Kvetching Board for Feb. 17, 2017
My dream of being a high school dropout crashed thanks to UNC.
My dream of being a high school dropout crashed thanks to UNC.
In three months, someone else will be living in my apartment.
After a long day of thesis writing and a relentlessly chaotic news cycle, I resolved to shut my books for the evening.
If the first Tuesday of Nov. 2016 was in fact a change election, an angry demand for help by a plurality and repudiation of the standing way of doing political business in so much of the country, one needs to ask specifically why and at whom this anger is directed.
Throughout his campaign and in these early days of his presidency, Donald Trump has presented himself as a champion of the working man. Given that he owns an almost entirely gold-plated private jet, I am skeptical of this claim. My skepticism is only further enforced by the actions he and his party have recently taken.
UC Berkeley had already ruled that the Berkeley College Republicans were well within their rights to host Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos — a decision that met severe backlash when over 100 faculty members signed letters that urged the school to cancel the event.
Our disagreement is really about what free speech is and what its limits are. On one side, you have an alt-right figure whose views are pretty extreme.
The legislative proposal to reduce the 32-member Board of Governors of the University to North Carolina to 24 members is a good first step.
Valentine’s Day is a beautiful concept. Taking time to do something special to celebrate one’s relationship and going out of your way to do something sweet for someone you care about is nice and all — but I hate the pressure that’s associated with it.
I have never been one to be scared of “bureaucracy,” but recent appointments have me worried. My reasons for concern are, to be honest, selfish. But I also find them valid, and I won’t stop fighting for what I think is right.
You identify yourself as an alternative right sympathizer and in your letter to the editor complain about all us “lefties” and “intellectual do-gooders” suppressing your alternative right views.
The Feb. 10 opinion piece “Keep a close eye on UNC’s new hire — another spokesperson” was an out-of-bounds, uniformed character attack that showed a lack of understanding of the relationship between the University and the legislature.
On Friday, I and a few hundred people were fortunate enough to catch the Holy Spirit at the 11th annual HKonJ March Mass Meeting and Worship Service at Rush Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Raleigh.
As has become tradition when fellow universities diminish the role of pro-slavery alumni, this board would like to thank the administrators at Yale University for renaming its Calhoun College.
With President Trump in the news every day, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do.
In the world of writing for a living, I think a degree of regret is part of the writing process. I don’t know a single time I haven’t read back over something and stumbled over a line that makes me wince — wished that I’d changed the tense or found an adjective with another syllable.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, this board chose to take a moment to share our thoughts on the subject of marriage — not love, which we enthusiastically support, but marriage.
It’s a week later and we’ve all survived the #watercrisis2017.
As a fellow student organization, we understand the challenges of coordinating a large group of busy students. We are not trying to be overly harsh.