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Gender-neutral housing offered on campus

By Victor De La Cruz | February 18

Students who want to live on campus with someone of a different gender will finally get the chance this fall.

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Finding pet-friendly apartments

By Victor De La Cruz | February 18

Although dogs and cats aren’t permitted to share a room with students on campus, plenty of off-campus apartments welcome pets—for a price.

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UNC Hospitals Stroke Center certi?ed

By Victor De La Cruz | January 21

UNC Hospitals will now be attracting patients from all across the Southeast for something that only it has — a certified Comprehensive Stroke Center.

TedxUNC holds a final event to choose one student speaker out of seven finalists to speak at the actual TedxUNC event on Feb. 9.

The seven finalists are: Peacemaker Myoung, Jonathan Hebert, Portia Nleya, Eli Hornstein, David Freifeld, Laura Rozo and Stirling Little

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TEDxUNC finalists fight for a spot at the conference

By Victor De La Cruz | January 14

Seven finalists gave five-minute speeches arguing that they should be selected as the student speaker at the TEDxUNC conference on Feb. 9.

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UNC clubs to fundraise for victims of Hurricane Sandy

By Victor De La Cruz | November 6

Even though Hurricane Sandy left Chapel Hill largely unscathed, the storm’s aftereffects are still on students’ minds.

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Mr. and Ms. UNC 2011 service projects left un?nished

By Victor De La Cruz | November 4

Last year’s Mr. and Ms. UNC didn’t keep their campaign promises. After miscommunication among the winners and the groups they promised to help, the $500 meant to go toward the service projects was never awarded.

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Q&A with UNC alumnus Jonathan Bloom

By Victor De La Cruz | October 23

Jonathan Bloom is an alumnus of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and author of American Wasteland.

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Faculty bridge gap in academics, athletics

By Victor De La Cruz | October 9

UNC athletics teams have drafted a new teammate — a faculty member who will oversee their academic advising.

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Gender-neutral housing support campaign kicks off

By Victor De La Cruz | October 3

The fight for gender-neutral housing has been revived in a 10-week campaign to rejuvenate student support.

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U Miami president Donna Shalala: Go into health care

By Victor De La Cruz | September 12

Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami, said students looking for a job in the struggling economy should go into health care.