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BY AMANDA GONZALEZThe Shorthorn staff

International business freshman Kaitlin Booher lives in Arlington Hall, eats at Connection Cafe, stud-

ies in the Central Library, attends sporting events in Texas Hall, shops at Walmart and lounges all over campus.

The east side of campus is pro-gressively changing from parking lots into the College Park District through the development of 20 acres of land that will house College Park, The Green at College Park and the

College Park Center.The Special Events Center and

Center Street Green were renamed College Park Center and Green at College Park to create a cohesive area branded for students called the Col-lege Park District.

In November, a formal request will be made to the UT System Board of Regents to seek approval of

the name change.With the College Park District

opening in phases this fall and with completion set for 2012, it will allow Booher and other students to unify every day activities to one location.

Booher said this central area helps to create a place to meet the many needs of students and ulti-mately create a college town feel.

“I’m excited to be able to just walk across the street and go shop or go to the games instead of walking all the way to the MAC or to Texas Hall,” she said. “It’s going to be fun and I like the park. I think it’s going to be cool.”

All three entities will transform

Eastside development renamedFACILITIES

The university awaits approval from the UT System for the ‘College Park District’ name.

REBRAND continues on page 6

BY NATALIA CONTRERASThe Shorthorn staff

Physics freshman Mi-cheal Moose joined the U.S. Army in 2004 and in 2009 decided to leave.

He had to lie about being gay. He couldn’t stand not being himself.

Last week, in River-side, Calif. federal Judge Virginia Phillips suspend-ed the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy because she said it is unconstitutional and violates 14th Amend-ment rights.

However, after the U.S. Justice Department asked to suspend the ruling on Wednesday, a federal ap-peals court reinstated “don’t ask, don’t tell,” a policy forbidding openly gay troops from serving.

A three-judge panel granted the department’s request, allowing the pol-

icy to remain so the ap-peals court could consider the issues presented.

According to reports, the department argued that changing the policy abruptly risks causing sig-nificant immediate harm to the military and its ef-forts to implement an or-derly repeal of statue.

“It is ridiculous that they’re going back and forth with this,” Moose said. “Either they need to accept them or not. It’s not fair for the applicant or the tax payer, they are wasting peoples’ time and money by doing this.”

LaShonda Walker, Dal-las Battalion public af-fairs chief, said prior to the Wednesday ruling, recruiters were accepting and processing applica-tions from openly gay ap-plicants.

“Recruiters are not ask-ing about the applicant’s sexual orientation, but

‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ reinstated

MILITARY

The policy experiences a tug of war between judge and appeals court.

MILITARY continues on page 3

BY VIDWAN RAGHAVANThe Shorthorn staff

With the Texas Rang-ers and New York Yankees facing off, some students’ attention is divided in the classroom. When a fan’s team reaches a high level of success, fans’ productivity is likely to go down if they aren’t care-ful, marketing as-sistant professor Elten Briggs said.

He said since the em-ployees and students are psychologically at the game it reduces produc-tivity.

“It does affect produc-tivity, but only for a seg-ment of the population,” he said.

Briggs said the games’ outcomes also have an ef-fect on efficiency. He cites the marketing concept of ‘Identification.’

“Basically, the success of the team is seen by the fan as a personal success,” Briggs said. “But it also goes the other way. The team’s loss is seen as a personal one.”

Assistant management professor George Benson said hold-ing attention in classrooms is bet-ter now than it used to be.

People used to call in sick to their place of work or school, he said.

“Now they watch the game online, so they’re still working, just less than usual,” he said

Benson said he noticed

Postseason supercedes attendance

STUDENT LIFE

Baseball playoff games affect productivity, says assistant professor.

PRODUCTIVE continues on page 6

BY J.C. DERRICKThe Shorthorn senior staff

The UTA Development Board is making the univer-sity’s philanthropic mission a reality by seeking to involve alumni and private donors in

the UTA’s future success.“Our development board

serves as a window into the rest of the world,” said Provost Donald Bobbitt. “They help us look at ourselves to make sure everything that we are doing meet the goals and vision that we have set for the institution.”

Those goals include build-ing a base of financial support at UTA, which does not have a

history of strong philanthropic support.

The recent progress has been evident. UTA announced last week that it nearly tripled the amount of yearly gifts and pledges made to the university, rising to $15.2 million in fiscal 2009-10 from $5.9 million the previous year.

UTA reaps hefty private donationsALUMNI

Development board was revamped with the help of the monetary gifts.

