Keble College is one of more than two dozen universities in 20 cities in Britain whose bustling dormitories are transformed into tranquil bed-and-breakfasts during spring, summer and sometimes even Christmas vacations.
Downtown Denton is a grid of squat early-20th-century brick houses, with two notable exceptions: the 10,000-student campus of Texas Woman's University, whose twin dormitories are the town's lone skyscrapers, and the campus of the University of North Texas, which has about 35,000 students.
And administrators here say they have submitted an application for a third dormitory whose energy use has recently met the Energy Star requirements for buildings.
It's a long way from the Birmingham dormitory town, whose most famous musical sons are the long-forgotten Ocean Colour Scene and Ritchie Neville from the boy-band Five, to Las Vegas – the city of sin and birthplace of The Killers.
Mr. Stringer is frustrated that N.Y.U., in his view, seems to be backpedaling on a 26-page proposal it put forward in January that indicated it could shrink its plan to erect four academic and dormitory buildings, whose total size would equal that of the Empire State Building, within two housing complexes south of Washington Square Park.
The ambition is to create a non-exclusive "urban place" rather than a dormitory, splendidly sustainable, whose landscape of courts, streets, parks and lakes is based around both shared spaces and the intelligent management of rainwater.
None of the Islamist vigilantes whose dawn raid on a student dormitory sparked the protest appears so far to have been arrested.The protesters' crime was to cross a red line: they moved from calling for the reform of the theocratic system to challenging the system itself.
So the company's music buyers suggested a tie-in with Moby (Richard Melville Hall), a musician whose electronic doodlings appeal to the dormitory set.
Brother Sanon died in his dormitory room at the school, whose collapse also killed scores of students.
Instead of the carefree imp, whose poster image has adorned a thousand dormitory walls, Marie now appears to have been more like a doomed character in a Zola novel.
