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International residents practice EnglishPage 2
Improv club seeks students’ laughterPage 3
SportsCross-country team wins home meet
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009Volume 94 | Issue 16
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O� cer Jeremy Polk spars with a student Tuesday to teach the best way of slapping an attacker. Starting low, a person should box the attacker in the ear with an open palm. A slap is recommended over a punch because the untrained punch will often miss. The police advise that the best way to stay safe is to be alert, keep an open eye and attempt to avoid dangerous situations.
BY CAROLYN BROWNSenior Staff Writer
Initiation rituals could mean more than binge drinking — it could cost organizations money, jail time and campus suspen-sion.
In accordance with state law, the Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities released a list last week of campus organiza-tions found responsible for hazing during the past three years.
This week is National Hazing Prevention Week, which ends on Sept. 25.
UNT has had six confirmed hazing incidents in the past three years, said Maureen McGuinness, assistant vice president for student development.
The six organizations are UNT’s chapters of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Delta Sigma Theta Inc., Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc., Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the UNT Cheerleaders and UNT’s chapter of Krimson Kourt Incorporated.
The organizations are under-going educational sanctions and anti-hazing measures from the Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities, she said.
The university defines hazing as an intentional act that endan-gers the mental or physical health of a student for the purpose of affiliation with an organization, according to its Web site.
Although hazing is often asso-ciated with physical brutality, it can apply to seemingly innoc-uous activities such as costume-wearing or forcing members to eat strange foods, McGuinness said.
“No one should ever feel that to fit in a group they should have to compromise their integrity or what they are and what they believe in,” she said.
However, hazing situations can be difficult to define, Greek Life Coordinator Alex Seltzer said.
“There’s really no perfect black-and-white textbook answer. It’s more situationally based,” he said. “You have to take into consider-ation what is going on and what is the purpose of the activity.”
The main aspect that usually defines hazing is whether orga-
nizations ask new members to do activities they don’t ask estab-lished members to do, he said.
The Greek Life office works closely with the Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities to prevent hazing and help re-educate groups sanctioned for it, Seltzer said.
The four Greek organizations on the list were disciplined for past hazing, but have not had any new incidents, he said.
The last hazing incident for the North Texas Cheerleaders happened two years ago, coach Heath Miller said.
Although not all members were involved, the entire team had to participate in a counseling program and several members decided to leave.
The group now uses anti-hazing programs before tryouts and clinic activities, he said.
“It’s kind of died out, really,” Miller said.
Krimson Kourt Incorporated, a non-Greek service organization with groups at UNT and TWU, was suspended after an investi-gation of TWU hazing incidents in spring 2009, McGuinness said.
The organization can return with certain conditions in spring 2010, she said.
The Greek Life Off ice, Center for Student Rights and Responsibilites and the Athletics department are working together to put on events to help educate students about how hazing affects them, Daniel Hernandez Greek Life Coordinator said.
On Monday and Tuesday, the groups set up tables in the University Union to pass out hazing information, and will continue it today at Discovery Park.
The organizations will have a bystander behavior workshop to teach people about hazing inter-vention and confrontation.
The event will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. on Thursday in Union 418.
Students who want to report hazing or future plans for it can call the Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities at (940) 565-2039.
UNT confirms hazing cases
BY JOSH PHERIGOStaff Writer
Students expecting to enjoy a freshly cooked breakfast at the University Union on Tuesday discovered that vendors were only selling prepackaged food because of a cut water supply.
A Denton water main under-neath campus broke late Monday night, causing water to be shut off to the Union, the Administration Building and the Business Building through Tuesday morning, Executive Director of Facilities Charles Jackson said in an e-mail interview.
“We received a call at around 3 a.m.,” Jeff Brown, director of maintenance, said. “It was an 8-inch city water main. The pipe was old and developed a leak that grew.”
Brown said that the break caused of all bathroom facilities to close in the affected build-ings, and the University Union
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UNT’s maintenance sta� works to clean up the remnants of a water main break Tuesday at the south end of the Busi-ness Administration Building.
and Administration Building were without air conditioning until the pipe was back on line.
“City employees arrived at about 8 a.m. and the pipe
was repaired and water was back on by 10:30 a.m.,” Brown said.
City workers said the entire water main is scheduled for replacement in 2011.
Brow n said the brea k caused no injuries, damages or flooding, but the water carried some mud down a sidewalk that required a quick power wash.
BY CHRIS SPEIGHTSenior Staff Writer
The city of Denton is trying to protect its shade-bearing friends through the use of satel-lite imaging.
The City Council discussed a possible survey at last week’s meeting that would determine the average number of trees and how to add more to the city.
If the proposal is approved, the city of Denton will collab-orate with UNT faculty and a graduate student to head up the research side of the project.
“The project aims to protect the trees already in the Denton area and ultimately add more trees because of the positive environmental effects they yield,” said Bruce Hunter, the director of the Center for Spatial Analysis and Mapping within the departments of geography and institute of applied sciences at UNT.
“An important first step in incorporating green infrastruc-ture into a community’s plan-
ning framework is to measure urban forest canopy and evaluate management goals,” said Chuck Russell, planning supervisor for Denton.
The council said that the tree survey project will cost an esti-mated $30,000. The money for this project comes from the City Tree Fund.
As of April 30, the total Tree Fund balance was about $629,000. Almost $52,000 of the money in the fund is from interest income. At the city council work session on Sept. 15, the council discussed spending about $30,000 of the Denton City Tree Fund money for the proposal, Russell said.
The tree fund is used to perform and maintain trees city-wide, as well as educate residents and developers on the benefits and value of trees, Russell said.
This proposal would support Denton’s ongoing process of updating its tree preservation techniques and create an accu-rate baseline measurement of the number of trees in Denton.
He said these measurements will provide valuable informa-tion for the city.
“The green infrastructure within the city offers a unique opportunity to provide benefits — environmental, aesthetic and fiscal — with minimal expense to the city,” Russell said.
To realize the goal, satellites will take aerial digital snap-shots of the Greater Denton area.
“There’s a lot of commercial satellites that take images and so we contract with one of those satellite companies to take an image for us,” Hunter said.
After UNT has these images, Hunter and his team will deci-pher them by dividing the images into different land use catego-ries, such as water, pavement, rooftops, manicured laws and more.
“We’re working with satellite imagery, there’s no way to count the individual trees,” he said. “A certain percentage of the city is covered by ‘X’ percent of tree canopy.”
