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‘Tar Heel 4 a Day’ to introduce high school students to UNC

High school students will be able to experience life as a UNC student – if only for a day – April 17.

The UNC student group Carolina H.E.E.L.S., which operates under the direction UNC’s Office for Minority Affairs, will sponsor "Tar Heel 4 a Day" from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday (April 17). Area students in grades nine through 12 are invited to register by visiting www.unc.edu/student/orgs/heels. Up to 50 students may participate.

The free program will allow each high school student to shadow a UNC student for the day. The high school students will have the opportunity to sit in on UNC classes, eat lunch in Lenoir Dining Hall and attend workshops on college applications and applying for scholarships.

"We want to give them the actual college experience and show them what students here go through every day," said UNC junior Peju Fadiora, president of H.E.E.L.S (Helping to Educate and Encourage Leaders). "We encourage the high school students to come out and see that college is possible for them."

H.E.E.L.S. won a grant from the Carolina Center for Public Service to put on the program for two springs. Last year 36 area high school students participated. "They really enjoyed going to class with the college students," Fadiora said. This year, departments hosting the visitors will include political science, communication studies, dramatic art, philosophy and African and Afro-American studies.

Carolina H.E.E.L.S also organizes Carolina’s Youth Leadership Day each years on Martin Luther King Day. For more information about "Tar Heel 4 a Day," call Fadiora at 423-8955.

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‘Best of Carolina Photojournalism’ show in union will showcase students’ work

Candid moments of a family displaced by Hurricane Floyd, backstage preparation by traditional South African dancers and a Moldovan refugee wedding in Asheville will be among subjects of photos and slides by UNC students exhibited Tuesday (April 15) through May 20 in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union.

"The 37^th Frame: Best of Carolina Photojournalism 2002-2003," the work of student photojournalists in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will feature large traditional prints and a multimedia slide show. More than 50 images will be on view in the lobby off the main entrance from South Road. Exhibitors and curators will join a free public opening reception at the display from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday (April 15).

Students curated the show, with leadership from Pat Davison, an assistant professor of photojournalism, and documentary photographer Bill Bamgerger. Bamberger is known for his photos in "Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory," on the final months of operation of the White Furniture Co. in his hometown of Mebane.

"The student curators chose images that reflect a mix of lives on the margin, extraordinary moments of everyday life and remarkable examples of portraiture and landscape highlighted by the photographers’ use of light and shadow," Davison said. "The student photographers have learned to see and interpret the world in a fresh way. They have worked hard to produce storytelling images that provide an unflinching yet intimate look at society."

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Author John Egerton to speak for Friends of the Library dinner

John Egerton, author of "Southern Food: At Home, on the Road," will speak at the 69^th annual UNC Friends of the Library meeting and dinner fundraiser April 25 at the George Watts Alumni Center.

The evening of events, titled "An Appetite for Life," will begin with the meeting, at 5:30 p.m. in the Royal Room. Louis Round Wilson Library Fellows will be recognized. A reception will follow at 6 p.m. and the meal at 6:45 p.m. in Alumni Halls II and III.

Egerton also wrote "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South," "A Mind to Stay Here," "The Americanization of Dixie" and "Side Orders." He recently edited the first volume in what will be an annual collection, "Cornbread Nation I."

Durham native and UNC alumnus Clyde Edgerton, author of novels including "Raney" and "Walking Across Egypt," will introduce Egerton.

Tickets for the dinner are $50 per person for friends members and $65 per person for non-members. For more information or to buy tickets, contact Liza Terll at (919) 962-1301 or liza_terll@unc.edu.

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