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The Real DallasWhat to do and where to eat in the Bishop Arts District.

BY JASON JOYCEContributor to The Shorthorn

A dropped cell phone at the scene of a Dec. 15 robbery at a Centennial Court apart-ment was the key to iden-tifying suspects in the case, University Police said.

According to the police re-port, the robbery at Centen-

nial Court began as a knock on the door of two female students’ apartment. When they opened the door, a black male identified himself as “Jay” and asked for help find-ing an apartment number at the complex, the report said.

The man returned shortly after with a friend whom he introduced as “Antoine,” say-ing the plans with the friends they’d been at the complex to

On-campus robbery yields two arrests

CRIME

Approximately $350 was stolen from a Centennial Court apartments resident.

ROBBERY continues on page 8A

BY ROBIN MCDAVIDContributor to The Shorthorn

In the upcoming weeks, Student Congress will look over resolutions still in committee from last semester that, if passed by the university president, may help boost morale at the university.

The resolutions include creating a central location for College of Education students to meet, UTA Radio broadcasting in the University Center and a

colorful way to express school spirit.

Education students attend classes in several buildings, like Science Hall, Trimble Hall, University Hall and Ransom Hall, said Caitlin Wright, SC Academic Affairs Committee chair.

“Everyone has a central place, but for students wanting to be teachers, there is not a place to meet,” she said.

Wright said finding a lounge where education students can meet will help students achieve academic success from their peers versus going to an adviser.

Another resolution suggests that UTA Radio be broadcast over the UC intercom to help spread its existence to students, as it only plays online at radio.uta.edu.

“By having the radio played in the University Center over the intercom, it would inform students of what is happening on campus, bring more money to the university by attracting advertisements for local business places and it will bolster school spirit,” said SC secretary Melanie Johnson.

SC reviews leftover resolutionsSTUDENT GOVERNANCE

One resolution proposes creating a central area for education students to meet.

SC continues on page 3A

BY JASON JOYCEContributor to The Shorthorn

Andrew Davis, the University Police’s newest ad-dition, can honestly say he’s a “Top Gun.”

Only Davis’ claim doesn’t come from fighter jets, but from his performance on the firing range at the UT System Police Academy, where he recently gradu-ated in the top of his class.

He said he’s been exposed to law enforcement since he was a kid.

“My step-mom was a district court judge in Iowa,”

Davis said. “We’d always have police officers coming over to the house at dinner to have her sign war-rants.”

Davis spent several years working as a city police officer in Iowa and a few more years as a railroad company special agent in Chicago.

Dan Raff, UT System Police Academy coordina-tor, said the experience helped Davis quickly es-tablish himself as one of the top cadets, excelling

Newest to the University Police was a leader to his peers and stood out on the fi ring range

COP continues on page 3A

BY SARAH LUTZThe Shorthorn staff

Plans are in place to drill an additional six to eight gas wells at the intersec-tion of Mitchell and Center streets.

Communications Vice President Jerry Lewis said the process for the new wells will be almost identi-

cal to the process used on the first six. Carrizo Oil and Gas will drill down about a mile at the site and then about a mile in six to eight different horizontal directions.

He said the drilling would be directed toward the southern part of the campus and includes prop-erty from Arlington Inde-pendent School District, churches, city parks and neighborhoods.

“There’s a lot of people

who will benefit on this next phase of drilling, which I think will be nice in terms of building commu-nity and really delivering on the promise that we’ve made,” he said. “That this isn’t just about UTA, but it’s about our neighbors as well.”

Area resident Sandy DenBraber said she is con-cerned about the environ-mental drawbacks of drill-ing.

“To tell us they were fi-

nally complete after put-ting us through a year of hell, and then turn around a month later and tell us they’re doing the whole thing over again is drasti-cally wrong,” she said. “My whole thing is if they can do it safer, why don’t they?”

She said her frustra-tion stemmed from the fact that the compressor was electric-powered, but the rig is diesel-powered and

New gas wells to be erected on campus

ADMINISTRATION

Six to eight more wells are possibly slated to be drilled on the south side of campus.

GAS continues on page 8A

The Shorthorn: Jacob Adkisson

Officer Andrew Davis returns to UTA after graduating from the university with a criminal justice degree, because he said he thought he could help the community. “Good people have bad things happen in their lives and need a little direction in the storm to lead them into a better future,” he said.

