Feb. 27, 2004
Volume 13, Number 4

UNT alumnus Jim McIngvale (center) was recognized at the Feb. 12 Mean Green men's basketball game for his $1 million contribution to the university to help fund a new athletic center. Rick Villarreal, athletic director, and North Texas Dancers including Natalie Cox presented McIngvale with an artist's rendering of the building.

$1 million gift to help fund construction of new UNT athletic center

Jim McIngvale, a Houston businessman and philanthropist who is a former North Texas football letterman, is giving the UNT athletic department $1 million toward construction of the new athletic center.

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UNT launches e-Campus web site

UNT offers one of the largest online education programs in Texas with 255 courses serving a population of 7,060 students from across the country.

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UNT to host annual law conference March 1-2

Don W. Brown, Texas commissioner of higher education and lead staff member for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, will present the keynote address at UNT's eighth annual Texas Higher Education Law Conference at noon March 1 in the Ballroom of the Gateway Center.

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50 Years of Progress and Opportunity — UNT celebrated the 50th anniversary of its desegregation at a gala Feb. 14, honoring many African American barrier breakers, including Joe Atkins (above). He was denied admission to North Texas in 1955, but a federal lawsuit filed on his behalf led to the opening of the university to all African American students in 1956. Atkins later returned to North Texas to earn a master's degree. The first African American to attend North Texas was A. Tennyson Miller, who was a doctoral student in 1954.

Faculty and staff can vote now for 2004 UNT Homecoming theme

It may be eight months away, but faculty and staff can participate in Homecoming now. Votes for the 2004 Homecoming theme are being collected at www.unt.edu/president/insider/forms/vote.htm.

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UNT students, alumna win Rotary Scholarships

Two UNT students and a recent graduate received a total of $62,000 in Rotary Scholarships for study abroad during the 2004-05 academic year.

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Cowboy historian to speak to Friends of the UNT Libraries

Writer and historian Lonn Taylor will explain what the life of a 19th-century cowboy was really like when he speaks at the annual dinner meeting of the Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries March 9. The dinner will be held in the Women's Club Building, 610 Oakland, in Denton. A 6:30 p.m. reception will be followed by the dinner at 7:15 p.m.

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UNT professor finds that women's civic clubs led to suffrage movement in Texas
The Sept. 8, 1900, hurricane that struck Galveston left incredible devastation, destroying 3,600 buildings and killing an estimated 6,000 of the city's 37,000 people.

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Familiar faces should rule at 76th Academy Awards

Nostalgia and the desire to reward past work and performances — combined with the merit of current work — will lead to well-known actors and actresses winning this year's Academy Awards, according to Don Staples.

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Totten named to National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

Herman L. Totten, UNT Regents Professor of library and information sciences and faculty executive assistant to the president, was appointed by President Bush to join the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for a five-year term.

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Saturday snow fall

Visit www.kntu.fm/snow.htm to see photos of the Valentine's Day snow that blanketed UNT and Denton.

Click on the link to read an Answer Line comment and response regarding the smell of tar in the University Services Building.

If you have a comment, complaint or compliment about the university, call Answer Line at (940) 565-4100 and leave your remarks on the recording.

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