10.31.12 | University Achievements, University News
The UNC Symphony Orchestra has taken first place in the American Prize competition for recordings of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances in a performance in April 2011. The 100-piece UNC orchestra won in the college/university…
The campus’s advisory task force on tuition and fees has recommended tuition increases for 2013-14 for out-of-state undergraduates and all graduate students. In-state undergraduates were spared, but they face a $600 increase already approved by… read more
Carrboro police say hazing is “not the primary focus, and there is no evidence at this time to suggest that hazing was a factor” in the death of a UNC student from a fall over the weekend. A statement released Tuesday by the Carrboro Police… read more
It’s her passion for crafting the present for posterity that drove senior Waverly Lynch to become the Yackety Yack’s editor-in-chief in 2011. Lynch rose to the position in an unusual way: The yearbook’s board had asked the previous… read more
As of mid-October, 10 fraternities had been accused of hazing pledges this fall — the most reported cases since 2005. Aaron Bachenheimer, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement, said that of those… read more
UNC is complying fully with a Superior Court judge’s order and the terms of a settlement agreement reached with N.C. media organizations in a lawsuit about public records and the joint NCAA investigation into the University’s football… read more
The search committee seeking a successor for Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will hold four separate forums on Nov. 7 and 8 for people to share opinions about what they hope to see in the next chancellor. The forums are designed to provide an… read more
Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, chair of the Case Foundation and chair and CEO of Revolution, will give UNC’s spring Commencement address. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 chose Case in consultation with the University’s Commencement Speaker… read more
The trustees of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust announced a gift of $1 million to the UNC School of Law in memory of William C. Friday ’48 (LLB), who died Oct. 12. The trustees designated the gift for support of student… read more
Thomas Ross ’75 (JD) said his was a life “as extraordinary as any our state has ever seen.” Beverly Perdue said, “He believed that for all of us — not some of us — education was that silver bullet that could change… read more