Top Cop on Campus

YOU’VE GOT TEXTPublic relations junior Amy Marek takes a moment to send a text message to a friend in California on Wednesday on the Central Library mall. Wednesday’s warm weather will continue today with an expected high of 78 degrees.

The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig

Podcast PersonalitiesThe Shorthorn staff members Stephen Peters and Justin Rains talk sports.

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Podcast PersonalitiesThe Shorthorn Rains talk sports.

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An employee at the 7-Eleven located at 600 S. Center St. called police at 10:24 p.m. to report a pan-handler in front of the store. Police determined the man was a nonstudent and issued a criminal trespass warning.

Police were called to the scene of a minor traffic acci-dent in Lot 36, at 201 S. Coo-per St., that occurred at 5:11 p.m. The responding officer reported that the accident caused no injuries and no vis-ible damage to the vehicles.

Police were called to investigate a report of a student exhibiting unusual behavior at Carlisle Hall. When police located the stu-dent, they reported that the student was disoriented. EMS was called, and the student was transported to Arlington Memorial Hospital.

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BY SARAH LUTZThe Shorthorn staff

The university signed a 10-year contract with the Pepsi Bottling Group on Dec. 22 and will receive more money for exclusive pouring rights and many other benefits written into the contract. Pouring rights give a company the right to distribute their

product across campus.The contract includes a 25-cent increase in soda

price that will be repeated every four years until the contract expires.

Students on campus were not polled for their opinion prior to the contract signing, but they don’t all support the Pepsi choice.

Not All Soda Pop is Created EqualThe switch to Pepsi excites some, others sad at loss of Coke

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Planetarium Shows: 7 and 8 p.m., Chemistry and Physics Building. “Seven Wonders” at 7 p.m., “Rock Hall of Fame” at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni and $2 for UTA students. For information, contact Levent Gurdemir at 817-272-0123 or planetarium@uta.edu.

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“The only thing I drink is Mountain Dew. I drink it quite a bit to help me stay awake.”

Jake HydenCriminal justice junior

“I prefer Pepsi. There’s a lot of gas in Coke. I used to drink a lot of soda, but now I try to drink H20.”

Kelly NwaefuluChemistry graduate student

“I never drank Pepsi in my life, but usually I drink straight Dr Pepper. The problem with the contract is by the time we’ll see any of the ben-efits, we’ll be graduates.”

Farah ValEducation sophomore

“I’m usu-ally Coke or Dr Pepper, I avoid Pepsi at all costs. But if I’m really in need of a caffeine buzz and don’t feel like spending the money on coffee, I’ll get a Mountain Dew.”

Matthew PopeMechanical engi-neering sophomore

“I think Coke is better for me. I like having it with pizza.”

Constantine NsoforNursing junior

“The contract will advocate obesity, I’ve seen people drinking soda that don’t need to be drinking soda. I’ll admit it, I do drink Pepsi sometimes to get ener-gized.”

Adriana DavidsonCommunications junior

“I’m very excited, right when I walked into the UH [University Hall] lounge I saw the vend-ing machines. More restau-rants carry Coke and not enough carry Pepsi.”

Mesheka LewisPolitical science junior

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Thirty cases of expired Coca-Cola products lay in the back of the The Market Wednesday in the University Center. The cases, caught up in the transition to Pepsi, will be picked up by Coca-Cola on Friday.

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Not every school has a radio station, and our university should take pride in the radio station it has, she said.

Through another resolution, school pride can be demonstrated by a simple paint job in the University Center, SC vice president Bess Alvarez said. She proposes that the university could show more school spirit by painting the UC in school colors — blue, orange and white.

“Your environment affects you and your attitude,” Alvarez said. “UTA has a rich history and the paint will help show that.”

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SCcontinued from page 1

The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

Arlington High School junior Garrett Green, right, ollies off of some steps Wednesday outside of Ransom Hall. Green said that he skated on campus every day over the summer and plans on using the campus a few times a week during the school year.

ollie Around

in areas ranging from aca-demic studies to practical scenarios.

“He was a little older than the other cadets — a little more mature,” Raff said. “You could tell he had had some experience.”

Through his demon-strated competence on training exercises and his encouragement of other ca-dets, Davis soon emerged as a cadet the others sought out for advice and help, Raff said.

“You have your formal leaders, the guys that take charge and give orders,” Raff said. “Then you have your informal leaders, the ones that quietly earn re-spect and make themselves available to help the others

in the class. Davis was the latter.”

