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BY JOHN HARDENThe Shorthorn senior staff

UTA released a plan to redesign some parking lots to alleviate po-tential parking issues due to the

special events center construction this summer.

Construction will take place on the eastern edge of campus and will force many students to park elsewhere.

Before construction begins, the university will expand several lots and construct a new lot over spring break.

According to the parking plan, Lot 49, located on South Coo-per Street and South Nedderman Drive, will be re-striped to add 235 spaces. Lot 50, located on South Cooper Street and Doug Russell Road, will gain 74 spaces. Lot 51, located on Bessel Avenue and West Street, will gain 83 spaces.

Facilities Management surveyed

each parking lot and determined the best way to design the lots to improve efficiency. The university will also construct a new Lot 56 at Doug Russell Road and Pecan

Street, which will add 116 spaces by mid-April. The lot will have a shuttle stop as well.

Campus to gain 380 parking spacesFACILITIES

Some lots will close during spring break to be re-striped and expanded.

BY CLINT UTLEYThe Shorthorn sports editor

KATY, Texas — The third time was not a charm for the women’s basketball team.

The Mavericks lost to Lamar on Thursday afternoon in the semifinal match-up of the South-land Conference Tournament.

The loss was the third time this season that Lamar has defeated UT Arlington. The Cardinals had four players score in double digits, with se-nior forward Darika Hill put-ting up 20.

Lamar junior guard Jenna Plumley, SLC Player of the Year, had 14 points and eight assists, five in the initial 8:30 minutes.

Plumley averaged 14.5 points per game and shot 37.5 percent from 3-point range this season but went 4 of 13, 30 percent, from 3-point range in the game.

“When you play a team like that, it’s pick your poison,” head coach Samantha Morrow said after the game. “Are you going to let her get 30, or are you going to try to make somebody else do it, and they did.

“Darika Hill, she hit some huge baskets for them,” she said.

Lamar opened the game by taking a 22-10 but the Mavericks countered by going on a 16-4 run over the next 6:46 to tie the score at 26-26 with 4:44 to go in the

Mavslose SLC slot to Lamar

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

After back and forth game, the Cardinals widen gap and keep lead for the 70-61 win.

BY CHASE WEBSTERThe Shorthorn senior staff

Members of the Student Alumni Association were able to participate in its tuition raffle for the first time this year, and one of them won.

Anne Marie Boeding, music edu-cation sophomore and board of di-rectors member, won a drawing for a grand prize of $5,000 in paid tuition for one semester. The drawing took place on Feb. 26 at The Bash. A total of $6,500 was given to the first, sec-ond and third names drawn.

Boeding said she saw the raffle as a way of giving to the university.

“All of the extra money goes to student scholarships,” she said. “I fig-ure the university has given me so much, why not give a little back?”

According to group adviser Jas-mine Stewart, approximately 2,800 tickets were sold for the raffle at $5 a piece. The number of tickets pur-chased by group members is not known, she said.

Yinka Ajibade, mechanical engi-neering senior and group treasurer, said all board of director members who were eligible for the raffle partic-ipated. To be eligible for the raffle one must have been enrolling in classes for the fall 2010 semester.

Students were limited in how many tickets they could purchase for the drawing only by how many they could afford. Boeding was able to purchase 40 tickets with the help of her family, she said.

Tuition Raffl e winner announcedSTUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Dreaming of Design

Lindsay Rowan says she holds her tongue when she visits a friend’s home, but still dreams of how their interior could look

sometimes.Clean and simple designs are what draw

Rowan closer to her interior design work.“In school, they always teach minimalism,

if you have too much, it’ll contrast with each other,” Rowan said.

The interior design senior can be found

working continuously on her projects around the clock at the School of Architecture’s Design Resource Center.

“You always think that it’s going to be 10 hours to complete it, but it ends up being 20 hours,” she said.

Rowan’s appreciation for simplicity doesn’t stop when she leaves campus – it spills over to her apartment.

The drafting table in her airy and sun-lit

living room situates itself against 16 neatly ar-ranged square corkboards on the wall. Drawings of her projects and guidelines are pinned there to keep Rowan inspired during long hours in the design process.

The two-toned colored walls serve to only compliment the inviting atmosphere, if her dog Doodle, hasn’t introduced herself already.

—Rasy Ran

The Shorthorn: Rasy Ran

Above: Interior design senior Lindsay Rowan glues a piece of her tabletop March 3 at the Fine Arts Building. Rowan’s project comprises of metal for legs and salvaged wood for the tabletop.

Top: Rowan attributed most of her day as being spent working on projects at the university. Rowan said she occasionally has dreams and nightmares about interior design.

Spotlight, a day-in-the-life series, documents unique personalities and hobbies throughout the spring semester.

Anne Marie Boeding won the $5,000 grand prize after buying 40 tickets.

Anne Marie Boeding, music education sophomore and winner of the $5,000 tuition raffle BY JUSTIN SHARP

The Shorthorn staff

At a talk delivered to a packed lec-ture hall Thursday in the Geoscience Building, Science Dean Pamela Jans-ma revealed to students and faculty new “hot off the press” information about the quake in Haiti.

The new data was collected by a team of researchers, who recently returned from Haiti.

Jansma contributed to an aca-demic paper published in 2008 that stated, based on data collected, the likelihood of an approximately 7.2 magnitude quake in the area near Port-au-Prince.

The type of fault line that runs through Haiti and the Dominican Republic is known as a strike-slip fault, which means the edges of the plates grind against each other lat-erally, as Jansma explained in the presentation.

The quake was quite severe for

Dean sheds light on Haiti and Chile earthquakes

SCIENCE

Jansma discusses how tectonic plates interacted to cause the quakes.

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A photo caption for Tuesday’s story “Breaking ground on a new chapter” should have said that the special events center will be completed in December 2011.

The March 3 story, “New library system lets students ask questions via text,” should have said the Mosio software used for the program cost $1,200 per year.

