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Graduation success rate of UNC athletesThe NCAA reported last week that the graduation success rate of Division I athletes who entered
college in 2006 has risen to 82 percent. Some UNC teams fall below the national average.
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athletes as well as examining itsstudy hall and tutoring programs,she said. Among the new initia-tives, Brown said shes excited bythe work of the Student Athlete
Academic Initiative WorkingGroup, a new program led byExecutive Vice Chancellor andProvost Jim Dean.
The nine-member work-ing group includes Dean and
Brown, as well as AthleticsDirector Bubba Cunninghamand three UNC professors.
While the groups focus is onsuccess at each stage of a stu-dent athletes academic career admission, advising, supportand graduation Dean said thegroup is also trying to tailor a
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Affordable housing in jeopardy
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Chapel Hill resident Dawn Lancaster will have to leave her home after her lease runs out in July after seven years in her apartment.
By Caroline HudsonSenior Writer
After seven years in her apartment, DawnLancaster will have to find a new home when herlease runs out in July.
Lancaster relies on a Section 8 housing vouch-er so she can afford her rent.
Lancasters Chapel Hill apartment is run byGSC Apartment Homes, one of the largest apart-ment management firms in Chapel Hill. The com-
pany recently stopped accepting Section 8 vouch-ers forcing residents like Lancaster that rely onthose vouchers to look for a new place to live.
The U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment Housing Choice Voucher Program,
which is also known as Section 8, is designed tohelp low-income families, the elderly and the dis-abled afford private housing.
Private housing complex owners are notrequired to accept the vouchers.
GSC Apartment Homes operates nine apartmentcomplexes in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area.
Lancaster said she thinks people using theSection 8 vouchers are viewed as lazy, which shesays is not always true.
Ive always been independent all my life, shesaid. I put in my time.
She said she has loans to pay on top of monthlyrent, making it difficult to find money for groceries.
And her car doesnt run, limiting her mobility.
a b do
Terry Meyers, regional vice president at GSC
Apartment firm stops accepting Section 8 vouchers, forces people to move
ECSU may cut history program NC StateFair worker
injuredThe ccdent n Mndy ws the
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Athlete success rate above NCAA average
By Sarah BrownAssistant State & National Editor
As UNC-system schools con-tinue to make tough decisionsin a difficult financial climate,Elizabeth City State Universityis considering discontinuing itshistory program a move thatcould be virtually unprecedent-ed for a public university.
Earlier this fall, system GeneralAdministration staff directed the16 system universities to recom-mend low-productivity degreeprograms for discontinuation byNovember. ECSU, a historically
black school with an enrollmentof about 2,400 students, receiveda nearly 10 percent cut to itsstate funding this year.
Ten programs at the school fitthe systems criteria for low pro-ductivity. ECSU administrators
determined that three of them middle grades education, specialeducation and a master of sciencein biology are central to theuniversitys mission and will not
be considered for elimination.Seven programs history,
political science, physics, geology,studio art, marine environmentalscience and industrial technology are still in limbo. If the sevenare discontinued, some course-
work in each area will still beoffered at ECSU, said Ali Khan,provost and vice chancellor ofacademic affairs, in a statement.
UNC-system policy deemsthat degree programs must haveat least 20 graduates in the lasttwo years and at least 26 majorsto avoid the low-productivitydesignation.
ECSU history professor TedMitchell sent an email Thursdayto inform UNC-systems historydepartment chairs that ECSUsprogram might be eliminated.
Really, one would thinkhistory would be central to(ECSUs) mission, Mitchell said
in an interview.He said he thinks ECSUs his-
tory program could have falleninto the low-productivity cat-egory by mistake. He said thatdue to a possible glitch in theECSU computer system, some
students majoring in historymight not have been accountedfor by his estimates, there aremore than 30 history majors.
Still, some UNC-system his-tory faculty were troubled thatECSUs history program couldfold and did not know of a four-
year public university that hasdiscontinued its history major.
