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(11/13/07 5:00am)
Students will give a voice today to an often-silent topic - sexual violence.
Project Dinah, a student organization that promotes women's safety and empowerment, is sponsoring "Speak Out! Against Sexual Assault" tonight in the Pit.
"For some reason, our society thinks it's inappropriate to talk about sexual assault," said senior Alyson Culin, a Project Dinah member. "The entire goal of Project Dinah is to shadow the silence."
The event aims to help end the culture of silence that surrounds sexual assault and to promote awareness about sexual assault on campus and in the nation.
(10/22/07 4:00am)
Carolina for Kibera, the focal point of the 2008 Senior Class Campaign, is developing a more stable, self-sustaining business strategy by establishing a $4 million endowment.
CFK's programs promote youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in Kibera through sports, women's empowerment and community development.
"We want the security to continue the work that we are doing regardless of the amount that we are able to fundraise in any given year," CFK Vice President Emily Pierce said. "The sustainability that an endowment affords is unmatched by any other source."
One advantage that endowments have over grants is that they give an organization more flexibility in deciding how to spend money, said Mat Despard, professor in the School of Social Work.
"Grants come with so many strings attached," Despard said.
With an endowment, the group uses only interest accumulated from the principle balance for funding.
So far, the organization has raised $630,000 for its endowment fund.
Because CFK is now a major UNC-affiliated entity, the University will help the organization invest and manage its endowment.
The donation made from the senior class fund will go toward the clinics and toward sending UNC volunteers to Kibera.
"Our class is a very philanthropically minded and worldly class," Senior Class President Ashley Shores said. "That's why the CFK speaks so perfectly to what the senior campaign is."
Pierce, who is the only paid, full-time CFK employee in the U.S., said the endowment will ensure that the programs in Kenya receive their necessary funding each year as the programs evolve.
"We should be addressing the needs of the community in Kibera, not the needs of a foundation," Pierce said. "We want to stay true to our grass roots."
Next year will mark the final year that CFK receives grants from the Ford Foundation, one of the organization's primary benefactors since it was founded as a student organization in 2001 by then UNC student Rye Barcott.
In the charitable organization's first five years, CFK reinvested 82 percent of its funds into building and improving its four community development programs in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
CFK's annual budget of $250,000 will increase this year because of the construction of a third Tabitha Medical Clinic that will contribute to the treatment of about 20,000 patients each year.
"When you are looking at raising an endowment, you are looking at an organization that is way beyond its initial stages of growth," Despard said.
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(10/22/07 4:00am)
UNC Mobile, the cell phone service plan that the University began offering this semester, has expanded the Guardian service’s coverage to Granville Towers and fraternity and sorority houses near campus.
(09/21/07 4:00am)
Nonathletes will be able to eat at the football team's breakfast table with a simple swipe of a card when the Kenan Football Center installs a One Card reader next month.
The center, which serves primarily the football team, has been in the shadows of other popular dining spots on campus.
Although the football center has offered breakfast to the public since it opened in 1997, only student athletes have eaten breakfast at the facility so far this semester.
"It's not the most convenient location on campus," said Scott Myers, director of food and vending. "But it's nice to give students more of a variety."
About 6,000 students have meal plans this semester, but Myers said dining services is holding off on promoting the center until the One Card reader is installed.
The dining hall, run by Carolina Dining Services, fills out paper forms that allow students to use meal plans and dining flex.
Breakfast runs from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday and costs $6.75.
"You don't really think about breakfast and football going together," said Andrew Lee, a freshman who eats breakfast every day at Rams Head Dining Hall. "At first I would check it out, but if it brought something new to my diet, then I would definitely go there."
The menu is prepared and monitored by a nutritionist, who ensures it's balanced with the correct nutrients that athletes need every day.
"It's literally the same food they would find at any other dining hall, except there is a smaller selection," said Jennifer Ketterly, coordinator of nutrition programs. "It's the same folks cooking the same food."
According to an NCAA bylaw, student athletes can eat only one training table meal - a meal that is provided to athletes and their teams to aid their conditioning - per day during the regular academic year.
Football players eat their training table meal at dinner when the dining hall is closed to the public, to refuel from practice, Ketterly said.
Training table meals used to be served three times a day in Ehringhaus Residence Hall, which was where most athletes lived, said Larry Gallo, senior associate director in the Department of Athletics.
Gallo said the NCAA changed the rule to integrate athletes with the rest of the student body.
"The NCAA came along and said, 'We want the athletes to be more mainstream,'" Gallo said.
The Kenan Football Center dining hall also caters campus events and for the boxes during football games. "It's good food," Gallo said. "But it's not like you are walking into Ruth's Chris or something."
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(09/13/07 4:00am)
Chuck Stone has dedicated his life to journalism.
And now journalism is dedicating something back to him.
The Society of Professional Journalists, an organization dedicated to preserving and improving journalism, announced Monday that it is honoring Stone with the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award.
"It's like dying and going to heaven," Stone said of winning the award. "I happen to be a great admirer of hers. She was a movie star and a first-class professional."
The 10,000-member SPJ created and first gave the award to White House correspondent Helen Thomas in 2000.
In his 83 years, Stone worked as a special assistant to Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, acted as a liaison between police and 75 murder suspects in Philadelphia, served as the founding president of the National Association of Black Journalists and taught journalism at UNC.
Christine Tatum, national president of the SPJ and a UNC alumna, was on the SPJ executive committee that chose Stone.
"This year - to me - it was a no-brainer," Tatum said.
Past recipients of the award include NBC News' Tom Brokaw and KTLA's Stan Chambers.
"Professor Stone was one of my professors, and I just backed him up wholeheartedly," Tatum said of her connection with Stone, who taught journalism at UNC for 14 years.
Stone, who is now retired, said he encouraged his students to be first and foremost good human beings. "I would always exhort my students to become citizens of the world," he said.
He will be officially recognized for the award on Oct. 6 at a convention in Washington, D.C.
Stone recounted one of his most memorable experiences as a journalist when he served as a hostage negotiator, saving six people's lives.
He said he thinks the suspects wanted him because he "had a reputation of being a stand-up person fighting for race issues in Philly."
Among his achievements, Stone served as the editor-in-chief of several newspapers that offered a voice to the nation's black community, such as the Chicago Defender, the Washington Afro-American and the New York Age.
Tatum also spoke about Stone's involvement with the nation's black population. "Communities that we should hear from more loudly and more often have had a voice because of him," she said.
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad," said journalism professor Philip Meyer, quoting Rafael Sabatini's "Scaramouche."
Meyer, who's known Stone for more than 40 years, said this quote reminds him of Stone's pivotal involvement as a columnist during the civil rights movement.
It was David Bulla, a journalism professor and adviser to the Iowa State University chapter of the SPJ, that nominated Stone for the award because of the impression Stone's teaching left upon him.
"Every time he spoke, the students were absolutely spellbound," Bulla said. "His class was legendary."
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(09/11/07 4:00am)
Five UNC School of Law professors dispelled myths, shared experiences and assuaged anxieties Monday as they talked to about 50 law school students at a lecture.
The lecture, titled "What I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Law School About Building a Legal Career: Advice From Faculty" offered answers to typical law student career questions and concerns.
Moderator Sarah Wald, special assistant to the dean of the law school, emphasized that there is no one way to be a lawyer. She compiled a list of career questions for the panelists.