DTH Picks of the Week

Today, former UNC running back Kelvin Bryant, who scored six touchdowns the last time ECU and UNC played, will try to run all over the DTH know-it-alls. With ...

Improvement Of Steam Lines Set for Quad

The sights and sounds of Polk Place -- dogs barking, children playing and students chatting -- soon will be replaced by the grind of backhoes and the ...

BOG Loses Power to Trustees

Some state legislators have said three provisions of the state budget that shift responsibilities from the UNC-system Board of Governors to campus boards ...

N.C. Senate Votes To Repeal Quotas On BOG Members

RALEIGH -- The N.C. Senate approved legislation Thursday that would eliminate the quota system for appointing members to the UNC-system Board of Governors. The ...

Task Force Tackles Future of School System

About 80 community members expressed their visions for the development of local schools when they gathered for a work session Wednesday night at East ...

Pundits Debate if Clinton Connection Helps, Hurts Bowles

Political pundits are offering differing views on what effect two years in the Clinton White House will have on UNC graduate Erskine Bowles' chances of ...

Kudzu 10/05/01

Students Should Not Celebrate Victories Inappropriately

TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to the board editorial on Monday titled "Crying Foul: The student attorney general shouldn't waste his -- or ...

Chapel Hill, UNC Officials Eager To Start New Era

Officials from UNC and the town of Chapel Hill say they are looking forward to a new era of town-gown relations, ushered in by the Town Council's nearly ...

Policy Elimination Dismays Student Leaders

Student leaders said Thursday they were dismayed by a clause in the state budget that removes the Board of Governors' tuition-setting guidelines. But ...

Fla. Man Diagnosed With Anthrax After Spending 2 Weeks in N.C.

RALEIGH -- N.C. health officials said Thursday night that the public is at little risk of contracting anthrax even though a man who recently spent two ...

Tests Distinguish Local Schools

For the third straight year Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill High Schools were named statewide schools of distinction, an honor school officials say stems ...

Chambers Named Head Of Civil Rights Center

Julius Chambers, former chancellor of North Carolina Central University and famous civil rights lawyer, has been tapped to lead a new civil rights center ...

Arab Journalists, Diplomats Speak Out on U.S. Policy

Dey Hall is home to Romance and Slavic languages, but Thursday afternoon, the dominant language in its Toy Lounge was Arabic. The University Center for ...

Court Takes Wrong Step On Profiling

With week one of its 2001-02 term winding down, the U.S. Supreme Court has come out swinging. In its opening days, the court refused an appeal by Oklahoma ...

The American Abroad: You're No Gadabout

This summer my roommate Erica and I traveled to Thailand. We didn't have a "real reason" to go like some who build houses for flood-ravaged villagers ...

Commutation Raises Questions

Gov. Mike Easley granted clemency to a death row inmate this week for the first time since taking office, raising questions of whether other death row ...

DTH's Coverage of Teach-In Incomplete, Inaccurate

TO THE EDITOR: Once again I am disappointed by your coverage of another teach-in, "Understanding Terror: What is War? What is Peace?" ("Teach-In Addresses ...

Traveling Dance Troupe Visits UNC

If the Ringling Brothers joined the cast of Hee Haw, they might look a little like Rhythm in Shoes. The performance company -- an eclectic, 10-member ...