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Electric Power Quality: 11 a.m. free. 111 Ned-derman Hall. for information, contact J.C. Chiao at 817-272-1337 or [email protected]

Creativity Test: 2 p.m.-6 p.m. free. UTA/fort Worth Center Santa fe Station. for informa-tion, contact Megan Topham at 817-272-5988

$2 Movie- Little Shop of Horrors: 5:30 p.m. $2. Planetarium. for information, contact the Planetarium at 817-272-1183 or [email protected]

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Vehicle, Tow An officer was dispatched at 11:10 a.m. to tow a vehicle from faculty Lot 7, which is located by the Nanofab center, on 500 Cooper St. for parking in a reserved space without authorization. The case was cleared.

Theft An officer investigated at 1:36 p.m. a bicycle theft that occurred at the fine Arts Build-ing on 700 Greek Row Drive. The case is active.

Criminal Trespass officers were dispatched at 1:57 p.m. in re-gards to two subjects soliciting magazines on 400 Second St. The nonstudents were both issued a criminal trespass warning for the entire campus. The case was cleared.

Theft An officer at 2:17 p.m. investigated the report of a bicycle theft that occurred at the southeastern apartment zone on 1000 Pecan Drive. A student advised the officer that both his bikes were stolen. The case is active.

AssaultAn officer investigated at 6:31 p.m. a report from a student of an unidentified male subject following her at Science Hall on 502 yates St. The man grabbed her arm before she ran away and reported the incident. The case is active.

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UTA Police are looking for an individual involved in a possible assault.

According to the police report, a woman left Science Hall at ap-proximately 6:31 p.m. Wednes-day when an unknown man ap-proached her. The man followed her and asked her where she was going and if she was alone, as well as commenting on her appear-ance. When she did not respond, the man touched her arm and she ran for help.

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meeting with an artist to make a composite sketch of the suspect, Gomez said.

Even situations that seem like harmless horseplay and goofing around can sometimes turn into something much worse if they go ignored, Gomez said.

“We never know what we’re dealing with,” he said. “If people get away with little things, they can escalate. We want to be able to identify him. If he’s not a student we can get him off the campus.”

— Chase Webster

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All students should be aware of everything happening on campus, said Carter Bedford, Student Governance and Orga-nizations associate director.

“You can’t complain about something if you’re not part of the process,” he said.

Students can get involved by checking in with elected

student officials, reading pub-lished pieces concerning UTA and engaging in healthy dia-logue, Bedford said.

Student Congress president Kent Long aired a similar mes-sage Tuesday, when he urged

SC mem-bers to file for elections and for them to encourage others to do the same. He also spoke to a group

of students during a Business Constituency Council meeting Wednesday, saying it’s their “social responsibility” to either run or vote.

After filing, candidates have to attend a candidate meet-ing and submit typed platform statements and campaigns.

There will be a candidate forum on April 14, and elec-tions will follow on April 19 and 20.

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PrinCess of PoPNursing junior Valerie Arnaez performs karaoke to Britney Spears’ “Lucky” Thursday night in Bowling and Billiards as part of the Multicultural Mavericks Women’s History Month.

mark your CalendarA candidate forum will be held April 14, and elections will be held April 19 and 20.

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first half. Lamar responded to that run and went into halftime with a 33-29 lead.

Senior guard Meghan Nelson scored 10 points and was 4 of 5 from the free-throw line in the first half.

“It’s pretty hard when you are doing everything you can and you’re making pushes,” Nelson said. “You gotta keep going at it. You can’t stop just because they hit a shot.”

Nelson hit two free throws at the 16:15 mark in the second half to tie the game at 38-38, but Plumley responded with a 3-pointer on Lamar’s next possession.

Lamar led by as many as six points before the Mavs took a 54-53 lead on a Nel-son lay-up with 8:40 to play in the game.

Junior forward Shalyn Martin fouled out of the game with 3:43 to play in the second half. Mor-row said Martin’s loss hurt the team, but other players were required to pick up the slack.

Sophomore guard Nicole

Terral, who finished with 12 points, hit a 3-pointer with four minutes to play to cut Lamar’s lead to three points.

“There was a lot of min-utes that were definitely un-expected,” Terral said of her amount of minutes played. “It was not an individual ef-fort at all. Everybody pulled it together and pulled up the slack. That’s why it was such a good game.”

After Terral’s bucket, Lamar out-scored the Mavs 9-3 to close out the game.

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Bballcontinued from page 1

BY SAM MORTONThe Shorthorn staff

The baseball team kicks off conference play this weekend, hosting the Sam Houston State Bearkats, who come to Clay Gould Ballpark looking to get back on track after a 3-10 start to the season.

After getting swept by Dal-las Baptist to start the season, the Mavericks (4-8) have won consecutive weekends, taking two from the Missouri State Bears from the Missouri Valley Conference and the Brigham Young Cougars from the Mountain West Conference.

Unfortunately, midweek games haven’t gone the Maver-icks’ way this season. After fall-ing to Oklahoma last week, the Mavs couldn’t compete against Texas Christian and Creigh-ton this week, losing by a 26-7 combined score.

But while the team man-aged to capture a pair of se-ries wins during their perilous non-conference schedule, the team isn’t satisfied with its re-cent play.

“We’ve learned a lot as a team,” senior catcher Steffan Guest said. “These last two games showed us that we’ve got more work to do.”

Guest anticipates starting conference play but under-stands the work it’s going to take to compete against Sam Houston State.

“We’re going to wipe the slate clean, ‘cause conference is a different story,” Guest said. “We’ve got to be ready to play on Friday. Their record may not show it, but they’re a good ballclub. They always are.”

Head coach Darin Thom-

as is frustrated with the lack of pitching depth so far, and hopes the pitching staff learns from their recent struggles in time to turn it around in con-ference.

“We usually play well be-hind [Jason] Mitchell and [Rett] Varner, so hopefully our younger guys will start to feed off of that,” Thomas said. “We’re going to try to win a series, and it all starts on the mound.”