The satellite images will cost nearly $10,000 each.
Also Hunter said cities across the U.S. are interested in proj-ects of this nature for quality of life issues.
“Most people know how many trees they have in their back-yard, if they’ve got a small yard,” Hunter said. “It’s a way for the city to know: Are we doing good as a city? Do we have a lot of trees? Do we have very few trees?”
Hunter said Russell contacted him to discuss proposal details after hearing of a similar project he conducted around the Dallas/Ft. Worth International airport.
“We just completed a study for Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport doing just this, 153 square miles of area around the airport,” Hunter said.
Clayton Troegle, a recreation and leisure studies senior, said he doesn’t “think the city [needs] to take $40,000” worth of aerial pictures.
“I’m all for some trees,” he said. “Let’s add some more trees.”
City of Denton proposes tree-counting initiative
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UNT tags trees across campus as part of a system to monitor the overall count. UNT could soon be partnering with the city of Denton to survey the city’s trees.
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Holiday curriculum opposed
BY JOSH PHERIGOStaff Writer
The Texas Instruments Foundation selected the UNT Teach North Texas program to receive a $1.5 million grant. The grant will be used to expand the program.
The money is part of a $3 million grant designed to promote an increase in the number of high school math and science teachers in area districts.
Teach North Texas is a program that began in 2008 and is offered to math, science, and computer science undergraduates who are interested in obtaining their teaching certification, according to its Web site.
The program’s Web site said it will enhance UNT’s efforts to address the national shortage of high-qualified secondary math and science teachers.
“The goal of the Teach North Texas Program is to dramati-cally increase the number of math and science teachers that UNT is producing,” said John Quintanilla, a member of the mathematics faculty and co-director of the program.
Quintanilla said there are several differences between the new program and the old program.
The new program will offer incoming students the opportu-nity to try out the teaching profes-sion by taking two free one-hour courses in their first semester.
“A primary difference is the early field experience students receive,” Quintanilla said. “They will work with experienced
primary and secondary school teachers in a classroom setting to see if they like the profession.”
The students will travel to local schools five times in the semester, observing twice and teaching lessons three times.
The grant money will go toward experienced secondary teachers of math and science who have been hired out of area high schools to specifically train future secondary teachers in those fields.
The experience of the “master teachers” will more closely inte-grate the content of their UNT classes with that of their educa-tion classes.
“The education courses are now completely tied together with math and science courses,” Quintanilla said. “We’ve tried to make the connections between the two much more apparent so that students feel like the educa-tion classes that they’re taking are indeed directly tied to what they will be teaching in the future.”
With 130 students already enrolled in classes, the program is already growing faster than expected.
The new grant will allow the program to keep pace with the growing enrollment.
Quintanilla said he believes the new program will help solve the growing local and national need for secondary science and math teachers in the coming years.
“Instead of just learning about teaching, students will get the opportunity to go out and do it… for free,” he said.
$1.5 mil given to teacher training BY CYNTHIA CANO
InternWith two large universi-
ties, Denton is home to many international students. To better accommodate these students, the North Branch Public Library developed the Small Talk program.
Small Talk helps inter-nat iona l st udent s ga i n confidence in their English conversational skills.
“We’ve had a lot of foreign Doctoral students in the past,” said Carmen Grant, librarian and program facil-itator.
Du r ing t he meet ings, attendees gather in a relaxed and casual setting to talk about various topics such as what to do when meeting up with friends at a dinner party.
Grant said the small group settings put attendees at ease and help them get the most out of the session and cater to their needs.
“We had a girl who would come a nd pract ice her speeches for school,” Grant said. “Most people just come to practice their conversa-tional skills.”
Attendees must already know how to read and write
‘Small Talk’ at Denton library
in English, as the program is only designed as a way to prac-tice conversational skills.
Grant said Small Talk is a great way for people to meet new friends while practicing in an inviting environment.
Ha Tran and Sema Eran are Denton residents and wives of UNT international students. They attend the meetings to work on their English.
Tran, from Vietnam, does not speak English at home. Her only practice comes from attending the program.
“In Viet na m, I lea rned English in the University,” Tran said. “But I hadn’t spoken it in 14 years, so this helps a lot.”
Tran said that this helps her practice English face-to-face, which is something she wouldn’t do otherwise.
Sema Eran, from Turkey, said practice is important when it comes to learning a new language.
“My husband tries to prac-tice with me at home, but Turkish is easier for me,” Eran
said. Grant said since l ibrar y
p a t r o n s r e q u e s t e d t h e program, the importance of its existence was obvious.
Small Talk is held at the Nor t h Bra nch Libra r y on Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The program is free, but reg ist rat ion is requ i red. For more information or to register, call 940-349-8752 or Carmen Grant at 940-349-8778.
BY AMBER ARNOLDSenior Staff Writer
A proposal made to the Texas Education Agency to remove two representations of religious holidays in sixth grade curric-
ulum has met opposition from conservative groups and the State Board of Education.
The agency’s writing teams wrote a proposal that suggested the removal of Christmas and Rosh Hashanah from the curric-ulum meets with standards for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
The Hindu holiday, Diwali, would replace the Christian and Jewish holidays in the curric-ulum.
The removal and replacement of the two holidays was made in an attempt to be more inclu-sive of all five major religions without favoring Christianity and Judaism, DeEtta Culbertson, spokesperson for the agency said.
Public education teachers and administrators throughout Texas constitute the writing teams for the agency.
The writing teams for all grade levels met Thursday with the State Board of Education to fix any issues.
“This was a big discussion by this time because of the reac-tions,” she said. “Even the board chair made it clear that both holi-days would still be in the curric-ulum.”
Although the board has made clear that the changes in the proposal will not happen, it will still be put up to a vote at the State Board of Education meeting period on Jan. 13 to Jan. 15, Culbertson said.
“This was basically a prelimi-nary, preliminary draft,” she said. “Next month, it will become an official discussion item.”
Nancy Nelson, chairwoman of teacher education and adminis-tration, said that it’s important for those reading the proposal to consider the wording in the document and the use of words like “such as” and “various.”
“These words indicate that the list is not intended to be compre-hensive,” Nelson said. “It is a list of examples used to suggest that the curriculum be broad enough to include diverse cultures and
the customs and beliefs associ-ated with them.”
Multicultural teacher-educa-tion classes are comprised of many different subjects that prepare students for curricula recommended by the state.
Students in the UNT school of education are also prepared to handle similar situations where they may face questions from parents or from groups who ques-tion particular aspects of the curriculum.
