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WOMEN’S SPORTS AT UNT EARN LESS, PAY COACHES LESS THAN MEN’S TEAMS
North Texas Daily
VOL 106 No. 14
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016
Thrash metal and technical writing collide with Power Trip
By Austin Cox
Staff Writer
@austincox_
There is palpable tension before
a Power Trip show - a feeling of
anticipation and anxiety that
permeates a sea of black-shirt-clad
metal-heads.
Vocalist Riley Gale takes the
stage and delivers a call-to-arms
to the horde of anxious fans.
“We’re Power Trip from Dallas,
Texas,” Gale said. “Let’s see if we
can get this venue added to the list
of places we’re banned from.”
Immediately after, a mist
of sweat saturates the room as
bodies fly off the stage, hands and
arms are thrown with reckless
abandon and the flash of cameras
illuminate the room to capture the
insanity unfolding inside a small
but packed-out venue.
Power Trip, since forming in
2008, has risen from the ranks
as local D-FW band to taking
the stage in the national spotlight
as one of the nation’s premier
aggressive rock bands possessing
elements of the thrash and punk
spirit.
Gale, a UNT alumnus with a
degree in technical writing, has
found himself in a position of
unexpected success but still has a
driving passion for writing.
“This all has been completely
unexpected, honestly. At first
I thought I’d just do technical
writing and would do gigs on the
side when I could,” Gale said,
standing drenched from head-
to-toe in sweat after playing an
intense set. “I choose technical
writing early on because I wanted
to do writing but I wanted options.”
Gale retains an interest and
desire to be involved in writing as
a professional vocation.
SEE MUSON PAGE 5
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CAMPUS GOVERNMENT
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Erica Wieting | Staff Graphic Artist
SGA elections over
Grant Hale,
Barrett Cole new
SGA leaders
By Lisa Dreher
Staff Writer
@lisa_dreher97
The results are in. Political
science junior Grant Hale will be
the undergraduate student body
president and integrative studies
sophomore Barrett Cole will
serve as vice president for the next
school year.
Hale, SGA’s current chief
of staff, won 1,712 votes, and
his opponents, SGA College of
Arts and Sciences senators Sam
DeLeon and Owen Saenz, lost
with 1,608 votes. There were 3,320
total votes, SGA said.
Results were suspended Friday
because SGA’s election board
needed to determine whether
SEE ELECTION ON PAGE 2
Many students
not worried about
Greek problem
By Lisa Dreher
Staff Writer
@lisa_dreher97
During the undergraduate
student body presidential race, some
students and Student Government
Association senators expressed
worry that fraternity and sorority
members too often dominate student
government.
Previous administrations show
a pattern in Greek members
overseeing the student body. 10
presidents and 10 vice presidents
since 2006 were in fraternities or
sororities, including this year’s
student leadership. There were 18
Greek executives and four non-
Greek.
Newly-elected undergraduate
SEE GREEK LIFE ON PAGE 2
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#FormationWorldTour
Beyonce started her seventh world tour
Wednesday in support of her sixth and
most recent album “Lemonade.” She
thanked her “beautiful husband” Jay-Z as
she kicked off the tour in Miami.
#SuperTuesday
Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton both
scored major victories Tuesday. While
Trump swept five states and Clinton won
three, Bemie Sanders only took one.
#GameofThrones
The Game of Thrones season six pre-
miere was Sunday night, bringing in
a record 10.7 million viewers. It was
the first episode that went beyond the
book series.
Wait, there’s a ‘Fight Club 2’? Denton comic shop
offers signed body parts with book preorder
More Fun Comics & Games in Denton, TX offers a signed severed arm, skull or poster
with the preorder of Fight Club 2. Courtesy | Nicholas Friedman / The Dallas Morning
News
By Nicholas Friedman
The Dallas Morning News
@NMFreed
You all remember the first
rule of “Fight Club,” right?
Yeah, thought so.
With that out of the way, let’s
talk about “Fight Club” anyway.
Denton comic shop More Fun
Comics & Games is offering a
signed severed arm, skull or
poster with a pre-order of the
collected edition of “Fight Club
2,” a comic series that continues
the tale of Tyler Durden.
While supplies last, of course.
