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Tuesday, November 27,2012
Arts & Life
Page 3
Brittni Barnett, Arts & Life Editor
NrDailyArtsLife@gmail.com
Students gain experience at new Dallas park
Nadia Hill
Senior Staff Writer
Chinese Pistache trees wrapped
in yarn divide 5/000 square feet
into outdoor reading nooks. More
than 300 people each day lounge
beneath the leaves of these trees
and devour literature from a selec-
tion of427 books donated by UNT
and the Dallas Public Library.
The Klyde Warren Park, a
5.2-acre green space arching over
1-35 and connecting downtown to
uptown, is Dallas' newest social
space.
It opened Oct. 27 and features
the Dallas Morning News Reading
& Games Room, an open-air
library that mimics a similar
project in Bryant Park, NY.
UNT library science students
will work in conjunction with the
park's m anagement, the Woodall
Rodgers Park Foundation, to coor-
dinate free events and activities
in the park.
Library science graduate
student Misty Maeberry is the
Reading Room Coordinator.
Maeberry received her bach-
elor's degree from the University
of Texas at Dallas and worked
as a bookkeeper for more than
10 years.
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Photo by Carrie Canova/Staff Photographer
Children and adults browse the books and magazines available for loan at the Dallas Morning News Reading & Games Room in Klyde Warren Park. The park is
located in downtown Dallas between Pearl and St. Johns streets and opened Oct. 27.
Maeberry is now working
toward her master's and volun-
teering at local libraries and plan-
ning educational events as her first
job in the field of library work.
"Being able to help people and
preserve history is an important
thing to do," Maeberry said.
"There's nothing in my course-
work exactly like this, but it's
more of a cohesive whole, and
I'm finding creative ways to apply
basic principles. This is all very
new for me and will be really
helpful."
Along with hiring Maeberry,
the foundation is working closely
with UNT and the College of
Information to plan and host
events in the reading room, all
manned by students.
Library sciences department
chair Suliman ITawamdeh has
been instrumental in recruiting
students and advertising the
opportunities available to them.
"It's like a practicum or hands-
on lab for students, and a platform
to connect with so many people,"
Hawamdeh said. "UNT doesn't
have much presence in Dallas, and
anything we can do to improve
that would be good. We're basi-
cally responsible for bringing the
programming to the park."
The Woodall Rodgers Park
Foundation is still expanding and
recently added a guest services
position. They are currently
looking for students to staff the
reading room and plan events.
"As we were exploring partner-
ships for all of the park program-
ming, the College of Information
was an especially great fit for the
kind of materials we want to make
available," said Annie Black, the
Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation
program coordinator. "We worked
closely with consultants who also
worked on Bryant Park, and we
hope to have similar results here
in Dallas with a space that gives
people the opportunity to grab a
book and enjoy the beautiful envi-
ronment. We think the Reading
Room has a ton of potential."
The reading room is open from
dawn until dusk each day. Its next
event is Ideas in Bloom on Dec. 6.
"I don't know the plan for long
term and how everything will
change and evolve for UNT's
participation," Maeberry said.
"But the foundation has been
very interested in working with
students, largely because of the
fantastic library program here.
UNT is a big part of a group
effort."
N station recognized at
Lone Star EMMY Awards
Trent Johnson
Staff Writer
North Texas Television
recently took home five
awards at the 10th annual
Lone Star EMMY Awards.
The Lone Star EMMYs,
which recognize excellence
in television, are presented
by the Lone Star Chapter
of the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences.
The UNT TV station was
recognized for its excellence
in its newscasts and various
other projects.
UNT edged out schools such
as Richland College, Texas
State University and Texas
Christian University for the
awards in categories such as
College/University Student
Production-Newscast and
College/University Student
Production-Editor.
Though winning is nice,
ntTV station manager Phyllis
Slocum said she is most proud
of the station's nine nomina-
tions.
"It is a huge, huge recog-
nition for the work done by
UNT students," Slocum said.
"When anyone is nominated
- let alone wins - it means
that the creation, that product,
that program, is considered
to be among the best of its
category."
The station always strives
to earn EMMYs, but five is
the most the UNT station has
ever garnered.
However, Slocum said that
even though the number of
EMMYs has grown, the main
"You re always trying to get
better and submit higher
quality pieces, and we're always
trying to grow as a station.'
-Ethan Hutch ins, converged broadcast media junior
goal of producing the best
consistent product they can
will remain the same, and
hopefully more accolades will
follow.
