Articles by Lyle Kendrick

Administrators are continuing efforts to increase on-time graduation rates by giving students who have spent the most semesters at UNC the earliest registration dates.

With its poor acting, botched attempts at meaningful dialogue and unexplained plot twists, “Blood Done Sign My Name” resigns itself to a league occupied by sappy Lifetime movies.

The movie takes place in the small town of Oxford, N.C., in the 1970s. When three white shop owners murder Henry Marrow (A.C. Sanford), a black Vietnam veteran, the town erupts in violence.

Then applying to colleges, freshman Lawson Kuehnert created a portfolio of the coursework he completed during his high school career as a home-schooled student.

He had to take that extra step because college admissions officials questioned his readiness for the academic vigor of a college workload.

But Kuehnert went through no additional measures when applying to UNC.

This article was published in the 2009 Year in Review issue of The Daily Tar Heel.

During a year of economic turmoil, severe cuts to UNC’s budget have caused the University to make ends meet with alternate funding sources.

Cuts to state appropriations, which make up about a quarter of UNC’s total budget, reached as much as 11 percent last fiscal year and caused many areas of the University to cut financial corners.