February 11, 2012
Rameses, North Carolina's 18th ram mascot, died Thursday night of natural causes. He was 8 years old. Pablo, as he was named until he was 3 1/2, was a triplet. He was chosen as the heir to UNC's mascot throne because, "he had the potential for the be...
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February 10, 2012
GREENSBORO — The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded UNCG's new School of Education building LEED Gold certification. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) specifications are set by the Council. Gold is the second-highes...
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CHAPEL HILL — Amid chants of protest from about 100 students, the UNC Board of Governors this morning approved President Tom Ross' proposal for tuition and fee hikes over the next two years.Ross' plan would raise tuition by an average of 8.8 percent...
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CHAPEL HILL -- UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has recommended against a proposal to implement a gender--neutral pilot housing program at the university.In a recent memo to Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Winston Crisp, Thorp said there has not been adequa...
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February 9, 2012
CHAPEL HILL — A University of North Carolina system committee today approved President Tom Ross’ recommendations for tuition and fee increases by nearly 9 percent next year.The UNC Board of Governors’ budget and finance committee voted 5...
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CHARLOTTE — Firefighters credit an alert bus driver who got elementary school students off a bus in Charlotte on Wednesday before it erupted in flames, the Charlotte Observer reported.The driver and the six students on board escaped safely.Charlotte...
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Wake Forest University soon will be providing more space for its upperclassmen.The school's board of trustees has approved a project that calls for two new residence halls on the north side of the Winston-Salem campus.A statemen...
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CHAPEL HILL -- A coalition of students, faculty, workers and others will gather at the Pit on UNC's campus Friday for a march to the UNC system General Administration Building to protest tuition increases being considered by the UNC Board of Governors.The...
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February 8, 2012
GREENSBORO — Karen Gordon Mills, the leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration, will speak Feb. 15 at UNCG.Mills’ presentation, “The Path to Entrepreneurial Success: Capitalizing on Opportunities and Resources,” will begin...
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GREENSBORO — Students and their families can get information about how to pay for college during a workshop Saturday at the Central Library.Representatives from the financial aid offices at UNCG and GTCC will share information about how to find and...
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DAVIDSON (AP) — An outspoken retired Navy admiral is coming to Davidson College to discuss the role of social media in government and international relations.The school says William Fallon is scheduled to give his talk Wednesday night on campus.Fall...
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February 7, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Winston-Salem State University is mourning the death of another of its students, the third to have died this school year.On Friday, Thea-Simone McDuffie, a sophomore justice studies major from Charlotte, was killed when the car she w...
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February 6, 2012
ELON — Budding masters of technology met Sunday for a highly competitive game that involved lots of ball handling, but had nothing to do with Super Bowl-style blocks and tackles.The high school students who rallied for a few hours at Elon University...
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February 4, 2012
CHAPEL HILL -- Three UNC students, all former athletes, were charged with felony possession of cocaine early Friday after police officers caught them on the top of a parking deck allegedly snorting cocaine in downtown Chapel Hill.Police charged Shane Mich...
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February 3, 2012
RALEIGH — A new report says crime, suspensions and dropouts were all down in North Carolina public schools during the year that ended last summer.The state Department of Public Instruction said in its annual report on school crime and violence relea...
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WINSTON-SALEM — The case of an East Forsyth student whose family made public a conversation he recorded that contains cursing and threats from a teacher and the school's police officer has prompted a huge outpouring of comments and a vigorous debate...
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February 2, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — A pioneering summer program for gifted high school students will live on for a 50th year after alumni and other donors stepped in with cash in the months since state lawmakers eliminated funding.The state Board of Education today auth...
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DURHAM — Black women in leadership roles do not see the same backlash against displays of dominant behavior experienced by white women and black men of power, a study co--authored by a Duke University associate professor says.The study, "......
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WINSTON-SALEM — A popular East Forsyth High School coach and a school police officer were recorded confronting a 15-year-old student in a profanity-laden tirade that included threats to financially ruin the boy's family because he questioned how man...
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January 31, 2012
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T's School of Business & Economics has been reaccredited, according to the university. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business announced the reaccreditation on Jan. 4. A&...
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January 30, 2012
CHAPEL HILL — A test that can ensure water in developing countries is safe to drink. A musical instrument lending program. A community garden that would provide healthy food for poor families.Those are some of the ideas that students and professors...
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January 28, 2012
RALEIGH -- Two reports this week of possible men with concealed guns on the campus of N.C. State University stemmed from students playing a game called Humans vs. Zombies that has become a phenomenon on U.S. college campuses in recent years, university po...
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January 27, 2012
GREENSBORO – Local educators Patrice Faison and Jennifer Arberg both advanced to the state competitions for Principal of the Year and Teacher of the Year after both being recognized by Guilford County Schools last fall. Faison, a principal at Oak Hi...
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GREENSBORO — Taylor Thompson has been making beads out of polymer clay for a year.Thompson sold 100 of them for $25 at a flea market, and it only cost her $5 to make them, she said.Now, she’s ready to sell her craft in a different market: UNCG...
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WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest University has tapped an alumnus to be its next provost.The university announced this morning it has appointed Rogan Kersh as its new provost. He will also be a professor of political science. Kersh currently is the assoc...
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