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Wednesday, October 21, 2009Volume 94 | Issue 32
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BY CAROLYN BROWNSenior Staff Writer
The Student Government Association’s supreme court struck down the extra step toward the Oct. 14 senator removal procedure during Tuesday’s meeting.
The court held a hearing to consider the constitutionality of the Senator Removal Bill.
Four of the justices were present at the hearing and voted unanimously that the bill was unconstitutional.
“The students must have a way to have their voices heard, and the student senate is not doing their job to give a voice to the voiceless,” said Hunter Nelson, a college of arts and sciences senator. “The student body should be able to remove the false statesmen from office.”
The SGA’s supreme court is a group of five students appointed by the SGA President.
The bill in question amended the SGA bylaws to change the senator removal process by adding a Supreme Court trial after the necessary student peti-tion outlined in the constitu-tion.
The senators adopted the bill after being threatened with possible removal by students upset by the rejection of an earlier bill that would have al lowed same-sex couples to run for positions on the Homecoming court.
Nelson filed the court brief, and argued his case against the senate’s actions.
He said that the SGA shouldn’t use bylaws to bypass the consti-tution.
“Rather than amend the constitution like needed, they attempted to place new safety nets in a document they can amend in a meeting’s time — the SGA bylaws,” Nelson said of the senate’s actions.
Nelson a lso asked t he Supreme Court to strike down sections of the bylaws that allow
Senator removal bill struck down
for administrative removal of senators. The court did not give a ruling on the matter.
SGA Advocate Genera l Cameron Jean represented the senate. He noted that the SGA is modeled after the federal government, and that members of congress, who are threatened with removal have the chance to defend themselves at trial.
He argued that the bill did not take away from or contradict the constitution, but merely further defined it.
“It’s the position of the student senate that the student constitution of the University of North Texas sets a precedent in numerous articles for using the SGA bylaws to further define processes stated in the consti-tution,” he said.
Jean also cited the “necessary and proper” clause that gives SGA members authority to take actions not explicitly provided for in the constitution.
“This bill is protecting our senators from unjust impeach-ments, from the witch hunt that’s going on,” he said. He noted that the threats of removal could affect 18 senators who voted against or abstained from voting on the same-sex Homecoming bill.
After about 25 minutes of deliberation, Chief Justice Sarah Bronstein read the court’s unan-imous decision.
“The constitution is a binding document and the bylaws are subject to the Constitution. The Constitution explicitly defines the removal of senators in article 4 section 10 of the constitu-tion.”
Nelson said he was pleased with the decision.
“I think in this case it was pretty clear cut and easy to decide, and the justices did exactly what I thought they would,” he said.
Jean had no comment on the decision.
Clock tower keeps on playingPHOTO BY STEPHEN MASKER / PHOTOGRAPHER
BY DREW GAINESIntern
UNT electrician Gary Harris begins his dizzying descent down the spiral staircase of the W. Joseph McConnell Memorial Tower, cracking jokes.
“What is brown and sounds like a clock? Dung dung,” he said.
Harris was full of Monty Python references on this early Tuesday morning.
The short, gray-haired veteran of the UNT Facilities Department gave a tour of the inner workings of the 54-year-old clock tower, perched atop the Administration Building.
“Someone found a bat up here once, an old Mexican free-tail,” Harris said, standing on a concrete platform, eye level with the revolving clock faces at the base of the tower.
Looking up, the eight mega-phone-like speakers that play the UNT fight song and its alma mater, “Glory to the Green and White,” become visible.
The carillons have resounded
from the tower’s musty innards since its induction in December of 1956. Since then, the clock’s mechanisms have trudged on faithfully, requiring little maintenance as generations of students have come and gone.
“Oh, it’s just been here a long time,” Harris said. “Don’t really take a lot of care and mainte-nance. It just needs to be looked after.”
The name etched into the concrete over the administra-tion building’s front door reads, “W. Joseph McConnell Memorial Tower 1955.” It’s a tribute to the man who presidedserved as president of the Teachers’ College and State College from 1934 to 1951.
In his book “The Story of North Texas,” author James L. Rogers writes, “It was fitting that this tower, standing as it does at the center of the campus overlooking 22 major build-ings which were built during his administration and repre-senting the culmination of a dream: students, ex-students,
faculty and Board of Regents, should bear his name.”
Within the chamber of the tower, Harris marches up the four flights of an orange spiral staircase, grease gun in hand, a few times a year to lubricate the clocks’ gears and adjust it according to daylight-saving time.
Everything in the tower is run electronically.
Within the attic of the Hurley Administration Building, at the tower’s base, sits an aged organ whose keys once played UNT’s ballads with the help of an organist. The organ has since been replaced by an automatic carillon.
“It’s pretty cut and dry, really. Kind of a boring clock,” Harris said.
However, in his 33 years at UNT, Harris has had his share of interesting experiences atop the school’s time piece.
Ladybugs swarmed the tower when he escorted a photogra-pher up to the platform for a panoramic photo-op. He also
mistakenly flooded the outside of the building with bright pink light after a Mean Green foot-ball victory, and recently, he illuminated his face with his penlight and sneaked up behind some unsuspecting women who were moving boxes in the dark attic.
“They screamed bloody murder,” Harris said with a jovial laugh.
Though students often stroll by the tower passively, the faithful clock and its spir-ited carols play a role in life at UNT.
“Whenever I’m late to class, I know it because the fight song is playing while I walk,” said Blaine Jackson, an economics junior.
Jun Yin, a real estate graduate student said the clock tower makes the campus complete.
“When it’s ringing in the morning, it starts the day,” he said.
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BY T.S. MCBRIDESenior Staff Writer
Carbon dioxide is getting a bad rap and Robert Smith wants to set the record straight.
Smith, a former Environmental Protection Agency employee, sought to dispel many popu-larly held beliefs about climate change during two lectures given to students in the Business Administration Building on Tuesday.
During his hour-and-a-half lecture, Smith said the Earth is cooling and that carbon dioxide is not contributing significantly to global warming.
“I realize that some of you may not agree with my position coming in,” he said. “I hope to persuade some of you to take another look at the issue.”
Many of his findings contra-dict the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent report on global warming, published in 2007.
According to the report, “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.”
