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The group is looking for a new director to manage its junior scholarship program. The scholarship was established in 2008 in memory of slain Student Body President Eve Carson. It provides financial support for a student’s senior year and funds a summer experience. Applications are due Wednesday at 5 p.m. E-mail current director Katherine Novinski (novinski AT email.unc.edu) for more information. From Ann Mills Lassiter, the group’s spokeswoman, here’s what the the group is looking for in the next director:
Today is election day — but it doesn’t look like the end of the campaign season. With four students in close competition for the student body president, candidates said the likelihood that any one person will receive the 51 percent of the vote they need to win seems dismal. In previous years, runoff elections have been necessary due to the number of candidates running.
In anticipation of tomorrow’s SBP elections, we gave the four candidates a Flip Cam and asked them to make a short video about themselves. We asked them to get creative and do anything they wanted (a la Greg Strompolis last year) It offered a chance to get to know the candidates beyond the typical campaign rhetoric and Pit sitting.
A disgruntled Tar Heels fan has put his loyalty to the men’s basketball team up for bidding on eBay as of Wednesday. He’s set the starting bid at $250, but has yet to receive an offer.
The student body president candidates answered questions and shared their ideas at The Daily Tar Heel Forum Tuesday evening.
Cash registers around campus went down Tuesday night for about 2 hours, complicating or even preventing purchases.
A new way for providing web space to student body president candidates this year has only made things tougher for candidates.
Officials discussed the nearing end of large budget cuts and Wednesday’s meeting of the chancellor’s advisory committee.
Students with red glow sticks huddled together Friday to form the shape of the red ribbon on Polk Place.
Environmental enthusiasts, earth-lovers and sustainability-conscious people gathered in Hyde Hall on Thursday to learn about recycling and making earth a better place to live in.
Former anti-apartheid activist and current University of Chicago professor David Bunn gave students some insight Thursday into his experiences in apartheid-era South Africa.
A bill that would reduce the number of signatures required to be on the ballot for student body president from 1,250 to 1,000 was rejected Tuesday night in the rules and judiciary committee of Student Congress.
The chilly weather of fall is the perfect opportunity to snuggle up with that special someone. In honor of that sentiment, members of the local LGBTQ community attempted a hand holding flash mob today in the Pit. Rainy weather kept all but eight away, but those who did come out said their spirits weren’t dampened by the weather.
Feminist Students United hosted Matthew Ezzell, an assistant professor of sociology at James Madison University, to speak on sexual violence against women and the rape culture that exists in society, he said, which encourages violent behavior among men.
One of the candidates for Interfraternity Council president is the current vice president, Brent Macon. If elected, Macon said he plans to continue developing programs that he worked on with Tucker Piner, the current IFC president.
Oldies, country songs, rock and of course, the Backstreet Boys could be heard through the halls of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union on Thursday night. The source of the music was the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance, which was holding its first “Queer-e-oke” Karaoke Contest.
This year, the Carolina Athletics Association sold more than twice as many Homecoming shirts — and fewer went unsold.
Plenty of students entered the Tar Heel Terror Circus in the basement of Parker Residence Hall last night, but only a few students escaped.
The recent bullying cases involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered victims has sparked talks on UNC’s campus about the subject.
