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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Volume 97 I Issue 43
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Students protest ailed referendums
By Isaac Wright
Senior Staff Writer
Waving signs and bran-
dishing bullhorns, about 20
members from several student
organizations protested before
the Student Government
Association meeting Wednesday
outside Terrill Hall after the
organization failed to bring
three referendums to students
for a vote.
Protests were sparked after
SGA failed to bring the House
of Representatives, home-
coming reform and marijuana
policy reform referendums to
students for a vote this semester.
Members from the Feminist
Majority Leadership Alliance
said they were protesting the
loss of the homecoming reform
bill, and said they were showing
support oflesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender students.
Members from the univer-
sity's chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws said they
were angry the marijuana policy
referendum would not be voted
on this semester.
"It was supposed to go to a
student vote this year and give
the administration time over
the summer to look at the drug
policy," said Danielle Farley,
the president of UNT NORML
and social science sophomore.
"Now, the students won't even
vote on it until the beginning of
the fall semester."
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Photo by James Coreas/Senior Staff Photographer
James Saunders, a political science sophomore, protests the Student Government Association meeting Wednesday in front of Terrill Hall. Saunders and other
student organizations protested the failure of SGA to bring referendums to a student vote this semester.
SGA President Kevin Sanders
addressed senators and
students during the meeting,
and apologized that the House
of Representatives and the
homecoming reform referen-
dums were both erased from
the university computer hard
drive. Sanders said it was unfor-
tunate, but the best course of
action would be to resubmit
the legislation in the fall.
"All we can do is work with
the situation that we're in,"
Sanders said. "We can't go
back in time and change what
happened."
NORML members ques-
tioned why Sanders did not
sign the marijuana policy refer-
endum quickly enough to bring
the legislation to students this
semester. Sanders said he
only had two days to set up a
special election after the senate
approved the referendum.
He said he was not comfort-
able approving legislation in
such a short period of time.
"I don't treat bills lightly,"
Sanders said. "You need to take
your time looking through them
and you need to make sure
everything is right. An opinion
poll that goes to students can
affect so many things."
Campus to close early
Brief
By Laura Zamora
Assigning Editor
UNT President V. Lane
Rawlins sent out an official
message to all students, faculty
and staff Wednesday after-
noon announcing a campus-
wide closure on Friday.
Afternoon classes will
be canceled at the Denton
campus and the university's
center at Dallas. All online
classes will continue as usual,
Rawlins said in the email.
The closure will take effect
at noon.
"University personnel iden-
tified as essential must be
present at their work places,
unless otherwise notified by
their supervisors," Rawlins
said in the email.
The president also said the
closure was "in appreciation
of the dedication and hard
work by UNT faculty and staff
and to provide [students] an
opportunity to plan for a long
weekend." He did not specifi-
cally mention the upcoming
Easter holiday on Sunday.
Willis Library will close at
noon, but the 24-hour general
access lab on the first floor
will remain open as usual,
said circulation desk employee
Briana Knox.
Classes will resume
Monday.
Photojournalists killed
in Libyan conflict
Brief
By Katie Grivna &
Laura Zamora
Editor-in-Chief &
Assigning Editor
Two photojournalists were
killed and two were injured
Wednesday during a firefight
in the northern Libyan city of
Misrata.
Photographers Chris Hondros,
Tim Hetherington, Guy Martin
and Michael Christopher Brown
were covering the fighting when
a mortar shell struck their posi-
tion.
Hondros, a senior staff photog-
rapher for Getty Images, and
Hetherington, a contributing
photographer for Vanity Fair,
were killed. Martin and Brown,
both freelance journalists, were
seriously wounded, according
to reports.
Hondros, 4f, was a close friend
to Thorne Anderson of the jour-
nalism faculty who said he was
devastated by
the news.
"We were
both strug-
gling I'ree-
lancers
starting off
together
during the
CHRIS
HONDROS
war in Kosovo, and he's such a
central part of our photojour-
nalism community. It really just
feels like a part of my youth has
died," Anderson said.
Hondros was following rebel
fighters who were trying to
dislodge government troops.
In his photos posted Tuesday,
it's visible that Hondros was
directly in the middle of the
fighting, Anderson said.
"He's really just inches away
from the fighters in direct contact
with these government soldiers,"
he said. " He was doing very, very
dangerous work."
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Photo by James Coreas/Senior Staff Photographer
Bailey Watson, a fashion merchandising senior, slams whipped cream into the face of Cameron Alewel, an un-
declared sophomore, Wednesday evening. The PIKE fraternity hosted a pie-in-the-face event from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. in the Library Mall and on the campus green to raise money for the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Children
Miracle Network. The fraternity members bought more than 160 cans of whipped cream for the event.
Grant to pay for stadium turbines
By Drew Gaines
Senior StaffWriter
The nearly completed Mean
Green football stadium has
established its place along the
Denton skyline and can now
be seen from miles away. But
the facility is missing three inte-
gral pieces that are expected to
generate quite a stir come fall.
IheState Energy Conservation
Office awarded UNT a $2 million
grant in August to construct
three wind turbines next to the
new stadium Expected to be up
and running by the end of the
year, the turbines will eventually
offset the energy consumption
of the neighboring Mean Green
Village, the facility surrounding
the stadium, by 6 percent and
eliminate nearly323 metric tons
of carbon dioxide annually.
The turbines will stand
in a line running parallel to
Bonnie Brae Street, a spot
viewable by commuters trav-
eling on both Interstates 35E
and 35W. They will stand 120
feet tall and will, from at least
130 feet away, emit as much
noise as a normal conversa-
tion between two people.
Labeled as commu-
nity-scale turbines, the
100-Kilowatt machines are
smaller than their wind-
farm cousins and suited to
the area's 12 mph average
wind speed.
As sources of renew-
able energy, officials said
the turbines will serve as a
statement of UNT's pursuit
of carbon neutrality.
"It has become more than
just part of the stadium," said
Rick Villarreal, UNT's athletic
director.
An October study by the
Office of Sustainability deter-
mined the turbines will be used
as part of UNT's academic,
research and outreach
programs. The four-month-
long study was funded by a
$200,000 grant from SECO that
allowed developers to deter-
mine the turbines' impact on
surrounding wildlife and local
air traffic.
Approval of the final
funds was contingent upon
the turbines' high visibility,
which they hoped would
increase awareness of renew-
able energy.
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