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Tuesday, September 15,2009
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Arts & Life
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New Web site aids
UNT organizations
Kip Mooney
Arts & Life Editor
ntd.artslife@gmail.com
OrgSync
may improve
communication
ByJessica Paul
Intern
With the addition of the
new Web site OrgSync, college
organizations are able to
connect and communicate
easier.
The Austin-based site
provides resources and
features to help manage the
tasks of on-campus organi-
zations, including member
communication.
OrgSync's goal, according to
its Web site, is to "provide the
ultimate online networking
and member management
service."
The site has been very
helpful in managing the
group, says Taryn Warren,
an information technology
junior and associate member
educator of the Talons, a spirit
and service organization.
"We now have a central-
ized place to manage all of
our tools like our files, photos
and member profiles," Warren
said.
Warren believes the site is
more helpful to organizations
than sites such as Facebook.
Some groups have just
begun to assimilate to the
new site.
Emily Schwarting, a
communications design senior
and Photography Club presi-
dent, believes the site will help
officers of organizations.
"We'll be able to upload
all of our important docu-
ments and contacts and won't
have to worry about handing
around paperwork which ends
up getting lost."
Schwarting said she and the
officers have not used the site
much, but they hope to spend
more time with it during the
next few weeks.
"Honestly, we haven't
started using the site as much
as we would like to just yet,"
Schwarting said. "Our next
meeting is coming up, and
we're hoping to show our
members how to keep up with
what the club is doing by using
OrgSync."
The site has been adver-
tised by with signs near the
University Union.
The school adopted the
program earlier this year, and
a variety of the active clubs
at UNT are joining the site's
thousands of members.
But some say the site is not
perfect.
Schwarting said the site
should be able to transfer
information over to the
popular networking site,
Facebook.
"I wish the site could stream
everything over to Facebook,"
Schwarting said. "OrgSync
offers Facebook Connect, but
that only shows what I am
doing, not what the club is
doing."
The site has implemented
Facebook Connect in an effort
to make OrgSync more acces-
sible by making some infor-
mation and features available
through the social networking
site.
Although the application
gives students the ability
to join an organization and
respond to group invitations,
the OrgSync site does not
allow complete connection
between the two Web sites.
Schwarting wishes the
site could give officers the
option of adding events to the
OrgSync calendar and have
them automatically trans-
ferred to Facebook as event
listings.
The Photography Club pres-
ident says the site improves
upon past Web sites the club
has used.
"Compared to the old orga-
nization management system,
it's way easier to get around
and look at," she said. "The
Web design doesn't make me
gag"
Some students on campus
are still unaware of the site.
Sasha Tulley, a hospitality
management sophomore, had
never heard of the site.
She said OrgSync would
be beneficial to groups since
every group's information
would be in one single place,
and the site would be most
helpful to organizations with
an online account.
"It would give groups one
similar location to get infor-
mation and be a great way to
team up with other organi-
zations with common inter-
ests."
Tulley is a member of the
Sigma Alpha sorority and
thinks the group would
benefit with an account on
OrgSync.
"We could advertise charity
events and get help from other
groups like ours," she said.
"Overall, it would be a great
way to stay informed and
connected."
S chwar ting believes
OrgSync will not become a
trend anytime soon and will
be used more often by officers
than members.
"I don't see it getting too
big with the general student
public anytime soon. We have
so many things to sign into
these days such as e-mail,
Facebook, Twitter, myUNT,
and E-Campus that adding
another social network to the
mix seems unlikely."
Warren, however, believes
the site has promise.
"I think it has potential to
become more popular but the
support for this site is very
small and they are limited on
their technology which could
cause some problems with
growing in the future."
For more information, visit
www.orgsync.com.
Photo by Melinda Batey/ Intern
Surmani Srinivasan, the first Fulbright scholar-in-residence for the College of Music, plays his long-string chikari flute. He received the Government of India
Cultural Scholarship for Hindustani flute.
Flutist, scholar per orms show
By Stephanie Daniels
Staff Writer
Indian flutist Surmani
Srinivasan, the first Fulbright
Scholar-in-Residence in
the College of Music, will
perform his first concert for
the UNT community today.
Mary Karen Clardy, a
regents professor in the
College of Music, made
Srinivasan's concert and stay
possible by putting together
a grant through the Fulbright
Scholar program.
"I hope this produces an
increased awareness of world
music and importance of
music from another country,"
she said.
Srinivasan will spend two
full semesters as an in-resi-
dence scholar at UNT.
According to the Fulbright
Web site, the program was
designed to increase mutual
understanding between
people of the United States
and people of other coun-
tries.
As well as serving as guest
professor at Bañaras Flindu
University, Srinivasan has
received the Government of
India Cultural Scholarship
for Hindustani flute and an
award from the government
of India for research about
performance techniques.
"I would like to teach
bamboo flute to students
and I would like them to
improve and perform on
stage," Srinivasan said.
Srinivasan is highly skilled
in two types of Indian music:
Hindustani, which is the
music of northern India,
and Carnatic, considered the
music of southern India.
His performance will
incorporate both styles of
music, first the Hindustani
using a long bamboo flute
and then the Carnatic style
using a smaller instru-
ment.
Srinivasan is planning on
lecturing not only to music
students, but also to all types
of classes. This gives him a
chance to work outside of his
7 hope this produces an
increased awareness of world
music and importance of music
from another country,"
—Mary Karen Clardy
Regents professor in the College of Music
expertise.
Srinivasan said he is
excited about his first perfor-
mance at UNT because it
will mark the beginning of
his stay.
He will be performing with
two student percussionists
who will be improvising their
entire performance rather
than practicing a particular
beat together.
"I want to thank the
students and faculty, espe-
cially Professor Clardy for
having me," he said.
Srinivasan's lectures to
UNT music students will
pertain mainly to flute,
ethnomusicology and global
percussion classes.
Clardy is expecting a large
turnout and huge amount
of interest, especially from
flutists, percussionists and
World of Music classes.
Srinivasan's debut perfor-
mance is free and will take
place at 8 tonight in the Music
Building Recital Hall,
"I hope this broadens
students' musical perspec-
tive," Clardy said. "Anyone
in the College of Music will
expand their own musical
experience through hearing
an artist from another
musical culture."
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North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 15, 2009, newspaper, September 15, 2009; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145709/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.