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System schools struggle with faculty benefits

July 6 - Richard Superfine launches bananas and splashes liquid nitrogen during class. Professors such as Superfine, whose physics courses are known nationally, are abundant at UNC, often front-runners in their fields. But many of them leave Carolina for other schools, and though tuition increases have helped offset cuts in faculty salaries, a deficiency of benefits might be the real problem, UNC administrators and faculty say.

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Never forget those cold, clammy halls

Even those who've been spared from having to set foot in Venable know it's there - that mysterious, morbidly old building sunken between two prison-like chemistry towers and the journalism school. For those of us who have set foot there - be it for a single class or years of research in labs - it's an experience not soon forgotten. It will always be that building. That building that almost appears to be living - and definitely dying. That building with the heavy air - air that you think will probably put something carcinogenic into your body.

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