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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
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Women's basketball falls to nationally ranked
Middle Tennessee, 70-56.
Sports page 3
• Arts, 4
• Life, 2
• Sports, 3
• Views, 5
• Classifieds, 6
• Sudoku, 6
Howard ohnson receives new position
NT hires interim
provost
By Chelsea Douglas, Bryan
Shettig
Assigning Editor, Staff Writer
Provost and Vice President
of Academic Affairs Howard
Johnson has left his position to
become the special assistant to
Chancellor Lee Jackson, effec-
tive Feb. L
In his nearly four years as
provost, Johnson drew contro-
versy and criticism following
accusations that he plagiarized
NT's academic plan, denied
tenure to 12 faculty members
and received a vote of "no confi-
dence" by the faculty
"He terribly mishandled pay
raises," said Don Smith of the
biology faculty" [Johnson] acted
as though the university didn't
exist before he came here."
Former Vice President of
Arizona State University Gary S.
Krahenbuhlhas been assigned by
President Bataille as the interim
provost.
"I asked him if he would work
in this capacity ... I knew his
work style," Bataille said.
Bataille worked with
Krahenbuhulfor six years at ASU
as an administrator and extended
Sodexho chain falls
short o world record
By Abel Prado
Staff writer
Although students and
faculty members took part in a
nationwide effort to try to break
the Guinness world record for
canned goods collected in one
day, they failed.
Oct. 18, Sodexho branches at
more than 600 college and high
school campuses, including NT,
participated in a nationwide
program called Cans Across
America, a humanitarian aid
program that aims to curb
world hunger, according to the
Sodexho Web site, www.sodex-
housa.com.
The NT branch set out to
collect 800 pounds, said Bryant
Canzoneri, marketing asso-
ciate for NT Retail. Between
12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m.,
an exclusive time period set
by Guinness guidelines, NT
gathered 1,220.12 pounds,
surpassing their goal by 52
percent.
Still, NT's participation was
not enough to dethrone Thunder
In the Valley's, a Pennsylvania-
based food company, current
record of 156,889.34 pounds
as the Sodexho company fell
slightly short, only collecting
112,869.91 pounds of food - a
29 percent difference.
"The best thing about some-
thing like this is that there
are no losers," said Keysa
Minniefield, vice president of
communications for Sodexho
USA. "Our company aims to
stop hunger and we wanted to
get the communities that we
serve involved. Its fun to break
records and this was fun. But
more importantly, it served a
great cause."
All of the food was donated
to local food banks such as
America's Second Harvest,
Minniefield said that while
the company has not confirmed
it, it is her belief Sodexho will
try again next year.
Students addicted
to social networks
By Vicky Smithee
Staff writer
Sweaty palms. Quickened
heartbeats. A mind on only one
thing. All signs of an addiction.
In the quick breaks between
classes, addicts can get their fix,
and recently, they've begun using
during class too. It's popular -
accessible all over campus and
can be found for free.
The widespread addiction
facing NT is a mass of students
constantly using Web sites like
facebook.com and MySpace.
com.
Although legal and compa-
rably safer than most drugs, the
friend database Web sites could
be considered a type of addiction,
said Jim Quinn of the rehabilita-
tion, social work and addictions
faculty
"Anything that gives you plea-
sure can be addictive," Quinn
said.
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SGA elects officers
By Nikki Hickman
Contributing writer
In its first meeting of the
semester last night, the Student
Government Associationheld elec-
tions and laid out plans for the
upcoming semester.
After a state of the student body
address delivered by SGAPresident
Allan Ross, elections were held for
a new speaker, speaker pro tem
and sergeant at arms as well as the
appointment of two new offices:
chief of staff and director of rela-
tions for NT-Dallas.
It was a close electionfor speaker
between Chris Brown, Fort Worth
senior, and Shana Gooch, San
Antonio junior. After questioning
her knowledge of procedure and
ability to lead, the senate elected
Gooch as the new speaker.
Brown was elected to the posi-
tion of speaker pro tem. Jerrod
Schaller, Houston junior, was voted
into the sergeant at arms office
after convincing his fellow sena-
tors of his knowledge of the posi-
tion.
Under this new leadership, the
focus of SGA willbe to get students
more involved, Gooch said.
"I'd like to really get the senate
in action and get involved in
student life, students' needs,"
Gooch said.
Gooch said she hopes to create
a Senator Accountability Act
requiring senators to produce
more legislation that wouldbenefit
students.
Schaller said that he would
like to see more meet-and-greet
activities in order to get SGA to
fully function in the students' best
interests.
