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News
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Paul Bottom and Valerie Gonzalez, News Editors
ntdnewseditors@gmail.com
Photo by Patrick Howard/Staff Photographer
Speaker of the Senate Morgan Ray addresses the Student Government As-
sociation during its meeting Wednesday night. Ray is an English junior and
an SGA presidential candidate.
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"We will make sure that
students are having an impact
too, because we're not just
going to print it [the proposal]
out and forget about it. We'll
have follow-up meetings on
the list and make sure that we
can get those taken care of for
the students," Hasley said.
SGA also welcomed its
newest member of the Senate
at Wednesday's meeting.
Sophomore Camille Grimes
was unanimously appointed
Senator for the College of
Business, with 28 senators
members voting "Yes."
"I feel really excited. I'm
definitely excited I can
finally get the issues out
that people aren't getting
out and finally resolve the
issues in the College of
Business," Grimes said.
Her goals are "to resolve
as many issues as possible
while here at UNT, and
really leave a legacy and
really leave a mark."
The SGA's external
committee will continue to
focus on which areas need
to be more illuminated
across campus during its
next safety walk.
"SGA is here to look
out for the safety of the
students," Hasley said.
"We're trying to really
make sure that the students
are as safe as they can be
on campus."
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Tensions flare at screening o
film on Iranian nuclear threat
Caydee Ensey
Staff Writer
More than 50 people
gathered in the Business
Leadership Building on
Wednesday night for a
screening of the documen-
tary "Iranium."
Christians United for
Israel (CUFI), UNT's Jewish
Studies Department and
North Texas Hallel hosted the
event, which featured guest
speaker Jeremiah Nasiatka,
the CUFI national campus
coordinator.
The documentary depicts
the message that Americans
do not understand the guiding
principles of Iran, and that
the situation is much worse
than mostthink.
"Iran is not just a threat to
Israel," Nasiatka said. "Iran
is a threat to America as well.
When the leader of Iran says,
'First the Saturday people,
then the Sunday people,'
he's talking about first the
Jews and then us. We are the
Sunday people."
The film presented argu-
ments against the Islamic
Republic of Iran, compiled
with interviews of more than
25 national and international
experts on international
relations, including James
Woolsey, former head of the
CIA, and U.S. Ambassador
John Bolton.
Intense moments in the
film depicting bombings
and shootings prompted
emotional reactions from
the audience, causing several
people to leave the room.
Photo by Caydee Ensey/Staee Writer
International studies senior Ali Azodi (right) and Alex Shapira, of the Jewish Studies Advisory Board (left), discuss the
anti-Iranian film "Iranium"after the screening in the Business Leadership Building on Wednesday evening. "I see cooler
heads prevailing, politicians have been preaching apocalypse for years,"Azodi said. "The relationship between the Israeli
and Iranian people is too strong for war."
International studies senior
AliAzodi, a native of Iran who
moved to the U.S. 10 years
ago, was in the audience and
was the loudest critic of the
film.
Azodi said "Iranium"
contained some inaccuracies,
pointing out a part of the film
which accused the Iranian-
sponsored group Hezbollah
of bombing the U.S.S. Cole
in October 2000, despite the
fact that al-Qaeda, another
terrorist organization, took
responsibility for the attack.
"I'm not an expert, so I
don't know how much of the
movie was correct and I don't
know how much this young
man [Azodi] says is correct,"
said Nancy Flowers, inter-
national recruiting coordi-
nator at UNT International.
"But I am happy we had this
screening. It gave him a forum
to present his opinion, and I
was excited to see the other
side raise its voice."
Azodi does not believe that
Iran will make a move against
Israel or the United States,
because despite its power, the
people of the Islamic Republic
are becoming more discon-
tent with their government
and do not accept the theoc-
racy as their representative.
The screening ended on a
positive note, with some of
the audience concluding that
while the Iranian government
was a wild card, the people of
Israel and Iran have and will
continue to maintain a good
relationship.
