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Thorp petitioned with 11-item list from group of UNC students, employees

By Kellen Moore | April 26

A small group of students, a faculty representative and two housekeepers met with Chancellor Holden Thorp on Monday in an attempt to conquer a host of perennial issues in one fell swoop.The group arrived at South Building armed with packets of research, several homemade posters and one clear goal: to get Thorp’s signature beside each of their 11 demands.

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Advocates seek Latino center

By Kellen Moore | August 25

Students are working to create a Latina/o center on campus. A task force soon to be formed will study ways to meet the needs of UNC's growing Latino student population, and many who are invested in Latino issues hope the task force's ultimate recommendation will favor the creation of a physical space for Latino students. "It would make so much more sense in terms of organization and in terms of strength and planning to be able to have a central gathering place," said María DeGuzmán, director of Latina/o studies. But for now, the center's blueprints are blank.

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Meal plan purchases up despite higher cost

By Kellen Moore | August 19

Due to a reporting error, this story incorrectly stated the meal plan price increases over the last five years. The average per-semester price has gone up $208, or about 25 percent, in the past five years. Eating three square meals a day is getting pricier for students buying meal plans from Carolina Dining Services, but more and more students still are signing up. Over the last five years, meal plan prices have increased an average of $208 per semester, or about 25 percent. Prices are up an average of $98 since just last year.

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N.C. board may be investigating doctor

By Kellen Moore | August 19

Retired UNC Hospitals pediatrician Dr. Melvin Levine, named in several child sexual abuse lawsuits in Massachusetts, now most likely faces scrutiny from the N.C. Medical Board. In the last several months, some of Levine's former N.C. patients or patients' parents have approached Raleigh lawyer Elizabeth Kuniholm with allegations of wrongdoing. "There's at least one recent allegation," Kuniholm said. "They range from the late '80s through the fairly recent past." Levine has consistently denied the charges.

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Beijing welcomes UNC journalists

By Kellen Moore | August 19

Conditions have improved for certain UNC journalism students assisting with the Beijing Olympics, their faculty chaperone said. Seven of the more than 30 UNC students working in China from July 6 to Aug. 26 originally were asked to perform tasks such as stocking toilet paper, said professor C.A. Tuggle, who is accompanying the students. Their jobs now include assisting visitors at a help desk and writing about lower-profile Olympic events. "They're getting a lot more traffic at their help desk, as well as covering basketball practices," Tuggle wrote in an e-mail.

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Retreat allows discussion of 'taboo' topics

By Kellen Moore | August 19

More than 80 students from student government, Greek organizations, and ethnic and religious groups gathered to discuss diversity on campus and in their lives at Carolina United. "It's a safe zone to talk about issues that are usually taboo," said Aivi Nguyen-cao, a senior biology and psychology major who attended the retreat. The fourth annual retreat - held Aug. 10-14 at Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center in Efland - was publicized and planned by a group of 22 students, who also reviewed more than 200 applications from would-be participants.

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Alumni advise high schoolers

By Kellen Moore | August 19

Nineteen recent UNC graduates are going back to high school. They'll be part of the Carolina College Advising Corps, trained to help about 7,000 N.C. students from across the state tackle the college application beast. They, too, feel pre-class jitters. "There's definitely some anxiety about how I'm going to fit in," said CCAC adviser Pharen Bowman. "Meeting new teenagers is always a challenge because you never know how they're going to interact with you."

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Security behind-the-scenes at Fall Fest

By Kellen Moore | August 18

Students glancing down South Road on Sunday night might have seen an inflatable slide, a balloon replica of the Old Well and enough free food to feed an army. Less obvious were the dozen officers from the Department of Public Safety, charged with maintaining security at the traditionally tame Fall Fest. "By and large, everyone behaves civilly," DPS Spokesman Randy Young said. As of 10:30 p.m., there were no arrests or emergency calls.

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Orientation highlights security

By Kellen Moore | August 18

Orientation organizers created a new session this year to address campus safety issues, unveiling the separate presentation for the first class to come to UNC since former Student Body President Eve Carson's killing. In the past, safety information presented to students was interwoven with other sessions on housing or the "Carolina Way." This year, campus safety was presented in two distinct sessions, one for parents and one for students.

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Students protest for labor

By Kellen Moore | April 18

Ten student members of the Carolina Sweat-free Coalition spent Thursday night in the lobby of South Building protesting Chancellor James Moeser's refusal to accept the Designated Suppliers Program. Armed with sleeping bags and pizza, the students - and the police officers watching them - were allowed to stay past the building's close. The students said they plan to stay until Moeser adopts the DSP, a system that requires a university to buy 75 percent of its licensed apparel from factories that pay living wages and allow collective bargaining.