The Mavericks have yet to win a game this season without senior pitcher Jason Mitchell or junior pitcher Rett Varner on the mound. Besides Mitch-ell or Varner, the Maverick pitching staff has an ERA of 9.76 — over a run an inning.

“We’re very thin right now, we’re just searching for some-body to step up,” Thomas said.

Junior center fielder Mi-chael Choice, who hit his 23rd career home run on Tuesday, admits that progress has been made, but he isn’t content with the way the Mavericks have been struggling to get batters out.

“I would hope these guys have learned,” Thomas said. “It’s a helpless feeling as a coach when you get way behind like that. You feel like there’s noth-ing you can do.”

He said he envied the way Texas Christian’s pitching staff is fighting for opportunities to pitch and taking advantage of every chance. He hopes his young team can realize their potential heading into confer-ence.

“These kids have to realize they’re getting an opportuni-ty, and at some point the op-portunity is going to run out,” Thomas said.

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Mavs prepare to rebound after 4-8 start

BASEBALL

It’s time for the team’s younger pitchers to realize their potential, coach says.

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Assistant Coach K.J Hendricks discusses what the players need to focus on in preparation of the future games. Hendricks explains what drills to concentrate on and why the players will need them in the up-coming season.

BY WILL DOANThe Shorthorn Staff

The UTA softball team lost in extra innings to No. 14 ranked UT-Austin 3-2 Thurs-day night, bumping the Mavs to a 12-9 record.

The nearly 500 in atten-dance witnessed a back and forth pitching duel throughout the game.

Senior pitcher Cara Hulme gave up a solo shot to UT-Aus-tin’s first baseman Lexy Bennet in the first inning to take the early 1-0 lead.

The Mavs responded with a bases loaded single by junior first baseman Rebecca Collom. Then senior catcher Saman-tha Chumchal walked, which scored Hulme for the 2-1 lead.

In the top of the second, Hulme gave up another solo shot, this time to shortstop Loryn Johnson, to tie it.

After Lyles entered the

game she threw seven shut-out innings until the 10th. The Longhorns then brought in their ace pitcher, Blaire Luna, who struck out the 14 of 19 bat-ters she faced.

By the top of the 10th in-ning, the game had to be de-cided with an International Tiebreaker Rule, where each

Mavs fall to Longhorns, 3-2SOFTBALL

Freshman pitcher Teri Lyles pitched for 7 shutout innings until the 10th inning.


Junior outfielder Jordan Barry, left, and sophomore outfielder Kari Karr listen to Patty Smith as she reads the tragic story of her daugh-ter, Laurren Smith, before Thursday night’s game at Allan Saxe Field. Lauren Smith died from a rare bone cancer. All proceeds of Thursday’s game against Texas will benefit the “Laurren Smith Medical Fund.”

BY JOHNATHAN SILVERThe Shorthorn senior staff

Four UTA Wrestling Club members are vying for All-American titles at the 2010 National Collegiate Wrestling Championships in Hampton, Va. lasting until Saturday.

After two rounds Thurs-day, two Fightin’ Mavs wrestlers remain undefeat-ed, while the other two are one loss away from being out of the double-elimina-tion tournament. National qualifiers include business management sophomore Matt Morgan, kinesiology junior Ray Ramirez, kine-siology junior Chris Corry and kinesiology junior Jose Lazo. An All-American title places wrestlers in the top eight nationwide.

Head technique coach

Gabriel Reyes said he trains all his wrestlers to be national champions and expects the men out on the road to return to UTA as All-Americans. In

a past national champion-ship, Reyes traveled with eight national qualifiers. None of them were as tough as the four current quali-fiers are, he said.

“To make it to day two is tough to do,” Reyes said. “We’ve never had all the guys going into day two.”

Corry lost his first match, but pinned his second rival in the following round. He has to win four matches in a row to become an All-American. He said he was a bit disappointed after his Thursday matches, which weren’t his best, he said.

“One thing that concerns me more than not winning is not wrestling at my full potential,” Corry said. “I’m

Pinning down theAll-American title

CAMPUS RECREATION

Four Fightin’ Mavs wrestle their way to Collegiate Wrestling Championship.

LAMAR 70, UTA 61LamarPlayer FG-FGA REB PTS MINSmith 6-11 7 13 28Hill 9-19 10 20 37Loyd 5-9 6 10 33Plumley 5-17 3 14 38Crawford 3-7 2 9 32Green 0-0 0 0 9Williams 1-3 4 4 12Henderson 0-2 1 0 11Totals 29-68 35 70 200

UTAPlayer FG-FGA REB PTS MINMergerson 3-6 7 6 24Martin 2-5 8 8 26Shofner 0-1 2 0 14Nelson 7-11 8 22 34Simmons 5-13 4 12 30Dike 0-1 2 1 17Parker 0-0 0 0 10Terral 2-6 1 12 28Duffey 0-5 4 0 17Totals 23-60 41 61 200

Above: Senior guard Meghan Nelson is fouled while attempting to split the defense on Thursday dur-ing the Mavericks’ loss to Lamar in the second round of the Southland Conference Cham-pionship at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas.

Left: Junior guard Tamara Simmons shoots a layup as she is fouled from behind. Simmons scored 16 points, pulled down four rebounds and had three steals in the loss.

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SPORTS QUOTEWORTHY

“We’re going to wipe the slate clean, ‘cause conference is a different story.”

Steffan Guest, Mavericks senior catcher

NUMBERS GAME

4-8Maverick baseball team’s record so far this season

10Number of points senior guard Meghan Nelson scored in the

loss to Lamar Thursday

55Number of seconds it took for Wrestling Club member Jose Lazo to pin down his

second opponent in the 2010 National Collegiate Wrestling

Championships

3-2Final score of Thursday’s

softball game vs. UT

UTA SPORTS CALENDAR

FridayBaseball vs. Sam Houston State: 6:30 p.m., Clay Gould BallparkWomen’s track and field NCAA Indoor Championships: all day, Fayetteville, Ark.

