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Groups Welcome Women's Week

Several campus and local organizations recently joined forces to bring an eight-day celebration of women to the UNC campus.Women's Week, now in its fourth year at UNC, will be held this week to offer activities designed to increase awareness on issues such as women's health, domestic violence and women in the workplace.Diane Kjervik, director of Carolina Women's Center, said months of planning have gone into the week's preparation."We had a planning committee of staff, faculty and students that has met since the fall to come up with ideas for Women's Week," she said.

Editor Candidate Presents Goals for DTH Staff, Readers

My vision for The Daily Tar Heel is grounded in two principles -- focus and efficiency. As editor, I would work to bring solid direction to news coverage, to increase the DTH's accountability with its readers and to devise a strategy for making the newsroom run more efficiently.CoverageWhile the DTH can boast solid news coverage, an overarching vision of the paper's most important stories has been missing this year.

DTH Editor Selection Set for Sat.

An 11-person committee convenes Saturday to select one student who will decide what 39,000 people read next school year.But the choice will likely be an easy one.Four Daily Tar Heel staff members and seven at-large students will interview junior Katie Hunter, the lone candidate for the 135th DTH editor, and vote whether to confirm her to the post."There is always someone out there with a burning desire to be editor," said DTH general manager Janet Gallagher-Cassel.Each spring, editor hopefuls submit extensive applications outlining their abilities, experience and goals fo

Catching Up With: Katie Welch

Ask Katie Welch what she has to focus on during these last few weeks of second semester, and she'll say something close to "not much."This might not be the case with exams right around the corner, summer plans yet to be nailed down and next semester still being worked out -- not to mention plans to study abroad and a search for a date and dress for a formal.But Welch, a freshman from Winston-Salem, has a clear idea of when she needs to start concerning herself with everything from studying to dating.First, academics.

CDS Has Made Effort To Celebrate Black History Month in Past

TO THE EDITOR:The Daily Tar Heel recently printed a letter to the editor written by Shawn Brooks, co-chairman of the Sonja H. Stone Freestanding Black Cultural Center, regarding Carolina Dining Services' negligence in celebrating Black History Month this past February ("CDS Management Needs to Recognize Black History Month" March 5). Mr. Brooks' letter noted while CDS made an effort to celebrate other holidays, no such effort was made to celebrate Black History Month in a similar fashion.Mr.

Human Rights Week Kicks Off

The Globe Committee of the Campus Y kicks off Human Rights Week today to educate UNC students about crimes against humanity.The purpose of the week is to raise awareness about the cruelty and human rights atrocities in places such Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Afghanistan."In the past, the focus of Human Rights Week has been activism," said Tina Singh, co-chairwoman of the Globe Committee.

Officials: Census Proves Local Housing Needs

Local officials are looking for new ways to meet the increasing affordable housing demands that accompany the growing populations of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.The 2000 U.S.

Teaching Assistants Deserve and Need Approved Salary Raise

TO THE EDITOR: By approving a salary raise for graduate teaching fellows and teaching assistants, the University has taken a progressive step. The raise is long overdue but much needed and deserved.If you spread out the $4,100 that teaching assistants receive per course during a semester, it amounts to a little more than $500 per month. Most graduate students are completely self-supporting, and $500 per month is not enough. Besides, teaching assistants at UNC are constantly underappreciated.

Dilbert 03/26/01

Gymnastics Places 5th At EAGLs

When a gymnastics team opens meets with two of its weaker events, a trend can be established:Slow start, solid finish.For the 2001 season, that was the unofficial motto for the North Carolina gymnastics team.Saturday night at the Smith Center, this scenario was played out again at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championships.Opening on vault and uneven bars, events in which UNC has struggled somewhat this season, the Tar Heels stumbled to a seventh place start.

OK Already, Move On With The Expansion

For a minute it looked like the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant vs. Orange County grudge match was over.A March 1 Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruling had allowed the Carolina Power & Light Co. -- the company that owns Shearon Harris -- to use dormant waste storage pools at the plant.The increased use of waste storage would give the nuclear power plant the potential to store the most nuclear waste in the nation.All the people who, like me, were concerned about having a big, fatty nuclear waste site in Wake County (within 50 miles of Chapel Hill), were getting ready to suck it up.

