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NEWS
Page 2
Students garner
prestigious
scholarship.
ARTS & LIFE
Page 8
See more than
stars at the NT
Sky Theater.
SPORTS
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Returning basketball
stars receive pre-
season recognitions.
VIEWS
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The Daily offers tips
for voting lines.
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N AA releases athletics graduation rates
Men score low in
national average
versus women
By Courtney Roberts
Senior Staff Writer
While student athletes are
graded by their performance on
their field of choice, the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
makes sure they're staying up to
par in the classroom as well.
The association released its
latest Graduation Success Rate
report on Oct. 14.
Based on the four freshman
classes in Division I that entered
school from the 1998-1999 school
year through the 2001-2002 school
year, football and men's basketball
scored 58 percent and 65 percent
in the report, while seven of the
eight women's teams achieved
scores of 75 percent or better,
according to the NCAA Web site.
In football, however, NT scored
below the national average, which
is 67 percent, but above the federal
graduation rate at 56 percent.
"We fared pretty well. We defi-
nitely see room for improvement,"
athletic director Rick Villarreal
said. "We just have to continue
to work harder."
According to its Web site, the
report was developed by the
NCAA as part of its academic
reform initiative to accurately
assess the academic success of
student athletes.
"The GSR was a rate devised to
measure freshman students and
also take into account transfer
st udents and mid-year enrollees,"
Villarreal said. "It is important to
note that it only involves students
receiving athletics financial aid or
scholarships."
In addition to the reports, the
NCAA also released the federal
graduation rates, which does
not factor transfer students.
The organization calculates the
federal graduation rate for student
athletes because it is the only
rate by which to compare student
athletes to the general student
body.
"Basically they take the number
of cohorts, which is not all of the
students — only those receiving
aid — and they combine it with
transfers from two - and four-year
schools," said Bobby Lothringer,
an assistant registrar at NT. "In
regards to the GSR, a cohort is
the group of students entering
the university as a full-time
student."
Villarreal said the rating
shows the number of student
athletes brought in over a five-
year period.
"It's five years instead of four
because they have the ability to
red-shirt a year," he said. "Most
statistics show that it takes a
regular student five years to grad-
uate."
Compared to other schools in
the Big 12, NT scored higher in
football than the University of
Texas at 50 percent and Oklahoma
University at 46 percent. In
basketball, the Mean Green
scored higher than Texas Tech
University at 50 percent and Texas
A&M University at 47 percent.
Photo by Daniel Duran/ Intern
Sociology senior Alex Davis paints a shirt in support of The Clothesline Project, which honors women survivors and victims of intimate violence.
' '-shirts help students speak out
By Si-iea Tellefsen
Junior Staff Writer
Phrases painted in neon
on colorful T-shirts hung on
a clothesline Tuesday telling
many stories of victims and
survivors, specifically women,
who have experienced all types
of abuse.
Men and women alike deco -
rated various-colored T-shirts
Tuesday at the Union Courtyard
as part of The Clothesline
Project, an event sponsored
by the Multicultural and
Women's centers. The National
Panhellenic Council and the
Zeta Eta chapter of the Delta
Sigma Theta sorority were
cosponsors of the event.
The Clothesline Project is
a nationwide project, which
got its name in October 1990
in Massachusetts during an
annual "Take Back the Night"
march and rally. The project
was brought to NT by the
Multicultural and Women's
centers in 2000.
Multicultural Center director
Cheylon Brown said the project
is a chance for NT students,
faculty and staff to tell their
stories, or someone else's story,
of intimate abuse by way of
painting T-shirts that are placed
on display.
"It's an opportunity for
students to use their creativity
to speak out against violence of
any kind by designing a T-shirt,"
Brown said.
Each shirt on the clothesline
represents a different type of
violence. Purple and lavender
shirts represents women
attacked because of their
sexual orientation. Yellow and
beige symbolize battered and
assaulted women, while white
shirts represents women who
died because of the violence
they experienced.
Blue and green represent
survivors of incest or sexual
abuse, while black symbolizes
women who were attacked for
political reasons.
Red, pink and orange char-
acterize women who survived
rape or sexual assault.
"I spoke out against rape,"
said Jerquila Slaughter, a
secondary education junior and
Multicultural Center student
assistant.
Slaughter said she made
an orange shirt for a survivor
she knew and feels the project
was a successful way to begin
"breaking the silence," as the
National Clothesline Project's
motto states.
"It's an icebreaker to get
people to speak up about
women's violence," she said.
Brown said the Multicultural
Center hopes The Clothesline
Project is just the beginning.
"They have an opportunity
to become empowered," Brown
said. "It causes healing from the
inside out."
Staff and volunteers facili-
tating the event said they want
the T-shirt-making process to
be the first step of the healing
process.
"It's an opportunity for
someone to use this as their
first avenue to speak out against
the violence that happened to
them," Brown said.
The Multicultural and
Women's centers' workers
paired with the NT Counseling
Center and Denton County
Friends of the Family to take
referrals if students need help
with a situation.
As a survivor of violence,
Brown said she understands
how the other survivors feel.
"It's something when you're
able to say, 'That was me then,
and this is me now,"' Brown
said.
She said she hopes all of the
T-shirts made over the years
can be somehow displayed on
campus.
"We are working with the
Union staff to find a creative
way to display them," she
said.
The Clothesline Project will
also continue at NT in the spring
semester to continue to reach
out to survivors of violence.