SaturdayBaseball vs. Sam Houston State: 2 p.m., Clay Gould BallparkWomen’s track and field NCAA Indoor Championships: all day, Fayetteville, Ark.Softball vs. Central Arkansas: 2 p.m., Allan Saxe FieldSoftball vs. Central Arkansas: 4 p.m., Allan Saxe FieldWomen’s tennis at Texas State: 1 p.m., San Marcos, Texas

SundayBaseball vs. Sam Houston State: 1 p.m., Clay Gould BallparkSoftball vs. Central Arkansas: 1 p.m., Allan Saxe Field

MondayMen’s golf Rio Pinar Invitational: all day, Orlando, Fla.

Tuesday Baseball vs. Oklahoma Christian, 6:30 p.m., Clay Gould BallparkSoftball vs. Baylor, 4 p.m., Allan Saxe FieldSoftball vs. Baylor, 6 p.m., Allan Saxe FieldMen’s golf Rio Pinar Invitational: all day, Orlando, Fla.

Wednesday Baseball vs. Oklahoma Christian, 3 p.m., Clay Gould Ballpark

Thursday Women’s tennis vs. South Alabama: 1 p.m., San Diego, Calif.

March 19Baseball at UT-San Antonio: 6 p.m., San Antonio, TexasMen’s tennis vs. Sacramento State: 11 a.m., the Tennis Center

March 20Baseball at UT-San Antonio: 2 p.m., San Antonio, TexasWomen’s track and field Horn Frog Invitational: all day, Fort Worth, TexasSoftball at Nicholls State: 1 p.m., Thibodaux, La.Softball at Nicholls State: 3 p.m., Thibodaux, La.

March 21Baseball at UT-San Antonio: 1 p.m., San Antonio, TexasSoftball at Nicholls State: noon, Thibodaux, La.Men’s tennis vs. Columbia: 2 p.m., the Tennis Center

— Marissa HallSOFTBALL continues on page 4

WRESTLING continues on page 4

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Facilities Management staff have been fixing a bro-ken fountain located behind Preston Hall.

Six months ago, the staff made the decision to tempo-rarily shut down the foun-tain because it wasn’t func-tioning properly, grounds-keeper III Jorge Juarez said.

He said the pump and some pipes were broken, and some of the copper parts on the fountain’s in-side had corroded over time.

Generally, the pumps are left running through the winter months; however, this particular pump had not been flowing properly to begin with, he said.

“It would freeze if we left it on because it was so messed up,” he said.

To prevent more damage, they decided to shut it down until repairs could be made during warmer weather.

Juarez said professionals

are usually hired to fix prob-lems with fountain pumps, but they are too expensive.

Last week, Juarez and his coworkers began to fix the pipes and perform a general tune-up, so the life of the fountain will po-tentially last longer for the future. They also ordered parts to repair the pump, costing about $100.

The parts arrived on

Wednesday, but due to the rain, they had to postpone the repairs until Thursday, he said.

The fountain will be filled with water by 10 a.m. today, at which point, Juarez said, they will begin testing the fountain to make sure it works properly.

— Lorraine Frajkor

Fountain to undergo test after repairs

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The fountain located between Preston and Science Halls has re-mained dry since September 2009 due to mechanical failure. The fountain is scheduled to be filled and run through tests today before fully functioning again.

team starts with a runner on second base.

When Lyles faced the first batter, she got an easy sacrifice bunt out. The next hitter, Texas right fielder Tallie Thrasher crushed a double to left field to take a 3-2 lead. Lyles then got the next batter to ground out and Thrasher was thrown out at home to end the inning.

“Teri held her own,” head coach Debbie Hedrick said. “She got a lot of ground balls and did fantastic.”

As the Mavs were down to the last three outs, facing Luna proved tough.

As senior center fielder Brit-tany Washington stood on sec-ond, sophomore second base-man Courtney Zink got the first hit. However, Washington was caught in a run down for the first out after Zink’s bunt.

Luna struck out the next two hitters.

Although the Mavs lost, He-drick said she was proud and has high hopes for the team in conference.

“If we bring this energy and defense, we can win,” she said.

Chumchal also added that this game will give them a lot of momentum going into South-land Conference play.

“The pitchers gave a great

effort,” she said. “We worked the batters.”

Lyles said she knew they weren’t going to give up.

“It’s been like this all year,” she said. “It’s a huge achieve-ment and if we keep fighting we will win the Southland Confer-ence.”

More than $900 was raised for the Laurren Smith Medical Fund. Smith, who was one of

the Maverick’s biggest support-ers, was diagnosed with osteo-sarcoma and recently passed away on Dec. 4.

The Mavs continue their home stand with a double-header against Central Arkan-sas 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m.

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now working out the kinks.”Corry said he would stay

warm, hydrated and stress-free for a better performance in future matches.

“Once you’re out on the mat, nothing else matters,” he said. “My shoulder hurts, my knee hurts–but that all goes away.”

Lazo, 125 pounds and ranked No. 16 in the compe-tition, won in his first round

and pinned his second op-ponent in 55 seconds. Now he’ll go head-to-head against No.1-ranked Alexander Chiri-costa from the University of Central Florida. Lazo said he would relax until then.

“I want to cause an upset so that everyone will stop talking about the upset that happened to us,” he said.

If Lazo wins his third match, then he will automati-cally become an All-Amer-ican, regardless of how he fares in following contests.

“You can’t describe the feeling until it happens,” he

said. “I imagine it would be awesome.”

Reyes said the team as a whole is looking forward to more matches.

“It’s emotionally draining, but the guys are pretty ex-cited,” he said.

Morgan, who had his first match during round two, lost.

Ramirez is the other un-defeated Fightin’ Mav. If he wins his third competition, he will be an All-American.

