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Wednesday, September 26,2012
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Fry
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Miyata said that sales have
been down and lunches have
been significantly slower at
Jimmy John's since the new
restaurants have opened.
"The business has been down
since last year about 20 to 25
percent/' Pita Pit owner Tim
Raiet said. "You are competing
with national chains that are
strong both inside town and next
to college campuses."
Raiet said it's hard to compete
with the popularity of the new
businesses because of the amount
of national advertising they
receive. Pita Pit is a franchise
but is not as well-known as other
restaurants on Fry Street, he said.
Decreasing sales is not the
only problem facing older restau-
rants near campus. The rising
popularity of the area is causing
increases in rent for other busi-
"The rent keeps going up
because of the addition of new
businesses, which are national
chains," Raiet said.
Once the excitement of
grand openings wears off,
students may return to their
old habits, returning some
of the revenue to restaurants
that have been there for years.
Students are frequenting
the new businesses because
they're fresh and unfa-
miliar, said regular Jimmy
John's customer Tyler
Hatzenbuehler, a radio, tele-
vision and film senior. He
said once the shininess wears
off, the students will strike a
balance between new busi-
nesses and old.
"As soon as Potbelly opened
I know that I went there prob-
ably five to 10 times, and now,
it's not that I don't want to go
back -1 just wore myself out
on it," Hatzenbuehler said.
"Now I'm back into my Jimmy
John's thing."
Mexico
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Ideally, the partnership will
open doors to connections
throughout the world.
"We want to increase our
commitments in Mexico with
the help of UAEM," Goel said.
"Likewise, we want to use
our university to help them
increase their commitments
here in America."
The two universities' long-
standing agreement to share
and expand research has
allowed the schools to create
a close bond, Hunter said.
"Mexico is faced with a
lot of problems that UAEM
is taking head-on," he said
"They put their heart and soul
into what they're doing, and
it's been a pleasure helping
them and working with
them."
It's what the two schools
have accomplished together
that is most important, Goel
said.
"We have had 10 years of a
very productive friendship,
he said. "Which of course
gives way to even more
productive work."
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Hens
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Johnson said she doesn't have
to constantly feed the chickens
because they eat weeds and bugs.
Her kids and dog get along with
the winged pets. The chickens
clean themselves. The best part
may be the chicken excrement,
which doesn't smell and fertil-
izes the lawn for free, she said. A
day's worth of her one dog's waste
is roughly equivalent to all of the
chickens' combined stools.
"Most importantly, there have
been no noise complaints, and they
wake up before 7:30 a.m. and sleep
after 6:30 p.m.," Johnson said.
Resident Sandy Walk has
been living in Denton since
1999 and does not welcome
the idea of urban chickens.
Walk said the chickens would
create a raw smell and attract
flies to a city that has enough
of them. Even with restrictions,
Walk said the idea still stunk.
"Not to mention that there are
already wild coyotes and raccoons
wandering in the area," she said.
"It'll only attract more of them."
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N' ' center maps big and small
Andrew Freeman
Intern
The Environmental Education,
Science and Technology Building
is home to more than just class-
rooms and offices, and many
students spend time in special
laboratories used for spatial
mapping and remote sensing.
At the Center for Spatial
Analysis and Mapping, students
use maps to analyze date about
the world around them.
"There are so many applica-
tions of remote sensing," geog-
raphy professor Pinliang Dong
said. "In CSAM, students can
work on many different course
projects and thesis projects using
computer software packages."
Much of the program's work
involves the analysis of land
cover and how it affects water
quality and quantity.
"The Institute for Applied
Science has a lot of interest in
water conservation," said Bruce
Hunter, assistant director of
the UNT Institute of Applied
Science. "With remote sensing,
we've done a lot of work in the
upper Trinity Rivers, and have
looked at soil erosion and how
it is filling reservoirs."
Because of the vast amount
of ways remote sensing can
be used, it has become a very
popular profession, Dong said.
"A couple of years ago, the
U.S. Department of Labor iden-
tified geospatial technology,
along with nanotechnology
and biotechnology, as one
of the three most important
high-growth technologies," he
said. "It's a hot topic in the job
market."