"I see cooler heads
prevailing," Azodi said.
"Politicians have been
preaching apocalypse for
years, but the relationship
between the Israeli and
Iranian people is too strong
for war."
Police Blotter
Alcohol and Drug
Related Offensives
Friday, March 23
11:47 p.m. - The Denton
Police Department dispatch
reported a suspected intox-
icated man at Crooked
Crust at 101 Avenue
A. UNT police officer
responded to the location
and arrested the suspect.
The 35-year-old man was
taken to City of Denton
Jail.
Saturday, March 24
2:33 a.m. - A UNT police
officer approached two men
at the 1400 block of W. Oak
Street. Both were found to
be intoxicated and were
arrested at the scene. Both
were taken to Denton County
Jail.
Theft and Burglary
Tuesday, March 20
1:14 a.m. - A complainant
call reported abrokenwindow
at the RTFP building. AUNT
police officer responded to
the call and reported that
the scene appeared to be an
attempted burglary.
Wednesday, March 21
7:35 p.m. - A UNT
police officer responded
to a reported theft at the
900 block of North Texas
Boulevard.
Saturday, March 22
5:09 p.m. - UNT Police
responded to a complainant
reporting the theft of elec-
tronics from his vehicle at the
900 block of Maple Street.
Miscellaneous
Monday, March 19
12:25 p.m. - AUNT police
officer and Denton EMS
responded to a complain-
ant's call reporting a medical
emergency at College Inn.
The patient was taken in for
medical treatment.
Facebook moves carefully toward IPO
(MCT) SAN FRANCISCO - The
countdown to Facebook Inc.'s
initial public stock offering
has begun.
The social networking giant
is aiming to begin selling its
stock to the public in May and
is taking carefully choreo-
graphed steps to prepare for
what is expected to be the
biggest-ever Internet IPO, said
a person familiar with the
situation who is not autho-
rized to speak publicly.
Facebook has asked private
exchanges to halt trading of
the privately held company's
shares Friday. Within a few
weeks, Facebook is expected to
kick off its so-called road show
to court institutional investors
such as pension funds, mutual
funds and hedge funds, the
person said.
Facebook's chief operating
officer, Sheryl Sandberg,
and Chief Financial Officer
David Ebersman will lead
the marketing of the IPO,
with founder and Chief
Executive Mark Zuckerberg
playing a smaller role,
said Sam Hamadeh, head
of PrivCo, a research firm
specializing in the finan-
cial of private companies.
A video made for the road
show could be posted as early
as Monday, he said.
"Facebook is doing every-
thing possible to make this
an orderly opening," said
Scott Sweet, senior managing
partner at IPO Boutique;.
Facebookhas been method-
ically preparing for the IPO for
two years. Ebersman, who as
Genentech Inc.'s finance chief
helped close the $46 billion
deal in 2009 that made Roche
Holdings the full owner of the
biotechnology company, has
professionally audited
The timing of the IPO,
which depends in large part
on regulatory scrutiny, could
still change.
But Facebook's filing with
the Securities and Exchange
Commission has not encoun-
tered any significant prob-
lems that would hold up the
IPO, Hamadeh said.
Facebook has filed several
amendments to the IPO plan,
the latest one warning inves-
tors of the material risk of an
"unfavorable outcome" in a
patent infringement lawsuit
that Yahoo recently filed.
Facebook asked for the
trading halt on the secondary
market so it could pin down
how many shareholders it has
and put a stop to wild swings
in the stock.
Shares of Facebook trade
on private exchanges where
investors and early employees
can sell their holdings.
Demand for the compa-
ny's shares have soared
on the secondary market
since Facebook filed
for an IPO on Feb. 1.
The IPO could raise as much
as $10 billion and value the
company at more than $100
billion.
Recent trades on the
secondary market give
Facebook an implied valu-
ation of more than $100
billion.
"I have never seen anything
like it," Hamadeh said.
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