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Sophomore catcher Erica LeFlore holds firm as a ball sails over her head and out of the strike zone during Thursday’s ben-efit game against Texas. The Mav-ericks will take on Central Arkansas in a three game series starting at 2:00pm on Satur-day at Allan Saxe Field.

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Science Dean Pamela Jansma lectures about the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile on Thursday evening in the Geoscience Building. Jansma discussed her research using the GPS geodesy in the Carribean and how it could help predict future fault destruc-tions.

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two main reasons. At 13 kilo-meters, it occurred at a rela-tively shallow depth, and the plates were 100 percent lock-ing, meaning that the tension had been building since the last quake without releasing any energy in smaller seismic events.

What was surprising to Jansma and the researchers was the type of motion record-ed by GPS tracking stations set up in the area before and after the quake.

Jansma said in addition to lateral movement, it seems that thrusting occurred, which means the two plates also pushed toward each other. She said this makes some sense when you look at the moun-tainous terrain along the fault line.

She also spoke about the differences in the quakes in Haiti and the one in Chile, which resulted in far less loss of life while being more ener-getic and causing a tsunami.

The fault line between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate, the edge of which is just off the coast of Chile, is a subduction zone. This means that the plates are pushing together, and the Nazca Plate is sinking beneath the South American Plate.

This caused the tsunami because the crust of the South American Plate rose vertically, displacing massive amounts of water.

In this type of movement, the epicenter of the quake is usually at a much lower depth than in strike-slip faults, re-

sulting in less severe move-ment on the surface while the magnitude of the quake for such a zone is typically 8 or greater. This, said Jansma, was one of the reasons the destruc-tion and death in Chile were less severe.

Other reasons mentioned by the dean were related to social and economic factors.

“Haitians had a false sense of security because no earth-quakes have happened there within living memory,” she said.

She said the financial pros-perity of Chile and its history of frequent quakes led to bet-ter education on the potential of future seismic events and higher building codes.

The rescheduled talk was promoted as part of the Fron-tiers in Science lecture series, which aims to be accessible to a wide audience, said Lori Norris, College of Science spe-cial programs coordinator.

“I like her ability to take complex information and put it into a format everyone can understand,” said geol-ogy graduate student Clinton Crowley.

Though accessible, the re-search discussed was impres-sive to Geology Chair John Wickham.

“From a geologist’s point of view, the most important part was her ability to take motion data from before the quake and state the likelihood of a quake occurring on that fault line,” he said.

Chris Scotese, Earth and environmental science pro-fessor, said the presentation was clear and informative and also expressed admiration for Jansma’s research.

“It’s nice to know we have a dean who can do the science,” he said.

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EDITORIAL/OUR VIEW

Wrong approach to retention

University’s goal to gain and retain freshmen may push other students away.

Since 1919

DISCOMBOBULATION by Houston Hardaway

Growing up, there was an anecdote that was as popular as it was loathed among my friends: A father had just

walked out of the shower with a towel on when he decided to pass by the living room to say hi to his visitors before proceeding to the bedroom to dress. In the process, his daughter ran up to him, as usual. Being the loving man he was, he threw her up in the air and precisely when her giggle was light-ing up smiles in the living room, his towel fell off. In a dilemma, the playful parent was not sure whether to stand upright and ignominiously continue exposing himself and wait for his air-borne daughter to come back down or for him to squat and hide in shame. What he did was left to the imagi-nation of the listeners.

America’s nonchalance in handling budgetary control in institutions of higher education is not far from the action of the loving father. The federal government has thrown caution high up in the air — education as well. Inevitably, the towel has fallen off, and the exposed areas are surely not looking good. Student demonstrations, walk-outs and cold strikes were the order of the day last week in California as the 32 percent hike in college tuition and the decision by the state to cut the education budget was met with not-so-peaceful dem-onstrations.

That a country, one that can bail out failed and mismanaged corporations and fund exorbitant wars whose main reasons have been forgotten, can let its higher edu-cation be run solely at the mercy of a group of individuals is appalling. In her clas-sic 1991 article “Bloated Administration, Blighted Campuses,” Barbara R. Bergmann, then president of the American Association of University Professors, bemoaned the ever increasing costs of university education and blamed the unprecedented and sometimes unnecessary increments on several factors.

One, the “increase in administrative ex-penditures on American campuses relative to other outlays has been going on for a long time,” perhaps too long. According to the article, for every dollar students

borrow,or work for in order to pay for tu-ition fees and other recurrent expenditures, almost half of it goes into administrative expenditures. This brings to scrutiny the whole logic of whether institutions should focus on administration more than it fo-cuses on academics and research. Second, and even more damning, was the revelation that some funds meant for research were being channeled into administrative pock-ets and used for completely outrageous ex-penditures like weddings and maid services

for the top echelon of the administration of that California school.

According to the article and Web re-sources, top administrations in some of the schools enjoyed the luxury of university-funded lawyers, cooks, speechwriters, press agents and a surprising number of secretar-ies. While the number of persons of conve-nience increased, so did the cost of univer-sity fees and, as usual, the students had to bear the brunt of selfish, careless spending.

While teaching faculty is subject to scru-tiny by students through Web sites such as RateMyProfessor.com and also in-class surveys at end of semesters, administrators often lurk in the shadows of extravagance, rarely seen — if ever — and not known by many students. Nevertheless, last week’s events, though not anywhere close to UTA, should have served as a forewarning to other universities and ourselves to be even more careful in spending and to embrace frugality and sustainability to avoid the em-barrassment of having to decide whether to squat or continue standing with our dirty linen exposed to the public.

Higher education illumination

Events in California serve as a warning

NELSON ONYANGO

Nelson Onyango is a biology freshman and guest columnist for The Shorthorn.

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YOUR VIEW

LETTERS

Capital punishment is not closure, it’s appropriate

Theater arts adjunct lecturer and Dead Man Walking play director Anne Healy said “victims’ families usually don’t feel closure or satisfaction after an execution . . . which calls into question capital punish-ment’s purpose.”

