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By Staff Editor | February 16

[Jens Lekman, When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog] It's baroque. It's poppy. It's the cutest thing to come out of Sweden since Greta Garbo. Lekman's ...

Small screen big audience

By HARRY KAPLOWITZ | February 16

Conversations come to a close as the clock strikes 10 p.m. Laptops are shut quickly, and the once-vibrant atmosphere of Eringhaus Residence Hall's game ...

Battleground for tolerance

February 16

Senior Dalmar Hussein clearly remembers his thoughts when entering UNC in 2002. "I lived in New York City at the time, and you can imagine the kind ...

Business schools consider wide range of students

By PAUL KIERNAN | February 16

A multiyear, nationwide decline in application numbers to full-time MBA programs has prompted several business schools to consider offering more flexible ...

UNC's first honored by benefactors

By Kerry Cannity | February 16

For residents of Hinton James Residence Hall, the walk to class is about a mile. For Hinton James himself, the walk was closer to 150 miles. After ...

Heels hang on, kill buzz down stretch

By DEREK HOWLES | February 16

It's not often that David Noel stammers three times before answering a postgame question. But when a reporter asked the North Carolina forward to describe ...

Scientists out to have a good time

February 16

MUSICREVIEW We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor 3 & 1/2 stars For its first full-length album, the Brooklynites We Are Scientists are experimenting ...

Police log

By Staff Editor | February 16

A UNC graduate student was arrested at about 5 p.m. Tuesday on charges of assaulting a female, Chapel Hill police reports state. Thomas Tolleson, ...

Students experience voting problems

By WHITNEY KISLING | February 16

Florida isn't the only place to experience technical difficulties in voting procedure. Many students casting their votes on Student Central for Tuesday's ...

Dearmin approaches final days

By KATIE HOFFMANN | February 16

Duck. Duck. Gone. Student Body President Seth Dearmin became a lame duck Tuesday night when James Allred garnered enough votes to be his successor. With ...

City briefs

By Staff Editor | February 16

3 incumbents, 1 hopeful file for May election primaries The list of candidates in the Orange County Board of Commissioners primary grew to three as ...

Tribute fails to display soul

February 16

MUSICREVIEW Various artists Different strokes by different folks 1 Star Sly and the Family Stone might be the only funk band whose music is most ...

Frenetic ska band takes piece of the pie

By Bryan Reed | February 16

CONCERTREVIEW The Pietasters Cat's Cradle Saturday 4 Stars Ska shows are always fun. Always. And Saturday's show at the Cat's Cradle, which ...

'Faux C' LP still pretty good

By Beth Mechum | February 16

MUSICREVIEW Various artists Friends with Benefit 3 Stars "One Tree Hill" is like "The O.C." with a less attractive cast, fewer clever plots and ...

Arts briefs

By Staff Editor | February 16

Diaspora film festival comes to Durham heritage center The 12th annual Black Diaspora Film Festival opens today at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham. Hosted ...

Bowles eyes education shortages

By ERIC JOHNSON | February 16

Erskine Bowles likes to remind audiences that he's not an academic. And fewer than two months into his tenure as UNC-system president, Bowles is relying ...

Shops a cut above the rest

By CLINT JOHNSON | February 16

Ruel Tyson Jr. swore he would not get his hair cut until George Tomasic reopened the Tar Heel Barber Shop. "If you didn't come back until July, I would ...

Weekend full of victories, fun in sun

By NICKI JHABVALA | February 15

From the look of its opening tournament, the UNC softball team is going to have a good season - a very good season. The Tar Heels (4-1) kicked off ...

High coasts to CAA presidency

By NATE HUBBARD | February 15

Oddly enough, the next leader for the Carolina Athletic Association wasn't able to attract any competition in her race for the presidency. Rachel High ...

A small taste of diversity

By Tony Kim | February 15

As student election candidates locked in their votes Tuesday, about a dozen students were in the Pit locking lips. Members of the Committee for a Queerer ...