Starving Artists

Majoring in art requires creativity. Apparently, trying to get a job with a degree in art can require even more. "There are no rules in the art ...

Bill May Preclude Profiling

In 1994, black motorist Stacey Washington was stopped by an N.C. Highway Patrol officer on Interstate 85 for undisclosed reasons, searched without his ...

Dilbert 04/18/01

N.C. Lottery Foes Make for Unlikely Team

Lottery opponents make for strange bedfellows, but those beds are fertile grounds for the movement.Although lottery supporters often group the opposition ...

Plans Help Families Avoid Student Debt

The increasing use of college loans, coinciding with the decline of grants in financial aid, has led several states, including North Carolina, to set ...

Rural Farmers Left Behind In High-Tech Revolution

For centuries, farming and small businesses shaped North Carolina's economy. As other states boomed, North Carolina's more agrarian focus left it economically ...

Eggers' Eccentric Style Earns Praise

Hamlet, the Disney cartoon version of Aladdin, Christian Slater's character in "Pump Up the Volume," Woody Allen ...These are but a few of the ...

`Staggering Genius' Gives `Heartbreaking' Interview

In an e-mail conversation with David Eggers, author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," Eggers discusses the importance of gardens, ...

Less-Experienced BOG To Take Helm in June

As the UNC-system Board of Governors prepares to deal with issues such as re-examining its tuition-setting policy and weathering a state budget shortfall, ...

Panel Mulls Reparations' Merits

Five UNC professors with diverse specialties gathered Tuesday night in a forum arranged by the Organization for African Students Interest and Solidarity ...

Students' Work Airs On UNC-TV

Student producers, cinematographers and writers crammed into UNC-TV studios Tuesday, rushing to edit their air pollution documentary in time for its 7:30 ...

Students Sought to Fill Posts

Student government officials are urging students who want the chance to get involved at UNC to apply for a number of external committee appointments.Students ...

Programs to Help Repeat Offenders

The charges against them commonly range from shoplifting to felony possession of drugs with intent to sell.They are an established feature of Orange County's ...

Running Horowitz Column Gave Legitimacy to His Views

The Daily Tar Heel, and Editor Matt Dees in particular, has been duped. An ignorant, egotistical bully has conned the DTH into furthering his views. And ...

UNC's Callaway Snags ACC Weekly Honor

Brent Callaway earns this week's ACC Men's Performer of the Week after the Tar Heel Invitational on Saturday that included a personal best and a NCAA ...

UNC Puts Its Money on Genomics Research

UNC could be teetering on the precipice of a scientific breakthrough of extraordinary proportions.Thanks to $245 million in public and private funding ...

Congress Member Wants More Debate on CAA Inquiry

If Congress member Tony Larson has anything to say about it, an investigation of the Carolina Athletic Association might still be on Student Congress' ...

Young Calls for Special Election To Fill Congress

Complaints about the large number of vacant seats in Student Congress prompted Student Body President Justin Young on Tuesday to call for a special election ...

Rare Procedure Offers Transplant Hope

Kristina Wenger felt she had no choice when she entered the operating room in 1998 and donated a portion of her liver to her husband, Bruce, saving his ...