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The Carolina Choir, Chamber Singers and an orchestral courante will showcase one of the longest single works of music to be performed in Memorial Hall. The piece is Bach's Mass in B Minor, and it will be performed today at 7:30 p.m. About two hours long, the work was compiled by Bach from many movements he wrote over his musical career. (1 Comment)

Hundreds of UNC students left Carroll Hall on Wednesday evening striving to meet their "Hmms." "A 'Hmm' is someone who stops you dead in your tracks. In your mind, you're thinking, 'Hmm,'" said David Coleman, "The Date Doctor," who spoke to about 500 UNC students Wednesday, promising to change their lives by the end of the night. (0 Comments)

Most students eating at Lenoir Dining Hall likely don't give much thought to where their food comes from. But Carolina Dining Services administrators are looking closely at the food they serve, making a commitment to offer as much locally produced food as possible. (0 Comments)

Both Chapel Hill high schools will hold prom next month and officers from the Chapel Hill Police Department hope to promote a fun but safe night for local students. The police department presented a workshop called "Reality Check" from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (0 Comments)

If money talks, then computer science and business majors at UNC are listening loud and clear. According to the annual First Destination Survey released by University Career Services, May 2006 graduates with a degree in computer science had the highest annual mean salary at $60,000. (0 Comments)

A celebration of the research of almost 100 undergraduate students will take place Friday in the Center for Dramatic Art. The eighth annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research, which will last from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., is sponsored by UNC's Office of Undergraduate Research and the Roosevelt Institute. (0 Comments)

A spoken word performance will fuse poetry, traditional theater and the sounds of hip hop, jazz and the blues when the Universes Poetic Theater Company performs this weekend at the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art. The show will run until Sunday, with evening shows at 8 p. (0 Comments)

The University's new text-message alert system, Rave Wireless, faces some challenges as it nears its campuswide roll out. The system - now in a pilot phase - has several advantages over other types of emergency communication, but officials point to its lack of visibility and inability to send longer messages as possible challenges to its success. (0 Comments)

UNC officials announced Wednesday the director for UNC's newly created American Indian Center. Clara Sue Kidwell, director of the Native American Studies program and professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma, was chosen by Provost Bernadette Gray-Little to fill the new post. (0 Comments)

An extension to the Bolin Creek area greenway could establish another link in Chapel Hill's growing network of pedestrian and bicycle paths in coming years. The proposed pathway would provide access between Carolina North, the University's proposed satellite campus, and downtown Chapel Hill. (0 Comments)

After years of controversy and heated debate, Student Congress and the Carolina Athletic Association officials said they hope a new act will help ease the tension between the two organizations. The act, which passed Tuesday, will replace Title VII of the Student Code - which provides guidelines for the CAA's administration - with a simplified version that gives the CAA greater autonomy. (0 Comments)

As state primaries draw nearer and 2008 presidential candidates narrow their campaign efforts to those with early primaries, the decision of Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani to appear in Raleigh this Friday came as a surprise to some analysts. Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina are expected to be the first states to hold presidential party elections in January. (0 Comments)

Growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be. Triangle playwright Adam Sobsey's "The Gratitude of Wasps," a comedic drama about the travesties of adulthood, will make its world premiere at 8 p.m. today at the Deep Dish Theater Company. Sobsey, who lives in Durham, said the play comes from a number of places, including Victorian novelist George Eliot's "Middlemarch. (0 Comments)