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BETWEEN THE {BROAD} SHEETS

Petitions: We generally don't sign them

By Andrew Dunn | February 23, 2010

Earlier today, we got a tweet from the speaker of Student Congress regarding whether Daily Tar Heel staffers could sign a petition calling for the state-mandated $200 tuition increase to be returned to UNC-system campuses.

Happy birthday to The Daily Tar Heel

By Andrew Dunn | February 23, 2010

Today marks the 117th birthday of The Daily Tar Heel, and we're celebrating with our annual tradition: placing a piece of cake on the grave of our most celebrated alumnus, Charles Kuralt, in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.

Ira Glass gives the kvetching board a shout-out

By Sara Gregory | February 7, 2010

We've gotten quite a few kvetches about Ira Glass since the public radio host spoke at Memorial Hall on Saturday.Glass made a plea for students to write him in. "I'd be so proud if I made it into the kvetching board.""It's such a genius move for a newspaper," Glass said. "Why doesn't the New York Times have that? That's why they're going out of business."We're glad Glass likes it, but credit for the idea has to go to former Editor Joe Schwartz, who started the weekly feature a few years ago, giving aggrieved roommates, scorned lovers and the generally peeved a place to sound off.

NCSU's Technician spoofs the DTH

By Sara Gregory | January 26, 2010

The UNC-NCSU basketball game also marks the annual Technician spoof of The Daily Tar Heel.This year's Daily Tar Hell, features stories on "Tyler Hansbobo" and a new dress requirement for tailgating. The detail on this is great: It looks just like the regular paper, and they've even copied how we do the weather on the front page. (Their  prediction for today: "It's gonna be rainin' threes if Glaves plays").Check it out: 

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January 19, 2010

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A taste of accuracy pie

By Andrew Dunn | November 11, 2009

I took a pie in my face Monday in the holy name of accuracy. As part of a newsroom contest to see who could catch the most errors before they made it into print, I offered up my face as a prize. In the first week, the opportunity to pie me in public proved more lucrative than a $10 gift card. The pie dripping down my face was sweet. But a more error-free paper will be even sweeter.

Why we disabled comments

By Sara Gregory | September 23, 2009

For much of the evening Tuesday, "Two more students arrested for cocaine" was the most commented story on dailytarheel.com. It fell in the most commented rankings as we moderated and removed comments, and eventually we disabled commenting on the story altogether.

We got pranked

By Andrew Dunn | August 25, 2009

A few thousand copies of The Daily Tar Heel this morning were wrapped in a spoof version of our front page, labeling itself as the "special anti-racist issue."We just want to let you know that the DTH had absolutely nothing to do with it. The actions this morning are illegal and a violation of the Honor Code, and appropriate measures will be taken.

Breaking the news broke our Web site

By Sara Gregory | August 24, 2009

We told you earlier that we want dailytarheel.com to be the place you go when there’s news you need to know. Monday, many of you tried, but likely had problems loading and viewing the site. We know we did here in the newsroom.