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The air was filled with beeping, digging, scraping and laughter Saturday when the Old North State Detectorists, a group of metal detector enthusiasts, searched for artifacts buried on the grounds of an historic schoolhouse Â鶹ÊÓƵ plans to restore after a local family gifted it to the university last year.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert dedicated Phi Beta Kappa Commons in the Academic Village on Tuesday during a special College Coffee. Lambert called the morning ceremony on the brick plaza “a tribute to the university’s dedication to the arts and sciences.” The university will install a chapter of the nation’s oldest academic society today at Convocation for Honors.

United States Representative Howard Coble spoke to a group of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law students on April 7, at an event sponsored by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Republicans student organization. Among other issues, Coble addressed the health care bill recently passed through Congress and signed into law by President Obama.