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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Volume 99 I Issue 19
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Arts & Life 3,4
Sports 5, 8
Views 6
Classifieds 7
Games 7
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
MAD Glass is piping hot
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Photo by Chelsea Stratso/Senior Staff Photographer
UNT alumnus Matt Marchand heats glass in a 2,800-degree flame in his studio Wednesday evening. Marchand is
preparing the piece for a competition in Las Vegas next week.
o See ALUMNUS on Page 3
SGA listens to proposed
new Union unding plan
Justin Bright
Intern
The Student Government
Association listened to a
funding plan for the proposed
new University Union
involving a raise to student
fees at Wednesday night's SGA
meeting.
Andrew Harris, vice president
of finance and administration
from the Office of the President,
presented the plan, which calls
for an increased student fee
starting in the fall. The fee
would lessen the amount of
money UNT would need to
borrow and save the school $78
million, Harris said.
"Using traditional fund-
raising, a $120 million Union
would end up costing $265
million over 30 years' time,"
Harris said. "Instead ofwealthy
bankers pocketing $78 million,
that money could stay within
the four walls of the univer-
sity."
The current Union fee is $51
but would increase by as much
as $115 if the fee increase is
approved. A vote on the plan is
expected to be held within the
next month. If passed, construc-
tion would begin in summer
2013, and the new Union would
open in fall 2015.
See SGA on Page 2
A-trains ridership on
ridays sees decline
Ryan Schaefer
Intern
Declining totals for the
Denton County Transportation
Authority A-train's Friday rider-
ship are leading some DCTA
board members to consider
ending Friday service when
the schedule's pilot period
concludes lune 30.
Documents presented at
the board's meeting Ian. 26
revealed Friday night's rider-
ship has trended downward
since October 2011, and rider-
ship on Fridays is less than half
of the other weekdays' total.
Board members Charles
Emery and Charles Correll asked
members to end the service at
its meeting last week, but the
board ultimately decided to
keep the service intact until the
trial run finishes.
The board will examine the
A-train's daily ridership and
performance in the coming
months to help with deciding
scheduling changes once the
trial run ends, Emery said.
"What we're going to do is
to analyze the results, like any
other process, by the end of
lune 2012," Emery said. "We'll
manage the amount of service
we're supplying with the
demand we're seeing in rider-
ship. Next Thursday's retreat
agenda is the next step."
Costs for the Friday night
service amountto $110,000 out
of DCTA's budget toward the
A-train.
SeeA-TRAIN on Page 2
Thieu wins Jeopardy!
College Championship
Rebecca Ryan
Staff Writer
She came, she saw, she
conquered.
Monica Thieu, a UNT Texas
Academy for Mathematics and
Science junior, beat students
from Stanford, MIT and
Vanderbilt - among others -
in the 24th leopardy! College
Championship to win the
$100,000 grand prize and a
guaranteed spot in the next
leopardy! Tournament of
Champions.
Thieu, 18, is the youngest
winner of the tournament
since its inception in 1989.
"I could only think, 'Is this
really happening right now?'"
Thieu said. "I couldn't believe
iti I felt like I was basically
walking through a dream for
a week."
Though the shows were
filmed in lanuary, the cham-
pionship tournament aired
this month and wrapped up
this week.
During the final showdown
Tuesday, a group of 20 to 30
TAMS students gathered in
the lounge of McConnell Hall
to watch Thieu defeat Goucher
College's Sarah Bart and
Vanderbilt's Zach Terrill.
"I was really happy," TAMS
sophomore Ryan Gower said.
"I jumped up and shouted. I've
known her since the begin-
ning of the TAMS program.
She loves trivia. You could
ask her 10 random questions,
and she'd probably get them
all right."
Thieu said winning
leopardy! means for her that
people now know they don't
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Photo courtesy of Jeopardy Productions Inc.
Monica Thieu, a UNT Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science junior, stands
with host Alex Trebek after winning the Jeopardy! College Championship tour-
nament.
7 could only think, 'Is
this really happening
right now?"'
—Monica Thieu
TAMS junior and Jeopardy! winner
need to go to an Ivy League
university to be proud of their
school.
"It's really cool, especially
because she's TAMS," TAMS
sophomore Alex Prybutok
said. "I bet all the other
contestants were like, 'Man,
we got beat by an 18-year
old.'"
See JEOPARDY on Page 2
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Photo by Tyler Cleveland/Visuals Editor
Children play Wednesday in the Golden Triangle Mall. Special Leasing Manager Theresa Hodge said the mall is planning
to construct new entrances and improve lighting by redesigning the roof windows.
Golden Triangle renovations
set to commence in March
Nicole Balderas
Senior Staff Writer
Renovations for the Golden
Triangle Mall are set to begin in
March as part of a three-phase
process to redesign the 765,000
square foot shopping center.
Representatives from Cencor
Realty Services met with CMA,
the architect company in
charge of designing the mall,
on Wednesday to go over plans
for the building. The mall was
purchased in November 2011
by GTM Development Ltd.
in a partnership created by
Cencor.
"It's a very unique piece of
property," said Linda Ratliff,
director of economic develop-
ment for the city of Denton.
"It's not all owned by GTM, all
the business owners own their
parking lots. Typically you have
one property owner, but they're
[the businesses] all on board
with it."
The planned renovations
will be done in three phases,
and construction plans are
currently being finalized.
"We've been working with the
architect and the contractor to
get a concept of what we need to
do, and as we get that down we
do the construction work," said
lim Greenfield, senior vice pres-
ident and director of property
management for Cencor. "We're
trying to do this as fast as we
can. We have an overall initial
design, and then we'll go back
and look at that Concept."
See MALL on Page 2
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