“If there are objections, even to a particular book, as teachers our students know to give other options,” Nelson said.
The last time revisions were made to curriculum was 1998, and after 10 years the curriculum must be adjusted, Culbertson said.
After the first vote in January, the final changes will be adopted in March.
“The chances of this being passed in Texas are very slim,” Nelson said. “It’s just impos-sible.”
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Participants of Small Talk, a program o� ered at the Denton North Branch Library, get a chance to practice their non-native English twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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Arts & LifeWednesday, September 23, 2009 Page 3
Kip MooneyArts & Life Editor
BY DOMINIQUE BECKStaff Writer
Fouts Field will be filled with angels during Saturday’s game aga inst Midd le Tennessee State University.
Eagle Angels, a volunteer-based team of female students, helps the athletics department recruit athletes for the foot-ball program.
“We act as ambassadors for the athletic department,” said Caroline Parrack, communica-tions junior and vice president of Eagle Angels. “We basically sell the school to incoming potential high school recruits by touring them around the school and the athletic facil-ities.”
Parrack said the Angels are happy to support the team because t hey’ve recr uited many players to play for the Mean Green themselves.
T h e A n g e l s c o m e t o every home game and work throughout the stadium, in areas such as the Letterman’s L ou nge for UN T at h let ic alumni, the Kids Fun Zone for the Mean Green junior cheer-leaders, children of alumni a nd ch i ld ren w it h i n t he community and the Athletic Director’s Box, a suite for the athletics director and admin-istrative guest or alumni.
T h e n u m b e r o f n e w members selected each year varies depending on space available. This process takes place at the beginning of the school year.
“The girls are put through a brief interviewing process just to get a feel of what type of person they are,” said Sara Dinucci, a mercha ndising senior and the president of Eagle Angels. “Eagle Angels is 100 percent pro-UNT and we
want to make sure this is not just a phase for them.”
Dinucci has been an Eagle Angel for 4 years.
Rachel Britton, a speech language pathology and audi-ology freshman, is one of the new Eagle Angels.
She said she heard about Eagle Angels through a friend and wanted to join.
She was a l itt le ner vous about the interview process because she wasn’t sure she would be accepted.
“I was very reluctant to get my hopes up,” she said. “When I saw my name posted as one of the new members I was so excited. I still am.”
Anna Dinucci, an interdis-ciplinary studies freshman, said she wasn’t at all nervous about being accepted as an Eagle Angel. Her sister being president of the organization had nothing to do with her lack of anxious feelings.
“I was just rea l ly conf i-dent,” Dinucci said. “People may think that it was handed to me, but I know I got this on my own. My sister wasn’t even in the room during the inter-view process.”
Both girls said they know about the football team’s less-than-perfect record, but refuse to change the group’s outlook and goals.
“This is a new school year
Eagle Angels recruit players, promote school spirit
and we’ve already won one ga me,” Br it ton sa id. “We are here to support them no matter what.”
She said the organization teaches the girls to keep their spirits high and be confident at all times no matter what the situation is.
“It’s almost annoying how happy we are,” Parrack said.
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The Eagle Angels showcase the university to prospective high school football players, giving them tours of the campus and the training facilities.
BY GRACIELA RAZOSenior Staff Writer
Many students would hang their heads in shame or flee the stage if a ripple of laughter overtook the audience. But one club seeks out the snickers and giggles.
The UNT Improv Comedy Club began in 2005 when its creators wanted to see more humor and laughter on campus.
Club president Ryan Cortez, an economics senior, said the club’s meetings are not typical student organization gatherings focused on business talk.
Cortez said members of all experience levels and back-grounds perform improvisation exercises and games, often in front of an audience of students who go to observe and laugh at their comedy ad-libbing.
“We work as a team to make the audience laugh,” Cortez said. “We’re not betting we’re going to say something funny like a stand-up comedian would. It is required and encouraged to be silly.”
Cortez said his favorite exer-cise is called Freeze, a game where two people are performing a scene on stage and a third
person yells “freeze.” The two performers must then begin a new scene beginning with the position they were “frozen” in.
Cortez did improvisational comedy in high school and wanted to continue the hobby when he got to college. He joined the Improv Comedy Club in 2005.
He said he wants to mix his economics degree with his love of comedy through opening his own comedy theater one day. Cortez said being a part of the comedy club is giving him prac-tice for being a comedian as well as a business owner.
Improv comedy club brings laughs to campus“It showed me how to coordi-
nate with people,” Cortez said.The club also offers a new way
to meet people of different clas-sifications and majors, Cortez said.
“There is more camaraderie between all of the members. It’s you trying to make the audience happy by showing a connection with the people on stage,” Cortez said. “It’s like you’re skydiving together because you’re taking a risk.”
Cortez takes his improvisation skills to the comedy troupe he performs with, Thought for Food. He said the club helps perfor-mance styles of all kinds, not just comedy.
Logan Williams, a radio, tele-vision, and film senior, is also a member of the Thought for Food troupe and said the Improv Comedy Club has given him a way to sharpen his improvisation skills before he pursues comedy as a career after graduation.
Williams said performing improv with other people is a good way to show a side of their personality people wouldn’t normally see.
“You get to know people from their problem-solving abilities on stage,” Williams said. “I have met most of the people I know very well through the club, and personally, I can tell that anyone I can improv well with, I can be good friends with.”
The club has not performed for
audiences outside of its meetings, but Cortez said members are hoping to present their improv to larger audiences this semester.
The UNT Improv Comedy Club meets at 9 p.m. every Wednesday in Wooten Hall 122. It is open to
anyone, regardless of performing experience.
“Improv is one of my favorite things to do in the whole world,” Williams said. “I enjoy making people laugh and seeing them have a good time.”
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Ryan Cortez, a senior economics student and president of the improv group Thought for Food, performs Monday at the Syndicate in the University Union.
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Cortez said anyone is welcome to join the club’s Wednesday meetings at 9 p.m. in Wooten Hall 122.
BY CALI A. THOMPSONContributing Writer
Circles of women wait for their turn to slap a UNT police officer on the ear.
The women cheer and clap as one by one they get into a base stance, pull back their hand, then slap the thick red pad Off icer Jef f Arrington holds to the side of his face.
Arrington is directing these women on how to protect themselves through Dynamic Defense.
D y na m ic Defense : Sel f Defense Class held Tuesday in the Physica l Education Building offered hands-on education for UNT students hosted by the Women’s Center, Rec Sports, Greek Life and Delta Gamma sorority.
