Three cheers for UNT! 

When the last conference football game occurs on the same night as a President's Council appreciation dinner, what is one to do? Why, both, of course.

Dale Yeatts, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, is a passionate advocate of UNT, supporting athletics through his season ticket purchases and scholarships through his President's Council membership. He realized the above situation was no dilemma — but rather an unexpected treat — when a side room to the dinner venue sported a television airing the game that would determine whether UNT would play in the inaugural New Orleans Bowl. As the sounds of opera harmonized with the roar of the game, Yeatts soon knew his whole family would join the team in New Orleans.

"I like the shift in the sports area, especially the visibility," he says. "I like that my friends on the East Coast see our name in the media and say, 'Hey, look. There's North Texas.'"

Yeatts is just as enthusiastic about giving to scholarships. He and two other professors in his department, Rudy Seward and Dan Rodeheaver, designate their President's Council contributions to increase existing sociology endowments to the minimum level required to award scholarships.

"I think the biggest benefit of President's Council membership is knowing the funds are going to something important — our students," he says of his department's team effort.

BY LAURA SHORT lshort@unt.edu

Other featured articles in this issue:

• Former UNT regent named to Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
• TAMS student, team place fourth in national competition
• UNT student, basketball star is semifinalist for Rhodes Scholarship
• Leadership Texas preps three UNT faculty for prime roles
• System Center director addresses Faculty Senate
• Special awards recognize longtime faculty members
• UNT holiday drives quadruple last year's donations
• UNT offices on the move
• Hurley reappointed to citizens council board
• Severe winter weather may bring closures
• Battling the post-holiday bulge

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