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CHINA RISING..Junior Susan Lee, just recently returned from am NSCS trip to China where she worked with local farmers and experienced Asia first hand. See page 2.

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“NSCS has allowed me to expand my horizons while realizing my dreams here at Carolina. It has been a great

NSCS JUNIOR HELPS LOCALS WITH RICE CULTIVATIONSUSAN LEE recently returned to UNC from a NSCS trip to China were she worked with local farmers to improve rice cultivation and implement green technology.

On  a  dusty  farm  in  Schezuan  Province, Susan Lee  spent  2  weeks working with  local farmers to increase rice yields, a key issue in a region  where  land  is  in  short  supply,  and implement  green  technologies,  such  as  solar irrigation pumps.

“It  was  a  great  experience,  I  got  to  see and  learn  a  lot  about  Chinese  culture,”  Lee said  “NSCS  really  opened  a  lot  of doors  and gave  me  opportunities  other  groups  simply could not offer.”

Lee was a part of a 3 week NSCS  summer trip  to  China,  in  which  participants  got  the chance  to  experience  local  culture,  explore ancient  sites, while  lending  a helping hand to locals in need.

While  there  Lee  was  featured  on  local chinese television for her efforts. 

Schezuan  Province,  which  was  hit  by  a massive  earthquake  late  last  year,  remains particularly vulnerable to crop failures.

The  work  Lee  and  her  fellow  NSCS members completed during their mission will go a  long way to helping  local villages hang on in the face of adversity. 

“This is a  godsend” a local  farmer said of the NSCS effort, noting that without their help and  aid  it  is  likely  that  he  would  not  have been able to provide for his family. 

This is a fake story and hopefully by now you  have  gotten  the  idea  of what  a  possible newsletter could look like. It could highlight individual  members  efforts,  have  a chapter  calender,  and  highlight  chapter events. They are easy to make and easy to use, so why not?

Susan Lee (UNC ’10)

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YOUR MOM GETS ONE VOTE!!!!!

Of the 1,678 write-in votes cast in last week’s student elections, a few stuck out to us here at The Daily Tar Heel:

Hallie Lipsey — 75 votes for student body president

Lipsey was the top vote-getter among write-in candidates, despite never declaring any interest in the office. Several other students did that for her. In the weeks before the election, large A-frame signs bearing Lipsey’s name and likeness appeared in the Pit, asking students to elect her for student

body president. A “Heels for Hallie” Facebook group still has 124 members.

Among her platform points, according to the signs and Facebook groups: Allowing jousting in the quad, promoting Velociraptor Awareness Day, enforcing a mandatory 5-second rule, putting an Alpine Bagel in every building and looking “remarkably like” current president J.J. Raynor.

“I also wish I could take credit for such a ‘diverse’ and ‘entertaining’ platform, but alas, it is the evil genius of some

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Thorp and Equinox rock Graham MemorialChancellor Holden Thorp and Terri Houston, director for recruitment and multicultural programs, took the stage on Thursday as part of the Thursdays on the Terrace concert series to offer up a unique collection of jazz and blues

During a two-hour performance to a crowd of about 60 people, the decade-old group Equinox,

composed of the two administrators and friends, played a repertoire of musical pieces designed to please anyone in attendance.

And please they did.

Sherley Laney who works at the Common Grounds snack bar, said she has seen the group perform multiple times and was eager to comment.

“Oh a comment, I’ll give you a comment. I liked it, I loved it. I like that type of jazz, I’ve seen it before

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A state employees association is threatening legal action against the University in response to announced layoffs in the Information Technology Services department.

The current layoffs will affect a total of 15 employees in the department, Larry Conrad, vice chancellor for information technology, stated in an e-mail Sunday.

Three ITS senior management positions have already been eliminated, and 12 staff layoffs across the department are under way.

On Thursday, Dana Cope, the executive director of the State Employees Association of North

Carolina, sent a letter to UNC-system President Erskine Bowles claiming that these layoffs violate the State Personnel Act.

The act mandates that employees can only be let go “whenever it is necessary due to shortage of funds or work.”

Cope argued that since the state’s budget has not been finalized, there is not yet a shortage of money — though a shortfall is expected.

Bowles responded Friday, claiming that in these “extraordinary times,” conducting layoffs now is

“appropriate and prudent,” and that such actions were in compliance with current laws.

Bowles cautioned Cope on the dangers of waiting until the state budget is ratified to make such cuts.

“Waiting would only increase the number of staff that would need to be laid off,” Bowles said.

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Senior Ashley Vlack in Peru