After graduating from the academy, Davis started working on campus this month, accompanied by a training officer to help him learn the internal proce-dures unique to the Uni-versity Police.

“He’s one of a handful of guys we had graduate from the academy,” said As-sistant Police Chief Rick Gomez. “Since the acade-my’s a system-wide thing, having one of our guys fin-ish top in his class is an accomplishment.”

Davis isn’t new to the university, though.

“After my wife was trans-ferred to Fort Worth, I de-cided to go back to school at UTA,” he said.

Davis graduated last May with a degree in crimi-nal justice.

He said being back at

his alma mater as a police officer is a distinct change from his past work.

“It’s kind of nice to not go from one call where you’re arresting someone, taking them to jail to an-other call where you’re arresting someone and booking them into jail,” he said. “Here, it seems to be not quite as fast paced, and you’re dealing more with service calls like giv-ing directions to people or helping someone get their property back.”

And it helps that he’s doing the kind of work he believes he was born for.

“I don’t know what I’d be doing if I wasn’t a police officer,” Davis said. “I think from the time I was 14, I just knew I awas going to be one.”

Jason Joycenews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Copcontinued from page 1

“Since the academy’s a system-wide thing, having one of our guys finish top in his class is

an accomplishment.”Rick Gomez, Assistant Police Chief

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Students wait in line to purchase books and other school supplies at the UTA Bookstore. The bookstore staff have prepared for the beginning of semester rush by hiring extra employ-ees and having extra cash registers to make the process easier.

By Dustin L. DangLiThe Shorthorn staff

Toying around with his cell phone, Kyle McGinn passed the time as he wait-ed in line to sell back his books.

Like many students doing business at the UTA Bookstore, the broadcast communications senior spent about 10-15 minutes waiting to return and sell books, while the wait for purchases was 2-5 minutes.

He said the wait there was good in comparison to other stores because selling books always takes some time.

“It’s pretty quick,” he said. “Usually the store on Cooper is packed.”

The start of every semes-ter is the busiest time for the bookstore, employee Lisa Munsch said.

Munsch has worked the first two weeks of every se-mester since 2005 and said she’s seen the same rush every semester.

“It’s busy after the first two weeks, then it starts to slow back down,” she said.

She said the bookstore preps itself before every semester in order to ac-commodate each customer. Along with 17 registers ca-pable of processing trans-actions, the bookstore hires seven-10 extra staff mem-bers to make things flow better.

Yashraj Samant is an em-ployee hired to meet the rush.

“I didn’t know it would

be so busy,” he said. “But we’ve been very efficient.”

Samant has his hands full greeting every custom-er that walks through the door.

While most of the extra hires were placed as greet-ers and cashiers, the staff upstairs handles most cus-tomers, navigating them through the rows of text-books and picking out the

items they need. Munsch said the Sun-

day before classes started has been the busiest day so far, but business remains steady for the most part and they have more than enough people to cater to customers.

Dustin L. DangLinews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Book Rush

Students and employees share experiences at the UTA Bookstore

HeLpfuL tips to make your trip to tHe uta Bookstore more efficient:1. The best time to come in is between 7:30-9:30 a.m.

2. Always bring a receipt for returns, it will allow the cashier to process your transaction efficiently.

3. Before you sell a book back to the bookstore, make sure your professor is using it next semester

to see if you can get more bang for your buck.

4. If you’re only purchasing, and not selling any books back, you can bypass the wait altogether by making payments online and picking up your order at the bookstore.

5. Bring a list of the books you need, including the class and section number in order to find your textbooks easier.

Tips courtesy of UTA Bookstore employees

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 Page 5A

in texas

Killer of 2 outside Texas bar facing executionHUNTSVILLE, Texas — Condemned prisoner Frank Moore was headed to the Texas death chamber Wednesday night for a double killing exactly 15 years ago in San Antonio.

Moore, 47, insisted he shot Samuel Boyd, 23, and Patrick Clark, 15, in self-defense as they were try-ing to run him down outside a bar where they had been involved in an earlier altercation. About an hour before the scheduled punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals that sought a reprieve based on affidavits recently ob-tained by Moore’s lawyers from three eyewitnesses who supported his self-defense claims.

Moore would be the second prisoner executed this year in the nation’s most active death penalty state. Another Texas inmate was set to die Thursday, and three more were set for next week.

Kerrville doc convicted on child porn chargesSAN ANTONIO — A South Texas doctor faces up to 50 years in pris-on after a federal jury convicted him of possessing child pornography.