Controversial Ad Sparks Nationwide Discussion

Several college newspapers are receiving complaints after publishing a controversial advertisement listing reasons why blacks should not receive slavery reparations -- sparking protests and discussion from both sides of the issue.Ad author David Horowitz placed the ad, which gives "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea --and Racist Too," in The Duke Chronicle, The Brown Daily Herald and UC-Berkeley's Daily Californian, among others.The ad states that "there is no single group responsible for the crime of slavery" and "only a minority of white Americans owned slaves, while

Local Label Wins Grammy

One Durham-based label has its own reason to celebrate amidst the Grammy awards in February.Dolly Parton recently won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album with her 1999 album, The Grass is Blue. The album marks the label's ninth Grammy since its founding in 1978.Parton's stardom is giving Sugar Hill high-profile exposure to both artists and listeners. Not only does the label benefit from Parton's name recognition, but she is also bringing bluegrass music -- the label's specialty -- to a wider audience.

Caribbean Cruise Provides On-Board Art Experience

The kind of entertainment provided on cruise ships is usually assumed to involve one too many cocktails and spangled Vegas-type showgirls. While there were certainly at least a few spangled Vegas-type showgirls scampering about, Celebrity Cruises' ship the Galaxy offered a surprisingly refined entertainment experience as it coasted through the southern Caribbean.Thought that cruise ships offered nothing more than the chance to play shuffleboard and get a tan? Try the chance to buy an original Picasso.

Lower Quad Residents Victims of Recent Break-Ins

Olde Campus Lower Quad residents are being advised to lock their doors and watch out for strangers after several recent break-ins.Early Tuesday morning, an unidentified person entered several rooms in Lewis Residence Hall and took cash and valuables, said Chris Moody, area director for the quad.Moody declined to comment on the number of rooms that were burglarized.But a report filed with University police about one of the incidents stated that $220 in cash was stolen while the room's residents were present and asleep.

Ticket Policy Disclosed

Officials from the Department of Athletics' Ticket Office rejected claims Thursday that Carolina Athletic Association President Tee Pruitt receives a secret supply of discretionary men's basketball tickets, saying the disappearance of so many tickets is logistically and numerically illogical.Ticket Office Director Clint Gwaltney said recent accusations that Pruitt gets 40 to 60 tickets per basketball game are false."There's a lot of things out there that you need to inquire about before you go off half-cocked," Gwaltney said."(Pruitt would) have to boldly walk up after the tickets are

Towson Strikes Early, Forces Split With UNC

The North Carolina baseball team needed a couple of shovels at Boshamer Stadium on Wednesday.First, the Tar Heels needed them to spread sand on the field after rain caused a 74-minute delay in the first game of their double header against Towson.Then they needed the shovels to help dig out of early deficits in both games.

Tampa: Classic Break Destination Offers More Than Booty

Ah, sweet Spring Break -- one weeklong orgy during which college students descend like locusts upon the beaches to strut their oiled bodies across the sands in the world's most grotesque mating ritual known to date.There isn't a snowball's chance in hell "haute culture" will work its way into this motley crew's vacation. Or is there?After spending Spring Break in the cocoa butter and Quicksilver haven known as Tampa, Fla., I have come to the conclusion that with a little cross marketing we can indeed bring culture to the culturally inept.

Residents Express Ire, Pessimism

Local residents are critical of the UNC Board of Trustees' decision Thursday to approve the campus Master Plan, which could threaten neighborhoods near the campus.Certain elements of the Master Plan, UNC's blueprint for campus growth for the next 50 years, have residents worried that their neighborhoods are in danger.Residents who attended the meeting said the trustees were not sensitive to their concerns about losing their homes.Criticism centered around the Master Plan's proposed construction of a new access road from Fordham Boulevard to South Campus which will cut through the Maso

Censoring Madonna Hypocritical

Censorship can work in mysterious ways. Take Madonna's 1990 video for the song "Justify My Love" for instance. MTV refused to air the clip because of its graphic sexual content. In the video, breasts are briefly bared, S&M themes are hinted at, and Madonna grinds down on a male lover after making out with a girl.Steamy stuff? Hell yeah. This little ol' video stimulated a national debate on censorship and an artist's freedom of expression rights. Oh, and because MTV refused to air the clip, Madonna released it as the first ever video single.