Theres a message that youresending when you say, Im noteven going to have this here,said Jim Grossman, execu-tive director of the AmericanHistorical Association.
Grossman said there is ironyin a historically black universitylacking a history degree.
Youre talking to students
whose parents in many caseswent through a period of his-tory thats very important to the
By Sarah MoseleyStaff Writer
The NCAA revealedlast Thursday that UNCs
Graduation Success Rate forstudent-athletes is 86 percent 4 percent more than thenational average.
Steve Kirschner, seniorassociate athletic director forcommunications, said in a pressrelease that these figures are
based on the entering classesfrom 2003-04 to 2006-07.
The GSR, which measures theproportion of student-athletesthat graduate, includes transferstudents and athletes who grad-uate within six years in goodacademic standing.
Michelle Brown, director ofthe Academic Support Programfor Student Athletes, said thenumbers are still worth cel-ebrating even though they arefrom past years.
The student athletes aredoing really well, she said. Itsa great accomplishment on theirpart.
Ten varsity UNC teams
scored 100 percent, includingmen and womens fencing, fieldhockey, womens golf, gymnas-tics, rowing, womens swimmingand diving, men and womenstennis and volleyball, accordingto the press release.
Brown said her programconsiders the NCAAs GSR and
Academic Progress Rates togauge how students are doingand see how they can improvestudent-athlete success.
This year, the ASPSA is initiat-ing a new structure that encour-ages individualized support for
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black experience they wentthrough that transformationfrom Jim Crow, he said. Thatexperience, its absolutely crucialto any understanding of where
African-Americans are todayand what they can do.
Fitzhugh Brundage, UNC-
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By Kathryn TrogdonStaff Writer
An N.C. State Fair worker was injured whiledisassembling a ride after the fairs 2013 runended Sunday night the second accident in fourdays on the fairgrounds.
Brian Long, a State Fair spokesman, said a fairworker was injured at around 3:30 a.m. Mondaywhile he was dismantling one of the two rides atthe fair called the Vortex the other Vortex ride atthe fair was the site of another accident last week.
The worker was transported to WakeMed hos-pitals with a leg injury, Long said.
Monday also marked the first court appear-ance for Timothy Dwayne Tutterrow, a fair worker
who was arrested and charged with three countsof assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious
bodily injury. The charges come after a Thursdayaccident on the other Vortex ride that injured fivepeople, who were also taken to WakeMed hospitals.
Two have been released, while AnthonyGorham, 29; Kisha Gorham, 39; and a 14-year-old youth were still hospitalized as of Monday.
Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison has said aninspection found the ride had been tampered withand critical safety devices were compromised.
Richard Johnson, chief of operations at theNorth Carolina Sheriffs Association, said the judgedenied to lower Tutterrows $225,000 bond. He saidTutterrows preliminary court date is set for Nov. 18.
Attendance at the fair for the two days after theaccident was down from last years attendance forthe same days Fridays attendance was about10,000 less, and Saturdays attendance was 17,000less than 2012.
Its hard to say whether the decline was com-pletely because of the accident, he said. Friday andSaturday nights were quite chilly, and that appearedto affect the size of the fairs nighttime crowd.
The years total attendance was 927,563 about 37,700 people fewer than last year.
Amanda Thompson, a UNC junior, said sherode the Vortex less than an hour before the inci-dent took place. But she said the accident didntstop her from going back to the fair again Sunday.
I thought it was pretty scary, but I still went backyesterday and rode a bunch of rides because its fun,she said. Im not worried about that happeningagain. They seem to have that under control.
TRANSFORMING LIVESA Ban Against Neglect educates, em-
ploys and empowers impoverished
women in Ghana through the power
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UNC STUDENT CONGRESS
TO VOTE ON ASG TIESStudent Congress will vote today
whether to pull the University out o
the Association o Student Govern-
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This day in history
OCTOBER 29, 1618
Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded
in London or conspiracy at the
demand o King James I. Raleigh
organized the frst English settle-
ment in America, which is in
Roanoke, N.C.
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