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Friday, March 26, 2010
Volume 95 I Issue 36
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raternity raises money or cancer research
Alpha Epsilon Pi
sells lemonade
for children
By Shea Yarborough
Senior Staff Writer
At the center of campus,
where the crosswalks inter-
sect, coins rattled in a tin can
as a voice yelled, "Help raise
money for childhood cancer
research!"
The members of Alpha
Epsilon Pi, UNT's Jewish
fraternity, manned the campus
green this week, shouting and
begging to raise money for chil-
dren who suffer from cancer,
said Evan Kassem, a radio,
television and film junior and
Alpha Epsilon Pi member.
"The sad part is for every
30 cents that is given to child-
hood cancer, a dollar is given
to breast cancer," Kassem said.
"Not a lot of people give to
childhood cancer - it's always
breast cancer or AIDS."
The eight fraternity
members of Alpha Epsilon
Pi motivate themselves to
do embarrassing, some-
times awkward things for
money, with the memory of
a little girl named Alex, said
Michael Margolis, a hospi-
tality management senior and
fraternity member.
Alexandra "Alex" Scott
opened a lemonade stand to
raise money to help herself
and other kids like her with
cancer, Margolis said.
"We like the story about this
little girl," he said. "It's inspi-
rational."
Before her first birthday,
Scott was diagnosed with
brain cancer, said Gillian
Kocher, a spokesperson
for Alex's Lemonade Stand
Foundation. At the age of
4, Alex announced that she
wanted to help her doctors
help kids who had cancer like
she did. The money raised by
the fraternity is donated to the
foundation.
"Her words were, All kids
want their tumors to go away,'"
Kocher said.
See FUNDRAISING on
page 2
Photo by Drew Gaines/Photographer
Members of UNT's Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, take donations for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation outside of
the University Union. The charity raises money for cancer research across the country.
Photo by Drew Gaines/Photographer
The charity funds cancer research across the country. (From Left to Right) Risk management freshman Evan Richman,
general studies senior and fraternity president James Long, general studies senior and AEP philanthropy chair Evan Kas-
sem. On Thursday, eight fraternity members of Alpha Epsilon Pi motivate themselves to do embarrassing, sometimes
awkward things to motivate passersby to donate money to the cause.
Golden Key hosts
reading program
Krystle Cantu
Staff Writer
The UNT Golden Key
International Honour Society
will organize Read-A-Book
Day this Saturday at the North
Branch Library
The event will take place
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 3020
N. Locust St. Everyone is
welcome. The goal of this
event is to promote literacy
among elementary school-
aged children.
"Basically, what we have
planned is to have an all-out,
rain-or-shine, fun day for
these kids where they get to be
in reading circles, and we read
to them and they read to us,"
Emily Hudson, vice president
of Golden Key, said. "We're
also making gift bags for the
children that have pencils,
erasers, posters, books, spirals
and folders."
Students from the society
will conduct several activities
throughout the day such as
story circles and recreational
activity time.
Volunteers from Success
for Life Through Reading,
another UNT student orga-
nization, will also participate.
All children who attend will
be provided with lunch.
The UNT Bookstore donated
250 bags to help make the gift
bags, Hudson said.
"Hopefully, we'll get a good
experience out of this event,"
she said. "I'm hoping the chil-
dren will get a thrill for educa-
tion and reading."
Hudson said that though
the event is for all school-aged
children, they are targeting
third and fourth graders.
"Though they aren't
thinking about college yet,
we want to show them that
they have an amazing college
and campus right here in their
town," she said. "We're also
hoping that maybe they have
siblings that they might bring
as well."
Members of the Denton
Independent School District
are excited about this event.
"I think it's great and I
applaud the efforts of the
UNT Golden Key Honour
Society for trying to promote
reading," Glenna Harris, the
district school board secre-
tary, said.
Ray Braswell, superinten-
dent for the district, favors the
efforts of UNT as well.
"Anytime we can promote
reading for young children
in any way, it's a wonderful
process," he said. "We all
firmly believe that children
that learn to read as early
as possible become stronger
students, and we think it's crit-
ical to their future success."
Braswell also said he likes
university students being
involved in the event.
"They will serve as
wonderful role models to the
children," he said.
Kathleen Mohr, program
coordinator for Language
Literacy and Bilingual/ESL
Education at UNT, said she
hopes the event will promote
educational and informa-
tional reading among school-
age children.
See LITERACY on page 2
Students celebrate spring with music
Drum circle
marks vernal
equinox
By Tim Monzingo
Contributing Writer
Despite last weekend's cold
and rainy weather, students
are still excited about partici-
pating in a celebration at least
as old as civilization.
Last Saturday marked the
vernal, or spring, equinox; a
time when the Earth's orbit
aligns with the sun along the
equator, creating equal parts
of night and day. Denton resi-
dents still plan on gathering to
celebrate the coming of spring
this Saturday, even though the
equinox has passed.
Andrew Jordan Miller, an
interdisciplinary studies
senior, is promoting a gath-
ering of people at the steps
of The Courthouse-on-the-
Square to celebrate the warm
weather and participate in
one of the world's oldest tradi-
tions.
"Back in the day when we
relied on the seasons—more
so, the vernal equinox, which
is what occurred last week,
marked the coming of spring—
which also marks the growth
of your crops," Miller said. "So
this was a very triumphantly
joyful time for the people
and so it was very common
in many cultures to celebrate
this moment because it meant
that we can expect to have a
surplus of food again."
Miller is involved in a
drum circle that meets every
Saturday at the courthouse. He
said that events like the drum
circle are historically related
to events like the equinox.
Photo by Kaitlyn Price/Photographer
Humanities senior Andrew Miller came up with the idea for the Equinox Cel-
ebration, which will take place at 9 p.m. Saturday on the Square.
"I was interested in what
the equinox meant for us,
because I've been involved in
the drum circle for a little over
a year now and it's common
for people to get together
during equinox and solstice
times, so I was curious about
what that really meant and
why drum circles did this,"
he said.
When he started researching
the event, he found it inter-
esting and enlightening,
Miller said.
"I thought it was really a
beautiful thing and I thought
it would be nice to bring
awareness to the community a
little bit about the occurrence
of this event," he said. "It
didn't seem to be the kind of
thing that everyone is walking
around talking about: 'Oh, it's
the equinox today.' It's not like
Christmas."
But for Miller, the event
is more important than the
common holidays.
"It's more dear to me than
Christmas. It's kind of a global
change that's occurring," he
said.
The celebration will be a
sort of singing, dancing picnic
and is open to anyone who
wants to come, said Amanda
Dunnavant, a UNT alumna
who regularly participates in
the drum circle.
"There is a place for every-
body, whether you want to
drum. There is a place for
dancing. There is a place for
children to be children and
other people can just stand
back or sit back, bring lawn
chairs and watch," she said.
Many students were aware
of the equinox, but didn't
really think much about it.
Will Huebner, a music
junior, said that the event is
a good reason to celebrate.
"It's definitely great moti-
vation and it gives an occa-
sion," he said.
Miller said that the drum
circle and the event are good
ways to foster a sense of
community.
"I guess to add to the
purpose, not only to bring
awareness to the equinox as a
global event, but also to bring
together the community in a
very healthy setting. I view
the drum circle as perhaps the
healthiest thing you can do as
a community because it's just
love and that's really it."
The event will be held from 9
p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at The
Courthouse-on-the Square.
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