BOARD continues on page 3

Painting junior Jon Ashcraft discusses the charcoal piece he contributed to at the Figuratively Speaking exhibit Wednesday at Gallery West. “It was interesting,” alumna Anna Atteberry said. “I know one of the other people he worked with. They seemed to have some issues with timing, but they pulled it together.”

Assistant professor Michelle Murillo’s Life Drawing students Elizabeth Fieler, Maggie Moore and Neftali Nunez (not pictured), show their collaborative piece for the Figuratively Speaking exhibit Wednesday at Gallery West. The artwork will be on display at the gallery until Friday.

Twenty-eight Life Drawing stu-dents used charcoal, graphite and ink to create eight works of art that incorporated super-imposing skeletons over figures.

The students from the spring and summer II classes of draw-ing assistant professor Michelle Murillo presented their work at the Figuratively Speaking: Collaborative Drawings by Life Drawing Students exhibit on Wednesday night.

The exhibit runs until Friday at Gallery West, located in the Studio Arts Center at 800 S. Davis St., by the Police Building.

Murillo said the assignment was a valuable learning tool because it was a challenge to recreate master drawings.

“I feel there are a lot of discov-eries when students are able to collaborate and bounce ideas off each other,” she said.

The exhibit features art works that were created corrobora-

tively by three to four students per piece. Painting junior Jon Ashcraft said it was kind of hard to schedule time with his group to complete the piece but had fun creating it.

“I wanted to do something wacky, something off the wall, something just really crazy, grungy and from the gut. That’s what my art is all about,” he said.

Bare bone art

Skeletons are the theme of an exhibit at Gallery West

STORY AND PHOTOS BY MICHAEL MINASI

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Head strongA professor and the university look to tackle the serious effects of concussions. SPORTS | PAGE 4

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By sarah lutzThe Shorthorn staff

The worst ozone days occur when air pollution col-lected by Gulf Coast winds accumulate over the Metro-plex, according to Down-winders At Risk director Jim Schermbeck.

This buildup of air pol-lutants creates the “orange” and “red” level ozone days that put the area in risk of violating the Clean Air Act, Scherm-beck said. Ac-cording to the Environmen-tal Protection Agency, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been a non-attainment area, which is a zone that violates the Clean Air Act, since 2004.

Schermbeck will present information on these wind patterns effects on air qual-ity and ideas on how to deal with it during his presenta-tion, The Big Push: 2010-2013, at 7 p.m. tonight in 101 College Hall. The Big Push is a three-year plan devised by the Downwinders to decrease hazardous ozone levels.

“We have a chronic air pollution problem. That’s a fact,” he said. “A lot of people think there’s a reason and it’s because the state has not dealt with the large industrial growth over time.”

He said a new standard will be announced at the end of the month and the state will have to work on two clean air plans at the same time.

“We have a big hump to over come if we’re going to have safe and legal air for the first time in 20 years,” Schermbeck said.

Carrizo Oil and Gas Inc. received complaints regard-ing the air quality near the gas well on the south side of campus.

Resident Sandra Den-Braber lives near the gas well and has been complaining to the university, the drilling company and state regulators since 2007. She provided the Texas Commission of Envi-ronmental Quality with her medical records, which docu-mented that gas-well related chemicals were found in her blood.

TCEQ spokeswoman An-drea Morrow said the agen-cy uses several methods to monitor air quality. She said

complaints made to the agency will receive a response in 12 hours. She said the agency bases all its informa-tion on “strong and sound sci-ence,” and she hopes that

Schermbeck and the Down-winders have done the same.

President James Spaniolo said he did not want to com-ment on the proceeding re-garding the UTA gas well site because it is in its early stages.

“I would not say that there will never be more drilling but there are no current plans to do any more drilling and it has nothing to do with this enforcement proceeding,” Spaniolo said. “They have been very committed to fol-lowing not only our wishes but adhering to environmen-tal and other kinds of regula-tions, so we think that they’re an outstanding firm with an outstanding record.”

The university receives a 27 percent royalty from the gas well to support under-graduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.

They are invested and leveraged with private gifts through the Maverick Prom-ise. Revenue goes to imple-menting the Campus Master Plan and to faculty and staff recruitment and retention.

sarah lutznews-editor.shorthron@uta.edu

Winds put D-FW at risk for high ozone

sustainaBility

The Downwinders at Risk director will talk about air quality solutions.