The panel is a multinational organization of climate scientists charged with monitoring climate change.
Smith worked for years with the Environmental Protection Agency as an analyst developing guide-lines for water treatment. Most recently he was an independent consultant for KBR, Inc.
KBR, Inc. is a construction and engineering company that services the petroleum industry.
His speeches Tuesday night were part of UNT’s One Book, One Community program, which promotes a different book each year.
This year it’s Jeff Goodell’s “Big Coal,” which describes the envi-ronmental and health dangers associated with coal mining.
The Institute of Petroleum Accounting sponsored the lecture and is a UNT organization dedi-cated to educating students about the petroleum industry and related financial issues.
Smith’s lecture was intended to present students with the basics of climate dynamics along with recent developments in scien-tific findings related to global warming.
“I was approached by the
members of the One Book, One Community committee to get another view,” said Harvey Zimmermann, director of the Institute of Petroleum Accounting.
He contacted Smith through an acquaintance in the petroleum business. Zimmermann said he hopes to bring more energy company executives to UNT to discuss energy issues.
Smith said he became concerned about the bad science promoted in the media when he investigated climate change on his own about 18 months ago.
“I wanted to look and see deeper and see what’s behind the national climate policy and see if that’s valid or not valid. Should we be doing this or not doing this,” he said.
Smith presented charts, graphs and data in support of his conten-tion that carbon is not causing the climate to become warmer.
He said instead that natural cycles relating to solar output and the Earth’s orbit, among other things, better account for vari-ances in the climate.
He cited more recent cooling and warming periods in the Earth’s history that showed no correlation to the carbon dioxide
in the air.“And so what I don’t want to
see is our resources being wasted chasing something that is not a culprit at all,” he said.
When asked why so many scientists promoted the theory of climate change, Smith said he believed the issue was politicized, and scientists were often driven by grant money to promote the status quo.
“What information do they have that they can show us, that is real empirical data, that supports this case?” Smith asked. “There are a lot of people in the political side who are not scientists, who do understand this.”
Speaker doubts carbon threat
PHOTO BY CRISTY ANGULO / PHOTOGRAPHER
Robert P. Smith, a former Environmental Protection Agency employee, lectured about climate change on Tuesday in the Business Administration Building as part of UNT’s One Book, One Community program.
Electrician Gary Harris stands on the spiral staircase on the top � oor of the UNT clock tower. Among his many job duties, Harris is responsible for backlighting as well as greasing the many gears of the four individual clocks.
• The Earth’s climate has been getting cooler since 2002.
• Carbon dioxide does not cause signif icant warming.
• Geological data show that the Earth was much warmer in previous periods when the amounts of carbon in the atmosphere were lower.
Among Smith’sconclusions:
( MC T ) C H IC AG O — Embatt led Universit y of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herma n a nnounced his r e s i g n a t i o n Tu e s d a y, marking a near-wholesale turnover of the university’s most senior leadership.
Un iver sit y a nd st ate leaders lauded Herman’s departure as a significant move that will a l low the university to move beyond a n ad m issions sca nda l that ratt led the Urbana-Champaign campus and caused other universities nationwide to re-examine their admissions policies.
“There are few univer-sities in the country that have ever taken comparable steps to turn the page,” said former U. of I. president Stanley Ikenberry, a nation-ally renowned educator who will return as the interim president Jan. 1. “What we have here is the opening of a new chapter with most of the trauma of the last four or five months behind us.”
Her ma n’s resig nat ion follows that of President B. Joseph White, who will step down at the end of t he yea r. Si x universit y trustees a lso have been replaced after revelations by the Chicago Tribune of preferent ia l ad m issions prac t ices t hat a l lowed applicants connected to trustees, lawmakers and
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BY KELSEY KRUZICHContributing Writer
Dorm-dwellers who depend on dining hall food labels to save them from allergy attacks have Kathy Butler to thank.
But after 22 years with UNT, Butler, an associate director of dining services, is set to retire in December.
Butler plays a big role in the university’s dining halls. She works with recipes, food label ing, a nd creates t he menus found on the UNT Dining Services Web site.
“It helps students w it h allergies because they need to know what they can eat,” Butler said.
After her retirement, the dining ser v ices a nd UNT Health and Wellness Center will work together to try to fill Butler’s shoes.
She is a lso avai lable to students for nutritional coun-seling and programs directed toward dorms.
Ca role Pouza r, a music performance freshman, has
celiac disease.The disease is an allergy
to gluten, usually found in wheat products.
“I come in once a week and go through the menus with Kathy to figure out where I can eat and when,” Pouzar said.
Pouzar relies on a nutri-tionist to make sure she keeps a balanced diet.
She said she is not sure what she will do once Butler retires.
Without the nutritionist, Pouzar said she could easily become sick.
“I think you need someone on campus that knows that kind of stuff to help accom-modate us,” Pouzar said.
But ler a lso created t he p o s t e r s a nd p a m ph le t s found in the cafeterias and marketing work on the UNT dining Web site.
But ler ha s done t h ree dorm programs so far this semester.
As the resources in the
dining halls become more v isible, more students are coming to Butler for assis-tance, she said.
W hen But ler ret i res in December, a new staff member will not fill her position.
Bi l l McNeace, executive
director of dining services, said he has a new plan.
McNeace said he wants to hire a new chef for dining services to work with new recipes for students who need them and focus on the culi-nary aspects.
The position of the dieti-cian will be moved to the UNT Health and Wellness Center.
“We will actually be gaining something because we will
have a chef and the posi-tion in the wellness center,” McNeace said.
McNeace said the transi-tion to the new process should be straightforward.
Students can contact dining services or the UNT Health
and Wellness Center to work with the new process.
He sa id t he new sta f f members will be communi-cating between each other to figure out the student’s needs.
Students can contact dining services at 940-565-2530.
Visit the dining services Web site at www.dining.unt.edu to find out more about nutrition in the cafeterias.
Nutritionist retires after 22 years of service
“I think you need someone on campus that knows that stuff
to help accomodate us.”—Carole Pouzar
Music performance freshman
BY AMBER ARNOLDSenior Staff Writer
The finance and adminis-tration division is undergoing some major changes with the military leave of Vice President of Finance Andrew Harris.
