Friends remember Doris Betts
By Kirsten Chang
Colleagues and students of the lauded UNC creative writing professor Doris Betts share their fondest memories.
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NC becomes haven for cheesemakers
by Grace Joyal
- Cows graze at the Chapel Hill Creamery, which has been making award-winning cheese since 2001. (Photo by Grace Joyal)
North Carolina is a leader in the Southeast with 40 licensed cheese makers across the state. Many are located in Orange County.
Drama majors face unique job challenges
by Ashley Gunsteens
We’re about two weeks from graduation, and there are a lot of seniors who still haven’t found jobs. For UNC graduates pursuing an acting career though, that’s just kind of how it works. Aspiring actors usually move to some of the most expensive cities in the country even if they don’t know how they’ll get paid once they get there. Carolina Connection’s Ashley Gunsteens explains.
UNC students catch new social media craze
By Georgia Walker
Many UNC students are picking up on a new social media sensation – memes. A meme refers to something that spreads from person to person within a culture – like a toy craze or a hit song. But on the Internet, a meme is usually a viral picture with a witty punch line that only certain groups of people would understand. So, it’s basically a high-tech and very public way to share an inside joke. And, as Carolina Connection’s Georgia Walker reports, UNC students are joining the meme rage and creating their own memes to parody campus life.
UNC grads teach for America
By Kirsten Chang
Thousands of UNC seniors will graduate next month to enter the workforce, and you may be surprised to know who will be their number one employer. Teach for America hires promising students to teach in the nation’s lowest-income schools. More than one hundred and twenty UNC graduates currently work for TFA. But many who join have little or no background in education. Carolina Connection’s Kirsten Chang reports on the program and what attracts so many UNC alums to the classroom.
UNC professor tracks evolution of slang
by Reema Khrais
UNC linguist Connie Eble may be the only professor in the nation who encourages students to speak slang.
Every year, Eble asks her students to write down slang words they say or hear around campus. She then compiles the words – like “craycray” or “rando” – into a master list of about 300 words college students regularly use. Eble has been doing that with her students since 1972 and, as Carolina Connection’s Reema Khrais reports, she finds that some words hang on for decades, while others simply come and go.
UNC senior turns love for music into full-time job
by Ashley Gunsteens
Carolina Connection profiles a UNC senior with a rather impressive resume. He started his own record label two years ago and since then has led a life of recording sessions, band tours, countless meetings and, of course, classes. Carolina Connection’s Ashley Gunsteens stole a few minutes of his time to talk about how he’s turned his love for music into a full-time job and a way to give back.
Local writer leads radio drama class
By Kirsten Chang
You probably won’t tune in to a radio drama after our show–the days of Flash Gordon and Little Orphan Annie are over. But that hasn’t stopped Durham writer Howard Craft from teaching some students at UNC how to write plays for radio.
- Students in the radio drama workshop do an in-class writing exercise. (Photo by Clarissa Goodlett)
Bringing the arts to students
By Ashley Gunsteens
Some world-class performers only stop three places in the United States–New York City, Washington, D.C., and… Chapel Hill. UNC’s Memorial Hall hosts high-caliber performances of music, dance and theater. And tickets that usually cost more than a hundred dollars, UNC students can get dirt-cheap. But a lot don’t take advantage. So Carolina Performing Arts, the organization that runs Memorial Hall, is trying to do a better job marketing to students.
- UNC's Memorial Hall hosts high-caliber performances from all over the world. (Photo by Ashley Gunsteens)
A UNC perspective on Krzyzewskiville
By Ryan Davis
Carolina Connection takes you inside a makeshift village filled with young people who despise the Carolina Tar Heels. It’s called Krzyzewskiville, and it’s a collection of rag-tag tents near Duke’s basketball stadium. Some Duke students camp there for months just to get a ticket to tonight’s basketball game. That’s right – months in a tent. One basketball game. If that doesn’t give you an idea of how fierce the Duke-Carolina rivalry is…well, this story by Carolina Connection’s Ryan Davis should take care of that.
