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By Kate Pearson | July 25

Provost Robert Shelton is on the verge of finalizing the membership of a task force that will be charged with creating a long-term tuition plan for the University. Several student spots remain to be filled, and Student Body President Jen Daum said she hopes the full task force will be named by the end of the week. The task force will examine the need to increase faculty salaries, decrease undergraduate class size, keep financial aid packages available and keep libraries technologically up-to-date.

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Survey: UNC 2nd In Category of Hot and Trendy

By Kate Pearson | July 18

How do high school students around the country describe UNC? The Kaplan 2002 National Survey of High School Guidance Counselors reports that UNC ranks second in a list of the nation's Hot and Trendy universities. UNC also appeared near the top of other categories like Best Freshman Housing and Best Value. The book that contains the survey results, titled "The Unofficial, Unbiased Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges," was produced by Kaplan Inc. and was written by Trent Anderson and Seppy Basili.

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Tuition Increase, Sagging Economy Force Morehead Program to Cut 3 Scholarships

By Kate Pearson | July 3

With budget cuts and tuition increases lurking in the future, the Morehead Foundation plans to offer slightly fewer scholarships this year than in years past. The Morehead Foundation will supply three fewer incoming freshmen with the prestigious scholarship this year than last year. Megan Mazzocchi, the associate director of the Morehead Foundation, said the number of scholarships handed out by the foundation fluctuates every year. Different factors can change the number of scholarships given.

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Students Create Online Book Exchange Program

By Kate Pearson | July 3

A new Web site might help students save money when dealing with the overwhelming expenses of textbook purchases. UNC Exchange was created by Phillip Chang and Roy Kim, both students at the University. The company is a free Internet service in which students can register to buy and sell textbooks to other University students. Kim and Chang came up with the idea a few weeks before exams when they were approaching textbook buyback time. Both students said they thought Student Stores was not giving them what they wanted.

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Daum Starts Lobbying 4 Weeks Into Session

By Kate Pearson | June 27

With state legislators already well into the state budget-building process, Student Body President Jen Daum and student government members have yet to make an impression on Raleigh legislators. In the spring, Daum volunteered to lead students in lobbying efforts aimed at the N.C. General Assembly during the summer. The student-run group aims to convince legislators to spare UNC from deep budget cuts as state legislators try to close a $2 billion hole in the state budget.

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UNC Cuts 6 Days From Academic Calendar

By Kate Pearson | June 6

Students and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill will have six days trimmed off the 2002-03 academic year before the final calendar changes -- which will cut four more days -- take effect in 2003-04. The calendar change is the result of a UNC-system Board of Governors decision in February to allow individual system campuses to trim their academic calendar by about two weeks. Originally UNC-CH officials said they did not want to change the 2002-03 academic calendar because the calendar had already been published and the University had made plans around it. But David Lanier, University regist

Kate Pearson

Tuition Committee

Survey: UNC 2nd In Category of Hot and Trendy

Tuition Increase, Sagging Economy Force Morehead Program to Cut 3 Scholarships

Students Create Online Book Exchange Program

Daum Starts Lobbying 4 Weeks Into Session

UNC Cuts 6 Days From Academic Calendar

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