Students will spend Friday night sleeping in a cardboard box and pledge to raise at least $30 to benefit the The Community Empowerment Fund.

The group provides micro loans, access to financial literacy, and other resources to the local homeless population.

The event will include free food, music, performances and speakers. E-mail zaina.alsous@gmail.com with any questions.

Electronic business cards are a groundbreaking communication technology for exchanging information that have experienced a rapid increase in popularity.

Since their U.S. premiere in January 2010, these “e-cards” enable a person to share contact information by bumping their personalized device with someone else’s.

Many people might be familiar with the iPhone’s “bump” exchange.

Forty years of stolen equipment, concussions, shredded tires and camaraderie were celebrated Friday and Saturday during the UNC club crew’s 40th anniversary reunion.

The event offered current members of the crew club a chance to reminisce alongside more than 100 alumni, including Craig Benepe and Lloyd Miller, who started the club in 1969.

While studying abroad in Panama, Stuart Powell noticed that residents had to get water from a pump in the central part of town.

Powell, a junior biology major, said this experience made him realize how he takes his access as a given.

Within the past year, the collaboration between University Career Services and the General Alumni Association has increased in a number of ways with a significant impact.

Prior to now, these two campus programs dealt with students and alumni independently.

But they soon realized that was not the most effective process available to them.

Joelle D. Powers of the UNC School of Social Work recently won the C. Felix Harvey Award, which supports institutional initiatives at the University.

Powers will receive a $75,000 one-year award, which she plans to use to implement a pilot project to boost student mental health in the Durham public school system.

Campus police departments at UNC-system schools do a decent job complying with federal and state public disclosure laws — with a few notable exceptions.

In honor of Sunshine Week, The Daily Tar Heel decided to evaluate how well campus police departments at public universities around the state follow the federal Clery Act and the N.C. public records law.

An exhibit featuring photographs, publications and drawings of the University’s landscape since 1793 will be on display in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library through May 31.

Graduate students got their first chance this semester to have a chat with the chancellor.

Sponsored by the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor, the open house provided an opportunity for students to interact on a personal basis with Chancellor Holden Thorp and his administrative team.

Mark Sobsey, a clean water expert at UNC, has been one of 10 innovators participating in a NASA-backed event to address the supply and quality of water.

Sobsey presented a proposal for simple, affordable water quality tests at the inaugural LAUNCH event, which began Tuesday and ends today.

The UNC College Republicans elected sophomore Anthony Dent as 2010-11 chairman following an election Monday.

Dent, who also serves as a member of Student Congress and the Carolina Review, was among five officers elected at the meeting.

Junior Marc Seelinger was elected the group’s executive vice chairman, while Greg Steele was elected to fill Dent’s current role as treasurer.

Basketball is not the only area where UNC is facing stiff competition from its ACC rivals.

Rankings released by Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine ranked both Duke University and N.C. State University above UNC in its list of green colleges and universities, and UNC’s Sierra Student Coalition did not take those figures lying down.

In June 2009, a local advocacy group submitted a public records request to UNC for information about a University facility in their neighborhood. Nine months later, they are still waiting for many of those records.

UNC’s Student Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday between Board of Elections Chairman Pete Gillooly and former Student Congress candidate Taylor Ann Holgate, who requested a re-vote for the District 5 election.

The court will make a decision on the case in a week and a half at the earliest, Chief Justice Emma Hodson said.