David C. Winkler was found guilty Wednesday after prosecutors told jurors that 44 videos and 600 images of child pornography were found on computers used by the Kerrville doctor.

The 37-year-old Winkler is as-sistant chief of staff at Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital.

in the nation

Fla. priest accused of theft pleads guiltyWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — One of two Florida priests accused of embez-zling hundreds of thousands of dol-lars from their church pleaded guilty Wednesday, the same day jury selec-tion was set to begin in the case.

Rev. John Skehan, 81, pleaded guilty to bilking parishioners at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach for years. Skehan, who had been at the church 40 years, had been accused of taking $370,000 between 2001 and 2006, the time frame covered by the stat-ute of limitations. Church auditors, however, believe the figure stolen over the years was in the millions.

Nashville eyes ‘English First’ amendmentNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville could become the largest U.S. city to make English the mandatory lan-guage for all government business under a measure being put before voters Thursday, but critics say it might invite lawsuits and even cost the city millions in federal funding.

Though similar measures have passed elsewhere, the idea has ig-nited an intense debate. Proponents say using one language would unite the city, but business leaders, aca-demics and the city’s mayor worry it could give the city a bad reputa-tion, because, as Gov. Phil Bredesen put it, “it’s mean spirited.”

in the world

Israeli military: All soldiers out of GazaJERUSALEM — The Israeli military says it has withdrawn all of its sol-diers from the Gaza Strip.

The military says the pullout was completed before dawn on Wednesday.

Israel sent thousands of troops into the Palestinian territory earlier this month as part of a bruising of-fensive against militants who have terrorized southern Israel with rocket fire for years.

Both sides declared cease-fires that went into effect Sunday. But the truce has been shaky.

Iran: Obama must seek ‘new’ Mideast policyCAIRO, Egypt — Iran said Wednes-day it is “ready for new approaches” from President Barack Obama as, across the Islamic world, countries cautiously welcomed his promise of mutual respect between the U.S. and Muslims.

Despite the reception, it re-mained clear that Iran and post-war Gaza will pose early tests of Obama’s inauguration speech offer to the Muslim world to “extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

— The Associated Press

Obama’s first day: Iraq, economy, ethics, more

politics

the associated pressWASHiNGToN — in a

first-day whirlwind, Presi-dent Barack obama show-cased efforts to revive the economy on Wednesday, summoned top military of-ficials to chart a new course in iraq and eased into the daunting thicket of Middle east diplomacy.

“What an opportunity we have to change this country,” said the 47-year-old chief ex-ecutive, who also issued new ethics rules for his admin-istration and hosted a reception at the presidential man-sion for 200 inau-guration volunteers and guests selected by an internet lot-tery.

After dancing at inaugural balls with first lady Michelle obama past mid-night, obama entered the oval office for the first time as president in early morn-ing. He read a good luck note left behind by President George W. Bush, then began breaking cleanly with his predecessor’s policies.

Aides circulated a draft of an executive order that would close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year and halt all war crimes trials in the meantime.

Closing the site “would further the national security

and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice,” read the draft prepared for the new president’s signature. A copy was obtained by The Associ-ated Press.

Some of the 245 detainees currently held at Guantana-mo would be released, while others would be transferred elsewhere and later put on trial under terms to be de-termined.

obama’s Cabinet was moving closer to completion.

At the Capitol, the Senate con-firmed Hillary rod-ham Clinton as sec-retary of state after a one-day delay forced by republicans. The vote was 94-2, and spectators seated in the galleries erupted in applause when it was announced.

Treasury-designate Timo-thy Geithner emerged un-scathed from his confirma-tion hearing, apologizing for having failed to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade.

To the evident anger of Sen. Patrick leahy, d-Vt., chairman of the Senate Ju-diciary Committee, repub-licans on the panel invoked longstanding rules to post-pone a vote on eric Holder’s appointment as attorney general.

Six Cabinet members have been confirmed so far,

AP Photo: Ron Edmonds

Vice President Joe Biden looks on as President Barack Obama signs executive orders, Wednesday, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.

“What an opportunity we have to change this country.”

Barack obama44th President

Senate confirms Clinton for Cabinetpolitics

the associated pressWASHiNGToN — The

Senate confirmed Hillary rodham Clinton as secretary of state Wednesday as Presi-dent Barack obama moved to make his imprint on U.S. for-eign policy, mobilizing a fresh team of veteran advisers and reaching out to world leaders.

