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• Jenna Walters is Miss UNCP 2010 Senior Mass Communications major Jenna Walters was crowned on Feb. 4 at the 58th annual Miss UNCP Scholarship Pageant held in GPAC. More than 1,000 people watched the competition. | |||
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• Band performs tribute to America When the Band of the Irish Guards and the Sutherland Highlanders 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland performed in GPAC on Jan. 19, patrons were treated to a rare sight as members of these legendary bands performed traditional European music dressed in full regalia. | |||
• Campus mourns loss of international student, retired professor The UNCP community is mourning the deaths of an international student and a retired history professor. |
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• New door alarms in dorms offer safety, piercing noise Students living in residence halls were welcomed back with new alarms on the emergency exit doors when returning from winter break, an installation that has caused controversy with some students living in the residence halls. | |||
• Students come together for Haiti relief The devastation in Haiti is not as far away as some people may think. The earthquake that devastated the country has hit close to home with some of the students at UNCP, who are now working on ways to provide relief for Haiti. Carine Francois is one of those students. Francois has relatives in Haiti and currently has lost 21 members of her family. She is currently working on a clothing drive, along with the Office of Multicultural and Minority Affairs and other organizations on campus, called Hearts for Haiti that is accepting clothing and food donations through Feb. 15. Boxes are placed throughout the campus. | ||||
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• Holiday Inn opens doors for business Pembroke’s new Holiday Inn Express, located at 605 Redmond Road, opened Jan. 20. after a year long building process. The three story establishment is the first in the South to be totally Native American owned, financed and built. It was financed by Lumbee Guaranty Bank and built by MetCon, a Native American owned construction company. Full Story |
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