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News
hursday, November 17,2011
Amber Arnold and Valerie Gonzalez, News Editors
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TWU student's
trial rescheduled
Isaac Wright
Senior Staff Writer
The trial of the TWU student
charged with terrorist threats in
March has been moved from its
original November court date
and has been rescheduled for
February.
Christopher Gillette, 30,
was arrested March 1 after he
made inflammatory remarks in
a TWU class. Gillette was sent
to Denton County Jail, where
he remains until his trial, with
a bail set at $250,000. Gillette's
trial was originally scheduled
for Monday, Nov. 14, but has
been postponed until Feb. 27,
2012.
"Nothing is happening in
the case right now," said Jamie
Beck, an assistant at the Denton
County District Attorney's
Office. "Everything is going to
happen at his trial."
Gillette's trail was resched-
uled because his attorney is
representing a client in a murder
case currently being heard by
the Denton County Court, Beck
said.
Before his current lawyer,
Derek Adame, took over the
case, Fort Worth-based lawyer
David Sloane represented
Gillette.
Sloane filed two motions
in March after Gillette was
arrested. One motion questioned
the $250,000 bond Gillette was
assigned. The second argued
Gillette was being charged and
held without sufficient cause.
Adame can choose to follow
up on the motions or may choose
to revise the case strategy when
the case nears trial, Beck said.
CHRISTOPHER
GILLETTE
Adame
could not be
reached for
comment.
"He can
adopt and
urge those
motions
and take
them up on
behalf of his client," Beck said.
"He can also abandon them
if he doesn't agree with that
strategy."
Gillette was charged with
terrorist threats in March.
According to court docu-
ments, Gillette claimed to be a
veteran of the military with the
skills to take apart Washington,
D.C., "brick by brick," and was
"hopping out of the truck with
anAK-47 mad" about problems
with his veterans benefits and
injuries sustained in the mili-
tary.
Following Gillette's state-
ments, TWU was locked down
for about an hour before Gillette
was arrested at Dallas Veterans
Affairs hospital on the morning
of March 1.
Joseph Alvarez, a radio, tele-
vision and film junior, said he
was in his 10 a.m. Spanish
class when he first got news
alerts on his phone on March 1
about the TWU campus lock-
down. Alvarez said he thought
Gillette's bond was appropriate
for the crime he committed.
"You don't bring a gun to
church; you don't need to bring
a gun to school," Alvarez said.
"There are kids here. There's no
one here you need to harm. Even
the threat isn't right."
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Jason Dow operates a crane truck to install a turbine Tuesday afternoon near the athletic complex. UNT is adding wind turbines to Apogee Stadium to generate
electricity in its effort to be more environmentally friendly.
urbines
Continued from Page 1
"Well, I hope the wind is
blowing that day," Helixon said.
"It's going to be really exciting.
We've gone throughalongprocess.
It started in 2009 with us finding
the grant and applying for it and
then bringing all the stakeholders
together. I thinkit'llbe a day when
everyone can stand back and say,
'Look at what we did.'"
Helixon said there were initial
concerns from surrounding
communities near Apogee
Stadium about the turbines
being installed because people
couldn't understand the connec-
tion between football and renew-
able energy.
"It is odd to see a football
stadium with wind turbines next
to it," she said. "There's kind of a
culture shift that we're trying to
initiate. There was also opposi-
tion from surrounding commu-
nities that the turbines would be
too big."
Because Apogee Stadium is
located near Victory Hall, some
residents are voicing complaints
about the turbines and the
construction process.
"I think they are unattractive,"
freshman resident Catherine
D'Annibale said. "But green
energy is important and can be a
clean and innovative way to gain
necessary power."
Though the construction is
an eyesore, D'Annibale said resi-
dents aren't affected much by the
turbines. In fact, some residents
don't know what they are.
"I was wondering what they
were," she said. "Most people
don't know what they are yet. The
side effects of construction are
minimal to residents of Victory.
Only occasionally will one have
to wait for a work truck to move
from the road."