"This was a bit of a shock,
to do this well," Slocum said.
"You know the nine nomi-
nations was unexpected as
well, but you never know. It
all comes down to what we
have to offer."
The excitement of winning
is a nice morale booster for
the staff, said Coralee Trigger,
executive producer for "North
Texas Now" and converged
broadcast media senior.
Trigger won the College
University Student
Production- Editor award, and
a $2,000 scholarship for her
film "A Berry Austin Story."
"We work our butts off
every day," Trigger said. "To
take a moment to celebrate our
accomplishments provides us
a nice jolt of energy."
Trigger said she is looking
forward to working on new
projects that she hopes will
bring more gold to the ntTV
trophy case.
"You know, it's different
thinking about contest
season," Trigger said. "I'm
always worried about content,
whether it be online, on air or
anything else, but we are going
to submit "North Texas Now"
and some other programs to
the College Television Awards,
which is a national award cere-
mony, so that's the next batch
of submissions."
Converged broadcast media
junior Ethan Hutchins looks
forward to the challenge
of living up to the station's
success as he takes over as the
news director this upcoming
semester.
"Going into it, you expect to
win because of the awards won
in the past," Hutchins said. "I
have high expectations and
hope to win as many as they
did this year, next year. You're
always trying to get better and
submit higher quality pieces,
and we're always trying to
grow as a station."
The station's other awards
included College/University
Student Production-News:
General Assignment,
College/University Student
Production-Long Form
(Fiction and Non-Fiction) and
College/University Student
Production-Community/
Public Service (PSAS).
Students hat company
eatured in G Q magazine
Staff Writer
H. Drew Blackburn
Whether it's a myriad of
trend-happy clientele or GQ
magazine - if you build it,
they will come. Moreover,
what you build just may turn
into a company that makes
six figures.
Political science sopho-
more Christian Hohmann
and Southern Methodist
University student Justin
Ledford started SNAPSTEEZ,
an online boutique that sells
vintage snapback hats, in
summer 2010.
Hohmann said that he and
Ledford, a friend from high
school, found a place in Dallas
that carried vintage snapbacks
for about a dollar each.
"It was a warehouse that
was over in the wholesale
district of Dallas," Hohmann
said. "We saw that the hats
were starting to come back a
little bit back then."
Initially, Hohmann sold
hats out of the trunk of his
dad's car.
"That wasn't an efficient
way of doing it," Hohmann
said. "So we decided to sit
down and get real and go
from there.
The company has grown
significantly since it started
two years ago. Hohmann said
the company made six figures
last year.
"We saw our friends
working retail, and it was cool
for them," Hohmann said.
"They were making steady
money, but we wanted to be
Photo by Zac Switzer/Senior Staff Photographer
Political science sophomore Christian Hohmann is co-owner of SNAPSTEEZ, a
website that sells sports snapbacks. SNAPSTEEZ was featured in GQ in October
2011.
able to make more."
Business junior Michael
Casmier became aware of
SNAPSTEEZ after seeing a
sticker for the company on a
school bus.
"I checked out what they had,
and I saw exactly what I wanted
a few weeks later," Casmier said.
Hohmann said that GQ maga-
zine contacted them via email
and that he found the situation
odd at first.
"We thought it might be
some kind of scam because they
wanted us to send them hats for
free," Hohmann said
However, after checking that
the email address matched GQ's
parent company, Conde Nast,
their apprehension tuned into
excitement.
GQ did a trend report in its
October 2011 issue that featured
the best snapbacks money can
buy, according to the magazine.
Pictured alongside Mitchell &
Ness, a company that has been
around since 1904, and custom
hats made by designers was a
Los Angeles Lakers snapback
from SNAPSTEEZ.
"We've done local publications,
but to make that jump so quic kly
was exciting," Hohmann said.
Hohmann said that being
featured in GQ didn't directly
affect sales in a way that was
noticeable, but helped them
secure a deal with PLNDR, a
subsidiary of Karmaloop, a
Boston-based online retailer.
The next step for SNAPSTEEZ
is to expand into vintage clothing,
which should increase the three-
day work schedule Hohmann
created to balance SNAPSTEEZ
with school.
"It's a lot of work, but it's worth
it," Hohmann said. "It teaches
you the value of hard work.
There's nothing more exciting
than seeing something that
you've worked hard to succeed."
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