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NEWS
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find out who's
working out
while many
are snoozing.
ARTS & LIFE
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Read about an NT major presenting
an eco-friendly message.
SPORTS
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Highly decorated coach
leads the Racquetball
Club in the fall.
VIEWS
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NT Daily staff
urges everyone to
register in time.
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N' 1 D allas to improve college readiness
By Taylor Short
Senior Staff Writer
The NT Dallas Campus will
establish a new college read-
iness program with the help of
a $1 million grant by the AT&T
Foundation.
In a joint effort between the
Office of Development and NT
System Vice Chancellor lohn Ellis
Price, the campus will launch the
Office of College Readiness and
Student Success.
Gloria Bahamon, the current
director of student services, will
serve as the offices' new assistant
deputy vice chancellor to promote
higher education standards in
Dallas-area schools. Bahamon will
begin in the beginning of 2009.
"I'm going to be working
primarily with school districts and
parents," Bahamon said. "The high
school dropout rate is very high, so
we're trying to be proactive."
Bahamon said she would also
be involved in organizations that
promote college readiness and
develop mentorship programs in
which college students mentor
younger students.
"I will develop programs to help
parents become more involved
with their children's education and
be informed with college applica-
tion requirements," she said. "That
is one of the first things I'll do."
The AT&T Foundation
announcedthegrantatthe opening
of the Dallas Independent School
District's Early College High School
at Nolan Estes Plaza. Students who
enroll in one of the early college
high schools will complete up to 60
college credit hours at Cedar Valley
in the Dallas County Community
College District while working
toward a high school diploma.
These students will receive schol-
arships to attend the future NT
Dallas, said loe Breshears, the
Dallas campus' executive director
of de velopment.
"These will be students who
are graduates of any early college
high school program; that was
the specific focus for this gift from
AT&T," he said. "Including the new
campus that's been established
this fall at Nolan Estes Plaza, there
are three early college high schools
in the DISD."
Breshears said the grant and the
new office is a part of the Dallas
campus' initiative to decrease high
school dropout rates and increase
college enrollment.
Deputy Vice Chancellor Peter
Johnstone said high school
students are not as prepared as
they may think.
"We need transitional standards
that better prepare high school
students for higher education,"
he said.
The NT Dallas Campus is on
its way to become freestanding
from the NT System and become
the first public university within
Dallas city limits after enrollment
equals 1,000 full-time-equivalent
students.
Breshears said that because
there are 959 full time students
enrolled this fall, the new office
and scholarships could help reach
the goal by boosting enrollment as
early as fall 2009.
"We are honored by the trust
and confidence that AT&T and
the AT&T Foundation has placed
in the UNT Dallas campus, and
we're grateful to have them as
a partner as we move forward,"
Breshears said.
Photo by Matt Fagan/Intern
The Student Government Association voted on a bill Wednesday about wristbands
that would promote the SGA Web site and school spirit.
Student senators
reiect wristbands
By Abigail Thatcher
Senior Staff Writer
The Student Government
Association won't be lighting up
the dark with any emerald green
wristbands this fall.
At its Wednesday evening
meeting, the student Senate voted
down legislation 20 to 10 to allo-
cate $560 for purchasing wrist-
bands with Mean Green and the
SGA Web site printed on them.
SGA president Jeff Kline said
the wristbands would have been
distributed to students at the elec-
tion booths that are planned for
the upcoming election. The elec-
tion will run from Oct. 13 to 17.
Arts and Sciences senators Joel
Arredondo and Hunter Nelson
asked for an itemized list of expen-
ditures as well as estimates from
different companies.
"We should be showing that
we are doing this in the most
efficient way," Nelson said. "We
should follow our own rules. And
part of the rules is saying that
we should show each other the
expenditures."
Kline said the wristbands were
the cheapest option that the
SGA found after looking at eight
different companies. He did not
have the estimates or itemized list
available at the meeting.
SGA vice president Rebecca
Finberg told the senators that the
executive board had looked exten-
sively into different companies.
"We shop around because
this isn't just your money or the
students' money," Finberg said.
"It's our money as well."
After Kline said that wrist-
bands were popular on campus,
Jonathan Gallegos, a senator for
the College of Business, countered
by saying the trend had died in
recent years and offered an alter-
native promotional item .
"My proposal was making
koozies and personally having the
Student Government Association
hand them out during tailgating
so people could use them to drink
their beverages," Gallegos said.
Britney NeSmith, a senator for
the College of Education, said she
thought the other senators "have
rights in wanting to know details,"
but said she felt that other issues
could have been discussed.
"We had that argument about
one little piece of rubber," she
said. "I just think there's other
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Willis Library embraces Banned Book
Week, displays challenged books
ByCassie Smith
Contributing Writer
Banned Books Week and
Willis Library are working to
educate students about histor-
ically controversial literary
works.
"Banning books started
years and years ago," said Beth
Avery, head of research and
instructional services for NT
libraries. "The first incidence
of censorship of ideas was in
450 B.C."
In America, banning books
started around the 1870s,
during the Victorian era. In
1982, the case of Board of
Education, Island Trees v.
Pico stated that public school
boards are not allowed to
remove a book from the library
"simply because they dislike
the ideas contained in those
books."
According to the American
Library Association's Web site,
Banned Books Week has been
observed at the end of every
September since 1982 in the
interest of celebrating the
"Freedom to Read."
Avery said libraries all over
the nation heed Banned Books
Week.
"Most libraries are involved
with Banned Books Week to
create that awareness of how
many different views there are
out there," Avery said. "And to
make people aware of their
right to read."
