Meghan Lake | Denton Record-Chronicle
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For students like Rayvon Bray, the Multicultural Center at the University of North Texas was like a second home 鈥� a place to meet friends, play games and share experiences as part of the Black gay community. -
All Denton County schools have rejected allowing chaplains to serve on campus in response to a law passed last year stating Texas schools can use safety funds to hire them as counselors. -
![Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a developmental psychologist at Stanford University, told NPR in 2020 that disposable vape devices were more popular with teens. She received a bag of vape pens confiscated by a high school principal in Northern California, with flavors like Banana Ice and Cool Mint. 鈥淭hey come in lots of flavors, colors, [they鈥檙e] very attractive to youth and that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e seeing them using the most right now,鈥� Halpern-Felsher said.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7c3502f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1013x564+0+2/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0a%2F39%2F060529f54e9bb7de29f373033ad2%2F022824-vaping-drc.JPG)
A new state law aimed keeping students from vaping on campus is driving up the number of students sent into a disciplinary education program, Denton ISD disciplinary records show.
![Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a developmental psychologist at Stanford University, told NPR in 2020 that disposable vape devices were more popular with teens. She received a bag of vape pens confiscated by a high school principal in Northern California, with flavors like Banana Ice and Cool Mint. 鈥淭hey come in lots of flavors, colors, [they鈥檙e] very attractive to youth and that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e seeing them using the most right now,鈥� Halpern-Felsher said.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7ca8270/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1013x564+0+2/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0a%2F39%2F060529f54e9bb7de29f373033ad2%2F022824-vaping-drc.JPG)