Record #:

15614

Author(s):

Fellerath, David

Abstract:

America's love affair with college football has gotten more complicated over the years. With an onslaught of revelations concerning corruption within the system, many speculate that this is a sign of the times. But Fellerath explains that corruption within the realm of college football is nothing new.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 35, Aug 2011, p15, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Football--Scandals

Record #:

15615

Author(s):

Schwartz, Joe

Abstract:

Bill Friday has been pushing for reform in college athletics for years. As the founding co-chairman of the Knight Commission, a watchdog group of college presidents and other leakers who seek to balance college-level sports with academics, this UNC system president emeritus has worked on reform issues for two decades.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 35, Aug 2011, p23, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Friday, William C. (William Clyde), 1920-2012

Record #:

15616

Author(s):

Khanna, Samiha

Abstract:

For most of its history, Rougemont, in far northern Durham County, has been a place to graze cows and goats and grow crops like tobacco and corn. And not much has changed. But this year, Election Day could mark the start of a new era for Rougemont, if voters allow it. After decades of working for the opportunity, the community's registered voters will decided whether Rougemont should become a town of its own.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 34, Aug 2011, p7, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Rougemont (Durham County); Village communities--Durham County

Record #:

15617

Author(s):

Schwartz, Joe

Abstract:

After 11 months of deliberation, Chapel Hill town officials still may not decide on legalization of food trucks until an October 17th public hearing. Trucks flourish in neighboring Durham and Carrboro, but they are less welcome in Chapel Hill, where mobile vendors can operate only if they have special-event permits or if they park on private property with approval from the town planning board.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 34, Aug 2011, p11, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Food trucks--Chapel Hill

Record #:

15618

Author(s):

Wallace, Emily

Abstract:

An American staple since 1912, the Oreo is the world's most popular manufactured cookie. The unique embossed design is said to have been the work of William A. Turnier, of Chapel Hill, who worked for 49 years at Nabisco. Turnier also designed the Nutter Butter and the Milk Bone.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 34, Aug 2011, p16-19, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

RJR Nabisco (Winston-Salem)

Record #:

15619

Author(s):

Lee, Jason Y.

Abstract:

The 47 families that live along East Alston Road, five miles west of Pittsboro, are about to get a new neighbor--actually about 100 of them. Many of these families, most of them African American, live a few hundred feet from the old county landfill, which has been known to leak contamination into their drinking water. And in two years, these families will be living near the new Chatham County jail.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 33, Aug 2011, p8-9, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jails--Chatham County; African Americans--Living conditions

Record #:

15620

Author(s):

Schwartz, Joe

Abstract:

For the second consecutive year, the Wake County Public School System has violated state and federal law by failing to provide an adequate education for 164 middle and high school students with disabilities, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 33, Aug 2011, p11 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina. Dept. of Public Instruction

Record #:

15621

Author(s):

Sorg, Lisa

Abstract:

Visitors to Jordan Lake are finding the beaches littered with dead fish after the largest die-off of striped bass in the history of the reservoir. More than 5,000 striped bass have died since August 1st due to what biologists call a dissolved oxygen and temperature squeeze. The affected area includes Haw River near Robeson Creek to the main basin of the lake near the U.S. 64 bridge.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 32, Aug 2011, p7 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Striped bass--Jordan Lake

Record #:

15622

Author(s):

Collins, Rebecca

Abstract:

The Turtle Rescue Team, an organization of about 30 students at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, treat turtles, and the occasional frog and snake, for vehicular trauma, dog bites, upper respiratory infections and wounds from fish hooks. The team also incubates and hatches eggs.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 31, Aug 2011, p7, 10, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina State University. School of Veterinary Medicine

Record #:

15623

Author(s):

Ross, Kirk

Abstract:

Ross looks at the fate of several bills being considered in the North Carolina Senate: Senate Bill 781 which reforms the State's regulatory system, and Senate Bill 709 which clears the way for fracking for natural gas inland and drilling for it offshore.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 30, July 2011, p5, 9 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate; Fracking (Engineering)

Record #:

15624

Author(s):

Ross, Kirk

Abstract:

Ross argues that trouble is looming for coastal North Carolina after the Legislature passed bills that roll back on environmental protections. Human and natural forces are pushing and pulling for and against coastal development, and finding a balance is proving difficult.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 29, July 2011, p5, 7, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Environmental protection--Coastal

Record #:

15625

Author(s):

Geary, Bob

Abstract:

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Engel v. Vitale, declaring state-sponsored prayers in the public schools to be unconstitutional. Now the fight over education is no longer about whether Christian prayers should be recited in public school classrooms, but whether public funds should pay for Christian schools.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 29, July 2011, p8-9 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Prayer in public schools--Laws and legislation; Private schools--Religious

Record #:

15626

Author(s):

Canavan, Gerry

Abstract:

Canavan discusses issues with global climate change and views of the general public in the past decade. Canavan also discusses Duke University professor Orrin Pilkey's new book on the subject.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 28, July 2011, p19, 21, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Global warming

Record #:

15627

Author(s):

Cowell, Rebekah L.

Abstract:

In Orange and Guilford Counties, neighbors are fighting landfill expansions. Cowell examines the problems with continual expansion of landfills in North Carolina, especially in low-income, minority communities.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 27, July 2011, p15-19, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Landfills--Orange County; Landfills--Guilford County

Record #:

15628

Author(s):

Lindsay, Craig D.

Abstract:

The City of Raleigh Arts Commission dodged another bullet this month as the city council ruled not to cut art funding in the search to scrape for money.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 26, June 2011, p24, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Arts--Finance; Raleigh Arts Commission (Raleigh)