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Election winners must keep us green

By Holly Beilin | October 31

As evidenced by last night’s festivities, Chapel Hill isn’t your average small town. It doesn’t think small, whether it’s thousands crowding Franklin ...

Keep your eye on the seats: The ticket policy has promise, but the CAA must monitor its effects

By Editorial Board | October 27

Come tip-off time this season, the CAA may find it has erred too far on the side of caution in using general admission to all but one non-conference game ...

Continuing a local tradition

By Town Manager Roger Stancil | October 27

Four years ago, Halloween in Chapel Hill had become scarier than usual due to crowd sizes that packed people so tightly onto Franklin Street that some ...

Collaboration will be key to improving the food offerings at UNC.

By Editorial Board | October 27

Last week’s National Food Day served as a springboard for an ambitious goal. In urging UNC to have 20 percent of its food offerings locally grown and ...

Good policy, bad protocol

By Editorial Board | October 27

In adding 11 polling places to the Nov. 8 vote, Orange County commissioners have taken an important step toward ensuring that a win for the quarter-cent ...

Rethinking Homecoming

By Cierra Hinton | October 26

Whenever a Passion Pit song comes on the radio or someone mentions going to the band’s concert last year, I can’t help but grin. The concert was absolutely ...

Only the beginning: More must be done to roll back the state's invasive abortion law

By Editorial Board | October 26

Despite their insistence that they hate big government, the state’s Republican legislators are the ones to blame for passing what may be the single ...

Legality doesn't make it right: UNC's deliberate action to produce few records undercuts transparency

By Editorial Board | October 25

For the entirety of the football scandal, the University has defended its stingy response to public record requests with a liberal interpretation of FERPA. ...

The crying Wolff: Mayoral candidate Kevin Wolff is back to his old campaign tricks

By Editorial Board | October 25

Last week, recklessness touched down in Chapel Hill, and it came from a familiar source — mayoral candidate Kevin Wolff.

United against hate

By Editorial Board | October 25

Last week, the words “Fags Burn” and “DIE” dealt N.C. State University a painful reminder. Spray-painted in purple outside the school’s GLBT ...

Too much coverage

By Editorial Board | October 25

Chapel Hill has promised to more strictly enforce the 11:30 p.m. street closure this Halloween, but that’s only the beginning of the night’s excessive ...

Finding time for career exploration

By Mark Laichena | October 25

According to UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, more than half of all freshmen nationally say that a key reason they picked their college was ...

Time to take responsibility: Davis has only himself to blame for issues with personal phone records

By Editorial Board | October 23

In his quest to quash a subpoena demanding personal phone records, former head football coach Butch Davis raises a sad consequence of the NCAA’s investigation ...

A new kind of recruitment: On the heels of Perdue’s visit, UNC should change its mindset abroad

By Editorial Board | October 23

UNC and other N.C. colleges have a lot more than stellar basketball teams to offer — and the world needs to know it. On a trip to China last week, Gov. ...

Openness is their business: The committee created to foster discussion must be transparent

By Editorial Board | October 23

Transparency matters with issues as contentious as the homeless shelter’s move down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. An outreach committee seeking ...

The on-campus bailout: In fairness to Student Congress, groups must seek funding sooner

By Editorial Board | October 23

While this step is needed to make up for tighter external funding, student groups must do a better job of anticipating expenses and requesting funds early. ...

Quickhits for October 19, 2011

By Editorial Board | October 18

Occupy Chapel Hill Tents are pitched around Chapel Hill’s post office as part of the Occupy Chapel Hill/Carrboro movement.

Cost-ineffective at best: Tillis should take back his welfare proposal and the words behind it

By Editorial Board | October 17

State Rep. Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) must apologize for the ludicrous — not to mention offensive — policy he suggested last week.

It starts at the top: Department chairmen must lead by example with the honor system

By Editorial Board | October 17

On Friday, it was sociology professor Andrew Perrin’s words that attested to just how little ground faculty have to stand on in the ongoing review of ...

Ripe for revision: The Psalm 100 ruling calls for tighter language in the discrimination policy

By Editorial Board | October 16

Semantics should not propagate hate. Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened when the University showed off the shortcomings within a non-discrimination ...