City, County Tout Rising SAT Scores

Scholastic Assessment Test scores in local schools have increased, keeping one school system in first place and putting a second one on the map for the ...

Board Weighs Funding Alternatives

Children are not a common sight at meetings of the Orange County Board of Commissioners. But at the board's public hearing Monday night, Poonam ...

Men's Soccer Gets Defensive in '01

A season ago, the North Carolina men's soccer team featured one of the nation's most feared offensive attacks, sparked by the country's leading scorer, ...

Counsel Nabs Its 1st Client

The Independent Defense Counsel is preparing to represent its first client before the Honor Court nearly a year after the counsel's original conception. Senior ...

County's Needs Are Paramount

There's $75 million up for grabs in Orange County -- and everyone has a hand out. On Nov. 6, Orange County voters will be asked to approve a $75 million ...

Thornton Relishes New Starring Role

Senior linebacker David Thornton never dreamed of sitting in a room with more than 20 reporters. But after the former walk-on's performance in the North ...

House Tuition Plan Heads to Senate

RALEIGH -- The N.C. House once again approved an amendment Tuesday night that would raise tuition for out-of-state students by about 15 percent and leave ...

Family Adds Spice to Franklin

There were the Danzigers in the 1950s and the Julians in the 1970s. And now, there are the DiBartolos. Chapel Hill has a long history of family-run ...

Marshall Aims for U.S. Senate Seat

North Carolina's first female secretary of state, Elaine Marshall, hopes to continue breaking new ground as the state's first woman to serve as a U.S. ...

Republican Party Not the Party of the "Old South," Democrats Had Big Role

TO THE EDITOR: Liberals love to associate right-wing Republicans, such as Jesse Helms, with the racism and bigotry of the Old South. In her Aug. 24 ...

Stand Tall In Face of Heat, Humidity

This is an activist campus. We've got our share of progressive organizations, we vote left-wing, our souls burn with relatively righteous flames. ...

Resident Urges Others: Use Transit and Biking to Help Parking Situation

TO THE EDITOR: We will never get out of the transportation mess we are in until we have a radical change in our thinking about the subject of transportation. An ...

System Low in Federal Funds

Lawmakers granted a record amount of pork-barrel appropriations to universities nationwide this year -- but UNC-system schools lag behind other recipients ...

Town Council Passes Flat Rents Resolution

The Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday that will establish flat rents for families living in public housing units. But the ...

Kudzu 08/28/01

Police Arrest 2 CDS Employees in 2 Weeks

Aramark's contract with the University does not require that background checks are run on CDS employees. In the past two weeks, two Carolina Dining ...

Officials Take Action to Correct Silent Bells, Incorrect Time

After being informed the Bell Tower wasn't working properly, Jeffrey Fuchs said his first step was to check the programming. The Bell Tower hasn't ...

Genome Speaker Series Kicks Off

Oliver Smithies, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UNC, discussed his work with mouse genes. The newly formed UNC Center for Genome ...

Low Turnout for Anti-Tuition Rally Frustrates Leaders

Student Body President Justin Young says only an estimated 200 people stopped by the Pit on Monday to listen to the tuition rally. Student government ...