Opinion: Young, smart and broke: after leaving UNC, consider giving back

By Editorial Board | April 20

Word has it that there is an essential Carolina experience that not one of us undergraduate students — from first-year to senior — has actually experienced yet. 

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Letter: Money should never trump civil rights

April 20

HB2 and the subsequent “compromise bill,” HB 142, are actually identity-based issues about the rights of the LGBTQ community, and in particular, the transgender community.

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Letter: ​Celebrate research from undergraduates

April 20

On April 27, UNC students from all fields of study will present their research at UNC-Chapel Hill’s 18th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research.

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Letter: ​Feeding prisoners is not shameful

April 20

I was disappointed to read “The Real Price of Food,” which argues that we should avoid business with UNC’s food service provider because “Aramark supplies food for public and private prisons,” and thus “If you’re against Aramark for their prison involvement,” you should “speak out with your dollars.”

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Quick Hits for April 20, 2017

April 20

It’s very fitting that America’s evilest man received a jersey from America’s evilest NFL team.

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Column: Garbage is a metaphor, get it? Good.

By Georgia Brunner | April 20

I am obsessed with cleanliness. As the spooky mayor from Buffy once said, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.”

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Column: This column is coming to you from inside you

By David Farrow | April 20

Body horror is a subgenre of horror in which the body contains the terror. Fear and queasiness develops from the contamination and unwanted transformation of the body.

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Column: Take time to soak in Carolina

By Gwendolyn Smith | April 20

Monday, April 3 is a day I will never forget. Between the natty merchandise, the news coverage and the incredible night on Franklin, I’m still not over it, honestly. Watching the team I grew up rooting for win the NATIONAL championship as a student is a feeling I could never describe.

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Letter: Safe spaces are not segregation

April 19

We are two ‘non-whites’ who felt compelled to respond to your letter to the editor which claimed that a space for only people of color is evidence of reverse-racism. We disagree.

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Column: Putting money before safety

By Jesus Gonzalez-Ventura | April 19

Here in the United States, someone is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds. This is startling because many assaults go unreported and are not even included in that statistic.

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Opinion: Let’s continue to help UNC become accessible to all

By Editorial Board | April 19

All UNC students deserve to be able to fully participate in their classes — which makes the work of the Accessibility Resources and Service office not only logistically important for students, teachers and staff alike, but key to UNC’s mission.

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Opinion: Patronize local businesses instead of Aramark

By Editorial Board | April 19

This board has written before, though not recently, about its worries surrounding UNC’s food services provider, Aramark. Aramark supplies food for public and private prisons, something that the banners in Lenoir do not advertise. 

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Opinion: Freelancers, unite!

By Editorial Board | April 17

A whole new crop of UNC seniors will graduate on May 14. Some will enter graduate school and others full-time employment or internships. Others will enter the giant “gig economy,” working in short spurts as independent contractors. 

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Column: How to draw Chancellor Carol Folt

By Emily Yue | April 17

In case you've ever wondered...

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Opinion: The cover letter: script of life, act two

By Editorial Board | April 17

With graduation comes the humbling, daunting grind of applying for gainful employment — unless that surprise trust fund or “modeling scout’s” number plays out.

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Letter: A non-whites only space is reverse racist

April 17

In February of 2017, University of Michigan students demanded a non-whites only, segregated space to organize social justice efforts.

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Letter: ​Celebrate Holi Moli and UNC diversity

April 17

For years, Carolina has put on one of the biggest events of the year, Holi Moli, an opportunity to celebrate the Southeast Asian festival, Holi, with the campus community.

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Opinion: The Civil War ruined UNC and the South for years

By Editorial Board | April 17

“Down South, people are still fighting the Civil War.” Most people are familiar with this sad but true reality of how the South grapples with its racist history.

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Column: Farewell, Chapel Hill Comics

By Tyler Fleming | April 17

The first column I ever wrote for this paper was about comic books. To me, graphic novels, comics and visual storytelling are some of the most interesting ways to convey a message

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Column: Go on now, get!

By William J. L. Parker | April 17

This academic year, my first on The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, saw national turmoil swirl around the concepts of truth and objectivity. The alt-right, postmodernism, identity politics, Trump — everything seemed to fray the ties that bind us. 

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