Column: Rise above the bare minimum — raise the minimum wage

By Victoria Kirova | September 25

"A state can’t spearhead its economy hiding behind outdated historical facts created in a different time. So while big businesses currently appear to be flourishing, underpaying workers will eventually catch up to them."

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Column: You can call for people to die, just don’t get your history leaked

By Connor Foote | September 24

"As a politician, violent bigotry is quite alright, but simple hypocrisy is the line you cannot cross."

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Column: UNC should call off classes on Election Day

By Cooper Hall | September 24

"It's up to UNC to alleviate these difficulties. One easy way: canceling classes on Election Day."

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Column: Students must exercise their right to vote

By Kaveena Ponamgi | September 23

"This race has a crucial opportunity to shape the lives of college students both now and in the next decade. Many of the topics on the table for this election will change our lives — it is crucial that students recognize what is at stake and vote."

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Column: The Democratic Party has a barbecue problem. It could lose them the election.

By Mary Thomas Watkins | September 23

"If a candidate is to win over the hearts, minds and votes of North Carolinians, they have to know our political power is fired with smoke and wood."

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Column: Social media marketplaces are ruining user experience. Don’t buy in.

By Mary Blake Nobles | September 23

"Thanks to social media marketplaces like the TikTok Shop, Instagram Shopping and Facebook Marketplace, it’s become easier than ever to get what you want when you want it. With that convenience, though, comes a scarcity in genuine, unpaid endorsements of products."

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Column: Two parties divided, stand united — against Haitian immigrants?

By Madelyn Rowley | September 22

"Deliberations no longer resemble: 'Are open borders or closed borders better for the country?' as much as 'Which candidate keeps the border closed with enough intensity to satisfy my nationalism?'"

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Column: Student organizations are important for majors — give them more credit

By Arya Mehta | September 22

"This build-up of fatigue and inability to continue with music, or any such craft, comfortably throughout the years chips away at students. This slow disillusionment causes students to lose the original passion they entered university with, which is a devastating loss for any industry or art form."

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Column: FOMO, no mo

By Shea McIntyre | September 22

"Letting go of FOMO requires you to focus on what is best for you at all times, and sometimes it may require you to eat lunch alone or miss out on that one party (don’t worry, most of them are all the same — you’ll hear No Hands by Waka Flocka Flame play at least once)."

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Column: Beware of the 'College Funk'

By Ellie Kollme | September 22

"The second I step onto campus, everything I seemingly forgot about over the summer comes rushing back to me — the academic stress from classes, the pressure to find a real job and the feeling that I must use every free second I have to get ahead."

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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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