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(11/15/06 5:00am)
Editor's note: The Daily Tar Heel has tracked four freshmen since August, gauging their health habits as they adjust to college life. Each month, the freshmen are weighed by the DTH, and answer questions concerning a featured health issue.
Halloween is done, Thanksgiving is creeping up, and Roy and the boys are hitting the court, which can only mean one thing: It's almost time for finals and the home stretch of fall semester.
Students across campus are working on term papers, finishing readings and getting ready for the approaching several-week study binge.
(10/18/06 4:00am)
Editor's note: The Daily Tar Heel has tracked four freshmen since August, gauging their health habits as they adjust to college life. Each month, the freshmen are weighed by the DTH, and answer questions concerning a featured health issue.
Campus is a dangerous place.
Or at least it can be, if students aren't careful to avoid some common health pitfalls, especially during flu season, which started this month.
Freshmen might be particularly at risk during flu season because of their lack of college-life experience, said Carol Kozel, nursing director at Campus Health Services.
(09/20/06 4:00am)
The Daily Tar Heel is tracking the health habits of four freshmen each month until April. This week each wore a pedometer to measure the distance they traveled on foot.
A Public Broadcasting System report says students should strive to walk five miles per day to sustain their weight.
The freshmen's August weights were self-reported, but they now will weigh in on an electronic scale.
Anand Dwivedi
Dwivedi, who lives in Hinton James Residence Hall, is staying active with intramural football and is looking forward to beginning intramural soccer in October.
(09/15/06 4:00am)
At a University where sports are not just a passion but a lifestyle, the beginning of a new season means a shift in the mood on campus. Franklin Street is stained blue, and Saturday afternoons are reserved - for football - on calendars across the state.
But for most UNC fans, tailgating options are limited, especially compared with neighboring schools such as Duke, Wake Forest and N.C. State universities.
At the last two football games, fans said parking space, drinking restrictions and subdued football enthusiasm made for lackluster pre-game celebrations in local parking lots.
(08/29/06 4:00am)
Hark the sound of Tar Heel voices. All-male, all-female and co-ed a cappella groups around the University are warming up for a busy year with auditions beginning this week.
(08/23/06 4:00am)
With the summer before her senior year looming, Gabrielle Reynolds knew that to boost her post-graduation employment chances an internship was a must.
After several e-mails and a long phone interview, the journalism student found herself in the ultimate summer internship position - the newest employee of a well-known international public relations firm in Manhattan.
"I was looking forward to getting some great in-the-field experience, rather than just menial work, like photocopying," she said.
(08/19/06 4:00am)
May 25 - Take a stroll through Chapel Hill and you will see many sights.
But regardless of the time of day, one thing that you will undoubtedly see on a daily jaunt through Chapel Hill is handfuls of runners, walkers and bikers that sprinkle the town with life and movement.
Chapel Hill recently was designated a "Fit Community" by BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina and the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund, among eight other state communities that are taking steps to improve livability and fitness for residents.
(07/20/06 4:00am)
MOVIEREVIEW
"You, Me and Dupree"
3 Stars
Although not the best of its genre, "You, Me and Dupree" joins the ranks of what has now become a successful series of films ("Old School," "Wedding Crashers") that deal with the same issues: grown-up men who don't want to grow up and the women who deal with them.
Fortunately, like its predecessors, the film is salvaged from its potential simplicity by clever casting decisions and overall comic appeal.
(07/20/06 4:00am)
When first-year students enter the University in the fall, they face an array of decisions.
More specifically, they face an array of costs, including, but not limited to, dorm supplies, computers, meal plans, notebooks, books - and, naturally, a bag into which said supplies may be put.
Until now, university bookstores nationwide have offered similar products to help students lug around their supplies. Experts say leather-bound black computer bags, backpacks and decorative but not very functional messenger bags rank among the most popular of purchases.
(06/29/06 4:00am)
MOVIEREVIEW
"Clean"
3.5 stars
"Clean" is for anyone who has turned over a new leaf, overcome temptation, struggled to make ends meet or accepted forgiveness.
It is a story of love and survival, of the highest highs and the lowest lows and of fighting for another chance.
"Clean" follows Emily Wang, an embittered heroin junkie whose failing rock-star boyfriend dies from an overdose, leaving her to fend for herself and for their son.
(06/22/06 4:00am)
MOVIEREVIEW
"The Lake House"
3 stars
This summer, romance is in the air. Or, in this case, the mailbox.
"The Lake House" is a drama-romance about a woman who falls in love with a past tenant of a unique house on Lake Michigan.
The catch? The lovebirds are living in parallel dimensions. He lives in 2004, she in 2006.
Although the time-travel, suspend-your-reality premise may seem tired and a tad silly, it is adapted from "Il Mare," a South Korean love story and audience favorite at the 2000 Pusan International Film Festival.
(06/22/06 4:00am)
Antique car owners carefully maneuver their showpieces off the grassy knoll where they were perched. A little boy holds a blow-up rifle with the stars and stripes across the side. Barbeque vendors fold up their lawn chairs and take down the lists of prices ($3 for a pulled-pork sandwich - Eastern North Carolina style, of course).
Such was the scene at the close of this year's "Hog Day."
Begun in Hillsborough in 1982, Hog Day is a celebration of all things summer.
(06/15/06 4:00am)
University students trying to decide where to eat, drink or shop undoubtedly will pick from the heavy hitters of the Chapel Hill scene, but a majority of undergraduates rarely allow themselves to continue down Franklin Street - past Granville Towers - to hit the second heart of downtown Chapel Hill.
But the blocks between Mallette and South Graham streets - the West End - have served as the focal point of downtown's entertainment and shopping for many years.
(05/25/06 4:00am)
Take a stroll through Chapel Hill and you will see many sights: Franklin Street, with its landmark shopping and dining destinations; the University, with its rolling quads and colonial architecture; and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which houses - among other things - Town Hall and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA.
But regardless of the time of day or location, one thing that you will undoubtedly see on a daily jaunt through Chapel Hill is handfuls of runners, walkers and bikers that sprinkle the town with life and movement.
(05/18/06 4:00am)
MOVIEREVIEW
Poseidon
2.5 Stars
Blockbuster director Wolfgang Petersen ("The Perfect Storm," "Das Boot") has shown he knows how to navigate water - or, at least, navigate his films through it.
"The Perfect Storm" showed film audiences the ugly side of the ocean and the toll it takes on ships, while "Das Boot," Petersen's first major release, explored the claustrophobic atmosphere of sea-faring vessels.
But his most recent attempt, "Poseidon," which manages to mold both aspects of the aforementioned, leaves only a lukewarm impression.
