ZTA Dad's Weekend Success

            They say it takes the best to make the best and this weekend that statement was proven true. Our chapter welcomed over one hundred and fifty of the greatest dads this weekend.

            We started the weekend out at Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar and Restaurant where Zeta’s and their dads enjoyed delicious food and spent the night dancing to songs played by our wonderful DJ.  With their cowboy boots on everyone was two stepping on the dance floor long after midnight. It was the perfect father/daughter dance, ZTA style. Brightly colored daisies in old mason jars decorated the table and set the ambiance for the night. Not too long after arriving, the entire restaurant was filled as we rented out Lucy's so Zeta’s could spend the whole night with their sisters and their dad’s.

            On Saturday, we started the day out right with a University of Texas baseball game. In our section reserved only for Zeta’s, the girls and their dad’s enjoyed the sunshine, cool weather, and some good old fashioned Saturday baseball. With over a hundred and thirty Zeta’s and dads in attendance, we definitely stood out in the crowd cheering on our boys. Some of our Zeta’s were even put up on the big screen in front of the entire stadium! The game could not have ended any better with a big win for our team against Nebraska.

            Directly after the baseball game, we headed to the Zeta house for a backyard crawfish boil. With over seven hundred and fifty pounds of crawfish and over two hundred people, there was not one crawfish left to eat as the girls and dads chowed down. Lemonade, water, and sweet tea were the perfect southern refreshments to go along with our long picnic styled tables covered in red-checkered cloth. We truly gave our dad’s a taste of a southern crawfish boil at the Zeta house with freshly boiled crawfish cooked right in the backyard. The dads also received a first hand look at the Zeta house where their daughters were able to give them tours of the entire house!

            Overall we consider this weekend a huge success and can’t wait to have our dads back for round two next year! It truly does take the best to make the best! 

ZL,

    Christen May and Heather Lauterbach

    PC '12

Locks of Love

After having long hair my whole life, I knew there would be a time where I would cut it drastically. That just so happened to be last weekend. I decided it was time for a change and it would be great to donate it to Locks of Love.

 I anxiously told my hair stylist that I wanted to cut a foot off. So she got her tape measurer and tied a pony tail at 12 inches and after double and triple checking with me that this is what I wanted, it was gone. I am so happy with the results and loved donating to such a great cause!

  

ZL,

Caleigh Campbell

PC '12

ZTA Silver Spurs Sweethearts

Becoming a 2013 Spur’s Sweetheart has been one of the best experiences in my college career! Since their founding in 1937, the Silver Spur’s organization has provided over 2,500 campus leaders with the opportunity to give back to our school and community through philanthropic endeavors associated with the handling of BEVO. The experience of being chosen to represent Zeta Tau Alpha as one of the 2013 sweethearts was truly humbling and exciting! From day one, I have been surrounded by the most kind, friendly, and dedicated people to meet and interact with while becoming part of this amazing organization. I am truly honored to be chosen to represent Zeta Tau Alpha in this amazing organization supported by such wonderful Texas Gentlemen and Lovely Texas Ladies. I am looking forward to enjoying my membership in the organization and being part of such a great UT community!

ZL,

ZTA Silver Spurs Sweethearts

Kate Buchanan

PC '11

Jackie Waterland, Kate Buchanan, and Cici Haley (all PC' 11)
became the newest Silver Spurs Sweethearts

Oxford American :: Let the People In

Let the People IN

by Jan Reid

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 Writer Thomas Larson reviews Let the People In for the Oxford American:

"We can surely credit Reid for keeping alive Richards's swagger and humor, though: “I get a lot of cracks about my hair,” he quotes her, “mostly from men who don’t have any.”. . . It’s during such deliciously self-effacing spouts when she’s punking her over-seriousness—some might recall her Doritos commercial with the likewise ousted New York governor Mario Cuomo during the 1995 Super Bowl—that Richards, and her biographer, shine."

Read the full article at oxfordamerican.org >>

 

