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‘Tis the season to shop green

By Holly Beilin | November 26

Ah, the holidays: a season of gifts and songs about snowflakes and elves that you secretly love. It’s the season of consumerism but hey, it makes us ...

To wrap it all up: red or white?

By Katherine Proctor | November 25

It’s my last wine column of the semester. I’ve spent the fall doing a lot of journalistically sanctioned drinking, so I couldn’t possibly complain. ...

No thanks to give in Britain

By Megan Cassella | November 22

The first Thanksgiving I can remember, I threw up five minutes before the annual family picture. I’m forever immortalized on Grandma’s wall with a ...

Win Turkey Day: 8 tips

By Glenn Lippig | November 21

Next week, pupils will head home to celebrate the greatest of all-American holidays: Thanksgiving. On normal holidays, we rest. Not so on Turkey Day: ...

The hero North Carolina deserves

By Alex Keith | November 20

Officially, the field for next May’s N.C. GOP Senate primary includes House Speaker Thom Tillis, tea party favorite Greg Brannon, the Rev. Mark Harris, ...

A classic case of football guilt

By Alex Karsten | November 19

I’m sure you have heard that football has recently been the object of scandal.

A tale of two different elections

By Graham O. Palmer | November 18

The two noteworthy gubernatorial elections of the 2013 off-year exemplified a trend that the Republican Party, nationwide and especially in North Carolina, ...

More innocent times capsules

By Memet Walker | November 14

Not long ago, a friend said my columns were becoming a little too mean this year. On the one hand, who knew she was such a stuck-up witch? But on the ...

Politics, jokes and ideas, oh my!

By Michael Dickson | November 13

What’s in a joke? An obligatory Shakespeare reference with any other noun would be just as cliche, overused and meaningless.

Celebrate history this month

By Trey Mangum | November 13

While the latter part of the 20th century saw both Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month rise to the forefront of American culture, very few ...

It’s just too sweet to be true

By Holly Beilin | November 11

You’re at a party having the time of your life. You head over to the refreshments table for a pick-me-up, and there it is: that suspicious white powder ...

Polk’s cabernet: hard to get

By Katherine Proctor | November 10

Allow me to activate your knowledge of U.S. history and remind you that when James K. Polk won the presidency in 1844, it was as a “dark horse,” or ...

The real costs of discount travel

By Megan Cassella | November 8

On behalf of this discount airline today, I’d like to extend a warm welcome aboard to all our students, starving artists and young parents with screaming ...

Condom: not a public good

By Glenn Lippig | November 6

Few earthly commodities bring greater glee to a college male than free condoms.

The Pope Center’s gen ed obsession

By Alex Keith | November 6

Maybe it’s selfish of me to criticize the Pope Center’s “General Education at UNC-Chapel Hill.” As the Elephant in the Room, it’s usually my ...

Fixing the broken ladder

By Graham Palmer and Jonathan Herbert | November 3

The teaching profession is broken. In no other career are you expected to work for peanuts upon graduation and work 15 years before your salary reaches ...

And the winner is... the losers

By Memet Walker | October 31

On one hand, I’m happy Dean Smith is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Smith was a great coach and, by all accounts, is a good man.

Violence: how does it work? Also cats

By Michael Dickson | October 31

I used to live with a cat. His name is Simba, but I called him Cat for simplicity’s sake. That was the role he played in my life, so it seemed silly ...

The answer is always no

By Trey Mangum | October 30

Halloween, Homecoming and the last day of classes are arguably the three biggest celebrations for college students. Unlike the latter two, Halloween offers ...

Could green be the new black?

By Holly Beilin | October 29

As someone whose entire high school wardrobe consisted of jorts and tanks, preparing for the winter is a big deal.