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Amber Arnold, Arts & Life Editor
Arts & Life
01.21.2010
amberm.arnold@yahoo.com
Host gives back to "NT
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Coming back to UNT
Dunham became the play-
by-play commentator for
basketball and football games
on the Mean Green Radio
Network in 1994 and still is the
"voice of the Mean Green."
"It was a dream someday to
maybe come back and broad-
cast the games — I've had a
chance to do that," he said.
"I just absolutely love doing
that."
In the future, Dunham said
he plans to organize a group of
RTVF alumni to help fund the
new athletic stadium.
Miller said he tries to attend
UNT events and athletic games
when he can.
"I find myself so busy down
here, I don't get back up there,"
he said.
Once a year, Miller said he
loads his bicycle into his car and
takes a ride around Denton to
look at all the changes and take
a ride down memory lane.
Desmond Hunt, an interdis-
ciplinary studies sophomore,
said he listens to The Ticket
whenever he drives in his car,
especially after weekend and
Monday night football.
Hunt said he didn't realize
Dunham and Miller met and
attended UNT, but the fact that
they did shows to him that UNT
has a lot of opportunities.
"It definitely shows a future
for a lot of students who really
don't know what they want to
do or, if they do, shows them
how far they can really go
because The Ticket is a very
big show," he said.
Whenever he is driving with
his guy friends, Hunt said he
tells them to turn the radio
to The Ticket, particularly if
they are arguing about sports
so they can see what the radio
hosts think.
Hunt said that Dunham and
Miller's 16-year run proves they
have a strong sense of deter-
mination.
"Not only is it a great chem -
istry, but it shows that they have
a great friendship and partner-
ship," he said.
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Recycling coordinator Tyler Dierks, left, and Matthew Benedict work in the composting barn at the University of
Washington in Seattle on Dec. 21.
West Coast schools go green
SEATTLE — Need to get to
Seattle University? There's a
green transit pass for that. Need
to meet somebody when you're
there? Try the new eco-friendly
gathering space.
Eating in the cafeteria? The
disposable forks are biodegrad-
able, made from corn. Leftovers?
There's composting, both off-site
and on. Trouble getting home?
Try car-pooling, van-sharing or
something called maxi pool.
Seattle U. is typical of many
universities across the country
that are trying to win the hearts
and minds and tuition checks of
students by becoming greener
than their peers.
Perhaps nowhere is the
trend more apparent than in
the Pacific Northwest, with its
reputation for environmental
awareness.
The move toward greener
campuses is driven as much by
the concerns of a new generation
of students as it is by university
leaders. And it reaches beyond
the cafes and dorms into the
lecture halls. At the University of
Washington, for instance, one of
the few departments expanding
during a time of budget cuts
is the fledgling College of the
Environment.
Local universities have been
quick to crow about their green
successes. Just consider some
recent news releases: "Western
Washington University Students
Sweep Awards at Environmental
Competition," reads one.
"Princeton Review Chooses The
Evergreen State College for Its
'Green Rating Honor Roll,'" reads
another. "Seattle University is
the greenest green campus in
Washington state," trumpets
a third.
Beyond the hype, the univer-
sities are laying down serious
plans for reducing carbon
emissions. The University of
Washington, in particular, has
been lauded by a number of
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national organizations for
its sustainability efforts and
the extensive detail contained
in its 73-page Climate Action
Plan.
In the plan, the school
sets ambitious targets: a 15
percent reduction in green-
house-gas emission over the
next decade, and the elimi-
nation of all net emissions
by 2050.
The university says it
expects technological
improvements to account for
some 60 percent of its energy-
reduction goals. Suggested
improvements range from the
mundane, such as reducing
steam leakage from the pipes
in its heating plant, to the
fanciful, such as pumping
cold water from the depths
of Lake Washington to cool
campus buildings.
The school hopes behav-
ioral changes, prompted
by education and financial
incentives, will account for
another 20 percent of its goals.
Carbon offsets planting trees,
for example would take care
of the remainder.