Usi ng pract ica l k nowl-edge, simple techniques and increased alertness, the UNT Police Department helped students equip themselves for possible attacks on campus.
“We host this program at the beginning of the semester to make sure students are safe
and they understand where to get help when needed, like where the emergency posts are,” said Uyen Tran of the Women’s Center. “Make sure they’re well informed.”
For the program’s third year, A rr ing ton accompa-nied by Officer Jeremy Polk and Jimmy Dorough, a crim-inal justice senior, gave the women advice about campus life.
“I’ve seen students walking around on their cell phones absolutely clueless,” sa id Arrington. “You should make eye contact with everybody around you.”
A lthough A rrington has taught the self-defense class since it began, he added new i n for mat ion foc usi ng on pepper spray and how to test it before use. Women who attended the class before note how helpful learning about this tool is.
“I’d never seen pepper spray before and I was curious so I sprayed it into a cup of water which caused a mini-explo-
sion,” said Caitlin McGowan, a family studies senior. “Girls were crying and we all had to go outside. He has a good point about testing it out.”
Once the officers taught t he women “escape tech-n iques a nd st r i kes,” t he women formed circles to practice their new moves on their instructors.
The gym filled with excite-ment chattered as the women demonstrated self-defense skills.
Throughout the training, A r r i ng ton rem i nded t he women of the importance of being a lert and ta k ing precautions.
“You shou ld not f i nd y ou r s el f i n t he s e s i t u-at ion s be c au se of w hat you’ve lea r ned ton ig ht,” said Arrington. “Be aware of your surroundings, walk confidently and make eye contact.”
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Green stickers create ‘a pride and spirit’ on campusBY KATIE GRIVNASenior Staff Writer
They’re stuck everywhere — on people, on student’s binders, even on the occa-sional light post.
These are the green game week spirit stickers worn by students, which advert ise Friday Night at Clark Park events as well as home foot-ball games.
“They are easy to f ind. They stand out amongst all the other paper work clus-
tere d e ver y w here,” s a id Lakiesha Henderson, a grad-uate student studying general studies in aging.
Henderson said she has seen t he st ickers a rou nd campus and they encouraged her to go to the first home football game of the season against Ohio University.
The purpose of the game week spirit stickers is to create awa reness about footba l l home games and the Friday Night at Clark Park, said Jamie
Adams, director of athletic promotions.
It is important for students to participate in free program-ming as students so when they graduate, t hey come back and participate as a lumni, he said.
“We want students to have a good t ime,” Adams said. “It’s all done for their enjoy-ment.”
The stickers, now in their second year, are created and designed by the Friday Night at Clark Park Committee, he said.
The committee consists of members in the Student G over n ment A ssoc iat ion, St udent Act iv it ies, Greek Life, Dean of Students and Athletics, among others, he said.
The round, green stickers feature a slogan for that week’s football opponent, the date of the football game and kickoff time, and the Friday Night at Clark Park logo.
Seven sets of st ickers, a total of 50,000 stickers will be printed this year at the cost of $1,250 and are printed off campus, Adams said.
The stickers are paid for by money from the Friday Night
at Clark Park Committee, the university and donations.
Stickers offered a cost effec-t ive, “ba ng-for-t he-buck ” way to promote home game weekend activities, as posters and advertisements can be expensive, Adams said.
T he st ic ker s a r e on l y produced for home games,
but hopefully an increase in demand will allow for them to be created for all football games, he said.
“Any type of spirit is a great thing,” he said.
The stickers help students connect and be a part of the celebratory UNT culture, said Maureen McGuinness, assis-tant vice president for student development and associate
director for student leader-ship and judicial affairs.
The stickers allowed the committee to be creat ive w ith their l imited budget, and since they are fairly inex-pensive, the stickers can be given out in mass quantities, McGuinness said.
“The st ickers created a pride and spirit that didn’t exist before,” she said.
PHOTO BY STEPHEN MASKER / PHOTOGRAPHER
One sticker, produced by the Friday Night at Clark Park Committee, encouraged students to watch the Mean Green take on the Ohio University Bobcats.
PHOTO BY STEPHEN MASKER / PHOTOGRAPHER
John Cox, an accounting freshman, and Chelsea Cotter, a criminal justice freshman, display their spirit stickers next to a decorated light post at the Library Mall on Tuesday afternoon.
Defense class teaches women to be ‘well-informed’
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O� cer Je� Arrington instructs women in how to defend themselves in a mock � ght Tuesday. Arrington advises that a defender should plant their legs in a wide stance and use their arms to keep aggressors at a distance.
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Justin UmbersonSports Editor
Men take first at Ken Garland Invitational
BY CHRISTENA DOWSETTPhoto Editor
Patrick Strong doesn’t see waking up with the sunrise as a challenge anymore. By 6:30 a.m., his feet are pounding.
Practice has begun. Strong, a geography junior
on the cross-country team, said he runs 60 to 80 miles per week depending what phase of training he’s in. Some of his longer runs can be up to 14 miles during one practice.
“It’s what makes me happy,” Strong said. “I wake up to run and then everything else is incidental. Kind of strange, but true.”
St rong, a New Zea la nd native from Motueka, st i l l goes home over school breaks. One of the biggest changes for him is the scenery.
“It’s just so beautiful — the mountains and sea and the snow,” he said. “It’s just kind of sad whenever I come back here and resign myself to another year in Texas.”
Although he gets annoyed at constantly having to say goodbye to f r iend s a nd family, he uses his time in New Zealand to his advantage. Training on the mountains gives him the upper hand when he gets back to a more level Texas.
Strong was recr uited to UNT by cross-country coach Robert Vaughan in January of 2007. Strong’s high school coach, Greg Lautenslager, was trained by Vaughan at a different school and later coached at UNT.
“He had somebody t hat he thought would do wel l here,” Vaughan said about Lautenslager. “Knowing Greg we just believed him.”
During his freshman year, Strong placed fourth at the
BY SEAN SWINNEYContributing Writer
Using k nowledge of its home course, the UNT men’s cross-country team won first place at t he Ken Garland Invitational, the first of two consecutive home meets.
The women’s team could not take advantage of the Eagle Point Cross-Countr y Course, and finished fifth of the seven competing teams.
Despite the win, head coach Robert Vaughan continued to
emphasize that results are not his main focus at this point in the season and sometimes a top finish can be a litt le misleading.
