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News
Friday, September 16,2011
Amber Arnold and Isaac Wright, News Editors
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Theft
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Though some of the
stories are humorous and
tease the thieves, the photo
tactic is just for security
purposes. According to the
Denton Police Department,
not only the police, but also
citizens share responsi-
bility in preventing crime
in the community as well.
"Only 1 or 2 percent of
customers steal," Lam said.
"Some customers say they
like the photos because
they hate to see theft. [The
customers] are actually
the ones who inform us
of the incidents after they
occur."
The staff has noticed that
customers have responded
to the photos. Some have
stood at the window,
reading the captions and
reacting to the pictures for
several minutes.
"It's a very good idea,"
customer Lance Baldwin
said. "People really
shouldn't steal. I just moved
here from Illinois and I've
never seen anything like
that before. It seems to be
effective."
Employees have tried
other methods to stop
theft, including in one case
chasing a thief down the
block. However, they have
found the posted photos to
be most effective. Cashier
Ash Davis has witnessed
how this exposure affects
thieves.
"It's embarrassing to
have your picture up there,"
Davis said. "People come
back and ask if we'll take
down their picture if they
pay for what they took.
Ultimately, I believe it's a
good theft deterrent."
Supercommittees undraisers upset constituents
WASHINGTON, (D.C.) —Hours
after convening the first working
meeting of Congress' "super-
committee" Tuesday, committee
co-chair Sen. Patty Murray of
Washington state had another
engagement: She hosted a
$l,000-per-ticket fundraiser at the
fall reception of the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee,
raising money for her party's 2012
Senate candidates.
Two other Republican
members of the debt-reduction
panel held fundraisers the same
night, giving lobbyists and influ-
ence peddlers an opportunity
to mingle with them: Sen. Rob
Portman hosted a reception
for fellow Ohioan Republican
Rep. Steve Chabot, and Sen. Jon
Kyi of Arizona hosted one for
Republican Sen. Roger Wicker,
his Mississippi counterpart.
Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn
of South Carolina had the busiest
week of any supercommittee
member, with five fundraisers
scheduled over four days.
Despite growing calls for
the 12 committee members to
stop raising money until they
conclude their task of cutting $1.2
trillion from the federal budget,
most are adhering to the time-
honored tradition of mixing their
politics with plenty of cash.
At least nine of them, five
Democrats andfour Republicans,
have held or scheduled 21 fund-
raisers since getting named to the
committee last month, according
to the Sunlight Foundation, a
Washington-based organiza-
tion that tracks the influence of
money in politics.
To be sure, no one's accusing
members of any wrongdoing.
Fundraising has long been
considered part of the job, and
the Supreme Court in recent
years has loosened limits on
corporate political contribu-
tions, defending them as expres-
sions of free speech protected
by the Constitution's First
Amendment.
In Congress, legislative
attempts to institute taxpayer
financing of congressional elec-
tions have failed to gain trac-
tion, and opinion polls find that
most Americans oppose the idea
anyway. But critics say that by
raising money while they're doing
such high-profile work, super-
committee members are doing
nothing to instill confidence in
Congress, which already is facing
record low public approval.
The spotlight has been partic-
ularly intense on the supercom-
mittee, which by design has much
more clout than most congres-
sional panels do. It could set
spending levels for hundreds of
federal projects extended over
10 years.
Nick Nyhart, the president and
chief executive officer of Public
Campaign, a national nonprofit
group that focuses on special-
interest money in politics, said
the committee members could
send a "clear signal" that their
recommendations would be
made without the undue influ-
ence of big-money interests by
suspending all fundraising for
the next two months.
The supercommittee, known
officially as the Joint Select
Committee on Deficit Reduction,
has until Nov. 23 to make its
re commendations.
Nyhart said the 94 senators
and 429 members of the House
of Representatives who weren't
on the committee could pick up
any fundraising slack.
ancer
Because of an increased rate
of leukemia in Flower Mound,
the department conducted
an investigation of "Specific
Cancer Occurrences" in the
city.
According to the study report
updated March 30, the depart-
ment could not determine with
any degree of certainty why
the number of breast cancer
cases is higher than expected
in these areas, but the increase
is likely explained by the rapid
growth of the Flower Mound
population.
With no scientific data yet
confirmed, the exact reason
for the increase in incidence
is not yet known.
"We've seen an increase in
breast cancer patients and lung
cancer patients in probably the
last year," said Jessica Emerson,
chief radiation therapist at the
Denton Cancer Center.
The average age of those
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diagnosed is 30 to 45 years old,
Emerson said. Though this age
group is much younger than
what she is used to diagnosing,
Emerson said it may be due to
growing awareness among the
younger generation.
"There's about a 25 percent
increase in breast cancer [diag-
nosis], and about a 40 percent
increase in lung cancer," she
said.
Because of rising local
concern, Denton will host its
first Susan G. Komen Race for
the Cure Sept. 24. Zeta Tau
Alpha, which promotes breast
cancer awareness as its philan-
thropy, will have a booth at
the event.
"Zeta sponsors the survivor
tent, which will give out pins
for racers to put on their
shirts," said Tessa Kus, pres-
ident of Zeta Tau Alpha at
UNT, "On one side of the pin
you can write down someone
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Lively
Jerry Holbert, execu-
tive director of the UNT
Foundation, a nonprofit
corporation that oversees
donations made to the UNT
System, said Lively's real
benefit would be his breadth
of experience.
"He has people in Dallas
on speed dial who don't even
know of UNT," Holbert said.
"He can introduce a broader
group of people to the univer-
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sity and North Texas in
general."
Holbert said Lively was a
potential "game changer" for
the university.
"He gets it when it comes to
what it takes to move a school
to the next level in terms of
philanthropic donations,"
Holbert said.
Lively praised the work
already done by Rawlins,
the UNT Foundation and
members of UNT's Office of
Development.
UNT is at a "moment in
time," Lively said, to lay a
foundation for future genera-
tions to build on.
Lively said he would be on
the UNT campus in Denton
about three or four days a
week and said he would enjoy
being at a university again.
"Our country's greatest
asset is our youth, and they
depend on higher educa-
tion," Lively said. "UNT is
embracing its mission in
higher education."
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