Dick Baddour spoke to a crowd of freshmen Tuesday in Graham Memorial as part of the First Year Fellows program. In the hour-long talk, Baddour shed a positive light in the wake of an investigation that rocked the athletics department, praising the football team for its resiliency in tough times.
The tone of the monthly Faculty Athletics Committee meeting Tuesday was distinctly more positive than in previous months. Members focused not on the ongoing NCAA investigation but rather the encouraging statistics regarding 2009 student-athlete graduation success rates.
UNC is months away from taking on N.C. State University inside the Dean Dome. But on the asphalt court outside Morrison Residence Hall on Tuesday, it was OK to be a loser.
You won’t find any incriminating Facebook statuses or unbecoming Tweets on Katie Ray’s social networking profiles. If elected Miss UNC, she wants to do her part to make this true for the entire online community. Ray, a senior journalism major from Hillsborough, hopes to educate area high school juniors and seniors on the importance of social networking.
Although Bill Kristol and Mark Shields stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum, they agreed on one prediction — Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives in November.
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