“Whether we win or not, that depends a little bit on the other teams,” Vaughan said. “You can win every one of these early meets and it doesn’t mean anything, so it’s good to see how people perform whether you win a meet or not.”
The men’s team narrowly
edged University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Christian University to capture f irst place.
Patrick Strong, a geography junior, led the Mean Green for the 10th consecutive race dating back three years and finished second overall with a time of 25:55 in the 8K run.
Garrett Sage, a sociology junior, a nd Josue Nunez, a k inesiolog y junior, a lso earned top-10 finishes, while Matthew Peters, a kinesiology
senior, and Michael Ortiz, a political science freshman, f in ished fou r t h a nd f i f t h respect ively for t he Mea n Green.
“The f irst few meets are kind of l ike the measuring stick to see where we’re at,” Peters sa id. “We’re more focused on the later parts of the season towards the confer-ence meet. In cross-country, you build up and then by the end of the season we should be a lot better than we were this past season.”
W hile the women’s team only came in fifth, Vaughan said he was happy with its per for ma nce, pa r t icu la rly that of the top four runners and considering the daunting ta sk of goi ng up aga i nst regional powerhouse Southern Methodist University.
Ingrid Mollenkopf, a crim-inal justice junior, and Sara Diet z, a busi ness sopho-more, were the women’s top placers.
Wit h some early season success u nder t he cross-country team’s belt, Vaughan said he still has his eyes firmly set on October’s conference cha mpion sh ip, w it h t wo more preparator y meets in between.
“Ever ybody gave a great effort,” Vaughan said. “That’s what you hope for. But wher-
ever we are, we’re going to t r y a nd improve bet ween now and Oct. 31. No matter
if we are ahead of schedule or behind, we sti l l have to improve.”
PHOTO BY JOSIAH SORRELS / PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO BY JOSIAH SORRELS/ PHOTOGRAPHER
Inner peace found in cross-country
PHOTO BY CHRISTENA DOWSETT/ PHOTO EDITOR
Sarah Dietz � nished 16th with a time of 19:09 in the Ken Garland Invitational on Saturday morning.
Matthew Peters placed 14th with a time of 27:52.
Su n B elt C r o s s- C ou nt r y C ha mpion sh ip meet a nd r e c ei v e d t he Su n B elt ’s Freshman of the Year award for cross-country.
Vaughan is currently trying to keep from pushing Strong too far.
During the last two seasons, Strong suffered from tendon-itis in his left knee. Although his knee is fine now, Strong is learning how to be patient with his training.
“T he big ge s t t h i n g i s keeping him healthy and not over working him,” Vaughn said. “It’s better to have him healthy than practice too hard and not have him make it to conference.”
S a r a M it c hel l , a U N T sports psycholog y consul-tant, agreed that hav ing a good support network helps keep the athletes on top of their game.
Mitchel l a lso sa id t hat c r o s s - c o u n t r y i n v o l v e s keeping track of those around you a nd stay ing inwa rd ly focused.
“I think the challenge in distance running is being able to both monitor your body, and adapt your pace according the feedback you get,” Mitchell said, “Also to be aware of your competi-tors and respond accordingly. Having that duality is really important.”
Strong said a lt hough he uses other athletes to help push him during the race he remains focused on himself.
“When you’re racing it is all business,” Strong said with
MCT —In Michael Crichton’s riveting novel The Andromeda Strain, a team of scientists investigate a deadly extrater-restrial microorganism rapidly causing fatal blood clots and inducing insanity.
In the compelling drama The Flu Bug Pain, mad scien-tist Urban Meyer tries to crush an insidious pest causing great angst and insanity among the Gator Nation.
Journeys on the road to greatness always have unex-pected plot twists. The Bowl Championship Series chase now has a formidable foe: H1N1. The swine f lu has moved up the rankings to Public Enemy No. 1 now that Lane Kiffin has slithered out of town.
After three starters were rendered wobbly by the flu against Tennessee, Meyer has gone DEFCON-1 with a swine flu alert. He’s a bit edgy, with good reason. The ramifica-tions of this thing spreading in the locker room could have serious consequences on the Gators’ plans to party in Pasadena to celebrate another national title run.
“It is a panic level of propor-tions I’ve never seen before,” Meyer said.
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“Teenagers and people in their early 20s are a good risk group,” Dr. Lawrence Kelley said. “They are healthy. Ones
with diabetes and heart disease are at greater risk.”
Kelley speaks with passion and purpose on both fronts. He has been practicing family medicine in Central Florida since 1973. And he’s a Good Gator, graduating from Florida in 1963. His office is filled with a bunch of Gators memora-bilia.
There’s obvious reason to be concerned given the swine flu outbreak in this country, but Meyer should chill. He’s working with a bunch of young men who are healthier than most kids running around campus.
There won’t be a vaccine available until mid-October. In the meantime, Meyer and the rest of the country should follow recommenda-tions from the CDC, which can be seen at www.flu.gov. Expect hand sanitizer sales to spike to record levels. Expect to see people wearing protec-tive masks. That might seem hokey, but folks like Kelley are doing that when coming into contact with patients who have severe cases of the flu.
Meyer is taking precau-tions after tailback Jeff Demps, tight end Aaron Hernandez and defensive end Jermaine Cunningham struggled with fever symptoms on Saturday. It’s the simple things, really, like not sharing water bottles and keeping those high-fives at a minimum.
“You can’t walk down the hallway without everyone telling you to do this, do this,” Meyer said. “We’re trying the best we can, but it’s real.”
Gators battle f lu outbreak
Patrick Strong � nished 2nd with a time of 25:55 at the Ken Garland Invitational on Saturday morning.
a chuckle. “You just got to concentrate and get the best out of yourself. Keep positive,
if you get down on yourself you’re pretty much screwed. Got to stay happy.”
Sports Page 6 Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Justin UmbersonSports Editor
BY JUSTIN UMBERSONSports Editor
Two months and a day after Philadelphia Eagles quarter-back Michael Vick finished his 23-month prison term, another National Football League star is headed to jail.
Super Bowl X L II hero Plex ico Burress, a former New York Giant, plead guilty Tuesday to violating gun laws in New York and immediately began ser ving a two-year sentence.
Burress, like Vick, deserves everything he gets. He took a loaded gun to a New York City night club, took it out to show it off and then topped it off with shooting himself in the leg.
Not only does he get 24 months behind bars, but also he received a wound for his troubles.
The injury also cost him the tail end of last season, when the Giants were well on their way to securing the best record in the National Football Conference.
