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News
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Paul Bottom and Valerie Gonzalez, News Editors
ntdnewseditors@gmail.com
UN' home to prominent
ewish Studies program
Caydee Ensey
Intern
UNT is home to the only
Jewish Studies program at a
public university in the Dallas-
Fort Worth area.
The UNT Jewish Studies
program (JSP) hosts five to six
speakers a year, the majority of
whom are experts on Judaism
and/or Israel. The next speaker
will be Jack Garfein, anAuschwitz
survivor and movie and theater
director.
Garfein, 81, will host the
lecture "The Life of a Holocaust
Survivor and Theater-Film
Artist" at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Jan.
30, at the Golden Eagle Suite in
the University Union. A book
signing will follow the discus-
sion.
"Exposing students, faculty
and the community to relevant
academics and public figures
along with our Jewish Studies
classes counters ignorance and
parochialism [narrow-minded-
ness] as well as anti-Semitism,
often camouflaged as anti-Is-
raelism," said Richard Golden,
director of the Jewish Studies
program.
The program officially began
in fall 2000 and offers 52 courses
across 12 departments and six
colleges. Classes range in topic
from" The Ten Commandments"
to "Broadway: The Jewish
Musical."
"One of the program's goals
is to get information about the
[Jewish people], Judaism and
Israel to UNT students and the
DFW community," Golden said.
"Another goal is to foster under-
standing and knowledge of the
diversity of Jews and Judaism,
as well as sensitivity to Jewish
history and cultures. Thus it is
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The Jewish Studies Office of UNT, located in the General Academic Building,
Suite 460, is one of the largest in the nation.
more arguably more impor-
tant for non-Jewish than Jewish
students to take JS classes."
The program is home to a
lending library of over 1,500
books and 200 films available
to the public.
"As of July last year we had
every film that the National
Center for Jewish Film at
Brandeis University had,"
Anna Duch, JSP curriculum
and event coordinator, said.
Susan Perry, a recent UNT
graduate with a political science
major and a minor in Jewish
Studies, said the program
prepared her current job as
the political affairs director
and Latino affairs coordinator
for the Consulate General of
Israel in Houston, Texas.
"The Jewish Studies program
gave me the tools I needed to
work in the world of Middle
East politics, took the extra
step to help me in my future
and continues to be a source
of pride, knowledge and guid-
ance," Perry said in an email
interview.
Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis,
an adjunct professor who
teaches classes on Judaism,
said students who take JSP
courses leave more enlight-
ened.
"Jewishhistoryhelpedlaythe
foundation ofWestern culture,"
Dennis said. "A student of this
program is informed about
the historic and current role
of Jewish culture in shaping
the world."
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SGA
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The SGA mapped out a list
of goals for this semester,
including reducing the
advising ratio, a transparent
budget and advocate for the
smoking ban.
Vice President Edwin Chavez
said SGA just wants to know
how students feel about the
ban to better understand what
to do with the bill.
"Some people are infavor of
designated areas for smoking,"
Chavez said. "But we talked
to an officer and he said it's
almost impossible to regu-
late something like that just
because officers won't always
be around to monitor the rule.
We have to see how everything
goes."
Senator Justin Wood, of the
College of Arts and Sciences,
said the smoking ban was a
controversial issue and the
wording of the ban can be
perceived in a number of
ways.
"The bill is worded as a
total ban, but that isn't the
only option," Wood said.: "I'm
in favor of a more smoke-
free campus where there are
specific areas that kids can
smoke in, not a total ban. It's
the President's baby though,
and he's advocating for a total
ban."
The meeting ended with
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The SGA's spring semester goals line the walls of the SGA office in the University
Union. The SGA held its first meeting of the spring Wednesday night.
Important Dates and Events
• Welcome Back Bash: Jan. 26, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Silver Eagle
Suite
• TwitterTown Hall: Feb. 6, One O'clock Lounge, 11 a.m. to 1
p.m.
• Dan Savage and John Legend at the UNT Equity and
Diversity Conference: Feb. 7
• Last day to register for primary election: March 6
the SGA approving this year's
budget, S2012-1. The SGA asked
senators to remind students
there are some tickets to
the John Legend event and
the Welcome Back Bash is
Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
in the Silver Eagle Suite.
Rain
Continued from Page 1
"Any time we have a
weather event on campus, it
does cause certain delays,"
said Randy Salsman, UNT
construction services
manager. "We really try to
plan accordingly for rain
and weather, but you can't
outsmart Mother Nature."
Salsman said rainy days
cause problems, but construc-
tion crews adapt to condi-
tions.
"We're fortunate enough
to have large buildings with
projects in them that we can
move to," Salsman said. "We
send them indoors to work
on these days. The Cold water
loop going around campus
does require an amount of
work outdoors, so we focus
less on projects like that when
the weather is bad."
Salsman said no equip-
ment was broken or damaged,
nor were any of the projects.
However, high-water rescue
crews and street crews were
on patrol in case of emer-
gency.
Foodtruck
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"We look local first," Swick
said. "If it's not available then
we look in the metroplex, then
locally in Texas and so forth."
The wheel deal
The new truck, though no
larger than those previously used
by UNT, is the largest that can
be physically maneuvered on
campus and will be fully stocked
before deliveries to the univer-
sity are made.
"There are alot of food trucks
on the road that are at 50 percent
[of their intended use]," Swick
said.
Besides being more efficiently
packed, the 2012 Freightliner
Cascadia is equipped with
BlueTec emissions technology,
which cleans the exhaust down-
stream of the engine and breaks it
down into nitrogen and water.
Correction
In Wednesday's edition of the North Texas Daily, in the
story "Proposal for hotel and conference center in works,"
a source was quoted as saying John Q. Hammons Hotels
Management, LLC had "shut down."
The source was referring to the partnership between
UNT and John Q. Hammons, not the company, which is
still in business.
The Daily regrets this error.
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"I'm told the emissions are
more clear than the air we're
breathing," Swick said.
The truck itself costs about
$200,000. Though it is owned
by Ben E. Keith and the univer-
sity did not have to pay for it, the
truck will save money because
of less frequent deliveries,
according to Swick.
"The university has never
done business with a single
vendor or 'prime vendor'," said
Shohreh Sparks, director of UNT
Resident Dining.
UNT pays an estimated $5
million to $6 million a year in
food expenses depending on
the cost of food for that year,
according to Sparks.
"We used to use any distri-
bution company available in
the Dallas area we could find,"
Sparks said. "Now it will be
much cheaper for UNT and more
sustainable."
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