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Column: Keep your door open to embrace new experiences

By Ellie Kollme | August 27

"Leaving the door open to different experiences and being excited about what can come from every opportunity or encounter will keep your life interesting ...

Column: You actually did look like that when you were a first-year

By Madelyn Rowley | August 27

"We are destined with hindsight blindness that leads us to attitudes of arrogance surrounding those who are less experienced than we are — a permanent ...

Column: It's time to reject the American cult of violence

By Samad Rangoonwala | August 26

"They’re choices being made by people to maintain the level of carnage, either because it is financially profitable, because they think it is worth ...

Column: Thank you Gov. Cooper for highlighting Kamala Harris’ record

By Mary Blake Nobles | August 25

"We also have to remember who we’re dealing with. This candidate shouldn’t just remind you of your goofy relative that you see at family reunions ...

Column: The left at UNC needs to check its tolerance this election season

By Eva Eapen | August 25

"Confronting our convictions is supposed to be uncomfortable. Rigorous investigation of ideas is supposed to be uncomfortable. More than that, universities ...

Column: Title IX must not be left behind as NIL develops

By Katie Littlejohn | August 25

"NIL rules have to be created to work in conjunction with Title IX in order to ensure that a law which has done so much good for women's collegiate sports ...

Column: Board of Elections' approval of UNC ID is rare win for student voters

By Mary Thomas Watkins | August 21

"On Tuesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted 3-2 in favor of allowing the mobile UNC One Card to qualify as voter ID, a rare win for ...

Column: Special Projects Desk is back

By Aisha Baiocchi | August 18

"As a journalist, I really believe in our work as a medium of education and public service. I think it is our job to think deeply about what our communities ...

Column: Opinion should challenge your opinions

By Sydney Baker | August 18

"Columns reflect the outlooks and experiences of the writer, not the newsroom. That’s a distinction often lost in publication."

Column: What to expect from this year’s football preview

By Caroline Wills | August 18

"I’m a little new to this."

Column: Let the vice president chortle

By Madelyn Rowley | August 18

"Kamala Harris is not without her flaws; in fact, they are highly numbered. But there will be no space left to discuss sound critiques if all of our attention ...

Column: Student Honor Court decision reduces already low trust in administration

By Connor Foote | August 18

"Now, as we return to campus en masse, the University should have taken the opportunity to try to build some of that lost trust back. In dissolving student ...

Paris Olympics showed big strides in women’s sports coverage — let’s keep it going

By Mary Blake Nobles | August 18

"Some of the top reasons I hear for why women’s sports don't deserve greater investment is that no one watches them or they don’t bring in enough ...

Column: Learning to embrace the uncomfortable is inevitable as a sports journalist

By Emma Moon | June 23

"Amid a sea of older men covering North Carolina football, you can count on one hand the number of women who sit in the press box. During the three UNC ...

Column: All roads lead to Omaha

By Brendan Lunga | June 21

"As I sit here on my flight back to North Carolina, 26 hours after the final out was made on the Diamond Heels’ season in Omaha, I finally realize why ...

Column: Don't be afraid to make the first move in a friendship

By Sarah Monoson | June 20

"I was 18 years old and I didn’t know how to make a friend. How do I continue a conversation beyond establishing our names, years, majors, residence ...

Column: Reflecting on covering UNC men’s golf after NCAA quarterfinals loss

By Harry Crowther | May 30

"I will not remember the golf shots — some good, but a lot of them not. I will not remember that David Ford lost the final two holes of his quarterfinal ...

Five local coffee shops for sipping, studying and socializing

By Shreya Arukil | May 24

Coffee shops are a delicious way to create and strengthen friendships, experience the Chapel Hill and Carrboro community at its most basic level and drain ...