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.
By Michael Tomsic
This week was not the first time that UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has met President Obama. Thorp was part of a White House conference on college affordability in December. Chancellor Thorp spoke with Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic about what the president’s visit means for the university and about the challenges of this past school year.
By Kirsten Chang, Michael Tomsic and John Caison
President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to come to UNC in almost twenty years this week. He got a rock star’s welcome from the roughly eight thousand people who packed Carmichael Arena, where the president spoke about the growing cost of higher education.
Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic describes the scene on campus, and John Caison reports on the president’s challenge to get young people as excited for the 2012 election as they were back in 2008, when people younger than 30 turned out in near-record numbers nationwide, and exit polls showed 66 percent of them voted for then-Senator Obama.
By Sydney Harris
Senior Tar Heel lacrosse player Becky Lynch is Carolina’s career assist leader. She shares her opinion on being a Tar Heel and what her plans are after college.
By Michael Tomsic
National experts on early education say North Carolina has one of the most renowned pre-kindergarten programs in the country. But state budget cuts mean about 2,000 fewer children are going through it this school year. And some researchers, school administrators and teachers worry the cuts are watering down the program. Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic reports.
By Kirsten Chang
Hundreds of UNC students marched from Franklin Street to a rally on campus this week. They gathered to protest the killing of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old who was shot in Florida by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. UNC students, faculty, and staff wore hoodies and carried Skittles and iced tea, just like Martin did on the night he died.
by Georgia Walker
UNC students, faculty, visitors, and everyone else on campus threw away almost thirty-five-hundred tons of trash last year. Just think of all those plastic forks, food scraps, and candy wrappers. But where does it all go? Carolina Connection’s Georgia Walker found out.
by John Caison
A charity event just off UNC’s campus will raise money for the research and treatment of A-L-S, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The event is called the Cookout to Knockout A-L-S, and the two students who organized it have seen firsthand what the disease can do to a family. Carolina Connection’s John Caison shares their stories.
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.
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.
