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LOAN POOL: City hopes to entice small businesses. 1B
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COME ON IN: Guilford County schools host open houses. 2A
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STAYING PUT: Wyndham extends sponsorship of tournament. 1D
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MEET, GREET, EAT Taste of the Town feeds community while helping hospice care BY VICKI KNOPFLER ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
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Crowd at Tuesday’s Taste of the Town jam the lobby of Showplace.
HIGH POINT – It takes a lot of people to fill an entire floor of Showplace and a lot of cars to overflow surrounding parking areas. It also takes a special organization to draw such crowds, said many who attended Taste of the Town Tuesday night. For the event, restaurants donate food and their service, and patrons pay to sample a huge variety of food and drink. Groups and individuals also donate items for auction. All proceeds go toward patient care provided by Hospice of the Piedmont. High Point City Manager Strib Boynton
HPU moves up in college rankings BY DARRICK IGNASIAK ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – High Point University ranked third among comprehensive colleges in the South in a report released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. HPU was named No. 3 among comprehensive colleges in the South in “America’s Best Colleges” 2011 edition. Last year, High Point was listed at No. 5 in the same report, and four years ago, HPU occupied the No. 15 spot. “We are delighted to see High Point University skyrocketing in its rankings and be counted among other top colleges and universities in the nation,” HPU President Nido Qubein said. “Appearing on a list such as ‘America’s Best Colleges’ proves that we are truly doing extraordinary things on our campus – including growth in academics, student life and more.”
The U.S. News & World Report list, which is the most closely watched of a growing number of college rankings, is both credited for helping students and families sort through a dizzying college selection process and criticized by those who say it’s too arbitrary and pressures colleges to boost scores at the expense of improving teaching. A change in how rankings are determined led to some shifts in the magazine’s “Best Colleges” rankings, which examines more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools based on 16 factors. The rankings take into account factors such as SAT scores, selectivity, graduation and retention rates, alumni giving and peer reputation. This year, high school guidance counselors’ opinions were added to the mix. In the “Regional Colleges” category, HPU placed above all other schools in North Carolina and above all but two of the 96 colleges ranked
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Harriet “Hattie” Aderholdt joined the United Way of Greater Greensboro as Legacy Society manager. Aderholdt is the organization’s contact for planned giving.
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DON DAVIS JR. | HPE
Misty Hulin and daughter Bryanna serve treats at Misty’s Cakes and Bakery from Thomasville. downed a small container of gazpacho and muttered, “Oh, that’s good, very good” before he spoke of his reasons for attending the event every year that he’s
lived in High Point. “There are a lot of services in town, but (hospice care) affects every single individual and
SHUTTING DOWN: Local video store latest to follow trend. 1B OBITUARIES
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TASTE, 2A
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The following are the annual rankings by the U.S. News & World Report.
Second Tier: East Carolina University, North Carolina A&T State University
NATIONAL 1. Harvard University 2. Princeton University 3. Yale University 4. Columbia University 5. Stanford University 9. Duke University 25. Wake Forest University 30. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 111. N.C. State 191. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
LIBERAL ARTS 1. Davidson College 166. Guilford College Second Tier: Bennett College, Greensboro College
in the region, according to college officials. HPU ranked second in the “Up-and-Coming” colleges category in the South, while Elon University ranked first in the “Up-and-Coming” universities category in the South. Among the top-ranked national universities in the report, Duke University ranked 9th, Wake Forest University placed 25th and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked 30th. N.C. State University ranked 111th in the nationwide
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REGIONAL SOUTH UNIVERSITIES 2. Elon University 9. Appalachian State University REGIONAL SOUTH COLLEGES 3. High Point University 24. Winston-Salem State University category, while The University of North Carolina at Greensboro ranked 191st in the same category. Elon University ranked second in the “Regional Universities” category, while Appalachian State University placed ninth in the same category. The Associated Press contributed to this report. dignasiak@hpe.com | 888-3657
No first-day jitters here Students at High Point Christian Academy (left) get right to work as teacher Mary Bryant (center) works with Dinya Cheng and Jaedong Choi in physics class. At right, Liam Warwic, a kindergartner at Wesleyan Christian Academy, gets help with his backpack from mom, Sarah Warwick on the first day of school. SONNY HEDGECOCK | HPE
Lynne Albright, 68 Linda Davis, 62 Nancy Gupton, 53 Sandra Harrington, 51 Christina Hodges, 32 Terry Kennedy Jr., 82 Joseph Morris Jr., 53 Rachael Murray, 67 Geraldine Neal, 71 Arielle Parker, 18 Catherine Pulliam, 13 Irene Shelf, 87 Neal Sherrill, 65 Obituaries, 2A, 2-3B
Storms likely High 87, Low 72 6D
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