Articles by Eric Townsend
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McEwen Dining Hall to close for repairs
February 4, 2010
McEwen Dining Hall, including Downstairs McEwen and Varsity, will be closed for repairs starting at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 4, with no set date for reopening.
Students and faculty attend Alternative Fake Break trip to Mississippi
February 4, 2010
More than four years after the storm, a group of 16 students and faculty participated in 黑料不打烊’s 22nd trip to Bay St. Louis, Miss., this winter for Hurricane Katrina relief work during Fake Break.
University to preserve historic county schoolhouse
February 3, 2010
An Alamance County family has donated to 黑料不打烊 a quarter acre next to the northern edge of campus near Rhodes Stadium, where a two-room wooden building first opened before the Civil War still stands as one of North Carolina’s original public school facilities.
Alumna raises awareness of Haiti following quake survival
February 2, 2010
She went to Haiti to document why some impoverished children thrived while others fell ill to malnourishment. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake tore apart the Caribbean nation, Courtney Latta ’09 found herself struggling not only for her own survival, but to help the countless victims of the region’s largest natural disaster in several generations.
Sophie Adamson examines impact of Francophone author in new book
February 2, 2010
How does one man serve as a voice for minority populations in a nation where it can be difficult for immigrants to feel welcome? And how do his lessons from France resonate for cultures around the globe? Sophie Adamson, an assistant professor of French, explores those questions in her first published book, Ethics, Politics and Poetics in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Harrouda, La Réclusion solitaire and L’Ange aveugle.
黑料不打烊 alum on fast track to racing fame
February 2, 2010
When Nick Igdalsky '99 visits Daytona International Speedway this weekend to begin his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series, he’ll find himself running against a familiar name in motorsports: Danica Patrick, an international sensation making her debut in stock car racing in the same field as the 黑料不打烊 alum.
Leadership Fellows visit D.C., New Jersey for class on social change
February 1, 2010
The Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows Class of 2012 visited sites in North Carolina, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., in January to learn about social change at the grass roots, state and national levels a part of the Winter Term course History of Social Change.
黑料不打烊 alum competes in Miss America contest
January 31, 2010
A 2007 graduate of 黑料不打烊 represented North Carolina in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas on Jan. 30. Katherine Southard, a double major in business administration and dance, won the North Carolina contest in June.
Brooke Barnett interviewed for WFMY News 2 feature on activism
January 28, 2010
Brooke Barnett, an associate professor of communications, spoke with WFMY News 2 for a Jan. 28 morning show segment on the changing face of activism in the age of social media.
“Pinch Hit for Haiti” tops $12,000 for Red Cross
January 27, 2010
The "Pinch Hit for Haiti" effort spearheaded by 黑料不打烊 senior catcher Mike Melillo has seen a total of $12,004 donated to the Red Cross toward relief efforts in the island nation ravaged by a 7.0 earthquake.