While Harris is gone on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, two administra-tors will take over his duties, splitting the financial and administrative arm of the university into two separate divisions.
Jean Bush, associate vice president of financial planning and budget, will become acting senior associate vice president of finance. Bush has 27 years of experience at UNT.
“Jean brings a stability and depth of experience and a deep understanding of finance,” Harris said.
N e w c o m e r R o d n e y McClendon will be the senior associate vice president for administration.
McClendon is the acting vice president and chief executive office at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
He has been there for 15 years and has accepted the position of senior associate vice presi-dent for finance at UNT.
“I think he will bring a depth and breadth of knowledge that we will benefit from,” Bush said. “Anytime you bring someone in externally, they bring a new perspective and ideas that you may have never thought of.”
McClendon said he applied for the job after encourage-ment from his UNT colleagues. He will arrive at UNT to begin working on Nov. 9.
“I’m ex t remely excited about joining the UNT family,” McClendon said. “The people I met during my interview were of the highest caliber profes-sionally, and I look forward to working with faculty and staff to bring UNT to tier-one status.”
Under the f inance and administration division, there are numerous departments that report directly to the division.
Bush and McClendon will provide strategic leadership for these departments as well as vision, direction and coordina-tion between all units.
Harris said splitting the divi-sion is the right move for the university because of recent growth, but it has been encour-aged because of his deploy-ment.
Harris is preparing for deployment in early 2010 as part of the Vermont National Guard and estimates that he will be gone for one year.
Harris, who has been in active duty for the Guard for 20 years, credits UNT and the Denton community with making the transition easier.
“It’s a stressful situation as it is, but to have an employer and a broader community as supportive as it is makes a tremendous difference,” Harris said.
Harris is part of the 86th mountain infantry brigade, which will visit Afghanistan to teach, coach and mentor A fg ha n nat iona l sec u r it y forces as part of the counter insurgency strategy.
T h is w i l l i nclude pa r t-ner i ng w it h u n it s of t he A fg ha n a r my a nd A fg ha n pol ice force to help t hem stabilize and provide secu-rity in their country.
VP of finance duties dividedPHOTO BY KELSEY KRUZICH / CONTRIBUTNG WRITER
Nutritionist Kathy Butler is set to retire in December after 22 years of working for the UNT Dining Services.
Chancellor resigns at Illinois school
other powerful people to get admitted over more-qualified students.
Du r i ng t he pa st t h ree weeks, Herman negotiated a plan to resign on his own terms: He’ll give up the top campus job Monday and forgo a $300,000 retention bonus he was due to receive in June. However, he will step into a newly created position, special assistant to the interim pres-ident, and retain his nearly $400,000-a-year salary through June.
Then, he will take a $244,000 sabbatical next year, as allowed in his original contract, before returning to the faculty in 2011 to teach two classes a year. His contract had called for him to teach four classes if he returned to the faculty.
A mathematics professor by t ra ining, Her ma n, 68, will move to the College of Educat ion to focus on an ongoing nationa l program to improve the number and quality of teachers going into the f ields of science, tech-nolog y, eng i neer i ng a nd math.
The board of trustees is expected to act on Herman’s resignation Friday.
“It se em s l i ke a ver y generous arrangement,” said engineering professor John Prussing, a member of the facu lt y Senate a nd presi-dent of the campus chapter of the American Association of Un iversit y P rofessors. The campus can get moving forward and not have to worry about that. Everyone was sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop and now it has.”
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SportsWednesday, October 21, 2009 Page 3
Justin UmbersonSports Editor
BY ERIC JOHNSONSenior Staff Writer
Having been a part of this university for the last four years, I have developed an unbridled passion for UNT football.
I felt t he tea rs wel l up i n m y e y e s Saturday night a f ter watching my Mean Green h a v e v i c t o r y snatched away i n t he ga me’s waning moments for the third time this season.
The pa in on the faces of the football team is a look that has become al l too familiar this season, but it is that emotion and love of the game that excites me about these players.
This program is turning the corner, and the youth and passion on this team provide a bright future.
Unlike its predecessors, this group of young men expect to win. More importantly is that they have the talent to accom-plish that goal, now they just have to learn how.
A s i t g o e s w i t h a n y rebuilding process, a team must change the attitude and the culture of losing. Spending my days speaking with these players and watching the work they put in, Todd Dodge has done just that, and the wins will follow.
Right now, it is the litt le t hings t hat are hindering UNT: Turnovers, the kicking game, an inability to finish drives with touchdowns and bad penalties have all cost this team games this season.
These errors can be fixed w it h t he ex per ience a nd maturity players gain through the devastating defeats they have suffered this season. The offense has shown lately that it has learned from its past mistakes and is ready to move forward.
In the last two games, it converted on all nine scoring chances inside the opponent’s 20-yard line, and has one of the top-25 rushing offenses in the nation.
The Mean Green has only 12 seniors on the roster, the seventh fewest in the nation, and only half of them are starters.
Nine current starters are underclassmen, and that does not include sophomore Lance Dunbar, who has exploded onto the scene with 595 yards and nine touchdowns in his last three games.
OffenseR i ley Dodge is a ga me
changer at quarterback, and while he has struggled at times this season, he has shown he can make big plays.
Riley Dodge is a student of the game and spends hours breaking down film on his opponents and himself. He will learn from his mistakes
and live up to the hype. A quarterback cannot be
judged on just five starts. Give him time to adjust and he will grow into the role.
Dunbar is a Sunday player, meaning that he will wear an NFL uniform one day. He is a lighting-quick back who possesses the speed, vision and cutting ability to make
a big play every time he touches the ball.
He is also an excellent receiver out of the back-f ield, ca n pick up the blitz and has t he power to run through defenders if they get in his way. If Darren Sproles a n d B a r r y Sa nders had a
baby, he would grow up to be Lance Dunbar.
Ja maa l Jack son, Da r ius Carey, William Cole — you want receivers with the speed and quickness to stretch the field? Well these three possess it.
Cole set high school records and amazed people with his highlight-reel runs.
When he is eligible to play next season, he should make big plays for the green and white.
Jackson is quite simply a catch machine.
He has caught 10 passes or more twice this season and leads the team with 37 recep-tions. His 4.4 speed makes him a threat in the open field, and he is not afraid to go over the middle to make a catch.
