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Moving Closer Bring the Noise
UNT gets closer to Karen Astons 100th win
Sports | Page 5
UNT steel bands combine music, moves
Arts & Life Page 4
Thursday, January 26,2012
Volume 99 I Issue 7
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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
Kerr Hall's resident doorman
Photo by Colin Dobkins/Staff Photographer
Music freshman Sola Akinola holds the door open Jan. 20 on the north entrance of Kerr Hall. "I don't really even know why [I hold the door open] anymore,"
he said. Every day, Akinola stands for hours holding the door open after class.
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SGA talks budget,
semester goals
Rebecca Ryan
Staff Writer
The Student Government
Association had their first
meeting of the semester
Wednesday night, during which
SGA President Blake Windham
encouraged members to focus
on the needs of students.
Windham said he believes
it's safe to say the proposed
smoking ban is an important
issue to students, to both those
in favor of the bill and those
opposed.
"We need to fix issues that
are important to students,"
Windhamsaid. "We did ourselves
a bad deed by taking away the
students' voices and their right
to vote on this issue."
Windham said the vote to
determine whether the ban will
take effect has yet to be set up.
The proposed budget called
for a $4,000 budget decrease for
the SGA and a $t0,000 increase
in travel funds for the Raupe
Travel Grant program, in which
funding is offered to students
in need of money to travel to
present dissertations. The Raupe
fund currently has $22,500 in
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it. These
changes
would
take effect
next year if
passed.
"We saw
where we
could cut
corners,"
Windham said. "There are so
many organizations in need of
money on campus. SGA can do
without $4,000."
In the coming weeks,
Windham said the SGA will
continue to support undergrad-
uate research programs, push
for an initiative for tax-free text-
books and develop plans for a
newUniversityUnion. The Union
Master Plan committee is respon-
sible for developing the Union
Master Plan. A member of SGA
will work with the committee
to create the proposal.
"We're still in the initial phase
with the architect," he said, refer-
ring to plans for a new Union.
"We're also still getting student
reactions."
See SGA on Page 2
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Students avoid puddles Tuesday west of the Life Sciences Complex. The univer-
sity has tried to alleviate flooding on campus.
Heavy rains roll
through Denton
Rebecca Ryan
Staff Writer
Heavy rainfall Tuesday and
Wednesday caused problems
throughout Denton.
Denton airport reported
3,3 inches of rainfall at If a.m.
Wednesday, but the worst of
the storms appeared to have
passed.
"The heaviest rain is done,"
said Eric Martello, senior meteo-
rologist for the National Weather
Service in Fort Worth, said.
"There may be light or spotty
rain in the coming nights, but
everything should clear up by
the weekend."
Rainwater levels on the roads
caused a high-water rescue
involving a Denton Independent
School District school bus for
special needs students.
"[Wednesday] morning,
we did have two high-water
rescues," said John Cabrales, a
city of Denton public information
officer. "A DISD bus drove into
high water that we had to rescue.
Also, some citizens drove around
a squad car blocking off a road
that we had to help out."
Besides the two high-water
rescues, Cabrales said no other
major incidents were reported.
He said along with crews patrol-
ling streets, there are automated
gates that close off roads if there
is high water on them as well as
barricades that officers set up.
UNT is forced to change
construction project schedules
whenever a weather event rolls
through.
See RAIN on Page 2
Holocaust survivor to speak at UN
Brittni Barnext
Senior Staff Writer
Acclaimed director Jack
Garfein, who survived the
Auschwitz concentration
camp before beginning a long
career in Hollywood and on
Broadway, will give a lecture
at UNT Monday from 1:30
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Golden
Eagle Suite.
Garfein, 81, will discuss
his experience during the
Holocaust and reflect on
how his work as a director
and acting teacher has been
influenced by his Jewish iden-
tity.
The lecture, presented by
the Jewish Studies program,
will include a question-and-
answer session and a book
signing.
Garfein is one of several
speakers brought to UNT by
the Jewish Studies program
every year, said history
professor Richard Golden,
director of the program.
"An important part of our
program is to increase the
educational experience of
UNT students," Golden said.
"This is a great opportunity
for UNT students, the UNT
community and the DEW
Photo courtesy of the UNT news service
Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein will speak about surviving Auschwitz during a
lecture from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Golden Eagle Suite in the Union.
community to hear Mr. Garfein
speak."
In addition to his visit to UNT,
Garfein will speak in Dallas as a
part of LearningFest, aweeklong
series of courses on different
aspects of Jewish culture
sponsored by the Center for
Jewish Education of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Dallas.
Garfein, who currently lives
in France, was invited to lecture
at LearningFest by Meyer Denn,
the executive director for the
Center for Jewish Education
who once worked with Garfein
in 1989 on a project that took
them to Garfein's hometown in
Czechoslovakia.
As a young boy, Garfein and
his family were imprisoned in
Auschwitz, Denn said.
Garfein, then 15 years old,
was the only one of his family
to survive.
At the end of World War II,
Garfein traveled to the United
States where he took acting
classes in New York City and
made his debut as a Broadway
director.
He went on to direct polar-
izing films such as "The Strange
One" and "Something Wild," and
to work with legendary actors
such as James Dean and Marilyn
Monroe.
" I think Jack Garfein has a very
important message for people
today, not only Jewish people,
but people from all walks of life,"
Denn said. "And that is that he
has seen the world go through
different stages."
Garfeinhas spentthelatterpart
of his life teaching acting classes
and in 2010 released a memoir
and acting manual, "Life and
Acting," which discusses his life
as a Jewish actor and director.
Chariotte Decoster is a
doctoral student writing her
dissertation on the children of
the Holocaust.
"I think it is important to talk
to Holocaust survivors since so
few of them are left," Decoster
said. "It's important that students
hear their stories."
Garfein's lecture is co-spon-
sored by UNT's Department of
Dance and Theatre, the Center
for Jewish Education of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Dallas, the
Jewish Federation of Fort Worth
and Tarrant County, the Charles
and Lynn Schusterman Family
Foundation and North Texas
Hillel.
To read about the Jewish
Studies program see page 2
UN adds eco-friendly food truck
Nicole Balderas
Senior Staff Writer
A small crowd gathered
at the Mean Green loading
dock Wednesday afternoon
for the unveiling of a 32-foot-
long Ben E. Keith Co. food
delivery truck, the latest in
UNT's sustainability efforts.
A ribbon cutting ceremony,
complete with oversize scis-
sors, followed brief speeches
on the truck and the Ben
E. Keith company from Bill
McNeace, Dining Services
executive director, and Doug
Swick, Ben E. Keith general
manager and 1979 UNT grad-
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The Ben E. Keith Co. food delivery truck is packed with 50 percent more food than standard 32-foot trucks.
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"We've gone from using about
20 trucks every day to one truck
once or twice a week," McNeace
said.
The Ben E. Keith company
started in Fort Worth in 1906
as a small produce distributing
company, but after more than 106
years has become the No. 8 major
full-service institutional distrib-
utor in the nation, according to
the company's website.
See FOODTRUCKon Page 2
Inside
UNT Jewish Studies program among top in nation
News i Page 2
Music students, faculty preview semester's events
Arts & Life | Page 3
Khloe Kardashian got a radio show?
Views | Page 7
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