Column: Your financially unstable dreams are worth chasing

By Cecily Ross | September 22

"I ask myself the question: Is it a waste of an education to not enter the rat-race and try my hand at the American dream?"

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Op-ed: Art Pope on Democracy, Policy and Business in NC

September 18

"The last time I checked, North Carolina had a vibrant democracy as a “purple” state with a Republican legislative majority, a Democratic Governor, a state Supreme Court which has switched back and forth between Republican and Democratic Party majorities over the last decade and we are again considered a closely contested battleground state for this year’s Presidential election." Art Pope writes.

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Op-ed: Black Student Movement is concerned for UNC’s future without D&I

September 16

"The political state of North Carolina and the country more broadly have heavily warped policymakers and invested parties' grasps on the value of DEI. However, make no mistake, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are not frivolous nor are they easily dismissed."

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Column: Institutional neutrality isn’t the solution to centuries of bias

By Maggie Mead | September 16

"Gutting DEI in favor of 'abstaining from the political fray' only serves to perpetuate these systems by disproportionately excluding minority voices from the environment of civil discourse that the University seeks to create."

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Column: Private school vouchers are a step in the wrong direction for N.C. education

By Katie Littlejohn | September 16

"A well-funded public school education is no less valuable than a private school education."

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Column: Say it with your chest — UNC System doesn't care about DEI

By Delaney Broderick | September 16

"The truth is they don’t want to limit their involvement at all, they just want to intrude where they can implement rhetoric that benefits them, and mute everything else."

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Editorial: SCiLL encases ideas that should already be in action

By Editorial Board | September 15

"'Welcome to the School of Civic Life and Leadership,' reads the opening banner on the new UNC school’s website. The program’s dean and director, Jed Atkins, claims it to be a home for free speech culture and civil discourse. But the website neglects to mention its real intentions: controlling and informing public discourse on campus."

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Editorial: DEI has died. Everyone should be attending its funeral.

By Editorial Board | September 15

"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives have been bashed and beaten, hurting everyone — including those who aren't traditionally targeted and impacted by these programs."

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Op-ed: Black Student Movement to reopen communication with The Daily Tar Heel

September 15

"To protect the well-being of our people, BSM has previously chosen not to speak with or work in collaboration with The DTH. Recently, The Daily Tar Heel has reached out and made deliberate efforts to regain the trust of Black communities and report issues relating to our existence with respect and dignity."

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Column: We need equity to reach equality

By Rachel Moody | September 12

"While the words equity and equality may sound similar, they are not interchangeable."

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Column: DEI shouldn’t just be in universities, it should be in kindergartens too

By Mary Thomas Watkins | September 12

"Every North Carolinian, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or county, deserves the tools they need to be competitive applicants for any UNC system school. DEI is a means of providing that."

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Office DJ: Songs to Grow Up To

By Walker Livingston | September 12

"For the years and months where I don’t remember much, I have songs. Music is my timeline and songs demarcate time in my little notebook. Jumbled genres, moods and lyrics calling the duly remembered names, people, places and memories of growing up with forward momentum."

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Column: Don't take shortcuts. Learn for learning's sake

By Teo Almaguer | September 12

"There are more methods than ever to avoid learning, and students are using them. This mass reliance on these tools is eroding the very purpose of education: learning for the sake of learning."

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Column: Donald Trump is still a danger to the GOP. Just ask Liz Cheney.

By Eva Eapen | September 11

"If you’re a true conservative, you haven’t enjoyed watching the integrity of your party die a slow death. If you’re a true conservative, you’ll put our republic above your politics this November."

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Op-ed: UNC professor responds to future SCiLL faculty member's New York Times guest essay

September 11

"SCiLL's mission, like that of other similarly inspired centers across the country, is supported by the generosity of rich donors working to defend and disguise capitalism’s worst excesses, a gerrymandered GOP supermajority in our state and a university administration willing to accommodate the political goals of legislators and their minions on governing boards."

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Column: Don't ditch the Dean Dome — leave it accessible for students

By Mary Blake Nobles | September 9

"At the top is undoubtedly basketball, and losing accessibility to home games jeopardizes one of the most fundamental parts of the UNC experience. One of the school’s most anticipated traditions, rushing Franklin Street after a victory against Duke, would be soured for students who get tickets to the big game."

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Column: Our college is designed for excessive competition

By Sydney Baker | September 9

"We shouldn’t be expected to be masters to get into a program when we don’t even have a bachelor’s degree yet."

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Column: I am a good woman, even if J.D. Vance doesn’t think so

By Madelyn Rowley | September 8

"Traditionalism is not inherently a negative thing. But the conservative push toward traditional notions of womanhood, even going so far as to insist that being childless is somehow a taint on feminine credibility or validity, is dangerous."

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Column: Don’t be blinded by the shiny lights of Franklin Street chains

By Shea McIntyre | September 8

"As students, though it can be tempting to be excited by the shiny new offerings of a chain business taking up a sought after space on Franklin Street, I seek to remind you it’s the homegrown, niche businesses in this area that make up and influence our just-off-campus cultural hearth."

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Column: It’s the circle of student debt, and it moves us all

By Delaney Broderick | September 2

"The larger picture is an ugly one. But Biden’s forgiveness program was one gradual step in the right direction until it was halted by the Supreme Court."

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