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By Britney Tabor

As a child, Terresa Hardaway equated beauty with long, straight, silky, chemically processed hair.

At age 5, she wore her hair in braids and cornrows. By second grade, she began recognizing physical differences between her hair and her classmates’. Hardaway wanted relaxed hair, a perm, like her older sister Nicole. A perm removes the kink or curl from a black person’s hair texture, creating a bone-straight or relaxed look.

Hardaway’s mother wouldn’t allow it. She was too young to perm her hair. Young Terresa became jealous that her oldest sister was allowed to get perms while she and her...

The University of North Texas’ annual College of Visual Arts and Design Faculty and Staff Exhibition opens tonight with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St.

The exhibit, which runs through Dec. 10, includes ceramics, jewelry, metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and fashion design by 34 faculty and staff members.

Two new faculty members, assistant professor of studio arts and sculpture Alicia Eggert and senior lecturer in figure drawing Christian Fagerland, will display their art in the show.

Eggert will display her piece The Sun, which...