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Program creates safe haven

By KATHERINE EVANS | September 22

Students affected by sexual assault and relationship violence soon will be able to confide in faculty and staff equipped to handle difficult issues. Women's ...

A clean fight

By Staff Editor | September 22

Margaret Teich, a member of Student Action with Workers, mops in the Pit during the organization's "Mop Off" on Wednesday. Teich, along with others were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...