The Senate voted 94-2, with republican Sens. david Vitter of louisiana and Jim deMint of South Carolina opposing.

republicans and demo-crats alike said her swift confirmation was necessary so that obama could begin tackling the major foreign policy issues at hand, in-cluding two wars, increased violence in the Middle east and the threat of a nuclear-armed iran.

“it is essential that we pro-vide the president with the tools and resources he needs to effect change, and that starts with putting a national security team in place as soon as pos-sible,” said Sen. John Kerry, d-Mass., chairman of the Foreign relations Committee.

obama’s presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, was among those who spoke in Clinton’s favor.

“This nation has come to-gether in a way that it has not for some time,” said the Arizona republican, on the Senate floor for the first time

since the inauguration.Voters “want us to work

together and get to work,” McCain said.

As the Senate debated Clinton’s appointment, obama wasted no time in his first day at the White House. According to a White House

spokesman, obama placed telephone calls to egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, israeli Prime Minister ehud olmert, Jordan’s King Abdullah ii and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The administration also planned to name former

Senate democratic leader George J. Mitchell as Clin-ton’s special envoy for the Middle east. dennis ross, a longtime U.S. negotiator, was also expected to advise Clinton on Mideast policy, according to officials who spoke on condition of ano-

nymity because they were not authorized to speak pub-licly about the move.

Clinton planned to report to the State department on Thursday, where she was ex-pected to address employees in the main lobby that morn-ing.

AP Photo: Gerald Herbert

In this Jan. 13,2009 file photo, Secretary of State-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, during her confir-mation hearing before the Sen-ate Foreign Relations Commit-tee hearing on her nomination. The Senate has confirmed Hill-ary Rodham Clinton to become secretary of state.

“This nation has come together in a way that it has not for some time.”

John McCain, republican senator from Arizona

War crimes court halted at obama’s requestguantanamo Bay

the associated pressGUANTANAMo BAY

NAVAl BASe, Cuba — The Guantanamo Bay war crimes court came to an abrupt halt Wednesday as military judges granted President Barack obama’s request to suspend proceedings while he reviews his predecessor’s strategy for prosecuting ter-rorists.

The judges quickly agreed to a 120-day suspension of the cases of a Canadian ac-cused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan and five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks. Similar orders are expected in other pending cases pending before the Guantanamo military com-missions.

Judge Stephen Henley, an Army colonel presiding over the Sept. 11 trial, accepted the prosecution argument

that it would be in the “in-terests of justice” to give the new administration time to review the commission pro-cess and decide what to do next, a decision tied closely to obama’s pledge to close the detention center.

The five charged in the Sept. 11 attacks had said they wanted to plead guilty to charges that carry potential death sentences and their alleged ringleader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, told the court he opposes the delay.

“We should continue so we don’t go backward, we go forward,” said Mohammed, who shrugged off the pros-pect of a death sentence at a pretrial hearing at the base earlier in the week.

Another judge agreed to a suspension in the case of Canadian omar Khadr with a one-sentence order.

AP Photo: Brennan Linsley

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard walks through a gate at Guantanamo’s Camp 6 de-tention center, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday. The Guantanamo Bay war crimes court came to an abrupt halt Wednesday as military judges granted President Barack Obama’s request to suspend proceedings while he reviews his predecessor’s strategy for prosecuting terrorists.

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no regulations are in place that dictate the rig’s power source.

Nursing freshman An-drea Klein has hardly no-ticed the drill — much less anything negative about it.

“I don’t think it’s that noisy, it’s just ugly,” she said. “If I was the school, I’d drill. I’d drill on my own property.”

According to reports, the university began draw-ing revenue from the nat-ural gas drilling late last semester.

Carrizo Oil and Gas spokesman Michael Grimes said the current wells are delivering approximately 22 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, which is not full capacity.

“Now we’re in sort of the second phase of drilling wells on the site,” he said.

“The plans for current drilling call for approxi-mately six to eight wells to be drilled from this site depending on how the process goes.”

Grimes said a geological seismic test must be done before Carrizo will know exactly how many and what direction to drill the next set of wells.

Lewis said that although the wells are flowing, he could not yet give a better estimate of the monetary value than the one offered from the beginning.

“We know $50 to $100 million is a wide range, but we also know a lot of vari-ables come into play be-yond that, so we thought it would be a pretty safe estimate,” he said. “That’s still where we’re aiming for — by next summer, we might be able to have a bet-ter projection.”

