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Letter: ​Let the fro grow for UNC Walk for Health

In support of North Carolina star basketball players Joel Berry, Isaiah Hicks and Justin Jackson and their sculptured afro dreadlocks hairstyles, UNC Walk for Health has begun a campaign to encourage the entire Tar Heel team to “let the locks of the hair on their heads grow long” for the rest of the season. (Nm. 6:5, Lv. 19:27: 21:5).


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Letter: ​Chapel Hill should support nation’s laws

Your recent article entitled “Forum discusses immigrant rights and laws” exposes the hypocrisy and double talk which has run amok in Chapel Hill. Only in this “Alice in Wonderland” world can we pick and choose which laws to follow.


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Column: A history of whiteness

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Trump’s election has brought a major resurgence to that pernicious ideology known as white nationalism, with representatives of this movement like David Duke and Richard Spencer gaining a larger platform than ever before.


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Letter: Religious values split our political parties

In the DTH editorial “For God or Party” you ask “if there are clear lines in the sand for Christian religious leaders” as they decide whether or not to stand with the Republicans, and specifically with President Trump.



Cam Jernigan

Column: For the public school kids

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The confirmation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. secretary of education is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to education in the United States since No Child Left Behind, which touted unrealistic goals and magnified this country’s obsession with standardized test scores and the fallacy of proficiency.










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Letter: ​Students have the right to self-govern

I thank The Daily Tar Heel editorial board for its critique of student government leaders, though I would argue that our primary mistake was failing to take Vice Chancellor Crisp’s intervention entirely seriously.


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Letter: ​DTH editorial was inflammatory

On Thursday, The Daily Tar Heel’s editorial board published an editorial calling for student leaders to fight for self-governance. Their central claim was that Vice Chancellor Crisp’s memo on separation is overreach. As such, they urged student leaders not to capitulate.