Alright Gretchen

[ADLER]

If I didn't know who Larry McMurtry was I would be embarrassed to admit it.

Is Larry McMurty a distant relative of Larry McMurtry? I don't know, but he's listed on our Facts about UNT page.

[untphd]

Is Larry McMurty a distant relative of Larry McMurtry? I don't know, but he's listed on our Facts about UNT page.

Someone should be proofing.

[UNTLifer]

Someone should be proofing.

I find it amazing that their is an email link provided at the bottom to report errors. Why in the world would you put something out there for the public to read and then ask them to report errors. How about proofing your context prior to "publishing" it. That is embarrassing.

[ADLER]

I find it amazing that their is an email link provided at the bottom to report errors. Why in the world would you put something out there for the public to read and then ask them to report errors. How about proofing your context prior to "publishing" it. That is embarrassing.

No offense to them, the whole web site looks gawd-awful horrible.

[DallasGreen]

SAT, GPA, retention rate and graduation rate reflect student qualification. Tech is higher in these criteria. Having " lower admission rates" does't indicate poor quality of students. Stanford has a very low admission rate.

NT has a low alumni giving rate. A strong athletic program would certainly improve student identity with the school and increased support.

The President of OSU realized that alumni giving to any dept. raised the overall reputation and giving capacity for all depts. When asked if he regretted the Boone Pickens gift being designated to athletics rather than OSU as a whole, he said definitely NO and that it had made his job as well as their development dept.'s job that much easier because they could now use the Pickens donation as a benchmark and point out to potential WEALTHY donors that if Boone gave that much to athletics that they should give similar support to the area that they favored. When Pickens was asked about his designation to athletics, he made two points: 1) He felt athletics gave the most visable benefit promoting OSU and 2) It was his money and he would give it where he pleased. I've heard about several innovative ways he has found to support OSU and still benefit personally with his hedge fund, life insurance financing for wealthy alumni with OSU as beneficiary, etc. It takes thinking outside the box and using devices that have proven lucrative for other universities. I personally feel that a lot of our lack of alumni giving by well-healed donors is because we are not creative in devising ways that the donor also benefits other than just being charitably inclined to support NT. THIS IS WHERE A PRESIDENT SHOULD BE THE LEADING FORCE RATHER THAN JUST BEING A SPECTATOR WHO GIVES LIP SERVICE AND NOTHING ELSE.