Carey has stepped in as a true freshman and made t he t ra nsit ion f rom h ig h school quarterback to college receiver look easy.
His ability to understand w hat t he qua r terback is think ing w il l help him to succeed at this level, and his ability as a punt returner makes him as dangerous as anyone in the Sun Belt.
Add M i ke Out law, B.J. Lewis, and Alex Lott and their route running ability, and the size and strength of Forrest Rucker and Sam Roberson, and you have the most formi-dable receiving corps in the conference.
J.J. Johnson, Victor Gill and Esteban Santiago will again anchor the offensive line next season.
They are a versatile group, possessi ng t he abi l it y to dominate as both run and pass blockers.
DefenseRoyce Hill is a ball-hawk in
the secondary. Teams are already hesitant
to throw it to his side of the field, and he is as close as they come to a shut-down corner.
He is t he protot y pica l corner size at 6 feet, 190 pounds and can lay a big hit when need be. His explosive-ness in the kick return game and ability to take away the other team’s best receiver should get his name called in the 2012 NFL Draft.
The Script: Young team learning to winOpinion
Pair up Hill with fellow corner DaWaylon Cook and you have the most intimi-dating duo in the Sun Belt. It is hard to find anywhere to throw the ball when these two are playing. Cook’s size and strength give him the ability
to play up on a receiver, and he has the recovery speed to avoid any big plays.
Next year’s front seven has the potential to be a brick wall. Shavod Atkinson, Kelvin Jackson, Brandon Akpunku, Sam Owusu-Hemeng, and Craig
Robertson all return and will wreak havoc on opposing Sun Belt backfields. The pressure this group will force only adds to the game-changing ability in the secondary.
I look forward to the next several years of UNT football,
and with Todd Dodge’s ability to find great athletes, this program is quickly climbing the ladder of the Sun Belt Conference. Improvement does not always show up in the win column right away, but this team is right at victory’s doorstep.
Sophomore running back Lance Dunbar scores a touchdown against the Florida Atlantic University Owls on Saturday. Dunbar rushed for a career high of 238 yards and scored three touchdowns in the 44-40 loss.
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Justin UmbersonSports Editor
By Sean GormanSenior Staff Writer
After a freshman led the soccer team in scoring last season, head coach John Hedlund never expected to see the same kind of success this year.
He couldn’t possibly have been prepared for the boost his team would receive from an unheralded prospect out of Mesquite.
UNT was lucky enough to land offensive star Michelle Young, a player who didn’t receive an overwhelming amount of attention as a prospect because of her attendance at a Division II school.
“We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Michelle and the success that she’s had,” said forward Kendall Juett, a sociology senior. “She’s been great coming in and has really come through for us.”
Young, an undeclared freshman, has burst onto t he scene for t he Mean Green, leading the team w ith eight goa ls and 16 points, which ranks the freshman sixth in the Sun Belt Conference in scoring and fifth in points.
“She’s a r e a l gem,” Hedlund said. “She’s one of the leading candidates for freshman of the year. We’re lucky to have her.”
During her senior year at Poteet High School, Young remained unsure of where she would play at the colle-giate level until meeting one of UNT’s own.
“I didn’t know where I was going to play until I met Ellen Scarfone and talked about the program here at UNT,” Young said. “I real-ized that UNT was close enough for me to go home when I wanted to but far away enough to make my
own way at the school.”W it h a bu s y s chool
schedule and more t ime dedicated to soccer, Young has found that the hardest adjustments in her first year have been off the field.
“In your senior year of high school, t hings a re really laid back,” she said. “All of a sudden all the free time I had was taken away. All I do is study, soccer, eat and sleep. It’s a whole new lifestyle.”
When given a rare block of t ime to spare, Young enjoys knitting, spending t i me w it h f r iends, a nd anything to do with arts and crafts.
“I can make a really good scarf or hat,” she said. “It’s good to also spend time with my friends so I can have some downtime and enjoy myself every once in a while.”
In a season of many highs and a handful of lows, Young said she vividly remembers her most profound memory on the field.
“I’ve enjoyed the entire year because I’ve seen this team come together and bond,” she said. “But my first goal is the one moment that is the highlight of the year for me so far.”
Life in soccer began for Young at the young age of 3, playing recreational soccer in her hometown.
“I’ve been doing this all my life,” she said. “From recreational sports to club teams to now I have always loved this game.
As the Mean Green looks for ward to the future, it can only hope this passion continues in the next three years.
“There’s always room for improvement,” she said. “I’ve always believed you can always get better.”
Freshman makes offensive impact
Forward Michelle Young, an undeclared freshman, leads the Mean Green soccer team with eight goals. Young scored a goal in the team’s 2-0 win against Troy University, two goals in a 4-0 victory over University of Loui-siana-Monroe, and both goals in a 2-1 win over Baylor University.
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Athlete of the Week: Competition drives senior midfielder to success
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Kendall Juett, a sociology senior, is in the top-10 of every UNT offensive soccer record. Juett has a chance to play professional soccer after her UNT career is over.
By eric JohnSonSenior Staff Writer
Just like the US Postal Service, come rain, shine, sleet or snow midfielder Kendall Juett always delivers.
Like a broken record, the two-time Sun Belt Conference pre-season MVP’s name was announced as a starter for the 91st straight time against Arkansas State University, which broke UNT’s record for career starts.
She also led her team to a weekend sweep by scoring two goals and added two assists, leaving her just 10 shy of the school record. Setting records might be the Holy Grail for most athletes, but Kendall Juett has a loftier goal in mind.
“It is yet to come, but stay tuned,” said Kendall Juett, a soci-ology senior. “All I want is the ring, and end my career here with a bang. The records are nice, but all I want to be remembered for is being a winner.”
ChildhoodBorn to be a competitor, Kendall
Juett loved to be outside fighting her older brothers on the playing fields. There was no activity in the Juett household that did not turn into fierce competition.
“She is like me. We are not having fun unless we are competing,” said John Juett, Kendall’s father. “If she was playing a game with her brothers, someone was throwing some-thing or getting upset if they were not winning. We all have that same competitive fire. I guess they inherited it from me.”