The Giants were not the same without him, as they
lost in the second round of the playoffs to the Eagles.
Athletes, like entertainers of all kinds, are paid thou-sa nds i f not m i l l ions of dollars to perform at a level that keeps fans coming back to the stadiums and buying merchandise.
T hey a re placed on a pedesta l by t he yout h of America. Athletes need to behave like the role models they are instead acting irre-sponsibly.
W hen one of them goes and shoots themselves acci-dently, it is a slap in the face to everyone who ever bought their jersey or cheered for them.
Every time a player gets s u s p e nde d b e c a u s e he chooses to do drugs, that team’s fans are cheated out of their money. But how do the majority of fans react? The opposite of what they should.
W hen t he Los A ngeles Dodgers’ outfielder Manny R a m i rez ret u r ne d f rom a 50-game suspension for v iolat i ng Major L ea g ue Baseball’s steroid policy, fans welcomed him back with a standing ovation as if he was returning from defending the country like Ted Williams
did twice. At what lengths are teams
and fans willing to go to win games?
I a m not say ing t hese player s do not deser ve second chances, but to cele-brate them as heroes upon their returns to the field is absurd.
Instead of g iv ing such ovat ions to players who have done nothing for your favorite team, cheer for the ones who have been there for the long haul. Cheer hard for the players who work hard because they are the ones that are easy to forget.
In two years when Burress is out of custody, a team is going to sign him because of rare athletic ability. And this team’s fans will forget that he was not mature enough to leave his gun at home when he went to the club.
The Script: The wrong players get recognition
Justin Umberson
BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer
Late in the third quarter with 92,012 hostile University of A laba ma fa ns roa ring, redshirt junior quarterback Nathan Tune remained calm, cool and collected completing a 32-yard touchdown pass, the first of his college career.
It is this same relaxed atti-tude and ability to handle pressu re t hat ha s made Tune, a finance major, into the quarterback that he is. Tune has always been the calmest player on the field and it earned him a fitting nickname during his time at Celina High School.
“Cold-blooded,” Cel i na
head coach Butch Ford said. “He is the coolest and calmest player I have ever seen. That is what makes this kid special, and what brought us a state title.”
Tune managed the game and played mistake-free foot-ball in Saturday’s loss. He completed 70 percent of his passes for 126 yards and a touchdown.
Head coach Todd Dodge was impressed by his poise.
“You never really know a player until you are in the game with him,” Dodge said. “He is so easy to talk to and make adjustments with. He is the kind of player that you want on your team.”
The two have a long histor y f r o m Tu n e ’s h i g h s c h o o l days attending Dodge’s qua r-t er b a c k s a nd receivers camps, and was the only player Dodge knew when he came here three years ago.
“I have followed Nate’s career for a long time.” Dodge said. “We know each other really well and I have a lw ay s k now n h i s c a l m att itude would ma ke him successful.”
Tune was a sk inny and
a w k w a r d k i d d u r i n g h i s freshmen year at Celina, but Ford saw the poten-tial in him early on.
Tune ran the scout team for Celina that year, but as he devel-oped, he turned
into the quarter-b a c k Fo r d h a d
hoped for.“We saw his possibilities
from the beginning,” Ford said. “He grew so much as an athlete and by his junior year, we knew we had some-thing special.”
His senior year, Tune led the team to a Class 2A State Tit le a nd a per fect 16-0 record, but making his first collegiate start will leave a lasting impression on him.
“Winning that state tit le was great,” Tune said. “But making my first college start was such a huge deal. I have been waiting for this oppor-tunity for a long time.”
Off the field, Tune remains the same relaxed guy, which helps him with his real major, golf. Tune is an avid golfer during the off-season and carries a seven handicap, and hopes to spend his days after football playing golf.
“I just want to make a lot
of money, so I can go out and play golf everyday. That is my biggest interest, along with women,” Tune said with a smile.
Tune said he knows starting was a one-week deal, but he enjoyed every second of it.
His f irst collegiate start, while a losing effort, made his old coach proud and brought back some fond memories.
“I couldn’t help but think back to him as a freshmen and how he handled the pres-sure,” Ford said. “You see it in him, but it is just so great to see him develop into the great man he has become. I was absolutely tickled to see him be successful at that level.”
Athlete of the Week: ‘Cold-Blooded’ Tune
Kansas City, Mo. (MCT)— Football IQ. Does it come natu-rally? Is it a nature vs. nurture thing? Can you pound energy drinks and cram for the exam?
On the pro level, you know precisely where to point the finger or give the thumbs-up. Chiefs’ quarterback Matt Cassel completing a pass that didn’t stop the clock at the end of the first half on Sunday was a dumb play. Broncos’ wide receiver Brandon Stokley bleeding seconds off a clock before stepping into the end zone on the first weekend was a smart play.
College is different in this regard: They’re kids.
Older kids, but kids, and although they make smart and dumb plays, there’s a level of understanding for the blunders.
A Virginia Tech wide receiver slips behind the Nebraska secondary playing prevent defense for an 81-yard strike that set up the game-winning touch-down.
Texas A&M commits 16 penal-ties, helping turn what should have been an easy victory over Utah State into an escape.
The same Baylor defensive line that played well against Wake Forest is gashed by Connecticut.
Eyes glaze over when coaches drone on about reducing mistakes and winning the mental game,
but it’s no coincidence that during the last few years, two-time North champion Missouri has ranked among the nation’s leaders in fewest penalties or that three-time conference champion Oklahoma is often among national leaders in turnover margin.
Among the lessons Tigers coach Gary Pinkel absorbed from his mentor, Washington’s Don James, was the idea that the game’s mental side could be fortified.
“He used to say you lose more games because of mental errors than any other reason,” Pinkel said. “They happen for two reasons: You didn’t prepare well, or you’re not disciplined to maintain your focus. You’re thinking about the last play, or the next play or the player against you has you riled up. It generally leads to more mental mistakes.”
Colorado coach Dan Hawkins, his team off to a horrid 0-2 start, had the best week of mental preparation in the Big 12. He and his staff simplified a defense that was torched the previous week at Toledo. The result? A shutout victory over Wyoming.
“We kept things in front of us,” Hawkins said.
College coaches publicly take the blame for their players’ errors, and they should. They get the big bucks.
Two questions.Did Nebraska quarterback
Zac Lee break his thumb or suffer some kind of debilitating injury on the final play against Virginia Tech as was rumored over the last two days?
