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Opinion: Reimagining familial relations

By Editorial Board | February 13

In honor of Valentine’s Day, this board chose to take a moment to share our thoughts on the subject of marriage — not love, which we enthusiastically ...

The Student Recreation Center is collecting water to be donated to Flint, Michigan.

Opinion: Water we to do?

By Editorial Board | February 13

It’s a week later and we’ve all survived the #watercrisis2017.

Opinion: What’s up with the Board of Elections?

By Editorial Board | February 13

As a fellow student organization, we understand the challenges of coordinating a large group of busy students. We are not trying to be overly harsh.

Opinion: What will happen to the guards of democracy?

By Editorial Board | February 13

In the United States, we talk a lot about the right-left political spectrum.

Opinion: Keep a close eye on UNC's new hire — another spokesperson

By Editorial Board | February 10

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is constantly trying to protect its image. Keeping UNC looking good is integral to raising funds during ...

Opinion: The president’s power to wage war should frighten us

By Editorial Board | February 10

The presidency has never been more dangerous.

Opinion: #DeleteUber and consider your options

By Editorial Board | February 10

In January of 2017, Uber broke up a Muslim taxi strike by dropping its surcharges.

Local business leaders and community officials held their annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Meeting Thursday morning. UNC System Body President Margaret Spellings spoke at the meeting.

Opinion: Spellings and DeVos may create a public schools disaster

By Editorial Board | February 8

Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tie-breaking vote yesterday to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. It is clear that DeVos has, at ...

Opinion: Chapel Hill and Carrboro, thank you for caring

By Editorial Board | February 8

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are special. It is no secret that both towns are mostly liberal places, but focusing on political ideologies completely ...

Opinion: A responsible endowment

By Editorial Board | February 6

Endowing professorships has been common practice in the United States for some time. It first occurred when Thomas Hollis, a London merchant, gave money ...

Lena Dunham leads a march with a heard of UNC students in tow to the early voting site at Chapel of the Cross.

Opinion: The celebrity is political

By Editorial Board | February 6

Gone are the days where Taylor Swift can stand on stages in sparkly dresses with her guitar and sing songs about love and heartache.

Campus Y Co-President Forum 6-7 on Wednesday night

Opinion: Why we care about the upcoming Campus Y election

February 6

This year, the editorial board decided to interview both sets of Campus Y co-presidential candidates, Alexander Peeples and Courtney Staton, and Nick ...

Opinion: How did the Right become the “godly’”party?

By Editorial Board | February 6

Lately, we have seen right-wing politicians invoking Judeo-Christian worldviews.

Opinion: Identity is a process of flourishing and changing

By Editorial Board | February 3

Cognitive dissonance — the process by which the beliefs someone thinks they hold and the reality of their actions contradict each other — may seem ...

The university's Vice Chancellor Winston Crisp talks about the Tar Heel Thanksgiving tradition and what it means to students who cannot go home for the short holiday, Friday morning, Nov. 20.

Opinion: Student leaders must fight for our self-governance

By Editorial Board | February 2

In the issue of the “separation” between the graduate and the undergraduate student governments, our editorial board believes the chief issue at stake ...

Opinion: News articles aren't everlasting

By Editorial Board | February 1

We could go on a long, drawn-out, tired rant about the fallacies of social media, but as members of a school newspaper who value journalism, we want to ...

Opinion: The public has ignored the Middle East’s history

By Editorial Board | February 1

When thinking about the curriculum of world history class, for most of us in North Carolina public schools, it was set up in a way that focused on the ...

Opinion: UNC administrators mishandled Trump’s ban

By Editorial Board | February 1

Sunday night, Chancellor Folt sent an email to faculty and students addressing President Trump’s executive order that initiated a travel ban for seven ...

Junior chemistry major Emily Janeira walks and texts in front of Bingham on Wednesday.

Opinion: You're alive — don't ghost

By Editorial Board | January 30

Ghosting — the practice of breaking up with a romantic partner by cutting off all communication suddenly and without explanation — is a spirit of ...

Opinion: We’re very worried about the future of women’s health

By Editorial Board | January 30

Among its many provisions, the Affordable Care Act required that men and women be charged the same health care premiums.