The Shorthorn: Michael Minasi

sticking to the BeatUndeclared freshman Clint Tucker practices with fellow quad drum players of the UTA Marching Band on Wednesday outside Maverick Stadium. The band practices from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m every Monday and Wednesday and from noon to 1:50 p.m. every Friday at Maverick Stadium.

WEDNESDAYWarrant Service-MisdemeanorDuring a traffic stop at 12:11 a.m. at 1200 Cooper Street a student was arrested in connection to outstanding warrants out of Fort Worth.

TUESDAYTheftAt 11:30 p.m. a student reported the theft of a bicycle from Centennial Court apart-ments on Mitchell Street. The case is still active.

TheftAt 1:59 p.m. an officer responded to a re-port of theft from a student’s room at 701 West Street. She said her black bag and laptop were taken. The case is still active.

Criminal Mischief/VandalismAn officer was dispatched at 1:53 p.m. to the Trinity Parking Lot on greek Row Drive to investigate a damaged gate arm. The case is still active.

Minor AccidentAt noon a student reported her vehicle had been struck by another student’s vehicle in Lot 49, which is located south of Mitchell Street. The case was cleared with no further action.

The UTA Bookstore and Follett Higher education group are in the interview-ing process of hiring a new bookstore director.

The new hire will replace Bill Coulter, who officially retired as bookstore director on Aug. 30.

elio DiStaola, Follett public and campus relations

director, said they have identified candidates and are working with UTA to make a joint interview schedule. Fol-lett doesn’t share candidate information publicly.

“UTA will be active mem-bers, along with Follett, in making that final selection to replace the retired director,” DiStaola said.

The bookstore director oversees bookstore opera-tions and ensures profit and productivity goals are met. The job requires leadership skills, responsibility and a minimum of five years of experience in retail manage-ment, according to the job posting.

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TODAY

Lean and Pollution Prevention: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Automation and Robotics Research institute. Free. Course provides opportuni-ties to improve efficiency of your organi-zation. For information, contact Thomas Vinson-Peng at admin@zerowastenetwork.org or 512-904-2281.

Community Service Learning presents Partner Breakfast: 8:30-10:30 a.m. Central Library sixth floor. Free. Meet non-profit community organizations in the Metroplex. For information, contact Sharon Hughlett at hughlett@uta.edu or 817-272-2124.

Order Your Official Maverick Ring: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. University Center. For graduate students with 15 hours or more and under-graduates with 60 hours or more. For in-formation, contact the Alumni Association at 841 W. Mitchell St.

“flats and rounds” exhibit: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. gallery 76102. Free. For information, contact Corey gossett at gallery76102@uta.edu or 817-272-0365.

Controversial Issues Workshop: 2-4 p.m. 200 Wetsel Building. For information, contact Human Resources/employment Services at 817-272-3461 or employment@uta.edu.

Global Grounds International Coffee Hour: 4-5:30 p.m. University Center Palo Duro Lounge. Free. get to know the international

community at UTA over a cup of coffee. For information, contact Lauren Cutcher at lcutcher@uta.edu.

Stars of the Pharaohs: 6-7 p.m. Plan-etarium. $6 for adults, $4 for children. For information, contact the Planetarium at planetarium@uta.edu or 817-272-1183.

Spacepark 360: 7-8 p.m. Planetarium. $6 for adults, $4 for children. For information, contact the Planetarium at planetarium@uta.edu or 817-272-1183.

The Big Push: 2010-2013 – Protecting North Texas Air Quality. 7-8 p.m. 101 College Hall. Free. Jim Schermbeck is a guest speaker. For information, contact Jeff Howard at howardj@uta.edu or 817-272-5119.

Symphony Arlington: 7:30-10 p.m. Arlington

Music Hall. Prices Vary. For tickets and other information, contact Symphony Ar-lington at www.symphonyarlignton.org or 817-385-0484.

Musical “CABARET”: 8 p.m. Mainstage The-atre. $11 for general public, $8 students/faculty and staff/senior citizens. For information, contact the UTA Box office at 817-272-2669.

Pink Ribbon Run: All Day. Free. Find pink treadmills on campus, for every mile ran 10 cents is donated to breast cancer re-search. For information, contact Campus Recreation Department at 817-272-3277.

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PARIS — Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane. Outside the capital, hooded youths smashed store windows amid clouds of tear gas.

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Gay troops discharged try to re-enlistSAN DIEGO — At least three service members discharged for

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“A positive effect is it will encourage higher enrollment for the military because people are already discouraged from the war. A negative affect is it might anger people who dislike gays and could even lead to a hate crime against the military.”

