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Students Make Leaps Of Faith for U.S. Army

By Emily Canaday | August 21

Many students spend the waning days of summer sleeping late and making last-minute trips to the pool, enjoying their moments of freedom before the rush of classes begins. But this year some students experienced a different kind of rush during the week leading up to the start of classes. UNC-Chapel Hill Army Institute of Leadership officials provided heart-stopping activities throughout the week in an effort to unite cadets and allow new students a taste of what the program has to offer.

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Courthouse Cameras Face Controversy

By Emily Canaday | July 19

Orange County?s decision to link the jail and courthouse via a closed-circuit camera system is producing conflicts between judges and attorneys. The new system, which places a camera, microphone and monitor in the two locations, allows the defendant, judge, defense attorney and district attorney to communicate in real time using a four-way split screen.

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On-campus Bar Makes Last Call at Duke

By Emily Canaday | June 28

DURHAM - The old stools sit idly behind the wooden bar that for 27 years served swarms of Duke University students. The Hideaway, named by Playboy magazine as one of the best college bars in America, is now only a shadow of its former self, as declining revenues forced its doors shut last spring. Graduate students in Duke's Business School began the bar in 1974 as a business experiment and it quickly became a favorite among students.

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Fare-free Busing Factors Into Town Budget

By Emily Canaday | June 28

The Chapel Hill Town Council cleared the way for fare-free busing Monday as part the town's $57.3 million budget. The budget also combines the Transportation Fund tax rate with the General Fund tax rate to form a total tax rate of 50.4 cents for the 2001-2002 fiscal year, which is 7.4 cents lower than the current rate of 57.8 cents. But these numbers can be deceiving. This year the county assessor determined that Chapel Hill homes increased an average of 25 to 30 percent in value.

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Project Revamps Downtown

By Emily Canaday | June 20

The whizzing and pounding of construction returns for the summer as Chapel Hill renovates its downtown area. Amidst a sea of orange cones, fragmented concrete and a whirlwind of dust, the Public Works Department continues its current phase of the long term, multi-million dollar Streetscape project, which began nearly a decade ago and resumes each summer with a multitude of various projects. June 4 kicked off this summer's $700,000 project which centers on improvements on the east side of N. Columbia St. between E. Franklin St.

Emily Canaday

Students Make Leaps Of Faith for U.S. Army

Courthouse Cameras Face Controversy

On-campus Bar Makes Last Call at Duke

Fare-free Busing Factors Into Town Budget

Project Revamps Downtown

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