John Drescher
Contributing Editor at The Assembly
Senior editor, The Assembly. Former WaPo, News & Observer. StepUp Ministry. Wake schools vol.
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2 weeks ago |
theassemblync.com | John Drescher
Rashmi Airan was a force of nature as a UNC-Chapel Hill student in the early 1990s. She was a first-generation Indian-American who pledged Chi Omega, a prominent, traditionally white sorority. She participated in a sit-in at then-Chancellor Paul Hardin’s office to push for higher wages for the university’s housekeeping staff. She ran for student body president and lost narrowly, but still succeeded in establishing one of the main planks of her campaign, a peer mentoring program.
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2 months ago |
theassemblync.com | John Drescher
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis is a Carolina guy all the way through. For better and for worse. Davis played for coach Dean Smith from 1988 to 1992. While UNC won a national championship in 1957, it was Smith’s reign from 1961 to 1997 that established and defined Carolina basketball as elite. Smith was consistently excellent.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
theassemblync.com | John Drescher
Shortly after her youngest son died of AIDS in 1994, Patsy Clarke received a phone call at her Raleigh home from a woman she’d never met. The woman, Eloise Vaughn, also of Raleigh, introduced herself with what Clarke remembered as a warm, Southern voice. “I understand you’ve lost a son to AIDS,” Vaughn said. “So have I.” That was the beginning of a remarkable partnership.
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Mar 25, 2024 |
theassemblync.com | Steve Riley |John Drescher
Dozens of fans sat in oversized brick-red chairs, as if relaxing were an option considering the money riding on the college basketball games playing on the 90-foot LED screen. On the massive central screen, Jamal Shead, a guard for No. 2-ranked Houston, rose to fire a winning three-pointer at the buzzer, enough to cover the 2.5-point spread against No. 11 Baylor. The bettors roared, at least three of them leaving their seats to cheer. Or was the shot late? It was. But Houston won by six in overtime.
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Aug 14, 2023 |
theassemblync.com | John Drescher
Rolfe Neill retired as publisher of The Charlotte Observer in 1997 at the peak of his influence in the community, still dashing and charismatic. He remained in Charlotte, stayed active in the community, and from time to time ran into Dick van Halsema, who launched the Observer‘s website the year before Neill departed.
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