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Money, space determine housing choices BY MELISSA BOUGHTON Staff Writer
After two years of living in the dorms at UNT, Danielle Tarver decided to move into an off-campus apartment that was cheaper than on-campus housing. Tarver, a psychology junior, said she moved to Legends Hall for her second year of school after having a bad living experience in Maple Hall her first year. “We were trying to figure out what budget we could easily be working off of and we definitely wanted something cheaper than what was at the dorms,” she said of her and her roommate. UNT students must spend their first year in the dorms. Students have three choices for the type of dorm they live in: economy, standard or newer halls. However, when a required meal plan is factored in, the outcome is not cheap in any case.
On-campus convenience Tarver moved to Legends Hall for her second year of school after having a bad living experience in Maple Hall her first year, she said. Legends Hall is considered a newer hall on-campus and is more expensive than the economy and standard halls.
The Right Housing in the Wrong Economy Part 1 of a series Students can choose a private room or a semi-private room and a five- or seven-day meal plan. A student who chooses a private room and a five-day meal plan will pay a total of $3718.68 per semester. For two semesters the total cost would be $7437.36, or $826.37 a month for a nine-month academic year. Kerr Hall is the biggest resi-
dence on-campus and houses more than 1000 students. The dorm is considered a standard hall and is priced a little cheaper than the newer halls. Jordan James, a history freshman and Kerr Hall resident, said she enjoys the convenience of living on-campus and it is worth the extra money. Students who decide to bunk up in Kerr Hall with a five-day meal plan pay $3073.68 per semester. For the academic year the total would be $6147.36, or $683.04 per month. “I’m perfectly fine living here because everything is taken care of,” James said. “I don’t know any really major cons about living here.” Students who live on-campus have all their bills included in the cost of the dorm.
PHOTO BY MELISSA BOUGHTON / PHOTOGRAPHER
See APARTMENTS on Danielle Tarver, a psychology junior, said she loves the kitchen in her off-campus apartment. When she lived in Legends Page 2 Hall, she said she only had a kitchenette without a full-size refrigerator.
Agreement ties UNT to Turkey BY CHRIS SPEIGHT Senior Staff Writer
PHOTO BY CHRISTENA DOWSETT / PHOTO EDITOR
Senior running back Cam Montgomery scores the first touchdown of Saturday’s game on a 4-yard run to give UNT a 9-0 lead. UNT lost in overtime.
Team distraught after victory turns to ‘knife-in-the-heart’ loss BY ERIC JOHNSON Senior Staff Writer
The pain of losing could be seen on the faces of the Mean Green football players (1-1) as they walked off the field after a 30-31 double-overtime loss to the Ohio University Bobcats (1-1) late Saturday night. None took the loss harder than Tobe Nwigwe, a redshirt senior linebacker and sociology major who remained silent after seeing victory snatched away on the game’s final play. “Everyone was holding hands on the sideline, and it just turned in a hurry,” head coach Todd Dodge said. “We went from a feeling of elation to a feeling like a knife right to the heart.” Riley Dodge, an undeclared redshirt freshman, led the Mean Green on a 60-yard touchdown drive late in the third quarter to take a commanding 17-6 lead after his second career touchdown pass. He would be forced out of the game after the next drive. Riley Dodge left the game because of an injury to his nonthrowing shoulder, which would
be eventually labeled a seconddegree sprain. Backup quarterback Nathan Tune, a finance redshirt junior, walked onto the field to start the fourth quarter. A hush fell over the crowd of 16, 674 after Tune’s third pass attempt was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by the Bobcats. But the team would not let that deflate the players’ morale, as Tune settled in to lead a 57-yard drive that would send the game to overtime. Tune would have been the hero if not for two dropped touchdown passes late in the game. “Nathan prepares himself every day,” Todd Dodge said. “He got us back in the hunt and made some throws that could have ended the game.” The Mean Green backed the Bobcats into a corner, forcing fourth-and-goal from the 16-yard line and leaving UNT on the cusp of victory. Fouts Field was left stunned when the Bobcats scored on the next play, and the mood quickly shifted to anger. A roughing the passer penalty
gave the Bobcats the ball on the 1-yard line for the game winning 2-point conversion, finalizing the loss for UNT in its second-ever overtime game. UNT’s defense led the way for the second week by allowing 232 yards of total offense, sacking the Bobcats’ quarterbacks four times and forcing three first half turnovers. Royce Hill, an undeclared sophomore, contributed with an interception and fumble recovery and Nwigwe lead the team with 15 tackles. They handed the Mean Green offense the ball inside Ohio’s 37-yard line after all three turnovers, but managed to score just 10 points. “We felt like we really controlled the game,” Hill said. “We just missed some opportunities.” The offense had turnover problems, giving the ball away four times while the Bobcats kept it out of the end zone twice on the 1-yard line.
