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YouTube offers University a new tool for communication
OUR OPINION: Online multimedia sites like YouTube provide the University a broad platform to connect with prospective students, researchers and donors worldwide.
Our University is one of the latest universities to embrace the potential of YouTube for increasing its visibility and providing a variety of content to current and prospective students. Students and faculty should try to use this communication medium to its fullest extent.
Students battle to gain employment
I came back to my hometown of Chapel Hill this summer and decided that I could relax a little bit. After about a week, I realized I hate doing nothing. So I went job hunting. I immediately found myself running into dead ends. I didn't want to be a camp counselor -- I was a camp counselor for three whole summers.
Caution needed in exploring green technology
Going green has suddenly become on par with landing on the moon: fantastic and award worthy, and as Neil Armstrong and numerous scientists, engineers and politicians proved in 1969 by putting a man on the moon, a feasible technological reality. N.C. State, in conjunction with several Raleigh Research Triangle Park businesses, is competing with several teams worldwide to land a vehicle on the moon by 2012.
