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14/09/2025

SPORTS: North Texas wins in blowout fashion over Washington State 59-10

The Mean Green came up short filling up DATCU Stadium for the first time, but not when it came to filling up the scoresheet, pummeling Washington State 59-10 on Sept. 13.

The first meeting ever with the Cougars garnered 26,837 fans, the seventh-largest crowd in the stadium's history. They watched on as the North Texas defense proved they have evolved under new defensive coordinator Skylar Cassity, logging five turnovers for the first time since the 2018 game against Arkansas.

“It allows us to do different game management situationally,” head coach Eric Morris said on the defense. “It allows us to not just rely on being explosive and be a little more methodical. [...] It allows us to play a different brand of football than what we have in the first two years.”

📝: Haylie Stum
📸: Ismael Beltran

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14/09/2025

SPORTS: North Texas tennis reloads for season with veteran core, confident mindset

The smack of racquets, scuff of sneakers and echo of smashing serves reverberate across the Waranch Tennis Complex as North Texas tennis prepares for its Sept. 12 season opener.

This past season, the Mean Green reached the semifinals of the Universal Tennis Rating Women’s National Invitation Tournament, marking their first postseason appearance since 2014.

Additionally, the team went 11-10 and had its first winning record in its spring dual match season since the 2018-19 season. Building on two years of growth, head coach Amanda Stone said her third season is about executing that groundwork into results that last through the postseason.

📝: Dante Longoria
📸: Ismael Beltran

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14/09/2025

OPINION: Environmental Protection Agency disregards public safety if it relinquishes responsibility for air pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to rescind the endangerment finding that has served as the basis for the Clean Air Act since 2009. If overturned, the EPA would betray its inherent purpose of protecting the environment and population against climate risks, while also opening the door for corporations to leak harmful pollutants into the air unregulated.

Currently, greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are air pollutants that the EPA’s endangerment finding established as being harmful to people’s welfare and therefore federally regulated under the Clean Air Act.

President Donald Trump’s administration is attempting to overturn the endangerment finding by pulling at semantics and bringing into question whether the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases at all. The current legal browbeating is primarily focused on getting the EPA to roll back its greenhouse gas regulations on corporations, particularly in the transportation sector.

📝: Alejandra Osegueda
🖼️: Victoria Maldonado

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14/09/2025

NEWS: University rated ‘F’ among colleges and universities for free speech

The university received an “F” letter grade, placing 200 out of 257 on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s annual free speech ranking of college campuses released Sept. 9.

With a total of 213 students surveyed, the university received an overall score of 54.03, below the average of 58.63.

The nonprofit organization surveyed 68,510 students across 257 colleges and universities from Jan. 3 through June 5, 2025. The surveys evaluated each college’s policies on free speech, recent controversies, social climate and comfort level of expressing views on campus.

📝 : Shehzil Imran
📸 : Caitlin Goodell

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13/09/2025

THE DOSE: British post-punk band Shame trades ‘quiet life’ for something greater on newest album

Hailing from South London, Shame knows a thing or two about what a good punk band should stand for.

With previous legendary Londoners such as the S*x Pistols and The Clash, who are pioneers in the scene, the mid-2010s band has massive shoes to fill in terms of “being punk.” However, their newest album, “Cutthroat,” marks a departure from the harsher sound they are known for.

Released on Sept. 5, the 37-minute album features 12 tracks ranging in their sonic landscape. Some with brazen tones that could stir any mosh-pit, something they are known for, to softer ballads with sermon-esque lyrics.

📝: Matthew Winter
🖼️: Vianne Ciuro

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13/09/2025

NEWS: University launches regional partnership for Texas Talent Accelerator to meet industry demands

University President Harrison Keller announced the launch of the Texas Talent Accelerator, a regional partnership designed to prepare North Texas for its rapidly changing workforce needs, at the Frisco campus.

The initiative brings together higher education institutions, employers and community partners to align academic programs with industry demands as the Dallas-Fort Worth area undergoes historic growth, according to CultureMap Dallas. Keller emphasized that the region is expected to surpass 10 million residents within the next decade, becoming the nation’s third-largest metropolitan area.

“This region is the epicenter of one of the most remarkable economic growth stories in American history,” Keller said.