Leading the charge offensively for UNT was Cam Montgomery, a senior running back amd post-graduate student, who contributed 113 total yards and two touchdowns, including a go-ahead score in the second overtime. “The offensive line did a great job clearing the way,” Montgomery said. “We believed in ourselves, and we proved that we can come back from adversity.” UNT goes on the road to challenge the No. 4 team in the nation, the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, Saturday. It will have to do without its starting quarterback as Riley Dodge has been ruled out for next week. Todd Dodge knows it takes more than one player to make or break the Mean Green. “This team has come a long way in learning how to win,” Todd Dodge said. “This football team is starting to become a team.”
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Students in Turkey and surrounding areas will have the opportunity to perfect English as a second language t ha n k s to col labor at ion bet ween UN T a nd Zi r ve University in Turkey. Z i r ve i s a fou ndat ion u n iversit y i n Ga z ia ntep, Turkey, where the population is about 1.7 million people. All courses at the university will be taught completely i n E ng l i sh, sa id Sa leha Su lema n, a ssi st a nt v ic e provost for inter nat iona l education at UNT. The prog ra m w i l l help establish the first English l a n g u a ge u n i v e r s it y i n Turkey. “The program will offer seven levels of classes to improve the English profic ienc y of it s st udent s,” said Carol Ogden, assistant director of t he Intensive English Language Institute at UNT. UNT was approached by Zir ve in April 2009 about outsourcing UNT’s Intensive English Language Institute to the Turk ish universit y, Suleman said. The program started in late April, and the agreement between Zirve and UNT was signed on Aug. 24. The staff has been at Zirve since Labor Day weekend. “The university is going to deliver content courses in English to a student who goes there, for whatever their major is,” Ogden said. The Turk ish universit y was looking for a consul-
tant university to help it and was recommended to UNT, Ogden said. In July, Suleman assisted in the hiring of more than 20 English language instructors for the program, all from Turkey. Suleman said that there were a lso 20 f luent English speakers hired, most from the U.S. “U N T w i l l ser ve a s a c o n s u l t a n t ,” s h e s a i d . “We a re helping t hem to start an English language program.” Su lema n sa id Zir ve University funds all aspects of the project. St udent s who w ish to participate in the program must be accepted to Zirve and then submit to diagnostic testing to distinguish their f luency of the English language, Suleman said. “T he f i rst t ier w i l l be devoted to English only,” she said. “First they must be proficient in English and then the academic class will kick in.” T he u n iversit y w i l l be inaug urated on Sept. 28. The projected enrollment for Zirve is 12,000 students by 2013, Suleman said. “UNT will have a great presence in Turkey,” Suleman said. “This institution will a l so t h i n k to u s about building their other academic prog ra ms like education, engineering, communications and business.” Su lema n sa id because Tu rkey is geog raph ica l ly close to Sy ria, Zir ve w ill benefit from the exposure to other cultures.
Zirve University is in the city of Gaziantep in southeast Turkey.