KATHERINE EVANS

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Foundation weighs new grant proposal

By KATHERINE EVANS | January 10

Oct. 7 - Less than a year after rejecting a $4.8 million funding proposal to the University, the John William Pope Foundation is considering a reworked grant proposal to expand programs in the College of Arts and Sciences. The new proposal, presented by UNC administrators in early August, asks for $3.9 million to further fund studies in Western culture. Foundation head Art Pope, a UNC alumnus, said there was no timetable for the completion of the review.

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Speaker stresses youth, cultural integration

By KATHERINE EVANS | September 23

Bakari Kitwana's last visit to UNC was under different circumstances. Kitwana, a hip-hop journalist who spoke in Wilson Library on Thursday, was rejected from the master's program in English in 1988. But, he said, it is a good thing he wasn't accepted. "I'd probably be standing here talking about some egghead book that 50 other people have read," he told the audience with a laugh.

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Stone Center marches to its own beat

By KATHERINE EVANS | September 22

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History celebrated the end of its inaugural year this month - but the birthday was years in the making. Controversy and struggle marked the decade leading up to the center's construction, but leaders say this past year has been mostly smooth sailing.

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Program creates safe haven

By KATHERINE EVANS | September 22

Students affected by sexual assault and relationship violence soon will be able to confide in faculty and staff equipped to handle difficult issues. Women's centers at Duke University and UNC are sharing resources to launch the Helping Advocate Violence Ending Now program. The program, also sponsored by the UNC Dean of Students office, will train faculty and staff to help these students.

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Workers get Moeser's ear

By KATHERINE EVANS | April 27

By the time everyone settled into their seats at Chancellor James Moeser’s student forum Tuesday, it was clear that no one wanted to discuss Tom Wolfe’s novel “I am Charlotte Simmons.” Instead , Moeser — who said he hoped to discuss the novel as well as proposed UNC-system budget cuts — fielded questions and complaints from frustrated Aramark Corp. workers and the students who support them.

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Relationship with Aramark is complex

By KATHERINE EVANS | April 25

Four years ago, UNC students were complaining about the quality of the food served in dining halls. Carolina Dining Services switched contracts to the food service provider Aramark Corp., hoping to please students tired of mass-produced meals. Today, students have a different complaint. Rumblings of the unionization of dining employees have reached a head with the arrest of Vel Dowdy, a popular worker at Lenoir Dining Hall who was arrested and charged with felony embezzlement for, officials claim, giving away meals.

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Students prepare for contest

By KATHERINE EVANS | April 15

Ambitious entrepreneurs are tweaking their plans in preparation for this weekend’s Carolina Challenge, UNC’s first entrepreneurial competition. Competitors, each fighting for a piece of the $25,500 in awards, will come from two tracks — business and social. The proposals run the gamut from a patented treatment for stopping nose bleeds in the business track to a public residential high school for foster children in the social track.

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South Asian fraternity gets official recognition

By KATHERINE EVANS | April 12

Greek officials granted South Asian interest fraternity Delta Sigma Iota official recognition Thursday, after initially denying the fraternity entrance into the Greek Alliance Council in early March. The alliance council members decided to reopen the group’s case after realizing that they had violated their own constitution by making a decision during the same meeting that the fraternity made its presentation for entry.

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Planetarium seeks new star to lead program

By KATHERINE EVANS | March 30

The search for a new head of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center — which defines the UNC experience for thousands of North Carolinians — is full steam ahead. The position is one of the most high-profile at UNC, said Interim Director Jeff Hill, who served as director of marketing and business ventures for the planetarium.

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Vote on veep to come today

By KATHERINE EVANS | March 29

Congress is set to decide the fate of student body vice president nominee Adrian Johnston tonight — but many of the body’s members have yet to figure out where they stand. Members of Student Congress voted last week to postpone a decision regarding Johnston after the appointment failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass.