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Column: This team embraces fear, especially on Tuesdays

By Jane Wester | August 22

Thanks for reading the DTH on our first day back. I can already tell you it’s going to be a great year — today we’re launching Swerve, a new section ...

Column: How Taylor Swift gets me

By Evana Bodiker | July 20

Recently, there’s been quite a bit of Taylor Swift drama—you know, her new relationship with Tom Hiddleston, Calvin Harris’ admission she wrote ...

Column: Delrawn, Alton, Philando, Unknown

July 14

This past week’s events have me reeling. On four consecutive days, a Black man in America was killed or found dead.

Column: Royalty of the untamed world

By Mejs Hasan | July 7

I've been thinking about Harambe, the gorilla killed to protect a little mite of humanity that had tumbled into his enclosure.

Column: Let's read it like we mean it

By Evana Bodiker | June 30

Did you know you can check out books from any of UNC’s libraries even if you’re not enrolled in summer classes?

Column: Sudden, untimely, and oh, so quiet

By Cameron Jernigan | June 23

As a member of the Daily Tar Heel’s Editorial Board during the 2015-16 school year, I was highly critical of the lack of transparency the University ...

Column: It is more than just a joke

By Jalea Morris | June 16

“How dare you complain about [insert petty misfortune]? There are starving kids in Africa!”

Column: Orlando could not 'have been any of us'

By Danny Nett | June 15

When I heard about the Orlando shooting, I was lying in a hotel room, recovering from a hangover at D.C. pride.

Column: Giving what I was given

By Dominique Brodie | June 8

Imagine: it’s May 2014, and I am a high school junior. Wide-eyed, bushy tailed, and hoping that I’m ready to conquer the college admissions process. ...

Column: Get out and take a walk, Heels!

By Evana Bodiker | June 1

Chapel Hill is a walking town. During my first year at UNC, I complained almost everyday about the daunting trek from south campus to main campus.

Column: Being bold is the hard option

By Dominique Brodie | May 25

Recently I walked into a very problematic situation: a specific restaurant that is known for commodifying the bodies of its mainly female employees (hint-hint: ...

Column: Bill 873 is an attack on HBCUs

By Jalea Morris | May 18

Just when we thought North Carolina couldn’t be any more bigoted with the recent passing of HB2, an anti-LBTQ law, here we are yet again.

Column: A train to a shining station

May 11

Since the key to making America great again is the good old days, I suggest we all ditch our cars and planes and stick to trains.

Column: Letter to a brown girl

By Jaslina Paintal | April 26

This is a letter to a past, present and future brown girl.

Column: Honing my voice in the DTH’s pages

By Cameron Jernigan | April 25

When I applied for edit board (as The Daily Tar Heel staff affectionately calls it) around this time last year, I thought I wanted to be a journalist, ...

Column: Learning to converse more selflessly

By Sam Schaefer | April 25

If there’s one rule of polite company I deeply object to, it’s this: “Don’t talk about politics.” I’ve spent the last two years of my life ...

Column: Long live The Daily Grind

By Alice Wilder | April 25

This is my last column for The Daily Tar Heel. It’s been two and a half years, and I’ve asked a lot of UNC in this column during that time. I was ...

Column: You can call me Ishmael

By Ishmael Bishop | April 24

My name is two syllables long. It comes from the Hebrew language meaning “God hears,” and is sometimes such a tongue twister that it’s shortened ...

Column: Remove distance, engage the person

By Kate Stotesbery | April 24

“Ithink some of us, particularly myself, did not understand the implications of what (House Bill 2) would do.”

Column: It's always been personal

By Chiraayu Gosrani | April 24

“Do you live here?” exclaimed the police officer who had pulled into our driveway and interrupted my and my brother’s basketball game.