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Tom
Clark/Old Gold and Black
Senior
Chris Webb lights a fire in the Davis Courtyard to help the residents
get into the Halloween spirit Oct. 30.
Trustees
vote to raise tuition by 7 percent in 2003-2004
By
Kezia McKeague
The board of trustees voted to raise tuition by seven percent next year
at the annual fall session of the board Oct. 17 and 18. According to Murray
C. Greason Jr., vice chairman of the board, the meeting was an informational
meeting with relatively few actual decisions made in comparison to other
sessions.
Sig
Eps cut deal with prosecutor
By Elizabeth Bland
Twenty-one
members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity agreed in a trial held Oct.
30 to a set of conditions put forth by the Forsyth County District Attorney's
office that will allow them to avoid criminal convictions in connection
with an incident involving the abandonment of a 200-pound pig in Tanglewood
Park last April.
Crash
leaves 3 dead
By Brian Carlo
The
parents and younger brother of freshman Alberto Duboy, known as A.J.,
were killed after their plane crashed nosefirst into a swampy area
on the afternoon of Oct. 25 in Northern Guilford County.
Low
GPAs: IFC instates pledge study hours
By Will Wingfield
Spring
2002 statistics released Oct. 15 from Residence Life and Housing
placed the average grade point average of all fraternities on campus
below the all-men's average by one thousandth of a point.
'Employees
of the Year' recognized by university
By Kristen Benjamin
The
2002 Employee of the Year Awards were given to Cecil Price, the
director of Student Health Services, and Janet Williamson, an
administrative assistant in the office of Creative Services, during
the Staff Employee Awards Recognition luncheon Oct. 29. Both Price
and Williamson were awarded ,000 from the university.
Senate
race neck and neck
By Whitaker Grannis
President
Bush was in Charlotte Oct. 24 as he made his fifth stop in North
Carolina this year. The
reason for his visit was to campaign for North Carolina Republicans,
especially U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole.
'Wake
Works' well for students, local businesses
By
Lauren Pressley
If
there is one thing that every college student has in common,
it's a preoccupation with money. For those students who must
earn paychecks of their own, Wake Works offers a fun and lucrative
option.
Faculty
organizes Iraq roundtable talk at Shorty's
By Brian Carlo
Faculty
members and students assembled at an informal forum Oct.
29 to discuss opinions and ideas on the possible American
pre-emptive strike on Iraq.
Deacon
Incubator a force for business development
By Angel Hsu
Almost
a year after its initial conception and launch last November,
the Babcock Deacon Incubator has matured alongside the
start-up companies it helped sponsor.
Movies,
TV on ThinkPads may become a campus reality
By Whitaker Grannis
What
if there was a Napster for movies? What if you could
view feature films in your dorm room before they were
released to stores? What if you had the best hits of
South Park on demand from your laptop? Soon you will
be able to.
University
hosts parents, families
By Allison Diljohn
This
year's annual Family Weekend was marked by a number
of festivities that began on the afternoon of Oct.
25 and continued until Oct. 27.
Private
survey targets campus life improvement
By Alex Reyes
The
question of how well college prepares students for
the "real world" is one that many consider to be
at the top of the list when comparing schools. The
university has been selected to participate in a
survey conducted by a private organization to measure
students' ideal campus lifestyle and compare it
to their existing campus lifestyles.
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