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UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp publicly announced Monday he will step down as chancellor.
ularities that turned up, according to UNC reports. The university’s troubles didn’t end on the athletic field. Questions arose recently about Chapel Hill’s chief fundraiser’s relationship and travel with Tami Hansbrough, gifts officer and mother of UNC-CH basketball standout Tyler Hansbrough. Matt Kupec and Tami Hansbrough both tendered their resignations last week. Thorp appeared in front of the UNC System Board of Governors Friday to answer questions about the resignations and the professional dealings involving the two. Media reports said that concerns
were raised over whether Kupec and Hansbrough had traveled to see her son, Ben, play for Notre Dame while purportedly on university business. There were also some questions about how Hansbrough’s position was created. Thorp expressed his frustrations after the BOG meeting saying, “I mean, this is the same month when we broke the top 10 in federal research support, and we can’t get anyone to write about it because we’ve got this. So I think there’s a lot of frustration about that, but I feel very good working for this board.” Two days after addressing UNC System leaders about the latest chapter
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of unfolding scandals, Thorp told Ross of his departure as chancellor and announced it publicly Monday. “Over the last two years, we have identified a number of areas that need improvement,” Thorp said. “We have a good start on reforms that are important for the future of this university. I have pledged that we will be a better university, and I am 100 percent confident in that. We still have work to do, and I intend to be fully engaged in that until the day I walk out of this office.” Former chancellor of UNC-CH, James Moeser, echoed Thorp’s
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Students of Young Americans for Liberty gives out copies of the Constitution in the Brickyard Monday to promote the limited role of government.
of government affects them, as well as society. “People should be more involved, or at least know what’s going on,” Benson said. The campus group has about 300 members and holds meetings every
other Tuesday. According to Benson, this is the group’s largest event of the semester so far. YAL will be set up in the Brickyard every day this week from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and group members will be available to discuss everything from
current events to the impending presidential election. Last year, the group organized various projects in the Brickyard, including “Occupy GPA.” The demonstration, Benson said, was an effort to compare the Occupy Wall Street movement to students’ distribution of grades and to show the extensive role that government can have in their lives. In another protest, the group had one student dress up in a Transportation Security Administration uniform, pass out flyers and ask questions to raise awareness for certain TSA policies the group says infringe on personal privacy rights. “We just like to have fun with the events and relate them to college students,” Benson said. Benson said to be on the look out for future YAL events. The group has been discussing an event during Halloween that would showcase the Founding Fathers, as well as a food drive around Thanksgiving, according to Benson.
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N.C. State’s Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) will take a stand in the Brickyard every day this week in honor of National Constitution Week. Members of the student organization hope to promote ideals in the U.S. Constitution, mainly the limited role of government. In order to support personal freedoms and a limited government, Emma Benson, campus activism coordinator and junior in business administration, said the group has a board set up where students and other visitors can sign their names. According to Benson, YAL is a non-partisan organization that is strictly issue based. The group is not allowed to endorse candidates based on the fact that it is a tax-exempt organization. However, Benson said the group is primarily concerned with providing awareness among students about how the role
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UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp said he will step down at the end of the academic year, in the midst of an ongoing investigation of academic and athletic scandals. Thorp notified UNC System President Tom Ross Sunday of his resignation, which is effective June 30, 2013. “I will always do what is best for this university,” Thorp said. “This wasn’t an easy decision, personally. But when I thought about the university and how important it’s been to me, to North Carolinians and to hundreds of thousands of alumni, my answer became clear.” Thorp’s resignation comes after two years of ongoing scandal over academic fraud and other issues involving UNC athletics. The issues first came to light in 2010 after a former tutor for football athletes, Jennifer Wiley, granted “impermissible help in the form of free tutoring services to several football student-athletes,” according to a statement from UNC-CH. The investigations that ensued revealed a legacy of unethical practices on the football team, leading to the dismissal of former UNC football coach Butch Davis on July 27, 2011. During the investigation into the academic issues, additional problems involving the African and AfroAmerican Studies’ former department chairman Julius Nyang’oro surfaced. Nyang’oro allowed student athletes to take independent study courses without completing assignments, among other academic irreg-
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The deadline for Leader of the Pack applications is only a week away, and students can expect to see changes to the scholarship. The Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public service, the organization that runs the Leader of the Pack, decided to alter the scholarship this year to make it more fair. This year’s scholarship will only be awarded to one student rather than to a male and female, as it was in years past. CSLEPS also raised the GPA requirement for applicants to 3.25, a quarter point increase from last year’s requirement. The deadline for students to apply is Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. Students interested in applying for the $2,000 scholarship must have a clean disciplinary record, completed two semesters at N.C. State, be returning for the fall semester of 2013 and be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student. Applications can be found at http://www.ncsu.edu/csleps/ leadership/lop.htm. Late applications will not be accepted.
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The N.C. State chapter of the American Helicopter Society held its first meeting of the semester Friday with a helicopter landing on Centennial Campus. Stephen West, junior in aerospace engineering and president of the University’s AHS chapter, said more than 40 people came to the event. “Last semester the Society was kind of a slumped semester, so this was a really great way to start the year,” West said. The AHS is an international organization founded in 1943 to bring together industry, academia and governments to tackle the toughest challenges in vertical flight, according to its website. In addition to hosting a conference each year, AHS publishes a scholarly journal and gives out awards in engineering. As president of the NCSU chapter, West serves as a liaison between the organization and the campus. The student chapter serves as an interest group for undergraduate and graduate students, though West’s goal is make them interest-ed. “We only have about two or
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