February 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Chancellor Stanley Battle’s resignation from N.C. A&T came amid apparent tensions over his managerial style and opposition to his efforts to raise admission standards at the university, according to interviews Wednesday with faculty......
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February 25, 2009
GREENSBORO - Chancellor Stanley Battle's resignation from N.C. A&T came amid apparent tensions over his managerial style and opposition to his efforts to raise admission standards at the university, according to interviews Wednesday with faculty, staf...
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GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T Chancellor Stanley Battle announced his resignation Tuesday, citing family and personal reasons. His resignation is effective June 30. “This has been a remarkable experience for Judy and me,” he said in a news release late...
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February 24, 2009
GREENSBORO - N.C. A&T Chancellor Stanley Battle resigned his office Tuesday, citing family and personal reasons. His resignation is effective June 30. “This has been a remarkable experience for Judy and me,” he said in a news release late Tuesday.
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February 23, 2009
GREENSBORO - Hundreds walked the red carpet Sunday as the Carolina Theatre hosted the Triad's own Academy Awards celebration. They arrived in ball gowns and tuxedos and were crowded by autograph hounds as searchlights filled the sky above the theater. "W...
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GREENSBORO - Construction ends this month at the new Eastern Guilford High School, with students expected back on campus in April. But more than two years after a fire destroyed the original building, police say they're still looking for those responsible...
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GREENSBORO - A small crowd of teen girls turned on their heels and left the main branch of the Greensboro public library as soon as they'd entered Sunday afternoon. It was the second day in a row they'd entered to find a large sign greeting them: "No Inte...
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February 22, 2009
GREENSBORO - Hundreds walked the red carpet Sunday as the Carolina Theatre hosted the Triad's own Academy Awards celebration. They arrived in ball gowns and tuxedos and were crowded by autograph hounds as searchlights filled the sky above the historic t...
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February 14, 2009
GREENSBORO - Students at UNCG, N.C. A&T and other universities in the UNC system will pay more to attend college next year - but not as much as some schools had originally hoped. The UNC Board of Governors voted Friday on tuition and fee rates, appro...
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February 13, 2009
GREENSBORO - The UNC Board of Governors voted on tuition and fee increases this morning, approving increases that were less than 1/3 of what its campuses requested. The rates, which still have to be approved by the legislature, would increase in-state und...
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GREENSBORO — As state budget cuts put pressure on schools throughout the UNC system, UNCG has crafted an ambitious draft of its major goals through 2014. The draft — available on the university’s Web site — goes before the school’s board of trus...
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February 12, 2009
Shaina Machlus became a DJ at the campus radio station in her first semester at Guilford College. Now a senior, Machlus is general manager at the station, WQFS-90.9. The popular station - regularly included on lists of the nation's best college stations......
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February 10, 2009
HIGH POINT — High Point University has been approached to buy the struggling Oak Hollow Mall, said HPU President Nido Qubein. But for now, he says, it’s just talk. “We have been approached many times about it,” Qubein said Monday. “And we were a...
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February 9, 2009
HIGH POINT - High Point University has been approached to buy the foundering Oak Hollow Mall, according to university President Nido Qubein. But for now, he says, it's just talk. "We have been approached many times about it," Qubein said Monday. "And we w...
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February 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — The laptop has become a staple of college life at UNCG — as essential to a study group as textbooks, highlighters and ramen noodles. But in the face of a tanking economy and systemwide budget cuts, the university will no longer require st...
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January 31, 2009
Two figures loomed larger than the day’s special guests at the Sit-In Anniversary Celebration on Friday at N.C. A&T. Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, was on the mind of a crowd marking how far the country has come since segregatio...
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January 30, 2009
GREENSBORO - Two figures loomed larger than the day's special guests at the Sit-In Anniversary Celebration today at N.C. A&T. President Barack Obama, the nation's first black leader, was on the mind of a crowd marking how far the country has come from...
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January 29, 2009
CHAPEL HILL - Citing "the worst economic environment of our lives - the worst since the Great Depression," UNC system President Erskine Bowles is asking the system's Board of Governors to scale back previously proposed in-state undergraduate tuition incre...
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January 28, 2009
The Rev. Al Sharpton packed UNCG’s Aycock Auditorium on Tuesday night for the school’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. The civil rights activist and former presidential candidate told the audience that this year’s King celebrations are ha...
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January 27, 2009
GREENSBORO - N.C. A&T students mourned a classmate and neighbor while some worried about their own safety Monday, a day after A&T senior Dennis Hayle was slain outside his off-campus apartment. Hayle, 22, was walking through a breezeway between tw...
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January 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Jim Ryan’s desk is a mess. Science journals, building schematics, dozens of business cards laid in rows. One look and you get some idea how busy he’s been since becoming dean of UNCG and N.C. A&T’s new Joint School of Nanoscience...
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January 20, 2009
GREENSBORO - As the sun struggled up through the fog Monday morning, many across the city used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as an excuse to sleep in. But many of the city's college students were up early, taking part in the national King Day of Serv...
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January 19, 2009
GREENSBORO -- As the sun struggled up through the fog Monday morning, many across the city used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as an excuse to sleep in. But many of the city's college students were up early, taking part in the national King Day of Ser...
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January 15, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The latest issue of "The Amazing Spider-Man" sold out across the Triad on Wednesday just minutes after it hit the stands. The web-slinging superhero had a little help from a special guest star: President-elect Barack Obama. The issue feature...
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January 14, 2009
GREENSBORO -The latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man sold out across the Triad today. The web-slinging super-hero had a little help from a special guest star: President-elect Barack Obama. In a back-up story in issue #583 Spider-Man saves the popular pr...
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