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And you can't beat the price of tuition. Vincent Evangelisti takes advantage of Yale's noncredit courses online. More uni-
versities, including several in the region, are offering full, free courses.
Yale's ree online courses
attract college students
PHILADELPHIA — A stay-at-
home mom in Maine. A physics
teacher in an under-supplied
school in Quito, Ecuador. A
food-service-supply salesman in
Lancaster, Pa., laid up for m onths
with little to do after a hang-
gliding accident. And two out-
of-work West Philadelphia men
looking to take an intellectual
journey from their living room.
They are among millions
around the world who have been
attracted to Yale University's free
courses on the Web, complete
with audio and video lectures,
syllabi and supplementary mate-
rials.
"It was such a great thing to me,"
said Steve Ziegler, 40, of Lancaster,
who during his recovery watched
Ivy League English-class lectures
on Cormac McCarthy's novel
"Blood Meridian," which quickly
became one of his favorite books.
"I was able to get more out of
something that I love because Yale
put these courses online."
More universities are begin-
ning to upload full-length, free
courses through iTunes, YouTube
and the international consortium
site OpenCourseWare.
The University of Pennsylvania
put up an environmental course
and a psychology course on its
"open learning" site last year, with
plans to expand.
Eastern University in St. Davids,
Pa., launched a Christian spiritu-
ality course and an urban soci-
ology course, also in the last
year.
The University of Delaware
started a page on iTunes last
month with courses currently
restricted to staff and students,
but with some likely to become
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While some worry such proj-
ects are tantamount to giving
away perhaps a university's
most prized treasure its teaching
others say the projects fulfill a
mission to disseminate informa-
tion widely.
Of the eight Ivy League schools,
Yale has been a leader, with 25
free courses online and 11 more
coming this fall.
"We wanted to share our
academic treasures more widely
with the world," said Diana E.E.
Kleiner, a history of arts professor
who directs the project.
Since the Web site's launch
in December 2007, more than
2 million from 193 countries
have viewed though not neces-
sarily completed courses, she
said. Many others have tapped
into the courses on iTunes and
YouTube, she said. Though these
are the same courses taken for
credit by Yale undergraduates
on campus, they are noncredit
on the Web.
The learning is self-directed.
There are no grades, no feedback,
no course credit and no class-
time interaction with faculty.
Participants send e-mails to
professors, which some opt to
answer.
Some of Yale's star professors
take part, including economics
professor Robert J. Shiller, who
wrote "Irrational Exuberance,"
about bubblelike market
behavior.
The project is being funded by
a $3 million, four-year grant from
the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation.
One of the biggest challenges is
raising funds to add new courses,
Kleiner said.
Such ventures can be costly
The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 2002 launched
its OpenCourseWare site and
eventually uploaded materials
for all of the university's 1,950
courses, said Steve Carson,
external relations director for
MIT OpenCourseWare. Thirty
classes offer video.
It cost about $30 million all
but $5 million funded by outside
sources. The university spends
about $3.6 million a year to
maintain it, some of which also
is funded from the outside.
The site's popularity has
grown. In 2009, 15 million
watched courses, up from 4.5
million five years earlier, he said.
About 42 percent are students at
other schools, 9 percent educa-
tors and the rest "self-learners,"
he said.
The project has boosted rela-
tions with universities world-
wide, improved teaching as
professors evaluated themselves,
strengthened ties with students
and alumni, and helped with
recruiting, Carson said.
"About half of our incoming
students said they have looked at
the site," with many reporting it
influenced their choice, Carson
said.
As more universities around
the world began asking for help
to do the same, the nonprofit
OpenCourseWare Consortium
was created that now includes
about 13,000 free courses from
more than 200 higher educa-
tion institutions and associ-
ated organizations from around
the world. Twenty-two are in
the United States, including
the University of California at
Berkeley, University of Michigan,
Tufts, Notre Dame and Johns
Hopkins.
Professors say the project has
been rewarding to them and a
public service.
"We can't admit everybody
to Yale, but we can give this to
everybody absolutely free," said
physics professor Ramamurti
Shankar.
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