Film screening highlights UNC alum who spent 35 years in Communist China

Sidney Rittenberg ’41 spent 16 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail, imprisoned twice by the Communists on charges of being an American spy. It’s the stuff great films are made of; only this story is true. “The Revolutionary” is a documentary film about the UNC alum’s life story.

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Bland Simpson to tell tale of ‘Two Captains’ Thursday at Wilson Library

Author and professor Bland Simpson will read from his latest book, “Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 13) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the Carolina captains is Grandy, who was born a slave in

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Award-winning photojournalists to discuss poverty alleviation Oct. 15

Photojournalists Steve Liss and Jon Lowenstein will discuss “American Poverty: The Hidden Story” Oct. 15 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk is at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Liss and Lowenstein come to campus for the Frank Porter Graham Lecture, sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for

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UNC ranks 5th among national public universities for 12th year in a row

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks fifth among the nation’s best public universities for the 12th consecutive year, according to U.S. News & World Report. The rankings appear in the 2013 “America’s Best Colleges” guidebook and at www.usnews.com beginning Sept. 12. Among national public universities, UC-Berkeley ranked first, followed by UCLA and

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