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Column: The new cliche: being the outsider

By Alex Thomas | October 4

“Outsider” is a term that used to have some meaning to it. If you were an outsider in a group, it meant you were a new face that raised eyebrows as ...

Column: Not the comics of your youth

By Tyler Fleming | October 1

Rafah is a city on the southern end of the Gaza Strip, right on the border with Egypt. In 1956, the Israeli military killed 111 innocent civilians in ...

Column: Your words have an impact

By Gwendolyn Smith | October 1

A piece on The Daily Tar Heel’s Pit Talk blog was offensive to me in several ways:

Viewpoints: School choice expands opportunity

By Zach Rachuba | September 30

THE ISSUE: Tuesday, the N.C. legislature adjourned without passing a controversial bill concerning charter school funding. The issue seems likely to be ...

Viewpoints: Believe and invest in your public schools

By Ishmael Bishop | September 30

THE ISSUE: Tuesday, the N.C. legislature adjourned without passing a controversial bill concerning charter school funding. The issue seems likely to be ...

Column: Run The Jewels’ cat-rap album can be fun and serious all at once

By Sarah Vassello | September 30

To all the 45-year-old dads who hated my Kanye column: You’re going to hate this column even more. This week, we’re talking about rap albums remixed ...

Column: Your vote is your voice

By Colin Kantor | September 29

There was something exhilarating about voting for the first time. Even though the literal extent of my (absentee) voting action was marking boxes on a ...

Column: Why should VW be blamed?

By Morgan Zemaitis | September 28

Recently Volkswagen has been challenging the notion that all publicity is good publicity.

Column: An open letter to Charles Duckett

By Jaslina Paintal | September 28

Dear Chuck, Remember that email you sent me about my column on the erasure of Black women at UNC?

Column: South Asians, Jindal is one of us

By Chiraayu Gosrani | September 24

GOP presidential candidate Piyush “Bobby” Jindal and I are branches of the same tree. We are both sons of Indian immigrant parents who came to America ...

Viewpoints: Privatization may bring in millions for scholarships

By Zach Rachuba | September 23

The employees and management at Student Stores are certainly hardworking people who do their jobs well — but the current University-managed model simply ...

Viewpoints: Privatization is a bad deal for the University

By Brian Vaughn | September 23

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Column: In defense of sleeping

By Evana Bodiker | September 23

Sleep is great. I try to get nine hours every night; that sounds worse on paper than it does in my head. Worse, as in, that’s one of the lamest things ...

Column: Resisting UNC’s colonial politics

By Jalynn Harris | September 22

As an incumbent of the American education system, I was breast-fed on historical mythology. It emphasized American supremacy gained by pious Christian ...

Column: UNC has three teams ranked in the top 3 playing this weekend

By Pat James | September 22

The University of National Champions — it’s a moniker tossed around loosely when one starts talking about North Carolina athletics.

Column: No one narrative defines survivors

By Alice Wilder | September 21

Over the summer, I survived an experience of sexual violence.

Column: Don’t count Paul out of race

By Alex Thomas | September 20

There are a lot of ways to describe Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate. Luckily, two words can do it effectively: It stunk.

Column: Laughable bigotry carries an asterisk

By Danny Nett | September 18

Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses, lends herself to being a joke. But as the latest zealot grandstanding against ...

Column: Knowing your rights is essential

By Gwendolyn Smith | September 16

Last week, four historically black Greek organizations hosted events regarding rights when interacting with law enforcement officers.

Column: College is often glamorized in many mainstream mediums

By Ryan Schocket | September 15

Stop lying about college. Movies like “Neighbors,” songs like Asher Roth’s “I Love College” and TV shows like “Blue Mountain State” depict ...