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Let me clarify...they did not CHANGE their shade of blue, they simply gave it a specific number, (maybe blue 54?)

As of this year, the University of Kansas has an official shade of blue, and the letters 'K' and 'U' must be configured in a specific way.

It's the wrong color.

The current music building was never a dorm. I was a Green Jacket in the late 60's, early 70's and we had to memorize all of the dorms. I lived in Chilton Hall, which housed the sororities. Yes, Chilton, Marquis, Terrell, Oak Street Hall, Kendall and Bruce were dormitories. The current music practice buildings on Avenue C, and Bain Hall were three of four halls that made up the Quadrangle, also called the "Quads," which were student housing. The athletes lived in the Quads for a while. Clark Hall was the newest in the late 60's, then Kerr was built.

The Union Building was referred to as the "U.B." in those days. Great coffee cake upstairs. The post office and the "University Store" (not the UNT Bookstore) are still located in the same place, by the way, but my post office box, 11667, is no longer there due to remodeling.

Thank goodness is right!!!

I'm sorry...I meant "pinned," not "posted."

Thank you, Coach. Could this be posted? "It is only hours away from being exactly one year from the tragedy of losing Andrew Smith. I still think about what happend all the time, it is still heavy on my heart. I once again will ask everyone to make the best of what happend to Andrew and learn from the mistake he never had a chance to learn from. Last fall during Red Ribbon week, I wore his jersey to school and told all my classes about him. It made an impact on the kids because it put a name and a face with the consequences of drugs and alcohol. It also showed that nobody is immune from the consequences no matter how talented or well known you are. I intend on doing the same this year as well. If it can help someone avoid a similar situation, it is the only solace I could imagine coming from the tragedy of a year ago. Keep his family in your thoughts and prayers, this will surely be a tough time for them." #12

Finally...someone agrees with me about the "new" green. The hunter is much more attractive. I personally do not buy the argument that our dark hunter green did not look well on television. TCU purple looks positively blue on my TV, but you do not see them changing the shade. Further...no one asked the student body, the faculty, or the alumni if the color should change.

Some of us will continue to wear the hunter green as a matter of choice, because it's more attractive.

Thanks for the "heads up." I missed it the first time through the sports section.

I noticed that James Battle (?) from Denton Ryan has left TCU. He said he plans to go to SFA, but I wonder if he would reconsider if a Division I school from his hometown asked for his services?

...because they choose to ignore us.

A lot of it has to do with being from Texas, and not growing up in a basketball state. I, for one, just don't like basketball as well, although it was fun back in the late '60's when Joe Hamilton was wearing the green.

Harry...It is unlike you to be unkind. You owe Michael Hickman an apology. The following was totally unnecessary to the story: "...should be a better blocker than dearly departed Michael Hickmon." (and no, I'm not his mother, or any relative whatsoever. I don't even know Hickman.)

My name is Mary, and I am probably the only former Green Jacket on the board. I love this university....GMG!!!

Why not UNT-Arlington? Sounds like a quick way to upgrade our engineering program, and pick up an architecture school, to boot.

It sounds to me like you're talking to the wrong folks. I suspect the color guard (or flag corps?) select the color of the flags themselves, and they don't like green, particularly the green they have if they were described as "ugly." Speak with the girls(?) directly, not the directors.

I think you're mistaken, Stan. It was my understanding that UNT had already surpassed Tech in terms of numbers. BTW...I asked my brother who is a prof at Kansas what the enrollment is at KU, and he said "about 28,000."

I wholeheartedly support honoring the Hurleys in this manner.

I just read in the FWST that the Texas Wesleyan Law School has been up for sale. The article said that it was offered to TCU, but that talks broke down about a month ago. I wonder if anyone at UNT is interested?

The sorority girls will recruit anyone who registers for rush. It's been my observation that commitments such as band or athletics often conflict with the formal rush schedule. Sororities usually do not contact girls who have not registered for and/or participated in rush because they are not allowed to take more than quota, which is based on the number who go through formal rush. (They take the total number of registered girls and divide by the number of sororities to get each group's "quota.") Those sororities with openings can contact unaffiliated girls during "open rush," but most of the groups have as many girls by then as they are allowed to take. I am sure that athletes are a valued commodity, if their schedules allow them to participate in recruitment.

A&M doesn't have a Homecoming. Bonfire was traditionally held before the UT game, but not as a part of homecoming festivities.

I never heard what the folks in Austin thought, but the folks at UT Arlington were incensed.

Course-sharing between UNT and TWU is nothing new. There are several graduate "federation" programs in which UNT and TWU grad students take the same courses...some at UNT and some at TWU. As a UNT special education grad student, I had two TWU courses on my degree plan. It only makes sense that there will be more of this sort of thing in the days to come. Remember, also, that only a few months back there was a proposal before the legislature to put UNT, TWU, UTA and UT Southwestern Medical School in the UNT system with UNT Dallas and the UNTHSC. Change is coming.