Last summer, nearly 20 years
after the release of the original
novel and 16 years after the
release of the critically-acclaimed
David Fincher film, writer Chuck
Palahniuk decided it was time to
continue the story of the unnamed
protagonist, Marla and more.
The scene for the book is set
after Marla becomes disengaged
with her marriage to the main
character, now going by the name
Sebastian.
So she stops giving him his
psych meds in hopes that Tyler
will creep back into their lives.
“I’m expanding the original
story, moving it into the future,
but also giving the characters
a history,” Palahniuk told us
via e-mail. “Instead of being an
isolated, one-time aberration,
the character of Tyler Durden is
revealed to be a classic trickster
character, such as Loki, Coyote or
Hermes.”
And though Tyler is more
tangible in this sequel, Palahniuk
said it doesn’t change much.
“Tyler is Shiva and will always
seek to create chaos,” he said.
“People love some chaos. On the
page, chaos is wonderful.”
So why the body parts?
More Fun owner Tim Stoltzfus
said the idea for the memorabilia
came from a meeting Palahniuk
had with comics retailers last year
in Portland, Oregon.
“He gave each attendee a
SEE COMICS ON PAGE 7
SOFTBALL
Underwood’s path to college softball influenced by family
By Clay Massey
Staff Writer
@Clay_FC
As junior right-handed pitcher
Stacey Underwood stares down
opposing batters from the pitching
circle, she means business. She
always has.
The integrated studies major
with a focus on business wants
to be her own boss one day,
something she does every time
she steps into the circle.
While she’s a businesswoman
on the diamond, she also likes to
have fun, illustrated by the pink
stripe flowing through her bleach
blonde hair.
“I like to be silly at times,”
Stacey said. “But when it comes to
softball, I like to be very serious. I
don’t mess around.”
In the stands at just about every
Mean Green home game, a pair
of watchful eyes breaks down
every pitch Underwood throws
with precision. The eyes belong
to John Underwood - Stacey’s
father and former high school
head coach.
The family is from Hico,
Texas, which sports a population
less than 1,500. John was assisted
by his wife, Kristi during Stacey’s
senior year - a year John called
one of the most rewarding ever for
his family.
“My dad had always been like
my coach when we would go in
the backyard and play,” Stacey
said. “It was a really fun time to
have my dad there all four years
of high school. It was like a family
ordeal. We were all there. I think
it made us a lot closer.”
Stacey played the role of
“coach’s kid” for four years,
which caused some to think she
was getting special treatment. But
John said he knew just how hard
Stacey was working to develop
her craft.
“It’s a tough role sometimes,”
John said. “Really they don’t
think about the hours she put in
and the time we spent. They also
don’t think about the time she had
to spend when Dad couldn’t be
there because I’m working with
somebody else’s kid,”
SEE SOFTBALL ON PAGE 9
Junior pitcher Stacey Underwood (15) pitches a ball towards a Marshall batter.
Dylan Nadwodny | Staff Photographer
POLITICS
Flier heats
up City
Council
By Tiffany Ditto
Staff Writer
@TiffanyDitto
It wouldn’t be an election
without drama, and a recent
campaign mailer caused tempers
to flare. The local controversy
includes wrongful hugging, hate
mail and accusations against
people running for Denton City
Council.
Citizens for Local
Governance, a political action
committee, sent a mailer to
Denton residents asserting there
is a “curtain” hiding those who
power local politics. The flier
read that an international climate
action group called Rising
Tide is using its local chapter,
Blackland Prairie Rising Tide,
to run candidates sympathetic
to its cause for city council. The
flier accuses the group of being
behind the recall election of Joey
Hawkins from District 4.
“What I have gathered is that
the flier has stirred up people on
both sides,” Place 5 city council
member Dalton Gregory said.
“The discussion of the flier isn’t
important. It’s done more to
generate heat rather than light.”
Blackland Prairie Rising Tide
said in a Facebook post it has
not endorsed or inserted any
candidates into the election.
“Hell, we haven’t even been
promoting Will Wooten, who
is a member from this group,”
the post read. “If we were using
BPRT as a platform to run
‘multiple’ candidates for city
council, it sure does look like
we’ve dropped the ball.”
What stirred people the most
was an address for the PAC at the
bottom of the flier. The address
happened to be the home address
of former city council member
Pete Kamp.
SEE POLITICS ON PAGE 2
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