Bryan Davis, broadcasting freshman

“I think it’s wrong that if someone is gay, they can’t fight. It may make straight guys feel weird and cause disputes but if they want to participate, let them.”

Jessica Michael, visual communication sophomore

“This will have a positive outcome. Everyone should be treated equal. They shouldn’t be judged by religion or beliefs of people, it’s a human right.”

Rukesh Shilpakar, industrial engineering senior

You saidThe pentagon announced that the military will accept people who are openly gay. What positive and negative effects will this have?

if the applicant chooses to say they are gay, recruit-ers are reminding them that the policy might change,” Walker said.

Allan Saxe, political sci-ence associate professor, said the policy has been a good compromise since it was established under Bill Clinton’s term in office and has worked well.

“if the current policy is banned altogether, it would allow gays to enter the military as all others and presumably they could an-nounce they are gay with no military expulsion,” Saxe said. “others argue that if the current policy is completely eliminated it will demoralize the military and endanger combat situations.”

Joshua little, Gay Straight Alliance president and international business

junior, said he understands it will take time for Con-gress to get rid of this policy.

“if i want to serve my country, it should not mat-ter if i am gay or straight,” little said. “it will take a lot of time, a lot of people and a lot persuasion for it to get it banned, but i am hopeful that it will happen.”

Moose said everyone should be able to serve in the military and take ad-vantage of the benefits that come with it, including money for higher education.

“i wanted to serve my country and i loved my job as a Human resource spe-cialist. The main reasons of why i left is because i had to conceal who i was and hide my sexuality,” Moose said. “overall, i look back and i did enjoy my time serving and if i had to do it all over again being myself, i would.”

natalia Contreras

news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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“We’ve made a lot of effort to build re-lationships, reorganize, revamp the devel-opment board and look at it in a different way,” said Vice President for development Jim lewis. “i think they will play a big role moving forward as we build private support.”

A large part of the banner year was a historic $5 million gift from Carrizo oil & Gas inc., a Houston-based company which has drilled 22 gas wells on campus since 2007. lewis said it was a process which, like many, was a long time in the making.

Carrizo’s gift went to support the $80 million College Park Center currently under construction on the east side of campus. The donation gave UTA half of the $10 million it needs to raise for the venue set to open at the end of 2011, giv-ing UTA a total of close to $6 million for the project.

The development board is a 43-mem-ber team dedicated to the advancement of UTA, specifically in terms of philan-thropic support.

“[The development board] really plays an increasingly important role,” said President James Spaniolo. “We’ve had the development board for a number of years, but in the last two years we’ve enlarged it

and recruited some of our alumni from around the country to serve on it — peo-ple who have had distinguished careers.”

The board is comprised of 33 alumni, some of which are scattered abroad, and 10 area business leaders. The members converge in Arlington twice a year — each spring and fall — to develop strategies.

Some board members are household names, including alumni such as retired U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks and actor lou diamond Phillips.

Mike Greene, a development board member for the last three years, said the board’s success hinges on keeping a long-term mindset.

“i think one of our keys going forward is not only to develop a strong program, but also develop relationships that have to be grown and cultivated over the years,” he said. “if this is a two or three-year effort and we kind of quit after that, we haven’t accomplished much at all. it’s going to take a strong, long-term outlook.”

lewis shares that outlook.“You can’t just fly over to China and

ask for a million dollars,” he said. “We have to build a strategy that makes sense.”

lewis cited several strategies for suc-cess, including the hiring of debra Purvi-ance 15 months ago, a gift planning officer who helps UTA become a beneficiary in individuals’ wills.

The development board uses several vehicles of recognition for donors, includ-ing several societies.

Mike Farhat, a board member since 2008, said pursuing private donations can make a big difference.

“We’re not only trying to do it from the corporate level, but from grassroots level,” Farhat said. “The 1895 Society honors anybody who contributes $1,000 or more per year. That’s grassroots — getting peo-ple involved in the community again to begin contributing financially toward our development and take a financial stake in what we have in this city.”

According to numbers released by the university last week, the total number of donors increased dramatically last year, from 5,000 to more than 6,500.

“We’re finding UTA alumni every-where, some of which have had extraor-dinary success, but it doesn’t mean they’re ready to give right away,” lewis said. “Some of these people haven’t had any contact with the university since they left 30 years ago.”

lewis said the university is just start-ing to reap the rewards of its philan-thropic program.

“We’re really just beginning to scratch the surface,” he said. “A lot of what we’ve done hasn’t even showed up on the bot-tom line. People don’t understand we’re not selling automobiles here. The ges-tation period for gifts, particularly in a tough economic period, could take years.”

