April
23, 2004
Volume 13, Number 7
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| A beautiful day to clean up — UNT students Suzanne Parks (standing, left), Cyndie Bean (standing, right) and Lori Wilhelm (kneeling, right) work with Susan Zavoina, associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism, to clean up and replant a flower bed in front of the Hurley Administration Building on April 3, the second Great UNT Campus Beautification and Cleanup Day |
Regents
approve $22 per semester credit hour tuition increase
In a special
meeting March 26, the UNT System Board of Regents approved a board designated
tuition increase from the current $53 per semester credit hour rate to
$75 per semester credit hour for the 2004-05 academic year.
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Senator
to speak at UNT's general commencement ceremony May 8
Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, the first woman representative from Texas in the U.S. Senate, will deliver this spring's commencement address at 12:30 p.m. May 8 during the general convocation in the UNT Coliseum. About 2,000 UNT students are expected to receive their degrees during the commencement ceremonies that day.
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About the commencement speaker
In
1993, Kay Bailey Hutchison became the first woman to represent Texas in
the U.S. Senate. Hutchison, who is one of 14 current women U.S. senators,
was re-elected to a second full term in 2000.
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| Fire damage — Ceiling fans and light fixtures are among the ruined items that need replacing following a fire that damaged the Phi Kappa Sigma house earlier this month. |
Phi Kappa
Sigma house residents to spend remainder of semester in residence hall
UNT
students living in the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house will spend the
rest of the semester living in a UNT residence hall following a fire that
damaged the house on April 6.
Prizes
up for grabs for survey participation
Two years
ago almost 850 staff members participated in the 2002 Staff Survey conducted
by the Office of Institutional Research and Accreditation —
double the number of participants of any previous staff survey.
Surveyors are hoping the promise of prize drawings will again encourage
staff to participate in the 2004 survey.
State
Rep. Myra Crownover to speak at TAMS graduation
Texas
Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Lake Dallas, will be the featured speaker at the
commencement ceremony of the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
at UNT next month.
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| Healthy Eagles — Ginger Deussen, assistant supervisor of UNT's mail room (right), learns about using biofeedback to treat various health conditions from Johanna Oosterwijk, RN and biofeedback practitioner (left), at the Healthy Eagles Health Fair, which was April 6-7 at UNT |
National
Public Broadcasting System chief operating officer to speak at April 29
lunch
Today
is the last day to reserve tables for the 2004 College of Education luncheon
on April 29, featuring Pat Mitchell, president and chief operating officer
for the National Public Broadcasting System. Mitchell's presentation
is titled "Education: The Key to Success for North Texans."
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TAMS
student wins Goldwater Scholarship
Chieu
Nguyen is one of seven Texas residents to receive a 2004 Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship. The 18-year-old is a student at UNT's Texas Academy of Mathematics
and Science.
Professorships
to honor two Texas educators
In
the coming months, the UNT School of Library and Information Sciences
will launch professorships for two long-time Texas educators —
former Fort Worth high school vice principal Hazel Harvey Peace
and former UNT professor Sarah Law Kennerly.
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smell of tar in the University Services Building.
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