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April 21, 2005
- Thursday -
Volume 89 Issue 105
North Texas Daily
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas Since 1915
Pohl presses for funds
JAMES DRAPER
Staff Writer
NT President Nerval Pohl
met with Texas legislators
Monday asking for $94 million
in tuition revenue bonds to
fund several of NT's projects.
Pohl and officials from other
Texas universities plead their
cases before the Texas House
of Representatives, each ask-
ing for varying amounts to
fund 20-year "education in
general" bonds to finance
new academic buildings. NT
last received a tuition rev-
enue bond four years ago to
fund the $27 million chemis-
try building.
Monday's presentation
went well, Pohl said, and
he hopes the legislature will
add more funds for NT into
the budget.
"We had great support from
our local representative, Myra
Crownover [R-Lake Dallas],"
Pohl said. "She spoke very
firmly of our leads and hoped
the committee could find some
money for us."
NT is asking for money to
fund a new college of busi-
ness building and to finance
10 renovation projects includ-
ing the Hurley Administration
Building, the biology build-
ing, the old chemistry build-
ing and other projects.
Pohl said legislators have
several other priority budget
items to deal with before they
approve any tuition revenue
bonds, but he expects a deci-
sion before the end of May.
"It's just a question now of
waiting," Pohl said. "They're
getting down toward the end of
the session and usually [tuition
revenue bonds] are one of the
last things they do."
Blood drive
battles apathy
for donations
Lounging in luxury
TechKnow Overload Tour
prize descriptions
Toshiba Satellite R15
Laptop
ualue starting at $1,599
features:
-14-inch diagonal polysiiicon
screen
-converting display that can
be used as a writing tablet
-touchpad
-seueral buttons below the
screen act as short cuts to the
security mode, escape button
and more
-wireless on/off switch
-uisit www.tashibadirect.com
Sirius Sportster
Satellite Radio
valued at $99.99
features:
-game alert which prompts
when a certain team is play-
ing on Sirius
-game zone lists all of the
play-by-play games and
scores posted by each league
-jump button acts as a
shortcut to a particular city's
weather reports, traffic, etc.
-uisit www.sirius.com
PÍIV Collegiate ñttaché
USB 2.0 Flash Driue
ualued at $39.99
features:
-choice of seueral custom-
printed college and uniuersity
logos
-designed for students,
faculty and alumni
-uisit www.pny.com/products
Gibson Les Paul
melody maker
price ualues range
features:
-body: mahogany
-neck: Spanish Cedar or
equiualent
-for more information (hard-
ware, electronics, etc.) uisit
www.gibson.com/products/
gibson/lespaul/lpmm.html
Ultimate Dorm Room
Giveaway
-includes all prizes lists at
www.tkotour.com/products
OTTO KRAUS/NT DAILY
Students could enter a nationwide raffle to win the "Ultimate Dorm Room" comprised of items
from Nintendo, Toshiba, Pottery Barn, and others Wednesday at the TechKnowOverload Tour.
TechKnow tour showcases high-tech goods
CHRIS FERGUSSON
Staff Writer
Professors may have noticed
a dip in attendance Wednesday
due to the carnival-like allure
of the TechKnow Overload Tour
outside of the University Union.
The tour brings a collection
of gadgets and products tar-
geted at younger consumers to
college campuses throughout
the United States.
"We're trying to get all these
products in student's hands,
basically give them the day to
play with some of the latest
and greatest," Collin Cadogan,
TechKnow Overload Tour
director, said.
Between classes, students
could sift through a wish
list of products from Gibson
guitars and Sirius Satellite
radios to Toshiba laptops and
Nintendo DSs, a portable gam-
ing device.
"I don't think I'll be making
it to class today," said Rowlett
Austin McDonald junior after
looking over the plethora elec-
tronics and events.
The tour began during
spring break in Panama City,
I la., where the traveling elec-
tronics store promoted its
gadgets for three weeks. The
group has continued to stop at
larger universities; NT was the
seventh of 15.
"We're about halfway
through the spring tour
right now," Cadogan said.
"Tomorrow, we'll be at UT-
Arlington, and we'll finish it
up in California at USC."
Mr. Youth Marketing
and Consumer Electronics
Association uses the TechKnow
Overload Tour to promote
their clients' products before
students graduate and have a
disposable income.
This year's tour is giving
away "the Ultimate Dorm
Room" in a raffle after the
tour has completed all 15
stops. The "Ultimate Dorm
Room" includes over $10,000
worth of electronics and fur-
niture from the event's clients.
An NT student could fill their
dwelling with a Gibson Les
Paul, Toshiba multifunctional
laptop, a 27-inch flat panel
TV, Pottery Barn furniture and
MTV Cribs room accessories.
"I'm definitely signed up
for that room full of good-
ness," McDonald said.
From 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the
promotional journeymen held
events every half hour begin-
ning with a "name that tune"
game, which yielded a free
Sirius Satellite radio to a musi-
cally knowledgeable student.