“Zac’s fine,” Cornhuskers coach Bo Pelini said during the Big 12 coaches teleconference and didn’t elaborate. However, Lee did not practice Monday and had a cast on his left hand. Top reserve Cody Green took snaps with the first-team offense.
Did Mike Leach believe the helmet-separating shot on his quarterback Taylor Potts was a clean hit?
Uh, no.“He’s extremely tough,” Leach
said. “He came back without missing a beat despite being the victim of a really obvious helmet-to-helmet contact.”
Two quotes“We’re 5-19 over the last two
years; we ain’t overlooking anybody.”
Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads on whether the Cyclones were looking past Army to Big 12 play the following week.
“Those are not the kind of games I prefer to schedule.”
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder on playing last Saturday at UCLA. The Wildcats didn’t touch down in Manhattan until 5:45 a.m. Sunday.
On-field IQ hard to measureTexas’ Lamarr Houston puts pressure on Texas Tech’s Taylor Potts at Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, on Saturday Sept. 19.
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Nathan Tune
The health, safety and welfare of UNT students are the univer-sity’s top priorities. The first and best defense against all viruses, including H1N1 — or swine flu — and the seasonal flu, is good personal hygiene and educa-tion.
Before classes began this fall, UNT’s Emergency Preparedness Team initiated a public educa-tion and awareness campaign to make sure faculty and staff knew the university would be following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recom-mended guidelines for higher education, and what that meant for our students and for them.
The education program, which is ongoing, also aims to ensure that the campus community is aware of the risk of flu, its symp-toms and most importantly how to help reduce its spread.
While the most public face of this campaign is the Web site — www.unt.edu/flu — probably its most important elements include ongoing face-to-face presenta-tions with the on-campus housing population, student organiza-tions and any other groups that request a speaker.
The speaker, a Student Health and Wellness Center campus educator, can be scheduled by calling 940-565-2787.
These presentations are supported by informational flyers throughout campus, more gel hand sanitizer stations and enhanced cleaning schedules for public areas.
While education is the best defense, it is not possible to stop the spread of a flu virus. And, as expected, there are cases of Influenza A, which most likely are H1N1, on campus.
Since the start of the semester, the Student Health and Wellness Center has diagnosed only about 90 individuals with flu like illness and 21 tests for Influenza A have come back positive. At this time of the year, a positive test for Influenza A is treated as though it’s H1N1.
Because those numbers only reflect students who seek treat-ment at the Student Health and Wellness Center, it is impor-tant to have additional ways of monitoring the spread of flu on campus.
To help, all resident assis-tants have been trained to iden-tify signs of influenza-like illness symptoms as the more than 6,000 students who live on campus are among the highest-risk popu-lation for spreading the virus quickly.
Because there are already cases of flu on campus, and it is
expected that there will be addi-tional cases throughout the year, the university has initiated a meal delivery plan.
This plan helps those students who live on campus with a meal plan and are sick so they can be more successful at the voluntary isolation in which they are recom-mended to participate.
Sick students in the residence halls should contact their resident assistant to ask for this service.
The most important factor in keeping most of the campus healthy is keeping sick individ-uals isolated at home.
Faculty members have been asked to use their discretion and creativity when working with sick students on the completion of class assignments.
If you think you have the flu, you should contact the UNT Health and Wellness Center at 940-565-2333 or your personal health care provider for advice.
If you get the flu and miss class, speak with your professors.
The Emergency Preparedness Team continues to work closely with the Denton County Health Department, Texas Department of State Health Services and the CDC, and is prepared should the flu spread more rapidly and at higher concentrations through the campus community.
UNT has placed an order for the H1N1 vaccine. Once the vaccine is delivered to campus, it will be made available in priority order to those on campus who are at the highest risk. More informa-tion about this will be shared as it becomes available.
It is expected that some of the ordered vaccine will arrive on campus in October. Information about this will be available through the UNT flu Web site and in direct communication with the impacted groups.
Meanwhile, UNT students are encouraged to get vaccinated for the seasonal flu. Seasonal flu shots are available through the Student Health and Wellness Center in Chestnut Hall, through your health care provider, the county health department and at many local pharmacies.
Luis Tapia is the UNT Emergency Management Coordinator. He can be reached at [email protected].
The latest trend for interna-tional students is to go home right after graduation. Even for post-graduate education, many have decided it is better to study elsewhere, either in their home country or in other countries.
But don’t take my word for it. Look up USA Today’s article titled, “World’s talent opts to leave USA,” published Monday. Alternatively, look up the many articles on BusinessWeek.com that also prove this point.
The real question should be: Is this trend true for UNT?
It’s no secret Texas is one of the states that was not hit as hard by the economic downturn. Hence, we are fortunate enough to have enough class sections opened up for us, unlike states such as California.
So, why would international students opt to leave UNT? The truth is we would like to stay in the United States.
Let’s face it — it’s true the quality of life over here is better than most other countries. However, most talented students
still opt to leave UNT after gradu-ation. Why?
Personally, I’d prefer to go home because of the number of jobs available there. Take, for instance, summer of 2008.
I applied for various summer jobs on campus—the only place where international students can work— only to have no offers from them. Some did not bother to reply.
At the same time, however, I emailed various companies back home for a summer internship. The result was three job offers from reputable companies.
Needless to say, going home for the summer makes more sense than staying in sunny Texas.
I am from Malaysia, a country whose economy is growing slowly. Imagine the number of job offers students from China and India will get because their economy is booming.
What about career opportuni-ties after graduation? Being an international student, I have the option of applying for a working permit that lasts for two years
after graduation. We interna-tionals call this the “OPT.”
After this term of two years expires, we either get sponsored for a green card application by our employers or we go home. Being sponsored for a green card application does not guarantee we will get the green card. As a matter of fact, only 140,000 green cards are given out each year and the government is currently processing applications from 2001.
Let’s be realistic. Who would hire an alien with such slim chances of ever becoming a permanent resident/employee? Likewise, who will want to wait 10 or more years for residency when other countries are giving it away?
But is this a problem for locals? You bet. Lower numbers of inter-national students translates to less diversity and higher tuition costs.
Ever wonder why out-of-state tuition costs so much? It’s because the education costs that much. A portion of the amount out-of-
state students pay is used to fund in-state students’ education. It is like a Robin Hood system: take from out-of-state students and give to in-state students.
So what is the point I would like to make?
