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POLICE BLOTTER Sunday, February 13, 2011 At 8 p.m., a UNT police officer issued a citation to a non-student who was in possession of K2 at 1800 W. Highland St. A 20-year-old man was arrested at 700 North Texas Blvd. shortly after 3 a.m. An officer found him in possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. He was also wanted by the Rowlett Police Department. At 12:40 a.m., an officer pulled over a man in the 1600 block of Eagle Drive. The driver was intoxicated. There was a passenger who was wanted by the Parker County Sherriff Office for driving without a license and failure to appear. Both men were arrested and
sent to the Denton County Jail. Saturday, February 12, 2011 A 34-year-old man was arrested by UNT police at 1401 W. Hickory St. near the Auditorium Building around 7:30 p.m. on suspicion of public intoxication. Additionally, the man was trespassed from all UNT property. Shortly after 2 a.m., a 22-year-old UNT student struck an unoccupied vehicle at 250 Bernard St. The woman started driving off, but an officer pulled her over about a block away. She was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Friday, February 11, 2011 A UNT police officer noticed
graffiti at Kerr Hall at about 1 p.m. The officer referred the information for further investigation. Thursday, Februar y 10, 2011 Someone called the police about a disturbance on Ave. A shortly after 2 a.m. UNT officers showed up and found that a 23-year-old man had damaged the glass at a business and was believed to be intoxicated. The officers arrested him. Wednesday, Februar y 9, 2011 A 19-year-old student was pulled over at the 1000 block of Mulberry Street by UNT police officers. He was intoxicated and arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
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Graci Finco, a biology freshman; Melissa Jenkins, a business senior; Stefanie Wulff of the linguistics and technical communications faculty; Ya Qiu, an accounting senior and Miguel Samudio, a business freshman, attend a kickboxing class at the Pohl Recreation Center.
New study: Aerobics may improve brain function BY MEGAN R ADKE Staff Writer
UNT offers Arabic classes taught by Lutfi Hamad of the foreign language faculty.
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Arabic: Language of the future BY NICOLE BALDERAS Staff Writer
Most everyone remembers taking Spanish, French, maybe even German or Japanese as a foreign language in middle or high school. In Mansfield Independent School District, Arabic may soon be the newest language to be implemented into young people’s foreign language curriculum –– a sign of its rise as the language of the future, said Richie Escovedo, the director of media and communications at MISD. “Here’s something you have to understand,” Escovedo said. “The federal government considers the Arabic language a critical language. There’s a shortage of speakers, and its culture and
traditions.” Thoug h A rabic classes are recently gaining more momentum in secondary schools like Mansfield, UNT is still one of the few universities in Texas that offers advanced studies in Arabic, said Lufti Hamad, UNT’s only Arabic instructor. “I teach four classes and have around 72 students this semester,” he said. “Compared to other universities, enrollment is very high. We have 15 to 19 students in each class. If you look at the other schools, they have around 5 to 14.” One student, who took two years of Arabic, sees it as an important language, but a challenging one. “I think Arabic is really bene-
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ficial for anyone to learn,” said Lauren Jacobsen, an international studies junior. “But it takes a lot of work on the student’s part. It takes a lot of outside class work and individual learning.” Mansfield ISD was recently awarded a five-year $1.3 million grant, known as The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant. The district hopes to begin teaching Arabic at several of its intermediate schools. However, concern from some MISD parents has caused the program to be put on hold for now. “I think a lot of [parental concern] has to do with a misguided news headline that gets shared and tweeted and posted to Facebook. It’s going to balloon into something, but the bottom line is they just didn’t have all the facts,” Escovedo said.
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A new study has found that in addition to helping with weight loss and overall wellness, aerobic exercise may also increase brain size and improve memory. R e s e a r c h e r s f r om t h e Universit y of Illinois, Rice University, the University of Pittsburgh a nd Ohio State University studied the cognitive affects exercise had on a sampling of older adults who were not normally physically active. Half of the 120 participants were told to walk around a track three days a week for 40 minutes each day. The other half began a stretching and weight training program. Scientists reviewed blood sa mples, spat ia l memor y tests and magnetic reasoning imaging results the participants provided at the beginning, halfway point and end of the yearlong study. T hose who pa r t icipated in aerobic exercise showed increases in the volume of the hippocampus — the part of the brain that relates to memor y a nd spat ia l nav igation — while t hose who
performed only stretching and weight training showed decreases in size. “The hippocampus begins to shrink in some middleaged indiv iduals, although the onset and rate varies,” sa id Ja n non Fuchs of t he biology faculty. T he aerobic exercise participants showed a 2.12 percent volume increase in the left hippocampus and a 1.97 percent in the right. The group that performed only stretching and weight training exercises act ua l ly showed decreases in hippocampus volume – – 1.40 percent in the left and 1.43 percent in the right. During the spatial memory exercises, again, the group doing aerobic exercises had better results than the group that did stretching and weight training. Fuchs said that while the h ippoca mpus genera l ly beg i ns to sh r i n k bet ween the ages of 30 to 40, aerobic exercise is shown to improve over a l l br a i n hea lt h a nd memory retention in people of all ages. “I suspect that beneficial changes would also be found in the hippocampus of young
adults, and in fact, most of the research showing effects of exercise and enriched environments, are in young adult mice and rats,” Fuchs said. Jea n Sewa rd, a physica l t herapist, founded Seniors in Motion, a gym that caters to the fitness needs of older Denton resident s. Sewa rd said aerobic exercise could increase a person’s overall health and wellness, regardless of age. Because aerobics help the body produce more oxygen, wh ich is t hen sent to t he br a i n, a per son’s ment a l ability is enhanced, Seward said. T h is ca n t ra nslate i nto t he c l a s s r o om f or s ome UNT students, said Lauren George, a graduate assistant for fitness and an aerobics instructor at Pohl Recreation Center. “Resea rch done by t he D i v i s ion of St udent Development in the spring of 2010 shows that, on average, UNT students who use the re c reat ion c enter have a hig her cumu lat ive [g radepoi nt-average] t ha n t hose who do not regularly visit the rec center,” George said.
Application question adds safety Continued from Page 1 Ed Reynolds, UNT’s deputy chief of police, said most sexual assaults on campus are linked to alcohol and late night partying. “There are many things you can do as a student to make sure [sexual assault] doesn’t happen to you,” Reynolds said. “Make sure you’re responsible.” McGuinness said students
worried about the dangers of walking through campus alone at night should follow that advice. “Take responsibility for your own safety. Don’t walk alone at night, be aware of surroundings, and if you see anything suspicious, contact the police,” she said. Officer Ryan Grelle of the Denton Police Department deals with sexual assaults that
occur with students living offcampus. He echoed Reynolds’ adv ice to avoid mista kes because of alcohol. “On campus or with students, a lot of sexual assaults occur when alcohol is involved,” Grelle said. “When at a party or at night on campus, use a buddy system, know who you’re going with and don’t have someone you don’t know take you home.”