2008 Woodie Awards
Nearly 350 relatives, friends and colleagues paid final respects Wednesday to UNT physicist and teaching assistant Daniel Michael Henry in Grapevine. Troy Taylor of the Denton County Medical Examiners Office said Henry was found last Thursday at 10:42 p.m. (0) comments
GRAPEVINE- At the fourth annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, UNT President Gretchen Bataille announced the name of the university's new journalism school. The conference took place July 18-20, at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, and drew about 425 attendees. (0) comments
A resident assistant at Mozart Hall Thursday found a dead student alone in his room, UNT spokesman Buddy Price said. An investigation is ongoing, Price said. Andrew Vahlenkamp, a history education senior who lives near Mozart, said he was driving near the dorm at 5:30 p.m. when he saw that it had been closed by police and helicopters were flying overhead. (1) comment
Three UNT students are traveling to one of Africa's poorest slums to improve the lives of underprivileged children and their community. International studies juniors Lindsey Bengfort and Janiece Black, accompanied by RTVF sophomore Jeremy Schmidt, are members of the nonprofit student organization the Kroo Bay Initiative and will leave Aug. (0) comments
After 26 years, the "Aerie" yearbook will no longer be published. This is the second time a yearbook has been discontinued at UNT. According to an email from Mary Finley, the advisor to the "Aerie" and assistant director of the union administration, the publication stopped because of an increase in social networking, increased cost of production, declining sales, and her retirement from UNT. (0) comments
A bill proposed at Wednesday's Student Government Association meeting to allow SGA presidents to run for reelection was pushed back until the next meeting on August 6 because senators could not come to a consensus. The SGA Consitution says the student body president cannot serve more than one term. (0) comments
At the finance and administration town hall meeting last Thursday, Glenn Houbold, UNT's associate director of facilities maintenance, announced the department's conservation efforts. "The facilities department has recently completed an evaluation of its procedures where many changes were made," Houbold said. (0) comments
Part two of a threefold minimum wage act will increase minimum wage 70 cents from $5.85 to $6.55. According to the Texas Minimum Wage Act, chapter 62 of Texas Labor Code, the minimum wage will increase a total of $2.10. The first increase was July 24, 2007, and the next increase will be on July 24, 2009, ending minimum wage at $7. (6) comments
Daniel Henry, UNT Physics doctoral student and astronomy lecturer, was found dead Thursday night in his Denton apartment. Henry was 27 years old. Troy Taylor of the Denton County Medical Examiner's office said that Henry was found at 10:42 p. (10) comments
