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Articles by Emily Kennard

When Marcus Ginyard needs a reminder of what’s important to him, all he needs to do is take his shirt off.

Ginyard’s six tattoos, one on each wrist, his back, both sides, and chest, represent significant people, events and philosophies in his life.

“I like being a piece of artwork,” he said.

He got his first tattoo in the summer of 2006 to honor a high school friend who died.

“Up until that point, I was the most anti-tattoo person you could ever imagine,” he said. “But obviously, things change.”

Last year, 23-year-old UNC alumnus Antoine Dove was sitting on his couch watching the NBC reality show, “The Biggest Loser.”

Now he’s a contestant.

“It was a very inspiring show,” Dove said. “I liked the fact that you saw people changing.”

Dove, who graduated from UNC in May 2008 with a degree in public health, was chosen from more than 100,000 applicants to be one of 16 contestants for the show’s eighth season.

“You always dream you’ll be able to fit into jeans you bought from a regular store,” he said.

UNC senior Jess Shorland is hoping that writing about her debt will help relieve it.

Up to $45,000 in debt from college loans, Shorland, a peace, war and defense major from Virginia, blogs on her Web site about her quest to pay off her debt before she graduates in May.

“I’m giving what I learn back to people,” Shorland said. “I can provide valuable knowledge.”

Fourteen-year-old Durham resident Rosalia Preiss knew little about journalism before she took Jock Lauterer’s photography class this past summer.

“I have always been interested in photography, but I never had the chance to do it,” she said. “This class showed me what journalism is like, and it seems pretty cool.”

Introducing Preiss to photography meant success for Lauterer, a lecturer in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and director of the Carolina Community Media Project.

Victoria Beyer, 65, wakes up every morning and is greeted by her housemates — 35 Alpha Delta Pi sorority members.

Beyer and Gayle Kietur, 63, both work as sorority house directors, where they live and interact with sorority members.

Beyer and Kietur, the house director of Kappa Kappa Gamma, met more than 30 years ago when they lived across the street in Michigan. Their mutual passion for horses developed into a friendship and later evolved into a business partnership.

For Mark Burnett, the manager of the popular bar He’s Not Here, seeing former customers’ children is common.

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