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News
Friday, October 8,2010
Abigail Allen & Josh Pherigo News Editors
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Construction continues on the $78 million Mean Green stadium near Victory Hall. Manhattan Construction, the company
in charge of builidng the structure, partnered with HKS Sports and Entertainment Group to build Cowboys Stadium.
Officials, construction crews
work on keeping noise down
By Kate Copeland
Contributing Writer
With construction on the
new stadium well underway,
students living in nearby
Victory Hall can see and hear
the work right out their dorm
room windows.
But UNT officials are trying
to keep the noise down or
hold it to the least disturbing
times. The projected cost of
the stadium is $78 million,
about half of which will come
from student service fees,
according to a previous Daily
article.
"We try not to inconve-
nience and do the construc-
tion closest to the dorm
around the holidays," said
Rick Villarreal, the director
of UNT athletics. "We tear
concrete on student breaks,
like winter, so we don't
disturb."
During the semester, the
major construction starts at
about 6:30 a.m. at the earliest
and shuts down around 3:30
p.m., said Villarreal, whose
office is in the Athletic Center
next to the new stadium.
"It is noisiest around 2
p.m.," said Luis Hernandez,
a radio, television and film
freshman and one of the 594
students living at Victory.
Hernandez said he has not,
"This construction company
is really good about keeping
things clean, especially areas
around the stadium."
—Rick Villarreal
UNT Athletics director
however, encountered any
other problems like road-
blocks or zoning to prevent
him from getting into his
dorm.
The new stadium site is
about 100 feet from the dorm,
said Derek Gates, the Victory
Hall director who lives and
works at Victory.
"You go out the north-side
exit and it's literally our back-
yard," he said.
Although the new stadium
site is close to the hall,
students have been able to
get to their dorms.
"It has been terrific," he
said. "There has been no
traffic,"
Construction started in
lanuary and is supposed to
be finished in early luly 2011,
Villarreal said.
The company, Manhattan
Construction, also part-
nered with HKS Sports and
Entertainment Group to build
Cowboys Stadium, according
to a UNT news release,
"Realistically, this construc-
tion company is really good
about keeping things clean,
especially areas around the
stadium," Villarreal said. "You
know the stadium is being
built, but it doesn't bother
anybody."
Both Gates and Villarreal
said there have been
no complaints filed by
students.
"The most noise was in the
summer time," Villarreal said.
"As we move into concrete
blocks, we will be using loud
hammers. But we will always
check with facilities for the best
time not to disturb anyone,
Keeping things clean and picking
up trash would be a minor issue
seen around the vicinity."
For more information on
the stadium construction,
go to http://www.unt.edu/
stadium/.
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Language course o ers
insight into biblical texts
Students take
class for personal
reasons
By Corrisa Jackson
Copy Assistant
On Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 10 a.m., Ruth
Precker leads students in
their foreign language class.
But it's not French or Spanish
they're learning.
It's Biblical Hebrew.
Many students take it
to understand the Old
Testament better, Precker
said. By learning the
language, students can trans-
late and give their own inter-
pretation to the words.
"I give them the tools to
be able to translate the text,
biblical text," Precker said.
She incorporates movies,
songs and other aspects of
Israeli culture to make the
language relevant to modern
times and to get a feel for how
Hebrew is spoken.
"I try to color it," she said.
"We sing, we watch movies,
we read text so it will not be
dry teaching. So far it seems
like they like it/*
Florian Kubsch, an English
and political science junior,
takes the class for fun and to
learn more about the Bible.
"I'm a Christian, so of
course I'm interested in the
Bible," Kubsch said. "It's the
word of God."
Kubsch is also taking
the class for historical and
personal reasons, he said.
Three of his great-grandfa-
thers were in the Nazi Party
during WWII.
He said the German
Christians in his church have
repented for the Holocaust,
and in turn he became inter-
ested in Jewish life and
culture.
"Actually, I'm doing the
exact opposite from what my
great-grandfathers did, being
Nazis," Kubsch said. "So I
guess this is part ofrepenting
and turning around and
going the other way."
Lauren Guinn, a political
science junior, had several
reasons for taking the class.
Her ancestors were all Jewish
until her grandparents
converted to Christianity
in the '80s.
Guinn plans on attending
seminary after graduation,
and she said taking either
Latin or Hebrew is good
preparation.
With her background and
class schedule, Hebrew won
out.
"It's very nice not taking
French or Spanish or some-
thing like that," Guinn
said. "You have a different
perspective, a different
outlook, and it's Middle
Eastern-European, so you
get both of those cultures
mixed together."
This is the second year
UNT has offered Biblical
Hebrew.
In the past, students could
learn modern Hebrew.
Precker taught Hebrew in
the Dallas-Fort Worth areafor
almost 20 years. She started
the Adult Hebrew Institute
in the Jewish Community
Center of Dallas and ran it
for 12 years. She has taught
Hebrew at UNT since fall
2002.
Marie-Christine Koop,
chairwoman of the depart-
ment of foreign languages
and literatures, said the
department realized it might
have a wider audience if it
offered Biblical Hebrew
instead of the modern course
because of the interest in
studying the Bible in its orig-
inal text.
There is no other college
campus in the area that offers
Hebrew outside of seminary
schools, Precker said.
"In a way we are unique,"
she said. "You can study
French and Spanish
anywhere."
UN tries to forge connections
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Powell said the size wasn't
something that attracted
her to the university, but
it was an aspect that she
appreciated.
Sluder said he was unsure
what the effects of Continued
growth would be, but he
feels that if UNT's resources
are properly managed, no
problems should arise.
"I can see [the growth]
forcing them to raise tuition
because they need to build
a new building for classes
or hire more professors,
but I think if they manage
the money right, they prob-
ably shouldn't have to," he
said.
Despite the university's
size, Bloczynski said, the
chief concern is turning
students into UNT fans,
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