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Students Spend Holiday Celebrating King's Memory

By Rachel Hodges | January 21

It's not often that college students will get up voluntarily before 9:30 a.m., but this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, more than 200 students made an exception.On Monday morning, students flooded Hamilton Hall to participate in the third annual Day for Service, a volunteer festival being run for the first time by student organization Carolina Rejuvenating Our Community Through Service. The event kicked off UNC's weeklong celebration of King's birthday. The program was constructed to place students at various volunteer sites throughout the surrounding area.

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Compton Wins Student Body Secretary Job

By Rachel Hodges | January 13

At a high-spirited Cabinet meeting Sunday night, Interim Student Body Secretary Matt Compton was introduced as the official selection for the previously vacant post. Student Body President Jen Daum began the meeting by introducing Compton as student body secretary and also as "resident teddy bear." Rebecca Williford, former student body secretary, resigned from her position Nov. 26, citing the worsening of persistent health problems. Compton acted as the interim student body secretary until Dec. 6.

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Griffin Re-elected Employee Forum Chairman

By Rachel Hodges | December 7

Tommy Griffin was re-elected unanimously as Employee Forum chairman at the group's Wednesday morning meeting. Chancellor James Moeser gave a statement regarding his recent remarks concerning UNC-Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor and General Counsel Susan Ehringhaus, and he remained to pass out certificates of achievement to the departing delegates, putting in a plug for Griffin's re-election. "You have a big heart, and it shows," Moeser said.

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BOT OKs Development Despite Protest

By Rachel Hodges | November 21

For the residents of the Elkin Hills area, the UNC Board of Trustees' approval of the architectural plans for the Campus Services Support Facilities project Wednesday was indicative of an ongoing dispute. The project entails moving the UNC Printing, Grounds, and Environment, Health and Safety buildings to the Giles Horney lot in the Elkin Hills area of Chapel Hill -- a move residents fear will ruin their neighborhood.

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BOT to Get Direct Student Input Through Advisers

By Rachel Hodges | November 14

To connect the UNC Board of Trustees more directly to the student body, the duties of the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor have been expanded to the advising of trustees in addition to other administrators SACC already advises. The arrangement is largely informal, but Student Body Vice President Aaron Hiller said he hopes that by January, the relationship between SACC and the BOT will become more official.

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Employees Request Increases in Salaries From Tuition Money

By Rachel Hodges | November 7

With just two more scheduled meetings left, the Tuition Task Force is trying to decide where funds will go if tuition is raised, and everybody -- including UNC employees -- wants a piece of the pie. The UNC-CH Employee Forum passed a resolution Wednesday morning asking the task force to allot some of the money brought in by the proposed tuition hike for employee salary increases. In the 2002-03 fiscal budget passed this year by the N.C.

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Task Force Ready To Look at $400 Tuition Increases

By Rachel Hodges | November 1

The Tuition Task Force met Thursday to discuss two potential campus-based tuition increase proposals -- both of which call for an annual increase of about $400 for three years. The task force wants the funds, which would total $27.2 million, to address three specific issues -- the student-faculty ratio, teaching assistant salaries and faculty salaries. The task force plans to formally vote on a plan at its Nov.

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Task Force Ready To Look at $400 Tuition Increases

By Rachel Hodges | November 1

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UNC, Town Put Restrictions on Parking, Traffic

By Rachel Hodges | October 31

On Halloween night, Franklin Street is the place to be, and people from all over the Triangle flock to Chapel Hill. But the unusual quantity of traffic creates the most terrifying event of the night -- the search for transportation. In past years, crowds of up to 70,000 people have made it necessary to close the downtown area to traffic, and this year police officials have announced that starting at 8 p.m. today they will close most of the downtown sections of Franklin and Rosemary streets to traffic.

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Avery Robbery Investigation Stalls

By Rachel Hodges | October 25

More than a month after the armed robbery in Avery Residence Hall, University police officers said there are still no developments. An 18-year-old UNC student was robbed at gunpoint the evening of Sept. 19. The robber took a laptop, cellular phone, gold chain and $4. University police Maj. Jeff McCracken said the police "don't have anything that we can report at this time." McCracken said that police can't report on an ongoing investigation and that there is no estimate for when the investigation will be finished.