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Gender and economic gaps grow for colleges

By KRISTIN PRATT | September 20

Higher education institutions face the problem of bridging the gender and socioeconomic gaps in enrollment but do not have an easy or simple solution, ...

Council reviews project designs

By JAKE POTTER | September 20

The development company charged with designing two multimillion-dollar mixed-use developments that could reshape the downtown's face now are completing ...

World briefs

By From staff and wire reports | September 20

Chancellor's position remains uncertain in wake of election BERLIN - Germany's opposition leader Angela Merkel and the chairman of Chancellor Gerhard ...

Changes to rush process yield increased recruits

By KATHERINE HOLLANDER | September 20

Fresh recruits stood at the threshold of brotherhood as fraternity rush week came to a close Friday at midnight. Recent adjustments in recruitment ...

Sierra Club hosts forum

By MEGHAN DAVIS | September 20

Environmental debates run like the water cycle - everything comes back around. The Orange-Chatham chapter of the Sierra Club hosted a forum Monday ...

Fees group bolts out of gate

By KATHERINE HOLLANDER | September 20

The student fee audit committee dove right into the tangled web of student fees in its first meeting of the semester Monday night. The committee will ...

Power Plants debate causes headaches

By TED STRONG | September 20

The Chapel Hill Town Council held a public hearing Monday on a University proposal to dramatically increase the capacity of the power plant on West Cameron ...

Bush: Katrina won't spur tax hikes

By WHITNEY ISENHOWER | September 20

Tax hikes won't be an option to offset rebuilding funds for the Gulf Coast, President Bush said in a speech Friday. Bush said some of the money for ...

Police: Jaywalkers out of line

By GEORGIA CHERRY | September 20

After years of encouraging drivers on campus to yield to pedestrians, University police will begin to crack down on jaywalking this year. Police eventually ...

Votecarolina works for higher turnout

By KATIE CLINE | September 20

A lot can happen in four years. So members of VoteCarolina are encouraging students to make their voices heard by voting in the upcoming town election. "Even ...

House changes accepted

By KELLI BORBET | September 20

Two fraternities on campus found new homes this semester - just in time for the start of rush. Pi Lambda Phi and Kappa Alpha switched houses in August ...

An unbalanced meal plan

By KATHRYN BALES | September 20

Correction: The article states Top of Lenoir has 250 seats. It actually has 650 seats Michelle Earp found herself lost in Lenoir Dining Hall's version ...

State & Nation briefs

By From staff and wire reports | September 20

Tropical storm risk results in New Orleans' evacuation NEW ORLEANS - Under pressure from President Bush and other top federal officials, the mayor ...

Medicaid embraces victims

By ERIN FRANCE | September 20

Immediate medical assistance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina could be followed by a push to take care of affected people well into the future. Medicaid, ...

Community calendar

By Staff Editor | September 20

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will host a human rights brown bag lunch at noon today in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room ...

Disease and poverty plague African nations

September 20

Everyday, 20,000 people die of preventable diseases - 15,000 of those people die in Africa. We know this. We study it, analyze it and each do our small ...

Officials dedicate Baity Hill

By Kelly Ochs | September 20

University administrators Monday dedicated Baity Hill, the new student family housing located off Mason Farm Road, as a part of UNC's growing campus. "We ...

Gossip popular, according to buzz

By LEAH KONEN | September 20

Students seem to be doing it everywhere - in the middle of the Pit, the back of the library or at a crowded fraternity party. Gossip is an almost unavoidable ...

Partnership sharpens focus

By TED STRONG | September 20

The DEDC is no more. The Downtown Economic Development Corporation rechristened itself as the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership on Monday at a meeting ...

Campus briefs

By From staff and wire reports | September 20

Some health care workers' salaries to be increased UNC Health Care's board of directors announced Friday that the salaries of the system's lowest-paid ...