J.C. derriCknews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Boardcontinued from page 1

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BY JOSH BOWEThe Shorthorn staff

During a snowy night in South Dakota, Jake Resch received a concerning phone call.

Resch just left a local hockey game when the women’s basketball coach from Arlington High School called.

“The coach called me on the bus saying, ‘Would you mind stopping at this gas sta-tion. I want you to take a look at one of my girls,’” he said.

The girl collided head-to-head with another girl chas-ing a loose ball in a game that night. The coach wanted to have her looked at, but no one in the stands could help. Resch just happened to be working on concussion

research at the South Dakota high school.

When he stopped at the gas station, the rest of the girls were asked to exit the bus. When he walked onto

the bus and saw the girl, he immediately knew she need-ed professional care.

“Once I saw her, it was almost urgent,” he said. “I said, ‘Let’s get this girl to the

hospital as soon as possible.’”At the time, Resch only

knew entry-level information for concussions. He knew the typical protocol of taking an athlete out of the game and asking them basic questions to test their consciousness. But waiting with this young girl in the hospital room on a cold night in South Dakota was a life-changing experi-ence.

“It was a scary experience. For four hours in the hospi-tal, that athlete held my hand and cried,” he said. “You just try to remain as cool, calm and collected about the situ-ation because a concussion can be a scary thing. You’re not quite sure what’s going on. Why can’t I remember certain things? I have a head-ache, why am I nauseous.”

Resch tried to calm the girl by explaining that those symptoms are normal. Once the parents arrived and the

doctors did an X-ray and MRI test, they said the girl was free to go home.

“They said, ‘There’s no fracture, you’re good to go,’” he said. “Her mom then asked about the concussion, but the physician didn’t have an answer.”

That night drove him to dig deeper into concussion research to help other ath-letes avoid a similar experi-ence. He’s now a kinesiology assistant professor and works closely with Intercollegiate Athletics, which features cut-ting-edge concussion tech-nology.

Making an ImPACTConcussions have become

increasingly prominent in the past few years, and the NFL’s mission to crack down on concussion-causing tack-

Jake Resch, UTA take concussions head onHEALTH

The assistant professor works with UTA’s new technology and policy.

BY BRIAN NEPHEWThe Shorthorn staff

The UTA Ultimate Fris-bee team enters its sixth year of existence with great expectations.

Jonathan Moore, junior captain and team president, said their team has good athletes that want to work hard.

“The fall is used for in-troducing the sport to the freshmen and teaching them all the throws,” the economics junior said.

This weekend the team prepares to head north to face Oklahoma. Last year, UTA lost to the Sooners by one point, so they are look-

ing to bounce back this sea-son. The Oklahoma tour-nament is the biggest fall tournament for UTA and allows the freshman to get more playing time.

Ultimate Frisbee, also known as simply Ultimate, was introduced to UTA six years ago when student Phil Rollo was a sophomore. Rollo wanted to bring Ulti-mate to the school to com-pete around the state.

“The program has ex-panded every year since we started which is great to see,” he said.

Rollo now plays Dallas Ultimate and helps coach the UTA team.

There is a governing body called USA Ultimate, which UTA plays in dur-ing the spring. A group of different tournaments are played throughout the spring semester, start-ing with sectionals before moving on to regionals and nationals. Last year, UTA missed the sectionals by one game, leaving them short of making a regional.

2009 captain Andrew Morton stepped down this fall. The fifth-year mechan-ical engineering student has been a huge asset to the Ultimate team the last four years and says he hopes to

contribute again this year. Morton says he wanted to give someone else the re-sponsibility to take over the team when he wasn’t there, so he tossed the role to Moore.

“This fall has been a learning curve for our young team, but they have responded really well so far,” Morton said.

This year the Ultimate team has a lot of youth, but doesn’t seem to bother

Moore. Art Sophomore Tony

Cordero is in his first fall of playing Ultimate for UTA. He says that the practices have been going well so far this fall.

“I have been playing Ul-timate for a while, but Jona-than and these fall tourna-ments are helping me with my experience,” he said.

Fall practices for the team are held on Tuesday and Thursday nights at the

Intramural Sports Complex. As the team prepares for this weekend, Moore stress-es to the team that having fun is the key.

“Ultimate Frisbee is a sport that is based on the spirit of the game,” he said. “It has you competing so hard at one moment and then having fun with your teammates right after.”

