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March 15, 2010
1.5.0. Executive Chef Paul Basciano plans the restaurants meals based on what local farms can provide. DTH/Will Cooper

When Carolina Dining Services first started offering sustainable food last year, the menus looked a lot like what they were already serving.

Executive Chef Paul Basciano was struggling to find enough local ingredients, and students weren’t backing the offerings with their dollars — two continuing challenges to UNC’s efforts to provide more sustainable dining options.


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Some U.S. towns have resorted to publicity stunts, from a town changing its name to Google to a mayor jumping into Lake Superior, to entice Google to lay high-speed Internet cable for free.

Alfonso Guzman checks out a customer at Time-Out restaurant. DTH/Shar-Narne Flowers

In Chapel Hill, biscuits and fried chicken under heat lamps can only mean one thing.

But in about a month, N.C. State University students will also be greeted by photos of famous hands forming the familiar “T” when a new Time-Out Restaurant opens in Raleigh.

The 24/7 restaurant, known for its long lines of students hunting for comfort food to soak up the night’s adventures, has been a fixture on Franklin Street for 32 years.

Despite dropping an unexpected number of games this season, North Carolina managed to get a postseason bid.

The 10th-seeded North Carolina women’s basketball team will open NCAA tournament play against No. 7-seed Gonzaga at 10:30 p.m. Saturday in the Sacramento region.

Paul Basciano, executive chef at Carolina Dining Services, gives us a look at 1.5.0, the new restaurant in Lenoir Dining Hall.

An otherwise bleak room in the Student Union was brought to life Monday night.

With the bright attire and lively music of Native American culture, students from the Carolina Indian Circle gathered to present and learn about tribal garb and traditions.

U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., speaks in Durham about his plans for health insurance reform. DTH/Kelsi Oliver

In an anticipated announcement, Chapel Hill’s representative in Congress said Monday that he plans to vote for health care overhaul legislation.

“It won’t surprise you to know that I am announcing my intention to vote for it,” said U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., before the cheers of about 25 supporters swallowed his voice.

Fifty years ago, a group of students gathered together to fight social injustice as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Now, three of those students are coming to UNC.

As a celebration of the civil rights group’s 50th anniversary, three women will lead a discussion about their experiences in the struggle for equal rights.

Children’s book author Amy Odom reads to students at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School. DTH/Duncan Culbreth

A crackling fire, a babbling brook, chirping crickets. No, this isn’t some hallowed campsite. It’s an elementary school.

PTA volunteers, faculty and staff at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School helped transform the school’s library into a scene right out of a nature show as part of the school’s 2010 Readathon. The event’s theme was “Reading Adventures in Your Backyard.”

Around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, when the National Invitational Tournament gave North Carolina a No. 4 seed and a home opener, there were two buzz words in the Tar Heel locker room: relief and surprise.

Wide smiles, hearty laughs and soaring chest bumps could be seen across Henry Stadium on Monday afternoon.

It marked the first day of spring football for North Carolina, and the players were thrilled just to be back in uniform — even if it was only in helmets and gym shorts.

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