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Articles by Jacqueline Kantor

Former Clef Anoop Desai is back in N.C.

Almost a year after his appearance on the eighth season of American Idol, UNC alumnus Anoop Desai is back in the Osceola Recording Studios in Raleigh where he originally performed with the UNC Clef Hangers.

After a national tour with his fellow Top 10 Idol contestants, a brief, disheartening stint in Los Angeles and a return to North Carolina, Desai is currently preparing for the March 23 release of his first original single, “My Name.”

It comes off his EP “All Is Fair,” which will be released in May. Desai plans to release a new EP every few months.

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National Novel Writing Month attracts many students

Senior Karen Bernstein has written four novels — and on Sunday, she’ll begin work on her fifth.

And she plans to finish it by the end of the month.

Bernstein is a participant in National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which participants work to write 50,000 words, or 175 pages, in one month.

Writers begin Sunday and submit their work to a system that checks solely for quantity, not quality, by midnight on Nov. 30.

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Chapel Hill High teacher attends freedom writers convention

On Saturday, the No. 2 North Carolina Tar Heels gave up a season-high 10 penalty corners and allowed nine shots, the most since yielding 13 from Wake Forest more than a month ago.

But for the tenth time this season, they did not surrender a goal, extending their year-long unbeaten streak to 12 with a 4-0 win over No. 9 Boston College at Henry Stadium.

The shutout is the Tar Heels’ ninth in a row, which ties an ACC record last achieved by the 2007 squad, which went undefeated on the way to the school’s fifth national championship.

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Chapel Hill High teacher attends freedom writers convention

Corey Waters is one of thousands of high school teachers in North Carolina. However, his recent involvement with the Freedom Writers Foundation put him in a much smaller pool.

Waters, a history teacher at Chapel Hill High School, is one of three N.C. teachers featured in the new book, “Teaching Hope: Stories From the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell.”

The book is a compilation of stories from 150 teachers who have attended the Freedom Writers Institute in Long Beach, Calif.

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