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Ultimate Frisbee hopes

to fly highNew captain looks to

push team in the biggest tournament of the season

CONCUSSION continues on page 5

The Shorthorn: Jonathan Whitney

Jake Resch, seen here outside his office in the Maverick Activities Center, is involved with concussion research as well as testing UTA athletes per NCAA regulations. Resch’s own experiences with concus-sions, both professional and personal, drive him to research them.

The Shorthorn: Aisha Butt

“Ultimate Frisbee is a sport that is based on the spirit of the game. It has you competing so hard at one mo-ment and then having fun with your team-mates right after.”

Jonathan Moore,junior captain and president of the UTA Ultimate Frisbee team.

SPORTS QUOTEWORTHY

“I will be able to play Friday. They take extra precaution to make sure I am ready for Friday. The doctors saw me and they say I am fine.”

Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz, after exiting the Rangers Game 5 loss in the fifth inning

VOLLEYBALL

Mavs swept away by Bobcats

Texas State jumped on UTA early and often on Wednesday night, scoring the first seven points en route to 3-0 blowout in San Marcos.

“We were just horrible tonight,” UTA head coach Diane Seymour said after the game. “Hats off to Texas State. It’s just one of those bad situations where you walk into your opponent’s arena and every-thing they do is perfect.”

Junior libero Alicia Shaffer had 12 digs to lead the team, but Texas State made sure there wouldn’t be a repeat of the match two weeks ago when the Mavericks won 3-2. That was the last time UTA won a match.

Junior hitter Amanda Aguilera had her double-digit kill streak ended, finishing with five on the night.

— Sam Morton

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Jonathan Moore, econom-ics junior and UTA Ultimate Frisbee team captain, prac-tices ultimate frisbee with a teammate Wednesday af-ternoon on the Central Library mall. The team has an upcom-ing tournament in Oklahoma this Saturday.

CLUB SPORTS

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les sheds more light on the injury’s impact on an athlete.

In August, the NCAA issued new legislation stating that every institution must have a concussion management policy for all student-athletes. Despite not even having football, UTA has had a concussion policy before the NCAA mandated it, said Roy Rudewick, sports medi-cine associate athletic director.

“We’ve always done tests on an athlete before they returned to play,” he said. “But we’ve improved our policy.”

The biggest improvement to the policy is the emergence of a new computerized baseline test called the Immediate Post-Concussion Assess-ment and Cognitive Testing, or Im-PACT. A baseline test is something to compare results to after an injury to an athlete. All mandated athletes take the ImPACT at the beginning of the year, and if an injury occurs that could result in concussion, the athlete retakes the test to compare the results to the baseline.

UTA currently requires testing for athletes in baseball, basketball, softball, volleyball and pole vaulting.

Rudewick and Resch both pro-mote the ImPACT’s effectiveness be-cause of its precision. Rudewick said that other testing involves actually asking questions and interviewing, which can be misleading. With Im-PACT, he sees clearer results.

“It gives us a measurement be-tween what you can see and what you can’t see,” he said. “It gives us a better, more concrete evaluation of

what’s happened to the athlete.”Resch said one of the hardest

things for parents, coaches and doc-tors to grasp is that concussions aren’t a visible injury. You can see the violence of a leg being twisted, but sometimes a concussion can happen at the slightest bit of trauma to the head.

“It’s not ‘getting your bell rung.’ It’s a mild, traumatic brain injury,” he said. “Identifying a concussion is a big issue. The only thing you’re going off of is symptoms. You’re not going to see a concussion on an MRI.”

That stigma isn’t prominent at UTA thanks to Rudewick and Resch’s efforts. UTA’s post-concus-sion policy not only includes the ImPACT test, but also follow-ups with a clinical physician and a neu-rophysiologist to look at test results. Despite not having football — a violent, concussion-filled sport — Resch said UTA still goes above and

beyond what other schools and pro-fessional organizations do.

‘It can happen to anyone’Men’s basketball head coach

Scott Cross said his worst fear is seeing a player’s head bounce off the hardwood floor. He is part of a coaching staff that has given full support and cooperation to Resch and Rudewick’s efforts.

“Roy is always on top of the lat-est and greatest training methods,” Cross said. “I’m happy about it. Honestly, that’s a scary deal. Players safety comes first.”

Once a player has scored an ap-propriate ImPACT score, the player then goes through a graduated five-step process where the athlete is slowly worked out to see if symp-toms persist. Rudewick said the hardest part of the process is trust-ing if the athlete is feeling nauseous or having a headache.