While Kendall Juett enjoyed playing baseball, football and any
other sport she could, at the age of 6 she found a passion that would drive the rest of her life.
“I just knew the first time I stepped on a soccer field this is what I wanted to do,” Kendall Juett said. “I just always got this excite-ment from playing the game that I could not get anywhere else.”
High School and Club Level
Always the smallest dog in the fight, Kendall Juett developed unmatched vision and quick-ness that helped her to surpass her peers.
Just before high school Kendall Juett met one of the most influ-ential people in her life, her Solar Soccer Club coach Bryan Flannigan. He saw her unpar-alleled passion and ability, and knew from day one that he had a once-in-a-lifetime player.
“She is so dangerous and I knew right away that she could play at any level she wanted to,” Flannigan said.
Kendall Juett lit up the soccer field during her time at Carrolton Creekview High School and was an integral part of two state cham-pionship teams.
She was a three-time first-team all-district selection and won the District 10-5A MVP award her senior season. The consummate team player had 57 goals and 57 assists during her Creekview career, both school records.
Despite awards, accolades and accomplishments that could fill up an entire soccer field, there was not much interest from the big-name universities. But Kendall Juett never doubted herself, and head coach John Hedlund and
UNT would finally reward her efforts.
“You could see her eyes light up when she heard the news,” Flannigan said. “Coach Hedlund lucked into one of the best players in the state.”
Hedlund’s discovery stepped right in as a freshman and has started every game since then. She has been selected to the All Sun Belt Conference First Team every season, and it is her ability as a closer that really stands out.
“I have always been better in the last 10 minutes than the first 10,” Kendall Juett said. “It is an indescribable feeling to come through when your team needs you the most.”
While most players cower under pressure, the Mean Green captain embraces it.
Hedlund knows that with the game on the line, and the ball is at Kendall Juett’s feet, she will find a way to win.
“I have never seen anyone handle pressure situations like she does,” Hedlund said. “It is nice to have a player to lean on in those situations.”
Big dreamsThe 5-foot-4-inch spark plug
sees herself playing profession-ally next year, as coaches at the professional level have already contacted her.
In January, the Women’s Professional Soccer league will have its annual draft, and the Washington Freedom have expressed a desire for Kendall Juett to come and try out.
“I could not ask for anything more than getting paid to do something that I love,” Kendall Juett said. “Not many people get that opportunity, and I have the work rate and passion to be successful. I could not picture myself doing anything outside of soccer.”
The WPS is a nine-team league with a roster of 18-22 women per team.
-The season runs from March until early August when the play-offs begin. Salaries range from $80,000 to $150,000 a year. This is the kind of stage that coach Hedlund expects his star to shine on.
“I would be disappointed if I did not see her on television next year,” Hedlund said.
Kendall Juett’s biggest supporter and No. 1 fan has always been her father, and with her college career coming to a close he is thrilled to see her chasing after what she wants.
“I want what she wants,” John Juett said. “I have always let my kids follow their passion because that is where they should be. There is no doubt in my mind she will be a success at that level. She is a perfect role model for the next generation: An honor-roll student, a stand-out athlete and a big heart, what else could a father ask for?”
FinaleOne of the best to ever grace
the North Texas Soccer Field has just three regular season games remaining in her illustrious career.
Her numbers speak for them-selves: 56 wins, 30 goals, 29 assists, 10 game winning goals and 247 shots, which ranks her in the top-10 all time in every offen-sive category.
The only thing that’s missing from her résumé is the thing she craves the most, a Sun Belt Conference Championship.
“For everything she has done for this program, I want so badly to get her a ring,” Hedlund said. “She has been such an inspiration to this team, and just an irreplace-able player. Hopefully we can send her off as a champion.”
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Kip MooneyArts & Life Editor
Guillermo Arriaga
BY LISA GARZAContributing Writer
Artists of different genres have a new place to develop and present their creations.
UNT’s Inst it ute for t he Adva ncement of t he A r ts prov ides opportunit ies for a r t ist s a nd musicia ns to showcase their work through exhibits and concerts.
T he 24,000-squa re-foot faci l it y is on t he Denton Square.
Academy Award-nominated s c r e e n w r i t e r G u i l l e r m o Arriaga is the institute’s first artist-in-residence.
“Everyone has this vision of the border being about immi-gration and drugs,” Arriaga said. “I wanted to tell a love story.”
A r r iaga, whose screen-plays include “Babel” and “21 Grams,” recently completed his directoria l debut “The Bu r n i ng Pla i n,” st a r r i ng Cha rl ize Theron a nd K im Basinger. The story, told out of order, takes place in a small New Mexico border town.
The artist-in-residence is a person not affiliated with UNT who works on a project at the institute for an extended period of t ime. A rr iaga is not able to ta lk about his upcoming projects because of confidentiality clauses in his contract.
Art ists-in-residence a lso have opportunities to interact with students by serving as g uest spea kers in classes related to t heir expert ise. The radio, television and film department hosted Arriaga as he speaks to various film
UNT launches arts institute
(AP) — Immigrant advocates are urging retailers to pull a Halloween costume depicting a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words “illegal alien,” while a group that supports strict immigration laws says such a move impinges on freedom of speech.
Beyond the holiday uproar, the dispute highlights the controversial nature of the phrase illegal alien — still the government’s official term for those in the country without a visa, though many national politicians and media increas-ingly avoid using it.
Since Friday, when t he C o a l i t i o n f o r Hu m a n e Immigration Rights in Los Angeles first raised the issue, companies including Target, Walgreens and eBay have removed the costume from their inventory. Still, many local retailers continue to stock the costume that also comes with a “green” card — which techni-cally makes the alien legal.
Target has said it sold the costume online only and that it was posted by accident because it did not meet the compa-ny’s standards. EBay said it asked sellers to remove the costume because it “does not allow items that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance, or promote organizations with such views.”
Jorge-Ma r io Cabrera, a spokesman for the immigrant coalition, said the costume “perpetuates this idea we have about undocumented immi-grants as alien foreigners, strangers, scary.”
BY MELISSA BOUGHTONSenior Staff Writer
Drunken driving was the theme of two events Tuesday as Marcus Engel shared his personal stories with students for the National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.