No, it does not call into question the purpose.

Think about the unjust loss of a loved one to murder. Can emotional or psycho-logical closure occur based solely upon the murderer being justly executed? Of course not. Execution has never been about such closure. How could it be?

The purpose of the death penalty is the same as with all criminal justice sanctions, which is providing a just and appropriate punishment for the crime committed.

There may be three types of closure which the murder victim’s loved ones have with the execution. The way-too-long ap-

peals process is finally closed, the most just sanction available has been applied in the case; and with the death of the murderer, there is no longer any possibility that the murderer can ever murder or otherwise harm another innocent — a very big deal.

You may also question the assertion that “The Dead Man Walking play or book is based on the true ac-counts of Sister Helen Prejean. . .”

I recommend that students and teachers read The Victims of Dead Man Walking by Michael L. Varnado and Daniel P. Smith and Dead Family Walking: The Bourque Family Story of Dead Man Walking by D. D. deVinci, wherein is written: “ . . .makes you realize the Dead Man Walking truly belongs on the shelf in the library in the fiction category,” the Bourques, victim survivors, Dead Family Walking.

“On November 5, 1977, the Bourque’s teenage daughter, Loretta, was found mur-dered in a trash pile near the city of New

Iberia, La., lying side by side near her boyfriend — with three well-placed bullet holes behind each head.”

And for a very balanced review of the death penalty: “Debating the Death Penal-ty: Should America Have Capital Punish-ment?” The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Case, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau

and Paul G. Cassell.

Sincerely, Dudley SharpSharp has appeared on

ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX, NBC, NPR, PBS, VOA and many other

TV and radio networks, on such programs as “Nightline,” “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and “The O’Reilly Factor.” He has been quoted in newspapers throughout the world and is a published author.

A former opponent of capital punish-ment, he has written and granted inter-views about, testified on and debated the subject of the death penalty, extensively and internationally.

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Retention.That is the cause that many university of-

ficials are rallying behind. It’s a good cause and a good thing to work for.

Retention is also the reason behind a few administrative decisions in the last few months that have some students upset. Ransom Hall is being converted to a student success center that will focus on providing freshman services in one location. It will also house services available to other students. The university has also decided to give new freshmen priority in reserving dorm rooms in residence halls instead of returning stu-dents.

The purpose behind this change is to provide a central place for new freshmen so they can achieve better grades and be more included in campus events.

In a previous Shorthorn article Nandini Bissessar-Grant, Housing Operations assis-tant director, said 70 percent of the students living in the dormitories are new freshmen and transfer students, whereas only 30 per-cent are returning students. After a year, that 70 percent may want to stay in the dorms, but more than half of them will have to find an alternate location.

If students were to leave because of being unable to find a place to live, it would hurt the university’s graduation rate and further set back the university.

Another problem with this decision is that some new freshmen need students in the dorms who have gone through the first year and understand what the freshmen are going through. This plan may take a lot of the mentorship out of the living environment and create a harder transition period for those freshmen.

Arlington Hall houses 596 students, Bra-zos House, 96, Kalpana Chawla Hall, 419, Lipscomb North and South combined, 330 and Trinity House, 236. But the university still had 150 students on the wait-list last year. The Multi-Use Parking Garage, which will also house 450 students, will not be ready until at least fall 2011. But it won’t help students over the next few years as our uni-versity is rapidly growing.

According to the university fact book, in 2005 the university had just over 25,000 students and in 2009 over 28,000. The 2010 enrollment is about 29,000. In 2009 about 15 percent of students were freshmen.

Freshmen retention is important and problems will continue with housing for some time to come. However, this seems more like a Band-Aid on a wound that needs stitches.

— The Shorthorn editorial board

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When it comes to tuition, things could be worse

On March 3, the UT System Board of Regents approved a 3.95 percent tuition increase for the 2009-2010 school year. While a tuition increase is certainly not a cause for celebration, UTA’s tuition increase is modest compared to other state institutions. Last year, the Cali-fornia Board of Regents approved a 32 percent increase in tuition across all ten

campuses, sparking protests, riots and vandalism, resulting in student arrests. Meanwhile, the University of Georgia is proposing a 35 percent hike in tuition, while Arizona’s public state universities are proposing an increase as high as 31 percent for the upcoming year. These increases are becoming unsustainable for college students.

As the economy is starting to emerge from a recession, state budgets are in debt. Moreover, with less state fund-ing, state universities must relent to

whatever measures necessary in order to stay afloat, such as increasing tuition. However, state colleges are supposed to be much more affordable than private colleges, but in two decades, the price of a four-year degree at a public Texas college could equal that of a brand new BMW SUV.

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Each lot undergoing im-provements will close during spring break and is sched-uled to reopen March 22.

Other parking plans will be available as the construc-tion phase begins, said uni-versity spokeswoman Kristin Sullivan.

“The facilities department is making it their priority to make sure parking won’t be an issue,” she said.

Undeclared freshman Ashley Jackson said she nor-mally parks in Lot 40 on the east side of campus and looks forward to the addi-tional parking.

“I always begin my day in the UC, where I study,” she said. “I usually have to get here before 9 in the morn-ing if I want a close parking spot. Anytime after that, you can forget about it. Hope-fully the additional spaces help.”

Jackson said she looks forward to seeing how the officials and students tack-le parking in the coming months.

“I’m pretty sure there will be a lot of unhappy students when more lots are closed,” she said. “Parking is already terrible on the south side of campus. You’ll probably see more people riding bikes to school to avoid the problem if it becomes too much of a hassle.”

Two years ago, the univer-sity rearranged several park-ing lots due to construction of the new Engineering Re-search Building. The build-ing sits on top of an old fac-ulty parking lot, which has since been reassigned. To compensate for the loss of parking, a few faculty spaces were converted to student

spaces and vice versa. The new expansion plan

does not mention converting any student or faculty park-ing and will rely mainly on lot expansion and creation, said Jeff Johnson, Facilities Management associate direc-tor.

