The University exemplifies leadership in intercollegiate athletics, especially during the current period of academic reform, NCAA President Myles Brand said Tuesday evening in front of about 250 spectators in Koury Auditorium. Brand, the keynote speaker for the Carolina Leadership Academy’s first anniversary celebration, expressed his concerns about the future of college athletics.
Eggs and sausage soared across the room as students said goodbye to a South Campus landmark Wednesday night. Lines trailed out the door as students waited to attend Chase Hall’s farewell dinner, which included dancing, karaoke and an impromptu food fight. “I heard when I got in here there was going to be a food fight,” said freshman Nick Gavalas. “Then somebody threw some sausage, and it snowballed from there.”
Student Congress slashed speaker fees as well as printing and publicity requests during 31 hours of meetings for its annual Budget Weekend. Congress cut 17.6 percent of the $91,538.23 speaker fees allotted by the Finance Committee two weeks ago, leaving $75,418.23. Original estimates for printing and publicity dropped 12 percent, from $102,466.90 to $90,110.13.
Student government officially is a nonpartisan organization, but that didn’t stop the largest political groups on campus from throwing their weight behind specific candidates in Tuesday’s Student Congress elections. The next Congress will feature eight representatives backed by the College Republicans and eight supported by the Young Democrats — a move that could intensify a divide that at times has pushed the body toward a standstill.
Student organizations will begin the process of officially endorsing candidates for student body president at 8 p.m. in 209 Manning Hall when the Young Democrats hold the first forum of the season. The Young Democrats will question the four candidates — Seke Ballard, Leigha Blackwell, Seth Dearmin and Tom Jensen — on issues ranging from tuition increases to environmental conservation.
A 23-year-old black man lay dead in the middle of a street in a small North Carolina town. The two white men who shot him in the plain view of many witnesses later were acquitted by a jury of their peers. More than thirty years later, incoming UNC students will discuss the experiences of Timothy B. Tyson, who was a 10-year-old boy living in the town when the murder occurred. “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story,” written by Tyson, was unanimously approved by the Summer Reading Program Book Selection Committee on Wednesday morning.
UNC’s honor system now handles cases more efficiently after it underwent an overhaul in 2003, and more improvements are on the horizon, according to a report released at Friday’s Faculty Council meeting. The group’s latest resolution, approved at the meeting, attempts to solve the potential problem of large-scale cases that could swamp the system, such as a case in 2000 that involved 24 computer science students.
As Latin American and Caribbean countries transition into the 21st century, poverty remains a glaring problem. In Argentina, 51.7 percent of the population lives below the poverty line; in Uruguay, the figure is 23.7 percent. In Jamaica, the national debt is rising, and close to 16 percent of the labor force is unemployed. Evelyne Huber wants to fight this problem.
A candlestick telephone and an ancient typewriter face a huge, clunky dinosaur of a machine. The machine, a microfilm reader from the 1950s, holds a plaque inscribed with some of the earliest thoughts on Wilson Library, where an exhibit celebrating the library's 75th anniversary will remain until Feb. 13.
UNC men's basketball coach Roy Williams joined several campus leaders in front of Morehead Building on Monday morning as he advocated the importance of voting during the formal inauguration of one-stop voting. All voters registered in Orange County, including many UNC students, can vote at the planetarium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday until Oct. 30.
