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Wednesday, January 21,2009
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Department oi Fers students legal expertise
By Katie Grivna
Junior Staff Writer
NT students in need of legal
advice and representation can
take advantage of the Student
Legal Services department.
Legal representation from the
department is included in student
fees, but students must pay for
filing and court fees.
According to its Web site, the
goal of Student Legal Services is to
counsel, advise and represent NT
students and deal with civil cases
suchas discrimination, eviction,
debt and credit issues.
Assistant Director Susan Fisher
said she enjoys the variety of
different things she gets to do
everyday.
"We do not want our students
distracted from their studies with
unfortunate disputes," she said.
Fisher estimates 40 percent of
her cases concern landlord and
tenant issues, and another 40
percent deal with consumer law.
Six hundred seventy students
used the department's services
last semester, she said.
Student Legal Services cannot
represent students in criminal
matters, including traffic tickets
or divorces, student versus student
cases, bankruptcy or cases with
legal complaints against NT,
according to the Web site.
The university prohibits the
Student Legal Services depart-
ment from representing students
in criminal matters but allows
students to be referred to non-
university attorneys, Fisher
said.
" [I enjoy] helping students and
the reaction I get that they are in
a better situation from when they
first walked in the door," Director
Kathryn McCauley said. "When
students come here, their educa-
tion should not be limited to the
classroom."
The Student Legal Services
department offers several events
throughout the year and has part-
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Photo by Arash Sahba/ Photographer
Evan Weiss, a jazz studies senior, plays trumpet and conducts a group of musicians Tuesday night in Kenton Hall. Weiss will perform seven original composi-
tions with an 11-piece ensemble comprising trumpet, voices, strings, woodwinds and rhythm section at 8 p.m. today in the same location.
Gadget garbage finds new use as
companies offer recycling services
Technological
innovations free
up landfills
By Jill r an Daniels
Senior Staff Writer
Coming back to school with
a new laptop, TV or mp 3 player
can be all fun and games —
until you don't know what to
do with the old one.
Visual arts junior Yandira
Tenorio said she has several
old computers sitting in
the garage at home, "just
collecting dust."
"I've read articles where the
parts are recycled and reused,
which is much better than
letting them sit in the trash
waiting for them to decom-
pose," Tenorio said, "but I
don't even know if they will.
How does that stuff decom-
pose?"
CEO Cathi Coan of Grand
Prairie-based Techway
Services said this question
is not only on the minds of NT
students, but has remained
unanswered for a lot of people
across the country.
"We need to bring aware-
ness to students and
consumers that, where it's
fun for us to upgrade and
have all this cool gadgetry,
what's happening to the old?"
she said.
As of last year, a consumer
take-back program was legis-
lated called House Bill 2714,
which, Coan said, requires
that producers of computers
provide convenient recy-
cling and disposal services
to consumers at no cost in
order to sell computers in
Texas.
"So if you buy a Dell laptop,
then they'll have to take it
back from you at no charge,"
Coan said.
According to the
Environmental Protection
Agency Web site, a number
of phone retailers such as
Samsung and T-Mobile offer a
free mail-in recycling option
if one prints a pre-paid ship-
ping label off of their Web
sites. Others, such as Sprint,
offer a buy-back option as
well.
While the majority of the
computer and phone retailers
listed on the EPA Web site
offer their recycling services
for free, some, such as Office
Depot and Staples, charge a
$5 to $15 fee.
Coan said 85 percent of the
U.S.'s electronic waste is not
recycled correctly, or at all.
"With 300 million people
in the U.S., that's six million
pounds of electronic waste
produced that needs to be
recycled — and only 15
percent of it is properly,"
Coan said. "When you know
numbers like that, it's kind
of scary."
The City of Denton Solid
Waste Department picks up
televisions or computer moni-
tors curbside for residents and
single-family homes already
receiving trash and recycling
services by appointment only.
A fee of $20 will be added
to the resident's next utili-
ties bill.
For a lesser fee of $15, resi-
dents can bring any house-
hold electronic to the landfill
from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday and 7 a.m. to
noon Saturday.
Another option is through
electronic recycling compa-
nies, such as Techway
Services.
"Some companies shred
the equipment, everything
in a ball together. They then
have to send it to a smelter
that melts everything down
to get to the copper and the
aluminum," Coan said. "The
difference between that and
what we do is we've installed
$3.5 million in machinery
from Europe."
This new machinery sepa-
rates the materials as opposed
to combining them, Coan
said.
"It grinds it up and separate
the plastic, the steel and the
little precious metals inside,"
Coan said, "and then we take
that back to the manufac-
turing environment and turn
it into something else."
Sitton said this process is
superior to simply storing
electronics in landfills.
"Windex, toilet bowl
cleaner, all that toxic goo
from mixing trash together -
modern landfills are designed
to capture all that and to keep
air and water out to slow the
process of decomposition,"
she said. "The downside
is you're just storing trash
forever so that future genera-
tions will have that problem
to deal with."
Consumers should properly
dispose of their electronics,
Sitton said, if for no reason
other than it just beats the
alternative.
nered with the Student Money
Management department in the
past to offer information about
debt collector harassment,
McCauley said.
"I'm not sure how I feel about
part of our tuition going to
[Student Legal Services], but I can
see how it would be a beneficial
service for students," chemistry
junior Laura Perdomo said.
Student Legal Services offices
are open Monday through Friday
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The offices
are in University Union Room
322AA. Walk-in consultations
are held Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 10 a.m. to noon and on
Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Students are encouraged to
pick up legal services publications
and pamphlets located in front of
the Student Legal Services office,
McCauley said.
For more information, visit
unt.edu/legal or call 940-565-
2614.
Jibber
By Stephanie Daniels
Junior StaffWriter
Name: Casey Lightford
Major: English
Classification: Sophomore
Q
. What was the highlight
• of your break?
A .All the traveling I did,
• mainly the Valley in
Edinburg, Texas.
Q.Are you excited about
• having Barack Obama
as your new president?
A .Very much so; I prob-
• ably would have voted
for Obama. I like his views a
lot. Like South Park said, it's
change.
Q
.What makes you stand
• out in your major?
A:
Q
. I actually like writing.
.Where is the perfect
• place to study?
Lightford
Q. Where canmost people
• find you when you are
not in class?
A. Probably at the gym; I
• play basketball a lot.
Q. If you could listen to
• one album for the rest
ot your life, what would it
be?
A. 'Smile' by Brian Wilson,
• former singer of the
Beach Boys.
A. Just on my bed. Since I'm
• in an apartment now,
there are no interruptions.
Dell' Arte
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
8:00 PM
University Theatre,
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On UNT Denton Campus
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*UNT Student ticket free
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*Limit 2 tickets per valid I.D.
Ticket Information: Union Information Center, 940.565.3805
For more information visit http://web3.unt.edu/fas/
Live music, masks, high-energy
commedia and the trademark
physical comedy of the Dell'Arte
ensemble combine with the
hard-edged satire of Moliere to
create an evening rich with the
spirit of Carnival. The Dell'Arte
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Moliére's ensemble- driven,
physically performed style, will
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with masks, monkeys,
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acclaimed physical style that has
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or the TDD at 1.800.735.2898
Call a minimum of one week in advance.
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