Sarah Lutznews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Gascontinued from page 1

The Shorthorn: Holland Sanders

obama-ramaCarter Harnetiaux, Just 3 Words 4 Times owner, informs business junior Gabrel Arthur about his Obama products Wednesday at the University Center. Harnetiaux’s company also sells collegian-licensed apparel.

The Shorthorn: Meghan Williams

22 million cubic feet of natural gas has been pumped daily since winter break. The university expects to make $50 million to $100 million from the project.

meet hadn’t worked out, ac-cording to an affidavit.

After being admitted to the apartment, one of the two men entered a back room and took a lockbox containing approximately $350 in cash that belonged to one of the residents.

During an ensuing scuf-fle, one of the two suspects dropped a cell phone.

When police examined the cell phone, they dis-covered a message on the screen reading, “This device is the property of Ja’rodney T.R. McHenry.”

Using that name, po-lice found a driver’s license photo of McHenry, which they placed in a photo lineup they showed to the victims, said Lt. Yvonne Roque, with University Po-lice’s Criminal Investigation Division.

From the six photos in the lineup, both residents identified McHenry as one

of the two involved in the robbery, po-lice said. A third witness, who was at the apartment during the incident, was unable to iden-tify a suspect in the photo lineup.

When University Police questioned McHenry after his arrest on Dec. 15, he was insistent the police had the wrong person.

“He said it wasn’t him,” Roque said. “He told us that he’d been out all night at a club and gave us the name of a friend who was with him.”

Police identified the friend as Blake A. May-field and ran another photo lineup before the three wit-nesses.

“All three identified him as the second suspect,” Roque said.

According to police re-cords, both Mayfield and McHenry declined to give a statement to police after being arrested and charged.

McHenry made his ini-tial appearance in the case before a magistrate on Jan. 5. Mayfield was scheduled to enter an appearance on Jan. 20.

Samuel Williams, the Fort Worth assistant dis-trict attorney handling the case, said he’s not famil-iar with the details of the case but would expect to seek an indictment from a grand jury within the next 45 days.

JaSon Joycenews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Robberycontinued from page 1

Blake A. Mayfield, Suspect in Centennial Court robbery

Ja’rodney T.R. McHenry, Suspect in Centennial Court robbery

The Shorthorn: Brad Borgerding

Scene of the crimeThe robbery took place at Centennial Court apartments on Dec. 15.

Thursday, January 22, 2009 Page 7A

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by stephen petersThe Shorthorn sports editor

The men’s basketball team had the crowd in a cheerful mood all night, beating Stephen F. Austin 67-52 on a night that the Southland Conference tournament championship banner was unveiled before a crowd of 1,107 at Texas Hall Wednesday.

Pregame ceremonies motivated the Mavericks (10-7, 3-1) for the game as they watched the two newest additions to the arena lower from the rafters.

“It was great for me,” head coach Scott Cross said. “Just seeing those guys who worked so hard for it last season, that’s what it’s about for me.”

As for the game, junior guard Bran-don Long anchored a well-rounded Maverick attack, scoring a game-high 17 points, followed by senior forward Anthony Vereen with 15.

But the real story was the defense applied to Stephen F. Austin’s (11-5, 3-1) senior forward Matt Kingsley and se-nior forward Josh Alexander, who was the conference’s league MVP in 2008.

Throughout the early conference sea-son, the two had combined to average 31 or more points a game, but the stingy UTA defense held them to a combined 16 points.

“The game plan was to make [SFA] score and make them run their plays through somebody else,” Long said. “Their whole offense is to go through Alexander and Kingsley. When you take those two out of the game, it’s kind of hard for them to run their offense.”

In the first half, the Mavericks and Lumberjacks played closely throughout as the biggest lead for either team was six, when UTA took a 23-17 lead on a three-pointer by junior guard Rogér Guignard.

Guignard, in the sixth-man role, scored 12 points — all four of his buck-ets coming from the three-point line.

The second half is where the Mav-erick offense became too much for Ste-phen F. Austin to handle. After the Lumberjacks scored the half ’s first bucket on senior forward Nick Shaw’s layup, the Mavs went on a 12-4 run, tak-ing a 42-33 lead and never looked back.

UTA’s lead would eventually swell to 17 with just under 10 minutes to play in the game and then 18 with 1:01 left on the clock.

