UNCW’s award-winning recreation therapy program continues to grow
Linda Newell | Contributing Writer
November 10, 2010
UNCW's Recreation Therapy program was recently awarded for excellence by the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ARTA) for the year of 2010, according to a press release. ARTA has not given anyone this honor since 2007, according to Dr. Dan Johnson, associate professor for the program. Howe...
Updated master plan announced
Lizz Wood | Staff Writer
November 10, 2010
Business Affairs is now doing extensive research to revise and update the Master Plan to accommodate the new demands of the community. The Master Plan is updated every five years; the last time it was updated was 2005.According to Charles Maimone, Vice Chancellor of Business Affairs, the first step is...
SGA takes a stand against tuition surcharge increase
Lizz Wood | Staff Writer
November 4, 2010
The members of Student Government Association decided to address the sudden increase of the tuition surcharge by collecting student signatures and sending them to the UNC Board of Governors. The N.C. General Assembly instituted an amendment to raise the tuition surcharge from 25 to 50 percent.According to...
DePaolo to Retire
Amber Hughes | News Editor
October 28, 2010
Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo announced last week that she will retire at the end of the academic year. Depaolo has worked in higher education for 35 years, and she has served as a chancellor for over 13 years, seven of which have been at UNCW."I love my job, but there are only so many hours in a day," De...
Embezzlement
Jim Dallke
August 6, 2010
Ann Hamel Roth, a UNCW pharmacist, was arrested in June on two counts of felony embezzlement.Roth is accused of embezzling $4,009 worth of drugs and other health related items from the campus pharmacy. Among those items stolen include blood pressure medicines, bone loss medication, a pulmonary drug, ant...
Floodwaters swamp Cedar Rapids, Iowa
By Wikinews
November 3, 2009
In the United States, the Cedar River continues to break records today as it floods Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The river is approaching its expected crest of over 30 feet, over 18 feet over flood stage and more than ten feet over the previous record high. The downtown area is underwater, as well as several resid...
Pakistani army seizes Taliban stronghold after week-long battle
October 26, 2009
Pakistani armed forces say they have captured the town of Kotkai on Saturday, the hometown of Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud and one of his top officers, Qari Hussain. This comes after a week-long battle was launched on Monday, in part of an operation to curb the influence of the Taliban in South Wa...
Hopes for treaty on climate begin to wither
October 26, 2009
International climate negotiations for a global climate treaty are not producing the required results in the given amount of time left before the Copenhagen conference in December, diminishing the hopes for a resolution at this conference. Major polluters have already decided that the only way for a plan of ...