In all LFIT classes at UNC, students participate in a lab where they input the amount of calories they consume throughout one week into an app called MyFitnessPal.
The UNC Boycott has garnered national attention as it enters its second week of operation. Everything from social media campaigns, posters and students handing out fliers near Silent Sam has made nearly everyone on campus aware of the movement. The impacts of such boycott are not fully evident, but the spoken intent of the protesters are to drive up the costs of keeping Silent Sam on campus.
I don’t follow sports well, but even I have encountered a lot of talk about Saturday’s loss to Duke. And, Chazz, the first thing I heard about the game was that two-handed, overhead pass you threw in the fourth quarter, the one that was intercepted and returned for a touchdown, nixing UNC’s hopes of winning.
The 2016-2017 season was filled with magic and redemption for the North Carolina men’s basketball team.
Today, Sept. 26, marks the School of Media and Journalism’s annual First Amendment Day. The daylong event serves as the School’s way of celebrating the Constitutional amendment that makes our field possible.
In polite society, the most blatant forms of discrimination are usually considered unacceptable. No reasonable mainstream politician would call for resegregation, eugenics or internment camps. However, the clever demagogue does not have to resort to saying what they intend, nor do they have to forgo pandering to an extremist base of supporters. This is where “dog whistles” come in.
There is no need for publications to sensationalize or draw any more attention to Schultz’s gender than they would if Schultz were a cisgender man or woman. Scout Schultz did not “prefer” to be referred to as someone who was nonbinary. They simply were. In the wake of their painfully early passing, we can, and should respect that.
TO THE EDITOR: Recent catastrophic events around the world tragically illustrate how quickly the ground beneath our feet can change forever.
TO THE EDITOR: The Sept. 19 column “Removing all statues? Not so fast” demonstrates historical ignorance and an alarming lack of moral scrutiny.
Much like our president, Clay Travis loves boobs and is not qualified for public office.
As U.S. News recently released their 2018 Best Colleges List, the issue of minority representation at selective colleges has on my mind a bit more than usual. I wasn’t surprised to find that diversity of student population, minority representation (whatever you want to call it) is not a factor in their ranking methodology. I was surprised, however, to find out (via a recent New York Times report spanning 1980-2015) that Black and Hispanic first-year students are more underrepresented at selective colleges and universities than than they were in 1980, over 30 years ago.
Panthers fans might recall captain Luke Kuechly’s gruesome head injury last season against the Saints in Week 11. After an awkward collision with fellow linebacker Thomas Davis, Kuechly was carted off the field, giving way to this video showing him crying uncontrollably and seemingly struggling to breathe. The fact that Kuechly’s emotional display was universally misdiagnosed as “his love for the game” indicates just how deep in denial the general public is when it comes to football-related head trauma. Despite glaring evidence of the sport’s concussion problem, the league’s officials, coaches and doctors alike continue to downplay the gravity of the issue.
On weekend nights, the presence of fraternities washes over UNC’s campus like midnight waves, and with the moon’s ominous pull, their existence reaches a high tide for the week. Their dark waters are ubiquitous in the form of lurid music, conspicuous solo cups and olfactory whiplash. Unfortunately the sinister side-effects of high tide on campus are hidden underwater. The water is murky and opaque, obfuscated by a University that cannot be held accountable in protecting its constituents and department of public safety that do not treat reported incidents with caution or respect.
We need more walls. That's what I’ve concluded after reading that the university removed political banners from Peabody Hall last week. That case — wherein politically charged banners were taken down only a few hours after they were put up by a group of education graduate students — was not the first time this academic year where some types of speech on campus came into conflict with university priorities. In August, the university removed banners from the front of the Campus Y building, and UNC DPS took signs from around Silent Sam.
From Sept. 18 to Oct. 18, many of the Editorial Board members will be participating in this boycott. Others of us will not.
Thank you for covering the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) event held Monday evening in the article “UNC students united and outraged over DACA announcement.”
TO THE EDITOR: Brian Meares’ notion that Silent Sam promotes a space for “free and open discussion” is a baffling interpretation of this University’s hazardous idealism on “safe spaces.”
TO THE EDITOR: The Aug. 29 opinion piece "Not My Liberals" shows a lack of empathy, hypocritical reasoning, and a poor understanding of leftist thought.
Dear UNC Community, I wanted to announce my candidacy for Chapel Hill Carrboro School Board. I have served local children as a pediatrician, parent volunteer, and leader of the local Orange Chatham Chapter of the Autism Society of North Carolina and of the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Special Needs Advisory Committee.
Perry Carter (strep negative) and Derek Fulton (strep positive) are the writers of UNC’s premier (only!) satirical advice column. Results may vary. You: Dear Just Perry, Your column last week about Coker Arboretum made me think about how it feels like there are way fewer trees on campus than last year. What’s the big idea? Thanks, Holy Smokes Where Are All the Oaks
