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summer? There are plen
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The Daily Tar Heel
provides a list of some of the top
things going on in the town and
University.
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Summer Events Calendar • June
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Sunday Brunch Fuse La Residence Nights Bub O’Malleys Opera Forest Theater
Weai/er Street 10 pm. to spm M Planetarium 10 p.m to Memorial Hall 7 p.m. to
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Senes Skylight Frihanoe opera CUAB events on Opera Concert Opera
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Weaver Street The Library
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Students must now have
higher GPA to progress
Goal of new system is graduation
BY MIA MOORE
STAFF WRITER
By increasing the grade point
average required to progress the
class of 2011 through their years
at UNC, administrators hope the
tougher standards eventually will
decrease the number of students
who are academically ineligible.
And though the standards were
raised, no fewer students remained
eligible this year.
Effective for this year’s sopho
more class, students who do not
hold a cumulative grade point
average of 2.0 will be placed on
academic probation.
Prior to the change, students
were held on a graduated system of
eligibility': to be a sophomore a stu
dent needed a 1.5; to be a junior a
student needed a 1.75; to be a senior
a student needed a 1.9; and to grad
uate a student needed a 2.0.
Though the system has changed
dramatically, progress has not been
fully realized.
The same number of students
who needed to come to summer
school last war came this year, said
Bobbi Owen, associate dean for the
College of Arts and Sciences.
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on Franklin Street most Tuesday
and Thursday nights.
Head down to the Forest Theatre
for the summer solstice June 21.
Or take a break for a concert
at one of the Sunday series at
Southern Village or Whole Foods
Market.
Figures have remained stagnant,
but administrators said they find the
new system beneficial to students.
“I think it’s a good idea because
that’s what students need to gradu
ate," said Jan Yopp, summer school
dean.
“If students know what they
need to graduate, they should keep
it there all four years so they don’t
get behind."
In the old system, it was relatively
easy to progress from one war to the
next, said Stephen Farmer, director
of undergraduate admissions. Some
students were placed in an uphill
battle toward graduation.
"The raising of the eligibility was
designed to keep students out of a
trap," Farmer said. “It’s always risky
to raise standards with anything,
but the hope was that students
would rise to the occasion."
To a degree, some students have
risen to the occasion. For Summer
Session 1, only 9 percent of stu
dents are enrolled because they
are academically ineligible. For
these students, summer courses are
an opportunity to boost their GPA
through focused learning.
"I think the reason students
News
do so well in summer school is
because classes are smaller and
more focused." Yopp said. “I think
for some students, summer school
really fits their learning style."
With the implementation of
this new system, administrators
are looking to retain graduation at
higher rates than previous years.
The Carolina Covenant schol
ars program and the extension of
the drop deadline to eight weeks
instead of six are two additional
ways Chancellor James Moeser
has looked to increase graduation
rates. This year’s graduating class
was the first class to graduate with
in the Carolina Covenant.
Good graduation and retention
rates are one of many factors that
help Carolina in its recruitment
process. Farmer said.
The real payoff in this will come
when these students walk across
the stage at graduation."
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Blood drive receives
enthusiastic support
BY DAVE PEARSON
SENIOR WRITER
Donors sat in rows of chairs that
lined the court June 3 in the Dean
E. Smith Center during the 20th
Annual Carolina Blood Drive.
Katrina Coble, a blood drive
committee member, said the drive
has grown during its 20 years.
“It’s become a community drive,"
she said.
Coble said that the driw is much
larger than other campus blood
drives and that most student-run
drives collect less than 50 units of
blood. The Carolina Blood Drive’s
goal is 1,000 units.
And event organizers were opti
mistic about reaching that goal.
“In this region, we need about
1,600 units per day." said Caroline
Allison, a representative from the
American Red Cross.
Allison said the Durham region,
which spans from Alamance to
Warren counties and north of the
state line, collects between 300 and
350 units of blood per day through
smaller drives.
And the annual event in Chapel
Hill is popular with both donors
and the volunteer staff.
Crystal Pettiford, collection
operations supervisor for the Red
Cross in Durham, said she has
participated in the drive every
year since she became a registered
nurse in 2004.
Pettiford said that she has fun
saving lives and that most of the
donors enjoy giving, too.
“They keep coming back," she
said.
This year both Dean Smith
and football coach Butch Davis,
along with several of his players,
visited the blood drive to support
donors.
Coble said that the majority of
donors during the summer drive
are UNC staff and faculty members
but that more and more community
members are beginning to donate.
One participant was Laura
Paul, a Chapel Hill resident who is
home for the summer from Kenyon
College in Ohio.
“I try to give blood every time
I’m able to," she said.
Paul said she began giving blood
regularly when she was a senior in
high school.
"1 typically try to help other peo
ple, and it’s good for your heart,"
she said.
Allison said that planning for the
event begins in January and that
volunteers usually put in a 13-hour
shift on the day of the blood drive.
But Pettiford was still enthusias-
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Services as she donates blood June 3 at the UNC summer blood drive.
“You cant say, Til give blood when a
loved one needs it, because by then its
too late ”
CAROLINE ALLISON, AMERICAN RED CROSS REPRESENTATIVE
tic after 11 hours on her feet.
“I love what I do," she said.
Allison said donated blood is
used in many more situations than
people usually imagine, such as for
burn victims and patients undergo
ing all types of surgery.
“We need it more than people
think we do," AIWMHStd.
She said people who are inter-
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Allison urged people to give
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“You can’t say, Til give blood
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by then it’s too late."
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