Engel, a professional speaker and author from Orlando, Fla., participated in a victim impact panel and gave a speech in an effort to warn students of the impact of drinking and driving.
“I think my overall goal is to give people a face to put with a crime,” Engel said.
T he pa nel d i s c u s sion i ncluded g uest spea kers Mitch Land, interim dean of the Mayborn School of Journalism, and representa-tives from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, The Gordie Foundation and the UNT Police Department.
Pa nel members ta l ked about their personal stories of how their lives have been impacted from alcohol-related accidents.
“I think it went very well and I hope that some of them heard the message and it got across,” Doyce Grant, Mothers Against Drunk Driving representative, said. “If I can reach at least one person and stop at least one person from drinking and driving, that’s my goal.”
Engel spoke at the Eagle Student Services Center later in a more detailed account of his own drunk-driving acci-dent.
He was hit by a drunken driver during his first year of college and suffered from life-threatening injuries. Engel had to have his face reconstructed and is permanently blind from the accident.
“Through 300 hours worth of reconstructive facial surgery and two years of rehab and recovery, I stayed committed to trying to get myself back into college,” he said.
T houg h h is stor y wa s serious, Engel kept the crowd of about 80 students laughing with his light-hearted jokes and “ADD stories.”
“I think it’s important for students to hear stories like this because no one really realizes the consequences of their actions until some-thing like this happens,” said Salah Schoenecke, a health promotions senior. “I think the good thing about it too is he is comedic and still gets his point across.”
Some students took his message to heart and said it would make them think twice about drinking.
“It makes them want to get a ride if they’re drinking and driving, or not drink at all,” said Shelton Gandy, an unde-cided freshman.
Engel spoke for a little more than an hour about the steps he took after his life changed and said he hopes students can demonstrate responsible behavior, but that preventative measures will always be neces-sary to make a difference.
“Prevention is one of those things that needs to occur again and again and again,” he said.
Speaker shares story of drunk driving accident
PHOTO BY MELISSA BOUGHTON / PHOTOGRAPHER
classes this week. “I am modestly sharing my
knowledge with them and I’m sure a lot of people here will share their knowledge with me,” he said.
A committee comprised of Warren Burggren, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Ja mes Scott, dea n of t he College of Music; and Robert
Milnes, dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design, over-sees operations of the insti-tute and appoints the artist-in-residence.
“We have set a wonder-fully high standard with the appointment of Gui l lermo Arriaga as our first artist-in-residence,” Burggren said in an e-mail. “I look forward to continue with individuals of his caliber.”
The committee also selects t wo appl ica nt s f rom t he faculty and awards them an opportunity to concentrate on their artistry by relieving them from their teaching responsi-bilities for a semester.
The first faculty fellows will
be announced at the public launch of the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, held at 3:30 p.m. today at the Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building.
The grand opening of UNT on the Square w il l follow at 5:30 p.m. but is an invitation-only event.
A mong t he fe at u re d works on display are by 2009 Hunter Art Prize-winning artist Robyn O’Neil. The exhibit, “P.R.I.N.T. Press: Selections from the Print Research Institute of North Texas,” includes three of O’Neil’s works.
O’Neil made the litho-graphs in July in the UNT P.R.I.N.T. Press, said Rachel Biggerstaf f, a P.R.I.N.T. program and project coor-dinator.
O’Neil’s usual medium is graphite on paper so she worked with Jon Lee from P.R.I.N.T. to create the pieces for the exhibit.
“It ’s a c ol l a b or at i v e process, an art ist and a printer working together, to create a work of art,” Biggerstaff said.
The institute is supported f inancially by the Off ice of t he Provost and Vice President for Academ ic A f fa i r s a nd t he Of f ice of the Vice President for Resea rch a nd Economic Development. The institute hopes to eventually secure an endowment fund from private donations.
T he Inst it ute for t he Advancement of the Arts is at 109 N. Elm St.
Cabrera said he knew the costume could be taken as a play on words but the jump-suit was too close to what many immigrants must wear in detention centers, “where they can spend months at a time, and where there is a lot of suffering.”
But William Gheen, head of the North Carolina-based political action committee A m e r i c a n s f o r L e g a l Immigration, said efforts to get stores not to sell the costume amounted to an attack on freedom of speech. He urged Americans to buy the costumes in protest.
“I looked at the costume and thought it was kind of funny. The only thing that wasn’t funny was how many illegal immigrants are in this country,” said Gheen, who has given speeches suggesting Latin Americans are bringing an epidemic of tuberculosis to the U.S., despite government figures showing the illness is at an all-time low.
Gheen said he didn’t under-
stand why people would have a problem with words used in federal law.
“This is a batt le over psycholinguistics,” he said, referring to the study of the relationship between language and the psychology or behavior of those who use it. “Nobody is supposed to be able to use the words ‘illegal aliens’ ... except in the government literature.”
There’s a big difference between how words are used officially and what people say in popular language, said Charleton McIlwain, professor of race and media at New York University.
“When people (informally) ta lk about immig ra nts, the term aliens seems to almost exclusively get used for Mexicans or other Latin Americans. We don’t talk about Canadian aliens,” he said, adding that the prison jumpsuit creates an asso-ciation with more serious crimes like drug dealing, rape and murder.
Costume causes controversy
Marcus Engel, professional speaker and author from Orlando, Fla., spoke Tuesday about his experience being hit by a drunken driver. Engel spoke for Nation Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.
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BY MORGAN WALKERStaff Writer
One of the most free-spirited activities that is often lost after childhood can now be brought back to life — running bare-foot.
FiveFingers are form-fitting shoes designed by the Italian company Vibram. The shoes, which were named one of the best inventions of 2007 by Time maga-zine, allow the user to be closer to the ground during activities such as running, water sports, travel, yoga or working out.
“I’ve seen a few students wear them around the Rec Center and I’ve heard that they can improve your balance,” said Michael Chadwick, a personal trainer at the Pohl Recreation Center.
According to the product Web site, the glove-like shoes enhance the user’s sense of touch and improve foot strength, agility and range of motion because they are able to deepen his or her connec-tion to the earth.
Connor Patrick, a kinesiology sophomore, said he bought his shoes in summer 2008 because he needed a multipurpose shoe to wear at water parks.
