“Barack Obama will be appearing at the Hayes Recreation Fields on the UNC Charlotte campus Monday, the campaign announced this evening.
The event begins at 5:30 p.m.; doors open at 3 p.m.”
Read more by Peter St. Onge at the Observer’s election blog, The Ballot.
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Yesterday, the Beastie Boys stopped by the UNC Charlotte campus to give a small impromptu rally for Obama at McKnight Hall. Later last night they gave a sold-out concert at Amos’s.
While the Beastie Boys didn’t give any performance at the university, their PR still wouldn’t let large cameras be present in [...]
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Earlier today Vice Presidential hopeful Joe Biden came to UNC Charlotte to help get people to the polls and vote early (you only have until Nov. 1 to vote early in NC). Biden was introduced by NC Attorney General Roy Cooper and was greeted by a fairly filled Halton Areana. Joe [...]
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“(…) the proposed University City light-rail line (…) now stands at $900 million, to the old standbys of escalating construction costs and evolving plans that have broadened the scope of the project.
CATS officials are counting on the federal government to foot half of the bill for the U-City line, and to [...]
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At the close of business Friday, a little more than 30 hours after the announcement by Chancellor DuBois that he supported football at UNC Charlotte, the Athletic Department had collected requests for 823 seat licenses. This would be about 16.5% of DuBois’ initial benchmark of 5,000 ($1k each for $5 million), which [...]
UNC Charlotte Chancellor Phil Dubois recommended to university trustees this morning that UNCC suit up a football team by 2013, but punted to boosters and other football supporters to raise $5 million in six months to help pay for a $45.3 million stadium complex.
Read More by David Perlmutt at the Observer, and read the Chancellor’s [...]
On Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 6:30pm, University of North Carolina at Charlotte students who are interested in bringing football to UNC Charlotte will rally at the Belk Tower located on Charlotte’s campus and march to Chancellor Dubois’ house and present a make shift field goal as a sign of their desire to bring football [...]
This is off Mallard Creek Rd. in Charlotte. I usually ride my bike on a trail that leaves from these soccer fields and follows a creek as part of the Charlotte Greenway trail system. Rain for 3 days straight and 4.5 inches yesterday alone has crested that creek to about 14 feet above normal. The [...]
Starting on Wednesday, July 30th, UNC Charlotte’s energy efficiency upgrades will shine brighter than ever as the first LED lights on campus are installed in the West Deck (between Belk Gym and the Track and Field Complex). Intended as a trial of the technology, the LED lighting will be tested for possible further expansion.
LED lights [...]
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Long before oil neared $150 a barrel and gas was $4.00+ a gallon, UNC Charlotte saw that the strategic placement of many top energy infrastructure firms like Duke Energy, The Shaw Group, and Areva in the Charlotte region made North Carolina’s urban center a prime location for America’s energy future. The $57.2 [...]
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