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UNC men's soccer falls to Furman during penalty shootout in first round of NCAA tournament

| November 21

Column

A gender-neutral housing no-brainer

By Mark Laichena | October 4

Like most outdated policies, UNC’s restriction of all on-campus housing to same-gender roommates made sense, once. After all, back in 1805 the good ...

Be ‘fair’ and green in your purchasing

By Holly Beilin | October 4

It’s impossible to walk around the UNC campus and not notice the monumental number of students rushing (or maybe just struggling) to class holding their ...

Local renters, beware of the limit

By Will Doran | October 3

Housing in Chapel Hill is, to put it lightly, complicated. From restaurants and bars to classrooms and offices, nearly everything for everyone is on or ...

The case for HPV vaccines in schools

By Andrew Moon | September 29

On a stage in Tampa, Fla., last month, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, took a swipe at Texas Gov. Rick Perry that made the medical community cringe. She ...

Column: Ready to get embarrassed?

By Jonathan Jones | September 29

I’ve never been to Greenville. Neither have a lot of the state’s top high school football recruits.

Let's talk about Troy Davis

By Mark Laichena | September 28

Should Troy Davis have been executed?

Reading into your sensitive side

By Andrew Harrell | September 28

Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes can be as simple as putting your nose in a good book. Or even a bad book, evidently; Twilight was used as part ...

Put global students on the map

By Patricia Laya | September 26

Being an international student at UNC comes at a price — an out-of-state price. While invaluable, it’s not an experience everyone can afford, even ...

Winning elections with grammar

By Mark Abadi | September 25

We all know politicians craft their messages carefully. As the saying goes, it’s not what you say but how you say it.

Help ?yourself: ?living and loving

By Julian E. Wooten | September 22

You’re not good enough. Nobody is going to love you. You’re a failure. Nobody likes you. You’re nothing. You’re a nobody. There’s nothing special ...

A step forward in LGBT health

By Perry Tsai | September 21

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons face a score of health disparities, and these disparities were identified in 2007 by the Association ...

Too tight on the future of tutelage

By Will Doran | September 20

Like all schools under the NCAA’s keen gaze, UNC takes special care to emphasize the first term in “student athlete.”

All together now, to create

By Mark Laichena | September 20

From Carolina Counts to Carolina Creates. This time I’m looking at a student-led initiative that makes worthy (albeit incomplete) strides toward a more ...

Column: Alcohol: It’s the footprint in your hand

By Holly Beilin | September 19

There is a way to inspire environmental-consciousness in almost everything UNC students do on a daily basis. Eating, studying and even football games ...

Together, we can all beat Ronald

By Andrew Moon | September 15

Ronald McDonald has America’s pudgy neck in a headlock. He continues to stymie public health efforts by helping America keep its heavyweight crown of ...

A strange, but true, show about you

By Andrew Harrell | September 14

It’s hard to pin down what exactly WOODS.TV is. It’s divided into episodes and seasons like a television show. It looks like an experimental art film. ...

The pain of the unpaid internship

By Patricia Laya | September 13

If you’re one of those students who found an internship this past summer, you may have found that you’ve returned poorer because of it.

Counting toward an efficient University

By Mark Laichena | September 13

Remember Carolina Counts? I’ll jog your memory: Chancellor Holden Thorp brings donor-funded consultants to campus — the “men in suits,” in his ...

Your questions on the economy

By Mark Abadi | September 11

If there’s one issue on which every American seems to have an opinion, it’s the economy. This week, I’m answering your questions on America’s ...

Getting players in the out?eld

By Perry Tsai | September 8

It’s another year of college sports. We’ll again be rooting for our favorite teams and cheering on our favorite athletes. But consider this: How would ...