Angela Toven, an education
senior, said she finds it benefi-
cial for libraries to make people
aware of banned books, to
remind people of their freedom
to read and to better educate
people on banned books so
they can form their own opin-
ions.
"I don't think itis right to
ban books because everyone
has different beliefs; you can't
make everybody happy," Toven
said. "The only way to do that
is to leave it the way it is. If
you're going to ban books at
all, then you might as well take
the whole library away."
Breland Stanley, a chemistry
junior, said she doesn't agree
with banning a book.
Stanley said she thinks it
is "ridiculous and is another
attempt of the social elite to
control the spread of informa-
tion to the common man."
Avery said there is a difference
between banning a book and
challenging a book.
"Somebody can challenge a
book and come to a library and
say, 'I don't think this should be
on the shelf,' and the library will
want to know why," Avery said.
"For a book to be banned, it actu-
ally has to be taken off the shelf,
which means that a library board
has looked at it and agreed, 'This
is not appropriate for the popu-
lation.'"
The library association's Web
site report s that from 1990 to
2000, 6,364 challenges were
reported to or recorded by the
Office for Intellectual Freedom.
Challenges falling under the
"sexually explicit" material cate-
gory added up to 1,607 — the
highest amount in one category.
The "anti-family" category saw
the lowest amount of challenges
at 202. Other challenges fell
under categories such as offen-
sive language, unsuited to age
group, occult theme or promoting
the occult or Satanism, violent,
promoting homosexuality,
promoting a religious viewpoint,
nudity, racism and sex educa-
tion.
The top 10 challenged authors
from 1990 to 2004, according to
the library associaton's Web
site, include Judy Blume, J.K.
Photo by Cassie Smith /Contributing Photographer
Willis Library displays historically banned and challenged books for NT students to
check out during Banned Books Week. Some of these books indude"To Kill a Mock-
ingbird" by Harper Lee and "Blubber" by Judy Blume.
Rowling, Stephen King, Maya
Angelou, R.L. Stein and John
Steinbeck.
The "10 Most Challenged
Books of 2007," according
to the Office for Intellectual
Freedom's Web site, includes
"And Tango Makes Three,"
by Justin Richardson and
Peter Parnell, which was also
named the library associa-
ton's No. 1 mo st-challenged
book of 2006, "The Chocolate
War" by Robert Cormier, "The
Golden Compass" by Philip
Pullman, "The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn" by Mark
Twain, "The Color Purple" by
Alice Walker and "I Know WThy
the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya
Angelou.
"I read some of these books in
high school," Stanley said while
grazing the banned books on
display in Willis Library. "I have
the hardest time figuring out
why some of them were once
on the banned book list."
Avery said there are all sorts
of reasons for why things have
been challenged from time to
time.
"For instance, 'To Kill a
Mockingbird' — some people
found the language in it to be
racial, and they didn't think
it should be on the shelf," she
said. "When really, the book
was only being truthful of the
time period of the story."
"James and the Giant Peach"
is another book that was once
challenged.
"Some people wanted this
book off the shelves because,
in the story, James disobeys
the authority figure, and people
saw that as a bad influence on
children," Avery said.
Although Banned Books
Week reminds people about
the history of the topic, Avery
said it also represents a way of
looking at the present.
"Banned Books Week is a
way to point out to college
students that this is the world
we're living in," Avery said.
"And they need to be thinking
about the fact that banning
and challenging books means
taking away people's right to
read."
3 Event encourages voter registration
By Alyssa McMurray
Contributing Writer
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity
is hosting a presidential elec-
tion series titled "UNT Gets
Presidential."
The series is a three-
week lecture course that
covers topics such as envi-
ronmental affairs, foreign
policy and economic issues.
Paul Carter, a speech-language
pathology/audiology senior
and vice president of Sigma Phi
Epsilon's programming, said
the series is designed to bring
students and teachers together in
the same space so they can share
thoughts and ideas pertaining to
the upcoming election.
Carter said the lectures are
given by professors who are
knowledgeable about presiden-
tial nominees and selected topics
because it is important to educate
the students about the candi-
dates.
"The student body needs to be
aware of what each candidate has
to offer so they can be prepared for
Election Day," Carter said.
Various NT political science
faculty members will discuss how
each of the candidates plan to
make a difference if elected.
The lectures also discusses the
relationship between the candi-
dates and the similar or opposing
views they have with each other.
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and
Elizabeth Oldmixon of the polit-
ical science faculty will volunteer
their time to the series so they
can help students gain insight
on whom they should vote for
Nov. 4.
Micah Duke, a journaism
junior, says she is looking forward
to attending Thursday's lecture
and hopes to gain a better under-
standing of how each candidate
views foreign policy.
"I am not only attending to
support my fellow greeks, but I
also think it will be beneficial
to find out how the candidates
views compare and differ from
one another," Duke said.
Duke said it's easy to get
wrapped up in voting for the
candidate who seems to be more
"popular" and not knowing any
issues on which they stand.
"Students need to be cautious
when it comes to voting," she said.
"They really need to research
both candidates, along with their
running mates, to see who would
serve as a better leader for our
country."
The next lecture hosted by the
fraternity will be from Oldmixon
on Thursday at the Sigma Phi
Epsilon house on the corner of
Welch and Maple streets. The
lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m.
and last until 7:00 p.m.
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At the "Rock the Vote" event Wednesday night on the Library
students the importance of registering and voting.
Photo by Matt Fagan / Intern
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