“I can’t get into an athlete’s body to know if they’re really having a headache or not,” he said. “We have to take the athlete at their word.”

While the policy is focused on sports, Resch said his research is in-tended for anyone. He said anyone is susceptible to a concussion and the more people informed never hurts.

“It can happen to anyone, when you’re moving to campus and you hit your head on the moving truck — which I did when I moved here,” Resch said. “It starts from little things that occur in all situations.”

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NEW YORK — The former closer failed to close out the New York Yankees.

C.J. Wilson wasted his chance to pitch the Rangers into their first World Series, allowing back-to-back homers Wednesday in a 7-2 loss that trimmed Texas’ lead to 3-2 in the best-of-seven AL champion-ship series.

That wasn’t the only thing that went wrong for the Rangers, either. Streaking slugger Nelson Cruz was pulled with tightness in his trou-blesome left hamstring, though he said it was merely a precaution and he expects to play Friday night in Game 6.

Still, so much for smooth sailing past the star-studded Yankees.

“The postseason’s not supposed to be easy,” Rangers second base-man Ian Kinsler said.

The surprising Rangers have two opportunities remaining to take the pennant at home, begin-ning with Friday night. Even if New York wins that one, Cliff Lee looms in Game 7.

But it’s always dangerous to let the Bronx Bombers off the deck,

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sticky mound, the 29-year-old left-hander never looked comfortable on an overcast late afternoon at Yankee Stadium. And this one got away from him early.

“It was weird. Just kind of a twilight zone,” he said. “Shake it off and let it go.”

After compiling a stellar 2.03 ERA in his first two playoff starts, Wilson worked carefully to a pair of right-handed hitting sluggers in the second inning, Alex Rodriguez and Lance Berkman.

Both walked, and the converted closer gave up one-out RBI singles to Jorge Posada and Curtis Grand-erson.

Posada turned for home after a throwing error by right fielder Jeff Francoeur, but Wilson backed up the play and had an easy out lined up at the plate. Problem was, he launched a wild toss high over the head of catcher Matt Treanor, giv-ing New York a 3-0 lead.

“We didn’t play our best today,” Francoeur said.

The next inning, Wilson served up consecutive homers to Nick Swisher and Robinson Cano, mak-ing it a five-run spread. The second one was out of character — Wilson held lefty batters to a major league-low .176 slugging percentage this season.

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T-shirts with pictures of broken hearts and stick figures in cages hung from a clothesline in the Uni-versity Center on Wednesday. The shirts are decorated with stories of domestic violence.

The shirts were part of the Clothesline Project, an effort by social work students in the Fam-ily and Violence class. The event was to raise awareness of domestic violence during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Peter Lehmann, social work associate professor, assigned the project for Domestic Violence Awareness Month to the class.

Lehmann said he assigned the project to get the students out of the classroom and raise awareness of domestic violence in the com-munity.

“It reflects the local and global perspective of domestic violence,” he said. “The students did a good job of putting it together.”

The event showcased posters and artwork from 15 of Lehm-ann’s social work students. It also showcased the Clothesline Project shirts, the Red Flag campaign, a campaign that highlights charac-teristics of abusive relationships and green silhouettes of little wooden people with domestic vio-lence statistics written on them.

Fifty-six students took the Pur-ple Pledge, promising to intervene in instances of domestic violence.

The Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Pro-gram, the Arlington Police Depart-ment, Counseling Services, Safe-Haven and the Women’s Center of Tarrant County were in attendance of the event.

Business management sopho-more Areeba Shahid said she found the information on varying types of abuse helpful.

Shahid said she learned from the Red Flag campaign how to detect signs of an abusive relation-ship, such as if the partner is abu-sive to others or pets.

Psychology sophomore Man Ian Tam said events like these are help-ful because people don’t always talk about domestic violence in fami-lies.

Celena James, social work grad-

uate student, was one of the four students that put the event to-gether.

James said she felt the event raised awareness of domestic vi-olence and the resources in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

“It was better than I expected,” James said. “Students were more interested than we thought they would be, all the resources showed up, and we even had student vol-unteers.”

She said there should be an-other event for Domestic Violence

Awareness month next October. Erica Holden, social work grad-

uate student, also helped put the event together.

Holden said she was happy with how the project turned out.

“I feel great,” Holden said. “Stu-dents are seeing that it’s a big issue and learning about the resources in the community.”

About 160 students were in at-tendance of the event.