Many graduate students who
spend time in the center go on to
take jobs that involve Geographic
Photo by Carrie Canova/Staff Photographer
The UNT Center for Remote Sensing, led by Bruce Hunter, uses satellite imagery and fieldwork to do research. This satel-
lite image is part of a study analyzing large-scale, wild-end fire risks in Denton, Tarrant, Parker and Wise counties.
Information Systems [GIS].
"What interests me the most
about GIS are the great job
prospects," applied geography
master's student Jesse Jones said.
"But also I love being able to
create maps that can facilitate
so much information in so many
different fields."
To help students prepare for
the job market, CSAM operates
two student laboratories, both
with more than 20 computers,
and a research laboratory with
10 computers, and offers a six-
course GIS certification process.
"We want our students to
understand the physical prin-
ciples of remote sensing first,
such as spectral properties
and satellites, and then they
can move on to image analysis
in visible, infrared and micro-
wave spectra," Dong said. "Only
then can they ask, 'How do I
extract the information using
this computer?"'
He said remote sensing is
often misunderstood and its
potential is underestimated.
"We just simply take remote
sensing for granted because it's
been with us for so long," Hunter
said. "However, it's used inter-
nationally to view the changes
and problems we wouldn't be
able to observe without it."
Using this technology, it's
possible to gather information
on objects both large and small.
"Because you are using
remote sensing, you can zoom
in to see small objects, or zoom
out to see the weather and its
patterns," Dong said. "It can
go from a kilometer scale, to a
sub-meter scale, to even a centi-
meter scale."
Remote sensing, and the
CSAM, is important because it
creates a surplus of information
about the physical world that can
be observed and then shared.
"GIS and remote sensing is so
fascinating because of what it
allows you to do," urban devel-
opment senior Michael Wiley
said. "You're taking data, and
you're displaying it for everyone
to see."
Whether comparing a city's
urban growth from 1980 to 2010
or observing natural disasters
such as the damage assessment
after the earthquake in Haiti,
remote sensing is there to help
scientists observe the world, and
the CSAM is there to prepare
those future scientists.
"It's a lot of fun. I mean, boy
is it exciting," Hunter said.
"Looking at the world from
above is just a remarkable expe-
rience, and it's great to be able
to share it."
Group registers students to vote
Michael Felder
Contributing Writer
UNT's National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People chapter set
up a table outside the Union
on Tuesday afternoon for
National Voter Registration
Day registering students for
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the upcoming presidential
election.
UNT NAACP, which has
registered more than 400
new voters this semester, is
one of many organizations
taking part in the new national
initiative to sign up American
voters. UNT NAACP presi-
dent Celeste Graham, a history
senior, believes the national
day of political outreach
arrived right on time.
"I think more people are
paying attention to politics
because it's a national elec-
tion," Graham said. "We want
all UNT students to be more
politically and socially active,
not just African-Americans."
UNT NAACP has created a
campus-wide initiative, "Sleep
Here, Vote Here," to get more
students registered for the
election.
Graham said that everyone
should exercise his or her
right to vote.
"For a long time, people
of color, especially African-
Americans, weren't allowed
to vote," she said. "We had
to fight for this."
Computer science junior
Reese Alvarez, a first-time
voter who registered Tuesday,
said he was excited to partici-
pate in the political process.
"We need to vote to find
Photo by Michael Felder/Contributing Writer
History senior Celeste Graham, president of UNT NAACP, helps fashion design
sophomore Rakim Sims and computer science junior Reese Alvarez register to
vote outside the Union on Tuesday afternoon.
someone who's good for our
country," Alvarez said.
Fashion design sophomore
Rakim Sims also registered
at the UNT NAACP's table.
"The best candidate should
win, and for that to happen,
we need to get out and vote,"
he said. "If you have some-
thing you want to change in
the world, and you don't vote,
then you don't have anything
to say."
Graham and other NAACP
members are currently plan-
ning a march from UNT to
polling stations downtown
to ensure that no one will
be left out.
"It's not a game to me, and
it shouldn't be to anyone
else," she said.
The deadline to register
to vote in the Nov. 6 elec-
tion is Oct. 9. More informa-
tion about voter registration
can be found at www.vote-
texas.gov.
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