The office is continuing to
search for other opportunities to
make the campus more energy-
efficient while it waits for a second
grant to research solar energy to
be deliberated by the State Energy
Conservation Office. It has yet to
hear whether the application was
approved.
Crime
Continued from Page 1
Crime alerts are sent out
every time a "Clery-rep or table"
crime occurs. These include
murders, sexual assaults,
robberies and violent crimes
in general. Of the three crime
alerts sent out this semester,
only one happened on campus,
Reynolds said.
Although alerts can be
slightly disconcerting, Jennifer
Hughes, a merchandising
sophomore, sees the benefits
when it comes to her safety.
"I like getting crime alerts
because it makes me more
aware of what's going on, and I
can be more cautious," Liughes
said. "I think it's pretty safe,
but whenever I get an alert, it
freaks me out."
With the exception of the
strong-arm robbery that
occurred Nov. 6 on Avenue
C, violent crimes don't happen
often on campus, Reynolds
said. The other two crimes that
resulted in alerts happened
off campus, but were close
enough that UNT PD thought
it prudent to send out warn-
ings, he said.
"We send out crime alerts
for crimes that may have a
pattern and we believe may
be an ongoing threat to the
student body," Reynolds
said.
These crimes include car
thefts or burglaries that
happen repeatedly and in
which the suspect is not
caught. If the suspect in the
purse snatching on Avenue C
had been caught, the crime
alert would not have been sent
out, Reynolds said.
For the minor thefts that
occur in buildings around
campus, signs are put up
warning students not to leave
their belongings unattended
in areas frequented often,
but crime alerts are only sent
out for repeated happenings
that may be a serious threat,
Reynolds said.
The Jeanne Clery Report
is published every year with
the campus' crime statistics
to inform the public about
programs and services that
enhance campus security.
SGA
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"I think it's wrong for a multi-
tude of reasons," he said. "Mainly,
it's all but unenforceable. And this
is a sort of movement of the non-
smoking majority to strip away
rights of the smokers."
If the senate approves the
referendum, the student body
will be given the opportunity to
vote on the legislation in a poll.
If approved, the ban would then
need to be approved by UNT
President V. Lane Rawlins.
Bills passed
The senate passed bills to allo-
cate money to pay for food at SGA's
annualholidayparty, modify the
group's budget and lengthen the
SGA's officer terms.
The Holiday Party Expenditures
bill allocates $1,200 to provide
food at SGA's holiday-themed
open house on Dec. 1 and 2. Any
student may attend the open
house, which is located at SGA's
office in University Union 320S.
The SGA also passed a bill to
use more of its yearly budget this
semester and less in the spring
semester.
Reallocating money in the
budget would better meet the
group's needs, SGA director of
internal affairs Sara Boucher
said.
"We're proposing to increase
the budget to $3,500, because if
we've already spent $1,500 this
semester, then it makes sense to
raise it," Boucher said. "I took all
the funds that we weren't going
to use, and then I put the funds
where I thought they should go."
The officer terms bill changed
the terms of the senate officers:
speaker, speaker pro-tempore,
secretary and sergeant-at-arms,
from one semester to the entire
school year.
"We are attempting to create
more continuity in our organi-
zation so we can better serve our
students, so that we're not stop-
ping and restarting our organiza-
tion every three months," Vincent
said.
Speaker of the senate
Following Vincent's resignation,
the SGA held a special election in
which it elected previous speaker
pro-tempore Morgan Ray as the
new speaker. The senate then
elected senator Sean Smallwood
to replace Ray as speaker pro-
tempore.
As speaker of the senate,
Vincent wasn't allowed to partic-
ipate in discussions and was
required to abstain from voting
and said he believed he could
better serve the student body as
a senator.
"Basically, there are a good
number of bills coming up, and
they're really about students and
about how we can help them out,"
he said. "And I would really like to
be a regular senator again so that
I can help out with those bills and
debate on them and be part of the
process again."
Correction
The Daily incorrectly identified a name in Tuesday's edition
of the paper. The student photographed for the story "Student-
produced shows receive regional awards" on page 3 is not Kelsey
Schneider. The student pictured is Stephanie Thomason, a
converged broadcast media senior. We regret the error.
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