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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.

Column: Things that are gross at UNC

By Jack Largess | April 21

Hurston Hall still mislabeled; Aramark; building renaming moratorium: Polk Place is still named Polk Place.

Column: Feeling screwed? Give humility a try

By Chris Dahlie | April 21

Election years tend to push to the surface a common belief that binds together most, if not all, Americans: We are all entitled to things. So many things. ...

Column: Family not bound in blood

By Jalynn Harris | April 21

Since I was a child, my family has felt like an expanding universe — a mosaic of non-biological and biological people from all corners coming together. ...

Column: Trevor’s debut and farewell on the Opinion Page

By Jacob Rosenberg | April 20

I love the fluidity of devotion in college.

Column: Finding a voice in Southern writings

By Evana Bodiker | April 20

I have never considered myself Southern.

Column: Fight the system: Student dissidents unite!

By Zach Rachuba | April 20

Is it really April already?

Column: Questions about the summer DTH? I've got answers

By Sofia Edelman | April 19

Spring semester might be coming to a close, but don’t worry — just around the corner are a thousand things to look forward to this summer in Chapel ...

Column: The truth about North Carolina

By Mejs Hasan | April 19

A January sunrise. I was Chapel Hill-bound on the highway outside Siler City when I hit a deer.

Column: The upcoming documentary on Chris Brown's life is incredibly harmful

By Sarah Vassello | April 19

For my last arts column, I wanted to write something I can stand behind forever.

Column: Silence can provide a path to better reﬂection

By Trey Flowers | April 19

When Mitt Romney commented in 2012 that 47 percent of Americans would vote for President Barack Obama because they were dependent on the government, I ...

Column: Summer School can be for you too

By Mary Tyler March | April 19

By the end of every spring semester, the last thing I have ever wanted to do is think about school.

Column: The balance of conviction and self-doubt

By Vishal Reddy | April 18

Conviction is a beautiful thing. Nothing is more inspiring than being surrounded by individuals and collectives who invest so genuinely in their work. ...

Column: The value in emotional intelligence

By Gaby Nair | April 18

When I started college, my priorities were school, extracurriculars and relationships, in that order.