March
12, 2004
Volume 14, Number 4
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| A day for beauty — Sandy Burke, computer systems manager, was one of more than 275 volunteers who took part in the Great UNT Campus Beautification and Cleanup Day last year. |
UNT plans second annual beautification day
For UNT,
spring cleaning means the second annual Great UNT Campus Beautification
and Cleanup Day. This event, in conjunction with the national Great American
Cleanup observance, is designed to build community spirit by bringing
UNT students, faculty, staff and administrators together to enhance the
appearance of campus.
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Cleanup
continues at Clark Hall following small fire
A
small but intense electrical fire in the early hours of March 6 knocked
out all power and air conditioning to Clark Hall and inundated the residence
hall and cafeteria with smoke.
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Know before it's time to go Check your building's emergency plan at www.unt.edu/riskman before the threat of severe weather strikes, then watch your Groupwise account, NTTV, the UNT web site, or tune in to 88.1 KNTU for weather alerts when conditions become threatening. |
Spring brings
Texas severe weather season 
Spring in Texas means bluebonnets, warm days and, unfortunately, unwelcome menaces in the sky — tornadoes. An average of 118 tornadoes touch down in Texas each year, with more than half occurring in April, May and June, according to the Texas Almanac.
Regents approve
honorary degree, authorize new athletic center completion
Highlights
of the Feb. 12 UNT System Board of Regents meeting ranged from approving
an honorary degree for renowned poet Maya Angelou to authorizing the renovation
of additional space at the UNT Research Park for the College of Engineering.
The regents also approved needed repairs on retaining walls and walkways
around the Coliseum.
Staff
awards presented at sack lunch
Several staff members were recognized at the President's Staff Sack Lunch Feb. 24.
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University
Day: |
April brings University, Alumni Appreciation,
Honors days
The
firing of Boomer, UNT's victory cannon, will kick off UNT's
annual University
Day on April 2. UNT will celebrate Honors Day and Alumni Appreciation
Day as part of a double celebration April 16.
UNT student is a Truman Scholarship finalist
For the eighth time in nine years, a UNT student has been selected as
a finalist for the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
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Faculty Senate hears provost's academic plan for future of UNT
The UNT Faculty Senate met for the first time in 2004 on Feb. 11 and heard reports from Howard Johnson, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Scott Simpkins, chair of the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects and Research.
Division
of University Relations, Communications and Marketing earns three national
awards
The Division
of University Relations, Communications and Marketing recently won three
Admission Marketing Report annual awards. The URCM-produced undergraduate
search piece was recognized with a gold award, the high school recruiting
poster earned a silver honor, and the UNT undergraduate catalog garnered
a merit award.
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TAMS
students are semifinalists in national science competition
Three
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science students have been selected as
semifinalists in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search.
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smell of tar in the University Services Building.
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