Liz Murphy, Garland senior, was
appointed chief of staff. She will
be in charge of communication
between the executive and legis-
lative branches as well as public
relations. A director of relations
was also appointed to improve
communication with NT-Dallas.
The SGA will be hosting a
number of activities this semester
in an attempt to connect more
with the students and become
stronger as a whole.
the offer to him, pulling him out
of his one year of retirement.
Johnson is one of three final-
ists being considered for the posi-
tion of president at Florida A&M
University
"I wish I had the magic wand
that could make something of
that nature happen," Johnson
said.
Johnson goes to Florida Feb.
1 for his final interview and the
university will announce its deci-
sion by the end of March.
In his upcoming position,
Johnson's responsibilities will
include furthering statewide
priorities, such as improving
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Howard Johnson
the success of students starting
at the middle school and high
school levels, Jackson said. He
will be looking at lowering drop
out rates and increasing minority
enrollment.
"He's better qualified than an
outside consultant," Jackson said.
"We have not had an academic
leader of Dr. Johnson's stature
at the system level."
Johnson said he also plans to
establish a system-wide strategic
plan that encompasses all the
campuses in the Metroplex.
As provost, he produced NT's
academic plan, which is currently
used by the Denton campus.
" [Johnson] will have the same
salary and benefits as Provost,"
Jackson said. "That was obviously
an important point of discus-
sion.
Bataille plans to establish
a search committee to find a
permanent provost immedi-
ately after the Board of Regents'
February meeting.
"Ideally, we'd have someone in
place by summer," Bataille said.
"I would like for this to be a really
quick search."
Bataille said that there will
be a representative committee
consisting of students, faculty,
deans, administration and staff
members.
"This is the most important
academic position on campus,"
Jackson said.
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Mark Peters of Bedford is a member of Animal Connection of Texas and speaks to NT students about vegetarianism and
ending cruelty to animals. He hopes to reach students at least once a week by convincing them to give up meat and to become
more aware of the harm caused to animals. Peters, along with Jennifer McMann, Fort Worth alumna, and Alicia Townsed,
Euless alumna, plan to hand out flyers and speak to students once weekly on campus.
N T officials: parking not an issue
By Wendy L. Moore
Intern
Though Chestnut Llall took
away an entire parking lot,
NT officials say the campus
is not suffering from a lack
of parking.
Students riding bicy-
cles and using the transit
system have kept an outcry
for more parking at bay, said
Rich Escalante, vice chan-
cellor of administration. The
police department collected
money for 16,082 parking
permits and issued 350 free
Research Park permits this
semester. With 12,734 parking
spaces available on campus,
including the parking garage,
and a deficit of about 3,500
spaces, university officials
said facilities are not fully in
use, so additional parking is
not needed.
The parking lots replaced by
structures such as Chestnut
Hall were always considered
temporary in the master plan
for NT and allowed students
to use the land for parking
only until the funds were
collected for construction,
Escalante said.
He said the student popula-
tion has grown on and off of
campus and the bus system
has helped solve many parking
problems. Instead of adding
parking to campus, students
are encouraged to use other
transportation options such
as riding the buses or bicy-
cles. In the near future, NT
will spend money on items
such as more bike racks and
outside parking lots on bus
routes that students can use
for free or at a lower rate to
conserve both money and
energy, Escalante said.
In an e-mail, Scott Kangas,
associate director of parking
services, said the university
has opened Research Park lots
three and four to parking with
a free permit.
He said over the past three
years, parking services has
also added parking at Mean
Green Village, Eagle Point.
Though added parking
is not in plans for the near
future, the master plan calls
for three new parking garages
over the next 10 to 20 years
with a total of 5,400 garage
spaces on campus, Kangas
said in the e-mail. Lie said
the university is delaying
building the garages to keep
parking permit costs down.
"We are pleased that we
have not had to raise parking
permit fees since Fall 2003,"
Kangas said in the e-mail.
With every new building
comes a need for parking
around that building. Since
its opening two weeks ago,
Chestnut Hall occupants
have had little problem
with parking, said Reginald
Bond, executive director
of the Health and Wellness
Center.
"There is a D-parking lot
adjacent to the Environmental
Science Building ... and D-
permit [parking spots] all
around the building and all up
and down Chestnut [street],"
Bond said.
Health and Wellness Center
patients and employers sched-
uled to give interviews at
the Career Center are able
to park in 20 spaces desig-
nated by a white sign adja-
cent to Chestnut Hall. When
checking in for an appoint-
ment, patients receive a
permit to put in their car
windows indicating permis-
sion to park, Bond said.
"It's the same way we had
it set up at the old Health
Center," Bond said.
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Students leaving campus for the day walk past Wooten Hall and the parking garage to the parking
lots off Welch Street.
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