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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
SGA hears details
for University Day
Who let the dogs out?
Ben Peyton
Staff Writer
Christa Coffey, assis-
tant director of campus life,
addressed the UNT Student
Government Association
during a meeting Wednesday
night about UNT's University
Day 2012, the celebration of
the school's transition from
a college to a university in
1961.
This year's University Day
will be the 51st and will be
commemorated April 20 from
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Willis
Library The event will feature
free food and entertainment for
students with their UNT 1.1).
The celebration will be
preceded by the annual flag
parade before a speech by
UNT President V. Lane Rawlins
and the reading of the annual
University Day proclamation.
Coffey also elaborated on
the newest addition to the
University Day festivities.
"The wonderful thing that
we're doing this year that's
different from other years is a
scavenger hunt," Coffey said.
Students can Compete in
the scavenger hunt by down-
loading the "SCVNGR" app on
their smartphones and log their
progress by uploading photos
of the designated campus loca-
tions in the hunt.
"The idea is to try to teach
students about some of the
traditions at UNT while having
fun," Coffey said.
The scavenger hunt will
begin Monday and wrap up
April 20. Any students who
complete the hunt by the
deadline will be entered into
a random drawing for "UNT
swag" as well as the grand
prize of a $100 gift card to the
Campus Bookstore.
The SGA also unanimously
elected psychology and polit-
ical science junior Chelsea
Burkett to an at-will senate seat
for the College of Education.
Burkett gathered 109 of the
required 100 signatures from
College of Education students
to be elected to the vacant
senate seat.
See SGA on Page 2
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Photo by Martha Hill/Intern
Business freshman Hannah Kearney holds Roy, a German Shepherd mix, for music freshmen Kimberly Newcomb and Caroline Hunt to pet during "The Pet
Experience," hosted by the Denton Animal Shelter at the Library Mall on Wednesday. The event was held to spread awareness about pet ownership.
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Photo Illustration by Patrick Howard/Staff Photographer
Photography senior Travis Kincaid uses a credit card at the Campus Bookstore on Tuesday afternoon.
Visa, MasterCard accounts
experience security breach
Brief
Ashley Rose
Intern
Visa and MasterCard reported
security breaches on credit and
debit cards involving a third-
party payment processor.
Global Payments, the third-
party processor, announced
March 30 more than 1.5 million
cardholders experienced a breach
of security in which data was
"exported," meaning datais taken
away by a program and saved to a
different one for further use.
It is estimated that money
taken from credit and debit
cards from hackers in the United
States totals $2.4 billion per
year, according to an article by
Consumer Reports.
Toe Stroop, communications
office for Wells Fargo, does not
know if any UNT students'
accounts were breached.
"If we had the number of
students from UNT that had
breached cards, we could not give
out that information. That could
jeopardize the investigation,"
Stroop said. "There were some
cardholders from Wells Fargo
that had their cards breached,
but I do not believe that they
were from UNT"
See MASTERCARD on Page 2
Health Science Center
college ranks among best
Holly Harvey
Senior StaffWriter
The UNT Health Science
Center's Texas College of
Osteopathic Medicine was
ranked 35th in the nation,
along with two other schools,
for best primary care schools
in an annual report released in
March by U.S. News & World
Report.
The College of Osteopathic
Medicine tied with Case
Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio, and the
University of Kansas Medical
Center.
Only the College of
Osteopathic Medicine at
Michigan State University,
ranked 17th on the list, ranked
ahead of the UNT HSC college
among primary care osteo-
pathic medical schools, and
the only primary care school
in Texas to place higher
was the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center,
which placed 21st.
Founded in 1970, the college
has ranked among the top 50
in primary care since 2003.
"We're constantly
recruiting for new talent and
researching aging programs
such as Alzheimer's," said
Dr. Tom Peska, dean of
Texas College of Osteopathic
Photo courtesy of the UNT Health Science Center
The UNT Health Science Center's Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine was
ranked the 35th best primary care school in the nation, along with two other
universities, in a report by U.S. News & World Report.
Medicine,
Osteopathic medicine uses
modern medical treatment while
encouraging a healthy living
style to maintain an individ-
ual's health, according to the
American Association of Colleges
of Osteopathic Medicine.
The center also ranked 12th
in rural medicine, 15th in geri-
atrics and 16th in family medi-
cine, said Dana Benton Russell,
director of public relations for the
Health Science Center.
Part of what enhances the
college is its focus in rural medi-
cine, Peska said.
"Groups of students go and
help provide health care in rural
communities," Peska said. "In
rural areas, you don't get all of
the technology you see in the
cities, and you deal with infec-
tious diseases."
See UNTHSC on Page 2
Group forming to help transgender students
Chelsey Cox
Contributing Writer
The fledgling organization
Transformers is working to
impact and improve the lives of
transgender students at UNT,
as well as confront issues they
may face.
Branching off from the
Gay and Lesbian Alliance
of Denton, Transformers
is looking to create not only
support for its members, but
to open up an opportunity for
a greater understanding of the
transgender lifestyle.
"When the sex people were
labeled at birth does not accu-
rately represent their gender
identity, it can be tough," said
Trans*formers adviser Clark
Pomerleau, a history professor.
"Trans*formers can become
another space where such
people and their allies can
support each other and find
like-minded friends."
In the process of becoming
its own organization separate
from GLAD, Transformers has
gained about a dozen members
and is waiting to see if it gains
consistent membership before
trying to become an official
organization.
"We collaborated to create
a community organization
that is specifically for trans
people and our allies," medical
laboratory science senior Tyler
Sanders said.
Transformers hopes to
organize fundraisers to
sponsor members for help
with medical or psychological
therapy exp enses that would be
acquired in the transitioning
process, such as a smaller scale
drag show modeled after the
one GLAD holds annually.
"We want to be open to
everybody because we want
everyone to be open to us,"
said English literature; senior
Effy Freese, a starting officer
with the organization. "But
we also know that there is a
lot more hesitancy out there
than with the average queer
community."
Through Transformers,
Freese hopes to educate
the UNT community on an
issue that many people aren't
familiar with.
"It's cool and disturbing to
see how common it is on this
campus because there hasn't
been a community thus far,
and there are so many things
to address with it," Freese
said.
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