“There shouldn’t be any student complaints,” he said. “We’re losing some lots, but we’re expanding and creating a lot more parking, which is creating a net gain of about 380 parking spots.”

Later this year, the uni-versity plans to begin con-

struction on a parking garage in Lot 40 on South Pecan Street and UTA Boulevard. The parking garage will have a minimum of 1,800 park-ing spaces, according to an agreement between the city and university.

At least 700 parking spac-es will be available in the garage Aug. 1, 2011, and the remaining 1,100 will be com-pleted on or around Aug. 1, 2012.

John harden [email protected]

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dPS warns to avoid Mexican border cities

AUSTIN, Texas — The Department of Public Safe-ty is advising Texans on spring break to avoid Mexi-can border cities because of drug cartel violence.

DPS Director Steven McCraw on Thursday cited an increase in Mexican drug cartel-related violence in northern border cities.

“Parents should not allow their children to visit these Mexican cities be-cause their safety cannot be guaranteed,” he said.

A U.S. State Department Web site also lists travel alerts related to violence in Mexico.

—The Associated Press

Vacation roundupSPring break

SPring break hourSHere’s a list of open places on campus:

PlazaOpen: today until 3 p.m.

Maverick Activities CenterClosed: Saturday, Sunday and March 20Open: 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Mar 15-19, Noon-Midnight March 21

University Center StarbucksOpen: 8 a.m.–4 p.m. March 15–19

University Center Maverick MarketOpen: 8 a.m.–5 p.m. March 15–19

Central Library:Open: Regular hoursEarly closings: Close at mid-night March 18, 9 a.m.–8 p.m. March 19 (university holiday) Note: Printing will not be available March 15-21 for up-grades. Check http://library.uta.edu/about/locations.jsp for additional hours.

your view

“Recently, I got a bunch of my friends into this band called Law Dispute, so I’m re-ally looking forward to taking a group to their show when they play live in Fort Worth over spring break.”

Natalie Kahan, communication freshman

“I would rather be watching TV or working out, but unfortu-nately I plan on studying all vacation because I have tests after spring break.” Paris Rohanni, biology freshman

“Me and my friends are going to Padre to have some good, whole-some fun at Schlit-terbahn. I don’t know about the beaches there so I might just put a toe in the water.”

Allan Cobham criminal justice junior

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LipscombHall

Arlington Hall

lot breakdownLot closings over spring break:

Lot 39, at First and Pecan streets, south of the UTA Bookstore

Lot F-13, east of the Busi-ness Building, between West Third and West Fourth streets

Lot 45, southeast of Lip-scomb Hall, north of West Mitchell Street

Lot 49, south of West Mitchell, east of South Cooper Street

Unattended cars may be towed.

Upcoming lot changes:

Lot 49, at Cooper and Mitchell streets, is being re-striped to add 235 spac-es. Work is scheduled to be complete by March 22.

Lot 50, north of Grand Street and west of South West Street, has been ex-panded to add 74 spaces.

Lot 51, east of Lot 50 and south of Bessel Avenue, will be expanded to add 83 spaces.

A new Lot 56 is under con-struction at 1217 S. Pecan St., at Doug Russell Road and Pecan Street. It will add 116 spaces by mid-April.

The LCN lot north of Lip-scomb Hall will close at the end of March. The lot has 127 spaces. Students who have parked in the LCN lot will be redirected to the LCS lot (Lipscomb Hall South), which has available space.

Source: www.uta.edu/ucomm/internalcommunications/

mavwire/2010/mar11extra.php

“We’re losing some lots, but we’re expanding and creating a lot more parking.”

Jeff Johnson, Facilities Management associate director

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By Sharayah SherrodThe Shorthorn staff

The UTA/Fort Worth Cen-ter’s inaugural women’s leader-ship conference, Success, lived up to every letter of its name Thursday.

The conference focused on providing career women with tools to build their leadership skills, networking, confidence and management abilities as they stake their claim in the workforce. Area and university leaders were on hand for the event that lasted from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

UTA alumna Delia Jara Schilder, now a nurse manager for Mental Health Mental Re-tardation of Tarrant County, said she had been looking for-ward to the event with great anticipation.

“I was just excited to see that UTA was doing some-thing like this,” she said. “The topics really sounded not only interesting, but also pertinent.”

That’s exactly what orga-nizers were hoping for, said Amy Schultz, communications assistant vice president.

“That’s the whole reason we started this, was because of the feedback we’re getting from our alumni,” she said.

Schultz said the feedback requested meatier conferences that would offer practical ad-vice.

The Success confer-ence, held in downtown Fort Worth’s Sheraton Hotel and

Spa, featured local leaders, a keynote address by Shaunti Feldhahn, best-selling author of “The Male Factor,” sessions on how to achieve success and balance personal and profes-sional lives, among others.

“The opportunity to meet women in our community — leaders — I think drew a lot of people,” Schultz said.

Schultz said the planning committee, which she served on with six other women, of-fered something for everyone. Before the day began, she said the session she was most look-ing forward to was “Creating a

Successful Brand.” Though she does that for

work day in and day out, creat-ing her own brand was some-thing she has not yet done, Schultz said.

“I don’t know what it is, but by the end of the conference I’m going to find out,” she said.

During lunch, Susan Hus-ton, Fort Worth Star-Tele-gram’s Living With Panache magazine fashion editor, gave pointers in a fashion workshop on what not to wear and how to dress professionally.

That afternoon, the women got the chance to network

before heading back to their respective places in the com-munity to implement all they learned.

Megan Topham, UTA/Fort Worth Center operations director, said those planning next year’s event, also in March — which happens to be wom-en’s history month — are ready to put the conference on the calendar again.

“I think we’re pretty com-mitted to doing it next year as well,” she said.