Texas Zeta Day 2013

President Lauren Kraut 

This past weekend, February 15^th-16^th, Kappa chapter attended Texas Zeta Day in Houston along with twelve other Texas Zeta chapters. We kicked off the weekend with officer training on Friday night at the Westin in Memorial City. For a few hours each member of exec was able to chat with her fellow officer of other chapters. During “conversation café” we got to exchange ideas, concerns, future goals, and proposals.  The Saturday morning session started off with lovely ritual services and various chapter awards. Kappa chapter won the “maximum chapter size” award along with various other chapters. Our own rituals chair, Maddy McGlamery, participated in one of the ritual ceremonies and made a lovely speech. After a short break, all of the attendees flooded the ballroom for the luncheon. The wonderful Lynn Chapman, VP Collegiate II, made a speech alluding to the Wizard of Oz filled with great advice for collegians and alumni alike. Then, the award ceremony began. Each district president presented her respective district with the superior chapter award. Our Province President, Kat Evans, awarded our chapter with the Province XI-B Special Recognition award! Much to our surprise, we also won the Kathy Benzini Stampe Chapter Excellence Award for the most outstanding chapter in the state of Texas- what a HUGE honor! Two in one Zeta Days, that’s a record for us J. After the luncheon, executive council strolled around the nearby mall until afternoon officer training. For a few hours each officer split up for breakout sessions with leadership consultants and national officers. Overall, the weekend was a huge success! Our executive council and program council got to spend quality time together and strengthen our sisterhood, while at the same time building leadership skills and participating with our national fraternity. I’m excited to see what National Leadership Convention has to hold in July!
ZL,

Lauren Kraut

President- PC '10 

ZTA Kappa Chapter Executive Members
at Zeta Day in Houston

New Member Coordinator, Ashley Allison,
made friends with the TCU New Member
Coordinator at officer training

ZTA Professor Dinner

This past Monday, February 11^th,  Zeta hosted 27 professors and 41 girls at Zeta’s Professor Dinner. Professor dinner is a unique tradition at Zeta in which girls get the opportunity to invite their favorite, or hardest, professor to the Zeta house for dinner. We began hosting Professor Dinner in the hopes of improving student-teacher interactions, making our large university seem a little smaller, and approaching your professor feel a little less intimidating. Guests dined on wonderful beef short ribs, potato and fontina cakes, roasted sweet potatoes, roasted Brussels sprouts and spinach salad all prepared by our wonderful Chef Holly. During dinner we enjoyed a speech from the chapter’s philanthropy chair, Michelle Hecht, who shared with our professors some of the great philanthropic events we participate in, as well as a speech from the University’s assistant dean of students, Mary Beth Mercatoris. Dr. Mercatoris gave a though provoking speech about planning for our futures and resume building, and concluded by opening up the floor for other professors to give us advice as well. We wrapped up the evening with Italian cream cakes and coffee, and as most professors said their good byes, Maddy McGlamery’s professor even stayed an extra hour for some one-on-one tutoring. It was a successful night for all!

ZL,

Emily Hansen

PC '10

What is Public Art at UNT?

2013 Art in Public Places Lecture Series

As the UNT Percent for Art Program is underway with projects completed at the Kristen Farmer Autism Center, in progress at Sage Hall and Willis Library, and upcoming at Bruce Hall Cafeteria, Discovery Park, and the Student Union, the UNT Art in Public Places Program presents artists, curators and experts in the field discussing the impact and potential of artworks in public spaces.

Tuesday, March 5

Mary Beebe
Director, Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego
2:15 pm
Sage Hall Room 116

Mary Beebe, photo
by Philipp Scholz-Ritterman

Mary Beebe has served as Director of the Stuart Collection since the collection's inception in 1981. The Stuart Collection is an ongoing program commissioning outdoor sculpture for the 1200-acre campus at the University of California in San Diego. This program has received national and international recognition and includes major artworks by Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Jeny Holzer, Robert Irwin, Barbara Kruger, Nam June Paik, and Kiki Smith, among others. Prior to joining UCSD, Beebe was Director for nine years of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts in Oregon, with previous positions at the Portland Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Beebe graduated from Bryn Mawr College and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris. She serves on numerous boards and committees and has lectured widely, including serving on panels for the National Endowment of the Arts and as juror and advisor for public art projects nationwide and in Europe.

April TBD
Mary Zlot
Curatorial and Collection Management Consultant, Cowboys Stadium


August TBD
Artist Panel


Please check back for up-to-date event information!
This program is made possible by the UNT Fine Arts Series.

Daily Kos :: The Surprising Design of Market Economies

The Surprising Design of Market Economies

by Alex Marshall

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Daily Kos member and contributor Harry Lane says of Alex Marshall's book The Surprising Design of Market Economies,  

"This is, in my opinion, a very important book that ought to be read by everyone.... Marshall makes what is to me a surprising argument, namely that our entire concept of markets is tainted by the way the issue has been framed, and that there are potential fundamental alternatives that are not even being thought about." 

He also provides an extensive précis, chapter by chapter.