📝: Tabitha Hidalgo
📸: Ismael Beltran

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13/09/2025

OPINION: Denton’s public-private partnerships to address homelessness hurt people without housing rather than assist the community

Denton’s involvement and direct response to the rise in homelessness are not sufficient. The city’s reliance on public-private partnerships has led to Denton failing people without housing.

Denton has seen a 33 percent rise in homelessness in the past year alone, and yet this has not sparked a notable change from local officials. Instead, the city’s website highlights initiatives and strategies implemented in 2016. Clearly, these strategies have not worked.

In 2020, Denton purchased a property off Loop 288 that became the city’s homeless shelter. Instead of running it directly, Denton handed operations over to Our Daily Bread. Our Daily Bread is a nonprofit organization that runs Denton’s primary homeless shelter.

📝: Kyson Barber
🖼️: Victoria Maldonado

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13/09/2025

THE DOSE: NCT WISH injects much-needed ‘COLOR’ into the music scene with third mini album

Breaking their record in first-day sales on the Hanteo charts, J-pop group NCT WISH released their third mini album “COLOR” on Sept. 1, four months after the release of their second mini album “poppop” on April 14.

NCT WISH is unique as the Japanese subunit – a smaller group formed from members of a larger K-pop act – of Neo Culture Technology, which also includes groups like NCT 127, NCT Dream and their Chinese subunit WayV.

Although NCT WISH is considered the Japanese subunit, they sometimes sing entirely in Korean, like in this mini album.

📝: Samantha Heath
🖼️: Vianne Ciuro

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12/09/2025

BREAKING NEWS: University rated ‘F’ among colleges and universities for free speech

The university received an “F” letter grade, placing 200 out of 257, on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s annual free speech ranking of college campuses released Sept. 9.

With a total of 213 students surveyed, the university received an overall score of 54.03, below the average of 58.63.

The nonprofit organization surveyed 68,510 students across 257 colleges and universities from Jan. 3 through June 5, 2025. The surveys evaluated each college’s policies on free speech, recent controversies, social climate and comfort level of expressing views on campus.

The North Texas Daily has reached out to the university for comment.

Story to come.

12/09/2025

NEWS: Denton smoke shops clear shelves in response to Senate Bill 2024

Denton smoke shops have cleared their inventory of disposable and cannabinoid v**es following the implementation of Senate Bill 2024 on Sept. 1.

The bill, signed into law on June 20, bans the selling of most e-cigarette products or “disposable v**es” statewide. This includes the sale of v**es with colorful packaging that could be marketed towards kids as well as v**es manufactured in China. The law also prohibits THC v**es, CBD v**es that contain cannabinoids and flavored essential oil v**e products.

Smoke shops were given two months to comply and clear these products from their inventory.

📝: Jordan Guilliams
📸: Aiden Gonzalez

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12/09/2025

SPORTS: North Texas football aims to have its best start since 2018 against Washington State Cougars

A familiar foe for head coach Eric Morris will make their way to Denton on Saturday following North Texas football’s 33-30 overtime comeback win against the University of Western Michigan on Sept. 6. The Washington State Cougars (2-0) prowl their way to DATCU Stadium in what could be the Mean Green’s highest attended game of the year.

Morris, previously the quarterback’s coach and offensive coordinator for the Cougars, said he has an idea of what to expect from Washington State, having recruited some of the players currently on its roster.

“[Washington State] is going to be well coached,” Morris said. “They’re gonna be there at the right time, at the right spots and we’re going to have to out-execute them on both sides of the football.”

📝: Ian Pfaffenberger
📸: Trennt Rhea

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12/09/2025

NEWS: ‘Recent actions’ on campus prompt university response after Charlie Kirk assassination

The university released an official statement Thursday afternoon following the “recent actions of a few of our community members” after the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 during a “Prove Me Wrong” debate at Utah Valley University.

The “recent actions” that prompted the university’s statement were not specified. The North Texas Daily has reached out to the university for clarity on what the actions were.

There has been a range of reactions to Kirk’s death, with discourse erupting online amid Utah Gov. Spencer Cox stating that the death was a “political assassination,” according to NBC News.

📝: Gianna Ortner-Findlay & Hannah Everett
📸: Credit Gage Skidmore

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