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Miscellany

Tree cutting at Horace Williams

Selective tree cutting to begin at the airport. This from Linda Convissor at UNC:

Dear Friends and Neighbors:

Over the next few days, the University will be doing tree maintenance at Horace Williams Airport. Because we prefer not to clear cut trees, we will be doing selective cutting. This work is directly at the western end of the runway and will not be visible from the street.

We would prefer not to have to cut any trees. However, while the airport remains open, we must maintain safety and that means removing trees that become too tall.

If you are a neighborhood or community group contact, please forward this to your group.

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Community

UNC Relay for Life

UNC’s annual Relay for Life will be held on Friday, April 3 at the Fetzer Field and Belk Track on the UNC campus. The event provides an opportunity for everyone involved to raise funds and awareness to support the American Cancer Society’s lifesaving mission. Help fight cancer by signing up or donating. For more information visit www.uncrelay.org.

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Arts & Music

Fire safety puppet show

The Chapel Hill Museum presents Johnnie Joins the Fire Department: A Puppet Musical. Johnnie and five puppets teach valuable life-saving skills through interactive fun and song. The program, sponsored by the North Carolina Jaycees Burn Center, begins at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 21, in the lobby of the UNC Children’s Hospital. For more information, visit chapelhillmuseum.org/Events/FireSafety/.

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Community

Civil rights lecture

Author Thomas J. Sugrue will discuss “Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Fighting Educational Inequality North and South,” on Friday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture on the UNC campus.

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Sports

See off the men’s bball team Thursday

Send the number-one-seeded men’s basketball team off to the ACC Tournament at 2:45pm on Thursday, March 12. Fans will gather outside the Smith Center’s D Entrance. Do yourself a favor and take the bus (routes and schedules here), though parking is available in the Manning Lot on Skipper Bowles Drive. For more information, visit alumni.unc.edu/marchmadness. Go Heels!

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Community

Record turnout for UNC Dance Marathon

Starting on Friday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. and lasting for 24 hours, the UNC Dance Marathon attracted a record number of students standing on their feet in support of the N.C. Children’s Hospital. More than 1,800 students pledged to stand at the 11th annual Dance Marathon. The event is UNC’s largest student-led fundraiser and is held every February to celebrate the organization’s year-long fundraising efforts.

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Community

One Hundred Years of Journalism Education at UNC

Consecrated to the Common Good: One Hundred Years of Journalism Education at UNC
Wednesday, Feb. 11
2:30-4 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center

This year, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first journalism course taught at UNC. Former Dean Tom Bowers will relate the story of the first century of journalism education on campus by focusing on people who shaped the program. The personalities include a dean who inspired a character in a novel, a beloved faculty member who was the basis for a comic-strip character, another who was unwittingly part of the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s and one who was ridiculed for predicting that computers would change journalism. Bowers also will tell of the influence of an alumnus who tried to change the school and threatened to ask Duke University to start a journalism school if UNC did not follow his wishes. Alumni and friends who have materials or stories to share are encouraged to contact Bowers at tbowers@email.unc.edu.

For more information, please contact Laura Sheppard at 843-5115 or ccll@unc.edu.