If the U.S. would like to plug this “brain drain” of interna-tional talents it better act fast. Identify these talents, allow them to qualify for in-state tuition fees, and give them a career. Throw in some perks for these top-guns.
Otherwise, quit complaining about international talents leaving the United States.
Jamie Chin Han Khoo is a psychology senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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The charming wag of a puppy’s tail or purr of a cute kitten is undeniably hard to walk away from. However, the joyfulness of this picture is lessened when consid-ering that college students abandon thousands of pets every year when they either graduate or leave for spring, winter or summer break.
UNT students who live in dorms are prohibited from having any pets other than fish. Even aquariums, though, are required to be unplugged during semester breaks, leaving a grim fate for Nemo if his owner doesn’t feel like dragging him along on vacation.
Students who live off-campus will also have difficulty finding an apartment that accepts pets, and those who do will pay steep pet deposits for the privilege.
These are not the only things that make pet owner-ship difficult for a student. Many students don’t have time between classes, jobs, internships, and studying to give an animal the necessary care and attention. Many students also fail to consider the price that goes along with pet adoption, such as unforeseen medical expenses, food and pet supplies.
Of course, these obstacles fail to stop many students from adopting a new puppy or kitten. This is why animal shelters become flooded with abandoned pets during the end of school years when students move and are either unable or unwilling to bring their pets with them. This is also why feral cat populations are usually higher in college towns.
It is the responsibility of students to think hard before adopting a pet. Students must decide whether they are truly ready to make a long-term commitment or whether they are just acting on impulse.
Puppies and kittens are not accessories that can be bought on a whim and thrown out like a piece of garbage. They are living things, and they deserve loving homes and responsible owners.
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Sudoku requires no calculation or arithmetic skills. It is essentially a game of placing numbers in squares, using very simple rules of logic and deduction.
The objective of the game is to fi ll all the blank squares in a game with the correct numbers. There are three very simple constraints to follow. In a 9 by 9 square Sudoku game: • Every row of 9 numbers must in-clude all digits 1 through 9 in any order • Every column of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order • Every 3 by 3 subsection of the 9 by 9 square must include all digits 1 through 9
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# 13
V. EASY # 13
2 8 6 34 9 7 18 6 9 5 76 2 85 3 1 4
4 9 78 3 5 2 15 1 3 67 9 2 4
7 2 5 8 1 6 4 3 94 3 9 5 2 7 6 1 88 6 1 4 9 3 5 7 26 4 2 7 8 9 1 5 35 9 7 3 6 1 2 8 43 1 8 2 4 5 9 6 79 8 3 6 5 4 7 2 12 5 4 1 7 8 3 9 61 7 6 9 3 2 8 4 5
# 14
V. EASY # 14
1 6 9 29 2 1
5 8 4 7 32 6 8 7
6 4 5 34 1 3 5
3 2 9 1 59 5 6
7 3 4 8
1 3 6 5 8 9 2 4 74 7 9 6 2 3 5 8 15 8 2 1 4 7 3 6 93 2 5 9 6 1 8 7 46 9 8 4 7 5 1 2 37 4 1 8 3 2 9 5 68 6 3 2 9 4 7 1 59 1 4 7 5 8 6 3 22 5 7 3 1 6 4 9 8
# 15
V. EASY # 15
8 1 6 21 4 3 95 2 6 72 3 4 7 1
3 59 8 4 3 6
9 5 1 75 2 4 86 7 9 8
7 9 3 8 5 1 6 2 41 4 6 7 2 3 8 9 55 8 2 4 9 6 7 1 32 3 4 6 7 9 5 8 16 1 8 3 4 5 2 7 99 7 5 1 8 2 4 3 68 2 9 5 3 4 1 6 73 5 1 2 6 7 9 4 84 6 7 9 1 8 3 5 2
# 16
V. EASY # 16
8 7 5 99 4 6 3 2 7
1 28 5 4 2
4 2 8 12 3 7 6
6 37 3 2 1 5 8
8 1 3 9
3 6 4 8 2 7 5 9 18 9 5 4 6 1 3 2 71 2 7 5 9 3 8 4 69 7 8 1 5 6 4 3 25 4 6 2 3 8 7 1 92 1 3 9 7 4 6 5 84 5 9 7 8 2 1 6 37 3 2 6 1 5 9 8 46 8 1 3 4 9 2 7 5
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# 13
V. EASY # 13
2 8 6 34 9 7 18 6 9 5 76 2 85 3 1 4
4 9 78 3 5 2 15 1 3 67 9 2 4
7 2 5 8 1 6 4 3 94 3 9 5 2 7 6 1 88 6 1 4 9 3 5 7 26 4 2 7 8 9 1 5 35 9 7 3 6 1 2 8 43 1 8 2 4 5 9 6 79 8 3 6 5 4 7 2 12 5 4 1 7 8 3 9 61 7 6 9 3 2 8 4 5
# 14
V. EASY # 14
1 6 9 29 2 1
5 8 4 7 32 6 8 7
6 4 5 34 1 3 5
3 2 9 1 59 5 6
7 3 4 8
1 3 6 5 8 9 2 4 74 7 9 6 2 3 5 8 15 8 2 1 4 7 3 6 93 2 5 9 6 1 8 7 46 9 8 4 7 5 1 2 37 4 1 8 3 2 9 5 68 6 3 2 9 4 7 1 59 1 4 7 5 8 6 3 22 5 7 3 1 6 4 9 8
# 15
V. EASY # 15
8 1 6 21 4 3 95 2 6 72 3 4 7 1
3 59 8 4 3 6
9 5 1 75 2 4 86 7 9 8
7 9 3 8 5 1 6 2 41 4 6 7 2 3 8 9 55 8 2 4 9 6 7 1 32 3 4 6 7 9 5 8 16 1 8 3 4 5 2 7 99 7 5 1 8 2 4 3 68 2 9 5 3 4 1 6 73 5 1 2 6 7 9 4 84 6 7 9 1 8 3 5 2
# 16
V. EASY # 16
8 7 5 99 4 6 3 2 7
1 28 5 4 2
4 2 8 12 3 7 6
6 37 3 2 1 5 8
8 1 3 9
3 6 4 8 2 7 5 9 18 9 5 4 6 1 3 2 71 2 7 5 9 3 8 4 69 7 8 1 5 6 4 3 25 4 6 2 3 8 7 1 92 1 3 9 7 4 6 5 84 5 9 7 8 2 1 6 37 3 2 6 1 5 9 8 46 8 1 3 4 9 2 7 5
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