Stephen F. Austin shot just 37.7 per-cent from the floor and 33.3 percent from the three-point line, while the Mavs connected on almost 45 percent

of their shots.“Second half, it was kind of like, one

person hit [a shot], then everybody started hitting it,” Long said.

Lumberjack head coach Danny Kas-par said he wasn’t pleased with his two top players’ performance tonight and credited the early second-half run to Mavericks’ potent outside shooting.

“Our guys we lean on did not play well,” he said. “I think we stopped Ver-een tonight, but their guards just shot the hell out of it tonight in the second half.”

This was the third straight time the Mavs have beat a team that was either ranked or has received votes in the collegeinsider.com Mid Major Top 25 poll. UTA improves to 5-0 at home this season.

Wednesday’s win also keeps the Mavs one game behind Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (10-9, 4-0), which beat Lamar 89-71.

Next for the Mavs is a meeting against Sam Houston State (8-8, 2-1) at 4 p.m. Saturday in Huntsville.

“After any big win, you got to re-mind the guys ‘Hey, you got another game,’ ” Cross said. “So in order to reach our goal, which is to win a conference championship, you have to take it one at a time.”

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men’s basketball

by ben haussContributor to The Shorthorn

With the recent success of the men’s and women’s basketball teams, the university and the North Dallas radio station 95.3 The Range reached an agreement that the station will broadcast the remaining men’s home basketball games, the Feb. 25 women’s basketball game and any Southland Conference tournament games.

“The university reached out to us,” KHYI general manager Joshua Jones said. “Being basketball fans ourselves, we were aware of UTA’s recent success

and thought we were a good match for each other.”

The financial agreement on this contract is undetermined, but Athlet-ics Director Pete Carlon said the uni-versity is getting sponsorships to help pay the costs. Carlon praised Gregg Elkin, communications and media relations associate athletic director, for the new relationship between the athletics department and The Range.

UTA Radio has been broadcasting the games on the Internet, and will continue to do so. One big question when making the agreement with The Range was how will it affect the UTA broadcast. Communication assistant professor Andrew Clark said he dis-cussed with Elkin the concerns. He said The Range’s broadcasts wouldn’t

affect UTA Radio, and he is very eager for them to continue their broadcast.

Elkin said UTA getting a deal with a commercial radio station can be beneficial because it keeps alumni and area residence informed on how the Mavericks are doing.

“Anytime you can be on an over-the-air commercial station, it reach-es more people,” he said. “There are 100,000 alumni in the Metroplex, I would like for them to be able to follow their team in as many ways as they can.”

The two separate broadcasts com-ing out of UTA will help university sports get their name out there, so the school can get more recognition, Elkin said.

When asked if he felt they were un-

dermining UTA Radio, Jones replied, “No, we’re definitely not undermining anyone. I am certain, everybody wants to help Maverick basketball become as big as possible. After all, we’re in the 5th largest media market in the U.S. There’s definitely a competitive college basketball void in this market.”

Gordon Patterson, who does play-by-play for UTA Radio, said UTA Radio can learn from The Range and find ways to better the university’s station.

“I hope they try to work with us to help advance ourselves so we know what to look for as we move on,” Pat-terson said. “We are the future.”

ben hausssports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

The university partners with the commercial station to reach a larger audience.

Mavericks 67 Lumberjacks 52

Men win its third straight game against a mid-major team with votes in Mid Major Top 25.

The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

(Above) Junior forward Tommy Moffitt is fouled while attempting a layup dur-ing the Mavericks’ 67-52 win over Stephen F. Austin Wednesday at Texas Hall. (Below) University President James Spaniolo, right, unveils the Mavericks’ 2008 NCAA Tournament and Southland Conference champions banners.

The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

Tough defense gives Mavericks edge over SFA

baseball

Mavs picked sixth in both Southland polls

The Southland Conference an-nounced Wednesday its baseball pre-season sports information directors’ and coaches’ polls — the Maverick baseball team was picked sixth for the 2009 conference season.

The Mavericks return 26 lettermen, 21 of them are seniors, from a team that finished 26-31 a year ago. Also returning is sophomore outfielder Mi-chael Choice, who was selected to the Southland Conference preseason first team All-Conference.

Choice is the reigning SLC Fresh-man of the Year after leading the Mavs with a .376 batting average, seven home runs and 51 RBIs. He also re-ceived mention on the Brooks Wallace Player of the Year Watch List.

— Stephen Peters

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