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Articles by Eric Townsend

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Auto bailout a good thing? Maybe not, professor finds

February 9, 2010

On the brink of collapse in 2008, two American icons – General Motors and Chrysler – turned to Uncle Sam for billions of dollars to stay in business. But as assistant professor Christina Benson finds in her latest research, by protecting domestic automakers to save U.S. jobs in the short run, Washington may have created bigger headaches for the American economy in the not-so-distant future.

Wall Street Journal interviews Tom Mould for remembrance story

February 8, 2010

Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the Feb. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal for a remembrance story on Phillip Martin, a leader of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who died earlier in the month.

McEwen Dining Hall to close for repairs

February 4, 2010

McEwen Dining Hall, including Downstairs McEwen and Varsity, will be closed for repairs starting at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 4, with no set date for reopening.

University to preserve historic county schoolhouse

February 3, 2010

An Alamance County family has donated to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ a quarter acre next to the northern edge of campus near Rhodes Stadium, where a two-room wooden building first opened before the Civil War still stands as one of North Carolina’s original public school facilities.

Alumna raises awareness of Haiti following quake survival

February 2, 2010

She went to Haiti to document why some impoverished children thrived while others fell ill to malnourishment. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake tore apart the Caribbean nation, Courtney Latta ’09 found herself struggling not only for her own survival, but to help the countless victims of the region’s largest natural disaster in several generations.

Sophie Adamson examines impact of Francophone author in new book

February 2, 2010

How does one man serve as a voice for minority populations in a nation where it can be difficult for immigrants to feel welcome? And how do his lessons from France resonate for cultures around the globe? Sophie Adamson, an assistant professor of French, explores those questions in her first published book, Ethics, Politics and Poetics in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Harrouda, La Réclusion solitaire and L’Ange aveugle.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ alum on fast track to racing fame

February 2, 2010

When Nick Igdalsky '99 visits Daytona International Speedway this weekend to begin his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series, he’ll find himself running against a familiar name in motorsports: Danica Patrick, an international sensation making her debut in stock car racing in the same field as the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ alum.