Column: Write what's right

This Labor Day marks just the beginning of the third week of classes at UNC. In those three weeks, The Daily Tar Heel has received over 100 letters to the editor. 

Kvetching board for Sept. 1 2017

kvetch: v.1 (Yiddish) to complain  The Daily Tar Heel’s kvetching board is a com- munity forum for anony- mous complaints, con- cerns and comments. We run them every Friday! 

Thank you, faculty

No Place Like UNC

I‘m sure I’m not the only UNC student whose friends seemed to be all over the place this summer. As for me, friends of mine were in NYC, New Orleans, Nashville, and D.C., just to name a few. In July, I sweltered in Houston, while I spent the rest of the summer traveling. Through it all, home felt very far away, and my friends felt even further. this summer made me realize how alienating time away from school can be for an undergrad. 

Letter: Lounge restrictions are faculty elitism

TO THE EDITOR: The new restrictions on student usage of the Anne Queen Faculty Commons in the Campus Y is a gross example of faculty elitism and privilege. 

Pick two!

Now is the time to avoid new commitments like a politician dodges shoes. Studying in Chapel Hill as the academic year accelerates means being presented with far more opportunities than any one person can pursue well. 

Whatever, Trevor: the summer's biggest winners and losers

Not everyone can win — someone has to lose. That’s just how the world works. This is especially true for the many people involved in this summer’s various happenings, as the worlds of sports, pop culture and politics all created moments that were memorable, for both the best and worst of reasons. 

Beers for our peers

Beer and wine, served one drink at a time: that’s how the North Carolina General Assembly should let 18 to 20-year-olds enjoy alcohol.   While it’s something of a youthful tradition to malign the loftiness of our current minimum legal drinking age, we take this proposal to lower it seriously. After all, abuse of alcohol exacts a huge social cost on North Carolinian society. 

Not My Liberals

When most Americans had their introduction to antifa, or anti-fascist, groups, it was an overwhelmingly peaceful collection of disparate peoples who opposed the white supremacists rallying in Charlottesville. In that setting, they appeared docile.

Tailgate for football

  The soccer program at UNC deserves way more hype than we give it. 

Mental Health Needs Orientation

 First year is definitely an exciting time. From planning dorm room decorations to the anticipated growing list of college friends, it is often touted as one of the best times in a person’s life. 

The end of the world isn't nigh

There are too many people, now.  That’s what I thought when I read that UNC had 40,792 applicants to the class of 2021 (a 14 percent increase from the year before).  

S.O.S. from the EPA

Scientists were able to give us the exact date, time, length and location of the recent solar eclipse, an event occurring 4,000 miles from Earth. Most of us were smart enough to wear those funny glasses when we looked up. 

Column: Light, liberty and why I protest

Why do I protest? Because I believe in Lux Libertas, the motto of our university. These words have deep meaning to me:  Lux Libertas.  Light and liberty. 

There's more to Silent Sam

The hypervisibility of the issue of Silent Sam has engaged our community in a rather binary dialogue: Should Sam stay or fall?  This conversation is nothing new.

Letter: Be wary of OWASA’s cancelled meetings

TO THE EDITOR: I am writing to urge you to cover the ongoing controversy about water fluoridation in Chapel HiIl via OWASA.

Letter: Silent Sam promotes free, open discourse

TO THE EDITOR: I, like many alumni, oppose the removal of the statue of Silent Sam from the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Letter: Faculty need more places to commune

TO THE EDITOR: William Sturkey (History) argued in a recent Letter to the Editor on Aug. 25 that restricting student access to Anne Queen Commons in the Campus Y was “a gross example of faculty elitism and privilege,” running counter to the recently-established “Guiding Principles” of the College. Indeed. 

Letter: UNC’s racism includes School of Social Work

TO THE EDITOR: With the nation now focused on calls for the removal of confederate monuments including Silent Sam, it is critical for us to consider more pervasive forms of racism affecting our country and, more specifically, affecting our campus.

It's not all Folt's fault

As would be expected, there was a great deal of anger at the Silent Sam rally on the first day of classes.  Unfortunately, much of this anger was misplaced, and focused on individuals who had no control over the continued presence of the Confederate statue, and who were, in fact, sympathetic to the protestors’ cause.