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Volume 98 I Issue 46
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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
Sights on a career of service
Photo by James Comas./Senior Staff Photographer
Luke Shanks, an economics junior, and the rest of UNT's ROTC cadets stand at parade rest after their early morning
jog around the sports complex Thursday. The Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) is a stepping stone into military
life for college students, propelling them to officer status after graduation. Members are trained and disciplined in
military tactics whil e going to class and living the life of a college student.
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Regents approve $24 million in spending
Isaac Wright
Senior Staff Writer
The UNT Board of Regents
approved more than $24
million in expenditures
during its first meeting of
fiscal year 2012.
Regents met in the Golden
Eagle Suite of the University
Union Thursday and passed
five agenda items that
approved more than $24
million in spending of the
roughly $850 million budget
for the fiscal year.
The largest expenditures
passed were related to main-
taining the shuttle service
around campus. $3.6 million
was approved to purchase 18
new shuttle buses the univer-
sity will use in conjunction
with the Denton County
Transportation Authority's
bus fleet to offer shuttle
service at UNT.
The UNT System's
Commercial Paper program
will pay for the shuttle
service. The cost will be
repaid over five years
through both Parking and
Transportation reserve
funds, which currently
contains $1.4 million, and
the university's reserve
funds.
UNT Police Chief Richard
Deter said the new buses will
be put to good use because
university-related ridership
on DCTA and UNT shuttles
last year was 83.4 percent,
and the shuttles operate at
100 percent capacity at peak
hours.
"Ridership in the program
has increased in excess of
1.8 million riders per year;
it has removed the need for
5,000 cars on the roadways
and has eliminated the need
for about 11,000 parking
spaces," said Andrew Harris,
vice president for finance
and administration.
The regents also renewed
the service agreement
between UNT and DCTA to
provide shuttle service. The
projected cost of the renewal
agreement is between $14.5
and $15.3 million over a five-
year period.
The agreement calls for a
total bus fleet of 32 buses,
14 of which will be supplied
by the DCTA and 18 by the
university.
University officials said
ridership of the shuttle
service has greatly increased
since 2001 when the shuttle
service was first created.
The program is expected
to run a deficit over its five-
year lifespan of more than
$1.3 million.
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Students
proceed in
competition
Dylan Rogers
Intern
Five UNT Texas Academy of Math
and Science students were each
awarded a $1,000 scholarship and
named individual regional finalists
in the 2011 Siemens Competition in
Math, Science and Technology.
Favyen Bastani, Kevin Chang,
Kevin Chen, Alex Hong and Helen
Xiong will advance to the Region
Two competition, held today and
Saturday at the University of Texas
at Austin.
jannon Fuchs of the biology
faculty oversaw the research of
two semifinalists from TAMS. She
commended the students and the
program for their dedicated work
and research.
"Some of the TAMS projects are
just excellent; [the students] are
willing to work very hard and they're
very observant," she said. "They
understood what they were doing
and they did a great job."
TAMS has a long history of award-
winning student research, dating
back to 1994. Between the 2009
and 2010 competitions, nine TAMS
students were named finalists and
25 semifinalists.
"Itmakes me appreciate the TAMS
program even more," Fuchs said.
"One major thing that these students
don't have at their home institutions
is the chance to do research. It's nice
that they can take college courses,
but the big thing is that they can do
research and get a head start on their
careers and their M.B.s."
UNT led the nation in the number
of students in this year's competition
with 14 regional semifinalists along
with the five finalists.
Winners from the regional compe-
tition will receive a $3,000 scholar-
ship and progress to the national
finals next month in Washington,
DC. The national winner will receive
$100,000, according to the Siemens
Foundation.
In2008, TAMS student Wen Chyan
was named the national winner
and received the $100,000 schol-
arship. He now studies chemistry
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
More women report household gun ownership
Ann Smajstrla
Staff Writer
A recent Gallup poll shows
the number of U.S. women
who reported household gun
ownership is at an all-time
high of 43 percent, with 23
percent of women reporting
they personally own a gun.
Although the poll reports
a wide gap between personal
gun ownership among men
and women - 46 percent of
men reported owning a gun
- the number of women who
personally own guns is up 10
percent since 2005.
"I think more and more
women are more aware of
protection issues," said Bill
Anderson, owner of the Denton
gun shop Call to Arms. "And
I believe that they are just
more aware and concerned
with their personal safety and
with the protection of their
families. I think it's just that
simple."
Call to Arms sells handguns,
rifles and shotguns and also
offers Department of Public
Safety-certified concealed
handgun license (CHL)
classes. About 20 percent of
the store's firearm sales are
to females, 50 percent are to
husband-and-wife couples,
and the remaining 30 percent
of sales are to males, Anderson
said.
Pilot Point resident Sharon
Snyder came to Call to Arms
with her husband to pick up a
shotgun they ordered. Snyder
said she is an avid hunter and
believes gun education among
women is important.
"Women are far more
vulnerable than men, so
they need an equalizer,"
Synder said. "When I hear
of [a woman buying a gun],
I hope they're doing more
training and not just going
out and buying a gun. I'm
hoping they're getting proper
training on how to use it. A
woman owning a gun that she
doesn't know how to use is
about the same as not having
one at all."
DFW Gun Range, a gun
store in Dallas, offers shooting
ranges and CHL classes. PH0T0 BY R|CHARD Michael Pruitt/Dallas Morning News
Rancher Randee Fawcett of Sonora, Texas, checks on her cattle. She keeps a
See GUNS on Page 2 gun nearby for security.
Photo by James Coreas/Senior Staff Photographer
Junior wide receiver Christopher Bynes escapes a tackle during the Mean
Green's last home game.
Mean Green faces last
road test of the season
Paul Bottoni
Senior Staff Writer
After its first week off since
the start of the 2011-2012
campaign, the UNT football
team will embark on its final
road game of the season when
it travels this weekend to Troy,
Ala., to face the Troy Trojans.
The Mean Green (3-6) will
face the Trojans (2-6) at noon
Saturday. UNT has yet to win
a road game this season - the
Mean Green is 0-5 away from
Denton - and is 0-4 all time
when visiting Troy.
"Troy has obviously domi-
nated North Texas for many
years - seven out of the last
eight years, they've beaten
us," UNT head coach Dan
McCarney said. "They're a
dangerous team; [they] still
have lots of the same guys that
won the conference champion-
ship last year."
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Inside
New regents plan to improve UNT's image
News I Page 2
Men's basketball team opens at Super Pit
Sports i Page 3
Volleyball team headed to postseason
Sports i Page 3