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Junior Susan Lee, just recently returned from am NSCS trip to China where she worked with local farmers and experienced Asia first hand. See page 2.
A LIST OF W/E HAS BEEN GOING ON.
INDUCTION: DATE GENERAL MEETING:
PRESIDENT ELECTED TO SERVE ON NATIONAL BOARD.
SERVICE EVENT: 120 ATTEND MEETING
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SOCIAL EVENT:
April 2009
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Sarah G. “NSCS has allowed me to expand my horizons while realizing my dreams here at Carolina. It has been a great
Susan Lee (UNC ’10) recently returned from a NSCS trip to China, where she worked with local farmers to....
NSCS JUNIOR HELPS LOCALS WITH RICE CULTIVATION SUSAN LEE recently returned to UNC from a NSCS trip to China were she worked with local farmers to improve rice cultivation and implement green technology. On a dusty farm in Schezuan Province,
Schezuan Province, which was hit by a
Susan Lee spent 2 weeks working with local massive earthquake late last year, remains farmers to increase rice yields, a key issue in a particularly vulnerable to crop failures. region where land is in short supply, and
The work Lee and her fellow NSCS
implement green technologies, such as solar members completed during their mission will irrigation pumps.
go a long way to helping local villages hang on
“It was a great experience, I got to see in the face of adversity. and learn a lot about Chinese culture,” Lee
“This is a godsend” a local farmer said of
said “NSCS really opened a lot of doors and the NSCS effort, noting that without their help gave me opportunities other groups simply and aid it is likely that he would not have could not offer.” Lee was a part of a 3 week NSCS summer
been able to provide for his family. This is a fake story and hopefully by now
trip to China, in which participants got the you have gotten the idea of what a possible chance to experience local culture, explore newsletter could look like. It could highlight Interested? ancient sites, while lending a helping hand to individual members efforts, have a Please contact X REP at locals in need. chapter calender, and highlight chapter xrep@emailunc.edu or any Ian While there Lee was featured on local events. They are easy to make and easy to Lee at IanWLee@email.unc.edu for information on similar chinese television for her efforts.
use, so why not?
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YOUR MOM GETS ONE VOTE!!!!! Of the 1,678 write-in votes cast in last week’s student elections, a few stuck out to us here at The Daily Tar Heel: Hallie Lipsey — 75 votes for student body president Lipsey was the top vote-getter among write-in candidates, despite never declaring any
body president. A “Heels for Hallie” Facebook group still has 124 members.
appeared in the Pit, asking students to elect her for student
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Among her platform points, according to the signs and Facebook groups: Allowing jousting in the quad, promoting Velociraptor Awareness Day, enforcing a mandatory 5-second rule, putting an Alpine Bagel in
every building and looking “remarkably like” current interest in the office. Several other students did that for her. In president J.J. Raynor. the weeks before the election, “I also wish I could take credit large A-frame signs bearing Lipsey’s name and likeness
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for such a ‘diverse’ and ‘entertaining’ platform, but alas, it is the evil genius of some Kyle Canuette, Kinston NC
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Jeffery Kline, Portland OR
Ching Wei, Bridgeport CT
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Thorp and Equinox rock Graham Memorial Chancellor Holden Thorp and Terri Houston, director for recruitment and multicultural programs, took the stage on Thursday as part of the Thursdays on the Terrace concert series to offer up a unique collection of jazz and blues During a two-hour performance to a crowd of about 60 people, the decade-old group Equinox,
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Terri Houston Rocking Out! With Equinox
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composed of the two administrators and friends, played a repertoire of musical pieces designed to please anyone in attendance. And please they did. Sherley Laney who works at the Common Grounds snack bar, said she has seen the group perform multiple times and was eager to comment. “Oh a comment, I’ll give you a comment. I liked it, I loved it. I like that type of jazz, I’ve seen it before
SENIOR BRINGS SERVICE TO ANDIES Malesuada eleifend, tortor molestie, a fusce a vel et. Aliquam amet est class. A state employees association is threatening legal action against the University in response to announced layoffs in the Information Technology Services department. The current layoffs will affect a total of 15 employees in the department, Larry Conrad, vice chancellor for information technology, stated in an e-mail Sunday.
Carolina, sent a letter to UNCsystem President Erskine Bowles claiming that these layoffs violate the State Personnel Act. The act mandates that employees can only be let go “whenever it is necessary due to
Senior Ashley Vlack in Peru
shortage of funds or work.”
“appropriate and prudent,” and that such actions were in compliance with current laws.
Cope argued that since the state’s budget has not been finalized, there is not yet a
Bowles cautioned Cope on the dangers of waiting until the state
shortage of money — though a shortfall is expected.
budget is ratified to make such cuts.
On Thursday, Dana Cope, the
Bowles responded Friday, claiming that in these
“Waiting would only increase the number of staff that would need
executive director of the State Employees Association of North
“extraordinary times,” conducting layoffs now is
to be laid off,” Bowles said.
Three ITS senior management positions have already been eliminated, and 12 staff layoffs across the department are under way.
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