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Record
breakers
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No Classes Monday
for MLK holidays
FEATURE: COFFEEHOUSE CONNECTION Page 2
UFE: BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
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BEAT: WILD PLAY FLIES INTO DENTON
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SPORTS: DOUBLE VICTORY FOR B-BALL Page 8
North Texas Daily
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Friday
The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
WWW.NTDAILY.COM
January 16, 2004
Volume 88, Issue XX
March honors MLK
Community prepares to remember civil rights leader s life, death and legacy
lu infections
on rise at N
Alicia Layton
Staff Writer
Thirty-six years after Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s as-
sassination, NT students and
the Denton community are
making it a point to remem-
ber a man who changed hu-
man hearts.
On Monday the anniver-
sary of his assassination, NT
students will meet at 3:30 p.m.
outside the University Union
to march to Fred Moore Park
on the corner of Lakey Street
and Wilson Street. There they
will join the city of Denton
and walk to Denton's Martin
Luther King Jr. Civic Center.
Cassandra Berry associate
vice president of the division
of equity and diversity de-
scribed this event as a time of
re focusing.
"I think it serves as a re-
minder of the goal of unity we
should have as a nation the
same way we pay tribute to
former historical figures/' she
said. Martin Luther King Jr's
contribution to our nation for
peace and harmony "should
serve as a constant reminder
of what we're supposed to be
about."
Alpha Kappa Alpha soror-
ity was responsible for orga-
nizing this event, the second
annual march.
Janaye Easter, Dallas senior
and health committee chair-
woman of Alpha Kappa Al-
pha, said that their sorority's
goal for MLK Day is "a day on
instead of a day off."
Alicia Johnson, Houston
junior and president of Al-
pha Kappa Alpha, said that a
major reason for the march is
community unification.
"I know we believe that we
are doing something for our
community" she said. "We
are trying to set a trend of ser-
vice on the campus and in the
community."
Evidence of the influence
that the march has on the
community can be seen in
the organizations involved:
Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa
Alpha Psi, Iota Phi Theta,
Models of Style Exposed,
Basic Rhythm, the American
Red Cross and the Denton
See MARCH, Page 3
Brantley Hargrove
Staff Writer
Influenza, a virus that
can turn the best atten-
dance record upside down
and weaken the strongest
immune system, is in sea-
son and mutating.
According to the NT
Health Science Center at Fort
Worth, its clinics are seeing
an influx of flu sufferers this
season, including some who
were already innoculated.
But according to Darwin-
ian law, the flu is following if s
evolutionary path - creating
new varieties and an increas-
ingly virulent potency.
"It could very well be
that the vaccines we're
generating aren't effective
against the new variants,"
said Daniel Kunz, profes-
sor of biology.
For the makers and purvey-
ors of vaccines, influenza
See FLU, Page 4
ed grants
$468K for
education
research
Joyce Tsai
Staff Writer
The NT Center for Par-
ent Education has been
awarded a three-year grant
for $468,545 from the U.S.
Department of Education's
Fund for Improvement of
Postsecondary Education
to conduct research on im-
proved parent and teacher
communication.
The grant will fund the
NT's Parent Teacher Edu-
cation Connection project.
The project's main goal is
to provide a curriculum for
teachers to encourage pa-
rental involvement in edu-
cation as well as develop
more culturally responsive
models for education.
"The program developed
out of some research that
shows that very few edu-
cation programs included
content on how teachers
can work with parents,"
said Dr. Mary Harris, NT
Meadows chair for Excel-
lence in Education, who is
the principal investigator
for the project.
According to the 2000
nationwide MetLife Survey
of the American Teacher,
teachers were asked what
they would most like to
change about their teacher
preparation programs.
Findings showed that they
See GRANT, Page 2
THE
ART
OF TEACHING
Faculty members give students
a taste of NT's talents
Photos by Li Fan
l cud (left) is an interactive work
by Art, Drawing and Painting professor
Matthew Bourbon, his piece and other
works (above) are on display through
this evening in the UNT Art Gallery,
part of the School of Visual Arts annual
Faculty Art Show.
Students learn rigors o child-raising in campus lab
Jamie Lynn Hilliard
Daily Reporter
It's the one place on campus
where exuberant shrieks of
youthful joy, brightly colored
balloons and an occasional
case of incontinence are per-
fectly appropriate in this cra-
dle of higher education.
It's called the Child Devel-
opment Laboratory, and de-
spite the temper tantrums,
weeping and thumb-sucking,
Dr. Carol Llagan contends that
the laboratory is anything but
a typical baby-sitting center.
"I want to stress that this
is not a daycare, nor has it
ever been," said 11agen, who
has run the laboratory since
1987. "It has always been a lab
school to demonstrate what
the teaching environment
should look like."
The laboratory, behind Mat-
thews Hall, was established
in the 1930s to assist women
while they attended the col-
lege to become teachers. It
'It has always been a lab school to
demonstrate what the teaching environment
should look like."
- Dr. Carol Hagan
Child Development Lab Director
began in the College of Home
Economics, but in a move
educators at the center say re-
flects the progress of the col-
lege, the day school has since
been moved into the College
of Education.
The laboratory is not for the
sole purpose of the children,
or for the convenience of par-
ents, it was set up to give NT
students a place to observe
and interact with children.
Many different colleges and
departments at the university
benefit from the program.
"The program serves to fa-
cilitate the faculty's needs,"
Hagen said. "We have stu-
dents that are here to work
with children on cognitive
skills, we have speech thera-
pists that work with their
speech - anyone who needs
access to learn, we try to ac-
commodate their needs."
The College of Education
requires that students have a
set number of hours observ-
ing and interacting with chil-
dren, as does the psychology
department, which requires
some students to spend time
observing.
The laboratory was delib-
erately put in a somewhat re-
mote, low-traffic area of cam-
pus so as to avoid drawing
attention to it. The security
and safety of the laboratory's
See LAB, Page 3
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