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Grassroots event seeking refuge

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | April 28

While some students might spend Saturday night celebrating the end of classes, others will spend the night on McCorkle Place in hopes of making a difference in the lives of Ugandan children. The quad will host participants for the first Global Night Commute, a grassroots event encompassing more than 130 cities and almost 50,000 expected participants worldwide. The listserv for participants coming to Chapel Hill has grown to about 100 recipients, including students from Duke and Elon universities, said Graham White, who has helped organize the commute on campus.

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Seven-mile walk brings Ugandan civil war to light

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | April 24

A chant resounded throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro on Saturday afternoon, sung by about 30 walkers wearing orange shirts: "G-U-L-U, we walk so they don't have to!" The group, which included students and community members, was participating in Chapel Hill's second GuluWalk - an event designed to raise awareness for the "night commuter" children in the Gulu district of northern Uganda.

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A crowning achievement

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | April 10

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The Y elects newest leaders

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | February 20

One of the campus's oldest and largest student organizations elected new leadership Friday. Kheang Lim and Mona Soni were elected co-presidents of the Campus Y, the University's largest service organization, and they will take their positions after Spring Break. "I'm really excited about bringing both of our ideas together, staying on track with what we've been doing but also bringing some improvements," Lim said. "I think both of our experiences in the Y will be really helpful."

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Anderson vaulted to GPSF post

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | February 15

The campus leader to follow in Mike Brady's administrative footsteps will come from within the Graduate and Professional Student Federation. Lauren Anderson, a fourth-year neurobiology student, defeated P.J. Lusk by almost 200 votes Tuesday to succeed Brady as the next president of the GPSF. "I'm so excited," Anderson said soon after hearing the results. "I feel like I can start doing stuff now." Anderson garnered 348 votes, while Lusk earned 159. Immediately after the results were announced, Lusk said he will have to think about whether he will work with the GPSF next year.

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Programs target subject shortages

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | February 10

Science majors, want a taste of life outside the laboratory? Try a high school classroom. Arts and sciences students who decide late in their college careers that they want to teach soon might be able to enter the classroom within months of graduation. Thomas James, dean of the School of Education, said he is in the process of implementing an accelerated education program for last-year students. James' vision is for students to be licensed to teach by the August after graduation.

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Club absorbs turbulent move

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | January 20

On an overcast December day, Javier Perez-Albert ducked under the wing of a Cessna 152, climbed into the cockpit of the small trainer plane and got his wings. The University junior successfully completed his first solo flight as a student and is now on his way to fulfilling his dream of becoming a career pilot. "You're giddy and nervous, but mostly it's just really cool," he says, remembering that first solo.

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Fraternity admits hazing guilt

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | January 19

In a closed Honor Court hearing Monday night, UNC's Beta Theta Pi fraternity pled guilty to charges that it violated the Honor Code's hazing policy. Adrian Broome, deputy student attorney general, said the fraternity has been placed under "group probation of an indefinite duration," effective from today until at least the end of the 2006-07 school year. The Code offenses originally were reported in an anonymous e-mail sent Sept. 21 to Jay Anhorn, assistant dean of students and director of Greek Affairs. He could not be reached Wednesday for comment on the results of the hearing.

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Elections attract older students

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | October 12

Maintaining a healthy political community in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area depends upon the involvement of graduate students, local leaders say. In many ways, the lifestyles of graduate students naturally are more integrated than undergraduates within the surrounding community, said Mark Kleinschmidt, a Chapel Hill Town Council member who is up for re-election. "They are living not entirely student-centric lives," he said. "They're more likely to use town services." Kleinschmidt said graduate students are therefore more impacted by the municipal government.

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Speaker defies defenses of racism

By KATHRYN ROWLAND | September 30

The term "racism" has been trivialized, said Lawrence Blum on Thursday in a speech for the Parr Center for Ethics. Blum, a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, spoke about his book "I'm Not a Racist, But-" and addressed the different types of racism found in a society. The social concept of racism has been tossed around too lightly, Blum said. Racism is evident in different forms, he said, including personal antipathy toward another race and institutional racism exerted by those in power.