The second coming

By MATTHEW BOWLES | September 22

A monstrous hurricane, mass evacuations and rising gas prices. Gulf coast residents have heard this story before, and as Category 5 Hurricane Rita ...

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Police log

By Staff Editor | September 22

A car robbery was reported at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday at 211 Church St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. Chapel Hill Police Department spokeswoman ...

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Carrboro considers widening bolin creek buffer zone

By MEGHAN DAVIS | September 22

At a Carrboro Board of Aldermen public comment session Tuesday, environmental planners and nature lovers looked at how best to preserve one of the area's ...

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School rules advocate safety and health

By NICKI JHABVALA | September 22

County school officials are trying to instill safe and healthy behavior in students by adopting two new policies, one aimed at seat belt use and one aimed ...

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Local 506 to host benefit for Katrina

By MARTA OSTROWSKI | September 22

Locals have offered free gas, proceeds from ice cream sales and Mardi Gras beads to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims - now they'll try to do ...

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Greenwood discusses neighborhood conservation

September 22

Some Chapel Hill residents are hearing the cans and cannots of neighborhood zoning regulations. Inhabitants of the Greenwood neighborhood met with ...

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Trustees approve sites for Carolina North buildings

By KATIE HOFFMANN | September 22

University officials are taking steps to move Carolina North from imagination to reality.

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College newspapers fight for rights

By ERIN FRANCE | September 22

The U.S. Supreme Court received a petition Tuesday to review a case from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that could affect free press policies on ...

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An inside view to the BOT

By Brian Hudson | September 22

During the year-long term, a student body president takes two oaths. First is an oath to represent the interests of the student body. But the student ...

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City briefs

By From staff and wire reports | September 22

Local initiative aids Katrina victims in North Carolina Several locations around Chapel Hill are accepting suitcases full of clothes, toiletries, new ...

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New-age art form comes to hall

By JIM WALSH | September 22

A performance coming to Memorial Hall this Friday defies definition. Part music, part cinema, part movement, it is an amalgam of media and a collage ...

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Travel experiences enrich education

By SCOTT BURR | September 22

You've heard the statement, "You learn more outside the classroom in college than inside." This is because four years of freedom shapes you in ways ...

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Tuition panel to see first numbers

By Brian Hudson | September 22

About halfway through Wednesday's meeting of the Tuition Advisory Task Force, Provost Robert Shelton, co-chairman of the group, leaned back in his chair ...

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State & Nation briefs

By From staff and wire reports | September 22

New commission to address global higher-learning needs U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced this week the creation of a commission ...

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Stone Center marches to its own beat

By KATHERINE EVANS | September 22

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History celebrated the end of its inaugural year this month - but the birthday was years in the making. ...

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UNC defense planning to 'Pack a punch

September 22

The goal line stand. Everybody remembers it. The image of former N.C. State tailback T.A. McLendon slamming into the solid 6-foot-6, 297-pound wall ...

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Community calendar

By Staff Editor | September 22

A Study Abroad Fair will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Great Hall of the Student Union. Program representatives, study abroad advisers ...

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N.C. leaders say gas tax repeal unlikely

By KAVITA PILLAI | September 21

High gas prices have led some people to call for a temporary tax break at the pump, but North Carolina's legislative leadership says no such action will ...

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Staking out reform

By KATIE CLINE | September 21

Polk Place has long been regarded as one of the more laid-back areas on campus. But some students have taken that feeling a step further this week, ...

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School funds incite debate

By ERIC JOHNSON | September 21

A Bush administration plan to provide federal aid for schools that enroll Hurricane Katrina evacuees is facing criticism from opponents of school vouchers. The ...

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