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New awards to honor women

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | January 10

March 24 - With a clear vision of how to fill the gap left by the retirement of the University's most prestigious award for women, officials decided Wednesday that the best solution is to create two new awards. The women's award committee - comprising female faculty, staff and student leaders - settled on a proposal for awards that will honor the extraordinary efforts of women and advocates for the advancement of women at UNC.

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Congress could cut number of CAA tix

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | April 25

The proposed number of tickets allotted to the Carolina Athletic Association for men’s basketball was almost slashed in half Sunday night. The Rules and Judiciary Committee of Student Congress passed favorably an amendment to the Student Code that would allot CAA 50 tickets. The full Congress will vote on the bill Tuesday. CAA hoped Congress would limit the number of tickets to 90. While the Code now states that CAA should receive no more than 40 tickets, the association received 138 last year — a loophole that spurred much controversy.

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TAs dissatis?ed by appreciation event

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | April 18

Free barbecue and the opportunity to mingle with other teaching assistants lured Carlos Valencia to a teaching-assistant appreciation luncheon last Tuesday. But what the graduate student didn’t expect to find was an event that left him and many other TAs hungry, frustrated and questioning how much the University appreciates its teaching assistants. “We joked that it was kind of like TA humiliation,” said Valencia, a teaching assistant in the Department of Romance Languages.

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Grappling with genocide

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | April 15

Correction Due to a reporting error, the April 15 article “Grappling with genocide” states that students at a rally on campus were lobbying for amendments to the Darfur Accountability Act, or U.S. Senate Bill 495. The amendments were actually to 2005’s emergency supplemental spending bill. More than 250 students came face to face with images of brutality, suffering and death in Polk Place on Thursday afternoon.

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Students feel housing crunch

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | April 12

When freshman Michelle Kanaar woke up to register for housing early Thursday morning, she never expected that hours later, she still would be agonizing about where she will live next year. “We all went to the computer lab thinking, ‘We’ve got a plan. We’re here early, too,’” Kanaar said. “The second it hit 7 o’clock, I hit the mouse, and it kept saying everything was full. We ended up with no rooms.” Kanaar is just one of many students who had trouble finding a spot to live on campus next year.

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Committee wants 2 women's awards

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | March 24

With a clear vision of how to fill the gap left by the retirement of the University’s most prestigious award for women, officials decided Wednesday that the best solution is to create two new awards. The Women’s Award Committee — comprising female faculty, staff and student leaders — settled on a proposal for awards that will honor the extraordinary efforts of women and advocates for the advancement of women at UNC.

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Morrison residents look for a new nest

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | March 11

South Campus residents returned from class with an extra bounce in their step Thursday afternoon. In addition to seeing Spring Break on the horizon, students also had the long-awaited chance to take a peek inside the Rams Head Center, scheduled to open upon their return. For some students, the center is a reminder of the University’s ongoing construction projects — more specifically, the closing and renovation of Morrison Residence Hall.

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Ticket contest is a devil of a time

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | February 28

Some UNC students will do just about anything for tickets to one of the season's biggest rivalry games. At 3 p.m. Friday, 21 students placed one hand on an enlarged ticket in the middle of the Pit for a chance to win two riser tickets to Sunday's North Carolina-Duke men's basketball game. One by one, students -- who had been given strict instructions not to remove a hand from the ticket, lean on the table, or sit down -- dropped out of the competition.

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Campuses to duke it out through food drive

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | February 25

Two longtime rivals separated by one stretch of highway and two different shades of blue are set to face off again next weekend. But for UNC and Duke University fans, the battle starts today, and the March 6 men’s basketball game will serve as the finale to a weeklong competition between the two campuses. The Campus Y’s Beat Hunger, Beat Duke canned-food drive will collect nonperishable food items and monetary donations until next Friday for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.

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Club sports want more cash

By HILARY DELBRIDGE | February 14

Jeremy Perrelle says that despite proposed increases to the campus recreation fee, his club soccer team still won’t have enough money to cover its expenditures. The $500 his team received last year didn’t cover the total costs of tournament fees, travel, uniforms and practice equipment. Team members are expected to supplement their allocations through fund raising or paying club dues. “The main objective of our soccer team is to practice and play — it’s not to fund-raise,” Perrelle said.