Other events included a water
balloon toss for a Nintendo DS,
a Gibson jam for an Epiphone
guitar and a trivia session for a
PNY multimedia controller.
- see TKO
TARA NI EU WEST EEC
Daily Reporter
All it takes is an hour
of time and a pint of
blood to potentially save
someone's life.
The NT blood drive
with Carter BloodCare
will be in the Golden
Eagle Suite from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., today. The first
day of the blood drive
was Wednesday.
This is the second of
two blood drives held
in the Union per semes-
ter, said Bonham junior
Christina St. Clair, vol-
unteer coordinator at NT
for Carter BloodCare.
In addition, four times
a semester, Carter
BloodCare sends a blood
drive bus to campus.
"This has been one
of Carter's biggest
donor bases, but lately,
there hasn't been a big
turn-out," St. Clair said.
"Apathy is high."
The entire process of
giving blood takes 30
minutes to an hour.
Donors are required
to register and then fill
out a confidential ques-
tionnaire prior to donat-
ing. The questionnaire
helps to verify that the
potential donor's blood
is healthy.
A donor must pass
a mini-physical before
giving blood. After the
requirements are met,
a trained nurse takes a
pint, or one pound, of
the donor's blood. The
actual donation itself
usually takes less than
10 minutes.
Donors are also eli-
gible to enter a raffle for
the chance to win a gift
basket or a $30 gas card.
Blood donors must
weigh at least 110 lbs. and
must be at least 17 years
old. Volunteers are not
eligible to donate if they
have received tattoos or
a body piercing within
the last year, according
to St. Clair. And in order
to maintain iron levels,
donors should eat a meal
within four hours prior
to giving blood.
The human body
replenishes the lost red
blood cells and iron
within a couple weeks,
and the donation center
provides cookies and
juice for short-term ener-
gy revival. A volunteer
can donate blood every
eight weeks.
"Carter Blood is local,
and all the blood stays
in this area to help local
people," St. Clair said.
"Every one donation can
save up to four lives."
According to St. Clair,
the donation center usu-
ally sees about 20 to 30
donors on a slow day,
but for Blood donations
this entire semester have
been consistently slow.
"This is the lowest
Carter blood supply has
been in years," she said.
"Different organizations
have to share and give
blood to other organi-
zations because no one
has any blood. There is a
huge shortage."
Trevor Shockley,
Montgomery gradu-
ate student, gave blood
Wednesday and has
donated on multiple
other occasions.
"I had the time to do
something good," he said,
drinking the juice provid-
ed to donors. "If you're
capable, you should."
BRANDON THIBODEAUX/NT AERIE
NT emergency response technician James
Devault has his blood drawn by phlebotomist Brad
Hutchison at the Carter Blood Drive Wednesday.
Workshop teaches ways of water conservation
Clayton Hurt's
Chihuahua
is among the
works of art
exhibited in the
EES AT for the
WaterWays
2005 showcase.
NICK MOSSER/NT AERIE
CARRIE KILLOUGH
Daily Reporter
People flowed across the
atrium floors Wednesday in
the Environmental Education,
Science and Technology
Building for the WaterWays 2005
Workshop. They were there to
learn how to contribute to water
conservation. This workshop
focused on the Elm Fork of the
Trinity River.
"The biggest issue is hav-
ing an adequate water supply
to support future growth," said
Kenneth Dickson, NT's depart-
ment of biological sciences
regents professor. "We are not
good at conservation. We take
water for granted."
Special events for WaterWays
2005 include the Water Art
exhibit that opened Wednesday
evening in the Science and
Technology Building Atrium.
The reception will be on Friday,
Earth Day, at 5 p.m.
Also in the EESAT today at 6
p.m. m room 125, will be "The
Sights and Sounds of Water I."
Water inspired compositions, fea-
turing "A Slight Case of Dripsy,"
by NT students.
"Water has become Texas'
most precious natural resource,"
stated in the Assessment of
Water Conservation in Texas,
prepared for the 78th state
Legislature, the Texas State
Soil and Water Conservation
Board and the Texas Water
Development Board,
NT is celebrating WaterWays
2005 by presenting a week filled
with water-themed events.
WaterWays 2005 branches
from the UN's call for action with
The Millennium Declaration. It
was adopted in September of
2000 by 189 U.N. member states
and tries to meet goals involved
in world water issues.
The 2002 State W7ater Plan
states that the current levels of the
Texas water supply will fall short
of the projected annual demand
for water in 2050, if accompanied
by drought conditions, by about
7.5 million acre/feet.
Experts project Houston to be
short of its current water sup-
ply in 20 years. Globally, the
rate of population is double the
amount of water consumption.
This seriousness was reiterated
in 2002 at the World Summit in
Johannesburg.
"Achieving these targets will
directly affect the lives and future
prospects of billions of people
around the globe," the World
Health Organizations advocacy
guide states.
- see WATERWAY page 6 -
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Forecast: Strong Storms
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