Syd’s hair shop, located on Rosemary Street, makes hair humanitarian. The salon sponsors quarterly fundraisers where 100 percent of profits from cuts and color go towards a charity, usually local. The next fundraiser, happening this Sunday, April 3, from noon to 4:00 p.m., was originally planned to support Donnerschoose.org, which helps local schools.
Interested in helping a good cause and eating a tasty treat? Check out Challah for Hunger in the Pit on Thursday. Challah for Hunger donates proceeds from the traditionally Jewish, braided bread to the American Jewish World Service and the Inter-Faith Council (IFC), a Carrboro organization providing hunger relief.
You’ve got about five days to polish your Rubik’s cube skills before playing the biggest game of your life — against UNC’s own Chancellor and reigning champion, Holden Thorp. The Chancellor will take on students Monday at his Innovation Fair on the quad at noon.
It may not be on the official UNC Bucket List, but meeting a celebrity is nevertheless something most of us would like to brag about. Well, here’s some good news: Hollywood’s Adrian Grenier of Entourage fame is coming to UNC this Saturday to promote his film, Teenage Paparazzo. The true story chronicles the life of a 14 year-old paparazzo, Austin Visschedyk, and his relationship with Grenier. After meeting Visschedyk one night, Grenier decided to look on the other side of the lens and document the life of one who is always doing the documenting. But what develops is less of a professional relationship and more of a personal one as the two realize the effects of fame on their respective lives — and work to overcome them.
Pancakes are not just delectable breakfast treats: For one French composer, they were the inspiration for a song. In 1883, Charles Lecocq’s “The Pancake Song” was published by Balmer & Weber Publishers in St. Louis, Missouri. Lecocq, whose most famous work is the opera La Fille de Madame Angot, transformed the aroma and excitement that comes from making pancakes into an easy-to-remember ditty.
So close. We were so close to spring, only to have the rug pulled out from under us. And although this week’s forecast leaves much to be desired you can still get your Spring on in ways that don’t require the cooperation of the weather.
I recently finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom, which I casually read over the course of four or five days. I picked it up off the staff recommended shelf at Edward McCay, in Winston-Salem. I was surprisingly disappointed, and this is why.
Tired of running on the treadmill like a hamster stuck in a wheel? I know I am, so I decided to switch up my workout routine by taking a Zumba class at Ram’s Head. Cast aside your insecurities and get ready to shake your booty to the upbeat, Latin-infused techno music. Trust me, you’ll work up a sweat doing it!
It’s that time of the year again. The crisp, sweet smell of blossoms hovers in the air, bikini-clad young women decorate the grass on warm afternoons, March Madness has its most avid fans twitching with anticipation… and the ever ominous, “So what are you doing this summer?” question sets in. If you’re anything like me, the prospect of an empty summer deserves a name ending in “-phobia.” Sure, a few weeks of vacation sounds delightful, but what to do after the boredom sets in?
Humans vs. Zombies is basically a week-long game of tag in which “humans” designated by an armband use socks and nerf darts to defend themselves from “zombies” who wear their bandanna around their head. The game begins with just one original zombie who begins tagging humans as they travel through campus. Missions throughout the week give an advantage to either side for the final mission which will be occurring Friday night around 11pm.
If there was any doubt that Chancellor Holden Thorp has a sense of humor — or talent for solving Rubix Cubes — this video clip from a competition in the 1980’s will solve that confusion.
Students at the Women in Business conference today got a little Roy Williams advice. Sharon Allen gave the keynote at the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s annual conference. The Deloitte chairwoman’s address focused on this year’s theme of, “Reinventing Yourself in a Changing Environment.” Allen, named to Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world, quoted Williams, saying “You can never make a shot you don’t take.” With 38 years of experience in consulting and accounting, Allen was the perfect person to get UNC’s Women in Business Conference off to a great start.
It’s almost four years to the day since senior and student Rameses Jason Ray was killed while travelling with the men’s basketball team to an NCAA tournament competition in New Jersey. Today, the Heels are back in New Jersey to face Marquette. The New York Times has a touching story about Ray’s legacy today. Ray was an organ donor, and his death, while tragic, helped five others live. At least one of them will be cheering the Tar Heels on tonight. That man, Antwan Hunter, was just 16 when he received Ray’s kidney.
Directed by An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim, Waiting for Superman, aired in the Student Union Wednesday night, follows a set of children and their parents who are trying to get accepted into prestigious local charter schools. In the process, Guggenheim brings to light interesting—and even shocking—factoids regarding the state of American public education, enlightening viewers on everything from the drawbacks of tenure (which makes it extremely difficult—if not impossible—to fire underperforming teachers) to the dance of the lemons . The film received an 89% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes , and won the Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival .
The last semester of college is a landmark time for any fourth-year student. For Keith Grose, it is—among other things—the culmination of his four semesters in the fiction track of UNC’s Creative Writing Program. Grose will be one of four seniors reading tonight from his collection of short stories to kick off the Creative Writing Program’s annual Senior Honors Fiction Readings series tonight. Eight other seniors in the department’s senior honors thesis course for fiction writing will present excerpts on Thursday and Friday.
Vaginas, and one’s experiences with them, are like snowflakes. They are all different. And they were a central topic of Orgasm? Yes Please! an event held Tuesday night in Student Union that promoted healthy relationships and healthy sex through education and empowerment of women and their partners.
It may be time for UNC to spice up their advertisements. Although I think our current ad is adorable, we need to look at what other schools are doing, in order to remain competitive.
Want to learn more about orgasms? (come on…you know you do) Project Dinah and the Campus Health Education Counselors for Sexuality will be hosting Orgasm? Yes, Please! Tuesday night at 8:00 pm in the Great Hall of the Student Union. The event will discuss sexual health in a sex positive manner, including orgasms, sexuality and safe sex. And to make things even better, Cherry Pie will be sponsoring a raffle to win lubricant or a vibrator!
Clubs at UNC have historically ranged from highly public — social justice initiatives and performance groups to private—greek organizations and secret-societies. According to an exhibit in Wilson Library, however, there were also clubs that didn’t exist at all. According to artifacts presented in From Di-Phis to Loreleis, some organizations documented during the 1890s in the Yackety Yack were inventions of the yearbook’s staff, intended to amuse and to deceive. Clubs included The Sampson County Club and Wake County Club.
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