After doing some research, Patrick said he wanted to see how he could improve his walk while maintaining durability.
“It’s really awesome to be able to feel what you walk on,” Patrick
said. “There were plenty of times when I’ve worn regular shoes and rolled my ankle while I was barely an inch off the ground.”
Patrick went on to say that he can “adjust properly” with the FiveFingers in order to avoid ankle or foot sprains, and while the “super intuitive and func-tional” shoes were pricey at around $85 they have lasted more than a year — longer than many of his other shoes.
The Web site states that Vitale Bramani, who invented the first rubber soles for mountaineering in 1935, founded Vibram soles. More than 70 years later, indus-trial designer Robert Fliri intro-duced the idea of the FiveFingers to Marco Bramani, Vitale’s grandson.
Chase Gillespie is a footwear associate at Sun and Ski Sports, an outdoors store in Grapevine. He said the reason the shoes are so expensive is because of the Vibram sole.
The patented sole is made from a rubber compound which provides improved grip and ground-feel in both wet and dry conditions, according to the Vibram Web site.
“We’ve definitely seen an increase in sales,” Gillespie said. “More and more people are coming in to buy the shoes because running barefoot can help decrease foot ailments.”
Form-fitting shoes give barefoot feeling
One a i lment Gi l lespie described was plantar fasciitis, a common runner injury.
Plantar fasciitis occurs when the plantar fascia, a ligament which connects the heel bone to the toes, gets weak, swollen
and irritated which causes pain in the bottom of the foot while walking or standing, according to WebMD.
“Running barefoot helps strengthen the foot as opposed to other shoes which won’t allow
your foot to move the way it’s supposed to,” Gillespie said.
According to Vibram’s Web site, foot length is measured in inches rather than shoe size in order to achieve best fitting results.
“I recommend wearing them at least three to four hours a week so that your feet can get used to them,” Patrick said. “Your feet will become stronger over time.”
For more information, visit www.vibramfivefingers.com.
Connor Patrick, a kinesiology sophomore, said his Vibram FiveFingers have enough support to wear while walking around campus and he usually wears them while being active.
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BY KATIE GRIVNASenior Staff Writer
When Meagan Hodson went on vacation with her family this past summer, she didn’t know she would bring back an intern-ship along with her souvenirs.
As her family looked for a hotel in New Braunfels, she said they stumbled upon a fun resort. Hodson, a hospitality manage-ment junior, realized this might be a place she would want to work.
After contacting the human resources department, Hodson received a tour and was unoffi-cially offered an internship.
Internships are valuable and
a great way to break into one’s desired industry, she said.
“The more real-life experience we have on top of class expe-rience, the better it is and the better preparation it is for us,” Hodson said.
An internship is required for the hospitality management program. Since she is already thinking ahead, she won’t have to worry about scrambling to find one at the last minute that she might not enjoy, she said.
“If you are doing different things and you are where you want to be, it will be enjoyable to you and you will be working hard,” Hodson said. “You will
Internships offer ‘real-life applications’be gaining leadership skills and real life applications, not just in a classroom that you will be able to apply to your profession.”
Kurt K rause, associate director of UNT Cooperative Education and Internships, said the purpose of an internship is to get real world experience in the field.
It can lead to confirmation that you picked the right major or let you know before you grad-uate that it is not exactly what you want to do for the rest of your life.
Most of the time, people find they enjoy the real world work associated with their major, he said. adding that it takes initia-tive and persistence to find an internship.
“Internships don’t just fall
into people’s laps, but they’re not as hard to find as one might think,” he said.
Students are encouraged to use the resources in the Career Center and the Cooperative Education and Internships office such as resume workshops or one-on-one assistance, he said.
Students can view available
internships, full-time jobs, on-campus jobs or volunteer opportunities using the Eagle Network, which is accessed under the Student Resources tab of a MyUNT account.
When an internship search is conducted, the network auto-matically filters internships by the student’s major.
Students who complete an internship and stay with the company for another semester, for a total of two semesters, are offered a full time job from the company 80 to 85 percent of the time, Krause said.
The most common mistake students make when looking for an internship is having typo-graphical errors on their résumé because they didn’t proofread it thoroughly, he said.
“They think that their résumé is adequate, but the résumé is the first thing that the employer sees and if it hasn’t been prepared correctly, the student is seldom chosen for an interview,” Krause said.
Students should start looking for internships as soon as possible, as federal government positions and highly competitive internship deadlines are often in December or January, he said.
He also said students should start working on their résumé now and use the resources avail-able in the Career Center and the Cooperative Education and Internships office because the earlier students begin to look for an internship, the better the chances are of finding what they want.
“I think once they see what is available to them, then the rest seems to take care of itself,” he said.
Katelin Neikirk, an interna-tional studies sophomore, said she plans to start applying for an internship in the spring, and hopes to work for the United Nations one day.
“I think they’re really impor-tant, they can teach you a lot of things. Granted, you don’t get paid which kind of stinks, but at the same time the experience is worth it,” she said. “An internship for anybody is useful. There’s no way that it can hurt you in any way.”
For more information, visit www.internships.unt.edu.
Kurt Krause
It ’s not u nc om mon to wa l k i nto a dense cloud of ciga ret te smoke wh i le walking between classes on campus.
In fact, 28.5 percent of U.S. college students are smokers, according to the American Cancer Society.
So, on a campus of almost 35,000 students, it’s not odd to see more than a few smoke signals here and there.
W h i le t he u n iver sit y ’s smok i ng pol ic y prevent s smokers f rom l ight ing up close to building entrances, there are no rules keeping them from puffing thunder-cloud-sized plumes of smoke among a crowd of students.
Universit y pol icy states “smok ing is prohibited in a l l u n iversit y-cont rol led/owned buildings” and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Except that it’s lenient to a fault.
It lets smokers take their h a bit to s t udent-packe d sidewalks, where even more people wil l be affected by cigarette smoke.
Secondhand smoke may seem like yesterday’s news,
but its effects hold conse-quences t hat may reach further into our future than we imagined.
T h e A m e r i c a n L u n g Association says the harmful pa r t ic les i n second ha nd smoke — the smoke exhaled by the smoker or given off by t he burning t ip of t he ciga ret te — brea k s dow n slowly and can remain in the surrounding air for hours.
