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NEWS: New dorm residents must receive vaccine
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A cappeiia group to perform new, old favorites
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VIEWS: Popularity of student gambling on the rise
ARTS & UFE:
SMU Takeover
Dallas-area rival stampedes
over Mean Green
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
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Health center to
plan med school
THOMAS
YORIO
By Amber Arnold
Senior Staff Writer
After more than a year of
discussion and debate, the
UNT System Board of Regents
voted 'yes' to allow the UNT
Health Science Center to
begin planning its medical
degree school. However, some
members of Osteopathic
Medical Association are
voicing their concerns.
Thomas Yorio, the Health
Science Center's
provost, presented the
plans to the board on
Nov. f9 to create the
school.
"We're a compre-
hensive health science
center, and we like
to have choices and
opportunities for all
of our students," he
said. "Fort Worth is
a growing city, and we need
more doctors here."
Yorio said the board
members have yet to vote on
the program.
Board members approved
the steps for the school to take
by next year to present its case
to the legislature.
The stipulations are that
the school must get start-
up money estimated at $25
million, it must make agree-
ments with hospitals to take
students in its educational
programming, its must artic-
ulate assurances for other
programs, and it must have a
detailed business plan for the
new school.
The start-up costs will be
generated through philan-
thropy, Yorio said.
This is the main concern for
doctors like Mark Baker.
Baker is a member of
the board of trustees for
the American Osteopathic
Association that helps support
the research center at the
UNT Health Sciences Center
Texas College of Osteopathic
Medicine.
The average cost for a
medical degree school is $100
to $120 million, Baker said.
"Our fear is that if they
don't get enough funding they
may take away from the osteo-
pathic school," said Baker, a
doctor of osteopathic medi-
cine. "There's going to be
a great temptation to take
funding that was meant for
the osteopathic school."
To show its displeasure for
creating the medical degree
school, the association
decided to withhold money
from the research
center.
"We're still
funding individual
research grants but
not basic infrastruc-
ture," Baker said.
People on both
sides of the argu-
ment pointed out
the state's doctor
shortage.
"The doctor shortage in
Texas is focused in primary
care," he said. "Here we
are with [the College of
Osteopathic Medicine] that
produces more primary care
doctors than any other in the
state.
"The UNT Health Science
Center should put its energy
in promoting that rather than
creating a new school."
Yorio assures that the
osteopathic school will not be
adversely affected, and that
it will also benefit from the
creation of a medical degree
school.
"The medical school has
only gotten stronger and
better with every additional
school," he said. "We're one of
the best osteopathic schools
in the country, and another
school would only add to
that."
Administration at the UNT
Health Science Center will
work to meet the requirements
the Board of Regents set forth
and will present again at the
board meeting next year.
Yorio said they are hopeful
that they will be able to move
forward to meet with the Texas
Legislature in January 2011.
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Head football coach Todd Dodge walks onto the field arm-in-arm onto the field with Mean Green players. Dodge will return for his fourth year at UNT.
Head coach back for 2010
By Eric Johnson
Senior Staff Writer
Four days after an agonizing
loss that ended the 2009
season, UNT made the deci-
sion to retain head coach
Todd Dodge and keep his staff
intact.
There was much specula-
tion by UNT students, alumni
and the local media about
whether the administration
would keep coach Dodge for
the fourth year of a five-year
contract after a disappointing
2-10 season.
The Mean Green was more
competitive this season as six
of its losses came by a touch-
down or less and the team
ranked in the top 25 nation-
ally in rushing offense.
"This year did not go
exactly how I had expected,
but I have seen signs of
improvement that validate
my belief that we can turn
this program around," Dodge
said on Monday morning after
Saturday's loss to Arkansas
State University. "We were a
very young team this season,
one of the youngest in the
nation. The adversity we faced
this season will help us win
those tight games."
Three years ago, Todd Dodge
took over a team that had won
five games in its previous two
seasons.
Despite the 5-31 record
since Dodge arrived, he has
brought talented players into
the program like running back
Lance Dunbar, who finished
in the top 10 in the nation
in rushing yards and touch-
downs.
Dodge's predecessor,
Darrell Dickey, won four-
straight conference champi-
onships from 2001 to 2004
but was fired on Nov. 2, 2006
with three years remaining
on his contract after a 2-7
record guaranteed his second-
straight losing season.
Dodge also inherited
academic problems that cost
him scholarships, but he has
improved the academic perfor-
mance of his team and UNT
will have its full compliment of
scholarships next season.
"We brought coach Dodge
into a tough situation," athletic
director Rick Villarreal said on
Wednesday. "We looked at how
many games we were in this
season. We are getting better
offensively and are going to go
from being one of the youngest
teams in the conference to
being one of the oldest."