Read the full article at dailykos.com >>

Publisher's Weekly :: Conspiracy Theory in America

Conspiracy Theory in America

by Lance deHaven-Smith

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Publisher's Weekly reviewed Lance deHaven Smith's forthcoming book Conspiracy Theory in America:

DeHaven-Smith (The Hidden Teachings of Jesus) offers an intriguing take on the origins and implications of conspiracy theories and the paranoid mindset itself in this accessible academic study. The author, a professor of public administration and policy at Florida State University, provocatively argues that conspiracy theories, far from being merely the stuff of outlier fantasy, have played a major role in the formation of U.S. history; the Founding Fathers, he insists, developed a kind of protoconspiracy theory as a means to justify revolution, citing the abuses of King George as "proof he was plotting to subject the colonies to ‘an absolute tyranny.’” And of course no talk of conspiracy theories would be complete without mention of the J.F.K. assassination. Indeed, DeHaven-Smith shows that it was in the aftermath of the killing that the phrase “conspiracy theory” entered American parlance, a phenomenon he chalks up to government efforts to discredit skeptics of the Warren Commission’s findings (which scheme he dubs “the Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy”). DeHaven-Smith ultimately suggests that we “apply the same forensic protocols to elite crimes” (i.e. crimes involving political figures and celebrities) as are used in solving “ordinary cases” involving citizens. Confronted with these compelling arguments, even the most incredulous readers will find themselves questioning their own preconceived notions of paranoia, governmental transparency, and conspiracy theorists. ―Publisher’s Weekly

Read the full review at publishersweekly.com>>

AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show :: 13 UT Press Titles!

We are happy to report that many UT Press titles have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show.



Judging for the 2013 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show took place January 24-25 at the AAUP Central Office in New York City. Approximately 273 books, 331 jacket and cover design entries, and 4 journals were entered. 51 books and 44 jackets/covers were chosen by the jurors as the very best examples from this pool of excellent design.
 

UT Press congratulates the design staff below on the recognition they duly deserve!


Trade Illustrated Books:
DKR: A Royal Scrapbook (designed by Derek George)
Andy Coolquitt (designed by Derek George)

Nic Nicosia (designed by Lindsay Starr)

Trade Typographic Book:
Let the People In (designed by Lindsay Starr)

 
Scholarly Illustrated Book:
Photographing the Mexican Revolution (designed by Lindsay Starr)

 
Covers/Jackets:
All-American Boy (designed by Derek George) 

Colonel Sanders and the American Dream (designed by Derek George) 

Dwight Yoakam (designed by Lindsay Starr) 

The Fictional Christopher Nolan (Ayham Ghraowi)
Killer on the Road (designed by Derek George) 

Ryan Adams (designed by Lindsay Starr)

The Surprising Design of Market Economies (designed by Derek George)

Uncivil Wars (designed by Lindsay Starr)

Publisher's Weekly :: The Fight to Save Juarez

The Fight to Save Juarez

by Ricardo C. Ainslie

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Publisher's Weekly reviewed Ricardo Ainslie's forthcoming book The Fight to Save Juarez, "an unrelenting look" at the drug war and its epicenter, Ciudad Juarez.



"Psychologist and U.T.-Austin instructor Ainslie (Long Dark Road) presents an unrelenting look at the drug cartel battles of Ciudad Juarez, just over the Rio Grande from El Paso, Tex. Juarez’s mayor, José Reyes Ferriz, first learned of the coming war between the established Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa cartel shortly after he was elected in late 2007 and he spent his entire three-year term trying to curtail the killings, which in some months “surpassed those in war-torn cities like Baghdad.” Corruption was so endemic in the municipal police force that Reyes invited in the army, with 5,000 federal troops arriving in March 2009. The municipal police force was officially disbanded, then re-formed later that year as the “new police.” Two facts stand out among the continual descriptions of assassinations. The first, often repeated, is that the violence is driven by American drug consumption, and the second is that the vast majority of assault weapons used by the cartels are from the U.S. Despite a wide-ranging intervention ordered by the Mexican president, following a massacre of innocent youths in the Villas de Salvárcar neighborhood in January 2010, there is no Hollywood ending to this report—only a continuation of the violence. Although not easy to read, this is an important work for any reader concerned about Mexico. Agent: James D. Hornfischer, Hornfischer Literary Management. (Apr.)"



Read the full review at publishersweekly.com>>

New York Times Book Review :: Last Launch

Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis

by Dan Winters

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We are very proud to share that the New York Times Book Review published a photograph from Dan Winters's Last Launch this week. Dan's photograph of an Advanced Crew Escape Suit aptly complimented Eric McHenry's review of Alien vs. Predator, by Michael Robbins. We'll take it!

See the article at nytimes.com >>