people who don’t mind the smoke, people who are used to it or people who just deal with it. Their health is prob-

ably the last thing on their minds while hanging out at a bar or restaurant, so why does the state government feel the need to take care of it?

Smoking at a public park leaves open space for others to stay away from smokers so they aren’t directly inhaling cigarette smoke.

Smoking restrictions such as smoking at least 25 feet away from a building’s entrance on campus helps, because smokers still have their rights and it lessens the chance of people who dislike smoke to encounter it.

Whether those rules are followed, it’s an effort in keeping both sides happy and rights aren’t taken away. Any regulation isn’t perfect.

And everything costs money, so a law from the state govern-ment to prevent smoking in public places is going to need an all-day watchdog. People don’t work for free. There are better things that money could go toward.

Yes, smoking can lead to ca ncer a nd bir t h defects through direct and indirect

contact. However, as long as it isn’t

purposely blown in faces and as long as babies aren’t exposed to the fumes, smoking and being surrounded by smoke at a public place is a decision made by that individual. Those individuals decide to risk their health in a smoky situation, even if they don’t realize it.

Stop letting the state govern-ment save them.

Ashley-Crystal Firstley is a journalism junior and staff writer at the North Texas Daily. She can be reached at a_firstley72508@yahoo.com.

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Emerging from the Business Building a couple of weeks ago, my attention was captured by a relatively large gathering of students.

Upon closer inspection, I came across what I would describe as a campus mini-revival (without the tent). At the center of it all was Pastor Tom Short, a trav-eling evangelist who spouted Bible verses and young-earth creationism.

I casually observed both him and the various groups of students engaged in their separate theological discus-sions. Debates ranged from the messianic nature of Jesus to the validity of prayer to the age of the earth. Then, of course, the cavalry arrived, labeling Short a racist, misogynist, homophobe, etc.

All in all, the spectacle was fascinating.

The most fascinating aspect, however, was Pastor Tom himself.

He was the epitome of Christian fundamentalism: a Christianity reacting to the current secular age that has little

to do with the original Jewish sect of the first century. Ironically, fundamentalist biblical inter-pretations (particularly of the creation stories) are heavily influenced by the secular para-digms they seem to despise.

Ignoring the allegorical inter-pretations of Genesis by the early Church Fathers, fundamentalists instead embrace a creationism that is spawned from movements of the early 20th century.

Presupposing the biblical liter-alism born out of the Protestant Reformation and the secular-ized nature of science, funda-mentalism was the product of the panicked reactions to Darwinism, the Social Gospel and German higher biblical crit-icism.

Former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute Francis Collins points out that if the claims of Young-Earth Creationists were actually true, “it would lead to a complete and irreversible collapse of the sciences of physics, chemistry, cosmology, geology and biology ... The YEC perspective is the equivalent of insisting two plus

two is not really equal to four.”What then are we to make of

the biblical creation story? Old Testament scholar John

Walton recognizes that Genesis 1, “as in the rest of the Ancient Near East, ... is understood as an account of functional origins — creation as [the ancients] perceive it is not a material process.”

“Existence” was not defined in terms of material ontology, but rather in regards of function and purpose. Chaos and disorder were deemed non-existent, despite potentially being phys-ically present. To lay modern scientific understandings on top of the ancient texts is presentism at its finest.

Speaking about biblical imagery, particularly in the creation stories, Methodist scholar Margaret Barker writes, “These [images] are specific to one culture, that of Israel and Judaism, and until they are fully understood in their orig-inal setting, little of what is done with the writings and ideas that came from that particular setting can be understood. Once we lose touch with the meaning

of biblical imagery, we lose any way into the real meaning of the Bible. This has already begun to happen and a diluted ‘instant’ Christianity has been offered as junk food for the mass market. The resultant malnutrition, even in churches, is all too obvious.”

Our fundamentalist friends seem a bit malnourished.

Walker Wright is an organi-zational behavior and human resource management senior. He can be reached at WalkerWright@my.unt.edu.

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Political debates usually provide the public with insight into what candidates believe and know.

The Editorial Board wanted to share its thoughts on the high and low points of the Student Government Association Presidential Debate on Tuesday night.

Nod: Fox, Smallwood present positive attitudeSarah Fox and Sean Smallwood rocked the debate with

their genuine nature and positive presentation. As Fox spoke about loving UNT, a cell phone went off

and she said she loved that ringtone, too. She referred to Smallwood as “Smalls” continually, explaining that’s what she calls him in real life.

Those characteristics complemented their substantive points based on their platform and the students’ questions. They labeled a clear, three-part plan. Fox also specified talking to the director of parking to establish ideas about parking solutions, and to students to get their opinions on Homecoming reform.

Their effortless delivery projects their willingness to be themselves in every situation.

Shake: Windham, Hill falter on Homecoming response

When asked about their take on the same-sex couple Homecoming issue, two candidates focused on their own views and not those of the students.

Blake Windham and Kellie Hill did not mention speaking to constituents about their opinion on the issue, as Fox and Valerie Gonzalez did.

Windham said he wanted to maintain the aspect of having one man and one woman as Homecoming king and queen no matter what.

Hill opposed the idea of people running as individuals because she said she thought it would ruin the spirit of Homecoming.

The Board suggests both candidates focus on the way students feel over their own biases.

Nod: Gonzalez did her homeworkThroughout the debate, Gonzalez responded to all four

questions with well-researched answers.Although she occasionally became bogged down with

detailed statistics, she provided good insight into the details of how the university works, such as her under-standing of what UNT’s plans to reduce by 2013 and how students feel about the Homecoming issue.

Shake: Hill downplays parkingWhen the moderator Brian Lain began his final ques-

tion, he specified that parking and transportation was the most popular issue. Hill’s response left a bit to be desired.

She was right in saying that UNT students have a better situation than the students in Austin or Houston for parking and solutions might be difficult to achieve. However, people want the student government leaders to take the stance that something can be done, not that students should just accept the status quo.

Nod: Windham articulates his passion for UNTAs the seventh member of his family to attend UNT,

Windham has deep roots in this university, and the Board thinks that connection makes him more concerned for the university than himself.

Windham, a longtime Denton resident, has always had a personal tradition of caring about the university and thus can provide insight into the traditions and legacy of UNT.

Shake: Microphone issue caused a problemThree of the candidates had working microphones,

but Windham did not. The Board thinks the technical difficulty was distracting

and may have prevented some interested students from hearing his points clearly.

That shouldn’t happen at UNT.

Nod: Hill communicates qualificationsThroughout her responses, Hill clearly established

what experiences she has had that would help her if she were elected.

By describing those experiences in leadership positions, including her work as the director of Internal Relations this year and in a greek life, Hill allowed students to get a stronger sense of what qualifies her to run for office.

Shake: VP speeches were too briefAlthough the primary spotlight should have be on the

presidential candidates, the additions by the vice presiden-tial candidates were too short and lacked substance.

Smallwood spent the most time on his speech, but it was also short.

The vice presidential candidates mainly repeated the presidential candidates’ statements.

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