During that time, count-less students, facult y a nd staff walk by and involun-tarily inhale the hundreds of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals.
T h a t l i n ge r i n g s mok e c ont a i n s f or m a l d e h y d e , a r s e n i c , a m m o n i a a n d hyd rogen c ya n ide a mong o t h e r n o t- s o p l e a s a n t-sounding chemicals.
Formaldehyde is used to preser ve f rogs in biolog y class, arsenic is used as a p oi s on a nd i n s e c t ic ide, ammonia is highly irritating a nd tox ic, a nd hyd rogen c ya n ide wa s used i n ga s chambers throughout Nazi Germany.
Secondhand smoke is also
a k now n c a nc er-c au si ng substance, according to the Env ironmenta l Protect ion Agency.
So the bystanders, not just the smoker, get the elevated risk of lung cancer too.
An 805-page report by the California EPA linked it to breast cancer in premeno-pausal women, nasal sinus c a n c e r, s u d d e n i n f a n t death syndrome and heart disease.
But w h at ’s r e a l l y t he chance of it affecting your health?
Secondhand smoke ki l ls 50,000 people per year in the United States, according to the California EPA.
A nd t here’s no r isk-free level of secondhand smoke eit her, mea n i ng t hat no matter how small the amount of smoke you’re exposed to, you’ll be affected.
To top it all off, the Surgeon General says even short expo-sures to secondhand smoke will affect your health.
I n m a ny Te x a s c it ie s , smoking is no longer allowed in bars and restaurants.
Shou ld n’t it be ba n ned
throughout the UNT campus, where many more thousands of people are exposed to it every day?
If it can be banned in all restaurants, workplaces and bars in 24 states, how hard could it be to enforce on a campus?
Nea rly 60 U.S. col leges a l ready have smoke-f ree ca mpuses, according to a 2007 CNN report.
A s mok e -f r e e c a m pu s initiative should be brought up at the next student govern-ment meeting.
Sure, some smokers would be upset.
But many more students a nd t e a c he r s w ou ld b e grateful.
C o n s i d e r i n g h o w t h e Centers for Disease Control & Prevention estimates 443,000 A m e r i c a n s d i e p r e m a -turely each year because of tobacco, smokers would be doing themselves a favor by cutting back.
Juan Guajardo is a jour-nalism senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
M a n y p e o p l e t h i n k Facebook provides a protected env ironment. They t hin k t hat creat ing a page ca n allow others to see into their l ives and t hat ever y t hing people post on their pages is private.
These ideas ma ke them think that Facebook should have no effect on anything outside of t heir persona l lives.
Right? Wrong.P i c t u r e t w o t y p i c a l
Facebook pages: One shows images of drunken nights and foul language while the other displays tasteful pictures and correct grammar.
Which would instill more conf idence in a potentia l employer?
Until a law says otherwise, employers have the right to
look at potential employees’ Facebook pages to see whether their job candidate is respon-sible, intelligent and appro-priate about what they share with others.
In fact , 45 percent of employers use Facebook or other social networking Web sites to get a better idea of what an applicant is like, according to a sur vey conducted by CareerBuilder from May 22 to June 10 earlier this year. This allows employers to see the real person behind the carefully polished facade of a candidate.
W hile social networking site screening should not be used to discriminate based on race, religion or sexual orientation, choosing candi-dates based on whether or not they represent themselves in an appropriate manner is
fair game.Ma ny people appea r to
suffer from the misconcep-tion that Facebook is auto-mat ica l ly pr ivate. W h i le people can make their pages private, many fail to do so, leaving their information free for all to see.
In reality, he or she loses the power over what their posts are used for the moment somet hing goes onto t he Web.
The problem is easily fixed. Resisting the temptation to post inappropriate material protects people from prying eyes.
A picture could turn up to haunt a person years later.
A p r o v o c a t i v e p h o t o u p l o a d e d t o Fa c e b o o k cou ld be copied, pa sted and printed by anyone else online. A caption reading, “I
was so wasted when I took this picture” could ruin the perfect job opportunity.
A status saying, “I hate my job, and my boss is an idiot” could result in losing a much-needed job.
Ult imately, people need to think before they post. Consequences exist for poor choices.
Abigail Allen is a journalism senior and copy chief of the Daily. She can be reached at [email protected].
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film freshman
How often do you wear sweatpants to class in a week?
“Hardly ever. Maybe zero times or once a week.”
“I never wear sweatpants to class… I honestly don’t
even own a pair.”
As the recession rages on, the outlook for college gradu-ates grows grimmer. With more graduates than jobs, and many employers hiring fewer graduates than in previous years, students must do all they can to set themselves above the competition.
Yet many students choose to ignore a key ingredient to any impressive resumé — internships.
While many students feel their degree alone should be enough to earn a job, in reality many college graduates find themselves with thousands of dollars in student loans and no paycheck.
Internships set students apart from other potential employees who may not have experience outside the classroom.
They also provide students with real, on-the-job experi-ence, which benefits them in more ways than just helping them get hired.
Learning something in a classroom and actually doing it are two different things. Internships allow students to learn what it’s like to apply their education to real-life scenarios, learn to work around deadlines and under pressure, and also decide what exactly they want to do with their degree by interning in different fields of their major.
They also allow a student to acquire valuable contacts in their prospective industry, contacts that could lead to future jobs, or at least some impressive recommendations.
Additionally, many majors offer students the option of earning credit for their internships, so interning can also help a student meet elective requirements for their degree.
For students who don’t know where to begin their search for an internship, UNT’s department of Cooperative Education and Internships offers students guidance and even helps them find internships.
College was intended to prepare students for their future profession. Many students make the mistake of treating college as more of a lifestyle than a means to an end, feeling entitled to a job just for attending.
For college to be truly fruitful, however, students must actively make the most of their degree. Having a degree alone does not entitle a student to a job after graduation, a harsh reality many graduates end up facing first-hand.
While we understand the difficulty students face trying to balance school, work, family, friends and an internship, the benefits greatly outweigh the difficulties. When the time comes to apply for a job, students will be thankful for the hard work they put in.
For more information on internships, students can call 940-565-2861 or visit www.coop.unt.edu.
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freshman
“I probably wear them about three times a week.”
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