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Opinion: Chapel Hill Police Department's desire to own up to flaws is notable

January 9

Protesters nationwide have been chanting the phrase “Black Lives Matter” since the hashtag was created in 2012 after the shooting of Trayvon Martin ...

Opinion: UNC shouldn’t try to hide from tough conversations

January 7

If the University was hoping that waiting until New Year’s Eve to confirm the names of fired employees would limit the resurgence of conversation around ...

Quickhits for Jan. 8, 2015

January 7

Hate, hate, hate We hate the Dallas Cowboys: Tony Romo is a Duke fan.

Opinion: Year in preview

January 6

Engagement with University and state politics.

Opinion: Board of Governors should preserve research centers and institutes

By Editorial Board | December 8

On Wednesday and Thursday, 34 centers and institutes across the UNC system will be asked to justify their existence, including nine centers here at UNC’s ...

Opinion: Immigration policy needs protection, expansion

December 2

President Obama’s long-anticipated set of executive actions are designed to assist many undocumented residents and their families. Collectively, they ...

Opinion: Placing anyone on a pedestal tends to caricaturize them

December 2

Student government has declared today to be Athlete Appreciation Day. We, too, would like to voice our support for student-athletes.

Opinion: A flawed policy has long overstayed its welcome

December 2

It is no secret that the way we currently handle sexual misconduct cases within both the criminal justice system and the university system is flawed.

Opinion: Black students are speaking. Are the rest of us listening?

December 1

What is more damning of this campus’ racial culture?

Opinion: Budget cuts have hit exactly the wrong targets

November 25

After risking their lives and serving their country, soldiers do not deserve to be the subjects of cuts to a defense budget inflated by unnecessary expenditures ...

Opinion: Tar Heels should follow Jason Brown’s example

November 25

As Thanksgiving approaches, few Tar Heel stories are as moving or as relevant as that of Jason Brown, a former UNC and NFL football player who has rededicated ...

Opinion: Parking drama worsens hardships it’s meant to correct

November 24

Passing the proposed hardship parking bill is an easy way for Student Congress to make life easier for students whose college experience is more difficult ...

Opinion: Transgender students deserve to feel safe at UNC

November 23

On Nov. 20, UNC’s LGBTQ Center honored the 81 transgender people who had died from gender identity- and gender expression-based violence since Nov. ...

Opinion: Duke Energy must take swift steps to clean up pollution

November 21

There are many ways to deal with an environmental disaster. One is to claim that things are under control, despite continuing pollution. Another is to ...

Opinion: Supplemental documents in Wainstein report deserve further scrutiny

November 21

Thorough analysis of the supplemental documents released with the Wainstein report shows departments other than the Department of African and Afro-American ...

Opinion: Students should be skeptical of Teach For America

November 20

Teach For America is ubiquitous at UNC. In 2013, 57 Tar Heels joined the corps, making UNC the sixth-largest provider of teachers for the program in the ...

Opinion: Donation policy should account for HIV on a case by case basis

November 19

A panel advising the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ease bans on blood donations ...

Opinion: Choose not to participate in an exploitative trade — sex trafficking

November 19

Responsibility belongs to the consumer to know what industries and institutions are being supported through transactions within it, and few industries ...

Opinion: Solitary confinement should be abandoned

November 18

When the UNC School of Law issues a report as clear and decisive as the one recently released regarding solitary confinement, it behooves the state to ...

Opinion: The BOG should heed reasonable and just demands

November 18

Members of the UNC BOG Democracy Coalition are on the right side of history when it comes to a petition seeking a greater, more representative student ...