Rachel SnydeRnews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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Social work senior Tiffany Powell, left, listens to Rebecca Brooks, an intern with the Arlington Police Department Victim Assistance program, talk about what the program does for women in abusive relationships Wednesday in the Palo Duro Lounge. The event was held by a social work class to recognize Domestic Violence Awareness month.

The Shorthorn: Jonathan Whitney

T-shirts hung on a line Wednesday in the Palo Duro Lounge as part of an event held to recognize Domestic Violence Awareness month. The Clothesline Proj-ect was started in 1990 as a way to raise awareness of violence against women.

the east side of campus, President James Spaniolo said.

“It’s almost like we are creating a new mini campus on the eastern border of the university,” he said.

The $160 million district will provide a venue for special events, a campus park, 15,000 square feet of retail space, a residence hall and apartments and a 1,800 vehicle parking garage.

Spaniolo said Student Congress will be seeking student feedback on the type of retail College Park should provide.

He said there has been talk of a grocery store, but nothing has been decided on yet.

Barbara Becker, urban and public affairs dean, said the College Park District will create a more vibrant campus and downtown area.

“You have a city and UTA partnering on something that is pretty major,” she said. “It will certainly have an impact [because] when the retail is successful, it brings more retail. There will be a lot more things hap-pening to create the college town atmo-sphere.”

Becker said having the College Park Dis-trict on the east side of campus links it better to downtown Arlington.

“If you had put it on Cooper it would have just been one more thing along Cooper,” she said. “It will obviously bring a lot more ac-tivity to the campus. [It’s] something very beautiful and [UTA] will be known to some degree for this development.”

She said the district will be seen as an identifiable unit rather than separate sec-

tions because the names are linked together. Biology sophomore Maribel Macias said

she thought the College Park District would have had more of a unique name.

“I think it will identify [the College Park District] because they’re all so linked, but it would have been nice not to have a mouth full,” she said. “It’s a lot to say.”

Spaniolo said there has been a lot of excitement about the College Park District both on and off campus.

“We think that looked at as a whole, it’s a tremendous addition to the campus,” he said.

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students during classes checking their phones or computers for scores during games.

“I would write the scores on the board,” Benson said. “It made the students concentrate in the class better.”

Interdisciplinary studies ju-nior John Oshaughnessy was at the University Center to watch the game between classes.

Oshaughnessy said he would skip class depending on the class, his grades and perfor-mance.

“I wouldn’t miss class if I was behind in it,” Oshaughnessy said

Economics assistant profes-sor Jeffrey DeSimone said sport-ing events do not greatly affect productivity in the long run.

DeSimone pointed out that businesses such as bars and res-taurants will see a spike in sales.

“It might even lead to a boost in workplace morale if bosses let their employees leave early for the day,” he said. “In fact, it might cause an increase in ef-ficiency.”

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cOlleGe paRK dIStRIctThe College Park District is located south of UTA Blvd. and north of W. Third Street, be-tween Pecan and Center streets.

• College Park: The $80 million development will include a residence hall and apart-ments, a parking garage for 1,800 ve-hicles, retail and office suites, a Welcome Center and a satellite campus police station. College Park is scheduled to be completed in 2012.

• College Park Center: The $78 million facil-ity, formerly known as the Special Events Center, will provide a venue for special events, like concerts and sports games. College Park Center is scheduled to open in December 2011.

• The Green at College Park: The $2.1 million green space is scheduled to open later this fall.

Registration begins Monday for winter intercession, spring semester

Enrollment

Registration for the spring semester and winter interses-sion begins Monday.

Graduate students, graduating seniors, Honors College students, McNair Scholars and athletes are the first group allowed to register.

Other students will be allowed to register based on the amount of credit hours they have completed.

English adviser Bridgitte Barclay said students can check their MyMav accounts to see when they are allowed to register for classes.

Barclay said all students have a hold on their account and are not allowed to register until their academic adviser clears the hold.

She said students should check with their individual de-partments because some have walk-in hours and others require students to make an appointment.

Barclay advises students to look at each departments website and at course descriptions, if they are available.

She said it is best for students to see an adviser early so they can assist in the registration process.

— Amanda Gonzalez

ReGIStRatIOn tImelIneOct. 25: graduate students, gradu-ating seniors, Honors College students, McNair Scholars and athletes

Oct. 27: undergraduate students with 90 hours or more

Nov. 1: undergraduate students with 60 hours or more

Nov. 4: undergraduate students with 30 hours or more

Nov. 5: undergraduates with one hour or more

Nov. 8: new and former students who have not been enrolled at UTA for more than one year, under-graduate students on academic probation