A recent Daily Tar Heel article about police body cameras opened with, “It’s a step in the right direction.” Well, it’s not.
Read More »Wednesday, a cartoon depicting Chancellor Folt painting over issues that our University has been consistently addressing was published. In no way are ...
Read More »Wednesday’s editorial (“Board of Governors must engage the public”) gave the inaccurate impression that the UNC Board of Governors has done little ...
Read More »Regarding the Aug. 19 editorial, “Prohibition is unsafe,” I agree strongly that UNC leaders, in collaboration with merchants and leaders in Chapel ...
Read More »As a child, I spent a portion of every summer between the banks of the Ashley and the Cooper visiting my mother’s family in Charleston.
Read More »This country is almost 240 years old, and for nearly 190 of those, slavery and segregation were the status quo. Black lives mattering is still a fairly ...
Read More »I think we can almost all agree that UNC has one of the most beautiful campuses in the country.
Read More »According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 16,121 homicides in the United States in 2013. More than 11,000 of those killings ...
Read More »As an alumnus of color, I cannot bring myself to donate to UNC while it has a statue of a terrorist on the upper quad. It breaks my heart that the school ...
Read More »How would Americans feel if a government office flew the Nazi flag because they like it or it symbolizes their German heritage? I wager the uproar would ...
Read More »I find myself struck by the debate over the Silent Sam statue. I understand that for some it is a symbol of Southern heritage. For others it is a symbol ...
Read More »Things are rarely as simple as we’d like them to be, and how to deal with the fact that our state once fought on the losing side of a war centered on ...
Read More »The additions to Silent Sam were an improvement on an out-of-date piece of Confederate throwback memorabilia.
Read More »If evidence of the folly of the UNC Board of Trustees’ recent collaboration in the name-changing mania were needed, your editorial “Lift The Renaming ...
Read More »I am an Air Force ROTC cadet who, like many of my fellow cadets and classmates, is still struggling to comprehend the loss of our detachment commander, ...
Read More »I read with interest and concern the various reports of investigations at UNC and the subsequent findings and results. There is no place in the Notice ...
Read More »I want to applaud Brian Vaughn for his letter in which he publicly shames a woman for eating chicken salad.
Read More »In regards to your May 28, 2015, editorial regarding the biennial review of low productivity UNC academic programs, you restated a comment that I made ...
Read More »While I can respect Chris Rogers and his opinion on learning from history, so much of what we know is incomplete information.
Read More »This year we’ve seen heightened national attention on anti-black police brutality, but let’s not forget that the police are mouths that feed into ...
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