In which I recall my love for the show "Naked and Afraid"

In my 21 years on this planet and five spent as something that could vaguely resemble a journalist, I've submitted one public records request. It was for my media law class sophomore year, and I requested a copy of Mindy Kaling's birth certificate from the Massachussetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. You can read the full request in my tweet about it last December.

For some reason, the request was never completed. Much like the 10 of 47 public record requests our director of enterprise has submitted to the University during his time on staff. Or 11 of the 25 submitted by the editor in a similar job the year before that. Or the entire list of names of students convicted of sexual assault in UNC's Honor Court — which is public record, for the record.

— Danny

QUICK HITS

• Members of the newly organized N.C. Industrial Hemp Association are trying to fundraise to help farmers produce hemp.
• A new student group on campus is using reptiles and amphibians to teach residents how to safely interact with wildlife. Carolina WISE is hosting an interest meeting tonight in the Student Union.
• A recent study found that North Carolina tourists are, like, aggressively averse to having windmills on the state's coast. Even though there aren't really windmills on the state's coast.
• If you get arrested abroad, the University and federal government are fairly limited in what they can do — a topic that has spiked with the recent arrest of a University of Virginia student in North Korea.

IN REALITY TV

Chapel Hill resident Karen Coffee was on Discovery's "Naked and Afraid." She lived with a naked stranger on a small island in the Philippines for three weeks. She also killed and ate a monitor lizard — and if you want to see that, her episode airs April 17.

IN CAMPUS NEWS

Thirty percent of students who seek help at Counseling and Psychological Services are redirected for outside treatment. Director Allen O’Barr said it's due to limited resources and availability for UNC students' demand. He said as far as he knows, no university offers long-term therapy for students.

IN OUR OPINION

UNC is as bad at fulfilling public records request as State is at everything else in the world. Amanda Albright, my first DTH mom and our former director of projects and investigations, filed 25 public records requests in her time here — and of those, 11 are still pending. Note: Amanda graduated last May.

IN STATE POLITICS

Chris Sgro just joined the N.C. General Assembly, and he's the only gay man there. Guilford County Democrats elected Sgro, who's the executive director of Equality NC, to fill in after the death of House Rep. Ralph Johnson in March.