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“I called a bunch of family members, and they gave me money for tickets,” she said. “I spent about $100.”

Boeding said she bought most of her tickets two for the price of one during a lim-ited-time discount advertised by the group.

The extra money made from the drawing goes to different scholarships also funded by the group, Ajibade said. Throughout the year, the group sponsors several activities to raise money for scholarships, such as the tu-ition raffle and Oozeball, the annual mud volleyball tour-nament. Scholarships are available to anyone and can be applied for at the Student Alumni Association Web site.

Boeding helps run many of the group’s activities, Ajibade said.

“She takes part in run-ning Oozeball,” he said. “She helped with Homecoming. She participated in selling raffle tickets and ran the booth in The Bash.”

Boeding, the second old-est of five siblings, joined the group to carry on a long his-tory of community service in-

grained in her by her service-oriented family, she said.

Community service has been a huge part of Boed-ing’s life, she said. Outside of working with the Student Alumni Association, she has worked with Mission Arling-ton and at nursing homes. She wants to use the tuition money to further her goal in becoming a teacher.

“I went to private school and Catholic school,” she said. “We were required to do 40 hours of service a year. I’ve been told that it’s what employers look for.”

Boeding’s spirit of service is evident in her maturity and her ability to lead by exam-ple, Ajibade said. As an ac-tive member of the Student Alumni Association board of directors, she is part of the governing body of the 2,300 member association.

Stewart said there are no plans in changing the partici-pation requirements for the tuition raffle.

“SAA members ac-count for nearly 12 percent of the student body,” she said. “They will continue to have the option to partici-pate just as every UTA stu-dent is able to participate.”

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By alySia r. BrookSThe Shorthorn staff

Professor Thomas Benja-min of Central Michigan Uni-versity leads an audience on a brief excursion through mem-ory, myth and history about the Mexican Revolution in the final lecture of the 45th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series.

The theme for this year’s lec-tures was the Mexican Revolu-tion, which marks its centennial this year. Titled “The Revolution is History: One Hun-dred Years of Looking Back (and Looking Forward),” the lecture was given at 7.30 p.m. Thursday in the Uni-versity Center Rosebud Theatre.

The Webb Lecture Series, normally given solely by the History Department, was co-hosted this year by the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies.

The lecture outlined the history of how the Mexican Revolution has been perceived and presented by various politi-cians, journalists, scholars and everyday people since it first began in 1910 to the present.

Business freshman Angel Bagby, who attended on the recommendation of her histo-ry professor, called the lecture powerful.

“Anytime you hear about the struggles people go through, it’s going to impact you,” she said.

Benjamin said views on the revolution have varied from nothing more than a failed uprising of the people to a successful domination by the upper-class and everything in between.

“The Mexican Revolution has been interpreted and rein-terpreted endlessly,” he said.

Benjamin said how the Mexican Revolution is viewed has changed according to the time period in which it is dis-cussed, who exactly is doing the research and presenting their findings and the political cli-mate.

Writings about the revolu-tion began while it was still going on. The politicians and the revolutionaries themselves attempted from the start to put the events and people of the revolution into historical con-

text, he said.Eventually, jour-

nalists and intel-lectuals contributed their thoughts on the revolution and its meaning. Many people over the years have used interpre-tations of the revo-lution as a political platform or a tribu-nal against adver-saries.

Now that so much time has passed, it is not so

much the revolution itself that researchers are concerned with, rather, how the people of Mex-ico and around the world view it, he said.

Benjamin said when it comes down to it, historians, as well as ordinary citizens, are still trying to sort out the Mexi-can Revolution and will prob-ably continue to do so as long as the revolution is considered historically important.

“We human beings have some kind of need to give meaning to the past,” he said. “When we do that, the past gives meaning to our individual lives.”

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Final Webb lecture covers varying perceptions of the Mexican Revolution.


Thomas L. Benjamin of Central Michigan University speaks at the final Webb lecture and discusses “The Revolution is History: One Hundred Years of Looking Back (and Looking Forward)” on Thursday night in the Rosebud Theatre.

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Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Male Factor, addresses the largely female audience about the discrepan-cies of gender inequality Thursday at the Sheraton Hotel in Fort Worth. Feldhahn was the keynote speaker at the first Success: A Woman’s Leadership Conference, presented by UT Arlington Fort Worth Center, which hosted multiple professional women-oriented workshops.

The Science Constituency Council is gearing up for sci-ence week, which will take place from March 22 to 25, following spring break.

Science week will coincide with and incorporate the An-nual Celebration of Excellence by Students, ACES, a sympo-sium that gives undergraduate and graduate students a chance to highlight their research.

Students, in concert with faculty mentors, will write ab-stracts and submit visual and oral presentations to be judged Thursday.

Lori Norris, science special programs coordinator, said it made sense to hold science week concurrently with ACES.

“The students have a lot of great events planned,” she said.

She said she hoped to ex-pand science week in the future by better joining the efforts of the SCC with the science col-lege.

The SCC has scheduled a roster of events leading up to the ACES symposium, includ-ing a Dean’s Forum on March 22 in which Science College dean Pamela Jansma will dis-cuss the state of the College of

Science. A free planetarium show

for the first 160 students and a résumé workshop are also planned.

“I’m really looking forward to the planetarium show, Vio-lent Universe,” said SCC presi-dent Natalia Vargas.

She added that she hoped the week of events would en-courage science students to at-tend the symposium on Thurs-day.

Vargas also said she hoped the turnout for the dean’s forum will be even better than last year’s, which was well at-tended and successful.

The forum and résumé workshop will also have free snacks and prizes given out, Vargas said.

— Justin Sharp

Science week forum highlights research

SCienCe SChedule of eventSDean’s Forum – noon to 1 p.m. March 22 122 Life Science Building

Résumés for Success – 12:30 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. March 23 100 Life Science Building

Planetarium Show “Violent Universe” – 7 p.m. March 24

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