Remedial Programs Inadequate Across UNC System
A 526 page study by the Research Triangle Institute for the UNC Board of Governors finds many campuses offer only partial remedial support for academically unprepared students. It ranks Appalachian, East Carolina, Pembroke, NC Central, Western Carolina, and Winston-Salem State as having good programs while NC A&T and NC State are weaker. UNC Chapel Hill faces the sharpest critique with a culture of declining remedial effort.
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Raleigh
State University
Research Triangle Institute
University of North Carolina Board of Governors
Appalachian State
East Carolina
Pembroke State
North Carolina Central
Western Carolina
Winston-Salem
North Carolina A&t
North Carolina
Unc-Chapel Hill
Unc-Charlotte
Unc-Greensboro
Unc-Wilmington
Slayings Probe Ordered for Bladen County Case
Fayetteville North Carolina. The SBI special homicide team is ordered into the slayings of 74 year old Josephine Davis and her daughter 53 year old Arlene Davis found beaten and stabbed at a farmhouse near Elizabethtown. One woman was sexually assaulted according to medical examiners. Sheriff John B. Allen and Attorney General Rufus Edmisten voiced cautious optimism about the investigation progress. The team is led by Special Agent Max Bryan.
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Fayetteville
Bladen County
John B. Allen
Josephine Davis
Arlene Davis
Davis
Elizabethtown
Sheriff's Deputies
State Bureau of Investigation
Atty
Rufus Edmisten
SBI
Max Bryan
Allen
Quality and Demand Drive Higher Tobacco Prices in Virginia and Carolinas
Improved product quality and stronger demand lifted flue-cured tobacco prices on Monday across Virginia and the Carolinas. The Old and Middle belt led with an $112.79 average, up $8.45 from Thursday, as 7,015,445 pounds sold. Season totals reached 7,078,732 pounds at $97.78 per cwt. Eastern North Carolina belt saw $131.56 per cwt on 7,723,308 pounds, lifting season sales to 145,703,027 pounds at $111.16. South Carolina Border North Carolina belt rose $4.83 to $136.74 on 5,269,442 pounds, for a season total of 119,315,658 pounds at $111.88.
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Virginia
Carolinas
Old
Middle Belt
North Carolina
South Carolina
Hunt Stresses Small Cities' importance
North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt urged recognizing small cities under 100,000 in federal growth policy at the Southern Governors Conference in San Antonio. He said federal plans focus on big cities and rural areas, while small cities are the fastest growing areas in most Southern states.
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San Antonio
Texas
North Carolina
Jim Hunt
Hunt
P.ay
Edmisten will not seek Vanore resignation reassess activities
Raleigh AP Attorney General Rufus Edmisten says he will not ask Deputy AG Andrew Vanore Jr. to resign but urges him to reassess certain activities. Edmisten spoke after stern talks following a 1975 gambling raid in which Vanore allegedly suggested avoiding arrests.
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Raleigh
Rufus Edmisten
Andrew Vanore Jr
Edmisten
Vanore
Department of Justice
Wake County
F.L. Benson
Raleigh Times
Benson
The
Times
State Bureau of Investigation
Johnny S. Gaskins
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English Road
High Point, N.C
S. Centennial
Teaneck
N.J
Venore
the Times
Ursa
Aan
General Education
Roemeron
First Union Mortgage
First Union National Bank
N. Main Street
High Point
N.C
Greensboro
G. A. Barnes
Silver Spring
Maryland
Hormel
Columbia Food Markets
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