Villarreal also emphasized
the improvement that would
come from having the full
compliment of 85 scholar-
ships for the first time during
Dodge's tenure.
UNT President Gretchen
Bataille is out of the country
this week and was unavailable
for comment, but she did state
in a news release issued by the
athletic department that she
stands behind Dodge.
"When we hired coach
Dodge, we knew that it was
going to take some time to
grow the football program,"
Bataille said. "We believe we
need to give him adequate
time to turn the program
around."
Next season's expectations
will be much higher for the
four-time 5ATexas High School
state championship coach.
"I have met with coach
Dodge and discussed in great
detail the current status of the
football program and what
my expectations are going
forward," Villarreal said. "While
I recognize that progress has
been made in certain areas, I
believe that in the fourth year
of the program, success on the
field is imperative."
Dodge trusts that experience
will help bring this program
success with 19 of 22 starters
returning.
"We are very excited about
what we have coming back,"
Dodge said. "We have four
or five offensive line starters
coming back and 10 of 11
overall on offense returning.
The offensive line guys will
be third-year starters and we
win have an offense with a lot
of guys who will benefit from
another year of experience.
Nine of 11 starters are coming
back defensively."
Students volunteer to spread holiday cheer
By Melissa Boughton
Senior StafFWriter
A familiar ringing sound made
by an unfamiliar face catches the
attention of many who pass by.
The bell is a long-standing
tradition as part of the Salvation
Army's Red Kettle Fund and its
chime asks all to make a dona-
tion and make a difference.
Many Denton residents have
chosen to donate and volunteer
their time at local centers, helping
families in need have a brighter
holiday season.
"I get lots of calls about people
looking to help," said Amy
Simon, director for the Center
for Leadership and Service.
Simon said the center gets more
interest in students seeking to
help donate food and toys during
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The center connects UNT
students, faculty, and staff with
community agencies and individ-
uals in need of volunteers.
The center works with many
local places including the
Salvation Army, Our Daily Bread
soup kitchen and The Shepherd's
Hand.
The Shepherd's Hand is a
nonprofit ministry that distrib-
utes clothing and food on a daily
basis to those in need.
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Agencies and Drives In Need:
The Salvation Army Red Kettle Fund
Our Daily Bread soup kitchen
The Shepherd's Hand
Denton Community Food Center
Communities in Schools toy drive
United Way of Denton
The Salvation Army has an Angel Tree set up inside the Golden Triangle
children and families' holiday wishes.
Photo by Melissa Boughton / Photographer
I. Volunteers can adopt an angel to fulfill
The ministry is in need of
food, clothing, money, surplus
items and volunteers, according
to its Web site.
"They have been working with
us recently to try to get lots of
folks involved," Simon said.
If students can't give their time
to help and volunteer, there are
many agencies that seek dona-
tions of items such as food,
clothes, toys, and money.
Patrick Henderson, Salvation
Army volunteer, helps run the
Angel Tree drive, which allows
members of the community to
fulfill the wishes of children and
families in need for Christmas.
"We're always looking for
more volunteers and there are
still angels on the tree, so we
need more donors to come help
out," Henderson said.
The tree is inside the Golden
Triangle Mall between Barnes
and Noble Booksellers and
Costume and Dance World.
Students can adopt Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m.
to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon
to 6 p.m.
Volunteers have until Dec. 13
to adopt an angel and until Dec.
14 to drop off their angel's gifts.
The Student Government
Association adopted 150 angels
from the Salvation Army to give
to students, faculty and staff as
part of the freshman internship
philanthropy project.
Jessica Walker, SGA director
of internal operations, said that
all but 15 of the angels were
adopted.
"It has been very, very
successful thus far," the merchan-
dising senior said.
The Salvation Army is also
debuting its cashless kettles
throughout Denton in three loca-
tions this year, meaning that
members of the community can
donate money with a credit or
debit card, not just cash.
"The money that goes to the
Red Kettle Fund will benefit
the Salvation Army in Denton
and help us continue to provide
programs and services for
clients," said Kristen Bowman,
Salvation Army public rela-
tions.
Cherrel Adams, a marketing
senior, said she donates to the
Red Kettle Fund every year.
"I know others need things,
and it's a nice thing to do during
the holidays," she said.
Students also have until Dec.
9 to donate toys to the WFAA
Santa's Helpers Toy Drive on
campus.
"I know that they really need
toys," Simon said.
Communities in Schools
will also host a toy drive during
student's final exam week. The
toys will be distributed to low-
income kids involved in their
programs in elementary thro ugh
high schools locally.
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