Dodge, Villarreal discuss referendum success
By Courtney Roberts
Senior Staff Writer
At a press conference Tuesday,
athletic director Rick Villarreal
and football head coach Todd
Dodge discussed the passing
of the student referendum to
help build a new $60 million
stadium for the Mean Green
football team and the develop-
ments that will take place in the
next three years.
"This university has so much
to offer," Dodge said. "Before
now, we are last in line with
the quality of the stadium.
There's an arms race going on
with facilities. This one will
put us up there with every-
body else."
One of the things brought up
at the conference was where a
new track will be built, since
there is not one included in the
construction designs for the
new stadium.
Villarreal said there is a space
south of the tennis facilities
planned for the track.
"It will coincide when they
take Fouts down," Villarreal
said. "On the university master
plan, the current site of Fouts
Field will eventually be used
for academic and student use.
We're trying to keep the students
closer to the core campus."
He said costs for the construc-
tion of a new track have not
been finalized.
The fee must nowbe approved
by the Board of Regents at its
meeting on Nov. 20 and Nov
21. After that, it will go to the
state Legislature and the state
coordinating board.
In the meantime, Villarreal
said the athletics department
will continue to move forward
with design development and
construction plans to keep the
program on track. This includes
talking with NT alumni and
sponsors to raise the other half
of the initial cost from private
donors.
"One of the things that has
been our toughest selling
point at UNT is that we have
always talked about doing a
lot of things but never really
completing them," Villarreal
said. "Some people tell us, Why
don't you just renovate the old
stadium? A lot of people are
doing that.' Well a lot of people
took care of their stadium over
time."
See STADIUM on Page 3
NT Athletes' Graduation Statistics
Men's Sports
Sports
GSR
Fed Rate
National Average
Basketball
65
54
62
Track
53
56
N/A
Football
58
56
67
Golf
78
88
N/A
Women's Sports
Sports
GSR
Fed Rate
National Average
Basketball
89
73
82
Track
66
52
N/A
Golf
75
60
N/A
Soccer
78
58
N/A
Softball
75
N/A
N/A
Swimming
86
65
N/A
Tennis
100
63
N/A
Volleyball
80
77
N/A
Water main breaks
on Highland Street
By Bryan Shettig
Senior Staff Writer
A water pipe broke on
Highland Street Tuesday
afternoon, forcing the city to
close the street while cutting
off air conditioning and
water inWooten, Matthews,
Scoular and Stovall halls.
The main first broke
Monday night and began to
leak shortly after 1 p.m. Glen
Haubold, director of facili-
ties maintenance, said the
department shut down air
conditioning and running
water in the buildings as a
result of the leak. Repairs
took about two hours.
"That pipe is old and
worn," he said.
Haubold said workers
initially put a clamp on the
pipe, which has now been
fixed.
Facilities has repaired the
pipe system along Highland
Street several times over the
last few years, which is why
the street is broken up and
patchy, Haubold said.
Women s health
author visits N1 1
Event offers
wellness
information
By Kara Fordyce
Junior Staff Writer
ludy Norsigian, who
helped pen the guide to
women's health, "Our Bodies,
Ourselves," will dispel rumors
and give advice on health
issues tonight.
Her speech, "The Impact
of the Media on Women's
Heath: Sorting Fact from
Fiction" will be followed
by a book signing of "Our
Bodies, Ourselves" at 6 p.m.
in Environmental Education,
Science & Technology Building
Room 130.
The event is free and open
to the public. Nicole Dash
of the sociology faculty said
Norsigian is one of the leaders
in the women's health move-
ment. She said her books have
empowered women all over
the world to better understand
their bodies and be active
participants in their health
care.
"Her talk is specifically
addressing the role the media
plays in educating women on
their health issues," Dash said.
"This is critical as evening
news shows, for example,
spend more time on the latest
cosmetics than on women's
health issues."
Dash said all women,
including young women, must
learn to be their own advo-
cates for their health care, and
this process begins by under-
standing one's own body.
"Judy Norsigian has been
a champion of the empow-
erment of women for years,"
Dash said. "Whether it be birth
control, menopause, fertility
or child birth, she has spent
her career teaching women
to understand their bodies
and their health. The more
women know, the more they
can advocate for their medical
needs."
Norsigian is the executive
Norsigian
director and
a founder of
the Boston
Women's
Health Book
Collective,
which
conducts
business
under the
name Our
Bodies
Ourselves. She speaks and
writes frequently on a wide
range of women's health
concerns including abortion
and contraception, sexu-
ally transmitted infections,
genetics and reproductive
technologies, tobacco and
women, women and health
care reform and midwifery
advocacy, according to the Our
Bodies Ourselves Web site.
Brenda McCoy, director
of applied arts and sciences
programs, said it is hard
to exaggerate the impact
Norsigian has had on women's
health through her work on
multiple editions of the book,
"Our Bodies, Ourselves."
She said that for nearly 40
years, this best-selling work
has empowered women by
validating their health expe-
riences and provided reliable
information on issues such as
birth control, childbirth and
menopause. She said Norsigian
is a pivotal figure from the
second wave of the women's
rights movement.
"Her efforts, along with
others in the Boston Women's
Health Book Collective, helped
to give women a voice about
their own bodies by providing
much needed information on
women's bodies, health issues
and sexuality," McCoy said.
McCoy said Norsigian's
insistence on evidence-based
approaches to women's health,
including her refusal to accept
money from pharmaceutical
companies, established the
integrity of the book and her
continued relevance as a force
for change in women.
For more information about
Our Bodies Ourselves and
women's health issues, visit
ourbodiesourselves.org.
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